The result of the ballot was unfavourable to the government.

Four of the seven on whom the choice fell were connected with the opposition; and one of them, Trenchard, was the most conspicuous of the pamphleteers who had been during many months employed in raising a cry against the army.
The Land Tax Bill, with this clause tacked to it, was carried to the Upper House.

The Peers complained, and not without reason, of this mode of proceeding.

It may, they said, be very proper that Commissioners should be appointed by Act of Parliament to take account of the forfeited property in Ireland.

But they should be appointed by a separate Act.