In reply to these reproaches the English Jacobites said very little; and the French government said nothing at all.

[315] The campaign in the Netherlands ended without any other event deserving to be recorded.

On the eighteenth of October William arrived in England.
Late in the evening of the twentieth he reached Kensington, having traversed the whole length of the capital.

His reception was cordial.
The crowd was great; the acclamations were loud; and all the windows along his route, from Aldgate to Piccadilly, were lighted up.

[316] But, notwithstanding these favourable symptoms, the nation was disappointed and discontented.