The large sum spent by the Transvaal in secret service money--a larger sum, I believe, than that which is spent by the whole British Empire--would give some idea of the subterranean influences at work.

An army of emissaries, agents, and spies, whatever their mission, were certainly spread over the British colonies.

Newspapers were subsidised also, and considerable sums spent upon the press in France and Germany.
In the very nature of things a huge conspiracy of this sort to substitute Dutch for British rule in South Africa is not a matter which can be easily and definitely proved.

Such questions are not discussed in public documents, and men are sounded before being taken into the confidence of the conspirators.

But there is plenty of evidence of the individual ambition of prominent and representative men in this direction, and it is hard to believe that what many wanted individually was not striven for collectively, especially when we see how the course of events did actually work towards the end which they indicated.