1818 Sept. 6.

Things as they are

Best why last

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Hence those quarrels and that almost constant state of contention between the Monarch supported by such of his Barons as adhered to him on the one part, and such others of his Barons {whom a common interest opposite to his, engaged in a state of hostility against /as towards/ him and a sense of common weakness bound together in a state of amity and confederacy with /as towards/ one another.}

So long as the conquering army continued in the field here, as already observed was pure monarchy. When along with peace dispersion /separation/ and mutual distance took place the particular and local despots yielding to a greater or less amount and with more or less regularity tokens of allegiance and eventual return of absolute obedience to the universal despot, here was a Monarchy, with an Aristocracy under it: the power of the Monarchy having no effective hands but those which were set to it by the power of the aristocracy: by the cluster of local despotisms /monarchies/ respectively exercised by its members.

In the course of the contest had the Monarch lost his life, his posterity at the same time failing or means of commanding adequate attention being wanting to them, Monarchy would have been at an end, and pure Aristocracy would have taken its place /succeeded to it/. /As it happens/ No such state of things however ever took place.