He suggested certain amendments for consideration and discussion, which, if they had been agreed upon, must have been carried again to the lower house and sanctioned there before the bill could have been complete.

But it appeared afterwards, that there would have been no time for the latter proceeding.

Earl Stanhope, therefore, pressed this circumstance peculiarly upon the Lords who were present.

He observed, that the King was to dismiss the parliament next day, and therefore they must adopt the bill as it stood, or reject it altogether.

There was no alternative, and no time was to be lost.