8005 Staté of Public “Affairs, { November, 
HOLLAND. _ purfuance of their recommendation he had 
‘The: prince. of Orange before the com- judged it proper to communicate to his 
mencement of hoflilities in Holland, ina two Houles of Parliament in Ireland, at 
proclamation from Hampton- ce ad- theclofe of their lait feffion, the fentiments 
drefled the Batavians, whom he calls, whichthe Britifh Parliament had exprefled 
‘* dear countrymen,’ recapitulates the to him refpeéting an incorporating union 
injuries they had experienced from France, of the two kingdoms. 
and exhorts them to join the troops which His Majefty’s Minifers then pitied 
*< the King of Great Britain, moved by the bufinefs for which the two Houfes had 
his affeétion and friendfhip tewards the been aflembled, namely, the bill fer enab- 
Republic of the United Provinces, &c.”’ ling his ‘Majelty to accept of the voluntary 
had taken the generous refolution to fend fervices of the militia inlifting into other 
‘as friends and deliverers, in order to regiments. The opponents of the meafure 
_Tefcue them from the odious oppreffion were but few, but feveral debates were 
under which they are held by the French held by them with the minifterial fide of 
government and by fhebrench troops, and the houfe againft the bill, as being uncon- 
to reftore them to the enjoyment of reli- ftitutional. 
gion and liberty.” The proclamation of On the 2d of Oftober, this bill was 
the Hereditary Prince of Orange on his brought up to the Houfe of Lords by Mr. 
arrival in Holland is ae to the fameef- Dundas, read a fir time, and ordered to 
fect. The proclamation from the Eritifn be printed. It was read a fecond time on 
-Government has bee noticed before. the 4th, after a debate of fome length, in 
GREAT BRITAIN. ’ which the principle was ftrongly oppoled 
The King on the 24th opened both by Lords Fitzwilliam, Holland, and Care 
Hawles of Partia ament, ina {peech fuitable narvon. Upon a divifion, the numbers 
to the occafion, wherein he informed them. were 26 to 3 in favour of the bill, which 
fhat he had called them together at that ina few days was pafied toa law; thofe 
early feafon, to confider of “the propriety Lords having firft entered a proteft againft - 
of enabling him, without delay, to avail it. 
himfelf to a further extent of the velun- On the 30th of September, Colonel Gaf- 
tary jervices of the militia, at a moment coigne faid, in the Houfe of Commons, 
when our actual force abroad might be that, in confequence of Hamburg haying 
productive of the moft important’and be- for fome time been the medium of com- 
veficial confequenees, having already feen merce between Great Britain and the Con- 
the happy eficéts of the meafure which  tinent, our merchants had given credit te 
was adopted on this fubjeét in the laft fe[ an uncommon amount to that city, whole 
fon. He then alluded to the abilities and recent failures now fhook our credit. He 
valour of the commanders and troops of fated, that the fale or fugar within the- 
the combined Imperjal armies, by whom Jaf month had not exceeded 100 hegfheads, 
the deliverance of Ttaly had, been effected. that Liverpool had 190,000 hogfheads in 
That the kingdom of Naples had been  ftore, forwhich there was not any demand ; 
re(cued from the French yoke, and re- that the queftion wes not whether fugar 
ftored to the dominion of its lawfui fove- fhould be cheaper, but whether the trade 
rejon, and his majefty’s fermer conneCiions fhould be continued; that the merchants 
with that power renewed. That the of London acted as agents tothe Weft 
French expedition to Egypt had continued India planters, whilft thofe of Liverpool 
to be productive of calamity and difgrace. imported on their own account, and were | 
to our enemies, while their ultimate views governed in their prices by thofe of the 
againft,our Eafiern pofleflions had been Iflands. He therefore trufted the Houfe 
utterly confounded. That the Britith would favourably receive a petition, which 
army had re{cued. from the pofieffion of the he prefented from his conftituents, pray- 
enemy the principal port and navalarfenal ing a tem, porary loan of £.500,000.. The 
of the Dutch Republic. Speaker iaid, the meafure to be adopted 
He. informed the gentlemen of the muff, have th e recommendation of the 
Houfe of Commons, that the fupplies crown. Mr. Pitt faid, the objections which 
which they had granted to him in the he. felt to fhe meafure, were done away by: 
courfe of the laft feffion, would, he trufted, a recolleStion that the embarrafiment which 
Ao nearly provide for the exigencies of the required it, had not originated in rafh {pe- 
public fervice, as to enable him without culations, but in the extent of unayoid- 
further aid to continue the prefent exer- able credit; and that there could be no 
tions to the clofe of the year. He con- rifk in aloan, where, in addition to the fé- 
cluded, by informing both heules, thatin curity of moft re{pectable merchalt ie 
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