This Day in History: April 8

I have heretofore congratulated your Excellency on your Victories over our Enemy’s Generals, I can now do the same on your having overthrown their Politicians. Your late Success have so strengthened the hands of Opposition in Parliament, that they are become the majority, and have compelled the King to dismiss all his old Ministers and their adherents. The unclea[n] Spirits he was possessed with, are now cast out of him: but it is imagined that as soon as he has obtained a Peace, they will return with others worse than themselves, and the last State of that Man, as the Scripture says, shall be worse than the first. [More]