The original establishment, inadequate as it was, is mouldering away, and the officers now attached to it are literally starving, as no part of their allowance has been paid for above six months past.
Burke describes the dire conditions faced by officers of the original establishment, highlighting their lack of pay and support.
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The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
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?
Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?
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