The passages which excited the greatest enthusiasm included the following: _Colonel Woodville’s_ allusion to the Nonjuring pamphlet, ‘The Case of Schism,’ and his comment, ‘I have seen enough of that in _The Daily Courant_, to be sorry it is in any hands but those of the common Hangman.’ Next, _Maria’s_ remark to her brother: ‘Why, you look as if the Minority had been likely to have carried a Question.’ When the _Colonel_ notices to _Wolf_ that, in prayer, the latter (a Nonjuring clergyman, nearly a Romanist) never _names_ the Royal family, the answer stirred much laughter: ‘That’s only to shorten the service, lest, in so large a family some few, vain, idle souls might think it tedious; and we ought, as it were, to allure them to what’s good, by the gentlest, easiest manner we can.’ The laughter was louder still in the subsequent words, ‘But, why, Sir, is _naming_ them so absolutely necessary, when Heaven, without it, knows the true intention of our hearts?’――And the Jacobites themselves may have ventured on murmuring approbation at _Wolf’s_ words, ‘Power, perhaps, may change its hands, and you, ere long, as little dare to speak your mind as I do!’ But the Whigs had their turn when the _Colonel_ exclaimed, ‘Traitor! but that our Laws have chains and gibbets for such villains, I’d this moment crackle all thy bones to splinters.’ No doubt the laughter was at its loudest when the _Colonel_ read the list of _Dr. Wolf’s_ expenses, on behalf of the Jacobite interest, which list had fallen from the Nonjuror’s pocket. It ran to this effect:―― [Sidenote: _JACOBITE OUTLAY._] Laid-out at several times for the secret service of His M.… May 28. For six baskets of Rue and Thyme 0 18 0 “ 29. Ditto. Two cart-loads 2 0 0 June 10. For two bushels of white roses 1 10 0 “ Ditto. Given to the bell-ringers of several parishes 10 15 0 “ To Simon Chaunter, Parish Clerk, for his selecting proper staves adapted to the day 5 7 6 “ For lemons and arrack sent into Newgate 9 5 0 (At the last _item_ the _Colonel_ observes: ‘Well, while they drink it in Newgate, much good may it do them!’)