Assurances of support came pouring in daily from foreign courts.

Opposition had become extinct at the Hague.

It was in vain that Avaux, even at this last moment, exerted all his skill to reanimate the faction which had contended against three generations of the House of Orange.

The chiefs of that faction, indeed, still regarded the Stadtholder with no friendly feeling.

They had reason to fear that, if he prospered in England, he would become absolute master of Holland.