The combination of interests against the Bill was instant, and it was indeed formidable.
The great army of returned nabobs, of directors, of proprietors of East India stock, rose up in all its immense force.

Every member of every corporation that enjoyed privilege by charter, felt the attack on the Company as if it had been a blow directed against himself.
The general public had no particular passion for purity or good government, and the best portion of the public was disgusted with the Coalition.

The king saw his chance.

With politic audacity he put so strong a personal pressure on the peers, that they threw out the Bill (December 1783).

It was to no purpose that Fox compared the lords to the Janissaries of a Turkish Sultan, and the king's letter to Temple, to the rescript in which Tiberius ordered the upright Sejanus to be destroyed.