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I owe to your high mightinesses, to state. The troops of the republic
the states of the provinces, to the are full of courage, and burn with
Dutch nation, for which my an a zeal to try their strength in the
cestors thed their blood-I owe to defence of their altars and fire-Gdes.
the faithful allies of the states, The seamen are animated by the
who, at so critical a moment, have very spirit that has never failed to
Aown to our succour to fight with honourably to diftinguith the Dutch,
us for the republic--I owe to all on an element which is natural to

Europe, whose attention is fixed on them, and on which they have so rod met.fo injurious an attack—and I owe often confounded the pride of their then it not less to myself, to make known, enemies. I ought, finaily, to ashe is not only my views, but likewise sure myself, that not only the allies of the the foundation of my confidence. of the state, but also the formida5,99 The state is most unjustly attack ble powers, which, equally with 7.

ed; the territory of the generality the republic, have but one interest is invaded; and the arms of the and one common enemy, will unite

enemy have unexpectedly met with their efforts to ours, to repel from of the fer la success which might" extend to the frontiers of this republic vio

my dear confort, to our children : tracies will be chosen, without prejuthey already pant to distinguish dice to the rights of the respective themielves in to honourable a lords, and in concert with them, as career.

much as it will be poslible, till such Let the nation roufe itself; let time as it shall be judged if and to it form an union' with me against what point those faid individuals an enemy desirous of seizing on its fhall be reinstalled. The lords of an liberty, its property, and its inde- the manors, or their officers, thall pendence. I trutt to be unceafing- therefore remit as soon as possible ly found in the career of honour, to the junto, the lists of the persons and the love of my country: and of whom the magiftrates or judicial fince I neither leek nor know any bodies, or corps of police, might other grandeur than that of the be provisorily formed. country, I fall esteem myself 2. The laivs relative to general a la happy, provided Heaven fhall deign p.lice and property are re-esta

. ca to dired and bleis my efforts to blished as they existed in the best that end.

gioning of 1789.
Done at the Hague, Feb. 28, 3. In appeals of judgment in
1793.

the first intiance, the order of the (Signed) PRINCE OF Orange. jurifdiions which was established

at that epoch, shall be followed; an

and in cases where, according to desig Declaration of the Imperial and Royal that order, the appeal thall referred p

Junto charged with the Admini- to a superior tribunal resident in a fin bere ftration of the conquered Countries place itill subje&t to France, the com by the Emperor and King.

appeal thall be suspended till there and the

shall be a tribunal of appeal ap- reti HE Junto establithed for the pointed under the government of in

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gitimate them.

Thall be suffered to pass for mer Louvain, March 12, 1793, chandise.

Second Year of the Republic. 7. The course of the French monies will be provisorily tolerated Citizen President, on the footing they are on at pre- THE fafety of the people is the made out a rate of specie coined consideration I have just sacıificed with the arms of his majetty.

an almost certain conquest, by bles. The religious, ecclefiaftical quitting the victorious part of the de and political foundations, and other army ready to penetrate into the public establishments, temporal or

heart of Holland, to come to the of free spiritual, fupprefled tince the revo- fuccour of those of the troops of the

Ilution, and desirous of being re- republic who have just sustained established, shall address themleves a check. This check has been to the junto for a decision.

owing to the physical and moral, 9. The sequestration of the cauíes I am about to develope to you efates of the emigrants thall be with the frankness which is more removed, as they Thall gradually necessary than ever, and which appear before the junto to le. would invariably have wrought the

safety of the republic, had it been 10. It hall not be permitted to employed in the accounts they gave

any French emigrant to fisjourn in in by the agelits by whom the is or the conquered places, except thofe feryad, and had it always been Kunal te only who have property there, or

listened to with as much com10 fz have been completely settled and plaisance as has been bettuwed on Eripada domiciliated there before the re- deceptious flattery. sai of ex volution ; yet they thall however You know. citizen representahe gorra be obliged, in order to be per- tives, into what a state of disor

mitted to abide there, to address ganization and suffering the armies od to themselves in writing to the junto, of Belgium have been thrown by diliy die for the purpole of obtaining its a miniiter, and by the commiliees, I first exprels permiflion.

that have brought France to the le for And this present declaration brink of ruin. This minister and ice is hall be printed, publithed, and these committees have been chang- . daintzea posted up wherever it ihall be re. cd; but, very far from punilhing tors de ce quired.

them, Pache and Hallenfratz have

fucceeded to the important poft of thes Done at Condé, July 20, 1793. the mayoralty of Paris; and hence

has the capital witnessed the re(Marked with a flourish) LEC. Vr.

newal, in the Rue des Lombards, of te (Signed by order)

DE HESDIN. Icenes of blood and carnage.

In the month of December 1"

presented to you, in four memorials, Letter of General Dumourier, Com- ihe grievances it was neceifary to.

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armies all their energy, as well as

Whilet aided by new supplies of to the cause of the nation all the troops from France, I took Breda, justice by which it ought to be Klundert, and Gertruydenberg. Procharacterised. These memorials paring to push these conquests fill were thrown afide, and you are further, the Belgian army, under perfect strangers to them. Cause the command of generals

, filled them to be again presented to you, with courage and civism, underand you will find in them the pre- took the bombardment of Maesdiction of all that has befallen us. tricht.

In this expedition every You will also discover in them the thing was needed; the new ad. remedy of the other dangers which ministration was not yet established, surround us, and which threaten and the old one was both criminal our growing republic.

and vicious. Money was in abunde The Belgic armies united in the ance; but the new forms established territories of Aix-la-Chapelle and at the royal treasury prevented Liege, have not only suffered pri- cash being forwarded to any de vations of every description with partment of the service. I cannot out murmuring, but been gra- as yet enter on a detail of the causes dually deprived at the same time of the check our armies have re. by disease, by lkirmishes with the ceived, since I am but just arrived; enemy, and by the numerous de- the hope, however, of obtaining sertions of officers and soldiers, of possession of Maeftricht has not only more than one half of their strength, been abandoned, but the armies It was not till the entry of general have retired with lass and conBeufnonville into the ministry that fufion. The magazines of every the recruiting of these armies and description which we had begun to the supply of their wants were collect at Liege, as well as a part of attended to. This was, however, the old army and some new bat. Et fo short a time ago, that we still talions, have fallen into the hands och experience, in its fullest latitude, of the enemy. This retreat has the disorganizing scourge of which drawn upon us new enemies; and we have been the vi&timis.

it is expedient in this place that I want to Such was our situation when, on fhould develope to you the moral. [429 the firit of February, you thought causes of our eyils.

owed to the national ho. In human events there exists at nour the declaration of war against all times a recompense for virtues England and Holland. From that and a pupilhment for vices. In inoment I sacrificed all my cha- dividuals may escape this provi. grins, and thought no longer of my dence, which you may term what refignation, which you will find you please, becaufe such points are ! announced in my four memorials, too delicate for our perceptions. I now made the enormous dangers Whilst our cause was just we vanand the safety of my country my quished our enemies ! As foon as Tole objects; I fought to anticipate avarice and injuftice guided our our enemies; and the distressed steps we destroyed ourselves, and army I have described to you forgot our enemies took the advantage of 2!l its sufferings to attack Holland. us.

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You are flattered; you are de- I have spoken on the subje&, has ceived; and I will now remove the told me that he disapproved of it, veil. We have oppressed the Bel- and that the decree was unjust. gians by every species of vexation; One of my four memorials was. have violated the sacred rights of directed against this decree-it was

their liberty; and have imprudently not read in the convention; and oros insulted their religious opinions. the same Cambon endeavoured to. can By a robbery but little lucrative, render my remonftrances odious, nedide the instruments of their facred and criminal, by observing at the

they worship have been profaned; and tribunal, that I opposed a veto to ot veure their character and intentions have the decree of the convention. as bad been misrepresented to you. The This decree you confirmed by that sy wade union of Hainault to the republic of the 30ch of December, and 1934 was effe&cd by sabres and muikets; charged your commitlioners to see alsy and that of Bruliels by a handful it ftrialy executed. Conformably

of men who could exiit in trouble to your orders, the executive power nice ! only, and by a few fanguinary fent at least thirty commiflioners ailem, men assembled to intimidate the the choice was bad, if we except arris - citizens. Attend to the history of a few honest men, whole civisın is but just the Netherlands; you will there perhaps doubted, because they er, of and that the Belgians are good, leek to letten the odiousness of richeta frank, brave, and impatient under their functions. The greater part but des any yoke. The duke of Alva, the are either rath, tyrannical, or men b tres cu mot cruel of the satellites of Philip without reflection, whoin a brutal sazins ga the Second, caused eighteen thon- and insolent zeal bas constantly we bew" land of them to perish by the led beyond their functions. Agents

hands of hangmen. The Belgians of tyranny have been fpread over se revenged their cause by thirty years the whole farface of Belgium. The n ino he spent in civil wars; and their at- military commandants, in obedience

tachment to the religion of their to the decree, have been obliged to ancestors could alone subject them employ, at their requett, the forces once more to the yoke of Spain. entrusted to them; and there ex

Your finances were exhausted actions exasperated to the utmost. .

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