The country-gentleman, therefore, the officer by sea and land, the man of liberal views and habits, attached to no profession, will be as completely excluded from the government of his country as if he were legislatively proscribed.
In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke predicts the complete exclusion of traditional country gentlemen and independent individuals from the government of their nation.
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Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.
But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
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