bill, which tends to confine parliamentary privilege within reasonable bounds, though it should be ftolen from the house of Cavendish, and introduced by Mr. Onflow. The features of the infant are a proof of the defcent, and vindicate the noble birth, from the baseness of the adoption. I willingly accept of a farcafm from colonel Barre, or a fimile from Mr. Bourke. Even the filent vote of Mr. Calcraft is worth reckoning in a divifion.-What though he riots in the plunder of the army, and has only determined to be a patriot, when he could not be a peer ?— Let us profit by the affiftance of such men, while they are with us, and place them, if it be poffible, in the post of danger, to prevent desertion. The wary Wedderburne, the gentle Suffolk, never threw away the scabbard, nor ever went upon a forlorn hope. They always treated the King's fervants as men, with whom, fome time or other, they might poffibly be in friendship.—When a man, who ftands forth for the public, has gone that length, from which there is no practicable retreat,—when he has given that kind of personal offence, which a pious Monarch never pardons, I then begin to think him in earnest, and that he never will have occafion to folicit the forgiveness of his country.-But inftances of a determination fo intire and unreferved are rarely

met with.

Let us take, mankind, as they are. Let us distribute the virtues and abilities of individuals according to the offices they affect, and when they quit the fervice, let us endeavour to fupply their places with better men than we have loft. In this country, there are always candidates enough for popular favour. The temple of Fame is the fhorteft paffage to riches and prefer

ment.

Above all things, let me guard my countrymen against the meanefs and folly of accepting of a trifling or moderate compensation for extraordinary and effential injuries. Our enemies treat us, as the cunning trader does the unfkilful Indian. They magnify their own generofity, when they give us bawbles, of little proportionate value, for ivory and gold. The fame houfe of commons, who robbed the conftituent body of their right of free election, who prefumed to make a law, under pretence of declaring it, who paid our good King's debts, without once inquiring how they were incurred, who gave thanks for repeated murders committed at home, and for national infamy incurred abroad, who fcreened lord Mansfield, who imprifoned the magiftrates of the metropolis for afferting the fubjects right to the protection of the laws, who erafed a judicial record, and ordered all proceedings in a criminal

fuit to be fufpended; this very house of commons have graciously confented that their own members may be compelled to pay their debts, and that contefted elections fhall for the future be determined with some decent regard to the merits of the cafe. The event of the fuit is of no consequence to the crown While parliaments are feptennial, the purchase of the fitting member or of the petitioner makes but the difference of a day. Conceffions, fuch as thefe, are of little moment to the fum of things; unless it be to prove, that the worft of men are fenfible of the injuries they have done us, and perhaps to demonftrate to us the imminent.danger of our fituation. In the fhipwreck of the ftate, triftes float and are preserved; while every thing folid and va luable finks to the bottom, and is loft for ever.

JUNIUS.

LET

LETTER XIV.

то LORD CHIEF JUSTICE MANSFIELD.

MY LORD,

Nov. 2, 1771.

AT the interceffion of three of your country

men, you have bailed a man, who, I prefume, is alfo a Scotchman, and whom the Lord Mayor of London has refused to bail. I do not mean to enter into an examination of the partial, finifter motives of your conduct; but, confining myself ftrictly to the fact, I affirm, that you have done that, which by law you were not warranted to do. The thief was taken in the theft ;-the stolen goods were found upon him, and he made no defence. In thefe circumftances, (the truth of which you dare not deny, because it is of public notoriety) it could not ftand indifferent whether he was guilty or not, much less could there be any prefumption of his innocence; and, in thefe circumftances, I affirm, in contradiction to YOU, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE MANSFIELD, that by the laws of England, he was not bailable.

If ever Mr. Eyre fhould be brought to trial, we fhall hear what you have to say for yourself; and I pledge myself, before God and my country, in proper time and place, to make good my charge against you.

JUNIUS.

LETTER XV.

ADDRESSED TO THE PRINTER OF THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER.

SIR,

9 Nov. 1771.

JUNIUS engages to make good his charge against

Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, fome time before the meeting of parliament, in order that the house of commons may, if they think proper, make it one article in the impeachment of the faid Lord Chief Juftice.

LET