three o’clock
He professed to feel keenly upon this subject , because his native county had made him well acquainted with the temper of this class ; he painted in glowing terms the loyalty , the wealth , the influence , the noble virtues of his Catholic neighbours ; and he closed a speech of an hour 's duration , in which he had shown that a worn subject was susceptible of novel treatment , and novel interest , amid loud and general cheers . The Lords gathered round him , and many personally congratulated him upon his distinguished success . The debate took its course . At three o'clock the pro-Catholics found themselves in a minority , but a minority in which the prescient might have well discovered the herald of future justice . The speech of the Duke of St. James was the speech of the night . The Duke walked into White 's . It was crowded .