tend,  and  bear  the  fatigue  of  carrying  his  measures  into  execution  ;  and,
what  was  worse,  encounter  the  odium  and  danger  of  them,  while  he  re-
posed and  was  to  enjoy  the  honour,  if  successful His  conduct

in  the  late  war  had  been  the  same.  He  drew  the  plans,  but  left  it  to  the
Treasury  to  find  the  means ;  nor  would  listen  to  their  difficulties,  nor
hold  any  rein  over  their  ill-management.' — vol.  ii.  p.  365.
He  then  proceeds  to  particulars.  Mr.  Pitt — even  before  his
administration  was  completed —

*  had  already  commenced  that  extraordinary  scene  of  seclusion  of  him-
self which  he  afterwards  carried  to  an  excess  that  passed,  and  no  wonder,
for  a  long  access  oiphrensy.^—^,  342.
*  The  mad  situation  to  which  Lord  Chatham  had  reduced  himself.' —
ib,  p.  402.
*  The  pride  scndfolli/  of  Lord  Chatham.' — ib,  p.  402.
*  The  wildness  of  Lord  Chatham  baflBed  all  pohcy.* — ib,  p.  416.
*The  madness  or  mad  conduct  of  Lord  Chatham.' — vol.  iii.  p.  67.
*  Lord  Chatham's  wild  actions  of  passion  and  scorn.' — ib.  p.  435.
'The    Chancellor  Camden  had  given  many    hints  of  his  friend's

frenzy,' — vol.  iii.  p.  251.
*  As  if  there  were  dignity  in  folly,  and  magic  in  perverseness — as  if
the  way  to  govern  mankind  was  to  insult  their  understandings, — the  con-
duct of  Lord  Chatham  was  the  very  reverse  of  common  sense^  and  made
up  of  such  undissembled  scorn  of  all  the  world,  that  his  friends  could
not  palliate  it,  nor  his  enemies  be  blamed  for  resolving  it  into  madness.
