Both houses seized this opportunity of venting their spleen against the old ministry.

The history of England is disgraced by the violent conduct of two turbulent factions, which, in their turn, engrossed the administration and legislative power.

The parliamentary strain was quite altered.

One can hardly conceive how resolutions so widely different could be taken on the same subject, with any shadow of reason and decorum.

Marlborough, who but a few months before had been so highly extolled and caressed by the representatives of the people, was now become the object of parliamentary hatred and censure, though no sensible alteration had happened in his conduct or success.