Foreigners are always unpopular, and, as against William, every Jacobite is ready to take up arms.

But I think that nothing will be done during Anne's reign.

The Elector of Hanover would be as unpopular, among Englishmen in general, as is William of Orange, and, should he come to the throne, there will assuredly ere long be a rising to bring back the Stuarts." Charles shook his head.
"I don't want to ruffle your spirit of loyalty to the Stuarts, Captain Jervoise, but they have showed themselves weak monarchs for a great country.

They want fibre.

William of Orange may be, as you call him, a foreigner and a usurper, but England has greater weight in the councils of Europe, in his hands, than it has had since the death of Elizabeth." This was rather a sore point with Captain Jervoise, who, thorough Jacobite as he was, had smarted under the subservience of England to France during the reigns of the two previous monarchs.
"You Englishmen and Scotchmen are fighting people," the king went on, "and should have a military monarch.