That there had been mismanagement could not be disputed; but that there had been foul play had certainly not been proved.

The Tories proposed that the word "treacherous" should be omitted.

A division took place; and the Whigs carried their point by a hundred and forty votes to a hundred and three.

Wharton was a teller for the majority.

[490] It was now decided that there had been treason, but not who was the traitor.