But the government had foreseen nothing: it had done little; and that little had been done neither at the right time nor in the right way.

Negotiation had been employed instead of troops, when a few troops might have sufficed.

A few troops had been sent when many were needed.

The troops that had been sent had been ill equipped and ill commanded.

Such, the vehement Whigs exclaimed, were the natural fruits of that great error which King William had committed on the first day of his reign.