For the authority of law, for the security of property, for the peace of our streets, for the happiness of our houses, our gratitude is due, under Him who raises and pulls down nations at his pleasure, to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange.
***** [Footnote 1: Avaux Neg., Aug.

6/16 1685; Despatch of Citters and his colleagues, enclosing the treaty, Aug.

Lewis to Barillon, Aug.

14/24.] [Footnote 2: Instructions headed, "For my son the Prince of Wales, 1692," in the Stuart Papers.] [Footnote 3: "The Habeas Corpus," said Johnson, the most bigoted of Tories, to Boswell, "is the single advantage which our government has over that of other countries;" and T.B.Macaulay is the most bigoted of Whigs in his own country, but left his whiggism at home when he went to India.] [Footnote 4: See the Historical Records of Regiments, published under the supervision of the Adjutant General.] [Footnote 5: Barillon, Dec.

3/13 1685.