In vain his own penurious soil he till’d;
In vain he glean’d from Walpole’s plenteous field;
In vain th’ exchequer robes about him flow,
The mantle does not make the prophet now.—E.
[200] As he gave up the Hanover troops, to pave the way for Mr. Pitt’s coming to Court—and voting for them himself next year!
[201] As Lord Sunderland, Lord Stanhope, Craggs, and Lord Townshend.
[202] How little he shone in formal ornamental eloquence appeared from his speech at Sacheverell’s trial, which was the only written one, and perhaps the worst he ever made.
[203] That Lord Granville, Pitt, and Lyttelton, recanted all their invectives, must not be produced as unbiassed evidence; but the Duke of Bedford and Lord Cornbury will be allowed too honest to have acted from any motives but conviction.