the subject.  He did not declare that he would even advise with his Parliament about recompensing all who might suffer, but merely about recompensing such as had followed him to the last.  Finally he said nothing about equivalents.  Indeed the notion of giving an equivalent to every body who suffered by the Act of Settlement, in other words, of giving an equivalent for the fee simple of half the soil of Ireland, was obviously absurd.  Middleton’s letter will be found in Macpherson’s collection.  I will give a sample of the language held by the Whigs on this occasion.  “The Roman Catholics of Ireland,” says one writer, “although in point of interest and profession different from us yet, to do them right, have deserved well from the late King, though ill from us; and for the late King to leave them and exclude them in such an instance of uncommon ingratitude that Protestants have no reason to stand by a Prince that deserts his own party, and a people that have been faithful to him and his interest to the very last.”—­A short and true Relation of the Intrigues, &c., 1694.

FN 438 The edict of creation was registered by the Parliament of Paris on the 10th of April 1693.

FN 439 The letter is dated the 19th of April 1693.  It is among the Nairne MSS., and was printed by Macpherson.

FN 440 “Il ne me plait nullement que M. Middleton est alle en France.  Ce n’est pas un homme qui voudroit faire un tel pas sans quelque chose d’importance, et de bien concerte, sur quoy j’ay fait beaucoup de reflections que je reserve a vous dire avostre heureuse arrivee.”—­William to Portland from Loo.  April 18/28 1693.

FN 441 The best account of William’s labours and anxieties at this time is contained in his letters to Heinsius—­particularly the letters of May 1. 9. and 30. 1693.

FN 442 He speaks very despondingly in his letter to Heinsius of the 30th of May, Saint Simon says:  “On a su depuis que le Prince d’Orange ecrivit plusieurs fois au prince de Vaudmont son ami intime, qu’il etait perdu et qu’il n’y avait que par un miracle qu’il pût echapper.”

FN 443 Saint Simon; Monthly Mercury, June 1693; Burnet, ii. 111.

FN 444 Memoires de Saint Simon; Burnet, i. 404.

FN 445 William to Heinsius, July. 1693.

FN 446 Saint Simon’s words are remarkable.  “Leur cavalerie,” he says, “y fit d’abord plier des troupes d’elite jusqu’alors invincibles.”  He adds, “Les gardes du Prince d’Orange, ceux de M. de Vaudemont, et deux regimens Anglais en eurent l’honneur.”

FN 447 Berwick; Saint Simon; Burnet, i. 112, 113.; Feuquieres; London Gazette, July 27. 31.  Aug. 3. 1693; French Official Relation; Relation sent by the King of Great Britain to their High Mightinesses, Aug. 2. 1693; Extract of a Letter from the Adjutant of the King of England’s Dragoon Guards, Aug. 1.; Dykvelt’s Letter to the States General dated July 30. at noon.  The last four papers will be found in the Monthly Mercuries of July and August