[clx. 213]

1821. April 30.

First Lines.

Constitutional

In a limited Monarchy, the state of things in this respect is still worse. Both for the purpose of corruption and that of delusion, the Monarch has /stands/ much more need of the services of this class of men than in an absolute Monarchy. Such in particular is the state of things in the English Monarchy. In absolute Monarchies, the Monarch has, in many instances, substituted to that imaginary law, which is the work of the lawyers, which, without his having had any part in it, has been the work of the Lawyers, a body of real law giving expression to his own will.