ABSTRACT
The authors have beheld Mr Pitt, at the head of the most strenuous and most successful administration, this country ever knew. They are now to behold an administration formed under his auspices, the feeblest, the most disunited, they had almost said, the most pernicious, that the present reign, fruitful in such administrations, has exhibited. One of the first unfavourable circumstances, attending its formation, was its displacing a connection of men, virtuous in their intrinsic character, who had been gradually advancing in the public esteem. The jealously between the two parties, has perhaps been one of the principal misfortunes of the reign. In the mean time, it must not be concealed, that Mr Pitt, with all his abilities, and all his virtues, was not of a temper, the best adapted to the milder ties of friendship.
