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Historic letters
The
Kew Letters
(also known as the
Circular Note of Kew
) were a number of letters, written by
stadtholder
William V, Prince of Orange
between 30 January and 8 February 1795 from the "Dutch House" at
Kew Palace
, where he temporarily stayed after his trip to England on 18 January 1795. The letters were written in his capacity of
Captain-general
of the
Dutch Republic
to the civil and military authorities in the provinces of
Zeeland
and
Friesland
(that had not yet capitulated at the time), to the officers commanding Dutch naval vessels in British harbours and to Dutch colonial governors. It urged them to continue resistance in cooperation with Great Britain against the armed forces of the
French Republic
that had invaded the Dutch Republic and forced him to flee to England. In particular the letters to the colonial governors played an important role, because they ordered them to surrender those colonies to the British.
The governors of
Malacca
,
Amboina
, and West
Sumatra
complied without a fight.
Cochin
surrendered after a brief bombardment. The rest of the Dutch enclaves in southern
India
and seaside
Sri Lanka
were quickly taken as well. Elsewhere, though the governors did not comply with the order to put their military installations at British disposal, many were confused and demoralised by the letters.
In the 1801
Oranienstein Letters
, William V and his son did recognise the
Batavian Republic
, and renounced their hereditary stadtholderate.
References
[
edit
]
- Israel, J.I.
(1995),
The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477-1806
,
Oxford University Press
,
ISBN
0-19-873072-1
hardback,
ISBN
0-19-820734-4
paperback, p. 1127
- (in Dutch)
Woelderink, B. and Muij-Fleurke, H.J. de
(2005)
Inventaris van de archieven van stadhouder Willem V (1745?1808) en de Hofcommissie van Willem IV en Willem V (1732?1794)
, Uitgeverij Verloren,
ISBN
90-6550-890-2
, p. 102 (No. 1007)
- Andrew Porter
(2001)
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century
,
Oxford University Press
,
ISBN
0199246785
Paperback, p. 374
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