The conduct of the Dutch, relating to their breach of treaties with England

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Page 86 - And the next day they further refolved, that an humble addrefs be prefented to his majefty, that he would be...
Page 146 - JAMES'S the 23? day of November 1761. p"-~r PRESENT < TR v \ / The Kings most Excellent Majesty in Council Upon reading this day at the Board, a Report from the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs, dated the 21" of this Instant, in the Words following — Viz?
Page 114 - Elections, and that they do examine the Matter thereof, and report the fame, with their Opinion thereupon to the Houfe ; It pafled in the Negative.
Page 83 - ... naturalized) are in the English and also in the Dutch Councils? If these strangers, though now confederates, should be of different interests, as most plainly they are in point of trade, to which interest is it to be supposed these great foreign Councillors and favourites would adhere? So that I foresee that when we are reduced to extreme poverty (as now we are very near it) we are to be supplanted by our neighbours and become a colony to the Dutch. This speech aroused the prejudices of its audience...
Page 147 - HIS MAJESTY having taken into consideration the said Report, and the Draft Charter accompanying it, was pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the Right Honourable...
Page 7 - ... both moveable and immoveable, on both fides, which fhall be found to be and remain in the ports, and...
Page 83 - ... it was further given out, to raise the national disgust yet higher, that the opposition the king gave to the Scotch colony, flowed neither from a regard to the interests of England, nor to the treaties with Spain, but from a care of the Dutch, who from Curasoe drove a coast' (It had been introduced lords' address in Ralph's Hii' at the recommendation of the of England, vol.ii.

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