But what security is there for the same qualities on the part of monarchy?
or, when the monarchy is a child, where then is the wisdom?
What does it know about government?
Who then is the monarch, or where is the monarchy?
If it is to be performed by regency, it proves to be a farce.
A regency is a mock species of republic, and the whole of monarchy deserves no better description.

It is a thing as various as imagination can paint.

It has none of the stable character that government ought to possess.

Every succession is a revolution, and every regency a counter-revolution.

The whole of it is a scene of perpetual court cabal and intrigue, of which Mr.Burke is himself an instance.