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chap, little moved from his ordinary composure. “I am not to be• jess. - thus dealt with,” he exclaimed with bitterness; “andthatmyLord Feversham shall find.” Prompt and judicious mea-sures were taken to remedy the evils which James had caused.Churchill and Grafton were entrusted with the task of reas-sembling the dispersed army and bringing it into order. TheEnglish soldiers were invited to resume their military cha-racter. The Irish were commanded to deliver up their armson pain of being treated as banditti, but were assured that, ifthey would submit quietly, they should be supplied with ne-cessaries.*

The Prince’s orders were carried into effect with scarce-ly any opposition, except from the Irish soldiers who hadbeen in garrison at Tilbury. One of these men snapped apistol at Grafton. It missed fire, and the assassin was in-stantly shot dead by an Englishman. About two hundred ofthe unfortunate strangers made a gallant attempt to return totheir own country. They seized a richly laden East Indiaman which had just arrived in the Thames, and tried to pro-cure pilots by force at Gravesend. No pilot, however, wasto be found; and they were under the necessity of trusting totheir own skill in navigation. They soon ran their shipaground, and, after some bloodshed, were compelled to laydown their arms.**

William had now been five weeks on English ground; andduring the whole of that time his good fortune had been un-interrupted. His own prudence and firmness had been con-spicuously displayed, and yet had done less for him than thefolly and pusillanimity of others. And now, at the momentwhen it seemed that his plans were about to be crowned withentire success, they were disconcerted by one of those strangeincidents which so often confound the most exquisite devices,of human policy.

detained On the morning of the thirteenth of December the peoplesheer ofLondon, not yet fully recovered from the agitation of the

U8SS ' ‘Clarendon’s Diary, Dec. 13 . 16 S 8 ; Cilters, Dec. !}.; Eachard’s

History of the Revolution.

“ Cillers, Dec. Jj. 1688 ; Luttrell’s Diary.