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 POPULAR INDIGNATION IN ENGLAND 131 the strength of his own arm, if they did it not suddenly themselves/' The cry for revenge had gathered a strength which not even James could resist. Chamberlain, the Horace Walpole of his time, wrote to the English ambassador MARWARI MERCHANTS, OR TRADERS OP THE INDIES. in Holland that " we should stay or arrest the first Indian ship that comes in our way, and hang up upon Dover cliffs " as many Dutchmen as had taken part in the outrage, " and then dispute the matter after- wards. For there is no other course to be held with such manner of men, as neither regard law nor justice, nor any other respect of equity or humanity, but only make gain their god." The Company was believed to