Some men, whose motives I shall not impugn, seeking for examples to adduce, have found, in America, a people occupying a vast territory with a scanty population, nowhere surrounded by very powerful neighbours, having forests for their boundaries, and having for customs the feelings of a new race, and who are wholly ignorant of those factitious passions and impulses which effect revolutions of government.

They have seen a republican government established in that land, and have thence drawn the conclusion that a similar government was suitable for us.

These men are the same who at this moment are contesting the inviolability of the king.

But, if it be true that in our territory there is a vast population spread,--if it be true that there are amongst them a multitude of men exclusively given up to those intellectual speculations which excite ambition and the love of fame,--if it be true that around us powerful neighbours compel us to form but one compact body in order to resist them,--if it be true that all these circumstances are irresistible, and are wholly independent of ourselves, it is undeniable that the sole existing remedy lies in a monarchical government.

When a country is populous and extensive, there are--and political experience proves it--but two modes of assuring to it a solid and permanent existence.