The principle of the American government denies the right of any representatives to make such a compact, and the right of any prince to carry it into execution if it were made. Whatever varieties or mixtures there may be in the _forms_ of government, there are but two distinct principles on which government is founded. One supposes the source of power to be _out_ of the people, and that the governor is not accountable to them for the manner of using it; the other supposes the source of power to be _in_ the people, and that the governor is accountable to them for the manner of using it. The latter is our principle. In this sense no _right divine_ nor _compact_ can form a king; that is, a person, exercising underived and unreverting power. No. 43. _But while dread Elliott shakes the Midland wave, They strive in vain the Calpian rock to brave._ Book VII. Line 89. The English general Elliott commanded the post of Gibraltar, against which the combined forces of France and Spain made a vigorous but fruitless attack in the year 1781. This attack furnished the subjects for two celebrated pictures alluded to in the eighth book: _The burning of the Floating Batteries_ painted by Copley; and _The Sortie_, painted by Trumbull. No. 44. _To guide the sailor in his wandering way, See Godfrey's glass reverse the beams of day._ Book VIII. Line 681. It is less from national vanity than from a regard to truth and a desire of rendering personal justice, that the author wishes to rectify the history of science in the circumstance here alluded to. The instrument known by the name of Hartley's Quadrant, now universally in use and generally attributed to Dr. Hartley, was invented by Thomas Godfrey of Philadelphia. See Jefferson's Notes on Virginia; likewise Miller's Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century, in which the original documents relative to Godfrey's invention are fully detailed. No. 45. _West with his own great soul the canvass warms, Creates, inspires, impassions human forms._ Book VIII. Line 587. Benjamin West, president of the Royal Academy in London, was born and educated in Pennsylvania. At the age of twenty-three he went to Italy to perfect his taste in the art to which his genius irresistibly impelled him; in which he was destined to cast a splendor upon the age in which he lives, and probably to excel all his cotemporaries, so far at least as we can judge from the present state of their works. After passing two years in that country of models, where canvass and marble seem to contribute their full proportion of the population, he went to London.