. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. bp renderedincapable in future of any command. Gibbons, in addition, was sentenced to be tricedup by the arms during the punishment of the nther ^.luly :51st, 1G67. 298 MAJOR OPEBATJONIS, l()i;0-1714. [1667. a tripartite one, executed between England on the one band, andHolland, France, and Denmark on the other, provided, among otherthings, for the restoration of St. Christopher, Antigua, and Mont-serrat to England, and of Acadia, now Nova Scotia, to France ; forthe retention of New^ York and New Jersey by England, and
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. bp renderedincapable in future of any command. Gibbons, in addition, was sentenced to be tricedup by the arms during the punishment of the nther ^.luly :51st, 1G67. 298 MAJOR OPEBATJONIS, l()i;0-1714. [1667. a tripartite one, executed between England on the one band, andHolland, France, and Denmark on the other, provided, among otherthings, for the restoration of St. Christopher, Antigua, and Mont-serrat to England, and of Acadia, now Nova Scotia, to France ; forthe retention of New^ York and New Jersey by England, and ofSurinam by Holland ; and for a modification of the Navigation Actin favour of the Dutch. But the Honour of the Flag in the Britishseas was confirmed to England. France had already shown a desire to get possession of theSpanish Netherlands and Franche Comte. Soon after the con-clusion of the Treaty of Breda, Holland, England, and Swedenformed an alliance, with the object of checking Louis XIV., ere hispower should become too great. This alliance, of which Holland. MKUAl, roMMEMOUATlVK (IF THK FKACK OF lUJEDA, KilJT.(From an orhjii/al kiihUi/ Init hi/ Prince Lmih of Battinbrnj, ) was the moving spirit, exasperated France. She, however, appearedto yield, and then set to work to plot the destruction of the UnitedProvinces. There was much sympathy between the English peopleand the Dutch, but more between Charles and Louis; and thelatter was soon able to break up the alliance, and to conclude anoffensive league with Charles. Charles, in fact, was bribed, firstly,by actual payments of money; secondly, by promises of Netherlandsten-itory, and thirdly, by Louiss concession that, in the coming warafloat, an English officer should connnand in chief. Having cometo this arrangement, Charles lost no time in provoking a conflict. A yacht having been directed to bring home the wife of SirWilliam Temple from the Continent, her captain was ordered todeliberately place himself in the
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