The reader will observe that in this train the Master-General is not included, even in the contingency of the King's accompanying it himself. Lord Dartmouth had another duty to perform. He had been appointed Admiral of the Fleet which was to engage, if possible, the immense number of vessels which accompanied William to England. The winds fought against Dartmouth. First, he was kept at the mouth of the Thames by the same east winds that wafted the enemy to their landing-place at Torbay; and when, at last, able with a fair wind to follow down the Channel in pursuit, just as he reached Portsmouth, the wind changed: he had to run into that harbour, and his opportunity was lost—an opportunity, too, which might have reversed the whole story of the Revolution, for there was more loyalty to the King in the navy than in the army,—a loyalty which was whetted, as Macaulay well points out, by old grudges between the English and Dutch seamen; and there was in James's Admiral an ability and an integrity which cannot be doubted. Had the engagement taken place, and the King's fleet been successful, it does not require much experience of the world's history to say that the Revolution would have been postponed for years, if not for ever, for it is marvellous how loyal waverers become to the side which has the first success. Nor is this the first or only case on which a kingdom, or something equally valuable, has hung upon a change of wind. How history would have to be re-written had James Watt but lived two centuries earlier than he did! The Lieutenant-General who was to command the train was Sir Henry Shore, who had been appointed an Assistant and Deputy at the Board to Sir Henry Tichborne. The latter was, doubtless, the Lieutenant-General, whose presence would also have been required had the King in person accompanied the train. A LIST OF THE PROPER PERSONS, MINISTERS, AND ATTENDANTS, OF THE TRAYNE OF ARTILLERY, VIZ.— Pay per diem. £ _s._ _d._ Lieutenant-General Conditional 3 0 0 His Secretary Conditional 0 5 0 A clerke under him Conditional 0 4 0 Comptroller General Conditional 2 0 0 His two clerks at 4_s._ each Conditional 0 8 0 Comptroller to the Trayne 0 15 0 His clerke 0 4 0 Adjutant to the Trayne 0 10 0 Commissary of Ammunition for the Trayne and Army 0 10 0 His two clerkes at 3_s._ each 0 6 0 Paymaster 0 8 0