Brothers may meditate upon this at his leisure. He was a melancholy
prognosticator, and has had the fate of melancholy men. But they who
prophesy pleasant things get great present applause; and in days of
calamity people have something else to think of: they lose, in their
feeling of their distress, all memory of those who flattered them in
their prosperity. But merely for the credit of the prediction, nothing
could have happened more unluckily for the noble lord's sanguine
expectations of the amendment of the public mind, and the consequent
greater security to government, from the examples in France, than what
happened in the week after the publication of his hebdomadal system. I
am not sure it was not in the very week one of the most violent and
dangerous seditions broke out that we have seen in several years. This
sedition, menacing to the public security, endangering the sacred person
of the king, and violating in the most audacious manner the authority of
Parliament, surrounded our sovereign with a murderous yell and war-whoop
for that peace which the noble lord considers as a cure for all domestic
disturbances and dissatisfactions.

So far as to this general cure for popular disorders. As for government,
the two Houses of Parliament, instead of being guided by the
speculations of the Fourth Week in October, and throwing up new barriers
against the dangerous power of the crown, which the noble lord
considered as no unplausible subject of apprehension, the two Houses of
Parliament thought fit to pass two acts for the further strengthening of
that very government against a most dangerous and wide-spread faction.

Unluckily, too, for this kind of sanguine speculation, on the very first
day of the ever-famed "last week of October," a large, daring, and
seditious meeting was publicly held, from which meeting this atrocious
attempt against the sovereign publicly originated.