ABSTRACT
The sort of palace revolution by which the ejection of the Grenville Government had been accomplished was, obviously, not of the kind that could be undertaken in Britain without the certainty of the most serious Parliamentary challenge. A surprising new turn was soon given to party controversy in Britain by the news that a powerful British force had appeared off Copenhagen, in mid-August, with a demand for the deposit of the Danish Fleet in British hands for the duration of the war. Meanwhile, in a Parliamentary Session begun on January 21, 1808, there had, of course, been the bitterest debating on the dangerous position of Britain’s foreign affairs. There existed in the country a description of persons increasing with the weakness of the country—persons unconnected with any party in parliament, but whose object was to decry parliament altogether.
