And when, at length, it _was_ struck, he wanted energy to pursue his advantages.
But we must not anticipate the course of events.

At the precise period of this history, the Jacobite party was full of hope and confidence.
Louis the Fourteenth yet lived, and expectations were, therefore, indulged of assistance from France.

The disgrace of the leaders of the late Tory administration had strengthened, rather than injured, their cause.

Mobs were gathered together on the slightest possible pretext; and these tumultuous assemblages, while committing the most outrageous excesses, loudly proclaimed their hatred to the house of Hanover, and their determination to cut off the Protestant succession.

The proceedings of this faction were narrowly watched by a vigilant and sagacious administration.