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This puts great astonishment into
the King, and Duke, and Court, every body being out of
countenance. Home by the 'Change, which is full of people still,
and all talk highly of the failure of the Prince in not making
more haste after his instructions did come, and of our
managements here in not giving it sooner and with more care and
oftener.
4th. To White Hall, where, when we come, we find the Duke at St.
James's, whither he is lately gone to lodge. So walking through
the Park we saw hundreds of people listening at the Gravell-pits,
and to and again in the Park to hear the guns. I saw a letter,
dated last night, from Strowd, Governor of Dover Castle, which
sags that the Prince come thither the night before with his
fleet; but that for the guns which we writ that we heard, it is
only a mistake for thunder; and so far as to yesterday it is a
miraculous thing that we all Friday, and Saturday and yesterday,
did hear every where most plainly the guns go off, and yet at
Deal and Dover to last night they did not hear one word of a
fight, nor think they heard one gun.


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