w
Declaration--French Preparations for the Campaign; Institution of the
Order of Saint Lewis--Middleton's Account of Versailles--William's
Preparations for the Campaign--Lewis takes the Field--Lewis returns to
Versailles--Manoeuvres of Luxemburg--Battle of Landen--Miscarriage
of the Smyrna Fleet--Excitement in London--Jacobite Libels; William
Anderton--Writings and Artifices of the Jacobites--Conduct of
Caermarthen--Now Charter granted to the East India Company--Return of
William to England; Military Successes of France--Distress of France--A
Ministry necessary to Parliamentary Government--The First Ministry
gradually formed--Sunderland--Sunderland advises the King to give the
Preference to the Whigs--Reasons for preferring the Whigs--Chiefs of
the Whig Party; Russell--Somers--Montague--Wharton--Chiefs of the Tory
Party; Harley--Foley--Howe--Meeting of Parliament--Debates about the
Naval Miscarriages--Russell First Lord of the Admiralty; Retirement
of Nottingham--Shrewsbury refuses Office--Debates about the Trade with
India--Bill for the Regulation of Trials in Cases of Treason--Triennial
Bill--Place Bill--Bill for the Naturalisation of Foreign
Protestants--Supply--Ways and Means; Lottery Loan--The Bank of
England--Prorogation of Parliament; Ministerial Arrangements; Shrewsbury
Secretary of State--New Titles bestowed--French Plan of War; English
Plan of War--Expedition against Brest--Naval Operations in
the Mediterranean--War by Land--Complaints of Trenchard's
Administration--The Lancashire Prosecutions--Meeting of the Parliament;
Death of Tillotson--Tenison Archbishop of Canterbury; Debates on the
Lancashire Prosecutions--Place Bill--Bill for the Regulation of Trials
in Cases of Treason; the Triennial Bill passed--Death of Mary--Funeral
of Mary--Greenwich Hospital founded

IT is now time to relate the events which, since the battle of La Hogue,
had taken place at Saint Germains.

James, after seeing the fleet which was to have convoyed him back to his
kingdom burned down to the water edge, had returned in no good humour to
his abode near Paris. Misfortune generally made him devout after his
own fashion; and he now starved himself and flogged himself till his
spiritual guides were forced to interfere. [420]

It is difficult to conceive a duller place than Saint Germains was when
he held his Court there; and yet there was scarcely in all Europe a
residence more enviably situated than that wh