186 THE HISTORY OF DUTCH SEA FISHERIES. 



to fish within that region, but as a precaution against 

 foreign fishing vessels going ashore for trading purposes, 

 and the commanders of Danish men-of-war in the Northern 

 Seas constantly had orders not to molest such fishermen as 

 should occasionally be found within the said limit, provided 

 they should not show any disposition to trade.* 



PART III. 



SEA FISHERIES SINCE THE END OF THE DUTCH 



REPUBLIC. 



CHAPTER I. 



1795-1813. 



THE Revolution of 1794-5 transformed the Republic of 

 the United Netherlands into a Batavian republic, at first 

 based upon the principle of the former United Netherlands, 

 and some time afterwards remodelled upon the pattern of 

 the French Republic. A gradual reform of ancient rotten 

 institutions attended these events ; but the rules and rulers 

 of sea fisheries survived the wreck of the rest. 



The " College of the Grand Fishery ' was indeed 

 abolished in 1795 ; but a similar body was at the same 

 time appointed, under the more modern and French 

 sounding title of " Committee for the Affairs of the Grand 

 Fishery," by a decree of the provisional legislative body 

 dated May I2th. The members of the new Board appear 

 to have been freshmen in their business ; for the committee 

 was unable to make the necessary provisions before the 



* Res. Holl. 1761, p. 974 ; 1762, pp. 314, 650 ; 1774, p. 494. 



