42] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
Cae A Pry yp ebl 
Aétion and Re-aétion of Measures and Events. —A Majority of the Dutch ine 
clined to Peace and Amity with the French Republic.—Efforts of the 
Dutch Government for the Suppression of this Spirit. —But the French 
Faétion increases.—A French Army invades the United Provinces.— 
Departure of the Duke of York from Holland.—Boldness of the French 
Faction, —Proportionatle Dejeétion of the Stadtholderian Party.—Ac- 
tions between the British and French.—Retreat of the former towards 
the Leck.—Hostile lehaviour of the Dutch to the English.—Exireme 
hardships suffered by the English Army in its retreat from Holland.— 
Rage of the Amsterdammers against the Prince of Orange.—Escape of 
this Prince to England.—The French invited to Amsterdam.—Other 
Places declare also for the French.—These admitted in all the Provinces. 
—Assembly of the Provisional Representatives of the People of Holland. 
~—Conquests of the French.—dlarm of the Princes of the Coalition.— 
Continued and increasing Miseries of the English Army.—Transaétions 
of the French Armies on the Rhine.—The French Republic entertains the 
most extensive Views of Conzuest.—Prussia deserts the Coalition, and 
forms a separate Peace with France.—A separate Peace concluded also 
between France and Spain, 
T was generally expetied, that 
the French, aiter their surpris- 
ing successes in the Netherlands, 
would have rested satisfied with 
ample return for her victories, and 
gratification to her ambition. There 
was a time, indeed, when such a 
demarcation, and even the old 
these, and closed the campaign, at 
the season when military operations 
are usually interrupted in Europe ; 
while others entertained the hope, 
that the republic, as well as the 
Austrians, might now be inclined 
to a pacification, on the ground of 
such a new line of demarcation be- 
tween the French and Austrian 
provinces of the Netherlands, as 
might form a natural boundary and 
barrier to both; and, at the same 
time, leave to France such an acces- 
sion of territory, as might be an 
boundary would, at least for some 
time, have completely satisfied the 
new French government; but all 
human affairs are ina state of unin- 
terrupted fluctuation, and subject, 
not only to the action, but to the 
re-action of numerous and involved 
circumstances, which render it ex- 
tremely difficult to trace the con.’ 
nexion between causes and effects, 
and to predict the future from the past 
almost impossible. The opposition 
and resistance, that was made to the 
French republic at its outset, gave it 
an 
