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which foon after totally fubverted the conftitution*. You feem 
fhocked at the idea, and are ready to fay with Hazael, “Is thy fer- 
vant a dog, that he fhould do thefe things:”” What is the govern- 
ment of our kingdom, but the wife mixture of King, Lords, and 
Commons, each one defigned to be a check on the ill-condu& of 
the others: if you deftroy the powers of any one, and the others 
fhould unite, you eftablifh the moft abfolute defpotifm, for you 
take away the falutary control of the third. Your faying that 
the prefent majority is not anti-monarchial is faying nothing; for 
if you deprive the King of the power of chufing his own fervants, 
or of the other great executive privilege of appointing to places, 
you make him merely nominal; an arrant King Log. 
Within thefe two months the above has been (as yet happily) 
in vain attempted ; firft in the endeavour to place in the Com- 
mons the difpofition of places in India and all its vaft depen- 
dencies; fecondly, in the interference of I.ord * ***, in the difpo- 
fal of the dutchy of Lancaffer; thirdly, in the prefent attempt to 
wreft from Majefty the undoubted right of chufing his own mi- 
nifters: let thefe points be gained by the Commons, and mo- 
narchy falls. . Have your leaders informed you what govern- 
ment they mean to eftablifh? If prerogative is deftroyed, this 
cannot fubfift; -for I think the King will never fubmit to be 
brought from his prifon at Sz. Fames’s, with the pageantry of 
majefty, to give his affent to atts fignified by the pleafure of the 
Commons. I truft that we both look with equal horror on a 
* A fimilar inftance unhappily may be given in our times, when numbers 
ef the firft national aflembly of France have been maffacred by the very people 
they labored to free from one of the worft of governments! 
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