It was idle, they said, to talk about the poor Huguenots or the poor Palatines.

The bill was evidently meant for the benefit, not of French Protestants or German Protestants, but of Dutchmen, who would be Protestants, Papists or Pagans for a guilder a head, and who would, no doubt, be as ready to sign the Declaration against Transubstantiation in England as to trample on the Cross in Japan.

They would come over in multitudes.

They would swarm in every public office.

They would collect the customs, and gauge the beer barrels.