| Content Description | Discusses the need for 'vigorous preparation' for the campaign of the following year, lest the French should turn any delays to their advantage; says that everything possible should be done to 'prevent the ill effects of unreasonable jealousies'; states that an 'indissoluble union between Holland and England is the interest of both nations'; claims that England much prefers the friendship of the States to that of the Court of Vienna; encloses an extract of his letter to Mr Stepney [not present] and says the position was put over in even stronger terms to Count Galas. |