thousand five hundred foot, two troops of horse and two troops of
dragoons, all Protestants and all well armed and clad.69 On the
fourth of November, the anniversary of William's birth, and on
the fifth, the anniversary of his landing at Torbay, the whole of
this force appeared in all the pomp of war. The vanquished and
disarmed natives assisted, with suppressed grief and anger, at
the triumph of the caste which they had, five months before,
oppressed and plundered with impunity. The Lords Justices went in
state to Saint Patrick's Cathedral; bells were rung; bonfires
were lighted; hogsheads of ale and claret were set abroach in the
streets; fireworks were exhibited on College Green; a great
company of nobles and public functionaries feasted at the Castle;
and, as the second course came up, the trumpets sounded, and
Ulster King at Arms proclaimed, in Latin, French and English,
William and Mary, by the grace of God, King and Queen of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland.70

Within the territory where the Saxon race was dominant, trade and
industry had already begun to revive. The brazen counters which
bore the image and superscription of James gave place to silver.
The fugitives who had taken refuge in England came back in
multitudes; and, by their intelligence, diligence and thrift, the
devastation caused by two years of confusion and robbery was soon
in part repaired. Merchantmen heavily laden were constantly
passing and repassing Saint George's Channel. The receipts of the
custom houses on the eastern coast, from Cork to Londonderry,
amounted in six months to sixty-seven thousand five hundred
pounds, a sum such as would have been thought extraordinary even
in the most prosperous times.71