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Parliamentary opposition which he meet with, together with the current of the Public opinion which run very high against this measure produced alternate fits of resentment and despondency in the Kings mind--it is even reported that he sometimes-- seriously determined to abandon the Kingdom-- These resolutions the Minestry found no difficulty to overcome, and as the report of the intended abandonment neither alarmed the fears of the people nor softened the firmness of the Parliament William resolved to comply with a good grace, with what it would not have been in his power long to have resisted-- In 1700--a New Parliament met-- The Commons addressed the King to assure him they would support his Government and take such affectual methods as might best conduce to the interest and safety of England, the Preservation of the Protestant Religion and the Peace of Europe In 1701--William went to Holland, and in this Place where he had carried on all his schemes relative to the isueserration of his countrymen and the humbling of the French King
