Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1806-10-17
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mate ruin TO the liberties Of this country
must inevitably be perseverance IN the
present system, without d check some.
where prevent It's progress. They will
indeed find new world Of reflection
burstopen to them, when they perceive
IN the case Of their own country thar
the Forms " ajiee and the ends ef an ar.
bitTary gsperamenf are not incompatible.
=. When ! speak Of monarchy. do not
meanthai unlimited despotism which had
no eontroui but its own will, and from
whichthrrt Is no reIiefbut REVOLUTION.
/ mean thar kind IN which there exists or
Is supppsedto exist snanrwhere, asheck
! upon executive power. which check ere-
ates struggles between the privileges Of
the people, and the prerogative Of the
chief executive magistrate, and il which
one is constantly on the attack, and the
other on the defensive: so thar BY lone
habit, the interest Of the one, comes 10
be considered as opposed 10 die interests
Of the other. In this kind of monarchy,
the executive is, according 20 the con-
stifntion, speeiously confronted with the
Legislative power. For some time the
latter does It's Office but there soon rises
In the bosom Of the executive, q secret
Intolerance of restraint at the instiga-
tion Of which, various devices of plausi- Z
Die kind are resorted to, TO extend the
sphere ofpower, beyond the pretcribed
limits of the constitutions, withodt adj.
rect palpable violation OF its letter; This
is called rNrLuEEcE. Il finds Il way in.
70 free states, whether Haixsd Or simple
in their forms Of government; and 10, IL
not watched with jealousy, the most
dangerous Of all the vices which creep
into governments. No abuseis 90 dan.
gerous as that which assumes the sem.
blauee, of legality, while il saps the .
foundation Of law, and is then most ac-
tive and .eEicient in mischief when it
skulks in l safsand contemplate obscure
tys In q word, thar which, to repeal.
my test, presefves the forms 0f 4 free,
while il aeeomplishes the ends ofan arbi- !
tEary government. s|% BIZ
To trace the subject to that never-faif-.
ing source Of reason, experience, and
leave analogieal differences 10 follow, let
US look to the origin Of that canker worm
of nation "INTLuEScE," and examine
the means by which il was generated in
the government Of England. The fruits
Of i are before US. May americans
never taste them. t ~ Sfs, - ="
After the despotisnfofth the Stuarts had
been annihilated by the despotism of
James the second, and the elevation of
| William Of Nassau 70 the throne, the
royal powerwas from the very circum-
stances, and for the purpose Of the reyo-
luton itself, exceedingly limited. In-
deed so much so as TO retard, and even
I'M some cases to prevent, the salutary
exercise of the executive functions. The
aristoeracy, which designed and effected
The revolution, took care 10 frame the.
constitution SO as TO keep the monarch
ldependent upon them for hrs power and
his popularity. So eircumscribed was
he 10 the former, not only By the theory,
but by the practice Of the constitution,
that his grand plans for the deliverance Of
Europe from the imperial grasp of Louis
the XVIII were crippled, and, bur for
l his genius and magnanimity, would have
been wholly frustrated. Il win astonish
the reader no doubt to learn that the min-
lister OF that great and highly favored
monarch was, upon an important e
Emergency, compelled to go about among
the citizens Of London, Ike : tottering
merchant, begging a small loan for the
/ service Of the state. In the reign Of
queen Anne The disputes between states-
men abou. prerogatiye and privilege, and
the increase and diminution of either,
resolved themselves IN code Of princi-
pied party contention updAr the names of
wing and tory which continned un1lthe
reigp of George the third whsna new
| system was introduced By the minions Of
the kings mother, with lord Butte az
their bead and when, 70 use the words
| of the illustrious man from whom I have
al as, ynv fayt The NAN -, &c she l.yn,.,,f