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not bring myself to believe that he was my enemy; though he hassuffered me to remain, through life, worse provided for than anybishop on the bench. I owe nothing to the Crown but thebishopric of Landaff, and that has never paid the increase of ex-pense incident to my change of station.

An hatred of the Whigs has, I think, shown itself during thewhole of the reign, and I probably have come in for my share ofit; for I have never made any secret of my opinion—that thesame principles which placed the House of Brunswick on thethrone of these kingdoms, are necessary to keep it there; and thatall attempts to introduce into this great country the miserabledespotism of the petty principalities of Germany , from whenceour kings generally take their wives, would end in the deserveddisgrace and ruin of those who make them.

On the 25th of January, 1795, the Duke of Bedford made amotion in the House of Lords , “ That no form of governmentwhich may prevail in France should preclude a negotiation withthat country, or prevent a peace whenever it could be made con-sistently with the honour, interest, and security of this nation.”Though I had been told by one of my brethren, that the Kinghad expressed his dislike of bishops interfering in political mat-ters, I was not deterred by the fear of His Majesty’s displeasurefrom making a speech in the House of Lords in support of theDuke of Bedford’s motion. I was the only bishop who did, eitherby vote or speech, support this motion, and I do not repent ofmy singularity ; for it was a motion at an early period of the war,for peace.