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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

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A LETTER TO
Lord ROBERT BERTIE.

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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