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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
A Confession: the war: an adoption: confidence in fortune sometimes
necessary hateful character of a spy: a motive for travelling: a
moral: anecdote of a royal description: miseries of a Dutch galliot :
Calvin and Servetus: religion and a rope's end: Dutch anecdote of
fortitude: anecdote of a Newfoundland dog: appearance of Holland
from the sea: its coast: a dilemma: the Maas river: anecdote of
Napoleon; of a Dutch woman: a disaster: Rotterdam described:
leaning houses
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CHAPTER II
The boompies: Bayle: prerogatives of genius: Spanish inscriptions:
a Dutch dinner: Dutch beggars: a good bargain: anecdotes of some
members of the Batavian executive body: anecdotes of the passion of
the Dutch for traffic: anecdote of Lord Nelson and the Dey of Tunis:
hereditary dresses: the Exchange of Rotterdam; anecdotes of the
English there several anecdotes of the King and Queen of Holland:
public opinion of them: duty of a tourist
CHAPTER III.
Commission countenances: physiognomies compared: homage paid to
genius: Erasmus's statue : inscription; revolutionary whims : learned
gallantry kisses: anecdotes of Erasmus: cathedral of Saint Law-
rence the rival organ: charity schools: public examinations: ef-
fects of education on the public mind: his Grace the Duke of Bed-
ford Mr. Lancaster's school
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The coins practice of vails-giving in Holland: fruit and vegetable
sellers: Dutch passion for scrubbing and mopping: whimsical sar-
casm of a traveller: singular offence offered to a chamber-maid:
Dutch prints of Lord Nelson: treatment of our countrymen at Ver-
dun: Dutch compared with the Chinese: private collections of paint-
ings brief anecdote of the Vanderwerfs : remarks on Dutch and
Flemish schools: Dorpt; anecdotes of distinguished persons there:
anecdote of Cowper: interposition of Providence
CHAPTER V.
Licensed brothels; remark upon them: Dutch literary meeting de-
scribed spitting pots : pipes, Dutch extravagant in them; smoking;
historical anecdote of tobacco: general temperance of the Dutch :
arbitrary power of police masters: travelling in Holland very cheap
and very agreeable: canal to Delft: Dutch sawing mills: English
circular masonry mills: Dutch language: specimen of the English,
Dutch, and German languages
CHAPTER VI.
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Dexterity of boatmen Overchie: Dutch gingerbread: a French say-
ing: Delft china: Delft: Dutchman's remark on the war:
church anecdote of Grotius: affectionate stratagem: Grotius's re-
marks on education: Barneveldt: noble female anecdote: the caril-
lons: carilloneurs: Dutch frugality towards the dead : revolutionary
moderation firmness of manufacturers
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CHAPTER VII.
Spirited remonstrance: anecdote of a regicide: interesting anecdote of
Frank Hals and Vandyke: a Dutch Bloomfield: delightful passage
to the Hague Dutch discussion of Desdemona's wish: Ryswick:
approach to the Hague: Dutch review: old and new constitutions
compared: brief review of the antient constitution of Holland; also
of the political history: remarks on the Princes of the house of
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Remarks on the last Stadtholder: also on the Princess of Orange: her
presumption and indiscretion: hatred of the Dutch to the House of
Orange Fête at the Hague on the flight of that family. Reasons as-
signed for the progress of the French arms: for the glorious triumph
of British prowess. Conduct of the new government towards some
of the servants of the old: the new constitution of Holland
CHAPTER IX.
Grand entry of King and Queen into Holland: opening of the meeting
of their High Mightinesses: anecdote of royal economy: the Hague
described: Lady W. Montagu's remarks rebutted: pretty female
faces: a Dutch nursery: Dutch mode of increasing animal heat :
the wood its sanctity: the palace formerly called the House in the
Wood: anecdote of King William the Third: unostentatious habits
of the Orange family: charming jaunt to Scheveling: a marine
hotel: Mr. Fox
CHAPTER X.
Historical anecdote of Scheveling: anecdote of Lord Nelson: a marine
scene. Passion of Dutch for flowers not subsided. Veneration of
Dutch for storks: causes of it: quails and swans: humourous blun-
der of a Dutch waiter: universal industry: dogs and goats: the
theatre: theatrical economy: prodigal procreation. Present state of
the Hague: state of literature there brief anecdote of Daniel My-
tens of John Hanneman of John le Duc, or the Brave
CHAPTER XI.
Vegetable problems. Approach to Leyden: general description of that
town: the town-hall: celebrated picture of Lucas Van Leyden : anec-
dote of that painter: also of Karel de Moor: picture of the siege of
Leyden description of that horrible siege: generous and heroic
conduct of the Dutch women: also of Peter Adrian: the mount: uni-
versity of Leyden: the students: anecdotes of Boerhaave: Peter
the Great: genius and diffidence: confidence in Providence: monu-
ment of Boerhaave
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The botanic garden: the celebrated antient palm busts and statues :
theatre of anatomy: library and portraits of distinguished persons:
museum of natural history: attractions of the university: its present
condition severity of its examinations: anecdotes of Rembrandt :
his genius and rapaciousness: a stratagem: criticisms on his works:
Mr. Desenfan's splendid gallery of paintings: John of Leyden his
ambition, cruelty, and fate: Dutch bowing: Saint Peter's church:
anecdote of Russian prisoners
CHAPTER XIII.
The press of Leyden: its staple trade: anecdotes of Gerard Douw: of
Jean Steen: his singular painting of the Deluge: anecdotes of Fran-
cis Mieres: the pictorial contest: anecdote of Vanderwelde: the vil-
lage of Rhynsburg: singular religious association: a curious cus-
tom: explosion at Leyden: conduct of the King. Haarlem : its
celebrated organ described: anecdote of Handel: Mr. Henry Hope's
House
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CHAPTER XIV.
Anecdotes of Lawrence Coster: art of printing how discovered: its ori-
ginality disputed: female fortitude and presence of mind: siege of
Haarlem heroic conduct of the women: brief anecdote of Wouver-
mans of Bamboccio: fatal effects of severe criticism: anecdotes of
Nicholas Berghem and his termagant wife of Ruysdaal: enormous
sluices: approach Amsterdam: its general appearance: a sley:
Erasmus's whimscical description of that city: the stadt-house :
Silence represented as a female: the tower clocks, singular mode of
striking the hour
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CHAPTER XV.
Dungeons in the Stadt-house: treatment of the prisoners: hall of jus-
tice: the torture: criminal trials: capital punishment: anecdote of
a malefactor the bank its former and present state: popular tu-
mult: effects of diffusive education: public fête at Amsterdam: dan-
cing Dutchmen: the Beguines: ladies of Holland: house-rent: the
water of Amsterdam
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Police fires: laws relating to debtors; ditto to bankrupts: the aans-
preekers singular custom : the trokenkorb: the streets: insalubrity
of stagnant canals: societies for recovering drowned persons: noble
conduct of the Emperor Alexander: Polish gratitude: Austria: the
exchange: a Dutch merchant: herring fishery
CHAPTER XVII.
Former commerce of the Dutch: Batavia: anecdotes of national fru
gality exchange and banking business: commercial house of Messrs.
Hope: Jew fruit-sellers: marine school: the rasp-house: the work-
house: the plantation: priests how supported: parish registers: the
poor literary societies: Felix Meritus : modern Dutch painters
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Dutch theatre: theatrical traffic: the rondell: singular village of
Brock Saardam: cottage of Peter the Great: climate, divisions,
and population of Holland: journey to Zeyst: Dutch fond of coffee:
small farms picture of a Dutch peasant's nest; effects of industry:
palace of Soestdyke: pyramid raised in honor of Bonaparte: society
of Herrenhuthers; their house and internal arrangements described
CHAPTER XIX.
The mall of Utrecht: a gasconade: the Rhine: conquest of Utrecht :
the cathedral: beautiful lines: anecdotes of distinguished persons
born at Utrecht; the antient inhabitants: a direction: the city of
Arnheim anecdote of Beck: Duchy of Berg: Cleves: anecdote of
Flink a tedious form: anecdote of brown bread: the contrast: the
reception: Bonaparte's hatred of English
CHAPTER XX.
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Dusseldorf described; its inhabitants; the grand ducal court: anec-
dote of Murat: a double entendre: the flying bridge: Cologne: a
contraband peep: the cathedral: a collection of gods: a bon mot :
priestly mummery: anecdote of an archbishop of Cologne: anecdote
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