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 A RETROSPECTIVE ENQUIRY. 69 of his power. Of necessity, at the close of the chap. war, this second force came to an end. . L^ After all that Wellington did, there could not i-on?t't'he of course but remain a huge quantity of admin- same time, istrative war-business that needs must be trans- acted at home without the great master's guid- ance ; and how was such work to be compassed with machinery no better than that which the country had hitherto used ? An approach towards improvement was open- circumstan. ^^ -*• _ ^ ces under ing. In times when our people looked jealously ^^i^p5^^j at what they conceived was a growth of the the third '' *-" _ new adniin Eoval authority, they had commonly had in their istrative •^ J ' J •J force be- minds an idea of danger to Liberty, and had ^f^^'^^P"*" never apparently seen the mischiefs of a very different sort which might be expected to follow, if a ' personal king ' — obstructed in some things by his rival the genuine ' State king,' whilst in others left free and rampant — should become what is unlike enough to a high-handed despot, but still in another way baneful, — that is, a Royal disturber of public business, who, although not entrusted with power to propel the State engine himself, is still able to clog, if not utterly to hamper, its action ; but the experience of nearly seventeen years had been such as might teach them at last what seems in these days a plain lesson. They had been carrying on a long war by means of two separate forces, the Navy and the Army. One of these all the time — the Navy — had lived, and toiled, and fought under a genuine • State Icing,' because formed, maintained, and