The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-24 00:00:00

ROTTERDAM ADDRESS.

The following is the substance of the Address which
Ia s been received from the Merchants of Rotterdam :

" TO THE BRITISH MERCHANTS WHO HAVE DECLARED

THEMSELVES THE FRIENDS OF HOLLAND.

" After all the misfortunes which have oppressed the
inhabitants of the northern provinces of the Netherlands
during the List two years, no circumstance could contri-
bute more to afford them consolation, and ground for future
hope. than the m inifestations of sympathy from the honest
British merchants, intended to induce their Government
to &part from the hostile system which has been com-
menced against our country.
" The union of Holland with Belgium was the work of
the great Powers of Europe, in which England herself
took a part ; it was a union effected contrary to the wishes
of Holland—a country once the emporium of the trade of
the world, where true liberty, civil and religious, has al-
ways flourished, and where every individual who touched
her soil was protected by mild and just laws.
" During fifteen years Holland submitted to all the in-
conveniences of this union, contrary to her interests, which
had ever been based on the principles of free trade with all
the world. Hardly had a separation between the two
countries taken place when the commercial relations with
England were favoured in every possible way by a consi-
derable reduction of the duties on all kinds of British pro-
duce and manufactures, to the imposition of which Holland
had been compelled, in order to favour and protect the
manufactures of Belgium.
" Notwithstanding the advantages accruing to England
from this cause, and the intimate alliance which has ex-
isted for so long a time between her and Holland, we
have lived to see our interests not only neglected by our
ally, without any reasonable cause, but even treason and
rebellion are encouraged, and our property is assailed by
British ships and British sailors.
" But the attempt to coerce Holland will fail. Her
commerce may suffer, but the Dutch merchants will cheer,
fully sacrifice their interests to the honour and safety of
the Fatherland ; they are determined to support their brave
and good King, and they rely on Providence for a happy
deliverance from their present perilous condition.
" Our honest friends, the British merchants, under-
stand our feelings; their expressions of sympathy have
given us the greatest consolation, and the present Address
is meant as an acknowledgment of our sincere thanks. We
are fully conscious that every thing has been done by our
friends in England that could be done by the loyal subjects
of a Constitutional Government, and we trust that the
expression of their sentiments may induce the British Ca-
binet to desist from those measures which they have been
led to adopt by a Power not only unsettled herself at home,
but intent upon disseminating disunion abroad.
" We again recommend our interests to you, and they are
the interests of every honest British merchant. Assure your
countrymen that, although no people appreciate peace with
all the world more than we do, yet that, relying on the
justness of our cause, we know no fear, but are united as
m
one an to upheld the honour and independence of our
country.
" Rotterdam, Nov. 20, 1832."
(Signed by 120 of the principal merchants.)

Colonel EVANS, accompanied by several of
his Coinniitt-e, attended a most numerous meeting of the
Householders' Society of St. Martin in the Fields, held at
the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, on Wednesday
evening. The Gallant Colonel addressed the meeting at„me length, and was received in the most flattering man-
ner, and, with only one dissentient, received the strongest
assurances of support.

A requisition very respectably and numerously
signed from Loughborough and the neeighbourhood, has
this week been presented to General JOHNSON, of Wytham
on the Hill, near Stamford, urging that he will become a
candidate for the north division of Leicestershire, and
pledging the subscribers to procure his return free of ex-
pense. The General has accepted this strong invitation,
and passed through Stamford yesterday, to commence his
canvass with a Reform committee, which has already been
formed at Loughborough.—Lincoln Paper.