d by the King from the throne.

The division was taken on the question whether Middletons motion should
be put. The Noes were ordered by the Speaker to go forth into the lobby.
They resented this much, and complained loudly of his servility and
partiality: for they conceived that, according to the intricate and
subtle rule which was then in force, and which, in our time, was
superseded by a more rational and convenient practice, they were
entitled to keep their seats; and it was held by all the Parliamentary
tacticians of that age that the party which stayed in the House had an
advantage over the party which went out; for the accommodation on the
benches was then so deficient that no person who had been fortunate
enough to get a good seat was willing to lose it. Nevertheless, to
the dismay of the ministers, many persons on whose votes the court had
absolutely depended were seen moving towards the door. Among them was
Charles Fox, Paymaster of the Forces, and son of Sir Stephen Fox, Clerk
of the Green Cloth. The Paymaster had been induced by his friends to
absent himself during part of the discussion. But his anxiety had become
insupportable. He come down to the Speaker's chamber, heard part of
the debate, withdrew, and, after hesitating for an hour or two between
conscience and five thousand pounds a year, took a manly resolution and
rushed into the House just in time to vote. Two officers of the army,
Colonel John Darcy, son of the Lord Conyers, and Captain James Kendall,
withdrew to the lobby. Middleton went down to the bar and expostulated
warmly with them. He particularly addressed himself to Kendall, a needy
retainer of the court, who had, in obedience to the royal mandate, been
sent to Parliament by a packed corporation in Cornwall, and who had
recently obtained a grant of a hundred head of rebels sentenced to
transportation. "Sir," said Middleton, "have not you a troop of horse in
His Majesty's service?" "Yes, my Lord," answered Kendall: "but my elder
brother is just dead, and has left me seven hundred a year."

When the tellers had done their office it appeared that the Ayes were
one hundred and eighty-two, and the Noes one and eighty-three. In that
House of Commons which had been brought together by the unscrupulous use
of chicanery, of corruption, and of violence, in that House of Commons
of which James had said that more than eleven twelfths of the members
were such as he would himself have nominated, the cou