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Excerpt from An Enquiry Into the Conduct of a Late Right Honourable Commoner
Within our own times, who had a more exalted character, or whofe popularity was higher, than Mr. Wil liam pulteney's? He was the Great Commoner of his time the ter ror Of corruption, the fupport of vir tue the firm, difinterefted patriot. But: when he, treacheroufly, deferted his friends, meanly capitulated with the court, bargained {till more abjee'tly to fereen the Favourite, and accepted of a peerage, his popularity forfook him in an inflant: the unitedpublic look ed upon him as a traitor, and were unanimous in condemning, detefiing, and execrating him. His quondam friends abhorred him, and his enemies defpifed him. That one tranfaetion hath branded his name with eternal infamy.
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