PORTRAITS

OF THE

Late & Present Administration,

AND

AN ADDRESS TO

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

OF THE

LATE AND PRESENT

Administration,

FAITHFULLY DRAWN FROM THE

CRITERION OF

THEIR ABILITIES, THEIR INTEGRITY,

AND THEIR

Confidence with the Nation;

AND

AN ADDRESS TO

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE

Prince of Wales,

BY WILLIAM GREEN, A. M.

AUTHOR OF

* Annals of George III."

"PLANS OF ECONOMY," &c. &c..

"As far as they carry conviction to any man's understanding,
my labors may be of use: beyond the evidence it carries with it,
"I advise him not to follow any man's interpretation."

LOCKE.

London:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

By Bailey and Macdonald, 3, Harris's Place, Pantheon,

Oxford-Street.

BODLEIS

4 DE 1969

LIBRARY

PREFACE.

THE genius of England in political design, long the theme of panegyric, has so abundantly displayed herself in the structure of our excellent constitution, that the prince and peasant are alike amenable to her laws, and, if guilty, punishable. The public mind, early taught to reverence so invaluable a blessing, surveys with an uninfluenced the assertions of the power

eye,

ful, and with an unprejudiced one, the statements of the weak.

THE liberty of the press, that stable bulwark of our freedom, dispenses its ad