HOLLAND;

commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783.

By JOHN ANDREWS L.L.D.

In Four Volumes with Portraits Maps and Charts.

Vol.I.

LONDON,

Published by his Majesty's Royal Licence and Authority.
For JOHN FIELDING,Pater Nofter Row and JOHN JARVIS in the Strand.

MD CCLXXXV.

53. a.88.

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EORGE the THIRD, by the Grace of GOD, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, and IRELAND, DEFENDER of the FAITH, &c. To all to whom thefe Prefents fhall come greeting: Whereas JOHN FIELDING, of Paternoiter-Row, in the City of London, Bookteller, and JOHN JARVIS, of the Strand, in the Liberty of Weftminster, Printer, have by their Petition humbly reprefented unto Us, That the Petitioners have been at great Expence and Labour in preparing for the Prefs an HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the WAR with AMERICA, FRANCE, SPAIN, and HOLLAND, commencing in the year 1775, and ending with the Definitive Treaty in the year 1783; written by JOHN ANDREWS, Doctor of Laws that the Operations of Qur Fleets and Armies having been more extended than in any War carried on under the auspices of a British Monarch, and the Petitioners being unwilling to conceal any Fame juftly acquired by Our Subjects, have fought for and obtained Information Military, Naval, and Political, from all the four Quarters of the Globe: That the Petitioners have alío employed the firft Artifts of our Kingdom to Engrave the Copperplates (a part of the Work) from original Drawings, and from the best Charts; and the Petitioners are defirous of reaping the Fruits of their Expences and Labour, and of enjoying the full Profit and Benefit of Printing and Vending this Work, without any Perfon interfering in their just Property, and which the Petitioners cannot prevent without Our Royal Licence and Privilege; the Petitioners therefore moft humbly pray, We will be pleafed to grant unto them Our Royal Licence and Privilege, for the fole Printing, Publishing, and Vending the laid Work, in as ample manner and form as has been done in cafes of the like nature. We being willing to give all due Encouragement to this Undertaking, are gracioufly pleafed to condefcend to the Petitioners Requeft; and Wedo therefore, by thefe Prefents, as far as may be agreeable to the Statute in that cafe made and provided, grant unto them the faid JOHN FIELDING and JOHN JARVIS, their Executors, Adminiftrators, and Affigns, OUR VOL. I. No. I. ROYAL

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ROYAL LICENCE AND AUTHORITY, for the fole Printing, Publishing, and Vending the faid Work for the term of fourteen Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, ftrictly forbidding all our Subjects within our Kingdoms or Dominions, to Reprint or Abuse the fame, either in the like, or in any fize or manner whatever; or to Import, Buy, Vend, Utter, or Diftribute any Copies thereof Reprinted beyond the Seas, during the faid term of fourteen Years, without the confent or approbation of the faid JOHN FIELDING and JOHN JARVIS, their Executors, Adminiftrators, and Affigns, under their Hands and Seals, firft had and obtained, as they will anfwer the contrary at their peril. Whereof the Commiffioners and other Officers of our Cuftoms, the Mafter, Wardens and Company of Stationers are to take notice, that due obedience be rendered to Our Pleasure herein declared. Given at Our Court at St. James's, the first Day of June, 1785, in the Twenty-fifth Year of Our Reign.

By His Majefty's Command.

SYDNEY,

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INTRODUCTION.

Nation ever terminated a war more to its advantage and glory, than that which Great Britain carried on against the united powers of France and Spain, and concluded by the Treaty of Paris, in one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-three.

The ftrength of the British nation had been. conducted by the most spirited and fortunate Minister that ever prefided over its councils, and had been exerted with a vigour and energy unexampled in any preceding æra; an uninterrupted series of fucceffes attended it in every quarter of the globe, and victories followed each other by fea and land, that aftonished all Europe, and thoroughly subdued the fpirit and broke the ftrength of the enemy.

The terms of the pacification that ended this memorable conteft, though not fo advantageous, in the opinion of fome, as the state of this country on the one fide feemed to claim and to expect, and the depreft fituation of its enemies might, on the other, have submitted, ftill they were fuch as exalted the British monarchy to a degree of fplendor and power that rendered it equally the envy, the admiration, and the terror of Europe.

By this treaty Great Britain remained en