[1100] He had, indeed, proposed to the Dutch a joint campaign for the conquest of Spanish America (Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth, ii, 478). But even in that case he would have counted on plunder.
[1101] Villemain, however, had previously made some approach to such a view; and Sir John Seeley has left record of how Sir James Stephen suggested to students a research concerning "the buccaneering Cromwell" (Expansion of England, p. 115).
[1102] Cromwell's Place in History, pp. 89, 90.
[1103] Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate (1897), ii, 475-76. It is startling to contrast this explicit avowal of Dr. Gardiner with the assertion of Dr. Holland Rose (art. in the Monthly Review, July, 1902), that the historian averred to him that English foreign policy always came out well on investigation.
[1104] Cromwell's Place in History, p. 97. Cp. p. 101; Burnet, History of his Own Time, bk. i, ed. 1838, pp. 44, 49, 50; Thurloe, State Papers, 1742, vii, 295.
[1105] Letter of De Bordeaux to Servien, May 5, 1653, given by Guizot, Histoire de la république d'Angleterre et de Cromwell, tom. i, end.
[1106] Letter cited.
[1107] Guizot, République d'Angleterre, éd. 1854, ii, 216.
[1108] On a War with Spain. Cp. the poem, Upon the Death of the Lord Protector.
[1109] Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland. Dryden's Heroic Stanzas on the death of the Protector show how he would have swelled the acclaim.