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Excerpt from History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the Overthrow of the French Empire, Vol. 4: With Particular Reference to Mental Cultivation and Progress
The rich and powerful contrived to manage this revolution in such a manner that the system of taxation Should undergo no material change, however oppressive it might be to the poor as affecting the prime necessaries of life; the mode of col lection indeed was altered, and rendered less obnoxious and costly, but the prosperity of Holland at the same time imme diately began to decline, partly in consequence of unavoidable changes which time and destiny brought about, and partly In consequence of political circumstances. The English had now gained the superiority on all coasts and in all seas; their manu factures, commerce, trade and navigation ?ourished beyond ex ample; the Dutch could no longer enter into competition with them; their Close connexion therefore with the English govern ment was unfavourable to their interests, and of a nature which is always ruinous to the'weaker party. This had previously been made a ground of reproach against William IV and after his death Holland appeared to have become completely an English province.
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