We abstain, for the reasons already assigned, from attempting to give a summary of Mr. Pitt’s qualifications and merits as a statesman, but it is a debt of justice to bear testimony to his unimpeached integrity in all pecuniary affairs. As a speaker he possessed extraordinary powers; clear, fluent, and singularly correct in his diction, unimpassioned, and seldom rising into flights of eloquence, he was always ready to profit by the indiscretions of an opponent, and his sarcasm was of the most cutting and effective kind. His argumentative powers were of a high order, and the clearness and precision of his mind fitted him admirably for those minute financial statements which formed an important part of his official duties. His voice, though wanting in variety, was sonorous and impressive in an extraordinary degree; his action, though awkward and ungainly at first sight, was not unpleasing, nor unsuited to his discourse. In the relations of private life his character was unexceptionable. “With a manner somewhat reserved and distant, in what might be termed his public deportment, no man was ever better qualified to gain, or more successful in fixing, the attachment of his friends, than Mr. Pitt. They saw all the powerful energies of his character softened into the most perfect complacency and sweetness of disposition in the circles of private life, the pleasures of which no one more enjoyed, or more agreeably promoted, where the paramount duties he conceived himself to owe to the public admitted of his mixing in them; that indignant severity with which he met and subdued what he considered unfounded opposition, that keenness of sarcasm with which he repelled and withered (as it might be said) the powers of most of his assailants in debate, were exchanged, in the society of his intimate friends, for a kindness of heart, a gentleness of demeanour, and a playfulness of good humour, which none ever witnessed without interest, or participated without delight.” Such is the testimony borne to Mr. Pitt’s social qualities by his intimate and attached friend, the Hon. George Rose, in his “Brief Examination into the Increase of the Revenue, &c. of Great Britain, during Mr. Pitt’s administration.” [Illustration: [Statue of Mr. Pitt, by Chantrey, in Hanover Square.]] [Illustration: _Engraved by J. Posselwhite._ WESLEY. _From a Print engraved by J. Fittler, after a Miniature Painted by J. Barry._ Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge _London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street._ ] [Illustration] WESLEY.