Though a young member of the Whig party I will venture to speak in the name of the whole body.

I tell the honourable and learned gentleman, that the same spirit which sustained us in a just contest for him will sustain us in an equally just contest against him.
Calumny, abuse, royal displeasure, popular fury, exclusion from office, exclusion from Parliament, we were ready to endure them all, rather than that he should be less than a British subject.

We never will suffer him to be more."] In spite of this flattering reception, he seldom addressed the House.

A subordinate member of a Government, with plenty to do in his own department, finds little temptation, and less encouragement, to play the debater.

The difference of opinion between the two Houses concerning the Irish Church Temporalities Bill, which constituted the crisis of the year, was the one circumstance that excited in Macaulay's mind any very lively emotions; but those emotions, being denied their full and free expression in the oratory of a partisan, found vent in the doleful prognostications of a despairing patriot which fill his letters throughout the months of June and July.