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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 20: (search)
or., IV. 473. Influenced by the preponderating members of the republic, the stadholder addressed a representation to the empress of Russia for concert in the defence of neutral flags. Before it had been received at Petersburg, Prince Galitzin, the Russian envoy at the Hague, on the third of April invited the states-gen- April 3. eral to a union for the protection of neutral trade and navigation. The same invitation, said the envoy, has been made to the courts of Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Lisbon, in order that by the joint endeavors of all neutral maritime powers a natural system, founded on justice, may be established as a rule for future ages. The states-general desired to join in the defensive association, but the stadholder, under English influence, contrived to make delay. England acted promptly. On the seventeenth, an 17. order of the sing in council suspended all treaties between the two countries, and threw back the Netherlands upon their rights under the law of nation