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The Prince of Orange is surprised and staggered at the joyful reception which the King had met with on his arrival, and sends the Count de Solmes with his Guards to take the Posts at Whitehall Lord Craven, whose allegiance to the King had remained unshaken, acquaints His Majesty with the Orders that had been sent by the Prince of Orange; after some deliberation and a wish to avoid bloodshed, the King orders Lord Craven to give up the Posts The King's usual intrepidity does not abandon him, and his Majesty retires to rest surrounded by the Dutch Guards ib. But is awakened a little after midnight by a positive Message from the Prince of Orange, which the Lords Halifax, Shrewsbury, and Delamere brought, ordering the King to go that morning to Ham, a house belonging to the Dutchess of Lauderdale

The King, seeing there was no remedy, desires to go in preference to Rochester, where he arrives Dec. 19, and remains there until the 22d at night

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ib.

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268

The Noblemen and others who attended the King
The Archbishop of Canterbury refuses to attend the Sum-
mons of the Prince of Orange," or to act in any thing,
so long as the King was under restraint
Remarks on this conduct of the Archbishop, and on that of
the Prince of Orange

269

ib.

On the evening of the same day that the King had been thus sent from London, Dec. 18, the Prince of Orange enters it in great state, and takes up his abode at St. James's 270 The King at length deems it prudent to withdraw, considering his situation as extremely hazardous; which several of the Bishops, and particularly his Physician Dr. Brady, advise his Majesty against-Lord Middleton

urges, "That if his Majesty went out of the Kingdom, the door would immediately be shut upon him; however in conclusion owned, There could be no safety for him to stay, and that no reasonable and thinking man could advise him to venture it"

The King's reasons for acting as he did, extracted from his
Own Memoirs and Private Notes

Copy of the State Paper which the King left on withdrawing
himself a second time, taken from the 9th Volume of His
Own Memoirs

The King charges Lord Middleton to have that State Paper printed when he returned to London, but gave it in charge unto Lord Dunbarton until the next morning; and then, Dec. 23, about twelve o'clock at night, escapes through the Garden and embarks in a boat with the Duke of Berwick, Mr. Biddulph, and Captains Macdonnel and Travanion-After a tedious passage, and taking shelter on board the Eagle Fireship, Captain Wilford, who was known to the King as an honest and loyal Officer, they at length reach the Smack which had been prepared for them

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275, 276 The King arrives in France on Christmas-Day, old style 277 The manner in which Captain Travanion contrived to cook the King's dinner, when on board the Smack Reflections on what had passed in England

278 ib.

** Tindal, the Translator of Rapin, in continuing the English History from The Revolution, has prefixed to his account of The Reign of KING WILLIAM, The Rise and Progress of the Several Parties at the time of the Revolution, in a short Review of the Reign of James I. Charles I. Charles II. and James II. And in one of the Notes (Vol. xvI. p. 88. Ed. 1744.) he has inserted a long Letter from one of the Gentlemen who came to JAMES THE SECOND, when he was detained at Feversham.

TOME İV. OF THE MS.

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The King, on his landing in France, goes to Abbeville and thence to St. Germains, where he meets the Queen and Prince of Wales

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Lord Sunderland escapes in women's cloaths into Holland, where he is imprisoned

ib.

Observations on that Minister's conduct

His subsequent remark to General Ginkle, "That though
the honour of subduing Ireland belonged to him, he
would not however yeild to him in merite, he haveing had
the glory of contriveing the provocations to the Revolution,
and of laying the first foundations of the Prince of
Orange's grandure
The Lords on Christmas-Day, (when JAMES landed in
France), request the Prince of Orange to take upon him
the Administration of the Government

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285

ib.

They also summon such Members of Parliament to meet as were in and near Town; who, having chosen a Speaker, the Commons concur with the Lords, and desire the Prince of Orange to assemble a Convention, Feb. 22 King JAMES, in consequence, writes to the Lords and others of his Privy Council

ib.

286

His Letter is not allowed to be published

291

Reflections on the conduct of the Prince of Orange

292

The Nation begins to be divided into Factions and Opinions
-Some were for sending for the King

ib.

The moderate Party is accused of being friendly to Popery and to Arbitrary Power

293

Certain Proposals are printed beforehand and offered to the
consideration of the Members of the Convention
The Convention meets, Jan. 22, and resolve, That JAMES II.
had abdicated, and that the Throne was vacant
The Lords do not agree to the word Abdicated-Warm
Debate which ensued

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The Abdication is carried in the Commons against an
Amendment proposed in the Lords, by a majority of 120—
Debate which afterwards took place, opened by Mr.
Hampden

-. 297

The Lords had foreclosed themselves from acting, by
yielding at the first onset what was afterwards contended
for too late

The Lords deny that the Throne is or can be vacant
The Prince of Orange obliges the House of Commons,
which he had gained, to frighten the Lords into a com-
pliance

Argument of Lord Nottingham against the conduct of the
Lower House

Sir Robert Howard's Speech

The Lords yield at last to the Vote of the House of Commons without any alteration

Remarks on these Debates

Difficulty which the Prince of Orange had to obtain an
ascendancy, "till his Friends within the House made it
be understood, they were backed by an Army without...
and that if they satisfyd not his expectation, he would
leave them to satisfy King JAMES his justice"
The Prince and Princess of Orange declared King and
Queen of England, Feb. 13, the day after the Princess
had arrived from Holland

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300

ib.

302

Reflections of the Biographer on the Three Titles to a Crown,
viz. Conquest, Succession, or Election; and on the Protests
which several Lords, both Spiritual and Temporal, at
first made against the manner in which James II. was
accused" But this Glimps of Loyalty soon suffered an
eclips in most of the Peers, certain views of intrest got
the better of their scruples, and they, like the rest, fell
down before the Idol they were against erecting"
The Prince of Orange does not examine into the Calumny
respecting the Prince of Wales, as he had solemnly pro-
mised to do in his Declaration of Oct. 10, 1688
Examination of the Arguments that were adduced in defence
of the new Establishment

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315

An Enquiry into the Death of Lord Essex is again brought
forward, and dropped

Notice of the innumerable Pamphlets which appeared
The Pastoral Letter of Bishop Burnet, declaring it was a
just War which the PRINCE OF ORANGE had made against
JAMES II.

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ib.

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319

Is ordered by Parliament to be burnt by the Hangman
Conduct of Dr. Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul's
The Letter which JAMES sent to Lord Tyrconnel in Ire-
land, Jan. 12

Lord Tyrconnel, having endeavoured to delude the Agents
of the Prince of Orange, sends Lord Mountjoy to JAMES,
accompanied by a faithful agent of his, Mr. Baron Rice

320, 321

In consequence of whose communications, and the measures
which Lord Tyrconnel had adopted after getting rid of
Lord Mountjoy, JAMES determines to go to Ireland
Arrives at Brest towards the end of February, and finds a
Squadron of Ships of 22 Sail ready to escort him

322

ib..