[195] Lord Bolingbroke had trusted him to get six copies printed off of his Letters on Patriotism; after Pope’s death, it was discovered that he had secured a vast number of copies for his own benefit. Vide the Preface to the Idea of a Patriot King, where this story is exposed. What aggravated Lord Bolingbroke’s exposing his friend was, that after his own death it was discovered that he had secretly preserved a copy of Dr. Middleton’s Essay on Prayer, which his lordship had persuaded the doctor’s executors to burn. [196] Vide Appendix, K. [197] Sir Robert Walpole was killed by Jurin’s medicine for the stone; Lord Bolingbroke by a man who had pretended to cure him of a cancer in his face. [198] In quibusdam virtutes non habent gratiam, in quibusdam vitia ipsa delectant.--_Quintil._ [199] This allusion is manifestly borrowed from Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, who, in an epistle written in 1745, but not printed till many years afterwards, thus draws the character of Mr. Pelham, and contrasts him with Sir Robert Walpole. Apostrophizing the Goddess of Prudence, he says-- Turn to your altars, on your votaries shine, See Pelham ever kneeling at thy shrine; By you at first by slow degrees he rose, To you the zenith of his power he owes; You taught him in your middle course to steer, Impartial, moderate, candid to appear; Fearful of enmity, to friendship cold, Cautiously frank, and timorously bold, And so observant, never to offend A foe, he quite forgets to fix a friend. Long versed in politics, but poor in parts, The courtier’s tricks, but not the statesman’s arts; His smile obedient to his purpose still, Some dirty compromise his utmost skill; In vain his own penurious soil he till’d; In vain he glean’d from Walpole’s plenteous field; In vain th’ exchequer robes about him flow, The _mantle_ does not make the _prophet_ now.--E. [200] As he gave up the Hanover troops, to pave the way for Mr. Pitt’s coming to Court--and voting for them himself next year! [201] As Lord Sunderland, Lord Stanhope, Craggs, and Lord Townshend. [202] How little he shone in formal ornamental eloquence appeared from his speech at Sacheverell’s trial, which was the only written one, and perhaps the worst he ever made. [203] That Lord Granville, Pitt, and Lyttelton, recanted all their invectives, must not be produced as unbiassed evidence; but the Duke of Bedford and Lord Cornbury will be allowed too honest to have acted from any motives but conviction. 1752. Pour être bon historien, il ne faudroit être d’aucune religion, d’aucun pais, d’aucune profession, d’aucun parti. CHAPTER VIII.