Accordingly we find, in all Barillon's despatches, a great anxiety that the parliament should never be assembled.

The conduct of these English patriots was more mean than criminal; and Monsieur Courten says, that two hundred thousand livres employed by the Spaniards and Germans, would have more influence than two millions distributed by France.

See Sir J.Dalrymple's App.
p.111.It is amusing to observe the general, and I may say national, rage excited by the late discovery of this secret negotiation; chiefly on account of Algernon Sydney, whom the blind prejudices of party had exalted into a hero.

His ingratitude and breach of faith, in applying for the king's pardon, and immediately on his return entering into cabals for rebellion, form a conduct much more criminal than the taking of French gold: yet the former circumstance was always known, and always disregarded.

But every thing connected with France is supposed, in England, to be polluted beyond all possibility of expiation.