Some members proposed to substitute the more respectful word Address: but they were overruled; and a committee was appointed to draw up the Representation.
Another night passed; and, when the House met again, it appeared that the storm had greatly subsided.

The malignant joy and the wild hopes which the Jacobites had, during the last forty-eight hours, expressed with their usual imprudence, had incensed and alarmed the Whigs and the moderate Tories.

Many members too were frightened by hearing that William was fully determined not to yield without an appeal to the nation.

Such an appeal might have been successful: for a dissolution, on any ground whatever, would, at that moment, have been a highly popular exercise of the prerogative.

The constituent bodies, it was well known, were generally zealous for the Triennial Bill, and cared comparatively little about the Place Bill.