That false, arrogant and wayward politician was to command the Channel Fleet.

He had never ceased to assure the Jacobite emissaries that he was bent on effecting a Restoration.

Those emissaries fully reckoned, if not on his entire cooperation, yet at least on his connivance; and there could be no doubt that, with his connivance, a French fleet might easily convoy an army to our shores.

James flattered himself that, as soon as he had landed, he should be master of the island.

But in truth, when the voyage had ended, the difficulties of his enterprise would have been only beginning.