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monarchy into tyranny. Odious idea of sovereign might, to stake a nation's welfare on the chance of a victory or defeat in a civil

war.

Readers, my historical researches so far are over; and those who deny the theory, or, to pay my power a worse compliment, cannot see its aim, let these not turn sceptically from one fact, that all rebellious monarchs are the weakest-minded, which shows us at once that the loftiest mind is the most ready to submit to useful government; and, as a general rule, to govern is to be governed in turn. Man's honour consists not in unlimited worship of self; the barriers of society and law will never be infringed, except for ambitious, tyrannic motives: a monarch ought never to count more upon the courage of his army than the sagacity of his politicians.

Oh! then, Politicians, look upon your

country as a vast inheritance committed to your charge, let Truth sway your principles, Honour your laws. There is cowardice in making self the first consideration, when England is the mark whereon your eyes should turn. Patiently, diligently, and courageously follow the path which may not always lead to eminence or popularity, but bear in mind that as the million, countless of millions, grains of sand, consist actually of grain upon grain, so does voice upon voice constitute that great body—the Senate.

CHAPTER II.

POLITICAL NOVELISTS-THE RESPONSIBILITY

OF POLITICIANS.

Ir may be supposed that every man feels a holy consciousness of a responsible duty when he enters the Houses of Parliament; not the ambition, not the power, not the littleness ascribed to most men, must always be mixed in his composition from the hour M.P. signs its contract with power. There are diviner virtues in man's breast, sweeter theories than self, and it is with loathing that liberal minds turn from those biting sarcasms upon man, showing him in his worst light and most

paltry character. As soon as a law is instituted, popular novelists aim their ridicule at it, thoughtless pens deride that which wisdom has created. Nay, the very politician who has sat with his brother members satisfies his leisure ambition and the craving of angry duns by a work founded on crying down the law which his brothers and himself have instituted. It is divulging the secrets of the house, placing the weapon of discontent in the hands of the people, placing a barrier before the amelioration of a law in its infancy, to thrust its cons so much before its pros, in the brilliant three volumes which vilify his brother members, and make the author popular almost at the expense of honour. In those brilliant pages the suffering child of want reads his first lesson of discontent, the labourer sues for more than he had otherwise wished for, the poor look upon the rich as a vast assembly

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