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The European diligence
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English: A Dutchman (right) wheels a wheelbarrow over the prostrate body of Britannia. In the barrow are (left to right.): a Frenchman, who leans out to pierce Britannia to the heart with a sword; she is saying "Ah Cruil Neighbours thus to assist Rebellious Children"; he says "O Madame 'tis de fine Politique"; America, a woman with a feathered head-dress, sits on the Frenchman's left, she says, "My Good & Great Ally Strike Home". Next comes a man partly concealed by his cloak and hat, to whom his neighbour, Spain, says "Now Brother of Portugal join the Confedaracy and Agrandize our Family". The Dutchman, a boorish fellow smoking a pipe, is saying "What's Treaties to Gelt"; he is treading on a paper inscribed "A Memorial presented by Sr J. Yorke to their High Mightenesses". On the side of his barrow is a placard, "De Jonge Johana Petronella Cornelius Dirk Vander Meulen for Eus-tatia". On the left of the print a tall Russian soldier with a fur-trimmed hat, standing behind Britannia, threatens the Dutchman with his bayoneted musket, saying, "My Mistress is determin'd to Chastise Yr Hogen Mogen for yr Ingratitude & Duplicity & Oblidge You to Assist that Power that first Assisted You". 5 October 1779
Etching with some use of the rocker
Depicted people Associated with: Catherine II, Empress of Russia
Date 1779
date QS:P571,+1779-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 187 millimetres (corners damaged)
Width: 238 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4609
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) In spite of three treaties of alliance between England and the United Provinces, Dutch merchants were carrying on an immense trade with her enemies, and the Dutch island of St. Eustatius was the centre of a vast traffic in military and other stores for the Americans. Dutch papers were freely given to American privateers. Fortescue, 'Hist. of the Br. Army', iii. 260; 'Hist. MSS. Comm.', Stopford-Sackville MSS., ii. 1910, pp. 196, 202 f., 279, 293-5. Sir Joseph Yorke, British Minister at The Hague, presented a series of memorials protesting against the views of the strong pro-French party, to "their High Mightinesses" {Hogen Mogen) the States General. See 'Ann. Reg.' 1779, pp. 422, 425, 428; F. P. Renaut, 'Les Provinces-Unies et la Guerre d'Amérique', i, 1924, chap, vii; J. F. Jameson, 'St Eustatius in the American Revolution', 'Am. Hist. Review', viii, pp. 683 ff.

At this time there were hopes of an alliance with Russia, see Malmesbury, 'Diaries and Correspondence', 1844, i. 237 ff.; 'Corr. of George III', ed. Fortescue, iv. 470-1. French and Prussian influence, however, prevailed and Catharine issued the Declaration of Armed Neutrality, Mar. 1780. See BMSat 5713-16, 5718-19, 5724, 5730, &c. For Holland as an unfriendly neutral, see BMSat 5472,5541, 5568, 5571, 5579, 5624, 5636, 5654, 5663, 5664, 5667, 5726, 5727, 5728. For Dutch prints referring to profitable trade in contraband see BMSat 5712, 5716, 5724. For St. Eustatius see BMSat 5837, 5838, 5839, 5842, 5923, 6051. For the attitude to Dutch neutrality in other wars cf. BMSat 2416 (1739), 3697, 3698, 3704 (1759).
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