There were all the most noisy agitators of the club, with the exception of Montgomery, who was dying of want and of a broken heart in a garret far from his native land.

There was the canting Ross and the perfidious Annandale.

There was Sir Patrick Hume, lately created a peer, and henceforth to be called Lord Polwarth, but still as eloquent as when his interminable declamations and dissertations ruined the expedition of Argyle.

But the whole spirit of the assembly had undergone a change.

The members listened with profound respect to the royal letter, and returned an answer in reverential and affectionate language.