on was so imperfect, the materials so gross and
unwrought, and the parts so disjointed, that it would have been
much easier to have raised an entire edifice from the ground,
than to have reduced the injudicious sketch that was made to any
regularity of form. Where you looked for a shrine, you found
only a vestibule; instead of the chapel of the goddess, there
was a wide and dreary lobby; and neither altar nor treasury were
to be found. There was neither greatness of design, nor accuracy
of finishing. The walls were full of gaps and flaws, the winds
whistled through the spacious halls, and the whole building
tottered over our heads.

Mr. Hartley, sir, is a character, that must do honour to his
country and to human nature. With a strong and independent
judgment, with a capacious and unbounded benevolence, he devoted
himself from earliest youth for his brethren and fellow
creatures. He has united a character highly simple and
inartificial, with the wisdom of a true politician. Not by the
mean subterfuges of a professed negociator; not by the dark,
fathomless cunning of a mere statesman; but by an extensive
knowledge of the interest and character of nations; by an
undisguised constancy in what is fit and reasonable; by a clear
and vigorous spirit that disdains imposition. He has met the
accommodating ingenuity of France; he has met the haughty
inflexibility of Spain upon their own ground, and has completely
routed them. He loosened them from all their holdings and
reserves; he left them not a hole, nor a corner to shelter
themselves. He has taught the world a lesson we had long wanted,
that simple and unaided virtue is more than a match for the
unbending armour of pride, and the exhaustless evolutions of
political artifice."

FINIS.

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