In fact the tide had already turned.  From the moment at which the Commons notified their fixed determination not to raise the denomination of the coin, the milled money began to come forth from a thousand strong boxes and private drawers.  There was still pressure; but that pressure was less and less felt day by day.  The nation, though still suffering, was joyful and grateful.  Its feelings resembled those of a man who, having been long tortured by a malady which has embittered his life, has at last made up his mind to submit to the surgeon’s knife, who has gone through a cruel operation with safety, and who, though still smarting from the steel, sees before him many years of health and enjoyment, and thanks God that the worst is over.  Within four days after the meeting of Parliament there was a perceptible improvement in trade.  The discount on bank notes had diminished by one third.  The price of those wooden tallies, which, according to an usage handed to us from a rude age, were given as receipts for sums paid into the Exchequer, had risen.  The exchanges, which had during many months been greatly against England, had begun to turn.744 Soon the effect of the magnanimous firmness of the House of Commons was felt at every Court in Europe.  So high indeed was the spirit of that assembly that the King had some difficulty in preventing the Whigs from moving and carrying a resolution that an address should be presented to him, requesting him to enter into no negotiation with France, till she should have acknowledged him as King of England.745 Such an address was unnecessary.  The votes of the Parliament had already forced on Lewis the conviction that there was no chance of a counterrevolution.  There was as little chance that he would be able to effect that compromise of which he had, in the course of the negotiations, thrown out hints.  It was not to be hoped that either William or the English nation would ever consent to make the settlement of the English crown a matter of bargain with France.  And even had William and the English nation been disposed to purchase peace by such a sacrifice of dignity, there would have been insuperable difficulties in another quarter.  James could not endure to hear of the expedient which Lewis had suggested.  “I can bear,” the exile said to his benefactor, “I can bear with Christian patience to be robbed by the Prince of Orange; but I never will consent to be robbed by my own son.”  Lewis never again mentioned the subject.  Callieres received orders to make the concession on which the peace of the civilised world depended.  He and Dykvelt came together at the Hague before Baron Lilienroth, the representative of the King of Sweden, whose mediation the belligerent powers had accepted.  Dykvelt informed Lilienroth that the Most Christian King had engaged, whenever the Treaty of Peace should be signed, to recognise the Prince of Orange as King of Great Britain, and added, with a very intelligible allusion to the