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Count Welderen, who is totally an anti-Gaul, assured me he did not believe this project. Still I am very glad such a boute-feu is removed. He married a sister of Sir John Griffin, Maid of Honour to Anne Princess of Orange. This treaty is an epoch; and puts a total end to all our preceding histories.
Now, I think, her dying would only put more into the reach of rascals. But I am indifferent what they do; nor, but thus occasionally, shall I throw away a thought on that chapter. All chance of accommodation with Holland is vanished. Count Welderen and his wife departed this morning. All they who are to gain by privateers and captures are delighted with a new field of plunder.
The reply was that the matter should be brought before the Court of Holland; and Van Welderen, the Dutch ambassador in London, in vain endeavoured to give assurances that the States were anxious to maintain a strict neutrality. Yorke demanded immediate satisfaction and once more called upon the Republic to furnish the aid in men and ships in accordance with the treaty.
Further instructions were therefore sent to Van Welderen, but they were delayed by tempestuous weather. In any case they would have been of no avail. The British government was in no mood for temporising. On December 20, 1780 war was declared against the United Provinces; and three days later Yorke left the Hague. STADHOLDERATE OF WILLIAM V, continued, 1780-1788
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