The Truth Respecting England, or an Impartial Examination of the Work of M. Pillet and of Various Other Writers on the Same Subject. Publ. by J.A. Vievard (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ...we may so express it, the body politic one and indivisible: that instinct of nature which induces every man to protect whatever constitutes his power and his happiness, is become the guarantee of the public liberty in England; and such is, in its whole, as in each of its parts, the English constitution, that the institution of peers, that noble portion of (he legislative body, is also interested not to serve the passions of the people, to grant nothing to their caprices, or, to speak more di the unfortunate Charles Samuel Witel, nephew of M. FancheBorel, shot by order of the government of Bonaparte, which had detained so long in irons, that zealous servant in the cause of Kings--that uncle whom the tribunals and public opinion have already sufficiently avenged, and who ought to expect, with confidence, the sweetest recompense, when the truth in its purity shall have reached the best of Kings. rectly, to defend the throne and to preserve the royal prerogative from all attacks, and that the Chamber of Peers is interested in maintaining the liberties of the nation and the rights of the House of Commons, that is, to defend those liberties and those rights, against the despotism and the usurpations of the crown or of the ministerial authority. It is not, as we may observe, in metaphysics and in the academies, that the English legislators have sought the principles of their policy and the basis of their government, but in the nature of man and in the history of his passions; and it is in this that their wisdom and their knowledge appears; for the passions of men have not changed with ages, they will never change. We must no longer be surprized, if, in following a path so sure, England has found liberty or to express it better, the true degree of liberty which man...