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cordingly.drawn up and presented to Vernon: but Vernon —ItoTT"refused to look at it. Soon a courier arrived from Loo withthe letter in which William directed his vicegerents to sendthe French agent out of the kingdom. Au officer of theroyal household was charged with the execution of theorder. He repaired to Poussin’s lodgings: but Poussinwas not at home: he was supping at the Blue Posts, atavern much frequented by Jacobites, the very tavern in-deed at which Charuock and his gang had breakfasted onthe day fixed for the murderous ambuscade of TurnhamGreen. To this house the messenger went; and there hefound Poussin at table with three of the most virulent Torymembers of the House of Commons, Tredenham, whore-turned himself for Saint Mawes; Hammond, who had beensent to Parliament by the high churchmen of the Univer-sity of Cambridge; and Davenant, who had recently, atPoussin’s suggestion, been rewarded by Lewis for somesavage invectives against the Whigs with a diamond ringworth three thousand pistoles. This supper party was,during some weeks, the chief topic of conversation. Theexultation of the Whigs was boundless. These then werethe true English patriots, the men who could not endure aforeigner, the men who would not suffer His Majesty tobestow a moderate reward on the foreigners who hadstormed Athlone, and turned the flank of the Celtic armyat Aghrim. It now appeared they could be on excellentterms with a foreigner, provided only that he was the