1823. Feb. 23 Greece J.B. to Greek Legislators Independence Division of power

But the greatest number © the great body of the people © the four millions ©

what were they the better for it? Not in the least. Nor should they have been:

never were they so much as thought of From their then present compleatly

unsecure state they have been brought to their present so imperfectly secure

state by the influence of other causes: causes of abundantly slow /snails©pace/

operation, too complex to be capable of being here brought to view

In the year 1688 came the Revolution so called by way of distinction

/preeminence/ not to speak of any intermediate Revolutions On this occasion came

the division of absolute power: the division between the Monarch on the one

part, and the House of Lords with the Aristocrats whose wealth by the magnitude

of it, or the form in which it had place gave them the command of the seats in

the other House. Here was the division of power principle of division in all its

glory: and the people © the greatest number what did they get by it? assuredly

not absolutely nothing: what they got was the difference between the state of

the people under the present English government and the state of the people

under the Austrian Government: the difference between a quick pace and a slow

pace in the descent to the abyss of national misery. Not to mention Williams and

Anns wars which were to a considerable degree if not altogether wars of defence,

they got George the first's War and George the 2d's German wars, and George the

thirds American and French liberticide wars, the last of which, because

according to the Englishmans creed /of English bigotry/ the King can do no wrong

is with so much injustice placed to the account of William Pitt: they got

moreover one after another upon their gulled and overloaded backs those

milstones called Colonies: sources of patronage and emolument to the ruling few,

drains on the pockets of the subject many who in return for the money extorted

form them for the maintenance of that grievance /keeping up that ever running

sore/, have the satisfaction of being taught to say in speaking of them © our

Colonies.