But it showed also that once corruption was centralized there was no limit to its influence, granted only the absence of great questions.

When George III transferred that organization from the office of the minister to his own court, there was already a tolerable certainty of his success.

For more than forty years the Tories had been excluded from office; and they were more than eager to sell their support.

The Church had become the creature of the State.

The drift of opinion in continental Europe was towards benevolent despotism.