ABSTRACT

In Europe, the right of establishing governments and of transferring people from one set of rulers to another, has been assumed and exercised by a Congress, composed of the representatives of the different crowned heads, who are supposed to be, at the same time, the most capable and disinterested judges of the wants and interests of humanity. When a new State forms for itself a Constitution, too, its mode of proceeding differs materially from that of the Congress of Vienna. Bishop Watson wished to render the Bishops more independent: his arguments in support of this Reform are strong, but his example forms a sponger argument. The Courier then assails his conduct on this occasion: he had no indulgence to the King’s wishes. “When the King’s wishes were to be indulged, when the Sovereign was to be obliged, this tame and submissive disposition changed at once into fiery and haughty defiance.”