446.] The essential truth, moreover, is, Pitt has become King of England; so lucky has poor England, in its hour of crisis, again been.

And the difference between an England guided by some kind of Friedrich (temporary Friedrich, absolute, though of insecure tenure), and by a Newcastle and the Clack of Tongues, is very great! But for Pitt, there had been no Wolfe, no Amherst; Duke Ferdinand had been the Royal Highness of Cumberland,--and all things going round him in St.Vitus, at their old rate.

This man is a King, for the time being,--King really of the Friedrich type;--and rules, Friedrich himself not more despotically, where need is.

Pitt's War-Offices, Admiralties, were not of themselves quick-going entities; but Pitt made them go.

Slow-paced Lords in Office have remonstrated, on more than one occasion: "Impossible, Sir; these things cannot be got ready at the time you order!" "My Lord, they indispensably must," Pitt would answer (a man always reverent of coming facts, knowing how inexorable they are); and if the Negative continued obstinate in argument, he has been known to add: "My Lord, to the King's service, it is a fixed necessity of time.