366-416.] "The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle was done in a hurry and a huddle; greatly to Maria Theresa's disgust.

'Why not go on with your expenditures, ye Sea-Powers?
Can money and life be spent better?
I have yet conquered next to nothing for the Cause of Liberty and myself!' But the Sea-Powers were tired of it; the Dutch especially, who had been hoisted with such difficulty, tended strongly, New Stadtholder notwithstanding, to plump down again into stable equilibrium on the broad-bottom principle.

Huddle up the matter; end it, well if you can; any way end it.

The Treaty contained many Articles, now become forgettable to mankind.

There is only One Article, and the Want of One, which shall concern us in this place.