They had prospered in trade, whereas he had prospered solely in politics; and men said that he was dependent altogether on what his relatives supplied for his support.

He had now been in Parliament for more than twenty years, and had been known not only as a Radical but as a Democrat.

Ten years since, when he had risen to fame, but not to repute, among the men who then governed England, nobody dreamed that Joshua Monk would ever be a paid servant of the Crown.

He had inveighed against one minister after another as though they all deserved impeachment.

He had advocated political doctrines which at that time seemed to be altogether at variance with any possibility of governing according to English rules of government.