Ultradespotic

The Governor, however, was authorised by the act and by the Colonial Office to introduce any sort of constitution he might please in the interval; and on his framing one on ultradespotic principles, he found full support from the Colonial Office, notwithstanding the loud and reiterated complaints of the colonists, which were barely acknowledged.

The cautious and timid citizen begins to prepare for the worst by laying in extra supplies of food, etc., while the alcalde of the town proceeds, in the absence of instructions from his superiors, to take such ultradespotic measures for maintaining the government authority andm his own safety as his zeal or fears dictate, putting the screws ndown on the community in a way that greatly adds to the general excitement and alarm.

But the ultradespotic Peter, in his zeal for drastic reforms, abolished both the Zemsky Sobor and the Patriarchate (vide “The M.P. for Russia,” vol. ii., page 352). And I must add, in passing, that by these measures Peter the Great became almost hated by the Slavophil party, whose motto was “ Greek Orthodoxy, Monarchy, and Nationalism.”