Naval History of Great Britain Including the History And Lives of the British a
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After this, Sir George finding it impossible to come up with the enemy, returned with the fleet to Leith, where he continued till he received advice of the French admiral's getting hack to Dun- kirk, and then proceeded to the Downs, pursuant to his orders. But before he left Leith road, the lord provost and magistrates of Edinburgh, to shew their grateful sense of the important service he had done, them, by thus drawing off the enemy before they had. Time to land their forces, presented him wit...h the free- dom of their city in a gold box. Upon his arrival in London, Sir George was most graciously received by the queen, and by his royal highness, Prince George of Denmark, lord high admiral. One would have thought that the defeating of so extraordinary a scheme as this invasion was allowed to be, and the immediate restoring of public credit, which had sut* fered greatly, should have given entire satisfaction to the nation; but this was so far from being the case, that the admiral had scarcely set his foot in London, before it was whispered, that the parliament would inquire into his conduct.
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