all risks, that a fleet was sent out to reconnoitre the enemy, and the troops were re-embarked.  But then a fresh mischance happened.  The Princess of England had had the measles, and was barely growing convalescent at the time of the departure of the King, her brother.  She had been prevented from seeing him, lest he should be attacked by the same complaint.  In spite of this precaution, however, it declared itself upon him at Dunkerque, just as the troops were re-embarked.  He was in despair, and wished to be wrapped up in blankets and carried on board.  The doctors said that it would kill him; and he was obliged to remain.  The worst of it was, that two of five Scotch deputies who had been hidden at Montrouge near Paris, had been sent into Scotland a fortnight before, to announce the immediate arrival of the King with arms and troops.  The movement which it was felt this announcement would create, increased the impatience for departure.  At last, on Saturday, the 19th of March, the King of England, half cured and very weak, determined to embark in spite of his physicians, and did so.  The enemy’s vessels hats retired; so, at six o’clock in the morning, our ships set sail with a good breeze, and in the midst of a mist, which hid them from view in about an hour.

Forty-eight hours after the departure of our squadron, twenty-seven English ships of war appeared before Dunkerque.  But our fleet was away.  The very first night it experienced a furious tempest.  The ship in which was the King of England took shelter afterwards behind the works of Ostend.  During the storm, another ship was separated from the squadron, and was obliged to take refuge on the coast of Picardy.  This vessel, a frigate, was commanded by Rambure, a lieutenant.  As, soon as he was able he sailed after the squadron that he believed already in Scotland.  He directed his course towards Edinburgh, and found no vessel during all the voyage.  As he approached the mouth of the river, he saw around him a number of barques and small vessels that he could not avoid, and that he determined in consequence to approach with as good a grace as possible.  The masters of these ships’ told him that the King was expected with impatience, but that they had no news of him, that they had come out to meet him, and that they would send pilots to Rambure, to conduct him up the river to Edinburgh, where all was hope and joy.  Rambure, equally surprised that the squadron which bore the King of England had not appeared, and by the publicity of his forthcoming arrival, went up towards Edinburgh more and more surrounded by barques, which addressed to him the same language.  A gentleman of the country passed from one of these barques upon the frigate.  He told Rambure that the principal noblemen of Scotland had resolved to act together, that these noblemen could count upon more than twenty thousand men ready to take up arms, and that all the towns awaited only the arrival of the King to proclaim him.