In that work he is ordinarily garrulous even to minuteness about all that concerns himself, and sometimes relates with amusing ingenuousness his own mistakes and the censures which those mistakes brought upon him.

But about the ignominious judgment passed by the House of Commons on his Pastoral Letter he has preserved a most significant silence.

[397] The plot which ruined Bohun, though it did no honour to those who contrived it, produced important and salutary effects.

Before the conduct of the unlucky licenser had been brought under the consideration of Parliament, the Commons had resolved, without any division, and, as far as appears, without any discussion, that the Act which subjected literature to a censorship should be continued.

But the question had now assumed a new aspect; and the continuation of the Act was no longer regarded as a matter of course.