In October 1698 Father Tachard again visited Ayut’ia and tried to include a new treaty between Siam and France. The King asked for the advice of the Dutch residents, who, of course, urged the danger of ever again allowing the French to obtain a foothold in the Kingdom. Father Tachard aggravated the Kind’s misgivings by talking about building a fort at Tenasserim and a factory at P’etchaburi. This so disquieted the King that he sent troop to both those places to be ready in case of a French imvasion. Nothing was arranged with Tachard, and from this time onwards France abandoned all political interest in Siam, though the Jesuit missionaries continued their work. Their success does not seem to have been great, for Alexander Hamilton, who visited Siam in 1720, said that at time there were not more than seventy Christians in the Kingdom, and they the most dissolute, lazy, thievish rascals that were to be found in the country.