The Sun.
London, England, 1801-11-19 00:00:00

BATAVIAN CONSTITUTION.

.TitE following Pao-rEsT was puhlishe3 at Am-
.ttra'am, a few days after the Acceptance of the
Bata.vian Constitution. It is written by a Person
who was a IVlpnber of the Government previous to
the Revolution of 1795, a Gentleman of Talents
and respeeta/hility. It is not iinpassible, that it
may speak the sentiments of many others, as well
as of the.Waten

DECLARATION MADE TO THE r ATAVI .1 N GOVEttN..

MEIsIF3 BY .MR. CHARLES DE HOGENDOR?, OF
AMSTERDAM.

<<. The undersigned finds himself obliged to
make the following Declaration to the Batavian.
Government : •

" It bas.b.cen proclaimed in the Interior, and
announced to Foreign Powers, that the very great
majority of the Nation have assented to the Con-
Stitution. presented 'to them, and this assertion is
founded on almost general silence, which is inter_
.
sprotcd as a consent.

•
" I belong to this very,great Majority, and my
silence has certainly not signified approbation. I
deprecate, on the contrary', every Constitution
which does not place an Hereditary Chief ar the
Head of the State.

‘r If I have not explained Myself sooner on so
important a point, the reason is so obvious, that it
is hardly necessary to be altedged. Who can be ig-
norant in what circumstances we,have been placed-
for so many years ? Even when ,the Nation was.
convened, the War continued without any aprear-
ance of that Peace which has surprized us all.—
During that .War, how many Revolutions have
taken place in our Republic ? How many als of
violence which every new Assembly charged on
those which preceded it ? Even this time,.the Chief
Authorities have come to almost open War upon
this new plan, and dissentions have broken out in
the Diredory itself, to such a height, that we are
authentically informed by its President, that these
kligh Dignitaries had recourse to thvem.plument- of
their physical strength. What part could I adopt,,
and for whom could I declare in such a contest,
where the Nation was threatened with nothing less
.than Anarchy, and a general Massacre ? As the
father of a family, and as. one of the number of.
those who have a fortune to lose, I felt to what
'evident perils the approaching crisis exposed
_The desire of maintaining public tranquillity pre-
vailed above every other. feeling, ani the determi-
nation to await more happy times, became general.
It is true, that some endeavoured to manifest, by
an express declaration, that they did not meztn to he
understood as consenting to any thing by their si-
lence ; but the Direoory prohibited this measure
—ln the midst of the voting, the intelligence
of the Preliminaries unexpededly reached us ; but
the news was, too vague, and too 'much unfore-
seen, to have .anyinfluence on the conduct of the
Public.. •

We now acknowledge, that the, foundition of
a solid Peace is laid. We wait the developement
of the Preliminaries, we fb“cr ourselves, that our
Country will obtain a stable situation ; and As the
Peace of Lune:4/k secures to us the 'right of chusing
our own Government, we have no longer any doubt,
that the Peace of Arn;c:vs will resthre to the very
great Majority of the Nation, the free exercise of
this right.

" In the Interior, 141 the strength of Povein_
nient is concentrated in the party which has been
sacred to. triumph ; and no apprehension can at
feast be enterrained,• that the public tranquillitywill be disturbed by a peaceable declaration of opi.
nilns.

" This, therefore, is strielly the moment -to
make 'the voice of the very great Majority of the
Nation heard, and to 1,61114 to its wishes. I have
had reason to observe'it, and to know it for•twenty
years, in my Military Service both by Sea and
Land in my situation in the Government as Coun-
sellor and Pensionary of the City of Rotterdam ;
and since the Revolntion, as a Merchant in this first
City of the Republic. The Nation is attached, 'in
general, to the Housr of ORANGE, which founded
this State, and which has always given to it,its
Chiefs, so that Faftions have never without dan-
ger
.and without inconvenience degraded this House.
The people have always been sensible, that they
could not take a 'lima part in the Government.;
and they are more than ever persuaded of it, since
so many Demagogues have seduced them, and aban-
doned them to misery and licentiousness ; they vo-
luntarily acknowledge, that they cannot be govern-
ed but.by families, in easy circumstances, and well
educated : in a ward, by. those • Whom it has been
long attempted to brand by the title -of Aristocrats,
that is to say good Magistrates, and they find no
sblid pledge against the possible oppression of their
GovernOrS, but in .dignities which are Hereditary;
and-therefore, independant of the I lead of the Re-
public. • All our Statesmen have acknowledgedt the
weakness of our Federal Constitution ; and it has
been so much felt,in our time, that our vulgar Le-
gislators have fallen into the opposite extreme, by
,throwing, if we may so call it, upon tic First-Au-
thorities in the ,State, the Administration of every
Parish ; while a prudent medium which they Were
unable to, observe, would have flailed :the expee_
tation of all persons well-informed respcling
Affairs. - In. onin Old Constitution, there were
some rich and populous Cities,. and some fertile
DistriCls, where an extraordinary number of In-
dividuals were 'desirous of attaining the honours
of Government, and where disappointed,. ambi-
tion became a source of Opposition, and afterwards
oft-evolution. In order
,to remedy, this the whole
body of people- has, in our times, been called to
share in the, Government, and -without its being
perceived, that this was properly admitting no one.
Re-establish now the House. of Orange in their
hereditary dignity, give the. Federal Government
due strength=eall into the. aid of GoVernthent'in
general, all the faniilies above the common rank,
,nd you will restore to the Nation the State which
it has lost. You will gratify the wishes of the vast

and you will secure us tranquillity and procperity.
ft What avails your calling to yOur A,setublies,
men.'of all Parties, wild, by representing, as. it 'were,
these Parties, give them-eternal duration ? What
avails your tOr.tning an union which. tends to put
aside the House of Orange, at least from its here-
ditary dignity, and tbas to displease the great ma-
jority of those whom that measure, it is pretended,
is. to reconcile. Of what avail is it, in short,
to maintain that the national opinion is for this,
when the conscience of the Nation is quite
adverse to it, and • when the public mind is ir-
ritated with the: manifest violence done to it;
rather consult the general wish,' which it requires no
formal : vote to ascertain ; - re-establish your old
Constitution with the few ameliorations which it
requires ; bring forward -some •fun,lamental Law
whiCh may connea both the Chief and
,the Governor
'and the Governed, and you will then'hear the uni:
versa! cry of joy, and the blessings of a People
who at length begin to entertain hopes, after such
a series of..great evils.
!‘. I -cannot suppose that I can run any risk of
personal danger by thus stating my sentiments thus
frankly and moderately, particularly as any pro-
secution I might undergo would 'chew a de-
sign to stifle the voice of the Nation : besides,
what danger could induce me to silence, .when the
public tranquillity, and the national prosvetity are
at stake, and when the Great Powers, who are set-
ding their due balance; call upon us to inform them
tespeeting.- the Public Opinion,- too long concealed.
" (Signed) CHARLES DE HoGENDORP.
" Amsterdain,, 27th oa. 1801.." •

COUNTRY NEWS.

NEWCASTLE, 'N0V..14.

ON Thursday His Majesty's hired Armed Ship
irrights, Captain Campbell, from Leith, put into
Shields,. by contrary. winds, having 300 French
PrisonerS on •board, bound to one of the French
Ports, A'Brig Cutter also accompanied her.
The terrible gale of the 2d instant, we find, has
been general all round the Island, the winds blow-
ing furiously in-all dime-lions. Some loaded Col,
tiers, from hence for London, had been driven- into
the Downs from Orfordnes ; and one Ship, bound
to London, had aaually reached the Straits of
Dover. Many of them lost their boats, and every
thing upon deck, and some of them had all their
sails split to pieces.

In the late dreadful gale great damage has been
done to. the 'Shipping belonging to these Ports :
the accounts are yet impeded and uncertain ; but
we are extremely :sorry to learn, that fears are en-
tertained respeding the Albion, Capt. Hay, which
sailed from hence on Friday se'nnighr, on her voyage
to London with goods—a Seamen's 'chest, several
firkins abutter, and a.boat belonging to the above
vessel, having been picked up near Yarmouth..
On Monday night a fishing-boat, with five handS
on, board, from Cove, .near" Dunbar, while working
up the Frith in a heavy gale'of wind, was overset a
little above the Island of Inchkeitb, and all on board
perished. The boat has been towed into Leith,
And the buoys, With some tackling, have been
driven' ashore near the` Glasshouses. The crew
were seen by the people of a Berwick Smack, cling-.
ing.to the bottom of the boat after she had over-
set, but the sea ran so high, they could give 'them
no assistance. ,She is named the Janet, Robert
Biggar, mister.
On Thursdarse'nnigilt a melancholy accident
happened at Blaydon to a fine boy, thirteen years
of age, son of Robert Wilson, of the :same place,
Skinner. It appeared he had, unnoticed, gone to. a
machine, ereded for the purpose of grinding clay
for making fire bricks, and is .supposed to have ap_
proached so near the start or. lever, to which the
horse is fixed, as to be precipitated under the re-
volving. stone, which is conjectured to have passed
several times over his head before the circumstance
was discovered, the head being literally crushed to
pieces.

On Friday the 6th inst. at Hill, near Southampton, the
Lady of Captain Walker, Royal I.lavy, of a Son.

MARRIED

Lately, at Kilcdmon, Robert Burroughs, tsq. of Money-
beg, County of Carlow, to Miss Fanny White, youngest
daughter of John, White, Esq., late of -Old Glass, in the
Queen's County.
On the lath inst. in St, Margaret's-Church, Westminster,
by special license, George Ellis' Esq. M. P. to Miss Parker,
daughter of Sir Peter Parker,.l3art.

DIED •
On Tuesday morning, John Crosier, of lekenham, MMid-
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•
WHEN Professional Men of • Education and
Resprmsibility.deviate from the general System bi
the selection peen:jai:branch, the sandbon of long coil'
tinued success is the.best criterion of superiority. •
Eight years have I devoted my pradice to ; the exclusive(
treatment of Threp 'Disorders' and the, sulicessfnt result°,
my plan gives me additional ardor to
.k;ppose, as far as J a°•
the ravaws of those Complaints wnich are the 11105'
iMportant in the Catalogue of. Human
,After initiation into every Branch, as an Army Surgeon'
i formed a wish at an early period of Pradice to, rescue
dividuals from the ignorance of uneducated men, or til•
equally dangevAisprecipitancy of geteral Praditioners.
The Three Disorders, to the Cure' of which I have a:
voted my 'attention,- comprise every- species of VEND'
ItEAL INFECTION, whether of a recent or long
''
ration: '
Ali kinds of debility, 'whether arising fro,
the habits' of school-boys, or. the. indulgences: of mato"
age : And, lastly, that derangement of the system in r.'°'
men which is called BARRENNESS,or k, RI LI TY•
• Numerous Disease's are the result of ignorance, or has,t'
in the treatment ol'a..simple Gonorrhcea; and _lt not
frequently, happens that the seeds of Life are poisoned PI
the indiscretion of an unguarded hour.----By a superior -In°,
thod such Complaints are easily cured; and, even wliC
others have failed, I trust ,that I may presume to otter
radical.re-establishnient. • .
Few, however, are:the cases of complicated distress
this disorder, compared with toe .calamitous -situations 'O,
Men, who, from an indulgence .in solitary vice, or
prevalent gaieties 'of a: fashionable' life,
.acquire that sta.:
of Debility, whiCh the unavoidable consequence of -suo'
pernicious habits. ' • _
Where the unhappy sufferer broods over his misery but
,- -
carefully cone eals ins Misfortune, it may he •some conss
Ixtion fur hint to ,know,. that although it be., an objc:i
doubt or uncertainty with other' Praditi,ners, the rernav7
of these Deficiencies by the giadual prry.ress 'of Retio,v,•l",
non, is the acquirement of I,ny Experience. If the Iv:
of Bacchus or Venus have. began to reduce Manly vigor;
much anxiety be prevented by an early Conotera.‘3,
lion Of.thi•lan no 01.gtfid State and in these cases,
difficulty will occur. • - ,• • •
But where this Deficiency has tiir vears existed, a proper
• perseverance is indispensably :•equisite to revive'the .5103'
Bering Sparks of Life, and to re-animate the Constitiltion.
MARIO El) WQMEN, who have long been disapPoint7,
in their expedati.ons of a Family, may be assured, that P.
most instances, such defeds are curable •by Alcdical ,
The secresy whichis so essential to my uniicrtakil,
and the qualifications which- I have presumed to state,
the basis of my
.pretensions, and in coincidence. with s'iLej
this intimation is given, that Mr. li. may be consul
personally, or by Letters (inclosing a sinall'NOte), at tf,
nollse, 140. 29, Arundel street, Strand, near Temple ri:s:
There is an additional Entrance' in Water-sac."
adjoining, and the Name is on both the doorS'. , •