That question has now been settled in the best possible way; and we may look forward to many years of peace." A Whig of still greater note and authority, the Marquess of Hartington, separated himself on this occasion from the junto.

The current was irresistible.

At last the voices of those who tried to speak for the Instruction were drowned by clamour.

When the question was put, there was a great shout of No, and the minority submitted.

To divide would have been merely to have exposed their weakness.
By this time it became clear that the relations between the executive government and the Parliament were again what they had been before the year 1695.