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Either their entire success, or entire failure, or even the balance and contest of parties, seemed all of them events equally fatal.

The king's chief counsellors, therefore Essex, Halifax, and Sunderland, who stood on bad terms with Shaftesbury and the popular party, advised him to send secretly for the duke, that, in case of any sinister accident, that prince might be ready to assert his right against the opposition which he was likely to meet with.

When the duke arrived, he found his brother out of danger; and it was agreed to conceal the invitation which he had received.

His journey, however, was attended with important consequences.