The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . advantagesdue to their English and Dutch allies, who seem to have done all thatcould be done to help a nation never much disposed to help itself Themaritime superiority of England and Holland was now fully the whole summer Russell was the undisputed master of theMediterranean, passed and repassed between Spain and Ita]\-, bombardedPalamos, spread terror along the whole shore of Provence, and kept theErench fleet imprisoned in the harbour of Toulon. Meanwhile Berkeleywas the undisputed master of the Channel, sai
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . advantagesdue to their English and Dutch allies, who seem to have done all thatcould be done to help a nation never much disposed to help itself Themaritime superiority of England and Holland was now fully the whole summer Russell was the undisputed master of theMediterranean, passed and repassed between Spain and Ita]\-, bombardedPalamos, spread terror along the whole shore of Provence, and kept theErench fleet imprisoned in the harbour of Toulon. Meanwhile Berkeleywas the undisputed master of the Channel, sailed to and fro in sight ofthe coasts of , Picardy, Normand\, and Britanny, threw shells intoSaint Maloes, Calais, and Dunkirk, and burned Granville to the navy of Lewis, which, five years before, had been the most formidable 1695 THE THIRD 2539 in Europe, which had ranged the British seas unopposed from theDowns to tlie Lands End, which had anchored in Torbay, and hadlaid Teignmouth in ashes, now gave no sign of existence except by. ^:W^(7,^^^ o U a a Q Z ^X pillaging merchantmen which were unpro\ided with convoy. In tiiislucrative war the French privateers were, towards the close of thesummer, very successful. Several vessels laden with sugar from Bar-badoes were captured. The losses of the unfortunate East IndiaCompany, already surrounded by difficulties, and impoverished by 2540 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xxi boundless prodigality in coriuptinn, were enormous. Five large shipsreturning from the Eastern seas, w ilh cargoes of which the value waspopularly estimated at a million, fell into the hands of the misfortunes produced some murmuring on the Royal , on the whole, the temi:)er of the caj^ital and of the nation wasbetter than it had been during some years. Meanwhile events which no preceding historian has condescendedto mention, but which were of far greater importance than the achieve-ments of Williams army or of Russells
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