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Article 8. 

 A quatre heures cet apres midi, 

 la garrison marchere dehors 

 tambours battant et mettra bas les 



Article 9. 

 Tous les munitions, les magazins, 

 papiers, et proprietes publiques 

 seront delivres au Commissaire 

 nomme de la part de sa Majeste 

 Britannique. 



Fort d'Oostenburg, 



ce 31 Aout, 1795. 



The garrison will march out at 

 4 o'clock this afternoon in the man- 

 ner required by this Article. But 

 a detachment of the British army 

 must be put in possession of the 

 Water Pass Gate at 2 o'clock in 

 the afternoon, and proper persons 

 will be appointed by Captain Hoff- 

 mann to point out the Magazine, &c, 

 that guards may be posted for their 

 security. 



Peter Rainier. 

 J. Stuart. 



To the Honourable J. G. van Angelbeck, Governor, &c, and to the 

 Gentlemen of Council at Colombo. 



Honourable Sir, and Sirs. — Our President had the honour of 

 addressing a letter to Mr. van Angelbeck on July 7, in which his 

 Lordship communicated the intentions of the King of Great Britain 

 with respect to the Dutch Settlements in India, and invited your 

 Government to the acceptance of propositions which were calculated 

 to secure those settlements during the war from falling into the hands 

 of the enemy, by taking them under the protection of Great Britain, 

 with the condition of their being restored to the Republic of Holland, 

 at the conclusion of a General Peace, by which its independence and 

 its constitution, as guaranteed in the year 1787, shall be maintained 

 and secured. We had the less doubt upon our minds with respect to 

 the satisfaction it would have afforded you to embrace the plan that 

 had been concerted between His Majesty and the Prince of Orange, 

 because we knew that you were bound by the most sacred obligation 

 to uphold that constitution, and because the principles on which the 

 plan was formed had nothing in view that could be construed into an 

 act of derogation on your part. 



We feel the most sincere concern that the harmony and good under- 

 standing which had so long subsisted between the two Governments 

 should have suffered an interruption by your not having conceived 



