The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-04-06 00:00:00

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I have said, upon the declaration of the majority
of the nation, that they deposited the rights of sove-
reignty in my hands by way of preference, that 1
would only assume and exercise them upon one con-
dition; and that one a Constitutional code, analo-
gous to the wants of Holland, aed the plesent state
of Eurnpe. and which should amply secure freedom
of parson, security of property, and, in one word,
all those civil rights which distinguish a people really
free. _ _

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and intelligence were above all suspicion, base ac-
cnrdingly drawn out the plan of that constitution.
Mr. Vint Matinen will communicate to yire the bases'
upon which this political edifice has,been erected ;
but it is by no means my aim, it cannot be•my Wisin(l
to make the consideration of this most imports}itt
avbject a mere Pile ceremony. . :11
Instructed by all that we have seen during the kst)i
SO years, that the individual voting of almost the
%hole people, is, from the nature of things, nothing
else than a mere pageant, I here therefore sunnnonett
this Assembly, in order to be certain that men,
chosen from all parts of the country, fr all ranks
of the citizens, tney answer, not with precipitation,
but gravely and deliberately, without influence (Yr
dictation, to the question, whether in this Constitu-
tion they find a sufficient guarantee, not only of
their ow•n happiness and security, but of those of
their children. • • •
To point nut at nineh length, Gentlemen, how
worthy this matter is of your serious consideration,
'Would be little honourable to yon ; but I cannot omit
to remind you., that it would also be dishonourable
to me, could any of toe imagine that in this decision
he should be guided by any thing but his own expe-
rience, and his •w•n understanding.
. Tie wants and the happiness of the Netherlands
must alonehe the object of your deliberations, in like
manner, as, Cod is my witness, they constitute the
-object of my wiihes end my efforts !

• After this, Mr. Van Maanen, first President of
the High Coin of Justice of the United Nether-
lands, and Member of the Committee for drawing
ep the Plan i.f the Coustitution, addressed the AS-
.srunhlv, as le was charged by his Hord Him-
.tiesv. on the subject of the meeting, pointed out the
.duties incumbent on them, and explained in a suc-
cinct hut clear manner the principles of the Coma-
.
Aftc.r this speech, his Royal Highness, took from
the hands of the Secretary of State the Plan of, the
• Constitution, wed delivered it to the President of the
Assembly, who then addressed his Highness in a
:suitable speech, on which his Highness returned to
the Palace wills the same retinue as before, amid the
actinrentions of vs vast inultitude of people. •
• Atocut two o'cl,•ck the thunder of the artillery
announced that the (institution was accepted, end,
is we since hear, by a majority of 458 to (2!).

, To-day the ceremony of the ituniguratiou took
Ogee.

BREMEN ifJaL.

• PLANK VSTTilli MARCH 29.—The situation of Ham:
toiforstmately continues the same. The mo-
pent the en'r to open a large division of gun.hoets
101 arrive‘ cad heavy guns for the siege of the town
lerve partly arrived its the neighbourhood, and more
ars placed at the disposal of Count Bennigsen at
atatsekstadt, &c. We, therefore, confidently hope
• that namburgh will soon be delivered from the
'l'rench yoke. The Elbe is still full of ice, but the
' Moment the wind shifts to the West it will disappear.

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