of commons late in the evening of that day by his friend Colonel Barre,
who moved for an address to the king that his remains should be interred
at the public expense in Westminster Abbey. The motion was seconded by
Mr. T. Townshend, and seemed to meet with general approbation; but Mr.
Rigby, who apprehended that a public funeral would not be agreeable
to his majesty, as Chatham had not recently been looked upon with much
favour at court, suggested that a public monument to his memory would be
a better testimony of the public admiration and gratitude. The result of
this suggestion, however, was very different from that which Townshend
intended. Mr. Dunning said it would be better to have both the public
funeral and the monument, and he combined both in a resolution, which
was carried without one dissentient voice; Lord North giving it his
warmest support. A funeral and a monument were therefore secured to the
great orator, and as, notwithstanding his places, pensions, and legacies
left him, Chatham had died in debt, on the recommendation of Lord John
Cavendish, L20,000 was voted for the payment of his debts, and L4000
a-year was settled upon-his heirs. No opposition was made to these
grants in the commons; but a motion made by the Earl of Shelburne in the
lords, that the peers should attend his funeral was lost by a majority
of one vote. The annuity bill was also opposed in the lords; but it was
carried by a majority of forty-two to eleven. In all these votes his
majesty concurred, although during the noble earl's life he had opposed
an application made to him to settle the pension he enjoyed in reversion
to his second son, William Pitt, until, at least, decrepitude or death
had put an end to him "as a trumpet of sedition." His majesty, however,
could not carry his resentment beyond the grave, and perhaps pleased
with the last noble sounds of his trumpet, he gave his warm assent to
the honours and rewards which parliament had voted to the great orator
and his heirs. And the posthumous honours paid to Chatham were not
confined to the king and the parliament. The Common-council petitioned
to have his remains interred in the noblest edifice of Great Britain,
St. Paul's Cathedral, and when this was refused, they erected a monument
in Guildhall to his memory. He was one of the greatest orators England
ever produced; greater even than the garbled and defective reports of
his speeches would denote him to have been. In his privat