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The New York Journal, And Daily Patriotic Register
New York, New York County, New York
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Report from London paper on civil war in Holland: factions bitterly divided, stadtholder's party oppressing subdued patriots by ousting them from offices, plundering property, murdering and exiling civilians, causing widespread misery.
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Of HOLLAND-in brief.
Rent into factions, most bitterly exasperated against each other, these unhappy provinces present a frightful picture of a country destroyed by civil war. The stadtholder's party, insolent and rapacious, have every time they have had it in their power, insulted the subdued patriots, and ousted them from every office of honour and profit from the highest to the lowest, and in this they are but too well assisted by the stadtholder himself. The soldiers have plundered indiscriminately in many instances-but the property of the patriots, even to trifling articles of furniture have been stolen, burnt, or otherwise destroyed : And men, women and children, murdered or exiled to other places with scarce any thing to subsist on. To repeat instances would be too painful a task-and indeed the misery of the people exceeds the power of description.
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Holland
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widespread plundering, destruction of property, murders, and exiles of men, women, and children; patriots ousted from offices; immense misery among the people.
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Holland's provinces are torn by civil war between bitterly opposed factions. The stadtholder's insolent and rapacious party, with his assistance, insults and removes subdued patriots from all offices of honor and profit. Soldiers plunder indiscriminately, targeting patriots' property, including trifling items, which are stolen, burnt, or destroyed. Men, women, and children are murdered or exiled with little means of subsistence. The misery exceeds description.