Your humble servant,
An ENGLISHMAN.
[2] In the pamphlet, intituled, _An Appendix to the State of the Nation_,
we find this fact strongly pointed at, p. 16, wherein the author says, in
reply to the _Observer_: “If he means to charge the great statesman (Mr.
G.) who was Secretary of State at the time the plans for the reduction of
Martinique and the Havannah were carried into execution, with consenting
to restore them _without compensation_; I must tell him, that it was
publicly spoken of, at the time the treaty of Paris was negociating, that
this gentleman resigned his office of Secretary of State for no other
reason, _than that further cessions in the West Indies were not insisted
on_.” And in the Observations on the State of the Nation, we find that
author not unacquainted with this part of the negociation, though,
agreeable to the principles of the party he espouses, it is but faintly
touched; page 29, 8vo edit. are these words, “If this gentleman’s hero of
finance, instead of flying from the treaty, which, though he now defends,
_he could not approve_, and would not oppose; if he, instead of shifting
into an office, _which removed him from the manufacture of the treaty_,”
&c.