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1821 May 14

Codification Offer.

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Such has been the language, where and when on the part of the ruling one, any such condescension towards what concerns the subject many, as that of considering their happiness worth a thought, is vouchsafed to be manifested. This is however the extraordinary case: it is the case which naturally has place only in that sort of Monarchy alone in which the throwing, over the native colours of selfish tyranny, a varnish of hypocrisy is regarded as necessary, or at least conducive, to the only end, which, under a Monarchy, ever has been or in the nature of man ever can be really pursued - by the had of it.

This then is but the extraordinary case. In the ordinary case no such disguise being regarded as necessary, no such humiliation as that of putting it on is submitted to. To all such degrading and unworthy compliances, two aptly nebulous, and preeminently appropriate words legitimacy and order - both or either of them - form a less assailable - a more dignified, a more awe-striking, and in every point of view a more advantageous, substitute. By the word legitimacy intimation is given of the right, which in quality of representative of the heavenly Monarch the earthly Monarch possesses, of converting into instruments of his own glory, all men that are or can be made to be subject to his power: by the word order is depicted, at one tenth of the pencil, the state of things which that subjection or in the words of the present Bishop of London, speaking from the Episcopal pulpit the "prostration of understanding and will is compleat." As to any such object as that of the happiness of the individuals in question, no more regard is manifested by it, than if, instead of sensitive matter, these instruments of the Vice-God's glory were made of the same materials as the stocks and stones of which his palace is composed.