'No, no! It's much better. I know things. Certain of the Golden Comstocks immigrated – all right, all right, some would say fled – to Holland in the last century. Settled in Amsterdam. I went and paid them a visit. From them, I knew that de Ruyter was taking his fleet to Guinea to seize the Duke of York's slave-ports. So I sold my Guinea Company shares while they were still high. Then from the Angleseys I learned that King Looie was making preparations to invade the Dutch Republic – but could never stage a campaign without purchasing grain first – purchasing it you'll never guess where. '