en his
bitterest foe can impeach his integrity. "I allow," said his inveterate
opponent, Fox, "I allow that a minister is not to be considered as
moderate and disinterested, merely because he is poor during his life
or at his death; but when I see a minister who has been in office above
twenty years, with the full command of places and public money, without
any peculiar extravagance and waste, except what might be expected from
the carelessness that perhaps necessarily arose from the multiplicity
of duties to which the attention of a man in such a situation must be
directed,--when I see a minister under such circumstances using his
influence neither to enrich himself nor those with whom he is by
family ties more particularly connected, it is impossible for me not to
conclude that this man is disinterested."

THE GRENVILLE ADMINISTRATION.

The death of Pitt, at the particular crisis in which it took place,
was considered a virtual dissolution of the administration. The post of
premier was offered to Lord Hawkesbury; but he deemed it too arduous,
and chose rather to retire from office with the sinecure of the
cinqueports. Lord Sidmouth also declined the task; and his majesty was
compelled to repress his personal antipathies, and to seek the aid
of Lord Grenville. The new arrangements were completed on the 3rd of
February; and the ministry embraced the leading members of two parties,
known as the old and new opposition, together with the party led by Lord
Sidmouth. The arrangement stood thus:--Lord Grenville, first lord of
the treasury; Fox, secretary of state for foreign affairs; Viscount
Sidmouth, lord privy seal; Earl Fitzwilliam, lord resident of the
council; Lord Howick, first lord of the admiralty; Earl of Moira,
master-general of the ordnance; Earl Spencer, secretary of state for the
home department; Windham, secretary for the colonies; Lord Henry Petty,
chancellor of the exchequer; Erskine, lord high chancellor; and Lord
Minto, president of the board of control. Among the minor appointments,
Sheridan obtained that of the treasurer of the navy; Lord Auckland, the
presidency of the board of trade; Earl Temple and Lord John Townshend,
the joint paymastership of the forces; General Fitzpatrick, the
secretaryship of war; and Sir Arthur Pigott and Sir Samuel Romilly, the
posts of attorney and solicitor-general. As Lord Grenville's office of
auditor of the exchequer was thought incompatible with that of first
lord