It is this resolution to break their country into separate republics which has driven them into the greatest number of their difficulties and contradictions.  If it were not for this, all the questions of exact equality, and these balances, never to be settled, of individual rights, population, and contribution, would be wholly useless.  The representation, though derived from parts, would be a duty which equally regarded the whole.  Each deputy to the Assembly would be the representative of France, and of all its descriptions, of the many and of the few, of the rich and of the poor, of the great districts and of the small.  All these districts would themselves be subordinate to some standing authority, existing independently of them,—­an authority in which their representation, and everything that belongs to it, originated, and to which it was pointed.  This standing, unalterable, fundamental government would make, and it is the only thing which could make, that territory truly and properly a whole.  With us, when we elect popular representatives, we send them to a council in which each man individually is a subject, and submitted to a government complete in all its ordinary functions.  With you the elective Assembly is the sovereign, and the sole sovereign; all the members are therefore integral parts of this sole sovereignty.  But with us it is totally different.  With us the representative, separated from the other parts, can have no action and no existence.  The government is the point of reference of the several members and districts of our representation.  This is the centre of our unity.  This government of reference is a trustee for the whole, and not for the parts.  So is the other branch of our public council:  I mean the House of Lords.  With us the King and the Lords are several and joint securities for the equality of each district, each province, each city.  When did you hear in Great Britain of any province suffering from the inequality of its representation? what district from having no representation at all?  Not only our monarchy and our peerage secure the equality on which our unity depends, but it is the spirit of the House of Commons itself.  The very inequality of representation, which is so foolishly complained of, is perhaps the very thing which prevents us from thinking or acting as members for districts.  Cornwall elects as many members as all Scotland.  But is Cornwall better taken care of than Scotland?  Few trouble their heads about any of your bases, out of some giddy clubs.  Most of those who wish for any change, upon any plausible grounds, desire it on different ideas.