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Show l l 31 1 it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the na- tural conf'titution of things. Three thoufand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this diftance, in weakening Government. Seas roll, and months pafs, between the order and the execution; and the want of a fpeedy explanation of a fingle point is enough to defeat an whole fyf- tem. You have, indeed, winged minil'ters of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotefl: verge of the fea. But there a power fieps in, that limits the arrogance of rage- are in yours. She complies too; {he fubmits; {he watches times. This is the immutable con. dition; the eternal Law, of extenfive and de- tached Empire. Then, Sir, from thefe fix capital fources; of Defcent; of Form of Government; of Religion in the Northern Provinces; of Manners in the Southern; of Education; of the Remotenefs of Situation from the Fir-Pt Mover of Government, ing pallions and furious elements, and fays, " So from all thefe caufes a fierce Spirit of Liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your Colonies, and encreafed far (halt thou go, and no farther." Who are with the encreafe of their wealth ; a Spirit, that you, that {hould fret‘and rage, and bite the unhappily meeting with an exercife of Power in chains of Nature P-Nothing worfe happens to England, which, however lawful, is not recon- cileable to any ideas of Liberty, much lefs with you, than does to all Nations, who have ex- tenfive Empire; and it happens in all the forms into which Empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power mutt be lefs vigorous at the extremities. Nature has faid it. The Turk cannot govern ngypt, and Arabia, theirs, has kindled this flame, that is ready to confume us. I do not mean to commend either the Spirit in this excefs, or the moral caufes which pre- Perhaps a more finooth and acco nm: a and Curdiftan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the fame dominion in Crimea and Algiers, duce it. which he has at Brufa and Smyrna. Defpotifm itfelf is obliged to truck and huckfter. The Sultan gets fuch obedience as he can. .He governs acceptable to us. with a loofe rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders. Spain, in her provinces, is, perhaps, not fo well obeyed, as you are dating Spirit of Freedom in them would be more Perhaps ideas of Liberty might be defired, more reconcileable with an arbitrary and boundlefs authority. Perhaps we might wifh the Coloriifis to be perluaded, that their Liberty is more fecure when held in trufl: for them by us (as their guardians during a perpetual minority) than with any part ofit in their own hands. But the queftion is, not whether their fpirit deferves praife D |