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THE ROYAL
GEORGIA GAZETTE.
I From the LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAOR
DLNARY’, Thursday, December 21, 1780.
MANIF E S T O:
GEORGE R.
I ( L. S. ) ROUGH the whole course of
j|. our reign our condud towards
the State ? General of die United Provinces has been
that of a fmcerc friend jnd faithful ally. Had they
adhered to those wife piineiples which used to go
vern the Rfepublick, they mult have (hewn them
selves equally folic-itous to maintain the friendftvp
which h is so long fabfifted between the two nati
ons, and which is essential to the interests of both ;
but from the prevalence of a faction devoted to
France, and following the didatf", of that Court,
a very different policy ha3 prevailed. The return
made to pur fricndfhip for fouie time pad has been
an open contempt of the inoft solemn engagements,
and a repeated violation of pu'olick faith.
On the commcncemeat of the defenfive war in
found ourselves engaged by the aggres
sion oirraticeTve (hewed'TTehdcrTegard for the
interests of the'States General, and a desire of se
curing to their fubje&s every advantage of trade
confident with the great and just principle of our
own defence. Our AmbalTiJor was inftrufled to
offer a friendly negotiation, to obviate every thing
that might lead to difigrra. !>!e difeufliom; arid to *
this offer, solemnly made by him to the States
General, the 2d of November, 1778, no atten
tion w'as paid.
After the number of our enemies incrcafedTiy
the aggrellion of §pain, equally unprovoked with
that of France, we found it necefl.iry to call upon
the States General for the peiformance of their en
gagements. The fifth article of the perpetual de
fensive alliance between our Crown and the States
General, concluded at VVeltminller the 3d of
March, 1675, befidesthe genera! engagement for
fuccours, exp refs ly stipulates, “ That that party
of the two allies that is no: attacked shill be oblig
ed to break with the avgreffor in t‘.vo months af
ter the party attacked (hall require it.” Yet two
years have passed, without the leaf! assistance given
to us, without a single syllable in answer to oyr
repeated demands. ■/
So totally regardless have tlie Stites been of
their treaties that they readily proinifcd
our enemies to obfd((* a neutrality, in diredcon- •
tradition to those engagements ; and whilll they
have withlield from us the fuecours they were
bound to furnifh, every secret assistance has been
given the enemy ; and inland du:irs have'been ta
ken off for the foie purpofe-of facilitating’ the car
riage of naval (lores to France.
In direfl and open violation of treaty, they fuf
fered an American pirate to remain fcveral weeks*
fn one of their ports, and even permitted a part of
his Crew to mount guard in a fort'in the Texcl.
In the East Indies the fuhjeils of the States Ge
neral, in concert with France, have endeavoured
to raile up enemies against us.
fn the Well Indies, particularly at St. Euftatius,
every protection nnd assistance has been given to
Our rebellious fubjeds. Their privateers are o
peniy received in the Dutch haibours, allowed to
~r?fit there, supplied with arms and ammunition,
their crews recruited, their prizes brought in and
fold, and all this in direst violation of as clear and
solemn ftiptilations as can be made.
Thiscondud, so incorfiiteni with all good faith, “
so repugnant to the sense of the wisest paw of the
Dutch nation, is chiefly to be aferibed to the pre
valence of the lending Mag'ftrates of Amsterdam, *
whose secret Correspondence with our rebellious
fubjeds was fufpeded, lorg before it was made
known by the fortunate discovery of a treaty, the*
firfl article of which is: 1 V *
A be / c ke a rm inviolable, and uni
terfal peace, and sincere fiiendfhip, between
|f * be * r Mightineffcs the Estates of the Seven
„ United Provinces of Holland and the United*
1 tatb; America, and the fubjeds and
* tbe Parties ; and between the
<4 ilia.ids, cities, and town?, filuated
under t%e jurifdidion,of the said United States
v- _ and the people and inhabitants
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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1781.
thereof, of every degree, without exception of
“ persons or place*.”
This treaty was signed in September, 1778, by
the express order of the Penfionary of Amfterdani,
and other principal Magistrates of that city. They
now not only avow the whole tranfa&ion, but
glo-y in it, and expressly fay, even to the States
General, that what they did n was what their in
dispensable duty required.”
In the mean time the States General declined to
give any answer to the Memorial pirsfented by our
AnrbaiTador, and this refufal was aggravated by
their proceeding upon other business, nay upon the
confiderarion of this very fubjed to internal pur
poses ; and while they found it impoflible to ap
prove the condud of their fubjeds, they still irv
duflrioufly avoided to give us the fatisfadion so
mani’eft-y due.
We had every right to exped that such a difeo
ve-y would h ive rouzed them to a just indignation
at the insult offered to us - , and to themfelvesj and
that they would have been to give us full
and ample fatisfadion for the offence, and to m
fliT the fevered punilhtflent upo-n tne ©fibers.”
The urgency of the business in.ide an instant an
swer eflentlal to the honour and fafecy of this coun
try- The demand was accordingly pressed by our
AmpafTador in repeated conferences with the Mi
ni rtefs, and in a second Memorial: It was jxeffcd
the earnestness which could proceed from
our ancient friendfhip, and the sense of recent in
juries ; and the answer now given to a memorial
on luch a fubjed, delivered about five weeks ago,
is, That the States have taken it
Such an ansver, upon such an occafioni could only
be didated ßy the fixed purpose of hollility medi
tated, and refolved, by the States, induced
by the Councils of Amllerdam thus to
countenance t4ie hoflile aggreffiun which the Ma
giilrates of that city have made in the name of the
Republic!:.
There is an end of the faith of all treaties with
them, if Amfterdarn may usurp the fovereignpow
er, rrmy violate those treacies with impunity, by
pledging the States to engagements diredly contra
ry, and leaguing the Repubtick with the rebels of
a Sovereign to whom (he is bound by the dofeft
ties. An infraffion of the Law of Nations, by
the mean est meftlher of any country,, gives the ]n
j ired (fate a right to demand fatisfadion and pun
ishment. How much more (o when the injury
complained of is a flagrant violation of publick
faith, committed by leading and predominant
members in the States. Since then the fatisfadion
we have demanded is not given, we mi ft, though
mok reludantly, do ourfeives that jultice which
we cannot otherwise obtain. We mult coniider the
“States General as parties in the inj .ry which they
will not repair, as (hirers in the aggression which
they refufe to punish, and must ad accordingly.
We have therefore ordered our AmbaflTudor to
withdraw from the Hague, and (hall immediately
pifrfue such vigorous measures as the occasion fully
juftifies, and our dignity and the essential interelU
of our people require.
From a regard to the Dutch nation at lar*e, we
wish it were pcflible todired those measures wholly
against Amflerdam ; but this cannot be, uolefs The
States General will immediately declare-that Am
sterdam (hall, upon this occasion, receive no assist
ance from them, but be left to abide by
sequences of its aggression.
Whiirt Amflerdam is fuffered to prevail in the
general councils, and is backed by the ilrength of
the state, it is impoflible to refill the aggression of
so considerable a part without contending with the
whole. But we.are too feofible of the common
iftterefts of both countries, not to remember, in the
midst o£ such a contcft, that the only point to be
ayiied at by us is to raise a disposition in the coun
cUs of the Repubiick to return to our ancient uni
©T), by giving us that fatisfadion for the past and
fecumy for the future, wfuch we (hall be as ready
to receive as they can be to offer, and to the at
tainment of which we fliall dired all our operati-
We mean only to provide for our own fecu
defeating the dangerous designs that nave”
been Cormed against us. >Vc (hall ever be disposed
to return to fricndfhip with the States General
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when they sincerely revert to that system which the
wifdotn of their anceflors formed, and has
110I 10 ' 7 subverted by a powerful fadion conspir
ing with" France against the true interests of the
Repubiick, no less *an against those of Great
Britain,
St. James's, December 20, 4780. G. R.
At the Court at St fames' r, the 20th df Decem
ber, 1780,
PRESENT,
The KING s Moft Excellent Majesty in
Council.
HIS Majesty, having taken into cOnfideration
the many injurious proceedings of the Stites
General of the United Provinces, and their fub
jeds, as is set forth in his Roval Manifefto of thil
date, and being determined to take fiic-h measures
as nTe neccfiary for vindicating the honour of his
. Crown,* and lor procuring reparation and fatisf. c
tvon, is pleafcd, by arfd with the advice of hi#
Ft ivy Council,- to order, and it is hereby ordered
That gene gßgS’lihlg be granted agawil.the fhios*,
of.-,he
United Prqvinces, so that as wtfl his M. jiy’s
fl :et and ftiips, as a'fo all other fbip< and v ftlis
that (lull Eh commissioned by letters of marque,
or general or otherwise, bv h:s Majtfty’s
Cmnrniffioners for executing the Office of Lord
High Admiral of Great Britain, {hall and may
lawfully seize all ships, veffcls, and goods, belong
ing to the States General of the United Provinces,
or their fubjeds, or others inhabiting within hny
of the territories of the aforefaid States General of
the United Provinces, and bring the fanre to judg
ment in any of'the Courts of Adir.-irMty within his
Majesty’s dominions : And to that end hu Mhjef*
ty’s Advocate General, with the Advocate of the
Admiralty, are forthwith to prepare the\|raught
of a Cornmiffion, and present the fame to his Ma
jesty at this Board, autiiorifmg the Comm-flioners
for executing the Office of Lord H.gh Admiral, or
any perion ©r persons dy them empowered and up*
pointed, to issue forth and giant letters of ma r qutf
and reprisal to any of his fubjeds, or
others whom the said Commissioners shall deem
fitly qualified in that behalf; for, the apprehending
(r.z.i.g, and taking, the {hips, vessels, and goods
belonging to the States General of the Umud
Provinces, and their vnffds and fubjeds or any
inhabiting within the countries, ter Hones or do.
minions, of the aforefaid States General; and rhkt
such powers and cl uses be iuierted in the (aid
Commifli >n as have been ufutl, and are accordu g
to torroer precedents. And MareftvV f uld Ad Z
vocate Geneiai, with the Advocate of the Admi
ralty, art alio forthwith to prepare the 4raoph* if
a Commiilion, and present the I me to his Majesty
at this Board authorifing the fiid Comm ffiouert
lor executing the Office of Lord High Admiral to
will and lequire the High Court of Admiralty of
aild he Lieutenant and Judge of
the said Court, his Surrogafc or Surrogates, as
alio the lcveral Coarts of Admiralty, within his
Majesty s dominions, to take cognizance of, and
judicially proceed upon all and all manner of ran.
tare*, seizures, prizes, and reprisals, of all firms
and goods that zte, or (hall be taken, and to hear
and determine the fame, and, according to the
course of Admiralty and the law of nations, to ad.
judge and condemn such ships, vessels, and goods,
a* (hall belong to the States General of the United
1 rovinces, or tne.r vassals and fubjed-, or to any
others inhabiting within an'y of the countries, ter*
ntones and l domimons, jo f the aforefaid State#
Gtneral, and that (uch powers .and clauses be in.
feited in the Cornmiffion as usual, and
are according to former precedentsj And they are
mT!* 0 re l Uire u to , P rc pare t.and lay before hit
Majetly at this Board, a draught &{fuch inftrud!-
oq> as may be proper to be lent to the Courts of
Admiralty m his M.jeftyN feign governments
md plantations, for their guidance
another draught of inftrud.ons for firch ships at
uoned COmmifiioDed hr Prpcfei^foremen.
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