The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-09 00:00:00

SHOULD one branch of the Legislative Body (it
-matters not which) nefariously attempt to secure a dan-
gerous ascendancy over both, or either of the others,—
the enlightened Patriot will fearlessly oppose its en.
cruachments, and consider no personal sacrifice—not
even that of life itself—too great, for the ultimate safety
of that fabric, which his forefathers have raised and ce-
mented with their Wood. He will revere this simple
outline of the Constitution as including, by the due
mixture of its elementary parts, an union of causes,
operations, and results, which form the grand bulwark
of those extended blessings, which arise front the social
compact—and fur the security of which, man consents
to be governed by his fellow-man. To his keen and
penetrating eye, the duties of the respective individuals
who occupy these separate and important spheres of
Legislation, will be ever obvious,—and their due ege-
cutiin will separately and proportionally excite his feel-
ings of loyalty and attachment,--but, in the reverse

case, his severest reprehension and most vigorous oppo-
sition will be felt, in unceasing operation and energy,
through every channel which the Constitution has open-
ed for the salvation of his country.
As long, for example, as the Monarch duly executes
the important trust reposed in him,—and remains true
to the solemn oath, which, on receiving his Crown, he
takes in the presence bf a Free People—so long does
this friend of his country experience no bounds to his
loyalty and affection for such a Sovereign. He considers
him as the bey-skine of that arch, which supports the
beauteous fabric of National Security and Happiness--
and when occasion calls, will cheerfully shed his blood
in the defence of his constitutional rights and privileges.
But he looks with equal favour on the other branches
of the Constitution, us being equally essential to his
country's welfare :--and while the Hereditary Nobles of
the Land are mindful of the momentous as well as
honourable station which they hold on the °nonce ground
of an enlightened population,—while they not only con-
stitute the " Corinthian Capital of Polished Society,"
and adorn and support the Throne by their propinquity
to it in point of rank, and facility of communication—

but, by applying the nicest touches of the nicest discre-
tion, ably support the Balance of Power between the
People and the Throne—they merit the exalted distinc-
tions accorded to them in the political ranks of their
country;—end will justly become the pride and the
boast of the judicious patriot.—For he willingly allows
to the aspiring and the sneeeslul in Arms, in the Pro-
fessions, and in Onnwerce, those honours which are the
due meed of actions which contribute to national glory,
securily, and wealth—and which, by providing a suitable
rank for the 6enfjhetors of their country, furnish the
most efficient stimulus to palriolic deeds, and their most
appropriate reward.

lit reference to the Political Power vested in " the
(nnmons of England"—in that mass of population, for
whose benefit the machinery of government is construct-
ed—and in producing whose happiness, a political sys-
tem is good or bail, in exact proportion to its c:ffects—
the patriot rejoices in perceiving the collective bod,j of the
peep& occupying a momentous sphere in the general ar-
rangements of their country—toil exerting an influence
through the medium of their Representatives, and the
energy of their own voice, whenever it is publicly and
constitutionally expressed, as powerful, us efficient, as
that which is exercised by the other organs of the state.
And as a private individual of this mass, feeling the dig-
ailed pride connected with his lot, he exercises an