The point where there was most danger was Portsmouth.

The Prince did not however insist that this important fortress should be delivered up to him, but proposed that it should, during the truce, be under the government of an officer in whom both himself and James could confide.
The propositions of William were framed with a punctilious fairness, such as might have been expected rather from a disinterested umpire pronouncing an award than from a victorious prince dictating to a helpless enemy.

No fault could be found with them by the partisans of the King.

But among the Whigs there was much murmuring.

They wanted no reconciliation with their old master.