There was one expedient which would remove all difficulties, a Regency.

This proposition found so little favour that Finch did not venture to demand a division.
Richard Fanshaw, Viscount Fanshaw of the kingdom of Ireland, said a few words in behalf of James, and recommended an adjournment: but the recommendation was met by a general outcry.

Member after member stood up to represent the importance of despatch.

Every moment, it was said, was precious, the public anxiety was intense, trade was suspended.

The minority sullenly submitted, and suffered the predominant party to take its own course.
What that course would be was not perfectly clear.