bably will take place. They who go out can never long with zeal and
good-will support government in the hands of those they hate. In a
situation of fatal dependence on popularity, and without one aid from
the little remaining power of the crown, it is not to be expected that
they will take on them that odium which more or less attaches upon every
exertion of strong power. The ministers of popularity will lose all
their credit at a stroke, if they pursue any of those means necessary to
give life, vigor, and consistence to government. They will be considered
as venal wretches, apostates, recreant to all their own principles,
acts, and declarations. They cannot preserve their credit, but by
betraying that authority of which they are the guardians.

To be sure, no prognosticating symptoms of these things have as yet
appeared,--nothing even resembling their beginnings. May they never
appear! May these prognostications of the author be justly laughed at
and speedily forgotten! If nothing as yet to cause them has discovered
itself, let us consider, in the author's excuse, that we have not yet
seen a Jacobin legation in England. The natural, declared, sworn ally of
sedition has not yet fixed its head-quarters in London.

There never was a political contest, upon better or worse grounds, that
by the heat of party-spirit may not ripen into civil confusion. If ever
a party adverse to the crown should be in a condition here publicly to
declare itself, and to divide, however unequally, the natural force of
the kingdom, they are sure of an aid of fifty thousand men, at ten days'
warning, from the opposite coast of France. But against this infusion of
a foreign force the crown has its guaranties, old and new. But I should
be glad to hear something said of the assistance which loyal subjects in
France have received from other powers in support of that lawful
government which secured their lawful property. I should be glad to
know, if they are so disposed to a neighborly, provident, and
sympathetic attention to their public engagements, by what means they
are to come at us. Is it from the powerful states of Holland we are to
reclaim our guaranty? Is it from the King of Prussia, and his steady
good affections, and his powerful navy, that we are to look for the
guaranty of our security? Is it from the Netherlands, which the French
may cover with the swarms of their citizen-soldiers in twenty-four
hours, that we are to look for this assist