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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Letter to Lord Robert Bertie, by Anonymous This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Letter to Lord Robert Bertie Relating to His Conduct in the Mediterranean, and His Defence of Admiral Byng Author: Anonymous Release Date: May 7, 2010 [EBook #32286] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LETTER TO LORD ROBERT BERTIE *** Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) A LETTER TO Lord ROBERT BERTIE. [Price One Shilling.] A LETTER TO Lord ROBERT BERTIE, Relating to his CONDUCT in the Mediterranean, AND HIS DEFENCE of Admiral BYNG. Hic unde vitam sumeret inscius Pacem duello miscuit. O pudor! O magna Carthago! probrosis Altior Italiae ruinis! HOR. LONDON: Printed for R. GRIFFITHS, in Pater-noster Row. MDCCLVII. A LETTER TO Lord ROBERT BERTIE. MY LORD, Characters like your's, are regarded with impartial Attention by human Society, and the World will impatiently expect something in your Conduct suitable to your Rank and Dignity. Those who are intrusted with the Charter of our Liberties, or the Revenge of our Wrongs, are laid under the strongest Obligations which Honour or Gratitude can impose, to maintain the Rights and execute the Resentment of their Country; but if they fail to exert themselves to the utmost for this Purpose, the People, naturally fretful at their Losses, will not forbear reflecting on the supposed Authors of their Misfortunes. And when they call to mind that indelible Disgrace which has befallen them in the _Mediterranean_, it's possible they may mingle too much Petulance and Severity in their Censures upon those who were concerned in that unfortunate Expedition. I am extremely sorry, my Lord, to find your Name in the Number of those to whose Misconduct that fatal Defeat is attributed. You have been marked out by the Indignation of the Publick, and maliciously charged with Principles the most remote f
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