High words were uttered by the enemies of the government.

Its friends, afraid of being accused of abandoning the cause of the Commons of England for the sake of royal favour, hardly ventured to raise their voices.
Montague alone seems to have defended the King.

Lowther, though high in office and a member of the cabinet, owned that there were evil influences at work, and expressed a wish to see the Sovereign surrounded by counsellors in whom the representatives of the people could confide.
Harley, Foley and Howe carried every thing before them.

A resolution, affirming that those who had advised the Crown on this occasion were public enemies, was carried with only two or three Noes.

Harley, after reminding his hearers that they had their negative voice as the King had his, and that, if His Majesty refused then redress, they could refuse him money, moved that they should go up to the Throne, not, as usual, with a Humble Address, but with a Representation.