[129b-392]

25 Jan y 1817

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In the case /instance/ that by the present M r Rose who at the time in question being Secretary of the Treasury and the chief confidential assistant of the late M r Pitt may to this purpose be considered as the mouthpiece of the Tories, the same principles have with equal frankness, in many parts, for from such quarters and in such a case amidst the constant[?]the tumult of office perfect consistency would be too much to expect been avowed[?] the like proposition will in the next number of that miscellany /in the beginning of April next/ be under equally apparent from the Right Honourable Gentlemans own words.

{In the course of observation to /in[?]/ the length of which of course the commencement of it can be taken /included/ I might mention /assign/ already more than a half of century – a course of observation continued not without attention – and for some time not altogether without opportunities of viewing the […?] of office it has appeared to me that by both parties whether with eyes altogether shut, or with eyes altogether open or with eyes as is so common partly shut and partly open to the nature and tendency of it the course taken has been such by these same principles has been announced presented and defended /advocated/.}