For Queensberry was the head of the Protestant Episcopalians of Scotland, a class compared with whom the bitterest English Tories might be called Whiggish; and Drumlanrig himself was Lieutenant Colonel of Dundee's regiment, a band more detested by the Whigs than even Kirke's lambs.

This fresh calamity was announced to the King on the following morning.

He was less disturbed by the news than might have been expected.

The shock which he had undergone twenty-four hours before had prepared him for almost any disaster; and it was impossible to be seriously angry with Prince George, who was hardly an accountable being, for having yielded to the arts of such a tempter as Churchill.

"What!" said James, "is Est-il-possible gone too?
After all, a good trooper would have been a greater loss." [543] In truth the King's whole anger seems, at this time, to have been concentrated, and not without cause, on one object.