und from those lips
now mute forever. George Second was no more; his grandson George
Third was now King. [Old Newspapers (in _Gentleman's Magazine,_ xxx.
486-488).]

Intrinsically taken, this seemed no very great event for Friedrich, for
Pitt, for England or mankind: but it proved otherwise. The merit of
this poor King deceased, who had led his Nation stumbling among the
chimney-pots at such a rate in these mad German Wars for Twenty Years
past, was, That he did now stand loyal to the Enterprise, now when
it had become sane indeed; now when the Nation was broad awake, and
a Captain had risen to guide it out of that perilous posture, into
never-expected victory and triumph! Poor old George had stood by his
Pitt, by his Ferdinand, with a perfect loyalty at all turns; and been
devoted, heart and soul and breeches-pocket, to completely beating
Bourbon's oppressive ideas out of Bourbon's head. A little fact, but
how important, then and there! Under the Successor, all this may be
different:--ghastly beings, Old Tutors, Favorites, Mother's-Favorites,
flit, as yet invisible, on the new backstairs:--should Bute and Company
get into the foreground, people will then know how important it was.
Walpole says:--

"The Yorkes [Ex-Chancellor Hardwicke people] had long distasted this
War:" yes, and been painfully obliged to hold their tongues: "but now,"
within a month or so of the old King's death, "there was published,
under Lord Hardwicke's countenance, a Tract setting forth the burden and
ill policy of our German measures. It was called CONSIDERATIONS ON THE
GERMAN WAR; was ably written, and changed many men's minds." This is the
famous "Mauduit Pamphlet:" first of those small stones, from the sling
of Opposition not obliged to be dormant, which are now beginning to
rattle on Pitt's Olympian Dwelling-place,--high really as Olympus, in
comparison with others of the kind, but which unluckily is made of
GLASS like the rest of them! The slinger of this first resounding little
missile, Walpole informs us, was "one Mauduit, formerly a Dissenting
Teacher,"--son of a Dissenting Minister in Bermondsey, I hear, and
perhaps himself once a Preacher, but at present concerned with Factorage
of Wool on the great scale; got soon afterwards promoted to be Head
of the Custom-house in Southampton, so lovely did he seem to Bute and
Company. "How agreeable his politics were to the interior of the Court,
soon appeared by a place [Southampton Custom-hous