We cannot consent at such a crisis to relax the restraints which have, it may well be feared, already proved too feeble to prevent some men of high rank from plotting the ruin of their country.

To sum up the whole, what is asked of us is that we will consent to transfer a certain power from their Majesties to your Lordships.

Our answer is that, at this time, in our opinion, their Majesties have not too much power, and your Lordships have quite power enough." These arguments, though eminently ingenious, and not without real force, failed to convince the Upper House.

The Lords insisted that every peer should be entitled to be a Trier.

The Commons were with difficulty induced to consent that the number of Triers should never be less than thirty-six, and positively refused to make any further concession.