Monthly Chronicle.

dividuals to enrich themselves with the fruits of your labours , which you emptied in coffers , no sooner filled than exhausted . Are not these nourished by the blood and tears of the orphan and the widow ? Have they not rashly , without any necessity , and even against the intention of the French Government , exposed the national navy , the weak remains of our former grandeur , to destruction ? Have we not recently remarked the detestable efforts put in practice , to deprive us of the means of re-establishing our maritime force ? And if the Government had not been changed , would not the plan have effectually succeeded . Has not the public not the

credit been shaken by measures as impolitic as perfidious ? Have we seen different provinces openly oppose the will of the National Representatives ; and arenot the latter torn to piecesby the spirit of party ? Are they not rendered contemptible by the want of energy ; and have they not , by half measures , broken the ties of Administration ? 'Ah I while all this passes under your eye , and the loss of the Republic becomes inevitableby ( he continuation of these horrors , will not the national spirit awake from its lethargic sleep ? Will you not all arm to combat the enemies of your in their desi ? The de

happiness , audio crush them , if they obstinately persist gns - scendants of those-heroes , who , without any other means than courage , exterminated . the whole Spanish power , shall they be intimidated by the vain measures of tyrannical egotists '? Shall they infamously hide themselves , when preparations are making to give a mortal stab to liberty ? And we , representatives , observing these odious ° enterprizes , how can we bejustified before you , before our children , if we were to remain longer unmoved ? Would we not be worthy of being compared to those despicable beings , who seek to raise their power on your ruin , and who , by our vigorous measures , we have at length destroyed ? Will not our memory ever

flourish in the annals of time ? . ' No ,-no , Saiavians , we will swear upon the altar of Liberty , upon which tfto people of the Low Countries -have already made offerings while others still continue slaves—we will swear by our general interest , by the prosperity of our . children , by the happiness of posterity , that -we will never suffer either despotism or anarchy . 'We-will all swear to ^ snatch live country from its state of oppression ,, and to spare no sacrifice to succeed . We will prove , by our conduct , that we cherish licentiousness

civil liberty as much as we abhor . . ' ¦¦ Range round the generalAdmiiiistration , to support it in every measure which may be judged necessary to attain the grand object : thus we shall soon obtain a good constitution , founded upon-the eternal principles of nature , susceptible of no change , and on which alone shall be . built our political happiness . ' Thus w . e will silence calumny , and make our adversaries blush ; thus we will evidently prove to- 'the -greatest , the most courageous of all people , that it was not in vain they succoured us , in order to ease us of the yoke by which we were Batavia is fraternal alliance with this

curbed . We will prove- that worthy a nation . ' Thus will Europe again know us the worthy descendants of those Batavians , -who defended -liberty , when the whole universe bent the knee to the . power of domineering Rome . Soon will it acknowledge , in the present generation , the same people who formerly shook the throne of Philip ; the same people who , by their courage and their valour , so extended their possessions-in other parts of the globe , ¦ that -the sun , in its regular course , always shone . upon Batavia , in the oneor the other hemisphere ; a people who combated the most formidable powers in the world ; who forced . the commerce . of the whole universe to unite in its States ; who held in their hands the political balance , . and bore

their sceptre on the ocean . ' Batavians , it is to this degree of greatness that we must return , by means of | a good and wise Constitution . But never shall we return to it , if the order of things , or ra-her that systematic disorder , which for two years ensnared . us , continues to exist . The monster Federalism , little different from the Hydra of the . Ancients , ran only be conquered by efforts , which shall destroy ,. at one blow , all its . heads . This great blow as about to be struck—already the monster agonizes , but . its last convulsions mav still be dangerous , and we must provide against them . No society can exist-without order . "It -isabove all . important that . thereshould . be no troubles during an intermediator } ' government . Let every one then submit to the