In some of those addresses severe reflections were thrown on the House of Commons.

Our deliverer had been ungratefully requited, thwarted, mortified, denied the means of making the country respected and feared by neighbouring states.

The factious wrangling, the penny wise economy, of three disgraceful years had produced the effect which might have been expected.

His Majesty would never have been so grossly affronted abroad, if he had not first been affronted at home.

But the eyes of his people were opened.