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pacification shall have composed the differences now subsisting in 

 Europe, and until it shall please God to re-establish the ancient 

 Constitution and Government of the United Provinces ; and, in the 

 meantime, we hereby promise upon the assurance of His Majesty's 

 royal word that so long as the said Settlements, Plantations, Colonies, 

 and Factories shall continue to be possessed by His Majesty, to 

 be held and treated upon the same terms, with respect to all advantages, 

 privileges, and immunities to be enjoyed by the respective inhabitants, 

 upon which the Settlements, Plantations, Colonies, and Factories in 

 the East Indies are held and treated, which are now subject to His 

 Majesty's Crown, or are otherwise possessed by the Company of 

 Merchants trading from England to the East Indies under His Majesty's 

 Royal Charters. 



Given under our hands at Fort St. George this seventh day of July, 

 1795. 



Peter Rainier. 

 ■ John Brathwaite. 



Mon Cher Frere,— En consequence de la dissolution du Gouverne- 

 ment avec lequel j'avois fait la capitulation pour le service de mon 

 regiment en 1781, j'ai pris la resolution de le retirer de l'armee 

 Hollandoire dans l'entention de transferer le corp au service de sa 

 Majeste Britannique qui a donne sa protection au Prince Stadtholder 

 Hereditaire, et qui a garante la conservation de la Constitution des 

 Etats Generaux etablie 1787. 



Je vous en donne avis affin de vous deriger en consequence je 

 connois trop vos principes et votre attachement pour me permettre de 

 douter un instant que vous ne remplissies tous les devoirs que ce 

 nouvel ordre de choses vous imposent. 



En attendant la donnee satisfaction de vous enbrasser ne douttes 

 jaimais des tendres sentiments fraternel de votre devoue frere et chef 

 proprietaire. 



Le Chl. Charles de Meuron. 



Goudelour, 

 ce 30 Fevrier, 1795. 



To the Officers Commanding the English Naval and Land 

 Forces in the Bay of Trincomalee. 



Sirs, — I received through Major Agnew a letter from Lord Hobart, 

 the contents of which you are acquainted with, and I am desired to 

 send you my answer by Major Agnew. In consequence I have the 

 honour to declare as well for myself as for the Members of the Coun- 

 cil, which form the Government of this Island, that all of us and 

 each in particular adhere faithfully to the old and lawful Government 



