HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
tvho had negociated and signed it, 
formally and publicly agreed. To 
the indignation, therefore, we re- 
peat, of “the public, did this iden- 
tical government call upon the 
British nation, for a sum of 69,000/. 
and an annuity of 16, 000/. as a 
compensation for terr itorial domain, 
and personal property, confiscated 
er seized on, by the tools of gallic 
tyranny, without its being able to 
shew that the consummation of this 
article, so often vaunted of by 
ministers, in both houses of parlia- 
ment, had ever been pressed, dur- 
ing ten months of peace, by a single 
femonstrance respecting its non- 
gol 
performance, on the part of his 
majesty, ta any of the contracting 
parties!!! The inference, therefore, 
was obvious, that the article in 
question, was a deceptive and frau- 
dulent maneuvre ; and that though 
the appeal now made to the justice 
and generosity of the country, was 
admitted, on the part of the house of 
Nassau, to its fullest extent; yet 
that, as coming through those to 
whose want of precaution, timi- 
dity, or supineness, its necessity 
originated, it was universally allow= 
ed to be a most baretaced and 
shameful transaction, 
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