Several of the Scottish peers carried to Kensington an address which was subscribed by thirty-six of their body, and which earnestly pressed William to convoke the Estates at Edinburgh, and to redress the wrongs which had been done to the colony of New Caledonia.

A petition to the same effect was widely circulated among the commonalty of his Northern kingdom, and received, if report could be trusted, not less than thirty thousand signatures.

Discontent was far from being as violent in England as in Scotland.

Yet in England there was discontent enough to make even a resolute prince uneasy.

The time drew near at which the Houses must reassemble; and how were the Commons to be managed?
Montague, enraged, mortified, and intimidated by the baiting of the last session, was fully determined not again to appear in the character of chief minister of finance.