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The terms displeasing to the Batavian directory. — Suspicions attached to General Brune. — Report of the French of the behaviour of the English during the campaign. — Prince William of Gloucester. — Treatment of the British and Russian prisoners. — Honourable conduct of the English army in Holland. — The petty warfare carried on by the navy. — Reflections on the expedition.
Amsterdam, 1800.
HITHERTO the revolution of Holland had been happily conducted, and the world saw with astonishment a nation, under the eyes of its conquerors, tranquilly proceeding to reform the abuses of its government. This spectacle was the more grand and delightful, as it occurred at a period when Europe was shaken to its centre, by civil contentions, and almost universal hostilities. Hostilities not grounded on the ordinary causes of war, but growing out of opposite principles, which imbittered the animosities of nations beyond the example of all former times. It occurred at a period when the term revolution seemed designated to express scenes of atrocity and horror, outrageous
