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interesting perjod they were singular } y unfavourable to us . In fact we received through France tlie account of Huq ^ naparte ' s return to his capital , andf . tfre , victory he bad obtained , at Ha nan .. After a long delay a delegation arrived .
ia England from Holland , couamuuin eating the welcome news of a great change that had taken place in that country . Holland has been very unp happily circumstanced not only during " tbe revolution , but for , some time pre » vio « s to it , England and Prussia
took , part in the domestic concerns of that country , by wbirh the party , called the Patriots , were driven out , aad the Orange party , gaining the ascendancy , exercised in a very wanton manner the superiority it had obtained through * foreign influence . The Patriots courted the interference of
France , whose cabinet . was too much occupied by its own concerns . to grant them the relief they requested : but it gave them an asylum , and all the as- * sistance that could be expected without earning to a rupture . with , tlie powers that had patronised the Stadtfioldeiv When the Trench Revolution burst
oat , the Patriots availed themselves of it for a return into their own couu-, try- ; and then the Stadtholder himself , Aa « t a vast body of his adherents ,, shared a similar fate . * Thfey were in their turn driven out , and . compell ed to fed an asylum in Gi * eat Britain and Prussia *
Since that time various changes have taken p | ace among the nv . From ? republic ;; they have been converted * Qto a kingdom , ih& , kingdom ,, has ., been removed , and they . have Jbecpme , sl province of France . tftide *; French t yranny ^ the most adverse possiWe to alfthtfir former habits , an 4 particular * . 1
jy to commercial industry , they have loo g groaped , aiyi it / is to . be hoped * het bo $ fc Patriots '" and Orangeroeja , have forgottenjitheir ancientantn ^ suies a *\ ! can uiiit ^^ cprdia . Uy \ n ^ u ppQi C of their comniun country . ^ T Ji ^ .. grc * u ^ dsA ^ t hei r v ariance are not gen ^^ Uy known in this country , but they chiefly
re st on this , —that one party was c OHtinually adding to the influence of tire Orange family , whilst the other w for confining th > v hqad « of < lt ^ to tlj offices of Stadtholder and high admiral , within the limits of the law , a agrceabty to the republican con . dilution of the government . At pre-
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seat the great ; po }| it < istx ) get rid o £ - French tyranny , and in this the people seen ? to be generally u pi ted . Thfechief towns have diiveit away the-French garrisons , and : selected from themselves committees for-the admin ^
i&tration of the governBjeot - A dete ~ gatioii ha ^ . also arrived in vthis country to , coj ^ QHiumea te ^ with our , government aud with the Prince of < Orang ^ ioa the subject of the change * and measures were taken to render Holland ' all the
assistance possibly At large force was to be , sent thither witfcr th « Prince himself at their head , and as in the * appointment of committees they looked to tho&e , who were in tue goveiiircent in the year 1793 , it is probable that the Prince will be invested in his
office with all the powers belongingto it at that time . Already they begin to talk big , and think of the advantage of annexing the Netherlands to the United Provinces > to make a compact government ; but they have much to
do in . forming a good- government for themselves , and it is to be hoped that time has cooled ' their animosities , and that both parties , having , smarted so long under a most oppressive tyranny , will learn to forget and forgive , and to unite in liberal concessions to each
other for the good of the common * weajjh .. The . arrival of Buonaparte in his capital spread cousteroatioga over his kii \ gdona , but nothing h ^ s openly appeared t to indicate a . decline in his authority . He has met his Cosset vative Senate , and has received ad * dresses of , a sinailar .. nature . vto those ed to jo
that , a « r ^ oflfei ; ^ crowned h ead an the eye of their descent from ; the throne . He did not disguise the extent of the calamity that hadbeiallett him , and hi $ nation , in very plaia ^ language , painted oyX the apptehen-. sion » » they , wer ^ r un / Jeir of an inv&w * , sioq , of their po ^ nti * yy and the H «^ € SsiHy 1
there , w ^^ . fujt ^ very Fre ^ qhmen ractningp > in defence ofiits ^ ^ dependence , andihls . owniMcppei'tyvt Theexaii *|> te of , Polamd 3 ( tha ^ t wicked act ofoiigj ^ nal j ^ cobiniam ) : ^ was held out to them , as a presage of
what they might expect- The powers wlucjj ^ par titioned Poland , w « re ad . van ^ ttgJtate ^ ISraifcce , and without the utmost energy in defence of their common country , tne horrqrp ufrWai . saw might , under another Suwarrow , be exhibited in its capital , A con-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 751, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/59/
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