Dsinterestedness

,—the rapacity of courtiers, increasing with the distresses of their country; Lord Grenville accepting the Auditorship of the Exchequer, a sinecure yielding ten thousand a year, while the nation is almost reduced to beggary; and Lord Loughborough giving up the Common Pleas for the Seals, at a time when, on an average, there was not more than fifty commissions of bankrutcy signed per week, and when the profits of each commission to his Lordship did not exceed fifteen pounds.