As regarded the persons to be chosen, his advice was as before, to choose moderate men--men of sense and temper, not men of fire and fury.

But he no longer asserted, as he had done before, the exclusive possession of good qualities by the Whigs.

He now recognised that there were hot Whigs as well as moderate Whigs, moderate Tories as well as hot Tories.

It was for the nation to avoid both extremes and rally round the men of moderation, whether Whig or Tory.

"If we have a Tory High-flying Parliament, we Tories are undone.