Two pair of portraits

Publishd December 1.s 1798. by J. Wright. Piccadilly. for y.e Anti-Jacobin Review\no [?] London [...]/ In 1788 Horne Tooke published a notorious pamphlet under the title Two/ pair of portraits where he contrasted the Lords Holland and Chatham and their sons/ Fox and Pitt. Here he sits as a real painter and grinds the latter;/ the fathers are already finished. The words which have been put into Tooke's mouth are those with which he concludes his pamphlet. Although Tooke by his excellent epea/ pteroenta or diversions of Purley has gained the reputation of an exceedingly perceptive linguist and/or by his oratorical talents the name of a rare speaker, his character is nevertheless uncommonly ambiguous. Few people have played with truth as he has; everything has been for sale to him. First he was a clergyman at Brentford not far from London (therefore one sees here the parsonage of Brentford), but wanted to become a law teacher and sought to put himself in favor with Pitt by publication of the mentioned pamphlet, which is most flattering for the minister and his father, to be recommended by him to one of the great London law guilds: But the minister refused him and the inns of court, who actually hated Horne Tooke because of his political principles, refused to call him to the bar, whereupon they excused themselves with an old maxim of English law, which reads roughly like this: \"He who has once been attached to the church is always attached to it." Now resentment drove the arch-chaplain to take revenge on Pitt wherever he could; he kept up no pretence any longer, but showed publicly that his spirit of persecution came from the fact that Pitt had not wanted to promote him (see what is in his pocket.) That is why Horne Tooke played such a decisive role in the London corresponding society, but was afterwards set and accused of high treason together with Hardy, Holcroft, etc./ in the year 1794. He was a hair's breadth from the gallows and only Erskine saved him by his eloquence; also Tooke paid the speaker two thousand pounds for the skilful administration. If the/ London corresponding society had prospered, it was believed, especially on account of Tooke's/ vindictive, black, disposition, that nothing but the blood of ministers/ and perhaps higher heads would satisfy him; whence the caricaturist in the Sketch/ for an English directory has dressed the presiding director, who looks sardonic and very much resembles/ H. Tooke, in the costume of a London butcher. H. Tooke's fickleness is represented by the windmill in Wimbledon (where H. Tooke/ usually stays); it can be turned to any favourable wind/ and consists of four wings screaming against each other. the/ hideous but well-taken portrait of the ranting, venal Wilkes whose/ ostensible patriotism also flowed from a very impure source is very fortunately/ appropriate here, because Horne and Wilkes are near perfect counterparts./ Once Wilkes had a mouthstopper he was quiet; Horne Tooke took the same/ career, but with worse success. Lord Holland has in hand unac-/ counted Millions. He was nehmlich Paymaster of the Forces and held so badly account/ that the treasury already during his lifetime processirir over millions with him;/ and after his death his agent and Executor of an immense falsum of Tau-/ send was transferred, so that he disembodied himself: still to this hour the public has to pay about/ 80,000 Pf. to the late Lord Holland. But Lord Chatham, who was also paymaster of the war, beat all spurs, brought amazing benefit to the country, died poor and mourned: at the unanimous addresses of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, not only was his funeral held in public, but his death was also attended by the public.