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Rh and security, which have so long been banished from our land, will again take up their abode with us, and form the source of our common felicity.

It is for these most desirable ends that I offer up my prayers to the Almighty, that he may grant us his divine blessing; that he may afford us all, and particularly to me whom this assembly has favoured with such a mark of its confidence, his paternal assistance; and that he may turn the efforts which we are about to make to the happiness of a people so long outraged, influenced, and oppressed.

C.

BANK OF AMSTERDAM.

Gazette Extraordinary of Amsterdam, Feb. 5, 1795.

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY.

HE provisional representatives of the people of Amsterdam, deeming it of the last importance to the commerce of this city that the public should be informed of the state of its bank, styled the Bank of Exchange, and that the credit of the said bank should not be impeached,