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The conduct of this country to King William of Holland has been, in my / judgment, base and unprincipled beyond any thing in our history since the / times of Charles the Second. Certainly, Holland is one of the most / important allies that England has; and we are doing our utmost to subject / it, and Portugal, to French influence, or even dominion! Upon my word, the / English people, at this moment, are like a man palsied in every part of his / body but one, in which one part he is so morbidly sensitive that he cannot / bear to have it so much as breathed upon, whilst you may pinch him with a / hot forceps elsewhere without his taking any notice of it.