Note 139 — Chapter VIII
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Sir Joseph Mawbey had soon forgotten the favours of the Whigs:—
“Exulting that he was the first Who Ministerial chains had burst, And in the cause of liberty Could keep his honours and be free.” Rodondo.
He professed to be independent of party, and one of the results of this independence was, that the satirical poets of the day, Whig and Tory, united in pitilessly assailing him. He died in 1817.—E.