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but liberty: they are generous in 
respect to the past, but they will 
punish the more severely the fu- 
ture offences against the cause of 
teedom. 
Such, cifizens, are our. prin- 
ciples: you have shewn by your 
steady and tranquil conduc that 
they are also your’s: it is to them 
that you owe the quiet of this 
city; and the great end of our 
provisional administration is ful- 
filled. 
It is time then, citizens, as we 
think, to terminate our adminis- 
tration; and cordially thanking 
you all for the confidence you 
have testified in us, we return 
into theclass of our fellow-citizens, 
and remit into their hands the 
powers you have given us: let” 
ambitious tyrants, let cowards in 
posts, into which they have in. 
truded themselves, endeavour to 
support their usurped authority by 
a thousand secret plots; the true 
patriot knows no post more noble, 
nor no place more elevated, than” 
the state of a citizen, and he remits 
with satisfaction his powers into 
the bosom of those from whom he 
received them, 
But though every thing goes on 
with order at present, previous to 
resigning our administration there 
must be made, in a regular man. 
ner, and in a proper place for that 
object, an appeal to all the citi- 
zens and inhabitants of this city, 
on purpose that they may choose 
for their supreme administration 
a proper \ number of representa- 
tives who may be able to replace 
us, under the name of a munici- 
pality, or under any other name 
whatever; and who chosen by 
your voice, freely given, to be the 
sepresentatives of the people of 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1795. 
Amsterdam, may take care of your 
interests, and constitute all the 
subdivisions of the administrations 
of this city, and its differagt 
branches, in such manner as the 
nature of things shall require. In 
the mean time, the different com. 
mittees shall remain in their func 
tions till the assembly which will 
replace us shall have. made in that 
respect the proper arrangements. 
For these reasons, and to the end 
that the appeal to the citizens, 
and the manner of voting for the 
eleGtion of mew representatives 
may be conduéted in a manner, 
the least subje€ to corruption, to 
confusion, or to illicit influence, 
we have thought it our duty, as 
your provisional representatives, 
and for accomplishing this de- 
sirable end, to make use of the 
understanding of all the patriots, 
and to summon them by the love 
they have for their country to send 
us, in the space of fifteen days after . 
this publication, detailed plans on 
the manner of calling the citizens 
together, and of taking their suf- 
frages ; subjoining to them that 
which relates to the age and the 
other qualifications required for 
exercising the right of voting ; 
the number of members, of which 
the assembly of the representatives 
of this city ought to be composed, 
and the name most becoming for 
it to bear, on purpose that the pro- 
visional representatives, after ma- 
ture deliberation, and after taking 
the advice of the different com- 
mittees on the plan best calculated 
for attaining the end we have pro- 
posed to you, and after having 
agreed on one, may put it in exe- 
cution. 
Proclaimed and published at Am- 
sterdam, February, 3) 1795). 
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