The minister depends entirely upon them, and between them and a few others about Court everything that the King has to dispose of is sold.
3.

To secure any reform in the administration, it will be necessary to require the King to delegate all the powers of sovereignty to the Board.

This he can do, retaining the name of Sovereign and control of his household; or abdicating in favour of his son the heir apparent, to whom the Board would be a regency till he comes of age.

If the alternative be given him, and he choose the former, it should be on the condition, that if his favourites continue to embarrass the Government, he will be required to submit to the latter.

Oude is now, in fact, without a Government: the minister sees the King for a few minutes once a week or fortnight, and generally at the house of the singer above named.