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172 almost unlimited favour and belief. When the conquest of the republic became inevitable, the editors and proprietors of this journal, who had rendered themselves thoroughly obnoxious to the French and the republican party, by their daily abuse of the revolution and their entire devotion to the stadtholder, quitted Leyden with precipitation. Since that period the gazette of Leyden has been conducted by men of diametrically opposite opinions and partialities, and it now breathes a spirit of hostility to Great Britain as implacable as that of any paper which is published within the territories of the Batavian republic. I should not omit to mention that to every Dutch newspaper, as well as to all the proclamations and ordinances of the Batavian directory, the Words vreyheidvryheid [sic], gelykberdgelykheid [sic], and broderschapbroederschap [sic] liberty, equality, and fraternity, are prefixed. They pay an inconsiderable duty to the state, and do not much exceed, one fourth of the price of an English newspaper.

In the centre of Leyden is a tumulus, or