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 BUTLER. 290 he had received orders from her majesty to publish, within three days, a suspension of arms for two months, between his army and the French, and to send a detachment to take possession of Dunkirk, which place the King of France would put into the hands of the English, as a security for the perforimance of his promises. He like- wise proposed, that the like suspension of arms should be published in the confederate army. He suspended for some days, when the allies not agreeing to the suspension, e marched off with the British troops; of which the allies soon felt the fatal effects. Their army, commanded by the Earl of Albemarle, being completely routed by Marshal Villars ; and other advantages obtained by the enemy. On the 25th of June, the duke sent a trumpet to Marshal Villars, to acquaint him that he had received a copy of the preliminaries, signed by the Marquis de Torcy. The campaign having terminated, and both the French and confederate armies going now into winter quarters, the duke thought his stay in the country was no longer necessary, and therefore made a request to the queen, that he might have leave to return to England. Accordingly, on 21st October, Lord Bolingbroke sent him word that the queen permitted his coming home as soon as he should think fit; in consequence of which, the duke set sail and landed therein on the 1st of November; and waited on the queen, at Windsor, on the 4th, and was most graciously received. On the 10th June, 1713, the Duke of Ormonde joined in commission with the lord chancellor and lord steward of her majesty's household, declared and notified the royal assent to several acts of parliament. On King George the First's accession to the throne, bis majesty sent Lord Townshend, his new secretary of state (having before his arrival removed Lord Bolingbroke) to inform his grace that he had no longer occasion for his ser- vices, but would be glad to see him at court. His grace was also left out of the new privy council; but named for that