[Footnote 7: Swift, in the _Journal to Stella_, says that the ship blew up in the Thames, but the accident seems to have taken place at Spithead; see Kingsford's _History of Canada_, vol. ii, pp. 468-9. There are various references to this expedition and to Hill in the _Journal to Stella_. Hill was subsequently placed in command at Dunkirk, while that port was being held as security for the execution of the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht.] Of the two commanders, Hill escaped formal censure. Luckily for him, Swift's bitter pen was at the service of the political clique with which he was connected. Walker, more culpable, was also less fortunate: deprived of his command he emigrated first to South Carolina and afterwards to Barbados, where he died, having written his own version of the expedition,[8] which in no way tended to redeem his reputation. [Footnote 8: _A full account of the late Expedition to Canada_, by Sir Hovenden Walker (London, 1720).] [Sidenote: _Ignominious end of the expedition._] Such was the end of the enterprise, intended to eclipse the great deeds of Marlborough. There have been many shortcomings and many disasters in the military annals of England, but few instances are on record of so much incompetence, verging almost on cowardice. Phipps' expedition against Quebec was a complete failure, but at least he led his band of untrained farmers and fishermen safely up and down the St. Lawrence, and gave Count Frontenac a taste of powder and shot. Walker and Hill, {146} with the best of ships and the best of men, blundered and turned back at the mouth of the river; at the first mishap they abandoned everything. No wonder the Frenchmen deemed that the saints watched over Canada. [Sidenote: _The Treaty of Utrecht._]