How shall we rule the storm so that it may pass over the land without devastating it?
If we bring in a bill--" "A bill for disestablishing the Church!" said the horror-stricken lord.
"If we bring in a bill, the purport of which shall be to moderate the ascendancy of the Church in accordance with the existing religious feelings of the population, we shall save much that otherwise must fall.

If there must be a bill, would you rather that it should be modelled by us who love the Church, or by those who hate it ?" That lord was very wrath, and told the right honourable gentleman to his face that his duty to his party should have constrained him to silence on that subject till he had consulted his colleagues.

In answer to this Mr.Daubeny said with much dignity that, should such be the opinion of his colleagues in general, he would at once abandon the high place which he held in their councils.

But he trusted that it might be otherwise.

He had felt himself bound to communicate his ideas to his constituents, and had known that in doing so some minds must be shocked.