Then we should be able to make amendments, to ask for conferences, to give and receive explanations.

The Land Tax Bill we cannot amend.

We may indeed reject it; but we cannot reject it without shaking public credit, without leaving the kingdom defenceless, without raising a mutiny in the navy.

The Lords yielded, but not without a protest which was signed by some strong Whigs and some strong Tories.
The King was even more displeased than the Peers.

"This Commission," he said, in one of his private letters, "will give plenty of trouble next winter." It did indeed give more trouble than he at all anticipated, and brought the nation nearer than it has ever since been to the verge of another revolution.
And now the supplies had been voted.