It was to no purpose that they informed their master that the Declaration of April 1692 had been read with exultation by his enemies and with deep affliction by his friends, that it had been printed and circulated by the usurpers, that it had done more than all the libels of the Whigs to inflame the nation against him, and that it had furnished those naval officers who had promised him support with a plausible pretext for breaking faith with him, and for destroying the fleet which was to have convoyed him back to his kingdom.

He continued to be deaf to the remonstrances of his best friends in England till those remonstrances began to be echoed at Versailles.

All the information which Lewis and his ministers were able to obtain touching the state of our island satisfied them that James would never be restored unless he could bring himself to make large concessions to his subjects.

It was therefore intimated to him, kindly and courteously, but seriously, that he would do well to change his counsels and his counsellors.

France could not continue the war for the purpose of forcing a Sovereign on an unwilling nation.