If his Highness would appear in the island at the head of some troops, tens of thousands would hasten to his standard.

He would soon find himself at the head of a force greatly superior to the whole regular army of England.

Nor could that army be implicitly depended on by the government.

The officers were discontented; and the common soldiers shared that aversion to Popery which was general in the class from which they were taken.

In the navy Protestant feeling was still stronger.