104]. 
try, in defiance of its naval supe- 
Yiority. To the sense of the nation, 
‘and the universal applause bestowed 
,upon admiral Duncan for tbe emi- 
ment service rendered to it by his 
‘great victory, on the eleventh of 
October, the governmentadded that 
‘Yemuneration which he so amply 
deserved. He was raised to the 
-dignity of the peerage, and the 
title of viscount Camperdown con- 
ferred upon him, from that town 
on.the Dutch shore, in sight of 
which the, fleet of the Batayian 
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ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1797. 
republic had received so "Bignal 4 
defeat. 
The people of the Seven Pro- 
vinces now experienced, more than 
ever, the calamities brought upon 
them by their junction with France, 
orrather by their subjection to that 
ambitious power, which they had 
been rightly forewarned would com- 
pel them to become the instruments 
of its views, as soon as they should 
be so unfortunate as to be oblized 
to depend on its good faith and pro= 
teeta 
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