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] Sir George Rooke returned from Madeira to Cork, which he reached on the 3rd of August, his ships of war and the traders which had followed him for safety numbering fifty vessels. Leaving the rest of his ships to convoy the merchantmen to Kissale, he returned to the fleet, which was cruising in the channel, and which now returned to St. Helen's, where they had already landed the soldiers.

Heidelberg Castle.

About the same time a squadron, which had gone out to seize Martinique and Dominique, under Sir Francis Wheeler,battles with English blood and money—they assured themselves must soon induce the English people to recall James. Their secret presses were busily at work diffusing these opinions. Two men. Dormer and Canning, had been tried at the Old Bailey, fined five hundred marks apiece, and set three times in the pillory, for such an offence. But this severity did not at all check the practice. One Wiliam Anderton, who passed for a working jeweller, had long been suspected of printing these libels, and was at length discovered in his|after coasting Newfoundland and Canada, returned totally unsuccessful. The Dutch set sail for Holland on the 19th of September, and thus terminated this inglorious naval campaign.

The miserable failures this summer, both by land and sea, wonderfully encouraged the hopes of the Jacobites. The enormous taxation which was grinding the people—to enable the Dutch king, as they represented, to fight his country's|secret printing office in St. James's Street, with some of the most furious libels about him, and one of them only partly in type. In these libels William was represented as a glaring tyrant, who detested the English, but was all the more ready to lead them to destruction, and to drain them of their substance. He was tried at the Old Bailey before the lord chief justice Treby, and though the jury were unwilling to bring in a verdict that would send him to the