If the House of Commons, in such a case, ever dissolve itself, which is not to be expected, we may look for a civil war every election.

If it continue itself, we shall suffer all the tyranny of a faction subdivided into new factions.

And, as such a violent government cannot long subsist, we shall at last, after many convulsions and civil wars, find repose in absolute monarchy, which it would have been happier for us to have established peaceably from the beginning.

Absolute monarchy, therefore, is the easiest death, the true _Euthanasia_ of the British constitution.
"Thus if we have more reason to be jealous of monarchy, because the danger is more imminent from that quarter; we have also reason to be more jealous of popular government, because that danger is more terrible.

This may teach us a lesson of moderation in all our political controversies."-- (III.