Three of the commissioners had strongly objected to some passages as indecorous, and even calumnious; but the other four had overruled every objection.

Of the four the chief was Trenchard.

He was by calling a pamphleteer, and seems not to have been aware that the sharpness of style and of temper which may be tolerated in a pamphlet is inexcusable in a state paper.

He was certain that he should be protected and rewarded by the party to which he owed his appointment, and was delighted to have it in his power to publish, with perfect security and with a semblance of official authority, bitter reflections on King and ministry, Dutch favourites, French refugees, and Irish Papists.

The consequence was that only four names were subscribed to the report.