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Monthly Chronicle.

( rea der unnecessary those hostile measures which national honour , rind the rights of nations so attrociously viola'ed , might without doubt require on the part of the French Republic against the Governments of Berne and Fribourg . The Executive Directory considers it therefore to be its duty to confine itself at present to a simple relation of flie above facts . BARRAS , President—LAGARDE , Sec . General . '

REVOLUTION IN HOLLAND . HAGUE , JAN . 23 . A great and happy event—another 18 th of Fructidor has taken place in Holland , which the friends of kings and furious demagogues'were endeavouring to tear to pieces . This new revolution has been effected without effusion of blood , pillage , or disorder . The following are the details : the parly of patriots having for some time gathered strengththe most distinguished resolved to siwhat they

, gn called the Constitutional Symbol , that is , a paper containing the general principles , which , in their opinion , ought to serve as the basis of the Constitution , and for the immediate formation of a Provisional Government . On the 2 d Pluviose , ievery thing being preivously concerted , orders were given for the arrest of six Members of the Committee of Foreign Affairs ; the rest of the Representatives Were invited to assemble in the Hall . The Assembly was immediately formed , when the President gave orders , with the consent of a great majority , for the arrest of twenty-one Members , not including the six Members of the Committee of

Foreign Affairs . Two of the twenty-one not having appeared , the nineteen were in the mean time lodged in an adjoining apartment , and by a solemn decree the twenty-one , us well as the six Members of the Diplomatic Committee , were expelled the Convention . The Assembly , thus purified , successively decreed the fundamental articles Of the Constitution , those which establish the Provisional Government , and those which secure with the public tranquillity the plenitude of the Conventional power . The Assembly has declared itself in a state of permanence , and peaceably pursues the course of its operations .

DECLARATION OF THE BATAVIAN ASSEMBLY , Made al the Hague , Jan . 23 , and proclaimed solemnly , at the sound of lictlle-drumi , & vc . TIIE BATAVIAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY TO THE BATAVIAN l'EOl'LE . ' Felloiu Citizens , ' The day has arrived , when , for the second time , your liberty was to be defended , when the independence of this Republic was to be protected against the violent attacks of sedition , when at length , the explosion of a plan , as baleful as

artfully contrived , was to be prevented by the vigorous measures employed ; by your faithful representations for the safety of the country , measures , without which , you would groan under heavier chains than you have ever carried ; measures commanded by imperious necessity ; measures which we have been compelled to adopt by the criminal conduct of those men , who , though enemies to the fundamental principles of our last revolution , have constantly combined to hold in their hands the reins of Government . It was time to fill up this abyss , dug between ihe constituted Government and the shapeless federation of some people united in

appearance , but each regardingonly his own particular interest . Our country has often felt the baleful effects of such order of things : it is owing to it , ; that you never know your own proper strength : it is to it that England is indebted for the means of forming among you internal divisions : it is it 1 hat has chained down , nay , that . has even extinguished a courage otherwise so intrepid , and that patriotic spirit so frequently manifested . It is owing , to it , in fine , that each page of our annals is filled with baleful events ; and it is this which would bring us back insensibly to the detestab ' e Government ol" the Stadtholder , and which would make

us regret those chains which we have broken , with the assistance of our faithful allies , and at the price of the greatest sacrifices . It was time to remove all obstacles , __ i : d to organize every thing . necessary for the attainment of a fixed order of things . It . was time to put an end to that state of confusion and uncertainty which , for three

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Monthly Chronicle.

( rea der unnecessary those hostile measures which national honour , rind the rights of nations so attrociously viola'ed , might without doubt require on the part of the French Republic against the Governments of Berne and Fribourg . The Executive Directory considers it therefore to be its duty to confine itself at present to a simple relation of flie above facts . BARRAS , President—LAGARDE , Sec . General . '

REVOLUTION IN HOLLAND . HAGUE , JAN . 23 . A great and happy event—another 18 th of Fructidor has taken place in Holland , which the friends of kings and furious demagogues'were endeavouring to tear to pieces . This new revolution has been effected without effusion of blood , pillage , or disorder . The following are the details : the parly of patriots having for some time gathered strengththe most distinguished resolved to siwhat they

, gn called the Constitutional Symbol , that is , a paper containing the general principles , which , in their opinion , ought to serve as the basis of the Constitution , and for the immediate formation of a Provisional Government . On the 2 d Pluviose , ievery thing being preivously concerted , orders were given for the arrest of six Members of the Committee of Foreign Affairs ; the rest of the Representatives Were invited to assemble in the Hall . The Assembly was immediately formed , when the President gave orders , with the consent of a great majority , for the arrest of twenty-one Members , not including the six Members of the Committee of

Foreign Affairs . Two of the twenty-one not having appeared , the nineteen were in the mean time lodged in an adjoining apartment , and by a solemn decree the twenty-one , us well as the six Members of the Diplomatic Committee , were expelled the Convention . The Assembly , thus purified , successively decreed the fundamental articles Of the Constitution , those which establish the Provisional Government , and those which secure with the public tranquillity the plenitude of the Conventional power . The Assembly has declared itself in a state of permanence , and peaceably pursues the course of its operations .

DECLARATION OF THE BATAVIAN ASSEMBLY , Made al the Hague , Jan . 23 , and proclaimed solemnly , at the sound of lictlle-drumi , & vc . TIIE BATAVIAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY TO THE BATAVIAN l'EOl'LE . ' Felloiu Citizens , ' The day has arrived , when , for the second time , your liberty was to be defended , when the independence of this Republic was to be protected against the violent attacks of sedition , when at length , the explosion of a plan , as baleful as

artfully contrived , was to be prevented by the vigorous measures employed ; by your faithful representations for the safety of the country , measures , without which , you would groan under heavier chains than you have ever carried ; measures commanded by imperious necessity ; measures which we have been compelled to adopt by the criminal conduct of those men , who , though enemies to the fundamental principles of our last revolution , have constantly combined to hold in their hands the reins of Government . It was time to fill up this abyss , dug between ihe constituted Government and the shapeless federation of some people united in

appearance , but each regardingonly his own particular interest . Our country has often felt the baleful effects of such order of things : it is owing to it , ; that you never know your own proper strength : it is to it that England is indebted for the means of forming among you internal divisions : it is it 1 hat has chained down , nay , that . has even extinguished a courage otherwise so intrepid , and that patriotic spirit so frequently manifested . It is owing , to it , in fine , that each page of our annals is filled with baleful events ; and it is this which would bring us back insensibly to the detestab ' e Government ol" the Stadtholder , and which would make

us regret those chains which we have broken , with the assistance of our faithful allies , and at the price of the greatest sacrifices . It was time to remove all obstacles , __ i : d to organize every thing . necessary for the attainment of a fixed order of things . It . was time to put an end to that state of confusion and uncertainty which , for three

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