Those whose livelihood, or promotion, or expectations, were dependent upon the government of the country, were generally backward on these occasions.

Though they thought they discovered in the parliamentary conduct of Mr.Pitt, a bias in favour of the cause, they knew to a certainty that the Lord Chancellor Thurlow was against it.
They conceived, therefore, that the administration was at least divided upon the question, and they were fearful of being called upon, lest they should give offence, and thus injure their prospects in life.

This objection was very prevalent in that part of the kingdom which I had selected for my tour.
The reader can hardly conceive how my mind was agitated and distressed on these different accounts.

To have travelled more than two months,--to have seen many who could have materially served our cause,--and to have lost most of them,--was very trying.

And though it is true that I applied a remedy, I was not driven to the adoption of it, till I had performed more than half my tour.