Not contented with hunting him from one country to another, they seemed eagerly bent upon extirpating him from the face of the earth, as if they had thought it was a crime in him to be born.

The earl of Sunderland declared, from the information of the minister of Lorraine, that, notwithstanding the application of both houses to her majesty during the last session, concerning the pretender's being removed from Lorraine, no instances had yet been made to the duke for that purpose.

Lord Bolingbroke affirmed that he himself had made those instances, in the queen's name, to that very minister before his departure from England.

The earl of Wharton proposed a question: "Whether the protestant succession was in danger under the present administration ?" A warm debate ensued, in which the archbishop of York and the earl of Anglesea joined in the opposition to the ministry.

The earl pretended to be convinced and converted by the arguments used in the course of the debate.