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e formed, by stating that it has cost the labours of twenty thousand men for a year, or of one thousand for twenty years, than that above a million sterling has at different times been expended upon the building and furniture. Yet, it is said that it forms but the eastern wing of a palace, which the architects of this Prince have projected, and that half the south side of Pall-Mall and considerable tracts of the Park will be appropriated to complete their plans, if approved by their royal patron. I am aware, that the love of shew in princes, and persons in authority, is often justified by the alledged necessity of imposing on the vulgar; but I doubt whether any species of imposition really produces the effect which the pomp of power is so willing to ascribe to it, as an excuse for its own indulgences. Nor ought it ever to be forgotten, that no tinsel of gaudy trappings, no architectural arrangements of stone or wood, no bands of liveried slaves, (however glossed in various hues, or disguised by various names,) can sustain the glory of any power which despises public opinion, forgets the compact between all power and the people, violates the faith of public treaties, and measures its moral obligations, not by the sense of justice, but by considerations of expediency and self-interest! On this important, though almost exhausted, topic, it should be known by all Princes who covet true glory, that #Washington the Great# hired no armed men to sustain his power, that his habits were in all things those of a private citizen, and that he kept but one coach, merely for occasions of state--his personal virtues being his body-guards--the justice of his measures constituting the strength of his government,--the renown of his past deeds enshrining him with more splendour than could be conferred by the orders of all the courts in Europe--his unquestionable love of public liberty endearing him to the people over whom he presided--and the pure flame of his patriotism causing him to appear in their eyes as a being more than mortal! Britain might envy America her #Washington#, if she could not herself boast of #an Alfred#, worthy also of being called #the Great#--a sovereign who voluntarily conceded liberty to his people, and founded it on bases which all the inglorious artifices of his successors have been unable to undermine--but, alas! such men, like Epic poets, seem destined to succeed but once in a thousand years! On the left hand
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