We are reminded of the famous passage in B.urkes ".Letter
to a Noble Lord;". the pamphlet defending -himself from the- attack' of the Duke-of Bodfordend Lord Lauderdale in the House ef Lords 'Here-Burke speaks of the " proud-Keep of Windsor " as -symbolizing the British Constitution and the British Monarchy; "not, more limited than.denced by the orders of the State," and -centimes :—
"As long as this awful structure sludl overwound guandthesubject land—so long the mounds and dykes of the low, fat, Bedford level .will have nothing to fear from all the- piekatee -of all the levellera -of France. As-long noun sovereign-lord theckingoand his faithf al subjects, the lords and COMMOZ1S of _this rash,—the triple. cord, which no man-can break ; the solemn, sworn, constitutional frank- -pledge of this nation ; - the Ilvm•guerantees of- each others'- being, • and each. otherte.-ri,ghts ; the joint and several securities, each in its.plosceatid order, foreverrkindand every quality, of-property and of dignity :—ea long as. these endure,. so long the, Duke of 'Bedford is-safe and we are-all safe together-the high' from the blights,of envy and theapoliations of rapacity; the lour from the iron hand of oppression and the iasolent spurn.of contempt. Amen ! and so be it and so. it will be.
Duns dooms Aeneas Cupiteli immobile settim Aceolet ; imperitunque pater Romania habebit."
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