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the evils which it has removed. For the evils which it has ciiap.caused are felt; and the evils which it has removed are felt no 168 '- ■longer.

Thus it was now in England. The public was, as it alwaysis during the cold fits which follow its hot fits, sullen, hard toplease, dissatisfied with itself, dissatisfied with those who hadlately been its favourites. The truce between the two greatparties was at an end. Separated by the memory of all that hadbeen done and suffered during a conflict of half a century, theyhad been, during a few months, united by a common danger.

But the danger was over: the union was dissolved; and the oldanimosity broke forth again in all its strength.

James had, during the last year of his reign, been even Tempermore hated by the Tories than by the Whigs; and not without Tories,cause: for to the Whigs he was only an enemy; and to theTories he had been a faithless and thankless friend. But theold royalist feeling, which had seemed to be extinct in the timeof his lawless domination, had been partially revived by hismisfortunes. Many lords and gentlemen, who had, in Decem-ber, taken arms for the Prince of Orange and a Free Parliament,muttered, two months later, that they had been drawn in; thatthey had trusted too much to His Highness’s Declaration; thatthey had given him credit for a disinterestedness which, it nowappeared, was not in his nature. They had meant to put onKing James, for his own good, some gentle force, to punishthe Jesuits and renegades who had misled him, to obtain fromhim some guarantee for the safety of the civil and ecclesiasticalinstitutions of the realm, but not to uncrown and banish him.

For his mal-administration, gross as it had been, excuses werefound. Was it strange that, driven from his native land, whilestill a boy, by rebels who were a disgrace to the Protestantname, and forced to pass his youth in countries where the Ho-man Catholic religion ivas established, he should have been ..