The popular distaste to the Whigs was as yet but incipient, inefficient; and the intervention of the Crown was advantageous to them, because it looked inconsistent with the liberties of the people.
Bagehot observes that the public's initial dislike for the Whigs was not yet strong enough to warrant royal intervention.
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