Sentence:  It is difficult to ascertain the course of the transaction from the <WSD>slipslop</WSD> phrases in which Mr. Gladstone as usual makes the Queen adopt the style of a. literary housemaid; but 'it may be collected that the audacious encroachments of General  Butler's contituents and other American fishermen in Canadian waters had exposed their vessels to the risk of legal capture. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Slipshod; loose and imprecise.