The Hudson's Bay Company was not a little puzzled at the non-arrival of the _Hampshire_, which had been spoken thus happily in Hudson's Straits. For a long time the vessel was believed to be lost; as, indeed, she was, but not quite in the manner apprehended by her owners. Possession was not regained for some years; and when the _Hampshire_ sailed again for the Bay it was to encounter there complete destruction in battle. As has been foreshadowed, in 1689 an event occurred which had been brewing ever since James had relinquished the governorship of the Company for the governorship of his subjects at large. William of Orange landed at Plymouth, and the Revolution in England put a new king on the English throne. CHAPTER XIII. 1689-1696. Company's Claims Mentioned in Declaration of War -- Parliament Grants Company's Application for Confirmation of its Charter -- Implacability of the Felt-makers -- Fort Albany not a Success in the hands of the French -- Denonville urges an Attack upon Fort Nelson -- Lewis Despatches Tast with a Fleet to Canada -- Iberville's Jealousy prevents its Sailing to the Bay -- Governor Phipps Burns Fort Nelson -- Further Agitation on the part of the French to Possess the West Main -- Company Makes another attempt to Regain Fort Albany -- Fort Nelson Surrendered to Iberville -- Its Re-conquest by the Company. Upon William the Third's accession to the throne, the Company renewed its claims to its property, and for reparation for the damages it had suffered at the hands of the French in time of peace. "As to the article of the Company's losses, it will appear," it said, "by a true and exact estimate, that the French took from the Company, in full peace between 1682 and 1688, seven ships with their cargoes, and six forts and factories, from which they carried away great stores of goods laid up for trading with the Indians. The whole amounts to £38,332 15s." To such effect was this memorial presented to the King that William caused the hostile proceedings of Lewis in the Company's territory to be inserted in one of the articles of his Declaration of War, in these words:-- "But that the French King should invade our Caribbee Islands and possess himself of our territories of the Province of New York and Hudson's Bay, in hostile manner, seizing our forts, burning our subjects' houses and enriching his people with the spoil of our goods and merchandises, detaining some of our subjects under the hardships of imprisonment, causing others to be inhumanly killed, and driving the rest to sea in a small vessel without food or necessaries to support them, are actions not even becoming an enemy; and yet he was so far from declaring himself so, that at that very time he was negotiating here in England, by his Ministers, a treaty of neutrality and good correspondence in America."