Book Chapter

HISTORY OF EUROPE: CHAPTER III

1791

Overview

Miserable Effects of Newfangled and Democratical Principles (pg. 46). Patriotic Assembly instituted at Brussels (pg. 46). Their Reasonings and Claims (pg. 46-47). Political Constitution of the Provinces of the Netherlands (pg. 47-49). The Principles and Pretensions of the Patriotic Assembly offensive to the Nobility and Clergy (pg. 49). Means employed by these Orders for quashing the Doctrines of the Democrats (pg. 49). Effects of these (pg. 49). State of Parties (pg. 49-50). Preponderating Influence of the Clergy (pg. 50-51). Measures taken by the Nobility for the Recovery of their Popularity (pg. 51). Without any considerable Effect (pg. 51). Popular Discontents rise to a Pitch of Restlessness and Commotion (pg. 51-52). Troops employed for the Preservation of the Peace (pg. 52). Jealousies between the ruling Powers and the Leaders of the Army (pg. 52). General Vandermersch arrests Deputies sent with Orders to the Army from the Congress (pg. 52). Declared Generalissimo by the Officers of the Army (pg. 52). Other Encroachments in the Power of Congress (pg. 52-53). Vandermersch suddenly and shamefully abandoned by the Army (pg. 53). Imprisoned in the Citadel of Antwerp (pg. 53). Charges brought against him (pg. 53). Duke of Unsel persecuted by Congress (pg. 53-54). The Congress becomes unpopular and odious to the Bulk of the People (pg. 54). Imprisonment of Vandermersch resented by his Countrymen the People of Flanders (pg. 54). Declining State of the new Government (pg. 54). Expectations from the Accession of Leopold II. to the Austrian Dominions (pg. 54-55). Almost, though not entirely disappointed (pg. 55). Memorial of Leopold to the Inhabitants of the Netherlands (pg. 55). Criticisms on that Piece (pg. 55). Conduct of Leopold vindicated (pg. 55-56). Character of Sovereign Princes in general (pg. 56-57). The Firmness of Leopold revives a Party in his Favour (pg. 57). Quick Increase of the Loyalists, in both Numbers and Courage (pg. 57-58). Arguments in Favour of a Reunion with the House of Austria, and of Hereditary Monarchy in general (pg. 58). Letter to Congress from the King of Prussia (pg. 58). Blind Ambition, Obstinacy, and Rashness of Congress (pg. 58-59). Notification to Congress of the Terms of Reconciliation between his Imperial Majesty and the Belgic Nation (pg. 59-60). Consented to by the three allied and mediating Powers (pg. 60). Strange Obstinacy of Congress (pg. 60). A Degree of Reunion among the discordant Parties in the Netherlands brought about by a common Hatred of the Austrian Government (pg. 60). Hostilities renewed with great Animosity (pg. 60). Two of the Provinces that remained in Obedience to the Austrians (pg. 60). A great Resource to the Austrians (pg. 60). Rapid Growth of Ambition (pg. 60). Character of the Brabanters (pg. 60). Wild Schemes of Conquest (pg. 60-61). Repulse of the Brabanters from Limbourg (pg. 61). Various Encounters (pg. 61). A large Austrian Army marches against the Low Countries (pg. 61-62). Attempts of Congress to rouze the Nation to Perseverance in Arms against the Austrians (pg. 62). Made in vain (pg. 62). Various Proposals for Reconciliation (pg. 62-63). Rejected by the Austrians (pg. 63). The Austrians, under General Bender, enter Brabant (pg. 63). All the Provinces submit again, on very favourable Conditions, to the House of Austria (pg. 63-64). Reflections (pg. 64).

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