Sis TRIPs PERS. 
_ that the independent Batavian na- 
tion solemnly declares in the face 
ofEurope, through the organ of 
its legitimate representatives, that, 
obliged to defend itself against the 
acts of perfidy and violence of the 
neighbouring kingdom of Great 
Britain, it will repel every act of 
aggression on its liberty, its inde- 
pendence, its rights, and its legi- 
timate possessions; and thatit will 
put in execution all possible means 
to receive satisfaction and indem- 
nity for the incalculable losses it 
has sustained through a perfidious 
ally :—in the firm hope that Divine 
Providence, who has so miracu- 
lously preserved this country from 
a total ruin, will bless its arms, 
and will not alluw violence and 
oppression ever to fix their fatal 
abode on its free territory. 
Done at the Hague, May 2, 1796, 
second year of Batavian tree- 
dom. 
Manifesto of Spain against Great 
Britain. 
Madrid, October 11, 
IS Majesty bas transmitted to 
all his councils a decree of the fol- 
lowing tenor : 
One of the principal motives that 
determined me to make peace with 
the French republic, as soon as 
its government had begun to as- 
sume a regular and stable form, 
was the manner in which Eng- 
land behaved to me during the 
whole of the war, and the just 
mistrust which I ought to feel for 
the future from the experience of 
her bad faith, which began to be 
manifested at the most critical mo- 
ment of the first campaign ; in the 
manner with which Admiral Hood 
treated my squadron at Toulon, 
where he was employed solely in 
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ruining all that he could not carry 
away himself; and afterwards in 
the expedition which he undertook 
against the island of Corsica—an 
expedition which he undertook 
without the knowledge, and which 
he concealed with the greatest 
care from Don Juan de Langara, 
while they were together at Tou- 
lon. 
This same bad faith the English 
minister has suffered clearly to ap- 
pear by his silence upon the sub- 
ject of all his negociations with 
other powers, particularly in the 
treaty concluded on the 19th No- 
vember, 1794, with the United 
States of America, without any 
regard to my rights, which were 
well known to him. I remarked 
it again in his repugnance to the 
adoption of my plans and ideas 
which might accelerate the termi- 
nation of the war, and in the vague 
reply which lord Grenville gave 
to my ambassador, the Marquis del 
Campo, when he demanded suc 
cours of him to continue it. He 
completely confirmed me in the 
certainty of his bad faith, by the 
injustice with which he appropri- 
ated the rich cargo of the Spanish 
ship le St. Jago, or Achille, at 
first taken by the French, and af- 
terwards retaken by the English 
squadron, and which ought to have 
been restored to me according to 
the convention made between my 
Secretary of Ssate and Lord St. 
Helens, ambassador from his Bri- 
tannic Majesty; afterwards by the 
detention of all the ammunition 
which arrived in the Dutch ships 
for the supply of my squadrons, by 
affecting always different difficul- 
ties to put off the restitution of 
them. Finally, I could no longer 
entertain a doubt of the bad faith 
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