Trenchard declared that he had always spoken of His Majesty as a subject ought to speak of an excellent sovereign, who had been deceived by evil counsellors, and who would be grateful to those who should bring the truth to his knowledge.

He vehemently denied that he had called the grant to Lady Orkney villainous.

It was a word that he never used, a word that never came out of the mouth of a gentleman.

These assertions will be estimated at the proper value by those who are acquainted with Trenchard's pamphlets, pamphlets in which the shocking word villainous will without difficulty be found, and which are full of malignant reflections on William.

[20] But the House was determined not to believe Levinz.