"The manners and principles of those who lead," he says, "...

not of those who are governed ...

will ever determine the strength or weakness, and therefore the continuance or dissolution of a state." This profligacy Brown compares to the languid vice which preceded the fall of Carthage and of Rome; and he sees the approaching ruin of Great Britain at the hands of France, unless it can be cured.

So far as he has an explanation to offer, it seems to be the fault of Walpole, and the decay of religious sentiment.

His remedy is only Bolingbroke's Patriot King, dressed up in the habit of the elder Pitt, now risen to the height of power.