In regard to the first, I wish for the present to be silent about it;--partly out of Respect to that august Body, which has given a Sanction to it;--partly because it is now upon Trial, whether it can be executed or not;--and partly likewise because this must fall of Course, if either Mr. BURKE's, or mine, should be judged to have the Preference. For these Reasons, I say, I wish to keep a respectful Silence on this Head. But in respect to Mr. BURKE, I need not stand on so much Ceremony. For tho' he is confessedly a great _Rhetorician_, and can with his magic Voice raise a mighty Tempest of metaphorical Lightenings and Thunders;--yet, Heaven be praised, there is the Period of all his Powers: And his _verba ardentia_, his _flaming Words_, are found to end at last (like many other Explosions) in Noise and Smoke. Nor doth it, I humbly apprehend, at all follow, that the Orator is endowed with a greater Portion of political Discernment than other Men, or with more disinterested Sincerity, and real Love of his Country, in making a just and honest Application of that Discernment;--merely because he has more Words at Command, and can muster up a greater Army of bright Similes, and florid Expressions. But be that as it may:--I now consider myself as standing at the Bar of the public Tribunal: And therefore before the Jury is struck, and the Trial begins, I humbly beg Leave to claim, and to exercise one of the distinguishing Privileges of _Englishmen_ in such Cases, viz. To except against all such Persons in the Pannel, who appear to be under a wrong Biass, and an undue Influence respecting the Nature of this Dispute.