The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

June 1. By Saturday's Dutch mail we have received the following authentic copy of the answer delivered by the Stadtholder to the Deputies appointed by the States of Holland and West Friezland, to enquire into the truth of a report charging his Highness with having entered into a written agreement with the Duke of Brunswick, whose advice the Prince engaged to follow exclusively.

"I make no difficulty to put in my answer, which I request the gentlemen Deputies will report to the States of Holland and West Friezland. I am no ways biased or interrupted by the Field Marshal Duke of Brunswick, in my disposition to give such orders as might have tended to screen the frontiers of that state from any attack whatever. And, although I am not bound to give an account of my conduct as Captain-General of the Union to any one, yet I am ready to shew my compliance to the desire of their Great and Noble Mightinesses, by communicating to them, if agreeable, the reasons and motives by which I have been induced not to send any great number of troops towards the frontiers before the States entered into the resolution come to on the 7th instant.

As to the written engagement between me and the aforesaid Duke, which took place on the 3d of May, 1766, I never confirmed it by oath. Hearing of the reports equally malicious and void of foundation, which had been industriously circulated, I had resolved to hold this transaction no longer secret, I shall not fail to lay an authentic copy of the instrument alluded to before their Noble and Great Mightinesses.

William, Prince van Orange."

Hague, May 14, 1784.