The Council of Caledonia, in great indignation, issued letters of mark and reprisal against Spanish vessels.

What every man of common sense must have foreseen had taken place.

The Scottish flag had been but a few months planted on the walls of New Edinburgh; and already a war, which Scotland, without the help of England, was utterly unable to sustain, had begun.
By this time it was known in Europe that the mysterious voyage of the adventurers from the Forth had ended at Darien.

The ambassador of the Catholic King repaired to Kensington, and complained bitterly to William of this outrageous violation of the law of nations.

Preparations were made in the Spanish ports for an expedition against the intruders; and in no Spanish port were there more fervent wishes for the success of that expedition than in the cities of London and Bristol.