text:  "Might it not be better " says Burke boldly "for the prince at once to assure himself to communicate the king's melancholy state by a message to the Houses and to desire their counsel and support in such an exigency? It would put him forward with advantage in the eyes of the people; it would teach them to look upon him with respect as a person possessed of the spirit of command; and it would I am persuaded stifle a hundred cabals both in parliament and elsewhere which if they were cherished by his apparent remissness and indecision would produce to him a vexatious and disgraceful regency and reign