How can we be safe while a man proved to be venal has access to the royal ear?
Our best laid enterprises have been defeated.

Our inmost counsels have been betrayed.

And what wonder is it?
Can we doubt that, together with this home trade in charters, a profitable foreign trade in secrets is carried on?
Can we doubt that he who sells us to one another will, for a good price, sell us all to the common enemy ?" Wharton concluded by moving that Leeds should be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanours.

[582] Leeds had many friends and dependents in the House of Commons; but they could say little.

Wharton's motion was carried without a division; and he was ordered to go to the bar of the Lords, and there, in the name of the Commons of England, to impeach the Duke.