HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
land. The Batavian republic was 
to pay, as the price of its emanci- 
pation from the British and Prussian 
_ government, the expences of the 
war in Holland for that purpose, 
and a payment of twenty millions 
was immediately required. The 
free navigation of the rivers in 
es [K2] 
fist 
Holland was to be the right of both 
French and Dutch indiscriminately, 
without exacting toll from either. 
Such were the general outlines of 
a treaty, by which the French pre- 
tended to have restored their liber- 
ties and possessions to the people of 
the United Provinces. , 
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