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hing effrontery, leased his powers of eloquence to the Government in return for the office of Solicitor General. King to Lord North, 19 Dec. 1770. By these arrangements Lord North obtained twelve new votes. Frances to the Duke de Lavrilliere, interim Minister for Foreign Affairs 12 January, 1771. But the moral power of the Ministry gained still more from the vehement clamor with which its opponents condemned the wise settlement of the question respecting the Falkland Islands. Sir Robert Walpole had yielded to a similar clamor, and had yet lost his place; Lord North won the praise of good men by resisting it, and securing peace without a compromise of the public dignity. When the Administration needed for its defence no more than the exposition of the madness of modern wars in the brilliant and forcible language of the moralist Chap. XLVI.} 1771. Jan. Johnson, Johnson's Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland Islands. 1771. the applause of Adam Smith Ma