Some servants of the Company who were in ill humour with their employers, and others who were zealous royalists, joined the private traders.

At Bombay, the garrison and the great body of the English inhabitants declared that they would no longer obey any body who did not obey the King; they imprisoned the Deputy Governor; and they proclaimed that they held the island for the Crown.
At Saint Helena there was a rising.

The insurgents took the name of King's men, and displayed the royal standard.

They were, not without difficulty, put down; and some of them were executed by martial law.
[164] If the Company had still been a Whig Company when the news of these commotions reached England, it is probable that the government would have approved of the conduct of the mutineers, and that the charter on which the monopoly depended would have had the fate which about the same time befell so many other charters.

But while the interlopers were, at a distance of many thousands of miles, making war on the Company in the name of the King, the Company and the King had been reconciled.