Against all others unsparing vengeance was denounced.
Not only was no sorrow expressed for past offences: but the letter was itself a new offence: for it was written and countersigned by the apostate Melfort, who was, by the statutes of the realm, incapable of holding the office of Secretary, and who was not less abhorred by the Protestant Tories than by the Whigs.

The hall was in a tumult.

The enemies of James were loud and vehement.

His friends, angry with him, and ashamed of him, saw that it was vain to think of continuing the struggle in the Convention.

Every vote which had been doubtful when his letter was unsealed was now irrecoverably lost.