The one King England has had, this King of Four Years, since the Constitutional system set in.

Oliver Cromwell, yes indeed,--but he died, and there was nothing for it but to hang his body on the gallows.

Dutch William, too, might have been considerable,--but he was Dutch, and to us proved to be nothing.

Then again, so long as Sarah Jennings held the Queen's Majesty in bondage, some gleams of Kinghood for us under Marlborough:--after whom Noodleism and Somnambulism, zero on the back of zero, and all our Affairs, temporal, spiritual and eternal, jumbling at random, which we call the Career of Freedom, till Pitt stretched out his hand upon them.

For four years; never again, he; never again one resembling him,--nor indeed can ever be.
"Never, I should think.