 During this protest, the men were amply supplied with food and ammunition by the people of the capital, who had taken side with them in their grievances.The protest was reported in the London newspapers, in articles contributed by James Boswell.After three days of negotiations, compromises were reached and the men again marched from the capital to their quarters at Leith, this time led by the Earl of Seaforth, but the idea of sending them to India now having been abandoned.