with all neceffary ftores; and the prince fet fail from Helvoetfluys with a fleet of near five hundred veffels, and an army of above fourteen thousand men.

It was given out that this invafion was intended for the coafts of France, and many of the English, who faw the fleet pafs along their coafts, little expected to fee it land on their own fhores. Thus after a voyage of two days, the prince landed his army at the village of Broxholme in Torbay, on the fifth on November, which was the anniversary of the gun-powder treafon.

But though the invitation from the English was very general, the prince for fome time had the mortification to find himself joined by very few. He marched first to Exeter, where the country people. had been fo lately terrified with the executions which had enfued on Monmouth's rebellion, that they continued to obferve a ftrict neutrality. He remained for ten days in expectation of being joined by the malecontents, and at last began to despair of fuccefs. But just when he began to deliberate about reimbarkng nis forces, he was joined by feveral perfons of confequence, and the whole country foon after came flocking to his ftandard. The nobility, clergy, officers, and even the king's own servants and creatures, were unanimous in deferting James. Lord Churchill had been raised from the rank of a page, and had been invefted with an high command in the army; had been created a peer, and owed his whole fortune to the king's bounty: even he deserted among the reft, and carried with him the duke of Grafton, natural fon to the late king, colonel Berkely, and fomeothers.

The prince of Denmark, and Anne, his favourite daughter, perceiving the defperation of his circumftances, refolved to leave him, and take part with the prevailing fide. When he was told that the prince and princess had followed the reft of his favourites,

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he was ftung with the most bitter anguifh. "God "help me, cried he, in the extremity of his agony, "my own children have forfaken me."

The king, alarmed every day more and more with the profpect of a general difaffection, was refolved to hearken to those who advised his quitting the kingdom. To prepare for this he first fent away the queen, who arrived fafely at Calais, under the conduct of count Lauzun, an old favourite of the French king. He himself foon after disappeared in the night time, attended only by Sir Edward Hales, a new convert; but was discovered and brought back by the mob.

But shortly after being confined at Rochester, and obferving that he was entirely neglected by his own fubjects, he refolved to feek fafety from the king of France, the only friend he had ftill remaining. He accordingly fled to the fea-fide, attended by his natural fon the duke of Berwick, where he embarked for the continent, and arrived in fafety at Ambleteufe in Picardy, from whence he haftened to the court of France, where he ftill enjoyed the empty title of a king, and the appellation of a faint, which flattered him more.

The king having thus abdicated the throne, A.D. the next confideration was the appointing a 1689. fucceffor. Some declared for a regent; others, that the princefs of Orange fhould be invefted with regal power, and the young prince confidered as fuppofititious. After a long debate in both houses, a new fovereign was preferred to a regent, by a majority of two voices. It was agreed that the prince and princefs of Orange fhould reign jointly as king and queen of England, while the ad miniftration of government fhould be placed in the hands of the prince only.

ILLIAM was no fooner elected to the throne, than he began to experience the difficulty of governing a people, who were more ready to examine the commands of their fuperiors, than to obey them.

His reign commenced with an attempt, fimilar to that which had been the principal caufe of all the difturbances in the preceding reign, and which had excluded the monarch from the throne.. William was a Calvinif, and confequently averfe to perfecution; he therefore began by attempting to repeal thofe laws that enjoined uniformity of worfhip; and though he could not entirely fucceed in his defign, a toleration was granted to fuch diffenters as fhould take the oaths of allegiance, and hold no private conventicles.

In the mean time James, whofe authority was ftill acknowledged in Ireland, embarked at Breft for that kingdom, and on May 22 arrived at Kinfale. He foon after made his public entry into Dublin, amidst the acclamations of the inhabitants. He found the appearances of things in that country equal to his moft fanguine expectations. Tyrconnel, the lord lieutenant, was devoted to his interefts; his old army was fteady, and a new one raifed, amounting together to near forty thoufand men.

As foon as the feafon would permit, he went to lay fiege to Londonderry, a town of fmall importance in itfelf, but rendered famous by the fand which it made on this occafion..

The befieged endured the moft poignant fufferings from fatigue and famine, until at laft relieved by a ftore fhip, that happily broke the boum laid across the

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