boundaries


boundaries   laid   down   by  his  colleagues  and  by
Mr.  Burke.
GENERAL  STANHOPE.
f  The  conftitution  of  England  is  founded  upon
c  compatt ;  and  the  fubjeils  of  this  kingdom  have,  R;  hts  of
c  in  their  feveral  public  and  private  capacities,  as  the  fubje
'  legal  a  title  to  what  are  their  rights  by  law,  as  a  JrownV
f  prince  to  the  poffefiion  of  his  crown.  q»*iiy  le-

f  Your  lordfhips,  and  mod  that  hear  me,  are  wit-  gal"
f  nefies,  and  muft  remember  the  neceffities  of  thofe
f  times  which  brought  about  the  Revolution  :  that  jufticeof
f  no  other  remedy  was  left  to  preferve  our  religion  Jo£niS
c  and  liberties  ;  that  refiftance  was  neceffary  and  con-  neceffity.
{ Jeqttently  juft.     —     —

*  Had  the  Doctor,  in  the  remaining  part  of  his
f  fermon,  preached  up  peace,  quietnefs,  and  the
f  like,  and  fhewn  how  happy  we  are  under  her
f  maj city's  adminiftration,  and  exhorted  obedience
c  to  it,  he  had  never  been  called  to  anfwer  a
f  charge  at  your  lordfhips  bar.  But  the  tenor  of  all
4  his  fubfequent  difcourfe  is  one  continued  invective
c  againft  the  government.'


Mr.  Walpole  (afterwards  Sir  Robert)  was  one
of  the  managers  on  this  occafion.  He  was  an
honourable  man  and  a  found  Whig.  He  was  not,
as  the  Jacobites  and  difcontented  Whigs  of  his  time
have  reprefented  him,  and  as  ill-informed  people  flill
reprelent  him,  a  prodigal  and  corrupt  miniiter.  They
charged  him  in  their  libels  and  feditious  converfa-
tions  as  having  firft  reduced  corruption  to  a  fyftem.
Such  was  their  cant.  But  he  was  far  from  governing
by  corruption.  He  governed  by  party  attachments.
