But adverse winds detained him three weeks at the Hague.

At length, in the afternoon of the fourth of November, it was known in London that he had landed early that morning at Margate.

Great preparations were made for welcoming him to his capital on the following day, the thirteenth anniversary of his landing in Devonshire.

But a journey across the bridge, and along Cornhill and Cheapside, Fleet Street, and the Strand, would have been too great an effort for his enfeebled frame.

He accordingly slept at Greenwich, and thence proceeded to Hampton Court without entering London.