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APPENDIX

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PART II. BOOK III.

In the cheft there is a letter from the Princefs Sophia to

King William upon his elevation to the throne; the tenderness of which to an unfortunate though guilty prince, does honour to her memory.

The Princess Sophia to King William upon his elevation to the throne-her jry—her pity for King James-her attachment to the Proteftant religion.—In King William's cabinct.

Tranflation.

FTER the profeffion which I have always made of

being an humble fervant to your Majefty, I believe you cannot doubt of the part which I take in every thing that contributes to your elevation and your glory: Yet I lament King James, who honoured me with his friendfhip. I fhould be afraid that your Majefty would have a bad opinion of my fincerity if I concealed from you this fentiment. I am even perfuaded that my candour will give you a better opinion of me, and that your Majefty will the more eafily believe the proteftation which I make you of my prayers for your profperity, and of the opinion I have, that you deferve the crown which you wear, in a thoufand refpects which I am unable to name, from the fear of fhocking your modefty. However, as it has pleafed God to make your Majefty the protector of our religion, I hope you will put it alfo in a ftate to have

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its arms free, to affift us poor mortals, who, by the defolation of our neighbours, are near to that roaring beast which endeavours to devour us, in order that all thofe who are not papists may fucceffively maintain the religion we profess to all eternity, in England and elsewhere; and that your Majefty may count among the moft zealous, one who fhall be all her life, &c.

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Book IV.

PREPARATIONS for the War in Ireland. Schom- PART II. berg's March to Dundalk. Schomberg's Encampment at Dundalk, and Miferies of his Army. Retreat of 1689. the Armies into Quarters.-The King becomes unpo

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pular. -Account of Church-matters. Great Heats in Parliament.The Commons refolve upon an Addrefs disapproving of the King's Measures. The King relieved from it by an Accident. Diffenfions revived in the Royal Family.- -The King's Diftress between the Whigs and the Tories. He breaks with the Whigs, and diffolves the Parliament.

WILLIAM perceived too late, that his neglect of Prepara

tions for the war in

Ireland had been either the capital error or the capital misfortune of his new reign. The difturbed state Ireland. of that kingdom had encouraged thofe in Britain who difputed his title, had given a handle to thofe who complained of his measures, and he now found was likely to ftop the career of his ambition against France: For the cries of his people, and the fears of his ministers for their own fafety, discovered to him that the care of the dominions of England was, in the eyes of Englifhmen, an object far more important than humbling the power of any foreign nation, however formidable or obnoxious. VOL. II.

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Book IV.

1689.

June 27.

PART II. He therefore refolved to profecute the reduction of Ireland, with a force proportioned to its difficulty. But he was afraid to fend the late king's army to fight against him; and therefore ordered twenty-three new regiments to be raised. The levies were completed in fix weeks: For England, by a long peace, was filled with men impatient for war, because they loved its glories, and knew not its miferies. These regiments, with two Dutch battalions, and four of French refugees, were deftined for the fervice: And they were to be joined in Ireland by the Inniskillingers, together with fuch regiments as could be fpared from Scotland, because both of those bodies of men had been tried against their late mafter; and by fix thoufand hired Danes, because these knew no mafter except him who paid them. Sufpicion of his own fubjects made William give the direction of the expedition alfo to foreigners He appointed Marfhal Schomberg, then eighty years of age, to be the firft, and Count Solmes the fecond in command. In order to give more fplendour to the command, the King honoured Schomberg with a dukedom, and the garter; and the house of commons voted him a present of 100,000 pounds. Before Schomberg fet out, he waited upon that affembly, to thank them, and to take his farewel; and was received with those attentions, which, from affemblies guided by the will of another, are tiresome ceremonies, but from affemblies of free men, are the moft pleafing of all honours.

State of the

new army

Ireland.

Schomberg arrived at Chester on the 20th of July: But intended for here he found almost nothing ready for his expedition. The English, unaccustomed to war in their own country, knew not how to prepare for it. Moft of the regiments, by mistakes of orders, were not come up; and those which came were incomplete. There was not a fufficient

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