[clxiv. 170]

1820 June 22

Emancipation Spanish

? Interests opposite

King worst not best

In a pure Monarchy - in a Monarchy that has nothing of democracy in its forms, all this how absurd and flagitious so ever has nothing in it that is inconsistent. It is to the English Monarchy that we must look if to what is most absurd and flagitious we would see added what is inconsistent

He is - so Blackstone as[?] sung - and the whole orchestra of the ruling few are ever ready to join in chorus he is

so combine all in one he is Most excellent.

Most excellent - in what? in wisdom? Oh no: in that he is below par: so much below par, as to be but a degree if even so much as that above that of ideocy or lunacy. From his accession to his death, how mature so ever his time of life in the noblest part of him at least - if the word noble could /can/ apply to such a subject constantly in leading strings. At the same time of life every other man who is not placed avowedly in the situation of ideot or lunatic in due form of law, acts of himself - acts without need of any advice but his own: the Monarch alone - he who of all men is most excellent is /he alone is/ incapable of acting of acting on any occasion as such without the advice of others.