...the stor}of Canning's sending to Bagot a despatch in cipher, containing these lines : — In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much ; With equal protection the French are content : So we'll lay on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. Chorus of Officers....

...key could be obtained, to his intense amazement he deciphered the following words : — ' 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.,...

...setting all the red-tapeism of the diplomatic service at defiance, wrote as his despatch — " In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch, Is giving too little, and asking too much." In these latitudes all the devices which the knowing ones have picked up in going to and fro on the...

...setting all the red-tapeism of the diplomatic service at defiance, wrote as his despatch — In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much. In these latitudes all the devices which the knowing ones have picked up in going to and fro on the...

...dilatoriness and unfairness of the Dutch in a commercial negotiation, has been often quoted: — " 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.,...

...the sharp practice of some nearer neighbours would apply very well to the Servians : — " In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little, and asking too much." No sooner had we landed on the Hungarian side of the river than up came a customhouse official, who...

...Perhaps not more thar to other mercantile nations are the lines of Canning applicable : — "In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too nnicli." History, — Julius Cwsar, in prosecuting his conquests in Northern Gaul, advanced as far...

...was, I now found, the enterprise of a foreign company. I had wrongly given the Dutch credit for it. " The fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much," said Canning, who compressed thus his words and meanings in the days of the fourth George. They still...

...whatever his tin be, the inscription, block tin, makes it pass for English." " In buying and selling the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much." SUBMARINE TIN MINES. It is a most remarkable fact that, in the eager search for tin, some of the Cornish...

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