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 ¬a character to his eloquence which 1 shall not attempt to describe, knowing nothing by which it may be compared, ¬" Had the counsels of this great man been ac- cepted, much more if he himself had been to carry them into execution with his eminent companions, I must ever think that the peace of our world might have been preserved. — I have not forgotten that great numbers of wise and independent men then held and with equal firm- ness persevere in the contrary opinion ; but their grand reason in support of it was never support- ed by the fact. — Their whole argument resting upon the danger to our monarchical constitution from republican infection; but if the course I have insisted on had been adopted, the Capetian monarchy might most probably have been pre- served, and there would have been then no re- public to infect us /" ¬My blood now rising in every vein, I could not help exclaiming, "Oh, that England had ¬been ¬