But I will never allow them to be in the right when they mistrust me.

If I had been like many other princes, I should never have let the advantage of the cautionary towns slip out of my fingers, but rather by means of them attempted to get even a stronger hold on your country.

I have had plenty of warnings from great statesmen in France, Germany, and other nations that I ought to give them up nevermore.

Yet you know how frankly and sincerely I acquitted myself in that matter without ever making pretensions upon your state than the pretensions I still make to your friendship and co-operation." James, after this allusion to an important transaction to be explained in the next chapter, then made an observation or two on a subject which was rapidly overtopping all others in importance to the States, and his expressions were singularly at variance with his last utterances in that regard.

"I tell you," he said, "that you have no right to mistrust me in anything, not even in the matter of religion.