In Dieppe scarcely a house was left standing; a third part of Havre was laid in ashes; and shells were thrown into Calais which destroyed thirty private dwellings.

The French and the Jacobites loudly exclaimed against the cowardice and barbarity of making war on an unwarlike population.

The English government vindicated itself by reminding the world of the sufferings of the thrice wasted Palatinate; and, as against Lewis and the flatterers of Lewis, the vindication was complete.

But whether it were consistent with humanity and with sound policy to visit the crimes which an absolute Prince and a ferocious soldiery had committed in the Palatinate on shopkeepers and labourers, on women and children, who did not know that the Palatinate existed, may perhaps be doubted.
Meanwhile Russell's fleet was rendering good service to the common cause.

Adverse winds had impeded his progress through the Straits so long that he did not reach Carthagena till the middle of July.