1818 Aug. 26.

Things as they are

§.5. Matter of Corruption

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What those others /subordinates thus/ are they are by usage: what the Monarch is - more religious than all Monarchs, but himself or herself, still more than any of those others he or she is by Act of Parliament. While writing or jesting with Adenoth[?] Frederic the Great of Prussia, had the crown of England fallen as it might have done on his head would have been ipso facto Most Religious.