Book VII.

PART I the Prince; partly because it gave him an opportunity, through the uncertainty of the fucceffion, to flatter whom he pleased with the hopes of it; and partly because it removed the odium which attended the bringing his collateral heirs at all into view.

1688.

The arrival of the Prin

The tender of the crown, and the declaration of the cefs, and her liberties of the fubject, were thrown into one inftrument behaviour. of government. The fame day upon which this inftru

Tender of

the crown,

tions upon

it.

ment paffed the convention, the Princefs of Orange
arrived from Holland. The fingularity of her fituation
made her behaviour attended to when the entered the
palace. In the confufion of her fpirits, fhe betrayed a
womanish levity*, of which the friends of the present
and those of the late King equally took advantage,
the
former, to justify the conduct of those who had given
the exclufive adminiftration to her husband; the latter,
to draw pity to a prince who had a daughter feemingly
fo unnatural. She fhewed feverities + also to her uncles
Clarendon and Rochefter, expreffing that fense of in-
juries, which their new master either felt not, or fup-
preffed; and thus manifefted in all things, that fhe made
the duties of the daughter and the niece yield to those of
the wife.

The day after her arrival, the two houfes went in and differ- ftate, to make a free gift of the crown to the Prince and ent reflec- Princefs. They began by reading aloud the inftrument of government, in order to intimate to the Sovereigns who received it, the conditions upon which it was given. Lord Halifax made the tender of the crown. The Prince and Princefs were inftantly proclaimed; and, to augment the fplendour of the ceremony, both houfes attended the proclamation. Those perfons, who confidered that the ultimate end of government is the fafety

Dutchefs of Marlborough.

+ Clarendon's Diary, paffim.

of

t

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of the people, and that the miseries of one ought not to PART I be put in competition with the happinefs of millions, rejoiced: But those who thought that the fates of Princes are the objects of humanity, as well as the fates of their fubjects, grieved to fee the Princefs receive the crown in the hall of that palace from which her father had been driven; and at the gate of which her grandfather had, by some of those who now placed the crown on her head, and by the fathers of others, been brought to the block. Men of philofophical fpirits forefaw, that, as both impreffions were thofe of nature, pofterity would feel the effects of them, when the millions who now rejoiced or lamented would be laid in the duft.

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MUTINY of the Scottish Regiments in England.-
Heads and State of Parties in Scotland.-Vigorous
Measures of the Scottish Covention.Lord Dundee's
Attempts to disturb it difappointed.-Forfeiture of
James. -Settlement of the Crown, and Claim of
Rights. -Panic of a Massacre in Ireland.-Revolt
of Londonderry.William's Neglect of Ireland.
State of Ireland.

AFTER of

PART I
BOOK VIII.

1689.

Scottish re

giments in

FTER the Prince of Orange had got poffeffion of Mutiny of the government of England; Scotland and Ireland remained ftill to be fettled. But whilft he was preparing England. to obtain poffeffion of thefe kingdoms likewife, he was furprised with a defection in the army, which alarmed him the more, because he recollected that fimilar incidents had been the forerunners of the ruin of the late King. Notwithstanding the reform which William had made in the troops, he knew there were ftill fome English corps difaffected to his fervice; and of the Scotch, in particular the royal regiment of dragoons, known at present by the name of the Scotch Greys, and Lord Dumbarton's regiment of foot, now the Royal Scotch. The laft of thefe had been the favourite regiment of the late King, because it was both daring and obedient; and the officers and foldiers were at this time difgufted, because Lord Dumbarton had been difmiffed from the command of it,

and

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PARTI and Marshal Schomberg put in his room. William, therefore, refolved to fend over the difaffected corps of both nations to Holland, in order to replace fome of the Dutch troops, which, as more to be depended upon, he intended to keep with him in England. The regiments which were to be fent off, either hearing the intention, or from the consciousness of their own affections, fufpecting the King's, began to form a train of communication with each other, for affembling, and retiring northwards among the papists in the north of England, and to Scotland, whofe parliament had not as yet declared for the new government. The emiffaries of the late King, and ftill more their own discontents, infinuated to the English part of the mutineers," That "they, who were the only remains of the army who "had continued faithful to their Sovereign, were now "to be punished for that fidelity which is the chief point "of honour among foldiers. The late King had in"deed brought fome of his own religion into his

army; but he had not banished the native troops of

England from their own country, and much less "placed foreign ones in their ftead to command that "country with a foreign force." But the two Scotch regiments formed aloud, "They were part of a free "people, independent of the government of England "and of its laws. Their national affembly had not as yet "renounced allegiance to King James. By the laws of "nations, they were not fubject to the orders of any

King, but of one acknowledged in Scotland, the "King of their country. Their ancestors had trans"mitted the independence of their kingdom fafe to "them. It was their duty to convey it inviolated to "pofterity. They had arms, the marks and honours of

* Rerefby, 337. Journ. h, lords, March 15.

"freemen,