_Broad_. Sir _John_, as all who hear you, improve by your Conversation; all who converse with you, ought to pay a Deference to your Opinions, which are generally well founded. But tho’ I should admit that the Points you contend for, would be of public Utility; yet I believe you will admit likewise, that there may be Seasons wherein it would not be proper to press these Matters with too great Warmth. It would be ill-timing the Embellishment or Repair of a House, when the Chimney was on Fire. The World at Home and Abroad is unsettled and perplexed. We have Quarrels and Parties—— Sir _John_. We have so, and Taxes, Poverty, and Corruption. And we have likewise open, and who are more dangerous, secret Enemies; at least, we have lukewarm Friends.——This is no more than what I dreaded, when I first heard how few of the reputed Friends of the People were invited to C—t. When I saw all the great Offices of Trust continued in the old _Standards_, I dreaded the Consequence of taking a few of the Leaders of the People into the subordinate Posts.——Mr. _Broadbottom_, I am sorry to tell you, that I dreaded you would have learnt the Court _Catechise_, when I heard you accepted of a Place before obtaining such Points as the People contend for, and are of absolute Necessity. Why should it be unseasonable to restore us to _triennial_ Parliaments, and to secure Liberty by effectual Place and Pension Bills? What Ferment or Combustion is here at Home, that should prevent or deter the Friends of our Constitution from seeking its immediate Repair, where it has been weakened by either Time or Art? What have the Broils of _Germany_ to do with the _British_ Constitution? The World, you say, is unsettled and perplexed abroad, and we have Quarrels and Parties at Home. Granted; and who are accountable for the Perplexities on the Continent and the Parties here at Home? Not the People, Mr. _Broadbottom_, whose Contentment you would postpone to a more seasonable Opportunity. I should be glad to know the ministerial _Seasons_ for doing public Justice. We have had a long Interval of Peace since the passing the _Septennial_ Law, yet our Ministers never thought it _seasonable_ to suffer it to be repealed. The Ministers, Sir, I mean the _B——h_ Ministers, and not the _B——h_ Nation, have been principally and primarily Authors of the Broils on the Continent; and our Fewds at Home are no less owing to them. _Smooth_. How, Sir _John_, will you place the Ambition of _France_, the Perfidy of _P——a_, and the Inaction of _Holland_, to the Account of our Ministers?