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

No such wars, no such distant dependencies, no such drains /running sores/ would

England have had, had it at the time of the Revolution received a Constitution

such as that at present enjoyed by the Anglo©American United States have

succeeded in giving themselves.

But /Meantime/ if for the people, for the greatest number © the Revolution with

its independence of King on Lords and of Lords on King, and of both on the great

body of people has done so little © for the Lords and the proprietors and

commanders of seats in the House of Commons it has done every thing

Independence of them all upon the absolute will of the Monarch © division of

absolute power between the Monarch on the one part and themselves on the other ©

what could have been more delightful? Under James they would have been the sport

of the caprice and bigotry of a cruel, a merciless a tyrant, without an atom of

power, any the least share in the plunderage of the people but on condition of a

prostrate and unreserved submission to his will. Under William and his

successors they acquired /enjoyed/ a power independent of the King placed almost

on a level with that of the King, and putting /placing/ them into a condition to

bargain with him upon little less than equal terms for a share in the patronage

and the plunderage.

the patronage of all the Churches would form the trade of their younger sons

In vain would their sons have received the Holy Ghost: the loaves and fishes

would not have come with him.