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was to remedy thefe neglefts that a proper
Ruler was now wanted •, that if you would
undertake the regency, and fhould be in¬
verted therein by the ratification of the
ftate, he would very readily concur ^ but
for his part, he would fooner forfeit his
life than undertake any fhare in the regency
of a kingdom groaning under fuch miferies
and diftradtions, as required the beft head,
with the moft refolute heart, to recover it:
that fuch a perfon or perfons muft not be
rtiackled by the terror of fadion, to be
made refponfible for every adion. that might
be difagreeable to this or that fyftem of po¬
litics : No •, it was his opinion, that in fuch
a difficult fituation, no method of govern¬
ment v/ould anfwer the exigencies of the
nation but a kingly one, and that King to
be inverted with power uncontroulable j
for otherwife, concluded he, the fame con¬
tending parties which fio confoundingly
diftraded the unhappy Duncan, will conti¬
nue, and have it much more in their power
to diftrad a powerlefs or fettered Regency.
‘ Macbeth having done, Rofo, as the fe-
nior of the Council, rofe up; obferved.
That it was ufelefs to put off time now in
debating about the propriety of what he
imagined had been already determined it
having been agreed in a former council of
patriots, that the deplorable condition of