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HIS Majeſty being earneſtly Entreated by the States of Holland, and the Confederate Princes in Germany, &c. to meet at a General Congreſs, to be held at the Hague, in order to Concert matters for the next Campaign, was pleaſed to Condeſcend to their Requeſt, and hazard His Royal Perſon by Sea, (though in the depth of Winter) His Noble Zeal for the Good of us in particular, and Europe in general, ſurmounting all thoſe Difficulties: […]

[H]e ordered his ſervants to pack up ſome cloaths and linnen in a portmanteau; and in the morning embarked, with his governor, in the Treckſkuyt, for the Hague, whither he pretended to be called by ſome urgent occaſion, leaving his fellow-travellers to make his apology to their friends; and aſſuring them, that he would not proceed for Amſterdam, without their ſociety. He arrived at the Hague in the forenoon, and dined at an ordinary frequented by officers and people of faſhion; […]

Mr. Pitt [i.e., William Pitt the Younger] presented, by his Majesty's command, a copy of the defensive alliance between his Majesty and the States General of the United Provinces, signed at the Hague, the 15th of April 1788; and translation.

At this period, I had never been at Rotterdam or the Hague—which must sufficiently attest the wilful malignity of those by whom this report was sent forth from hence. As a General Officer, who had voluntarily retired from the most distinguished Army on Earth, I could have no motive of pride or concealment for putting on the title of an Admiral—in a Navy which has never existed: besides, the American minister was then at the Hague, so that any attempt to figure under a borrowed or supposed character, could only have originated in folly—and must have entailed immediate and eternal disgrace on the actor.

The fishermen convey their fish to the Hague in carts drawn by dogs (the animals are large and strong); and when they have completed their sales, return home in the empty carts drawn by their canine steeds.

Side by side with the teetotal society, there is, at the Hague, a Neerlandish Society for the Prohibition of Strong Drinks, whose President—Heer J. L. de Jonge—described himself as a nephalist.

I went to a concert in the Zoological Gardens at the Hague, and thence to supper at one of the principal cafés.

It was as if Belonging lay in some ivory-inlaid credenza in the Hague, waiting to be opened before expiration date.

"I'm going to the Hague to see Mr Milosevic at his request," he told CBC radio before leaving Canada. "All of us feel he's being railroaded and used as a scapegoat for Nato's attack on Yugoslavia.