Avaux, after remonstrating to no purpose, declared that he was resolved to return to Dublin.

It may be suspected that the extreme discomfort which he had undergone had something to do with this resolution.

For complaints of that discomfort make up a large part of his letters; and, in truth, a life passed in the palaces of Italy, in the neat parlours and gardens of Holland, and in the luxurious pavilions which adorned the suburbs of Paris, was a bad preparation for the ruined hovels of Ulster.

He gave, however, to his master a more weighty reason for refusing to proceed northward.

The journey of James had been undertaken in opposition to the unanimous sense of the Irish, and had excited great alarm among them.