Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

The following admirable Address is copied from a Greenock paper of August 29.

HOLLAND.

The following Address, it is said, has been privately circulated in Amsterdam, and other parts of Holland:

"HOLLANDERS,

REMEMBER your ancestors: exert all your energies in support of those principles for which they contended, and the rights which they have bequeathed to you. You are reminded by your tyrant of Tromp and Ruyter. Let the names and the memory of those heroes inspire you with equal zeal in asserting the dignity and freedom of your country.

Would they have stooped to a foreign tyrant?

Would they have re-
But you should remember Nassau and De Witts. With what horror must the earth behold the degraded condition of their country, now the scorn and the victim of a barbarous ruffian, who tramples upon every thing held sacred among mankind!

It is said that your oppressor is country, in order to carry ..: about to of the people whom he has enslaved, a land which brought Your tyrant then be in your and by one bold effort of national energy you may release yourselves and the suffering world from the monster who has abused you more than any despot that history has recorded.

It is true that he has sent a powerful army into your country, in order to confirm your bondage, and prevent all resistance. But powerful as that army is, it would sink before the energy of a whole national exertion; besides, that army cannot be so insensible to all human obligations as the tyrant who directs them.— They know how lavish he is of human blood, and how many of their countrymen he has sent to inevitable destruction in Spain and that as many more must fall victims to his ambition before he can succeed in sub- ducing it, even if his outrageous and wicked attack upon its independence should at last be triumphant. Appeal to the army who have been sent to rivet your chains. Remind them of their efforts in pursuit of what they deemed liberty. Remind them of their lawful monarch, who is now a fugitive and a dependent on the generosity of another state. Endeavor to impress them with a sense of the disgrace which they will certainly entail upon themselves if they continue to fight merely to gratify the cruel ambition of a wretch who is the enemy of human nature. Inured as they are to spoliation and to slaughter, they cannot be so utterly callous to every sense of justice, and every feeling of humanity, as the tyrant who drives them to acts of desolation, from the impulse of the most savage ambition and unrelenting ferocity. Though the degraded soldiers of a tyrant, they still are men, and may be roused into a conviction of what is due to an unoffending and independent nation,

The tyrant has shown by his treatment of his brother, whom he forced, in violation of all your hereditary principles as republicans, to acknowledge as your king, how little mercy you have reason to expect at his hands. Yet you endured that phantom of a king, because he seemed disposed to rule over you with mildness, and to regard the interests of your country. This mildness, and this regard for your welfare, were crimes not to be expiated in the eyes of his unnatural brother, and Louis was obliged to abandon a throne which he was compelled to adopt, and which was only a seat of thorns to him while he possessed it. Hence you may infer what a lamentable fortune awaits you if you calmly submit to the dominion of the tyrant. He will inflict ten fold vengeance on you, and you will hereafter vainly writhe in the pangs of misery and despair. Recall to your minds your former triumphs, and let the glowing recollection impel you to emulate the virtue and the valor of your forefathers, who rescued you from foreign oppression, and completed your independence as a people. Be assured that the tyrant trembles on his throne, and a glorious exertion on your part would tend effectually to hurl him from the eminence which he has gained by unparalleled turpitude. He sees by the desertion of his soldiers in Spain, how hateful to them is the cause in which they are engaged, and be assured that the cause is only dear to his generals, who know that their security depends upon the continuance of his power, and that his downfall would be the certain presage of their own. Even and would most readily be content with those generals heartily detest their tyrant, rejoice in the destruction of so oppressive & so insulting a master, if they had reason to believe that they could escape in the wreck of his fortune.
Hollanders, the awful suffer the present moment to pass without a ful crisis of your fate has arrived—If you will be lost as a people forever, and must bold assertion of national vengeance, you hereafter be the wretched victims of foreign domination. How glorious is the opportunity which presents itself to you! what an example will you hold forth to the enslaved nations of Europe! You will recover your so wantonly and barbarously deprived; and regain the rights of which you have been you will transmit those rights to the latest posterity, who will look back upon your success with pious gratitude, with rever- We invite circulation. Reflect that the descendant of the House of Orange, of ancestors, protectors of your country, is now a wanderer from his native land, nor can you do better than invite him to your shores, and invest him with the station, and the esteem which is enjoyed. He will have learned the duties the privileges which his ancestors... He will look with love and veneration on a people of adversity and... who invested him with those which his family have recovered their rights, and respecting enjoyed. But however you may determine hin, do not forget what is due the recovery of your independence the repose on you, and other states would find in to yourselves. The eyes of all Europe are pause a moment; arise as one man; you Zoration of their own. Hollanders, do not are many; your enemy is in himself but a veak individual, and the hearts of all man- kind are against him. Renoun or infamy. freedom or bondage, depend upon yourselves at this eventful crisis. If you rise in iresistible. Assure yourselves that the the fullness of national might, you will be efforts of other countries will be the result of your heroic vindication of your rights. The tyrant will be confused and distracted by a general revolt of the enslaved conti- nent. He will fall in the struggle; man- kind will exult in the event, and history will proudly record your triumph as a dread- ful warning to oppression, and a glorious example for mankind."