...he deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs :— In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content : So we "11 clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent,...

...cricket-field we shall hardly want to fight elsewhere, Mynheer— even in Africa, I hope. " In matters of Commerce, the fault of the Dutch, Is giving too little and asking too much." You know the old metrical sneer. Suppose we alter it to : — " In matters of bowling the fault of...

...he deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs:— In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content: So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent,...

...makes for the peace of nations by disposing of the peculiar sting of the well-known couplet: In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. The rubber restriction scheme became operative on November 1. The commercial column of the Times observed...

...deciphered the following despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : — In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content : So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent,...

...he deciphered the following dispatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : '' In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much ; With equal advantage the French are content, So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent.,...

...declining race of British statesmen, and should be headed " Wit out of Place ":— '• In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much ; With equal advantage the French are content, So we '11 clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent.,...

...was that so admirably and pithily expressed by Canning in his celebrated Despatch : — " In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch, Is giving too little and asking too much." This mania of monopoly which had cha- Monopoly in England graracterized the operations of all the mercantile...

...Hague wrote in cypher his opinion of the matter in the following well-known lines : — "In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much ; With equal advantage the French are content, So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Nous frapperons...

...Minister CANNING, naar aanleiding van onderhandelingen met Nederland gezegd heeft: "In matters of commeree the fault of the Dutch "Is giving too little and asking too much." De Minister liet daarop volgen: "With equal advantage the Freneh are content, "So we'll clap on Dutch...