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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 20: (search)
The grand pensionary and the country wished to accede to the confederacy of the North. But the stadholder, who in May, acting in the interests of England, refused to take a step till the conduct of all the other neutral powers should be thoroughly understood, in June would not listen to June 16. any treaty with Russia unless the possessions of the republic in both Indies should be guaranteed. A better idea, wrote Yorke, could not be started to overset the whole. Yorke to Stormont, 16 June, 1780. Yet Stormont, who on this subject guided the cabinet of England, wrote to the British ambassador at the Hague: If the states-general proceed, they throw the die and leave us no alternative; Stormont to Yorke, 8 Aug., 1780. and he Chap. XX.} 1780. June. made the same unequivocal declaration to Welderen, the Dutch representative at London. A war by England against the Netherlands might prove fatal to the House of Orange. I am as much attached to that family as a man can be, wro