are opened; or, if he should honeftly dare to draw back, fhould incur the degrading imputation of rashness, of inconftancy, or of acting in repugnance to his promife and his conviction. In like manner, and under the fame previous injunctions, he may with great advantage direct fome intelligent friends to fit as a Grand Jury on each of the numerous schemes continually suggested to him; whofe verdict may either throw out the Bill, or pronounce the matter deferving of a clofer enquiry. He will study the genius, the temper, the opinions, the prejudices, and the habits of the various claffes of the community. A circumspect regard to these particulars, attainable only by an habitual and intimate acquaintance with them, is of extreme importance towards enabling a Minister to devise and establish meafures of general utility; to correct inveterate evils; to palliate what he cannot cure; to diftinguish what is practicable from what is impracticable; and to frame provisions by which a plan, deemed of the latter description by by hafty and fuperficial obfervers, may at length be proved to belong to the former. He will be defirous rather of a good name than of a great name. In choofing his objects he will act, not with an eye to their temporary luftre, but with a fyftematic attention to their intrinfic worth. He will not confider the wealth of the Nation as of greater moment than its virtue; nor its grandeur than its happinefs. He will fearch into the various openings for improvements of every kind, which the circumftances of the different foreign poffeffions belonging to Great Britain may afford. In recommending to public encouragement, arts, fciences, and national inftitutions, he will give a decided preference to thofe which evidently have a moral tendency, over those which are calculated only for the ornament and embellishment of life. He will not strive to raise to an unfair pre-eminence in the public esteem, nor to promote at the expence of general good the objects lying immediately within his own department. But whatever measure his duty requires him to purfue, he will purfue uniformly and con fiftently; fiftently; and not, as is the practice of ignorant, flothful, and unprincipled Minifters, by feeble and timid expedients. And finally, he will never be deterred from laying the foundations of an useful plan, by foreseeing that in all probability he may be difmiffed from office before half the superstructure is erected; and the credit of the whole fabric be transferred to his fucceffor, and perhaps his enemy, who fhall complete it. 5. A good Minifter will not forget the temptations, to which the experience of different ages and countries proves that he will be expofed, of conceiving himself leagued on the fide of the Crown against the People; and interested to extend beyond its due limits that prerogative of which he reaps the immediate advantage. After purifying his own mind from those pernicious errors, his next anxiety will be to erafe any correfponding impreffions which may have been made on the breast of the Sovereign. He will behave to his mafter with respect, but without fervility. He will communicate with him as freely as prudence will poffibly permit on all public affairs; but while he renounces every attempt or wish to cripple cripple him in the proper exercife of his cont ftitutional powers, he will not tamely comply with the inclinations of the King in oppofition to his own conviction. He will remember that his country looks upon him as the author of the counfels of the Crown; and, whatever be the proceeding, pronounces him responsible. Far from exafperating the Royal bosom against the oppofers of the measures of Government, he will ftudiously seek to allay every degree of unjust irritation which their conduct may have excited; and, instead of aggravating the cause of offence by fecret and calumniating misreprefentations, will liberally give them the credit and the praife, wherever it appears to be deferved, of acting from upright, though erroneous motives; and where the motive cannot be clearly investigated, will point to the fide of charitable conjecture. He will confider himself bound to act towards his mafter the part of a judicious friend, in giving him faithful and unreferved advice on all matters in which he conceives that his interpofition, though not strictly required by official duty, will conduce to the welfare of the country at the head of whose affairs he is placed. Confcious that Kings feldom hear the voice of truth, and are ex pofed posed by their fituation, however pure their intentions may be, to peculiar and numberless disadvantages; he will regard himself as under a general obligation to remove, if he may be permitted to remove, the veil of prejudice and delufion; and to exert whatever influence he may have acquired over the Sovereign in infpiring him with patriotic defires, and kindling in his breast a predilection and zeal for the promotion of civilization, liberty, juftice, and religion, at home and abroad. 6. In Parliament a Minifter ought to be armed with that calmness of temper, the result of fober reflection and confcious innocence, which may enable him to bear with compofure the provocations which he must expect to experience. He will habituate himself to diftinguish, whenever an opportunity prefents itself, between fuch of his opponents as encounter him, though fyftematically, from upright motives; and fuch as are actuated by views of felf-intereft, or the impulfe of factious refentment, He will not charge the latter with their fault; but will avow his opinion of the former. He will invariably refift that deftructive enemy of |