[S.]] [Footnote 13: At Bouchain, the British officers were told at the gates, that the commandant had positive orders to let no Englishman into the town; and at Douay, where the English had large stores and magazines, the same thing happened with considerable aggravation.

Indeed, it was with difficulty and precaution that the commandant of the latter town would permit the body of an English colonel to be interred there.

The same difficulties occurred at Tournay, Oudenarde, and Lille; and the Duke of Ormonde having sent an officer express to England on the 17th, he was stopped and interrupted at Haspre, misguided at Courtray, and refused admission at Bruges.

(See "The Conduct of his Grace the Duke of Ormonde, in the Campagne of 1712," 1715, pp.

46-50.) [S.]] Upon these provocations, he laid aside all thoughts of returning to Dunkirk, and began to consider how he might perform, in so difficult a conjuncture, something important to the Queen, and at the same time find a secure retreat for his forces.