f Pomerania. The
confederates declared that they had no intention to attack and no
wish to offend any power, but that they were determined to tolerate
no infraction of those rights which the Germanic body held under the
sanction of public law and public faith. They pledged themselves to
stand by each other in case of need, and fixed the amount of force which
each member of the league was to furnish if it should be necessary
to repel aggression. [223] The name of William did not appear in this
instrument: but all men knew that it was his work, and foresaw that
he would in no long time be again the captain of a coalition against
France. Between him and the vassal of France there could, in such
circumstances, be no cordial good will. There was no open rupture, no
interchange of menaces or reproaches. But the father in law and the son
in law were separated completely and for ever.

At the very time at which the Prince was thus estranged from the English
court, the causes which had hitherto produced a coolness between him
and the two great sections of the English people disappeared. A large
portion, perhaps a numerical majority, of the Whigs had favoured the
pretensions of Monmouth: but Monmouth was now no more. The Tories, on
the other hand, had entertained apprehensions that the interests of the
Anglican Church might not be safe under the rule of a man bred among
Dutch Presbyterians, and well known to hold latitudinarian opinions
about robes, ceremonies, and Bishops: but, since that beloved Church
had been threatened by far more formidable dangers from a very different
quarter, these apprehensions had lost almost all their power. Thus, at
the same moment, both the great parties began to fix their hopes and
their affections on the same leader. Old republicans could not refuse
their confidence to one who had worthily filled, during many years,
the highest magistracy of a republic. Old royalists conceived that they
acted according to their principles in paying profound respect to a
prince so near to the throne. At this conjuncture it was of the highest
moment that there should be entire union between William and Mary. A
misunderstanding between the presumptive heiress of the crown and her
husband must have produced a schism in that vast mass which was from all
quarters gathering round one common rallying point. Happily all risk
of such misunderstanding was averted in the critical instant by the
interposition of Burnet; and th