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3 GREATHEAD ACCUSATIONS: Melville, 62 et seq.; Clark, 507-9.
4 DE GRAAFF SUBJECT TO SEASICKNESS: Schulte, 13; PRO, Admiralty, 1/309, 31/336.
5 “A DISEASE WHICH RECEIVES NO PITY”: Anonymous, 32.
6 DE GRAAFF’S REPLY TO CHARGES AT HEARINGS: Clark, 501, 524-5; Schulte, 41-5.
7 TROTTMAN’S TESTIMONY: Clark, 485.
8 COMMITTEE ACCEPTS HIS DEFENSE: Jameson, 695.
9 182 SHIPS IN THIRTEEN MONTHS: ibid., 686.
10 ADAMS ON INCREASE: August 4, 1779, Adams, Works, VII, 104; Edler, 61-2.
11 TWO PRIVATEERS NAMED FOR DE GRAAFF AND WIFE: MUNDY, II, 46.
12 F. W. CRAGIN COMMISSIONS PORTRAIT: Donor was F. W. Cragin, who lived in Surinam as U.S. Consul to Paramaribo. The portrait of de Graaff, by an unknown painter, was commissioned by his brother, Paul Cragin, and donated in 1837 to New Hampshire, the Cragins’ native state. Letter to author from Visitors Center of State House, Concord, N.H.
13 YORKE ADDRESSES NETHERLANDS AS BOSTON: Adams, Works, VII, 329.
14 BRUNSWICK, “MOST INSOLENT AND IMPROPER”: q. Edler, 50.
15 “WRATH WITHOUT POWER”: q. Schulte, 43.
16 YORKE “RAISED A VIOLENT FERMENTATION”: to Sir William Eden, March 7, 1777: Edler, 51; Schulte, 21.
17 ISSUE OF UNLIMITED CONVOY: Schulte, 70-2.
18 ALL MEN OF SUBSTANCE “SEEMED TO SHUDDER”: Adams, Works, VII, 523.
CHAPTER VI THE DUTCH AND THE ENGLISH: ANOTHER WAR
For Dutch conditions, the major source is Schulte, on the political structure, especially Blok. Personalities of William V and the Duke of Brunswick are drawn by two observers, Malmesbury and Wraxall.
1 THE CONSTITUTION WAS “SO COMPLICATED AND WHIMSICAL A THING”: Adams, Works, VII, 507.
2 VAN BLEISWIJK: Schulte, prologue; van Loon, 297; Adams, Works, VII, 618.
3 “WHILE THE BURGHER IS SMALL”: q. Boxer, 33.
4 DE WITT, “THE PERFECT HOLLANDER”: ibid.
5 WILLIAM CARR, “SURPASS ALL OTHER CITIES”: q. Haley, 156.
6 WILLIAM II OPPOSED TERMS WITH SPAIN: Blok, IV, 142.
7 MACAULAY ON SILESIA: Macaulay, “Frederick the Great,” Critical and Historical Essays, II, 117.
8 BRUNSWICK MANIFESTO: James Robinson and Charles Beard, Readings in Modern European History, Boston, 1908, I, 292-4.
9 SECRET ACT OF ADVISERSHIP: Schama, 36.
10 ON BRUNSWICK, “I HAVE RARELY SEEN”: Wraxall, 78.
11 PRINCE-STADTHOLDER’S “CONSTITUTIONAL SOMNOLENCY”: ibid., 75.
12 ON FREDERIKA SOPHIA, “WELL-EDUCATED”: Blok, V, 152.
13 “NOT EVEN GO TO PARADISE”: Malmesbury, II, 95.
14 ON WILLIAM V, “HIS UNDERSTANDING WAS CULTIVATED”: Wraxall, 75.
15 WILLIAM V WISHED HIS FATHER HAD NEVER BECOME STADTHOLDER: Schama, 57.
16 “I WISH I WERE DEAD”: q. Schulte, 14.
17 TWENTY-FOUR SHIPS DISCUSSED FOR SEVEN YEARS: Blok, V, 61-2.
18 ON DECLINE: Blok, V, 146 ff., and VI, 188-92; Schulte, prologue, 3-17.
19 YORKE, “MERCHANTS OR MONEY GETTERS”: q. Schulte, 6.
20 JOHANN HERDER, HOLLAND “IS SINKING”: ibid., 7-8.
21 ADAMS DISENCHANTED, “THIS COUNTRY IS INDEED”: Adams, Works, VII, 418-19.
22 HERMAN COLENBRANDER ACKNOWLEDGED THE URGE: q. Schulte, 6.
23 WALPOLE, “A TERRESTRIAL PARADISE”: to Mann, May 18, 1782, Corres., XXV.
24 ON VAN DER CAPELLEN: van Loon, 200; Schulte, 21-31.
25 “A LAFAYETTE WITH AN EVEN LIGHTER HEAD”: q. Schulte, 22.
26 SCOTS BRIGADE: Schama, 37; van Loon, 185; Blok, V, 158.
27 VAN DER CAPELLEN’S SPEECH ON SCOTS BRIGADE: Schulte, 26; Edler, 32.
28 COLPOYS PROTESTS SALUTE OF THE AMERICAN VESSELS: Clark, 586-8.
29 THE BRIG SMACK AND BRIG BETSY AND CARGOES: Augur, 23.
30 YORKE, “TO RESTORE THE APPEARANCE”: to Suffolk, May 29, 1778, q. Edler, 101.
31 “MULTIPLY LIKE SAND”: the phrase was used by Desnoyers, French chargé at The Hague to Vergennes, September 10, 1776, q. Edler, 22, n. 1.
32 “A DESULTORY RAGE OF A FEW ENTHUSIASTS”: September 25, 1780, q. Smith, John Adams, I, 483.
33 BUFFON, “NIGGARDLY SKY AND UNPROLIFIC LAND”: q. Schulte. This and other statements of the time about Americans and America by European travelers and pseudo-scientific writers are quoted in Schulte, 133-40.
34 UNLIMITED