Excerpt from History of Great Britain, Vol. 2 of 12: From the Revolution, 1688, to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Amiens, 1802 After much disputation on the part of M. Buys and the French ministers, the pensionary recapitulated, with much wisdom and gravity, the points which had been agitated. He said that altercation was hseless, that nei ther the one or the other party would be persuaded by it, in opposition to the orders of their masters, 01 to the injury of their respectiie interests - that the French ple nipotentiaries knew the extent of the engagements by which the republic was bound, and he besought them to examine to what point they had it intheir power to re lax; as he and his colleagues also, on their part, would make serious reflections on the propositions which had now been offered to their consideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.