"A Jove principium, Jovis omnia plena."


They care no more for the ministers I have mentioned, than they do
for those sturdy royalists who for 60 pounds per annum stand behind
his Majesty's carriage, arrayed in scarlet and in gold. If the
present ministers opposed the Court instead of flattering it, they
would not command twenty votes.

Do not imagine by these observations that I am not loyal; without
joining in the common cant of the best of kings, I respect the King
most sincerely as a good man. His religion is better than the
religion of Mr. Perceval, his old morality very superior to the old
morality of Mr. Canning, and I am quite certain he has a safer
understanding than both of them put together. Loyalty within the
bounds of reason and moderation is one of the great instruments of
human happiness; but the love of the king may easily become more
strong than the love of the kingdom, and we may lose sight of the
public welfare in our exaggerated admiration of him who is appointed
to reign only for its promotion and support. I detest Jacobinism;
and if I am doomed to be a slave at all, I would rather be the slave
of a king than a cobbler. God save the King, you say, warms your
heart like the sound of a trumpet. I cannot make use of so violent
a metaphor; but I am delighted to hear it, when it is the cry of
genuine affection; I am delighted to hear it when they hail not only
the individual man, but the outward and living sign of all English
blessings. These are noble feelings, and the heart of every good
man must go with them; but God save the King, in these times, too
often means God save my pension and my place, God give my sisters an