There was no popular enthusiasm about the King’s safety, and one of the topical jests was “How is the wind with the King? Like the nation against him.” While the King was still away, waiting at Helvoetsluys for the wind to change, a great fire broke out at the Temple and the Prince of Wales went at midnight to help extinguish it. He was hailed by the crowd with shouts of “Crown him! Crown him!!” and the same cry was heard when he appeared at the theatre. However, any immediate question of crowning him was put at rest by the return of the King, who arrived at St. James’s on January 15th, 1737, after a detention at Helvoetsluys of five weeks and an absence from England of more than eight months. The Queen, accompanied by all her children, including the Prince of Wales, went down to the courtyard of the palace to receive him as he alighted from his coach. The King embraced her with great affection, and then gave her his arm to conduct her upstairs. A council was held the same day and the Queen surrendered into the King’s hands her office of Regent. FOOTNOTES TO BOOK III, CHAPTER XIII: [116] This son, according to some authorities, came over to England with Madame Walmoden, afterwards Countess of Yarmouth, after the Queen’s death, and was generally known at court as “Master Louis”. But according to Lord Hervey the child died within a year of its birth. [117] _Old Whig_, 26th February, 1736. This inscription was afterwards introduced by Hogarth in his caricature of Gin Lane. [118] _The Daily Gazetteer_, 2nd October, 1736. CHAPTER XIV. THE PRINCE AND THE PATRIOTS. 1737.