"Will you thank the King," they said, "for putting the sword into the hands of his most dangerous enemies?
Some of those whom he has been advised to entrust with military command have not yet been able to bring themselves to take the oath of allegiance to him.
Others were well known, in the evil days, as stanch jurymen, who were sure to find an Exclusionist guilty on any evidence or no evidence." Nor did the Whig orators refrain from using those topics on which all factions are eloquent in the hour of distress, and which all factions are but too ready to treat lightly in the hour of prosperity.

"Let us not," they said, "pass a vote which conveys a reflection on a large body of our countrymen, good subjects, good Protestants.

The King ought to be the head of his whole people.

Let us not make him the head of a party." This was excellent doctrine; but it scarcely became the lips of men who, a few weeks before, had opposed the Indemnity Bill and voted for the Sacheverell Clause.

The address was carried by a hundred and eighty-five votes to a hundred and thirty-six, [612] As soon as the numbers had been announced, the minority, smarting from their defeat, brought forward a motion which caused no little embarrassment to the Tory placemen.