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stituted authorities 
STATE PAPERS. 
known: supported by you it shall 
deliver our country, Letthe people 
be called together in all the towns 
and villages. of the Netherlands. 
Let the example of Haerlem be 
proposed to them; that town so 
zealous for liberty, that it has al~ 
ready raised two hundred young 
men for the navy. Let-all the con- 
remind the 
Batavian youth, that their country 
looks up to them for her defence ; 
they will not be deaf to her call. 
The time of oppression is past. The 
fleet of the republic is under the 
command of true patriots, who do 
not consider their comrades as 
slaves, but as fellow cilizens.— 
The attention of the representatives 
of the people will be continually 
directed to provide for the wants of 
the mariner, and they will consider 
the rewarding of heroism and faith- 
ful service, as the most pleasing part 
of their great Jabours, Let, there- 
fore, fathers exhort their sons; 
sisters, their brothers; and the 
people in general, the youth of the 
country, to acts of heroism, and 
to engage in the naval service, to 
maintain the honour of the Bata- 
vian flag, and defend their native 
land. When they shall thus nobly 
have fulfilled their duty, they will 
find their reward in our tender care 
for them and their relatives, in the 
approbation of every noble mind, 
and the congratulations and grati- 
tude of all their countrymen. 
Van ve CasTezELe. 
Manijesto against Great Britain, by 
the National Assembly representing 
the Batavian Nation. 
THE Batavian nation, once more 
unjustly attacked by the kingdom 
of Great Britain, has just taken up 
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arms. This nation, so often ill 
treated, oppressed, trod upon, and 
pillaged, under the mask of friend- 
ship, new animated and excited by 
liberty, and at length breathing 
for the first time after so long an 
interval, resumes the primitive 
energy of its brave and valorous 
character, courageously rears its 
head, and will no longer suffer its 
prosperity to be undermined by en- 
vious neighbours. {t will no long~ 
er allow ‘itself to. be dragged in the 
dust ; and it will cease to be the 
sport of the infamous and ambitious 
ministers of England, who, by the 
dazzle of piratical treasures, blind 
the English nation, which fancies 
itself to be free, with respect to 
the terrible calamities they have 
brought on Europe, and on the 
whole of the human race. The 
Batavian people will defend their 
rights and their independence; 
they will save their country from 
the ruin by which it is threatened. 
Will Europe still doubt, that the 
Batavian republic has not rightfule 
ly drawn the sword from the 
sheath, when she is constrained to 
a just defence? Will Europe still 
doubt that the Batavian republic 
has been led to the very brink of 
utter destruction, by the disastrous 
policy of the same ministry? Will 
Europe still doubt that the regene- 
rated Batavian republic will not, 
with the help of its illustrious ally, 
vigorously repel the arrogant domi- 
nation of the English cabinet, and 
will not consolidate the liberty so 
dearly and perilously acquired, at 
the expence even of all by which 
she is interested ? 
When England attempted, by 
the force of arms, to subjugate her 
American colonies, which she had 
driven to a just insurrection, and 
3 when 
