The value of these securities was about ten thousand pounds.
On the sixteenth of February this transaction was brought without any notice under the consideration of the House of Commons by Colonel Granville, a Tory member, nearly related to the Earl of Bath.

Montague was taken completely by surprise, but manfully avowed the whole truth, and defended what he had done.

The orators of the opposition declaimed against him with great animation and asperity.

"This gentleman," they said, "has at once violated three distinct duties.

He is a privy councillor, and, as such, is bound to advise the Crown with a view, not to his own selfish interests, but to the general good.