ABSTRACT
The events of William Pitt administration are more. The situations in which he have been placed, have afforded every thing that the most ardent ambition could desire for the exhibition of virtue; and, if anything narrow, contemptible, and dishonourable, had by chance skulked in any corner of his soul, these also would have been brought forward to the observation of his countrymen. The eager eye of the thinking individual, that looks back upon the bright volume of his fame, would be ready to doubt the possibility of any fresh acquisitions. After having wielded empires and constituted the fate of millions, after having exercised every executive and every legislative function, he appear at last in that character, which, as Montesquieu has informed us, fills up the circle of political power, the character of a judge.
