But time had liberty and revenge in store--I had still friends and partisans in the island, though they were compelled to give way to the storm.

Even among the islanders at large, most had been disappointed in the effects which they expected from the change of power.

They were loaded with exactions by their new masters, their privileges were abridged, and their immunities abolished, under the pretext of reducing them to the same condition with the other subjects of the pretended republic.

When the news arrived of the changes which were current in Britain, these sentiments were privately communicated to me.

Calcott and others acted with great zeal and fidelity; and a rising, effected as suddenly and effectually as that which had made me a captive, placed me at liberty and in possession of the sovereignty of Man, as Regent for my son, the youthful Earl of Derby.