But give me leave to'"-- apply a wet cloth to Honorable Gentlemen.

Which he does, really with skill and sense.

France and the others are so strong, he urges; England so unprepared; Kaiser at such a pass; 'War like to be, about the Palatinate Dispute [our friend Friedrich Wilhelm's]: Where is England to get, allies ?'--and hours long of the like sort.

A judicious wet cloth; which proved unavailing.
For "William Pitts" (so they spell the great Chatham that is to be) was eloquent on the other side: "Despairing Merchants," "Voice of England," and so on.

And the world was all in an inflamed state.