he faithfully served his greatness, he endured his person.  When George the Second took Mr. Pitt, who certainly was not agreeable to him, into his councils, he did nothing which could humble a wise sovereign.  But these ministers, who were chosen by affairs, not by affections, acted in the name of and in trust for kings, and not as their avowed constitutional and ostensible masters.  I think it impossible that any king, when he has recovered his first terrors, can cordially infuse vivacity and vigor into measures which he knows to be dictated by those who, he must be persuaded, are in the highest degree ill affected to his person.  Will any ministers, who serve such a king (or whatever he may be called) with but a decent appearance of respect, cordially obey the orders of those whom but the other day in his name they had committed to the Bastile? will they obey the orders of those whom, whilst they were exercising despotic justice upon them, they conceived they were treating with lenity, and for whom in a prison they thought they had provided an asylum?  If you expect such obedience, amongst your other innovations and regenerations, you ought to make a revolution in Nature, and provide a new constitution, for the human mind:  otherwise your supreme government cannot harmonize with its executory system.  There are cases in which we cannot take up with names and abstractions.  You may call half a dozen leading individuals, whom we have reason to fear and hate, the nation.  It makes no other difference than to make us fear and hate them the more.  If it had been thought justifiable and expedient to make such a revolution by such means and through such persons as you have made yours, it would have been more wise to have completed the business of the fifth and sixth of October.  The new executive officer would then owe his situation to those who are his creators as well as his masters; and he might be bound in interest, in the society of crime, and (if in crimes there could be virtues) in gratitude, to serve those who had promoted him to a place of great lucre and great sensual indulgence,—­and of something more:  for more he must have received from those who certainly would not have limited an aggrandized creature as they have done a submitting antagonist.

A king circumstanced as the present, if he is totally stupefied by his misfortunes, so as to think it not the necessity, but the premium and privilege of life, to eat and sleep, without any regard to glory, can never be fit for the office.  If he feels as men commonly feel, he must he sensible that an office so circumstanced is one in which he can obtain no fame or reputation.  He has no generous interest that can excite him to action.  At best, his conduct will be passive and defensive.  To inferior people such an office might be matter of honor.  But to be raised to it and to descend to it are different things, and suggest different sentiments.  Does he really name the ministers?  They will