Of those opportunities nobody had thought fit to avail himself; and it was now too late to reopen the question.

Most of the other members who spoke against taking the message into consideration took the same line, declined discussing points which might have been discussed when the Disbanding Bill was before the House, and declared merely that they could not consent to any thing so unparliamentary as the repealing of an Act which had just been passed.

But this way of dealing with the message was far too mild and moderate to satisfy the implacable malice of Howe.
In his courtly days he had vehemently called on the King to use the Dutch for the purpose of quelling the insubordination of the English regiments.

"None but the Dutch troops," he said, "are to be trusted." He was now not ashamed to draw a parallel between those very Dutch troops and the Popish Kernes whom James had brought over from Munster and Connaught to enslave our island.

The general feeling was such that the previous question was carried without a division.