His chief faults were supposed to be rashness and party spirit.

It was not yet suspected that he had faults compared with which rashness and party spirit might well pass for virtues.

The government sought occasion against him, and easily found it.

He had published, by order of the House of Commons, a narrative which Dangerfield had written.

This narrative, if published by a private man, would undoubtedly have been a seditious libel.