believe, has never before witnessed; and these Ministers
remaining in the same Cabinet, and continuing to act together. How
can all this end? I was in town for a few hours on Monday, and it
appeared to me that in the streets the cry was increased instead of
diminished for the Queen. I saw several lawyers, dispassionate men,
and intelligent, who all confirmed this, and assured me that their
belief was, that be the evidence ever so strong, and the facts
proved, the public--and included in this, the middling class, the
shopkeepers--were determined to support her as an oppressed and
injured woman, and as hating and despising the character of the
witnesses. It also has not a little benefited her cause, that it
appears how much the King personally has prepared the evidence by
his emissaries abroad, and more particularly by his Hanoverian
engines. I assure you I am quite low-spirited about it. One cannot
calculate on anything less than subversion of all Government and
authority, if this is to go on; and how it is to end, no one can
foresee. I think, however (what I did not do when you told me so in
town), that the Commons will never entertain the Bill. But, again,
when will it ever come to the Commons? The mischief will be all
done previously; and the Press now is completely open to treason,
sedition, blasphemy, and falsehood with impunity. This alone, if it
continues, must debauch the public mind. I want some volunteer
establishments to be formed, or something to be done without a
moment's delay, by the well-disposed and loyal who have influence,
to check the torrent and to guard against the explosion which must
inevitably take place. I don't know whether you see the _Cobbetts_,
_Independent Whig_, and many other papers now circulating most
extensively, and which are dangerous much beyond anything I can
describe. I have an opportunity of seeing them, and can speak
therefore from knowledge; and the Government taking no steps
(knowing, perhaps, they cannot depend on a jury) to prosecute. What
do you find in the language of Government since the division? Is
the Chancellor submissive? and does he still cling to the Purse, or
will he surrender it?

The King here confines himself to the Cottage, has _hourly_
messengers--that is, dragoons, who are posted on the road by
dozens--and we hear i