His violence in the course of the Regency debates had produced strong disapproval in the public, and downright consternation in his own party.

On one occasion he is described by a respectable observer as having "been wilder than ever, and laid himself and his party more open than ever speaker did.

He is folly personified, but shaking his cap and bells under the laurel of genius.

He finished his wild speech in a manner next to madness." Moore believes that Burke's indiscretions in these trying and prolonged transactions sowed the seeds of the alienation between him and Fox two years afterwards.
Burke's excited state of mind showed itself in small things as well as great.

Going with Windham to Carlton House, Burke attacked him in the coach for a difference of opinion about the affairs of a friend, and behaved with such unreasonable passion and such furious rudeness of manner, that his magnanimous admirer had some difficulty in obliterating the impression.