me by the first safe hand, and you fhall always find me very diligent in obeying you, and fhewing by my actions how real and fincere my kindness is. One thing I had forgot, which is, that the laft time she was brought to bed, the reafon of her being delivered in the great bed was because she was catched; and this time, Mrs. Dawson fays, though the pallet was up, the Queen would not go into it because the quilts were not aired." Windfor, August 18, 1688. IAM in as great expectation of being tormented as ever, for I can never believe that Manfel would go on fo violently, if he had not some hopes that in time he may gain either you or me.” The Princess Anne, in the above letter, of 13 March, 1688, mentions a vifit fhe intended to have paid her fifter In the De- in the spring of that year. Barillon writes to Louis the XIVth, on the 13th March, 1688, that Prince George had applied to King James for leave to go to Denmark, and that the Princess should in the mean time pay a vifit to her sister in Holland, and that the King had at first confented, but afterwards changed his mind. Barillon writes, on the 17th March, 1688, that the Princess Anne had herself applied to the King, but had got a refusal. There can, I imagine, remain little doubt what the intention of this interview was. To defend the Revolution upon a pretended fuppofititious birth, is to affront it; it ftands upon a much nobler foundation, the rights of human nature. The fuppofititious birth was a mere lie of party, and was intended to have been made ufe of fix years before, if King James's Queen had then been brought to bed of a fon. In The Obfervator, No. 194, printed Wednesday, August 23d, 1682, is the following remarkable paflage : "If it had pleased God to give his Royal Highness the bleffing of a son, as it proved a daughter, you were prepared to make a Perkin of him. To what end did you take so much pains elfe, by your inftruments and intelligences, to hammer it into the people's heads that the Dutchess of York was not with child? And fo, in case of a fon, to represent him as an impoftor; whereas you have now taken off the mafk in confeffing the daughter.-I would have the impreffion of this cheat fink fo far into the heads and hearts of all honeft men, as never to be defaced, or forgotten. For we must expect, that the fame flam fhall, at any time hereafter, be trumpt up again upon the like occafion." Compare alfo Lord Clarendon's Diary as follows: Diary of the Earl of Clarendon, 1688, p. 20. "Jan. 15th. In the morning, I went to St. James's church; this is the thanksgiving day appointed for the Queen's being with child; there were not above two or three in the church who brought the form of prayer with them. It is ftrange to fee how the Queen's great belly is every where ridiculed, as if fcarce any body believed it to be true. Good God help us!" THE Prince of Orange takes his Farewel of the States. -Mifery of James. Different Counfels given to him in his Court. Queen's Flight with the Prince of Wales. Terrors of the King, and his Flight.-State of the City. -Univerfal Panic of an Irish Maffacre. of Peers.-James feized at Feverfham. -Council -Returns to London. Behaviour of the Prince upon this News. -The Dutch enter London in the Night.-The Prince's Meffage to the King. James goes to Rochester. The Prince arrives in London. James flies to France. T PART I. 1688. HE wind having at laft changed to the north-eaft, The Prince farewel of the Prince of Orange, on the 16th of October, takes his took his leave of the States at the Hague. He thanked the States. them for all their kindneffes to him in his youth; he A a 2 faid, PART I. faid, "He took God to witness, that, fince he had Book VI. "been intrufted with the affairs of their commonwealth, 1688. "he had never entertained a wish that was contrary to Rendezvous at Helvoet. "its intereft. If he had erred, he erred as a man, his "heart was not to blame. In his prefent enterprise he "trufted to Providence. But if any thing fatal fhould "happen to him, to them he recommended his memory, "their common country, and the Princess his wife, "who loved that country as fhe did her own: His last thoughts fhould be upon them and upon her." The States feeling, upon the near approach of danger, that anxiety to which they had been ftrangers, when it was more diftant, interrupted him with their tears. But, notwithstanding the tender fenfations in his own breast, and which he discovered in theirs, he pronounced his harangue, and took his farewel, with a countenance manly and determined. His expreffions melted the hearts of the tender, his manner commanded thofe of the brave. When he arrived at Helvoetfluys, he found his fleet and army affembled. The fleet confifted of fixty-five fhips of war, of seventy veffels of burden to attend them, and of five hundred tranfports. His army was compofed of near four thoufand cavalry, and about eleven thousand infantry, of the beft troops of the republic, with three hundred French officers, proteftant refugees, who had folicited to be employed, because they thought that, in fighting againft King James, they fought for their God. Of thefe troops, the most formidable were the fix British regiments in the fervice of the Dutch, who had moftly been driven from their country in the late and the prefent reigns; and who, therefore, like other exiles, were impatient to exert themselves in the eyes of foreigners, take vengeance on their enemies, and recover * Burnet. D'Avaux. October 26. |