Rare and important pamphlet written in the wake of the intervention of the French Revolutionary intervention in the Dutch, Batavian, affairs: a emotional appeal to all inhabitants of the Province of Overijssel for the establishment and meeting of a National Convention in The Hague, written on behalf of the Patriots of Overijssel organized as the Provisionele Representanten van het Volk van Overijssel (Provisional representatives of the people of Overijssel).
The appeal, calling for a federal organization of the Batavian Republic, is signed by the Clerk of the Representatives, the well-known Deventer historian and politician Gerhard Dumbar Jr. (1743-1802), a friend of Joan Derk van der Capellen tot de Pol and writer of a work on the new American federal structure of government. Probably he is also the main author of this pamphlet.
Edges slightly frayed, wrappers very slightly worn, but overall in good condition. STCN 203976630 (4 copies); not in Knuttel; cf. C.W. van der Pot, De twee Dumbars, in: Overijsselse portretten (1958), pp. 123-142; G.J. Mekking, Mr. Gerhard Dumbar, een verlicht historicus?, in: Overijsselse hist. bijdr. (1985), pp. 167-193.