The rough corporal usage which he had now, for the first time, undergone, seems to have discomposed him more than any other event of his chequered life.

The desertion of his army, of his favourites, of his family, affected him less than the indignities which he suffered when his hoy was boarded.

The remembrance of those indignities continued long to rankle in his heart, and on one occasion showed itself in a way which moved all Europe to contemptuous mirth.

In the fourth year of his exile he attempted to lure back his subjects by offering them an amnesty.

The amnesty was accompanied by a long list of exceptions; and in this list the poor fishermen who had searched his pockets rudely appeared side by side with Churchill and Danby.