CRUISE OF BAMBURE. 9

burgh, where all was hope and joy. Rambure, equally sur-
prised that the squadron which bore the King of England, had
not appeared, and of the publicity of his forthcoming arrival,
went up towards Edinburgh more and more surrounded by
barques, which addressed to him the same language. A. gentle-
man of the country passed from one of these barques upon the
frigate. He told Uambure 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.

More and more troubled that the squadron did not appear,
Eambure, after a time, turned back and went in search of it.
As he approached the mouth of the river, which he had so
lately entered, he heard a great noise of cannon out at sea, and
a short time afterwards he saw many vessels of war there.
Approaching more and more, and quitting the river, he distin-
guished our squadron, chased by twenty-six large ships of war
and a number of other vessels, all of which he soon lost sight
of, so much was our squadron in advance. He continued on
his course in order to join them ; but he could not do so until
all had passed by the mouth of the river. Then steering dear
of the rear-guard of the English ships, he remarked that the
English fleet was hotly chasing the ship of the King of England,
which ran along the coast, however, amid the fire of cannon
and oftentimes of musketry. Rambure tried, for a long time^
to profit by the lightness of Ms frigate to get a-head; but,
always cut off by the enemy's vessels, and continually in danger
of being taken, he returned to Dunkerque, where he imme-
diately despatched to the Court this sad and disturbing news.
He was followed, five or six days after, by the Bang of England,
who returned to Dunkerque on the 7th of April, with his
vessels badly knocked about.

It seems that the ship in which was the Prince, after expe-
riencing the storm I have already alluded to, set sail again with
its squadron, but twice got out of its reckoning within forty-
eight hours; a fact not easy to understand in a voyage from