the Scottish Jacobites, the impulse was a
sense of honour to their chieftains, and a gallant devotion to their
king; with many of the English, it was a conscientious belief that they
were only doing their duty to the lawful throne in resisting the claims
of the Prince of Orange. It is remarkable, that of the "seven bishops"
sent to trial by James, but one, Trelawny, could be prevailed on to take
the oath of allegiance to William; yet, unfounded and extravagant as
were these conceptions, they showed manliness and conscience. Later
times have had motives, unredeemed by the chivalry of the Scotch, or the
integrity of the English; but the cause of both has been marked with a
similarity of operation, which makes Solomon still "an oracle."

The elections became the chief scenes of display. The efforts to return
Jacobite members were of the most pertinacious kind, and sometimes
proceeded to actual violence. In one of the Westminster elections, the
court candidate had been furiously attacked by a hired mob; and one
Murray, a man of family, and marked, by his name, for an adherent of the
Stuarts, had exhibited himself as a leader, had been captured, and
consigned to the custody of the Serjeant-at-arms.

After a period of confinement, pardon was tendered to him, if he would
ask it. He refused contemptuously, and obtained popularity by playing
the hero.

Murray was brought to the bar of the House of Commons to be heard in his
own defence. He asserted his innocence, smiled when he was taxed with
having called Lord Trentham and the High Bailiff rascals, desired
counsel, and was remanded. Another character then comes on the tapis by
way of episode. This was Sir William Yonge. It has been said of the
celebrated Erskine, that in the House he was a natural, out of the House
he was a supernatural; and certainly nothing could be less like, than
the orator of the bar, and the prattler of the House of Commons. Yonge's
characteristics were just the reverse. He was always trifling, out of
the House, and sometimes singularly effective in it. Walpole says of
him, that his Parliamentary eloquence was the more extraordinary, as it
seemed to come upon him by inspiration. Sir Robert Walpole frequently,
when he did not choose to enter early into the debate himself, gave
Yonge his notes as the latter came into the House; from which he could
speak admirably, though he had missed all the preceding discussion.

Sir Robert Walpole said of him, with a