CHAPTER III.

Conspiracy against the Government by Lord Preston and
others..... The King fills up the vacant Bishoprics.....
Affairs of Scotland..... Campaign in Flanneitt..... Progress
of the Trench in Piedmont..... Election of a New Pope....The
Emperor’s Success against the Turks..... Affairs of
Ireland..... General Ginckel reduces Athlone..... Defeats
the Irish at Aghrim..... Undertakes the Siege of
Limerick..... The French and Irish obtain an honourable
Capitulation..... Twelve Thousand Irish Catholics are
transported to France..... Meeting of the English
Parliament..... Discontent of the Nation..... Transactions
in Parliament..... Disputes concerning the Bill for
regulating Trials in Cases of High Treason..... The English
and Dutch Fleets baffled by the French..... The King
disobliges the Presbyterians of Scotland..... The Earl of
Breadalbane undertakes for the Submission of the
Highlanders..... Massacre of Glencoe..... Preparations for a
Descent upon England..... Declaration of King James.....
Efforts of his Friends in England..... Precautions taken by
the Queen for the Defence of the Nation..... Admiral Russel
puts to Sea..... He obtains a complete Victory over the
French Fleet off La Bogue..... Troops embarked at St.
Helen’s for a Descent upon France..... The Design laid
aside..... The Troops landed at Ostend..... The French King
takes Namur in sight of King William..... The Allies are
defeated at Steenkirk..... Extravagant rejoicings in France
on Account of this Victory..... Conspiracy against the Life
of King William, hatched by the French Ministry.....
Miscarriage of a Design upon Dunkirk..... The Campaign is
inactive on the Rhine and in Hungary..... The Duke of Savoy
invades Dauphiné..... The Duke of Hanover created an Elector
of the Empire.