676 
“6 Que le premicr consul ayoit 
appris, avec autant de surprise que 
@indisnation, que des personnes 
avides de révolutions vouloient de 
nouveau troubler le repos dans la 
Batavie, en abusant méme pour cet 
effet de noms respectables: et que 
le premier consul, comme alli¢ de 
Ja republique, invitoit le gouverne- 
ment a prendre toutes les mésures 
nécessaires pour maintenir Vordre 
des choses etabli par Ja constitu- 
tion.” 
‘These were nearly the words read 
to me by the secretary of state, 
from a note in his own hand-writing, 
dictated to him by M. de Semon- 
ville, with a view to its publica- 
tion (and a translation was accord- 
ingly inserted in the Dutch official 
paper of the Hague on the 11th); 
but they fall very far short of the 
language employed by the French 
minister for foreign aflairs in his 
dispatches to the ambassador, and in 
the communication made by him to 
the Dutch charge d’aflaires at Paris 
(who also sent a messenger to the 
Hague upon this occasion). In 
these M. de 'Talleyrand entered into 
considerable detail on the subject 
ot the plots supposed to be formed 
in this country against the admi- 
nistration, mentioned the names of 
the chiefs, and ended by making 
an offer, on the part of the first 
consul, to come to the assistance 
of the government (should circum- 
stances render it necessary) with all 
his forces. 
No, 22. 
Dispatch from Mr. Liston to Lord 
Hawkesbury, dated Hague, Octo- 
ber -29, 1802. 
My lord, ° 
The recent attack made by Bona- 
parte upon the Tibertics and inde- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
pendence of the Swiss cantons, has 
naturally made a strong impression 
on the inhabitants of this country ; 
and the public anxiety has been 
much augmented by certain symp- 
toms in the conduct of the consular 
government, which seem to indicate 
an intention not to withdraw the 
French troops, which have been 
kept in the Batayian republic for 
some time past, under the title of 
auxiliaries, and paid and main- 
tained at the expence of the Dutch 
nation. 
These troops (amounting to be- 
tween ten and eleven thousand men) 
were to remain here till the conclu- 
sion of the definitive treaty with 
Great Britain. It was afterwards 
formally promised, on the part of 
France, that they should evacuate 
the territories of the republic, at 
the latest, on the expiration of the 
last French year (the 23d of Sep- 
tember).—They accordingly began 
their march to the southward a few 
days before that period; and the 
government and the people rejoiced 
at the prospect of being finally re- 
lieved from a load which has. be- 
come extremely irksome to them. 
But, on pretence that a great por- 
tion of the corps were to be em- 
barked at Flushing for Louisiana, 
and that there was a want of ship- 
ping for their accommodatian, they 
took up their quarters at the fron- 
tiers of the country (at Bois-le- 
Duc, Breda, and Bergen-op-Zoom), 
where they still remain; and de- 
mands have continued to be made 
for their pay and maintenance. 
Hopes were, however, enter- 
tained, from day to day, that their 
departure would take place; when, 
to the astonishment of the Batavian 
government, official notice was (last 
week) transmitted from France to 
the 
