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tie enough, but under his fucceflors became a tnofi: violent ty- 

 ranny, by Ibrae of them carried to an excefs, of which there 

 is hardly any other example in hiftory. And in other ftates, as in 

 Athens, while the republic fubfilled, the people were only bappy, as 

 I have obierved, when they refigned themielves to the government 

 of one man. 



I will conclude with obferving one difference betwixt the mo- 

 narchical and democratical government ; and it is a moll material 

 one. The democratical government, I think I have (hown, mult 

 be in all cafes a bad government: Whereas, the kingly govern- 

 ment, if the King be a good man, though altogether unreftrain- 

 ed by laws and what we call a conjTitution, may be a good govern- 

 ment, and the people happy under it. This was the cafe of the 

 Romans under fome of their Emperors, fuch as Vefpafian, Titus, 

 and Marcus Aurelius. Or if the King fhould not be a good man 

 himfelf, but have a good minifter, ftill the people might be hap- 

 py under his government. But it is the fingular happinefs of Great 

 Britain at this time, that we have both a good King and a good 

 Minifter, under the controul, however, of the two Houfes of Parlia- 

 ment ; to which, I am perfuaded, both fubmit with great chearful- 

 nefs; as 1 believe that there is not a man in the Ifland that is a great- 

 er friend to our conftitution than they both are. Our government 

 thus conftituted, has been of late fo adminiftred, that, with the help 

 of fome other nations in Europe, whom we put in motion, we have 

 delivered ! u;ope from thofe enemies of God and man, whofe pro- 

 fefled defign it was to put down regal government and the prefent 

 conftitution in every kingdom in Europe, and to introduce, in place 

 of them, that Ochlocracy, ^for it does not deferve the name of demo- 

 cracy,) which prevails in their own country, and has joined to the moft 

 diforderly government, impiety and contempt of all religion. By this 



means, 



