Show an slap at the dutch the doers are no doubt puffed up with their constant good luck when re slating british attacks but they must be well aware that they have hale to gain by war nar and that their position posit I 1 0 n just as it Is is one of the most fortunate in bistor at liast hast we e can recall no other republic in which every eiery man was for his wants well off in which if all taxes were paid by foreign immigrants and foreign toll and in which the whole community without ever eier submitting to a conscription or entering a barrack had acquired a high military reputation we C believe bellelo that these advantages an will mill bo be willfully thrown away avay and do not see wherein if peace Is maintained for tho the next ten years great britain will suffer buffer except from a few taunts and what do taunts matter to a people with our history it if it amuses dirck cloete to confide cons con side ld john dull bull cowardly or soft let him consider it colvill ho will reconsider that opinion tho the end arrives england Is 1 not in ili a burr if the capitalists arv fr she surN survived Ived napoleon coa and sho she will N III survive krueger not to mention the nor memory that there ever was a dutchman between the and the cape what proportion of all those who nho cin can read now no know that new non york was wa s once a possession and a settlement setU ement of the dutch the tho spectator |