Their friends had been set free.

The prosecutors had with difficulty escaped from the hands of an enraged multitude.

The character of the government had been seriously damaged.

The ministers were accused, in prose and in verse, sometimes in earnest and sometimes in jest, of having hired a gang of ruffians to swear away the lives of honest gentlemen.

Even moderate politicians, who gave no credit to these foul imputations, owned that Trenchard ought to have remembered the villanies of Fuller and Young, and to have been on his guard against such wretches as Taaffe and Lunt.