"By what accident it matters not," he says, "nor upon what desert, but just then, and in the midst of that hunt of obloquy which has ever pursued me with a full cry through life, I had obtained a very full degree of public confidence....

Nothing to prevent disorder was omitted; when it appeared, nothing to subdue it was left uncounselled nor unexecuted, as far as I could prevail.

At the time I speak of, and having a momentary lead, so aided and so encouraged, and as a feeble instrument in a mighty hand--I do not say I saved my country--I am sure I did my country important service.
There were few indeed that did not at that time acknowledge it--and that time was thirteen years ago.

It was but one view, that no man in the kingdom better deserved an honourable provision should be made for him."[1] [Footnote 1: _Letter to a Noble Lord._] We have seen that Burke had fixed the paymaster's salary at four thousand pounds, and had destroyed the extravagant perquisites.

The other economical reforms which were actually effected fell short by a long way of those which Burke had so industriously devised and so forcibly recommended.