was madly eager to continue the war, and the nation⁠—not seeing how hopeless the strife was, not comprehending the lasting antipathy which their obstinacy was creating⁠—ignorant, dull and helpless⁠—was ready to go on too. Even if Lord North had wished to make peace, and had persuaded Parliament accordingly, all his work would have been useless; a superior power could and would have appealed from a wise and pacific Parliament to a sullen and warlike nation. The check which our Constitution finds for the special vices of our Parliament was misused to curb its wisdom.