Note 14 — ESSAY XIV ON THE CHARACTER OF MR. PITT

I do remember one passage which has some meaning in it. At the time of the Regency Bill, speaking of the proposal to take the king’s servants from him, he says, ‘What must that great personage feel when he waked from the trance of his faculties, and asked for his attendants, if he were told that his subjects had taken advantage of his momentary absence of mind, and stripped him of the symbols of his personal elevation.’ There is some grandeur in this. His admirers should have it inscribed in letters of gold; for they will not find another instance of the same kind.