No! He wished to have everything comfortable and pleasant, and therefore, he would say--nothing about him (cheers).
The captain replied in a similar parliamentary style.

He would not say, he was astonished at the speech they had just heard; he would not say, he was disgusted (cheers).

He would not retort the epithets which had been hurled against him (renewed cheering); he would not allude to men once in office, but now happily out of it, who had mismanaged the workhouse, ground the paupers, diluted the beer, slack-baked the bread, boned the meat, heightened the work, and lowered the soup (tremendous cheers).

He would not ask what such men deserved (a voice, 'Nothing a-day, and find themselves!').

He would not say, that one burst of general indignation should drive them from the parish they polluted with their presence ('Give it him!').