The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-27 00:00:00

LONDON,

FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1810.

We this morning received .flutch Papers, from
which we have extra&ed the following interesting
address of Lours BUONAPARTE to the Dutch Legis-

lative Body on his abdicating the Throne. It is
written with more boldness than we should have

expel ed, and affords additional proof, if any were
wanting, that BUONAPARTE is as regardless of the
ties of blood as he is of the diaates of justice. The
unfortunate Louts may soon find, that even the sa-
crifice of a Throne has not ensured his personal
,safety

The King, to the Legislative Body :
" Gentlemen, •

I charge the i‘linisters come to the Council
to present to your assembly the resolution which I
find myself compelled to take, in consequence of
the military occupation of my capital. The brave
French soldiers haVe no other enemies than such as
are enemies to the common cause-of Holland and
myself. They are, and ought to be received with all
the rtgard and civility possible; but it is not less true,
that in the aetual situation of Holland, when an en-
tire army; a crowd of custom-house officers, and
when even the national army is taken from under
the power of Goverment, when every place, with
the exception of the capital, was under the orders of
a foreign Officer, I thought it right to delare to
Marshal the Duke of Reggio, and the Charge d'Af-.
faires from the Emperor, that if they occupied the
capital and its vicinity, I should consider that opera-
tion as a manifest violation of the rights of the people,
and the most sacred rights among men.

It was this which made me refuse the custom-
house officers entrance, into Meudon, Naarden, and
Datnau. I was right in doing so, because the treaty
did not authorise the presence of custom-house of-
ficks, but upon the bank of the sea, and the mouths
of rivers.-

On the 16t11 of June Y received, through the
Charge d'Affaires of his Majesty, the Emperor and
King, an assurance that it was not his intention
to occupy Ams'erdam, and that led me to hope
thal he would abide strialy by a treaty, the
conditions of which were drawn up by his Ma•
jesty the Emperor himself. Unfortunately, my
error was not of long duration, as I receiv-
ed a communication, that 20,000 French troops
had united in the environs of Utrecht. I con-
sented, notwithstanding the extreme penury and
embarrassments,of.-our finances, to furnish them
with subsis'ence and: other necessary things, al-
though the treaty precisely expressed that there
should be 6000 men ,only maintained at the expense
of the kingdom ;
.but I feared that this collecting of
troops was done with other views unfavourable to
our Government, and late in the night of the 2gth,
I received official information that his. Majesty the
Emperor insisted upon the occupation of Amster-
dam, and the establishment of the French head-

quarters in that capital.'
" Under th,,se circumstances, Gentlemen, you
cannot doubt that I was 'willing to suffer for my
people fresh humiliations, if I could have preserved
the hope of being able to support such a state, and
above all, to prevent new evils; but I could not de-
ceive myself any longer.

I have sigued. a treaty, dictated by France,
under the conviction that measures the most disa-
greeable for the nation, and for myself, would not
he 'followed up; and that, satisfied with my volun-
tary abdication, which is the consequence of V....!
said treaty, every thing would go on smoothly
„.
be-
tween France and Holland.

" The Treaty presents, indeed, a great number
of pretences, and of new gri?vances and accusations;,
but can pretences be ever wanting ? I ought to have
confided in the explanations and communication
which have been made to me, besides this Treat,
and in the formal and circumstantial declaration,
which I have not failed to do; such as, that the
Custom- Fl(oAse Officers would only interfere in the
measures relating to the blockade; that the French
troops should only remain on the coast; that the
doma;ns of the State, and those of the Crown, show('
be respected; that the debts of the countries which
had been ceded would be charged to France; in a

'word, that from the number of troops which were
to be furnished, there should be deducted those
which, at this• moment, are at the disposal of
France, in Spain, and even that for the maritime
slre•.gth, the necessary time would be allowed.

" I have always flattered myself that the Treaty
woL:Id • lie admitted. I have been mistaktn,