a most distressing alternative. But in the election among evils
they hope better things from temporary confusion, than from
established servitude. In the mean time, the voice of law is not to
be heard. Fierce licentiousness begets violent restraints. The
military arm is the sole reliance; and then, call your constitution
what you please, it is the sword that governs. The civil power,
like every other that calls in the aid of an ally stronger than
itself, perishes by the assistance it receives. But the contrivers
of this scheme of Government will not trust solely to the military
power, because they are cunning men. Their restless and crooked
spirit drives them to rake in the dirt of every kind of expedient.
Unable to rule the multitude, they endeavour to raise divisions
amongst them. One mob is hired to destroy another; a procedure
which at once encourages the boldness of the populace, and justly
increases their discontent. Men become pensioners of state on
account of their abilities in the array of riot, and the discipline
of confusion. Government is put under the disgraceful necessity of
protecting from the severity of the laws that very licentiousness,
which the laws had been before violated to repress. Everything
partakes of the original disorder. Anarchy predominates without
freedom, and servitude without submission or subordination. These
are the consequences inevitable to our public peace, from the scheme
of rendering the executory Government at once odious and feeble; of
freeing Administration from the constitutional and salutary control
of Parliament, and inventing for it a new control, unknown to the
constitution, an INTERIOR Cabinet; which brings the whole body of
Government into confusion and contempt.


After having stated, as shortly as I am able, the effects of this