Charles Stuart, who in driving rain last Thursday hoisted his standard against the Parliament of England, is finding the raising of an army considerably more difficult

The Edinburgh-born Charles, first of that name and the second Scot to occupy the throne of Edward the Confessor, has added less than five hundred horse to the thousand who stood with him on Nottingham's Castle Hill and applauded his vow to “smite the Roundheads and Rebels.” His foot numbers less than three hundred; artillery is conspicuous by its absence. His attempt earlier this month to seize the magazine at Hull was, as readers of Anglia Redivia know, thwarted by the refusal of Sir John Hotham to allow him into the city. Hotham, with Sir Ferdinando Fairfax, is performing admirable service holding the East Riding of Yorkshire for Parliament.

The mood in the camp of the King is described as “melacholic.”