The Sun.
London, England, 1801-10-02 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION

OF iHE IXECIJ.TiVE OIREOTOP-X OF Till,' RATAVrAN RF-
PUBLLC Or PP.A.7ENTLNO THE. PLAN OF A 14FAY CON-
STITUTION FOR THE ACt.F.YTA biCL ,OF THE PEOPLE.

EcLUAtriY, FRATERNITY.

, :CitizrNS;
If ever tiler, was a period in which c+irate 'Merest ought
to be sacrificed, pre;tictices combated, passions moderated,
Ind the spirit of patty Stifled, when it is necessary to attend
only to the voice of truth, to consult alone the diaates of
duty, the love of cur Country, and the experience of past
events; it is dOtibtless; at the present moment, when We are
preparing to render an account Fit • the result of the inectita-
Hong whieN forford considerable time; have absorbed all our
thoughts. • These meditations, directed towards your dearest
rights, have had iur atizir sole Oject the establiShment
our country of such ah order of things; as shall bury the
past in the torrent ot. events, present a battering prospect of
the future, and becothe,. by the sanction of i:vtry Citizen,
the certain pledge of tileit union; and the ibithd.,,Lon of their
wettest hope.

The internal state of but country; that of its foreign rela;
tions, the political situation of lrurope, the chspositiuns of
lbreign Powers with 'regard to our Republic, s'ecnieci to call
for our solicitude, excite our zeal, su,tain our enterprise;
and to anticipate thb assurance of Sot:Less, and the recom-;
pcnue of our chi:Ws.

Here follows a review cif the Gtgte of Holland,
in which its disastrotB sitilation is much enlarged
upon--=

This oatti-, Citizehs; hoWever gloomy and diicbtir'aglng
it may, appeai, is not exaggerated,; it is the ftuit of the ex-
perience Which we have acquirec, in the part of the COvern-
ment confided to our care : buri rar froiri stopping at that:
we would consider the principal etfeets ,Wlich we. have ex-
posed to you as chimeras produced b) a heated irwenation—
if the delthfirations and resolutions of the Legislative Body
did not givt occasion to remark vices similar to those which:
we so lamentably deplore:
How many laws, among those that have been discussed for
three years back, can be cone.idered as general lutes Of con-
dud ?

Are there • not as many particular (4:terminations as ap-
peals ? and does not the number of them increase every day
wins the necessities and grievances of the inhabitants ? These
innumerable resolutions paralyse the Executive PoWer,
render insecure the steps of those Citizens riliont their
busintss or their duty compels to approach this abyss.-
Far from us, .notwithstanding; be the idea of making sus-
picion fall on the head oti,he Legislators : it is on the natthe
of the things that the blame must be laid—and; in order to
leave no doubt c;.l this head, we will examine with an equal
impartiality the whole of their labours. •

The Thireaory then enters int.° the diffietilties
with which the Legislative Body have had 'td
struggTe;

You know, Citizens, that Six months agO vi;-6 ris.de a pro-
position to the Exet;utie Body the object of which was the
amelioratio'n of the fundamental laws ui the state. You
were then, deubtles, convinced, by the result of its deli-
berations 'that it was impossible (as the National COnventibit
had alreaCty.furaishea a proot) that to numerous an assembly,:
agitated by so many 'Oontending passions, could give the State
a good Constitution. Those who called to protect and de_
tend the peOple; Wished to promote with good tait;i the hap.;
pihess and safety or the countryi could not OM expose it to
hew agitations:

Penetrated %Vali this truth and firm in the conviaien that
WC have had nothing Ar but ydur hap)laws and glory;
we have drawn up the plan of a Constitution, whien pre:
serves the just niediuni between the diderent opinions that
have hitherto divided the inhabitants Of the country, and of
which we are assured the leading features are not dis'agrecable:
to our natural ally. We have dune more; by submitting thitt
plan to the apprctoation Or disapprobation of the People, we
have given cognizance of it to the two houses of the Reore.
sentauve Body

And, finally; that every thing play be transaßed with due:
order and regularity.; we have resolved as follows

z. Inimediately after the receipt of these presents, the:
Municipality shall submit to th,:public examination a suffi-
cient numberot copies or this Proclamation, and of tde Plan
of the Constitution aiiiicxta.tto it.

The first of next Oe'tober. they shall open the reglstera
in each Commune of:the Republici and t*hail furnish every ,
citizen of the age of 2.0' year, and ,vuo ...Avail not he cocci uued
the right of voting by the igin article of the Consri.tution,
still ia force the mode of giving hit sinil'ar,e by Aye-
or No, upon die plan presented.

3. The 6th of Oelober,.. these, registers-of salffrages- shall
be closed. The Administrations of each Commune shall
send the .ccoun't of the votes to the .Executive
Soon as possible, and at latest by the isth
to it the general list of the citizens of their Commune, in
order that the result or the votes may be cOininutilea';ed to
the Batavian Nation.

Every citizen who shall not have given his vote' 'hall be
deemed to have approved of the plan of the CoiuitittiLiva.
Citiaens, is the fruit of out mature an:l painthim:-•
ciitatioM, it is row tor. you to jtittte whet ulre kihirTx