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ANNUAL REGISTER, 18U. 



reign issued his Letters Patent for 

 the iippointmenls which were 

 placed under liis authority, by the 

 constitution. They consisted in 

 governors of all the provinces, in 

 the members and counsellors of 

 the council of state, in the mem- 

 bers of the assembly of the States 

 General for the different pro- 

 vinces, in the ministers of state 

 for the civil and military depart- 

 ments, and the members of the 

 council of commerce and colonies. 

 The superior direction of the war 

 department in all its branches was 

 conferred upon the Hereditary 

 Prince, as general in chief. All 

 the powers of the nation being 

 thus vested in persons nominated 

 by the head of the new govern- 

 ment, the pulilic tranquillity was 

 effectually secured, which, indeed, 

 there appeared no disposition in 

 the people to disturb. 



The Catholic Netherlands, or 

 Belgium, had in the mean time 

 been filling with allied troops, 

 and the French garrisons had been 

 gradually withdrawn from the 

 more remote stations. They had 

 made some movements for the 

 purposes of contribution or depre- 

 dation, and Brui^es and Ghent had 

 for some time been in their hands ; 

 but at length, on intelligence of 

 the events at Paris, the garrison 

 of Bergen-op-Zoora mounted the 

 while cockade, and threw open 

 its gates; an<l general Maison re- 

 ceived orders from the new French 

 minister at war to cease all hosti- 

 lities, and regard the allies as 

 friends. The Crown Prince of 



• Sweden having written to genera' 

 . Carnot, governor of Antwerp, ac- 

 quainting him with the deposition 

 of Napoleon, and proposing to 



• him to surrender his fortress, aod 



join the allied troops, that distin- 

 guished person, who can only be 

 paralleled by the republican offi- 

 cers who served under Cromwell, 

 returned for answer ; that he com- 

 manded at Antwerp, in the name 

 of the French government, which 

 alone hud a right to fix the dura- 

 tion of his office, and the orders 

 of which he should obey when 

 incontestably established on its 

 new base. On April 18th he 

 published a proclamation to his 

 soldiers, informing them that the 

 wishes of the nation being fully 

 declared in favour of the restora- 

 tion of the Bourbons, it became 

 their duty to acknowledge them; 

 and he concluded by an oath in his 

 name, and those of the other 

 commanders, to defend Antwerp 

 to the last extremity in the name 

 of Louis XVHI. 



The Dutch admiral Verhuel, 

 also, as late as April 16th, had de- 

 ferred his surrender of the Texel, 

 but a negotiation was going on 

 with him, and in the mean time, 

 he had declared that he would 

 allow a free passage to all trading 

 vessels. 



The war in Italy was still vi- 

 gorously maintained by the vice- 

 roy Beauharnois, who had to make 

 head against the Austrian general, 

 and the king of Naples now in 

 co-operation with him. The 

 Fiench general of division, Gre- 

 nier, having marched from Reggio 

 by. Giiastalla, to make a junction 

 with the viceroy, the king of 

 Naples, on March 5th, after re- - 

 inforcing the Austrian advanced 1 

 guard, caused an attack to be 

 made on the division of Severoli, 

 in which he drove it back with 

 considerable loss under the walls 

 ofReggio; and on the 7th, his 



