1823

Greece

Division of power

In company with the correspondent merit, this honor and dignity you have in whatsoever quality you deem requisite. For its support, unfortunately each title and each decoration requires money: but you know already where and how to get it.

Still though you have your House of Lords you have not as yet any such quality in it as holiness. No holiness without Bishops Over a competent number of them, place a competent number of Archbishops, you may thus condense any additional quantity of holiness into one and the same receptacle. In every desirable degree of plentitude every one of these receptacles may be and will have been made full of the Holy Ghost: but to accomplish this plenitude a proportionable quantity of the manna of unrighteousness must have been forced into their unwilling pockets: and to be forced into those sacred pockets it must have been forced out of the profane pockets of the people.

The most important arrangement in this system of the division of power remains yet behind. It consists in the depriving the vast majority of the people of those votes which constituted their share in that supreme Constitutive power, which on the supposition we set out with was divided among them all in equal portions. By the minute remnant the greater part of it in the hands of the Members of the so called House of Lords will thereupon be chosen another House of Lords who for distinction sake you may call a House of Commons. This fundamental defalcation accomplished, accomplishment is given to that form of Government to which in England, where no such document as a Constitutional Code is in existence, is known by the name of the matchless Constitution: and sure enough its match is not any where to be found. In regard to money matters, would you see by the light of experience the effects of the change? Look to England and behold Annual expence of government, exclusive of interest of national debt, ,118,577,636: annual interest of national debt, ,St 30,921,494: the debt in the shape of a perpetual annuity to that amount: an annuity, the whole of it indeed redeemable, but redeemable at a time that never can come.