Such are their ideas, such their religion, and such their law.  But as to our country and our race, as long as the well-compacted structure of our Church and State, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple,[20] shall stand inviolate on the brow of the British Sion,—­as long as the British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers, as long as this awful structure shall oversee and guard the subjected land,—­so long the mounds and dikes of the low, fat, Bedford level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France.  As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm,—­the triple cord which no man can break,—­the solemn, sworn, constitutional frank-pledge of this nation,—­the firm guaranties of each other’s being and each other’s rights,—­the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity,—­as long as these ensure, so long the Duke of Bedford is safe, and we are all safe together,—­the high from the blights of envy and the spoliations of rapacity, the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt.  Amen! and so be it! and so it will be,—­

    Dum domus AEneae Capitoli immobile saxum
    Accolet, imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.

But if the rude inroad of Gallic tumult, with its sophistical rights of man to falsify the account, and its sword as a make-weight to throw into the scale, shall be introduced into our city by a misguided populace, set on by proud great men, themselves blinded and intoxicated by a frantic ambition, we shall all of us perish and be overwhelmed in a common ruin.  If a great storm blow on our coast, it will cast the whales on the strand, as well as the periwinkles.  His Grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises,—­no, not for a twelvemonth.  If the great look for safety in the services they render to this Gallic cause, it is to be foolish even above the weight of privilege allowed to wealth.  If his Grace be one of these whom they endeavor to proselytize, he ought to be aware of the character of the sect whose doctrines he is invited to embrace.  With them insurrection is the most sacred of revolutionary duties to the state.  Ingratitude to benefactors is the first of revolutionary virtues.  Ingratitude is, indeed, their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one; and he will find it in everything that has happened since the commencement of the philosophic Revolution to this hour.  If he pleads the merit of having performed the duty of insurrection against the order he lives in, (God forbid he ever should!) the merit of others will be to perform the duty of