There was much discontent in the Irish regiments which were dispersed through the Netherlands and along the frontiers of Germany and Italy.

Even the Whigs allowed that, for once, the O's and Macs were in the right, and asked triumphantly whether a prince who had broken his word to his devoted servants could be expected to keep it to his foes?
[437] While the Declaration was the subject of general conversation in England, military operations recommenced on the Continent.

The preparations of France had been such as amazed even those who estimated most highly her resources and the abilities of her rulers.

Both her agriculture and her commerce were suffering.

The vineyards of Burgundy, the interminable cornfields of the Beauce, had failed to yield their increase; the looms of Lyons were silent; and the merchant ships were rotting in the harbour of Marseilles.