[xxxvi. 118]

1822 June 30.

Constitut. Code

Supreme Operative

I Monarch

2. Intellectuals

Thus it is that /Meantime/ whether sanity or insanity be the state of the Monarch - whether in the acts to which the name of the Monarch is affixed, the judgment and the individually directed /applied/ will have any or no part, be the whole tenor of the government more or less predatory, more or less oppressive - the suffering of the people more or less conduct, the conduct and frame of mind of the Monarch present in all statements which have any pretension to the character of authenticity the same aspect of consummate /unrivalled/ and unvaried excellence. For the bodies of two Monarchs, two portraits both indeed beautiful but beautiful in two different forms are found necessary: but for the minds of the two one and the same portrait always serves, is always found sufficient.

In England of the so many hundreds of laws passed every year not one is passed in and by which the King does not join with the sham representatives of the people and the too real representatives of the people, in declaring himself to be Most Excellent. By the universal confession /declaration/ of all who join in the devotion in a Church of England Church and by an unrepealed Law of Elizabeth all are punishable who omitt to join in it - every English King is most gracious every King is most religious. Gracious alike he who never smiles and he who sometimes smiles: religious alike the bigot and the unbeliever: the infidel with a mask, and the infidel with /without/ a mask. Sunday after Sunday Charles the second while amusing the Lords in waiting with the pleasantry of which religion was the standing object, Charles the second who was really the most gracious of English Kings heard himself proclaimed in the same breath by those consecrated lips in the same breath the most religious.