Sceptre
.—one of the ensigns of royalty, which Pitt appears to have a longing after, if we may judge from the following soliloquy, in which he was over-heard one night, in a perturbed sleep, when his mind had got the political night-mare:
“Is this a sceptre which I see before me,
“The handle toward my hand?—Come, let me clutch thee;
“I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”
This happened, as I am informed, during the king’s m———, illness I mean.
