text:  In the beginning of November he repaired to the Hague and though he found the Dutch in the first instance so extravagant in their ideas of the barrier they were to obtain that he despaired of effecting any settlement of the differences between them and the Emperor;[27] yet he at length succeeded though with very great difficulty in appeasing for the time the jealousies between them and the cabinet of Vienna and obtaining a public renewal of the alliance for the prosecution of the war