The Virginia Gazette

The Roman Catholic school bill with amendments which had passed the Commons, was on a motion made by his Grace the Duke of Chandos (that it be rejected) the House divided, for rejecting the bill 17, in favour of it 9; the bill was therefore lost. His Grace concluded his speech thus: "He considered the treatment that this bill should meet with, as the touchstone by which the nation would judge, whether the independency and freedom of Parliament were to be maintained with vigour," or whether the Parliament were to yield to the importunities and insolence of every furious mob. If this bill should be passed at this time he expected to see the House of Commons and the House of Peers beset on a thousand occasions, and on every occasion indeed by a passionate, misguided, and tumultuous rabble. He would as long as he enjoyed the honour of a seat in that House, speak without fear the sentiments of his heart, such were those that he now expressed.