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“ I am not the Satan you esteem me; for I do not think withSatan, that it is “ better to reign in Hell , than serve in Heaven.”But I do think, that it is better to bask in the sun, and suck a for-tuitous sustenance from the scanty drippings of the most barren rockin Switzerland , with freedom for my friend, than to batten as aslave, at the most luminous table of the greatest despot on the globe.

“ The King, notwithstanding, has not a more loyal subject, northe constitution a warmer friend.

“ I most readily submit to laws made by men exercising theirfree powers of deliberation for the good of the whole ; but whenthe legislative assembly is actuated by an extrinsic spirit, thensubmission becomes irksome to me ; then I begin to be alarmed ;knowing with Hooker, that to live by one mans will, becomes thecause of all merCs misery. I dread despotism worse than death;and the despotism of a Parliament worse than that of a King;but I hope the time will never come, when it will be necessaryfor me to declare that I will submit to neither. I shall probablybe rotten in my grave, before I see what you speak of, the tyrannyof a George the Sixth, or of a Cromwell; and it may be that Iwant philosophy in interesting myself in political disquisitions, inapprehending what may never happen; but I conceive that I amto live in society in another state, and a sober attachment to theo-retic principles of political truth cannot be an improper ingre-dient in a social character, either in this world or in the next.

“ You think the county-members as obnoxious to influence asthe borough-members. This theory is not confirmed by observ-ation ; for in the great division on the 6th of April, the boroughsof Cornwall alone furnished twenty-seven voters, and the CinquePorts thirteen, in support of the influence of the crown, and all

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