his superior interest to his brother [Mr. Pelham] in the House of Commons, is like the hungry ass in the fable between the two bundles of hay, and allured by both without knowing which to go to, tastes neither, and will starve between them. He wants Mr. Pulteney's power in the House of Commons to be kept as a check and bridle upon Lord Carteret, who has outrun him so far in the palace, and yet wants Mr. Pulteney out of the House of Commons to strengthen his own power there by the proxy medium of his brother. Thus stands the private contest and seeming union among these present rulers, or rather combatants for rule. II. ON THE MINISTRY OF LORD CARTERET, FEB., 1742. +Source.+--_Sir Charles Hanbury Williams_, quoted by Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, Sept. 11, 1742; and also to be found in Williams' _Collected Poems_. O my poor country! is this all You've gain'd by the long-labour'd fall Of Walpole and his tools? He was a knave indeed,--what then? He'd parts,--but this new set of men A'n't only knaves, but fools. III. ON PULTENEY'S ACCEPTANCE OF A PEERAGE, JULY, 1742. +Source.+--_A Collection of Poems, principally consisting of the most celebrated pieces of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams_, 1763, p. 36. The names in the British Museum copy, from which this and the following are transcribed, are filled in by Horace Walpole, to whom this copy belonged. I'm not the man you knew before, For I am P[ultene]y now no more, My titles hide my name. (Oh how I blush to own my case!) My dignity was my disgrace, And I was rais'd to shame. [17] _I.e._, by advancing the King's views in favour of Hanover and encouraging the passion for war which Walpole had so long repressed. Carteret attended George II. throughout the campaign of 1743, and was even present--the last prime minister to take part in an action--at the Battle of Dettingen. He spoke German well, which greatly endeared him to the King. THE ORIGIN OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR (1741-1748). +Source.+--Samuel Boyse: _Historical Review of the Transactions of Europe_, 1739-45, pp. 69-73.