[100] Burnet, i. 513. Lord Dartmouth, in a note on this passage, states that William the Third told Lord Jersey that it was a standing maxim in the Stuart family, “Whatever advances they pretended to make towards it,” never to allow a union. Their reason, he said, was that it could not take place without admitting Scotsmen to both Houses of Parliament, who must depend for a living on the Crown. He further asserts that King William said he hoped it would never take place during his reign, for “he had not the good fortune to know what would satisfy a Scotsman.” [101] Defoe, p. 21; Mackenzie’s _Memoirs_, p. 197. [102] “_A modern account of Scotland, being an exact description of the country, and a true character of the people and their manners. Written from thence by an English gentleman._” Printed in the year 1670 (_Harleian Miscellany_, vi. 135). “_Scotland characterized: In a letter written to a young gentleman, to dissuade him from an intended journey thither_” (_Harleian Miscellany_, vii. 377). “_The False Brother, or A New Map of Scotland, drawn by an English Pencil, London, 1651._” CHAPTER V THE REVOLUTION SETTLEMENT After the failure of the treaty of 1670, eighteen years, eventful in the history of both kingdoms, passed; and at the Revolution the question of the Union was again discussed. In the letter which William addressed to the Scottish Estates in March 1689, he said that he was glad to find that many peers and gentlemen of Scotland, whom he had consulted in London, were “so much inclined to a union of both kingdoms, that they did look upon it as one of the best means for procuring the happiness of these nations, and settling of a lasting peace among them.” He himself was of the same opinion, and was resolved to do everything in his power to bring it about. Among the members of the Estates there was a strong party in favour of delaying the settlement of the Crown until the Union had been accomplished, on the ground that terms favourable to Scotland would be more easily obtained when the affairs of England were in a critical and unsettled condition. Among those who took this view was Sir John Dalrymple, who afterwards, as first Earl of Stair, was to play a prominent part in the final settlement of the question. The fact, however, that this view was supported by some astute members of the Jacobite party, who saw in it a means of causing delay, induced a majority of the Estates to resolve that the settlement of the Crown should come first.