FOOTNOTES:
[120] A much more likely reason has been already assigned for English hostility to the Dutch in and about 1652; and that is, their perceiving that the Dutch were gradually engrossing all the foreign trade, especially that on the other side the line.
[121] The speech was published by Ridgway. Our space allows but a brief epitome of it.
[122] I have referred to these in numberless places in the second volume of this work.
[123] The particular quotation may not be strictly exact; but the ambition of Napoleon to possess ships, colonies, and commerce, cannot be for a moment doubted after the able exposition of M. Thiers.
[124] This speech was also published by Ridgway.
[125] The late (1875) Earl of Derby had been called up to the House of Peers during his father’s life, and sat as Lord Stanley. His speech was also published by Ridgway.
[126] It occupies a whole column of ‘Hansard.’
[127] The discovery of large quantities of gold in California had attracted the enormous quantity of tonnage to that region.
[128] Vide ‘Hansard,’ vol. cv. pp. 883-5. It occupies two closely printed columns.
[129] See ‘Hansard,’ vol. cvi. p. 48.
[130] The Petition at length will be found in the ‘Shipping Gazette,’ 13th June, 1849.
[131] See Hertslet’s ‘Treaties,’ &c., vol. viii. p. 968.