The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-17 00:00:00

FRE ycif PAPERS.

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'PARIS; juLy to.
REPORT To THE EMPEROR.
" PARti, JULY 9.-4 hNke the honour to lay be-
fore your Majesty .an am,:of the. Kiyg of Holland,
dated the ad inst. by
.which ti:ar'Nf.warch declares,
inat he abdicates the Pro-vu in fiv,,ur of 11,4 eldest
son, leaving,.accordiug to the Consti.trionc the Re-
gency lo the Queen, and e.iitablishes a Council of R---
ency, composed of his Ministers.
"Such an act, Sire, ought not to have appe-ared without a previous concert with'your Siajt-!stv. It
can have no toree withottt yout approbatirn. Ont!ht
your lOconnrtn the disposition taken by the
King of Holland.?
The..union of Belgium with France ha;destroy-
ed the intlependence of Holland: Her sy.t.m has
necessarily become' the same with that of
She is c.btiged to take. part. in 41 the mat-1 igh! wars
of France, as if she were One of her priwitlrt-s.:
Since
the Cteation of the irrsyal of the Scheldt and the an..
"lotion to Frat:ce of the provinces conipOsii.lg the
d,•i,artrt.eiats of. the Mouths of Die Rhine arvt
Aloothq. of the Sci eldt, her commetcidl exi-terne
has he.come .pi-ccanons. The merchants of Ant wero,
Ghent and Middleburgh, who can, without any rel.
striation, extend their speculations to the extremities
of rhe Etna ire, of which !hey form a\ part, necessa-
rily carry on the commerce which Holland transatted.
Rotlerd.on and Dordrecht are'already. on t verge
of ruin ; these cities having lost the commerce of the
Rhine, which goes direct by the new frontier to the
perts of the Scheldt,
,passincr through the Biesboch.
The part of Holland, whicCis still alien to the E:l2-
Tire, ikdept ived of the advantages enjioyed by the part
united thereto. Cothreiled; nevertkelem, fo make
common cause with France, Holland willhave ro
support he charges of this allowance without reaping
any of its benefits. •

" Hol!and is sunk under the.'weigfit of her public
debt, which am, urns to beliween 85 and go toilijons,
that is to say, a fourth more than the debt of the
whtole Empire ; and if a reduaion had been projeaed
_.- by. the citoverminent of the country, it would,nat have
been in its power to give a guarantee fur the invioin-
bilny an•l
.permanence of such a Measure, inasmuch
as the debt, if even. redueed to au. Millions'. ikauld
still be beyond the atual. means and ability of that
country.. It-is estimated Holland payS triple the
. sari that Vrance pays. -The _people _ groan under the
weight of 24
_diStinat descriptions of cennilmitions.
The Dutch tiation sinks under its contrihution•3, and
can no longer pay them. . . , .
Nevertheles=; the necessary expenees of t l:e Go.
verutnent regnite`that ...this burden should be ang-
mented. The budget for the Nl:rine. jaztroon,tecl in
1869 to three millions only of florin as; sum scalcely
sufficient to pay the admini trators, the °thief's, nod
seinTtenr- and to.defoly the expel ce of: ii;e.arier;egt
and Wh Mi h.is not adTitled of the -eqii.nmeot of
a. sngle= ship of war. lo provide tor the arm.!.
ment ordered in the year t 810, and which' is the
minininin of the naval force neceSs,iry for the d
,- telic..! of Holland, triple. that sum would. be•reivisite./
The tar budget has scarcely afforded a sutliciencr
tar main taming the fottre•ses and t 6. battalions; an 4
whilst two branches of such importanct!,are•so fir
from havinz what is necessary . for zapportiug the
hotrour and-di:pity, of independenCg,. the interest of
the pnblic 'd:-.bt has ceased to be paid, It is more
than a year and a half in arrear.
" It, in such a state of thing., your Majesty
.tnaintain the recent, dispoAltions; by assigning IQ ,‘
Flohatid 4 provinornd G.nrerqurent, you will only
i)o' prolongh:g her patatol agony.- If the Govern-
. ment of a Prince in the v igour of lite has left the
country inso citstresSed a silhation, what. Catt be ex.
peeled from a long minority ? It cannot, therefore,
be saved but by a new circler of things. The period
of flu: power and prosperity of Holland-.was when ,
it formed part of the-greaLst mona-chy thetvin Eu-
rope. Her incorporation with the ,great Empire is
the. only stable condition in which. ,Holland can
henceforth repose from her sufferings and long vicis.
situdes,
and recover her ancient prosperity.
• ". Thus ought your Majesty to decide in favour
of such an union, for the interest, nay more, for
the salvation of Holland, She ought to 'be asSo.
dated in our blessings, as she has been associated
in our calamities. - But another interest still more
imperiously,indicates to your Majesty the cli. tidua
which ran ought to. adopt.. '
" Holland is, in fa&, a shoot from the. French
territory ; it constitutes a portion of soil necessary
to complete the formt of the Empire. .To become
full master of the Rhine, your Majesty should :id-
vance to the Znyder.Sea. By. this -means all the
rivers, which have th,ir senrce.in -;;:ain:e, or 'which
wail' the frontiers, :will belong to y.,u as far as the
i.e.'. To leave the motiths•ot.yoursr:vers is the pos-
.session,,M. strangers, would in (40, ,Sire; coniine
your power to an ill7litniied Motiatchy, int4ead of
,'s I.:e;zt.itig an Imperial ' throne. To leave in the
, .
power.otforeigners ;tint cmo::,tits of the Rhine, the , Mouse, and, the. Sehe.!,dt, would be tantamount to
submitting your L'ea's io them ; it would render your
manulaCt arcs mid commerce' dependent , oiz the
.:Powers who should be in 'possesston Of these mow ki
: it-would adinit:a ' t.oreigo:itablotice, in that ,v..hich is
niOst,impoTtatat to the laapoi,ness.A)f" your.snhiccls.
The annexation of, Hollan,l is still necessary to com-
plete the s} Stern --tif IheErnpire, particularly since
'the iltkish Orderstrin 'Gnned of Nm.(in&r 1807.
Twice since 'that. nerincl yTir. Majesty haS :been ob-
liged to close Yokir tilstom-licu,es to t'ne trade Of
iii.?ltand, in, consCgßenee of :whibli Holland was
iiOlated from the,Erripire and-the Cotitinent.• After
the peace of. Vienna, it was.in yota Majesty's con.
teibpii,tipq to annex this..kingdnna.' You were in .
45.0
..tß.a.banden this idea front considerations that
no„lotig,::r exist. YoU agreed .virii reluctance to the
troty, of the 14th. &arch, which-aggravated Ow
,calinpities of Holland, without
,meetipg any one
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