25 May 1804

Evidence

7.

Forthcomingness

Ch. Extraction.

§.3 Non Party

hatched in any such country as the Belgic Low countries, is a measure of hostility and mischief, for the laying of the country under water to an indefinite extent, by the cutting of the dykes. How reasonable soever may be the cause of justification or extermation[?] in any of these cases on the part of any of the parties concerned, the mischief impending over the head of the destined victims is not the less serious, nor the inducements /call upon them/ to employ the most effectual measures for the averting of it the less impressive.