An address was presented to the King, requesting him to pardon Oates, [400] But this concession only made bad worse.

Titus had, like every other human being, a right to justice: but he was not a proper object of mercy.

If the judgment against him was illegal, it ought to have been reversed.

If it was legal, there was no ground for remitting any part of it.

The Commons, very properly, persisted, passed their bill, and sent it up to the Peers.