The national spirit of independence had been wrought up to a dangerous pitch of enthusiasm.

The streets were crowded with people of all ranks, exclaiming against English influence, and threatening to sacrifice as traitors to their country all who should embrace measures that seemed to favour a foreign interest.

The commissioner and his friends were confounded and appalled.

Finding it impossible to stem the torrent, he, with the concurrence of the other ministers, wrote a letter to the queen, representing the uncomfortable situation of affairs, and advising her majesty to pass the bill encumbered as it was with the act of security.

Lord Godolphin, on whose council she chiefly relied, found himself involved in great perplexity.
The tories had devoted him to destruction.