The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . ive conduct of his first Parliament at the closeof 1689 and the beginning of 1690; and he shrank from the thoughtof being entirely in the hands of the men who had obstructed the Billof Indemnity, who had voted for the Sacheverell clause, who had tried toprevent him from taking the command of his army in Ireland, and who The anomalous position which Harley and Foley at this time occupied is noticed in theDialogue between a Whig and a Tory, 1693. Vour great P. Fo—y, says the Tory, turnscadet, and carries arms under the General of t
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . ive conduct of his first Parliament at the closeof 1689 and the beginning of 1690; and he shrank from the thoughtof being entirely in the hands of the men who had obstructed the Billof Indemnity, who had voted for the Sacheverell clause, who had tried toprevent him from taking the command of his army in Ireland, and who The anomalous position which Harley and Foley at this time occupied is noticed in theDialogue between a Whig and a Tory, 1693. Vour great P. Fo—y, says the Tory, turnscadet, and carries arms under the General of the West Saxons. The two Har—ys, father and son,are engineers under the late Lieutenant of the Ordnance, and bomb any bill which he hath onceresolvd to reduce to ashes. Seymour is the General of the West Saxons. Musgrave had beenLieutenant of the Ordnance in the reign of Charles the Second. 1093 WILLIAM AND MARY 2411 had called him an ungrateful tyrant merely because he would not be theirsla\e and hangman. He had once, by a bold and unexpected effort, freed. / I From a drawing by T. Atliow, in the Sutherland Collection himself from their yoke; and he was not inclined to jjut it on his neckagain. He personally disliked Wharton and Russell. He thought highly 2412 HISTORY OK ENGLAND chap, xx of the capacity of Caerniaithen, of the intec^rity of Nottingham, of thedih^cnce and financial skill of Godolphin. It was only by slow degreesthat tile arguments of Suntlerland, backed by the force of circumstances,overcame all objections. On the seventh of November 1693 the Parliament met ; and the con-flict of parties instantly began. William from the throne pressed on theMeeting of Houses the necessity of making a great exertion to arrestParliament ^.j^g progress of France on the Continent. During the lastcampaign, he said, she had, on every point, had a superiority of force ;and it had therefore been found impossible to cope with her. His allieshad promised to increase their armies; and
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