Smarting from old sufferings, drunk with recent prosperity, burning with implacable resentment, confident of irresistible strength, they were not less rash and headstrong than in the days of the Exclusion Bill.

Sixteen hundred and eighty was come again.

Again all compromise was rejected.

Again the voices of the wisest and most upright friends of liberty were drowned by the clamour of hotheaded and designing agitators.

Again moderation was despised as cowardice, or execrated as treachery.