Lord Shelburne is a man of insatiable ambition, and who pursues the ends of that ambition by ways the most complex and insidious.

Lord Shelburne (better known by his after-acquired title of Marquis of Lansdowne) was the identical minister whom Pitt, twenty years later, so highly eulogized for "that capacity of conferring good offices on those he prefers," and for "his attention to the claims of merit," of which we could wish to know that Smollett had reaped some benefit.

Shelburne is now a quaint and picturesque town; but it is not the city which its projectors planned.