Having been abject when he might, with propriety, have been punctilious in maintaining his dignity, he became ungratefully haughty at a moment when haughtiness must bring on him at once derision and ruin.

He resented the friendly intervention which might have saved him.

Was ever King so used?
Was he a child, or an idiot, that others must think for him?
Was he a petty prince, a Cardinal Furstemburg, who must fall if not upheld by a powerful patron?
Was he to be degraded in the estimation of all Europe, by an ostentatious patronage which he had never asked?
Skelton was recalled to answer for his conduct, and, as soon as he arrived, was committed prisoner to the Tower.

Citters was well received at Whitehall, and had a long audience.
He could, with more truth than diplomatists on such occasions think at all necessary, disclaim, on the part of the States General, any hostile project.

For the States General had, as yet, no official knowledge of the design of William; nor was it by any means impossible that they might, even now, refuse to sanction that design.