The stock of provisions was small; and the population had been swollen to seven or eight times the ordinary number by a multitude of colonists flying from the rage of the natives, [195] Lundy, therefore, from the time when the Irish army entered Ulster, seems to have given up all thought of serious resistance, He talked so despondingly that the citizens and his own soldiers murmured against him.

He seemed, they said, to be bent on discouraging them.

Meanwhile the enemy drew daily nearer and nearer; and it was known that James himself was coming to take the command of his forces.
Just at this moment a glimpse of hope appeared.

On the fourteenth of April ships from England anchored in the bay.

They had on board two regiments which had been sent, under the command of a Colonel named Cunningham, to reinforce the garrison.