Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-09-11
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IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.
The King Of Holland to the Legislative
Body.
GENTLEMEN, .a
$ / charge the ministers to present to
your assembly, the resolution which ! lind
myself compelled to take in consequence OF
the military occupation of my capital. The
brave French soldiers have no other enc
mics than such as are enemies TO the COM
raon cause of Holland and myself. They
are and ought to be received with all the
regard and civlity possible but it is not
less true, that in the actual situation or
Holland, when an entire army, crowd OF
custom house officers, and when even the
national army is taken from under the pow
er of government when every place, with
the exception of the capital, was under the
, orders ct "a foreign officer, | thought fright
TO declare to marshal the duke Of Reggie,
and the charge d'afairs from the emperor,
that If they occupied the capital and lis
vicinity, should consider that operation as
manifest violation of the rights OF the
people, and the most sacred rights among
men.
I" 1t was this which made me refuse Gus
tom house officers entrance into Meudon,
Naarden and Daman. was right in dong
so because the treaty did not authorize the
presence of custom house officers, but up
on the banks OF TIE sea and at the mouth OF
rivers.
">Oa the 18th Of June I received, thro'
the charge affairs OF his majesty the en-
perer and king, an assurance that 1t was
not his intention to occupy Amsterdam !;
that led me to hope that he would abide
strictly by treaty, the conditions of which
were drawn up by his majesty the emperor
himself. Unfortunately my error was not
of long duration, as received comma-
nica,lon that &C, 900 Fl ench troops had unit
ed in the environs OF Utrecht. | centinu.
cd, Notwithstanding the extreme scarcity
and emba.rassments OF our finances, to fur
nish them with subsistence and other neces-
sary things, although the treaty precisely
expressed that there should be 5000 men
only maintained at the expence OF the king
dom but | feared that this collecting of
troops WAS done with other views unfavora.
bic to our government and late IN the night
on the 29sh, l received official information
that his majesty the emperor Insisted upon
the occupation of Amsterdam, and che es-
Enlistment of the French head quarters in
the capital.
Uoder these circumstances, gentlemen,
you cannon doubt that was willing to suffer
for my people any hamilla,lons, if could
have preserved the hope Of being able to
support such state, and above all to pre-
vent rev evils, but could not deceive nv.
self any longer. | have signed y treaty
dictated by France under the conviction
that measures the most disaSreeable for the
nation, and for myself, would not be fol-
lowed up; and that, satisfied with my 70.
lun,ary abdica,ion, which is the consequence
of the said treaty, every thing would 60 on
smoothly between France and Holland
The treaty presents, indeed, great num-
Der of pretences and Of new grievances and
accusations but can pre,cnces be ever
wanting ought then to have confded in
the explanations and communications which
have been made to me besides this treaty
and in the formal declarations which have
not failed to do--such as that the custom
house officers would only interfere in the
measures relating to the blockade that the
French troops should only remain ON the
coast that the domains Of the state, and
those of the crown, should be respected;
that the debts of the countries which had
been coded would be charged to France in
word, that from number oftroops which
were to be furnished there should be de-
Quoted those which az this moment are at
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