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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Extract from Admiral de Winter's speech upon his public entry in Amsterdam on December 7, expressing gratitude for his return to the Netherlands after capture by the English, praising their humane treatment of him and his fellow Dutch sailors.
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Extract from Admiral de Winter's Speech on his public entry at Amsterdam on the 7th of December.
"Citizen Counsellors and Fellow Burghers.
It is with the most grateful acknowledgements I receive your congratulations; and I rejoice in the consolatory satisfaction to find myself once more in the territory of my native country, and again to reside in the midst of my worthy fellow citizens.—The fortune of War formerly forced me for a while to live abroad, and being since for the first time, vanquished by the enemy I have experienced a second state of exile. Mortifying to the feelings of a man who loves his country, the satisfactory treatment I met with on the part of the enemy, the English, and by the humane and faithful support and assistance they evinced towards my worthy countrymen and Fellow sufferers, whose blood flowed like torrents in their country's cause, have considerably softened the horrors of my situation—nay. worthy Burghers! I must not conceal from you, that the noble liberality of the English nation since this bloody contest, justly entitles them to your admiration."
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Amsterdam
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7th Of December
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blood flowed like torrents in their country's cause; satisfactory treatment by the english softened the horrors of exile
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Admiral de Winter addresses citizen counsellors and fellow burghers upon his public entry, expressing gratitude for congratulations, joy at returning to his native country after being vanquished by the enemy and experiencing exile, and praising the humane treatment and liberality of the English nation towards him and his fellow sufferers after the bloody contest.