When the death of the Electoral Prince was known, they fell still lower.

The subscriptions to a new loan, which the Commons had, from mere spite to Montague, determined to raise on conditions of which he disapproved, came in very slowly.

The signs of a reaction of feeling were discernible both in and out of Parliament.

Many men are alarmists by constitution.

Trenchard and Howe had frightened most men by writing and talking about the danger to which liberty and property would be exposed if the government were allowed to keep a large body of Janissaries in pay.