-
Articles/Ads
Article ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE STADTHOLDERSHIP OF HOLLAND. ← Page 2 of 2 Article INSTANCES OF RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. Page 1 of 2 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Origin And History Of The Stadtholdership Of Holland.
been elected Sovereign over the whole Republic , had he not been killed by an assassin hired by the Spanish Ministry . His son Maurice never attained to so much power , and the understood attempts of his brother-in-law Frederic Henry , were not attended with success . After his decease , five Provinces chose his son William II . for their Stadtholder and Captain General . The Province of Hollandin 16 54 solemnlexcluded William
, , y III . son to the latter , from the Stadtholdership ; yet , in 16 72 , they so far receded from this act , that this office was settled on him hereditarily , and he held it even after his accession to the Throne of England . At his death the office was not suppressed , but exercised by the States themselves till the year 1747 , the provinces of GuelderlandFriezlandand Groeningenexceptedwhichduring this
in-, , , , , terval , elected for their Stadtholder the Prince of Orange , named William Charles Henry Friso , afterwards styled William the Fourth . But in 1747 , thc French breaking into Dutch Flanders , the city of Tervere , from a sense of the danger ivhich threatened the whole Republic , insisted that the Prince of Orange should be created Stadtholder of Zealand , and the states of the province consenting , the Prince
was declared their Stadtholder , and also Captain and Admiral General . This example was soon followed by the provinces of Holland and West Friezland , and thus the Prince became Stadtholder , Captain General , and Admiral , of all the United Provinces . On the 4 th of May 1747 , the same was formally notified to him by the States General in their assembly , and , immediately after , the Stadtholdershi p settled on his heirs male , and the females were not excluded from the
succession , provided they did not many the sons of kings or electors . The office of Stadtholder was of great weight , authority , and profit , but the Sovereignty ivas not annexed to it .
Instances Of Retributive Justice.
INSTANCES OF RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE .
RETRIBUTIVE Justice is the consolation of the oppressed , and the terror of the oppressors . If the following facts , which have , I believe , been remarked by De Foe , should fall into the hands of the Convention of France , it maj " , perhaps , alarm them for their future safety , by showing them , that though , in the language of Juvenal , the anger of the gods may sleep , yet it will not die . The extraordinary coincidence of dates of some of the eventsseems to
, designate the particular crime which provoked the punishment of its perpetrators . The sera , of these circumstances is the reign of Charles , and the troubles that followed it . The English parliament called in the Scots to invade their king , and were invaded themselves by tbe same Scots , in defence of the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Origin And History Of The Stadtholdership Of Holland.
been elected Sovereign over the whole Republic , had he not been killed by an assassin hired by the Spanish Ministry . His son Maurice never attained to so much power , and the understood attempts of his brother-in-law Frederic Henry , were not attended with success . After his decease , five Provinces chose his son William II . for their Stadtholder and Captain General . The Province of Hollandin 16 54 solemnlexcluded William
, , y III . son to the latter , from the Stadtholdership ; yet , in 16 72 , they so far receded from this act , that this office was settled on him hereditarily , and he held it even after his accession to the Throne of England . At his death the office was not suppressed , but exercised by the States themselves till the year 1747 , the provinces of GuelderlandFriezlandand Groeningenexceptedwhichduring this
in-, , , , , terval , elected for their Stadtholder the Prince of Orange , named William Charles Henry Friso , afterwards styled William the Fourth . But in 1747 , thc French breaking into Dutch Flanders , the city of Tervere , from a sense of the danger ivhich threatened the whole Republic , insisted that the Prince of Orange should be created Stadtholder of Zealand , and the states of the province consenting , the Prince
was declared their Stadtholder , and also Captain and Admiral General . This example was soon followed by the provinces of Holland and West Friezland , and thus the Prince became Stadtholder , Captain General , and Admiral , of all the United Provinces . On the 4 th of May 1747 , the same was formally notified to him by the States General in their assembly , and , immediately after , the Stadtholdershi p settled on his heirs male , and the females were not excluded from the
succession , provided they did not many the sons of kings or electors . The office of Stadtholder was of great weight , authority , and profit , but the Sovereignty ivas not annexed to it .
Instances Of Retributive Justice.
INSTANCES OF RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE .
RETRIBUTIVE Justice is the consolation of the oppressed , and the terror of the oppressors . If the following facts , which have , I believe , been remarked by De Foe , should fall into the hands of the Convention of France , it maj " , perhaps , alarm them for their future safety , by showing them , that though , in the language of Juvenal , the anger of the gods may sleep , yet it will not die . The extraordinary coincidence of dates of some of the eventsseems to
, designate the particular crime which provoked the punishment of its perpetrators . The sera , of these circumstances is the reign of Charles , and the troubles that followed it . The English parliament called in the Scots to invade their king , and were invaded themselves by tbe same Scots , in defence of the