I may possibly suffer
much more than Mr. Reeves (I shall certainly give much more general
offence) for breaking in upon this constitutional amusement concerning
the created or uncreated nature of the two Houses of Parliament, and by
calling their attention to a problem which may entertain them less, but
which concerns them a great deal more,--that is, whether, with this
Gallic Jacobin fraternity, which they are desired by some writers to
court, all the parts of the government, about whose combustible or
incombustible qualities they are contending, may "not be cast into the
fire" together. He is a strange visionary (but he is nothing worse) who
fancies that any one part of our Constitution, whatever right of
primogeniture it may claim, or whatever astrologers may divine from its
horoscope, can possibly survive the others. As they have lived, so they
will die, together. I must do justice to the impartiality of the
Jacobins. I have not observed amongst _them_ the least predilection for
any of those parts. If there has been any difference in their malice, I
think they have shown a worse disposition to the House of Commons than
to the crown.
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