We have fought on the subject, and been beaten.

Next time, we hope that we may succeed.

If the king were to land in England again, I would fight heart and soul in his cause; but whether the French beat the English, in the present war, or the English beat the French, will not, as far as I can see, make much difference to King James; who, Father O'Leary tells me, is, in his opinion, supported here by the French king from no great love for himself, but because, so long as James has adherents in Ireland, Scotland, and England, he is able to play him off against the English Government." The other young men laughed.
"For heaven's sake, Kennedy, keep such sentiments as these to yourself.

It is a matter of faith, in our brigade, that we are fighting in the cause of King James, as against the English usurper.

Now that William is dead, and James's daughter on the throne, matters are complicated somewhat; and if the Parliament had settled the succession, after Anne, on her brother, there might have been an end of the quarrel altogether.