text:  and the talent of Mr Pitt the contest for political supremacy was at an end and government was rested on its true basis--that of property being the ruling and numbers the controlling power--when the Tory party freed from the influence of their old Jacobite recollections had rallied with sincere loyalty round the throne and the Whigs having lost the glittering prospect of a return to power and corruption had been driven to seek for support in the passions of the people what a marvellous display of public virtue and strength did the empire afford! Search the annals of the world you will find nothing superior few things equal to the patriotism public spirit and generous devotion of the latter period of the Revolutionary war