In effect, the yoke of this species of government is so galling, that whenever the people have got the least power, they have shaken it off with the utmost indignation, and established a popular form.

And when they have not had strength enough to support themselves, they have thrown themselves into the arms of _despotism_, as the more eligible of the two evils.

This latter was the case of Denmark, who sought a refuge from the oppression of its nobility, in the strong hold of arbitrary power.

Poland has at present the name of republic, and it is one of the _aristocratic_ form; but it is well known that the little finger of this government is heavier than the loins of arbitrary power in most nations.

The people are not only politically, but personally slaves, and treated with the utmost indignity.