ſubject, but to the King himſelf, and in great meaſure rids him of care. But the ſame author, p. 88. tells us the ſucceſs of this attempt[1]: theſe progenitors of the prince, who thus endeavoured, with might and main, to be rid of this ſtate-government, not only could not compaſs that larger power which they graſped at, but riſqued both themſelves and their kingdom. As we ourſelves have likewiſe ſeen in the late K. James. Or, on the other fide, perhaps it is diſliked by ſome who have ſeen no other effects of it, but what have proceeded from the Scotch King-Craft, which is worſe than no government at all, and have imputed thoſe corruptions and diſorders to the Engliſh frame of government; or at leaſt, think that it has no remedy provided againſt them: and ſo have fallen into the waking dreams of I know not what, for want of underſtanding the true of the Engliſh government. But I can aſſure theſe perſons, that upon farther ſearch they will find it quite otherwiſe, and that the Engliſh frame of government cannot be mended; and the old land-marks better placed, than we could, have laid them with our own hands; and withal, that all new projects come a thoufand
- ↑ Qui ſic politicum regimen abjicere ſatagerunt.
