under the King, but the Romans had no ſuch balance. The Patricians and Plebeians in Rome were perpetually at variance, and there was no intermediate Power to reconcile them. The Roman Senate who were ſo unjuſtly, ſo criminally proud, as not to ſuffer the Plebeians to ſhare with them in any thing, cou'd find no other artifice to keep the latter out of the Administration than by employing them in foreign wars. They conſider'd the Plebeians as a wild beaſt, whom it behov'd them to let looſe upon their neighbours, for fear they ſhould devour their maſters. Thus the greateſt defect in the Government of the Romans rais'd 'em to be Conquerors. By being unhappy at home, they triumph'd over, and poſſeſ'd themſelves of the world, till at laſt their diviſions ſunk them to Slavery.
The government of England will never riſe to ſo exalted a pitch of glory, nor will its end be ſo fatal. The Engliſh are not fir'd with the ſplendid folly of making conqueſts, but would only prevent their neighbours from conquering.
