The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-05-10 00:00:00

DUTCH AIEVORIAL.

ro THEM tt.es Cihtuern, RCta*tsti?llt•
!Ile 1111-eaetale at rust.w.
May it please your High I.l.,Nmesicrs,
The Uarlcregned eititens and inhabitants of the li:trod/it
Republic, real friends to civil liberty, within punier
and ardently attached to the independence of the Ratartait Na.
lion, hued with deep anxiety for every thing wtaiett might en-
ds, ger their safety, and considering a Monarchial Govern-
ment injurious to the prosperity, arid evert evidence of this
Nat.on, have, after being a lung time agitated by various ru.
nimus, now learned, that in the (breve Natimote, or Alnoitelo.
Ifoiurriatc, No. 10$, of the lath of April last, the Uncial pa-
per of France, written cud published under the eye of the Go•
rernment of that cow it,y, after some preliminary oema.ka tcs.
peeling the form of Government in this country, it is declared,
" that such being the situation of l lo:Iend, she mud be a gainer
by any charism which she omit make in her Condautioo If the
landhol lens, the merchants, and the enlightened men, are
of opinion that they can have a repreeentation, made
by the clime.: of the people, without distiation of classes or
religion, they will create a system much more ;•roper than the
present OW. If that be not Oeir opinion, and that they think
it necessary to have recourse to a Constitutional Monarchy,
they will do that which will be more advantageous to their
country than the preservation of their existing constitution can
be. It is their duty to examine their situation, to judge of the
eircurodances in which they are placed, and to choose between
the two systems, that which is bast suited to them, and most
likely to establish, on a solid foundation, the pnblic properity
and liberty."
The Griders'gned have been thrown by this paragraph into
the utmost anxiety, as they see in it alternatives, one of which
would cubjea them to a form of Government, to avoid which,
their forefather. contended, during the space of almost an
while century; a feria of Government which, however
adapted to other nations, would have, a tendency to diminish
all energy and activity in the posterity of those celebrated an.
cloture, whose names they bear,and who even remained allies of
Rome, when almost the whole world way subjeft to that Em-
pire; and the more so, as the system of a Republi7., consti-
tuter, among the true Batarians, one of the first elements of
their existence; and no wonder, as the gene. al interest, in the
management of the dikes, which form that artificial and expel,
sive wall, for continuing the existence of the ground u,mll
whim they dwell, renders a Republican form of Government
absolutely nieces:toy ; and that that Republic should be dixid-
' et, as it were, again into small Republic. For this reason,a Re-
publican spirit must prevail in the hearts of all our country.
men, throughout all the different casino of our people, lade.
pmdmi of thy ancient influence of the citizens, eves under
the Government of the Dukes, however modified, upon
the appointment of local Governments; and no woodsr
again. as commerce, under the protection of an independent
Republic, has enabled this small nation to afl a part upon the
st.g.s of theworhl, which has rendered us, at tiines, ►ions we
shook off the Spaniph poke, useful and desirable allies to our
neighbours, and even sometime. dassprons enemies.
Oa the eve, perhaps. of being obliged to choose between a
nonnarchical and republican form of Government, the Under-
sigmoi fowl the inextinguishable fire of pure patriotinn too much,
to roman. silent, with an hesitation, ctn pahle in their eyes, at
this va:ualsie moment, which, perhaps, may never return
They will not leave your High Mightinesses ignorant e.f the
pat.i(MC and republican sentiments which animate their soul..
They minnot avoid declaring publicly and soleinoly to you, as
representatives of the klatavian Republic, their hopes, that the
state of affairs may he direeled in such ■ manner as to save
them from a form of Government which most probakily would
put a speedy and fatal period to the inhabitabie state and even
existen eof the Ropublic, altar .t had sustained so many cala-
mities. IVe he, e, and bring the declaration of this our earnest
eh, with becomine buidnesis,into the mad of yourAssoplAly;
for whereelse can *c ref, it? though It may not be drawn tip
in the usual fnrinon every ;,articular, fur extraordinary
tance.s require, nay justify, extraordinary measnree.

We ent .rtain hopes, that under the influence of the Divine
IVovelence, whl h has often, u .t were, by a nairaculoes inter-
ferelice, prevented our country and nation from being thrown
into the abyss of ruin, your deliberations may take such a tuna,
that with the preservation of tho independence of the repub-
lic, and the valuable maintenance of our civil 'inert!, rather
than to see us subjeet to a monarchical form of Government,
,a dleadfnl alternative for this country, such new modificatiors
concerning the reiiii!ilican form of Government of this nation
will be made, 44 void pot the representation, without distinc-
tion of any ease or rehei mss sentiments, upon such a footing,
that we wit!' actually slier to the eye of our ally and the whole
world, that the reservation of the rep üb:ic counterhalancer all
other consideratioirs,wan a nation like ours, that loyal so much
its liberty.
The Undersigned declare hive-edit, es far as they are inte-
rested in this caw, that, rejecting all pow ical parties, they will,
when celled upon, elinow anew such representatives, or con-
tinue in their ;present situation, those to whom they could
safely ern Mil the valuable possession of their independence and
liberty, and consider, as men of honour and courage ; and that,
being averse, as well (min seditious intentions, as chimerical eat
imaginary opinions, which cann-it be applied to the real state
of men as they actually are, the Undersigiwd will do every thing
which may have a tendency to cause good order, harmony,
and unanimity, to prevail, under a constitutim, by representa-
tion.
And whatever mar he the rate of nor door country, to which
we are attacked by so many tit* after this our declare' on,
Which 442 do herewith openly make, 111 case of an unfortunate
decision, we shall be able to look spoil tire Rail of eat country,
and of ourselves, with more resignation than If we had re•
unlined silent in one of the most inipoitant and perilous mo-
ments which our country ever tsefoge experienced. We shall
have then the sati-faction of !Loral done our twit foe the con-
' tiouance of the Republic, and will have she en by this our De-
elatation, that if the rosieritir and ibc ty or nations
(according to the opinion of the Emperor Na,uileo.. in.seif )
can only be secured by two modes of govern me.ii, either alimited
Constitutional Monarchy, or a Republic, eenst doted accord, g
to Cie Cowry of liberty, and which shooed be r.e•nie organ of
the public wi;rweitre, hoverer, might be ernisideted as belong-
tug to those Republicans, who,witlinut d nista to nation or coup.
try,wouldbe likely to make a proper eh., :a ague% enlighteLei,
able, and honest men, as, by their administ-a- ;In to preset re our
borty and indvendeoce,n;letting all thstinciiwas of tiara mid

•eligien. (icalisiitent with the Itetuhliean Government, wontl
bring back this cauistry to a ri .gro, of Is ippinest and pr,spesity ,
which %mull realer it MOM kiwi of t AU), titan, suppos-
ing
the ground itself not en be swallowed uii by the surreu44-
tog waters in a few ream, it passihly ciuld, if it most submit
to a form of government, from even the name of which um
ante Ines have ever been averse N ryer shall we regret basing
spoken out at a marbent in which we are able to raise Our
voles a; freemen, to consider the situation of our country, and
view the circumstances in which it is placed, for the purpose of
making the hest choice, in our opinion, of that system of go-
vernment which atone is calculated to place our prosperity and
liberty upon an immoveable basis.

••• For the Swedish Declaration, High Court of Parliament,
Sc. too last pate.