undee attended him into the Mall.
When they had got there the King asked them, how came they still to be
with him when all the world had forsaken him for the Prince of Orange?
Both answered that their fidelity to so good a master would be ever the
same, and that they had nothing to do with the Prince of Orange. "Will
you two," then asked the King, "say you have still attachment to me?"
"Sir," was the answer, "we do." "Will you give me your hands upon it as
men of honour?" They did so. "Well," said the King, "I see you are the
men I always took you to be; you shall know all my intentions. I can no
longer remain here but as a cypher, or to be a prisoner to the Prince of
Orange, and you know there is but a small distance between the prisons
and the graves of kings. Therefore I go for France immediately; when
there you shall have my instructions--you, Lord Balcarres, shall have a
commission to manage my civil affairs, and you, Lord Dundee, to command
my troops in Scotland."

They then parted. On the next morning, the morning of the 18th, in dark
and rainy weather, the royal barge was ready at Whitehall stairs, under
an escort of boats filled with Dutch soldiers. Halifax, with his
colleagues from Windsor, attended the King to the water-side. Dumbarton,
Arran, and a few others followed him down the river, and stayed by him
during the few painful days he lingered at Rochester. At dawn of the
23rd James left England for ever.

Dundee stayed on in London. His regiment had been disbanded, and the
rest of the Scottish forces, after a spirited but futile attempt to take
matters into their own hands, had settled quietly down under their new
colonels, some of the most doubtful ones being sent out of harm's way to
Holland. Dunmore had thrown up his command, and his dragoons were now in
the charge of Sir Thomas Livingstone. Schomberg was placed, to their
intense disgust, at the head of Dumbarton's infantry, once James's
favourite regiment. Some of his old troopers, however, still kept by the
captain whom they had known as Claverhouse.

Hamilton and his party pressed William to exempt from the general
amnesty certain members of the Scottish Council whom they named as
particular and unscrupulous instruments of James's tyranny, and unsafe
to be let go at large. But the Prince with his usual good sense refused
to drive any man into opposition: the past even of the most guilty
should, he said, be forgotten till he was forced to remember i