4 HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN.

n a p. men : He supported a well disciplined militia oflxiX. twenty thousand : And though the act of settle-

i6-t- ment had so far been infringed , that catholics

were permitted to live in corporate towns , theywere guarded with so careful an eye, that themost timorous protestant never apprehended anydanger from them.

The chief object of Essex’s ambition was toreturn to the station of lord lieutenant, where hehad behaved with honor and integrity: Shaftes-bury and Buckingham bore an extreme hatredto Ormond , both from personal and party con-siderations : The great aim of the anti-courtierswas to throw reflections on every part of theking’s government. It could be no surprise,therefore, to the lord lieutenant to learn, thathis administration was attacked in parliament,particularly by Shaftefbury; but he had the satis-faction , at the fame time, to hear of the keen,though polite defence , made by his Ion, thegenerous Ossory. After justifying several parti-culars of Ormond’s administration against thatintriguing patriot, Ossory proceeded in the fol-lowing words: “ Having spoken of what the lord“ lieutenant has done, I presume with the sametc truth to tell your lordfliips what he has nottc done. He never advised the breaking of the“ triple league; he never advised the /hutting up* £ of the exchequer; he never advised the declara-cc tion for a toleration; he never advised the sal-tc ling out with the Dutch and the joining with“ France : He was not the author of that most