And all this is not enough.

We cannot send a cargo to the farthest ends of the earth, but they must send a gang of thieves after it." Harley and Seymour tried to carry a vote of censure without giving the House time to read the papers.

But the general feeling was strongly for a short delay.

At length, on the sixth of December, the subject was considered in a committee of the whole House.

Shower undertook to prove that the letters patent to which Somers had put the Great Seal were illegal.