Williams, with spirits and good-humour blest,
And Fox with ev'ry virtue in his breast.

If Yonge can quit his business, or his play,
Or from some doating fair one break away,
Let him be summon'd to the festal day;
And if these a'n't enough to eat my mutton,
I can find room for Gordon, Wight, and Sutton.
But still the guests, the number of them too,
And all that's mine, dear Patron 's left to you;
Come, then, along, neglect affairs of state,
And let thy levee all unanswer'd wait.

An Epitaph

ON THE LATE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THOMAS WINNINGTON, ESQ. ;

BY

SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS.

NEAR his paternal seat, here buried lies,
The grave, the gay, the witty, and the wise.
Form'd for all parts, in all alike he shin'd,
Variously great! a genius unconfin'd!
In converse bright, judicious in debate,
In private amiable, in public great :

With all the statesman's knowledge,prudence,art,
With friendship's open, undesigning heart.
The friend and heir here join their duty : one
Erects the busto, one inscribes the stone.

Not that they hope from these his fame should live,

That claims a longer date than they can give;

False to their trusts, the mould'ring busts decay,
And, soon effac'd, inscriptions wear away :
But English annals shall their place supply;
And, while they live, his name can never die.

THE CHAIRMAN'S* SPEECH

TO THE

SECRET COMMITTEE.

April 1741.

GENTLEMEN;

AFTER

many and hard struggles to obtain it, we are at length met together, for the satisfaction of this injured nation, in a Secret Committe; and I will not doubt one instant, but that we are all (or at least a great majority of us) met

*James Hamilton, Viscount Limerick, was Chairman of the Secret Committee for inquiring into the last ten years of the administration of Robert, Earl of Orford. Mr. Pultney moved for the inquiry to be for the last twenty years, but that was rejected; and, as the same question cannot be moved twice in the same session, he moved a week or a fortnight afterwards for ten years, which was carried.-W.

here with the same honest design of doing justice to Great Britain in general, and not to any one person in particular; and as there is nothing the people don't expect from our hands, surely we ought to stick at nothing to answer their expectations. As for my part, you may depend upon my executing my important trust with all the warmth and zeal of an inflamed English heart, and all the prudence and discretion of an Irish head.

Gentlemen;

There have been several Secret Committees in England; but God forbid that I should aim at confining to Precedents, so unprecedented a Committee as this. I shall, therefore, only point out such parts of the conduct of former ones, as I think most worthy our imitation. I shall begin with that of the year 1715, when it was thought necessary for some people to justify the clamour they had long kept up against the Lord Treasurer Oxford. That Committee met, and, to their immortal honour, did more than