After this the bill was passed without a division[A].
[Footnote A: S.Lushington, esq.

M.P.for Yarmouth, gave his voluntary attendance and assistance to the Committee, during all these motions, and J.Bowdler, esquire, was elected a member of it.] On Wednesday, the eighteenth, Lord Howick, accompanied by Mr.Wilberforce and others, carried the bill to the Lords.

Lord Grenville, on receiving it, moved that it should be printed, and that, if this process could be finished by Monday, it should be taken into consideration on that day.

The reason of this extraordinary haste was, that His Majesty, displeased with the introduction of the Roman-catholic officers' bill into the Commons, had signified his intention to the members of the existing administration, that they were to be displaced.
The uneasiness, which, a few days before, had sprung up among the friends of the abolition, on the report that this event was probable, began now to show itself throughout the kingdom.

Letters were written from various parts, manifesting the greatest fear and anxiety on account of the state of the bill, and desiring answers of consolation.