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London, England, 1811-01-11 00:00:00

PAPERS,

CONS F R VATIVE SENATE.
SITTING QS THE 13TH DI:CY.MIML
The Sett.ee'me: at three in the afternoon; his Se-
rene Highness the Prince ArcloChancellor presiding.
The Count de Sernonville, in the name Qf a Select
Cernmittee, consisting besides of the Reporter, of the
Counts Gamier, Colchen, Lapparent, and Gnuvion,
presented the following detail on the projet of the Se-
eatui Coesnlum, containing the annesauon of Hol-
land, the Hense-towns, and the Simplon ;
44 Senators—The Committee tq whom you referred
the projet of a Senatus Consultum,relative to the an-
vexation of Holland and the Hanse-towns to the
French territory, -have charged me to lay before you
the motives which call for the adoption of measures
of so great an interest.
46 During the course of the labnnrs of t.l). Cont.
niittee, one leading idea principally impressed our
minds-we have not ceased to feelastenislied, that i
events commanded by so many diZeient circum.stenel
ces, had been so long deferred.
.. In reality, Senatots, from the period when our
victorious armies snatched Holland front the three-
fold oppression of the coalesced Powers, she lost dust j
existence which Frederic had designated with sa
energy and truth- she ceased soba-bari, by ta 1
tow of the !eve ireat dip: of war—,Franceoind I:egimai.
her crew, to continue the comparison, were wail,
over to our ship-7Brabant formed a part of oar tare
ritory, and Holland was irrecoverably conquered....
Tnere has not passed, since, a single day when her
union with the French empire would not have been a
oeneoe—and we Say ft with confidence; an lite:linable
benefit, since she -would have been spared a long se-
ries of privations, losses and misfortunes.
64 But such is the empire of habits and of self-love
over nations as well as individuals ; the changes
which strike their eye in all that surrounds them, in
vain. remind them of their own.decline ; they both
repel the secret conviction which pursues them. A
blind sentiment averts their eyes from the lessons ofj
experience, ar.d they make their close more fatal-by
their (Eons to ward. it off. I
44 Our colours were floating over the whole Bata-
Tian territory ; the partizans of England fled in the
i,nips which they basely sold to the enemy. Its in-
creporatien with Francs, the association of the Bata-
efans with their brothers in Belgium, ought to have
bier, the first of their wishes, the most pressing of
their wants. •
44 The public debt, which had not then received
that immense increase to which it latterly arrived,
might have been entirely sayed.from shipwreck; vast
;communications of commerce might have been opened
with France ; enormous charges would not, for 15
years, have weighed down these interesting countries;
and for what ? to obtain the barren honour of a Go-
yernment pretendedly national, as if a nation could
exist where there was neither independence, nor army,
nor territory susceptible of .defence.
46 Those times are passed, when the conceptions
of some Statesmen save authority, in the public opi-
nion, to the system of balances, of guarantees, of
counterpoise of political equilibrium. Pompous illu-
sions cif cabinets Of the second ordesh visions of im-
becility! which all disappear before necessity, that
power which regulates the duration and the mutual
relations of empires.
44 Would not the successive Governments of Hol-
land, in a thousand iestances, have been subservient
so internal agitatiens, to the efforts of England, had
not the force of the French empire been constantly
acting upon them to maintain and to defend them ?
And when Engl•ald affronted France by supposing
that this force was absent, because the Emperor was
meditating victory and peace on the banks of the Da-
nube ; was it Holland that could have repelled the
fleet, and the British legions assembled to recommence
the,oppression.and disgrace of the Heider'? Certainly.
.
not,: truths so manifest require neither proof nor ex.:
71.'n„ Ile, . Holland, like trim klanse Towns, would re-
stitie the prey of uncert4otz, of danger, of revolts.'
dons, of oppresslbns of eta rk kind, if the genius who
...:doi the destinies *Europe did not cover her w ith
his invincible segis. The Emperor has resolved in his
wisdom, to incorporate them with the immense family
rifiwhich he is the head. In adopting this grand re-
solution, perhaps he himself obeys, more than he is
aware oi, the law ofelecessity. If he commands the
glory of the times present, the events which preceded
his coming command those of his reign—that unin-
littzuetted succession of causes and effects, which form
the history of nations and the destiny of their chiefs:
That of the Napoleons was to reign and to-conquer ;
victory belongs to him, war to his age. •
, 66 Among the wars recorded in our history, there
is not one duri.ig which the jealous rivalry of Evg-
land has not been the direct ause' of our troubles,
qur misfortunee. our denim r—of bur ebergY; our
.Combats, our conquests. ,
- 46 Lu the fetrdaltimeeanglanddivided,onr Prikes,
kept' our vassals in pay, ravaged our fields; she fore.,
staw that the throne of their Sovereigns would one
ay bithe first in the Universe : cloven back to lee}
Weeds, she every where sought for avengers of her
quarrel ;
.Germany, Italy, the SP airs, uumber but
few cities where combats have not been maintained
- duriog SOQ years fqr the cause of England.
.. To hear her, our Kings made pretensions to
tnliversallinonarchy after tl e siege of itochelk,. the
Works of Toulon, and the surrender of Courtray.—
Tlic most pusillanimous reigns could not impose si.
itnee co; her accusations, nor lull asleep her harred.•
In her eyes the French; 'people.werc always the rime;
they unly w-nted circumstances and a chief, to re-
time tht n.une of great. . .
" A total subversion was necessary to the project
iptEngtAnd i she wished for a bloody revolution, be.
capia her own had heen cruel. and hecor..e, amidst
ourAiiieords, it struck at. with the same sword, both
Our 'Winery and on, insdintions ; bath the conque-
roes apd the conquered;. both the people and the
dynasty. All Europe was summoned to this work
of destruction : svery whCre repulsed--every where.
threatenedz—trcmMing for Ilerself—s!o sts;pped abort
in presence-of the confl4gration lighted up by the fire
Wands of the British Cabinet. At last, after 'en
Tears of a Struggle glorious for France, the must ex.
traorctnary genius me fortned by maitre in her mat .
nificcoce, enmity is; No.:triumphant hands the scat-,
sort ef tragenents of the'seePtre c f Clia:letriagnc:.
TbC Minx* iii rratice are a vented ; frontiers
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