Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

How far the conquest of Holland by the French would affect Great Britain, the following extract from a London ministerial paper will shew.

Gen. Adv.

It becomes a measure of self defence ; and even if no treaty exists between this country and the Seven United Provinces, policy would require us to come forward and stand between them and danger-Let any man examine the position of Holland, and say, how long the amazing commerce of G. Britain would survive the conquest of that country, and whether the maritime trade of England would not be crippled, perhaps destroyed if the French in possession of a range of coast from the Western extremity of the British channel, from Brest to Ostend, should acquire Amsterdam, as they have done Antwerp, and establish their power on what is called the German ocean ? These are considerations which cannot be overlooked. They are offered to the cool reflection of men of all parties and of all principles. They are not meant to libel faction, or to satirize Ministers, but to point out the extreme danger which this country has to apprehend, if the French should over-run Holland. and add the Seven United Provinces to their dominion. To rescue that country from a yoke that would curb it and crush it, and the British empire from a calamity of such direful extent, are duties which we owe no less to sound policy than humanity. And the Dutch taught by the melancholy fate of their neighbours, what they have to expect from French fraternity, will certainly, for their own sakes, join their best efforts to those of a generous and faithful ally--the only faithful ally they ever had to preserve themselves from beggary and slaughter.