The subjects of this unfortunate prince did what we should have done,--what all who love their country, who love their liberty, who love their laws, who love their property, who love their sovereign, would have done on such an occasion.
Burke asserts that the subjects of the Rajah acted as any loyal citizens would in response to tyranny.
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They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.
Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.
Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.
They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.
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