X.at the end of the volume.] The conduct of administration, however, received the full approbation of large majorities; but the triumph these victories in Parliament afforded them was of short duration.

The disastrous issue of an expedition from which the most sanguine expectations had been formed, was soon known, and the mortification it produced was extreme.

A reluctant confession of the calamity was made by the minister, and a desire to restore peace on any terms consistent with the integrity of the empire found its way into the cabinet..