Parliament

,—a word sounding farm and signifying little; formerly it ws freely considered as a check upon executive power, or as the bank which prevented the inundation of arbitrary caprice; at present it serves the purpose of ministry, by sanctioning those measures which their ignorance or vice has performed. It gave our ally Prussia money for which he is not accountable; it repaid the expensive armaments voted useless by the nation; and it gave sanction to a war disastrous in its effects, and ruinous in its consequences. Such are your Parliaments; such your Representatives.