I have taken as much pains as I could to examine into the constitutions of them.

I have been endeavoring to inform myself at all times on this subject; of late my duty has led me to a more minute inspection of them; and I do challenge the whole race of man to show me any of the Oriental governors claiming to themselves a right to act by arbitrary will.
The greatest part of Asia is under Mahomedan governments.

To name a Mahomedan government is to name a government by law.

It is a law enforced by stronger sanctions than any law that can bind a Christian sovereign.

Their law is believed to be given by God; and it has the double sanction of law and of religion, with which the prince is no more authorized to dispense than any one else.