He was accordingly admitted, with the compliment of a chair, and leave to be covered.

After having sat a few minutes, he took off his hat and addressed himself to the commons in very extraordinary terms.

Having thanked them for the favour of indulging him with a hearing, he said that house would not have been then sitting but for him.

He protested his own innocence with respect to the crime laid to his charge.

He complained that this was the effect of a design which had been long formed against him.