30] ANNUAL REGISTER, ISH. 



CHAPTER III. 



Holland. — Mode of referring the new Constitutional Code to the Decision 

 of the Nation. — Its Acceptance, and the Oath taken hi/ the Prince So~ 

 vereign. — Appointments made by him. — Catholic Netherlands. — Car- 

 nofs Conduct at Antwerp. — Military Operations in Italy. — Armistice. 



Occupation of Genoa by the Forces under Lord W. Benlinck.— 



Affairs of Spain. — Treaty between Napoleon and Ferdinand. — Trans- 

 actions of the Cortes. — Reyna. — French Garrisons surrendered, — 

 Arrival of Ferdinand in Spain. — The Pope returns to Italy. 



rr^HE deposition of Buonaparte, 

 •*- and the restoration of the 

 Bourbons, being the great crisis 

 to which every other civil and mi- 

 litary occurrence on the European 

 continent was subordinate, we 

 shall now bring up to that period, 

 the events which had been taking 

 place in other parts. 



In Holland, after the unfortu- 

 nate failure at Bergen-op-Zoom, 

 no military operation of conse- 

 quence was undertaken, both par- 

 ties probably waiting for the issue 

 of the grand contest in France. 

 A civil transaction of the greatest 

 importance, however, rendered 

 memorable the close of March. 



It is previously to be mentioned, 

 that on the 3rd of that month, 

 there was issued by the Prince of 

 Orange, a public paper giving an 

 account of the measures he had 

 adopted, for obtainng the senti- 

 ments of the inhabitants of the 

 Netherlands respecting the consti- 

 tutional code which had been 

 drawn up pursuant to his direc- 

 tions. " We (said he) after a 

 careful examination, have given it 

 our approbation; but this does not 

 tatisfy our heart. It respects the 



concerns of the whole Nether- 

 lands; and the whole Dutch people 

 must be recognized in this import- 

 ant work." Thinking it right 

 therefore that the code should be 

 submitted for maturer considera- 

 tion, to a numerous assembly of 

 the principal and best qualified 

 persons in the country, he states 

 that he has appointed a special 

 commission, who are to choose, 

 out of a numerous list given in to 

 him, six hundred persons in due 

 proportion to the population of 

 the now existing departments, 

 who are to assemble at Amster- 

 dam, on the 28th inst. each per- 

 son having received, with his 

 letter of convocation, a plan of 

 the constitution on which they 

 are to decide. In order to ascer- 

 tain that the persons thus chosen 

 are possessed of the general con- 

 fidence, a list of those nominated 

 for each department is to be made 

 public, and all the inhabitants of 

 the same, being housekeepers, 

 shall have an opportunity, by sign- 

 ing their names without any addi- 

 tion, in a register lying open for 

 that purpose for eight days, to 

 testify their disapprobation of such 



