injuries, and by the entire change of all the persons in employment,
blew up the coals.

At first many of the Tories had been made to entertain some faint
hopes that they would be permitted to live in quiet. I have been
assured that the King left Hanover in that resolution. Happy had it
been for him and for us if he had continued in it; if the moderation
of his temper had not been overborne by the violence of party, and
his and the national interest sacrificed to the passions of a few.
Others there were among the Tories who had flattered themselves with
much greater expectations than these, and who had depended, not on
such imaginary favour and dangerous advancement as was offered them
afterwards, but on real credit and substantial power under the new
government. Such impressions on the minds of men had rendered the
two Houses of Parliament, which were then sitting, as good courtiers
to King George as ever they had been to Queen Anne. But all these
hopes being at once and with violence extinguished, despair
succeeded in their room.

Our party began soon to act like men delivered over to their
passions, and unguided by any other principle; not like men fired by
a just resentment and a reasonable ambition to a bold undertaking.
They treated the Government like men who were resolved not to live
under it: and yet they took no one measure to support themselves
against it. They expressed, without reserve or circumspection, an
eagerness to join in any attempt against the Establishment which
they had received and confirmed, and which many of them had courted
but a few weeks before; and yet in the midst of all this bravery,
when the election of the new Parliament came on, some of these very
men acted with the coolness of those who are much better disposed to