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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