Scurrilous ballads were published against him both in the English and French languages.

He received divers anonymous letters, containing threats of setting fire to his house, which was accordingly burned to the ground, though whether by accident or design he could not well determine.

The magistracy of Dunkirk, having sent a deputation with an address to the queen, humbly imploring her majesty to spare the port and harbour of that town, and representing that they might be useful to her own subjects, the memorial was printed and dispersed, and the arguments it contained were answered and refuted by Addison, Steele, and Maynwaring.

Commissioners were sent to see the fortifications of Dunkirk demolished.

They were accordingly razed to the ground; the harbour was filled up; and the duke d'Aumont returned to Paris in the month of November.