ABSTRACT
The dotage of some Englishmen is such to fawn on those who ruin them-the Dutch. They shall have all, rather than make a war With those who of the same religion are. England's Appeale stirred up the feeling that England should not be making war on another Protestant country. England's inferior position in her maritime rivalry with the Netherlands was exemplified by the passage of Dutch merchant ships through the Straits of Dover, the success of the Dutch in excluding England from trade with West Africa, and the collapse of English attempts to establish a herring fishery to compete with the Dutch. Well may they boast themselves an ancient nation, for they were bred ere manners were in fashion; and their new commonwealth has set 'em freeOnly from honour and civility. Dutch political philosophers used the Batavians, who rebelled against the Romans in AD, as a legitimising precedent for the seventeenth-century Dutch nation.
