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er the country Chap XXIV} as far as the mouth of the St. Mary's. It is to the honor of Walpole, that he dared to resist the clamor of the mercantile interest, and, opposing the imbecile duke of Newcastle, boldly advocated the acceptance of the convention. It requires no great abilities in a minister, he exclaimed, to pursue such measures as may make a war unavoidable. But how many ministers have known the art of avoiding war by making a safe and honorable peace?—The convention, said William Pitt, afterwards Lord Chatham, —giving an augury, in his first speech on American affairs, that his political career might be marked by energy, but not by an elevated political faith,—The convention is insecure, unsatisfactory, and dishonorable: I think, from my soul, it is nothing but a stipulation for national ignominy. The complaints of your despairing merchants, the voice of England, has condemned it. Be the guilt of it upon the head of the advisers; God forbid that this committee should <