At the approach of winter he retired into quarters, in hopes of being reinforced with seven thousand Danes, who had already arrived in Britain.

These auxiliaries were stipulated in a treaty which William had just concluded with the king of Denmark.

The English were not more successful at sea than they had proved in their operations by land.
Admiral Herbert, now created earl of Torrington, having sailed to Ireland with the combined squadrons of England and Holland, made a fruitless attempt upon Cork, and lost a great number of seamen by sickness, which was imputed to bad provisions.

The Dartmouth ship of war fell into the hands of the enemy, who infested the channel with such a number of armed ships and privateers, that the trade of England sustained incredible damage.
THE FRENCH WORSTED AT WALCOURT.
The affairs of France wore but a gloomy aspect on the continent, where all the powers of Europe seemed to have conspired her destruction.

King William had engaged in a new league with the states-general, in which former treaties of peace and commerce were confirmed.