He makes great show of his love of liberty, which is the true end of government; and we are informed with a vast solemnity of the "perpetual danger" in which it always stands.

So that the chief end of patriotism is its maintenance; though we are never told what liberty is, nor how it is to be maintained.

The social compact seems to win his approbation and we learn that the secret of the British constitution is the balance of powers and their mutual independency.

But what the powers are, and how their independence is preserved we do not learn, save by an insistence that the safety of Europe is to be found in playing off the ambitions of France and Austria against each other; an analogy the rejection of which has been the secret of English constitutional success.

We learn of the evil of standing armies and the danger of Septennial Parliaments.