From that moment the scheme was doomed.

Everybody affected to be for it; and everybody was really against it.

The three bills were brought in together, read a second time together, ordered to be committed together, and were then, first mutilated, and at length quietly dropped.
In the history of the financial legislation of this session, there were some episodes which deserve to be related.

Those members, a numerous body, who envied and dreaded Montague readily became the unconscious tools of the cunning malice of Sunderland, whom Montague had refused to defend in Parliament, and who, though detested by the opposition, contrived to exercise some influence over that party through the instrumentality of Charles Duncombe.

Duncombe indeed had his own reasons for hating Montague, who had turned him out of the place of Cashier of the Excise.