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PUBLIC SERVICES DUE BY THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES.
I.England compared to France.
An English example .-- The Privileged class renders no service in France .-- The influence and rights which remain to them .-- They use it only for themselves.
Useless in the canton, they might have been useful at the Center of the State, and, without taking part in the local government, they might have served in the general government.

Thus does a lord, a baronet, a squire act in England, even when not a "justice" of his county or a committee-man in his parish.

Elected a member of the Lower House, a hereditary member of the upper house, he holds the strings of the public purse and prevents the sovereign from spending too freely.

Such is the regime in countries where the feudal seigniors, instead of allowing the sovereign to ally himself with the people against them, allied themselves with the people against the sovereign.