Unpleasant Labor Quotes

At the time, the key British Ambassadors were diplomats and espionage agents at the same time. The Dutch Monarch William V, Prince of Orange, was in a very precarious position and might be deposed. Officially Harris and the British were supporting him and Harris was giving him money to firm up his regime, but their great fear was that the French would support and control the Patriot Revolutionary movement, then quite active. So, secretly, Harris was providing money to the patriots through a few leaders, to have a strong and influential relationship with the Republic if William were deposed. At the same time he was officially supporting William. The British wanted William to maintain his rule and were helping him to do so, but if he couldn’t, they wanted to keep the French out. It was this double dealing that prompted this quotation when Harris was asking the Prime Minister for more secret money for his covert operations.