The sovereigns of the old world are frequently, though surrounded with armies, treated with insult; and the despotick monarchies of the east, are the most fluctuating, oppressive and uncertain governments of any form hitherto invented.
If they determined among themselves to use their efforts to effect the establishment of an aristocratical ordespotick government, would a bill of rights be any obstacle to their proceedings?
To ask for supplies in general terms, is to demand the power of squandering the publick money at pleasure, and to claim, in softer language, nothing less than despotick authority.
When his plantation is put in order, he carries the delinquent home, abandons him to all the suggestions ofdespotick rage, and accepts a reward for his honesty.
Such was the situation of the despotick sovereigns of Africa.
Thus in Denmark, where the monarchy was limited and elective, the people, exasperated by the oppressions of the nobility, who had assumed an almost despotick power, out of a principle of revenge threw their whole weight into the regal scale.
Hence no despotick government can ever subsist without the support of that instrument of tyranny and oppression, a standing army.
When the east had felt the force of the Roman arms, the most despotick princes received the orders of a Roman senate, and executed them with as prompt obedience, as a slave would do the commands of his master.
But when luxury had introduced corruption, the pro tempore dictator soon came to be perpetual, and the perpetual dictator terminated in a perpetual and despotick emperor.
Could it be imagind htat such a Man shd be so lost to all sense of Gratitude & publick Love, as to aid the Designs of despotick power for the sake of rising a single step higher.
Would this be a reason for a final Submission to a Tribute & Egyptian Taskmasters in Support of despotick Power!
Ease and Plenty are therefore the great Cherishers of Knowledge: and as most of the Despotick Governments of the World have neither of them, they are naturally over-run with Ignorance and Barbarity.
Such an History as that of Suelonius, which gives us a Succession of Absolute Princes, is to me an unanswerable Argument against Despotick Power.
And will not this be an extortion of evidence equivalent to the methods practised in the most despotick governments, and the most barbarous nations?
But the will, uncontrouled, for ever must and will produce security and wantonness; nor can moderation and despotick power subsist long together.
I am clear that the best plan for the government of India is a despotick governour; for if he be a good man, it is evidently the best government; and supposing him to be a bad man, it is better to have one plunderer than many.
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