the pleasure of the King. It is The Legislative Assembly meets supposed to meet regularly during twice a year for a period of six two months of the year. weeks: April 15 to June 1, and The King proposes the laws. The December 1 to January 15. Legislative Assembly has no right All laws are proposed by the of discussion. Can accept a law or Raadpensionaris. The Legislative veto it. Assembly does not have the right The country is divided into nine of debate, but has the right of departments. Drenthe is revived as veto. a separate department. The same division of the The old Departmental Estates, are country as before. brought immediately under the The cities continue to regain influence of the King, who appoints their old sovereign rights. his own officers (Land-drost). The autonomy of the cities is again lost. BIBLIOGRAPHY GIVING THE DETAILS OF THE RESURRECTION OF HOLLAND IN 1812 For this period we have, as may be seen from the following list of books, very few memoirs, only a limited number of newspapers, and no books which show us in detail the inside work of the big and little political events of the day. The rôle which the Batavian Republic played was so little flattering that the chief participants in the drama of national decadence preferred not to chronicle their own adventures between the years 1795 and 1815 and expose their private conduct to the public judgment of their children and grandchildren. THE BATAVIAN REPUBLIC Van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek, the only source of information for the lives of many of the men of this period. Appelius, J.H., de staatsomwenteling van 1795 in haren aard, loop en gevolgen beschouwd. Leiden, 1801. D'Auzon de Boisminart W.P., Gedenkschriften, 1788-1840. The Hague, 1841-1843. Bas, F. de, De overgave van de Bataafsche vloot in 1795. Utrecht, 1884. Berkhey, J. le Francq van, de Bataafsche menschelykheid enz. Leiden, 1801. Beynen, G.J.W. Koolemans, Het Terugtrekken van Daendels in 1799 uit de Zype naar de Schermer. Leiden, 1898. Blok, P.J., Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche volk. The new standard history in eight volumes. Translated into English. The part treating of the last hundred years of the Dutch Republic has not been translated as fully as the earlier history. Bouwens, R.L., aan zyne committenten over het politiek en finantieel gedrag der ministers van het vorige bewind. Amsterdam, 1797. Brauw, W.M. de, de Departmenten van Algemeen Bestuur in Nederland sedert de omwenteling van 1795. Utrecht, 1864. Brougham, Henry Lord, Life and Times, written by himself. Edinburgh, 1871. This book contains a description of a voyage through the Batavian Republic in the year 1804. Byleveld, H.J.J., de geschillen met Frankryk betreffende Vlissingen sedert 1795 tot 1806. The Hague, 1865.