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The Activities of S.C. Nederburgh as Commissioner-General (1791–1799)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

J.J. Steur
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In 1790 the Dutch East India Company was in a bad way. The Fourth Anglo-Dutch war had had disastrous consequences for the Company, and it had not been able to recover from them. At the end of the accounting year 1789–90 debts in the Netherlands amounted already to f 91.1 million. The deficit in that year alone had been f 11.3 million. In Asia the capital was still f 23.5 million, but the losses nevertheless amounted to nearly f 13 million.1 In 1788 the States of Holland had given f 21 million in aid, on the basis of a plan for reform, but it was clear to everyone that this situation could not continue.

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Itinerario , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , July 1985 , pp. 212 - 224
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1985

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Notes

1. de Korte, J.C., De jaarljkse financiële verantwoording in de V.O.C. (Leiden, 1984), appendix 8C, 10D and 14.Google Scholar

2. Steur, J.J., Herstel of ondergang. De voorstellen tot redres van de V.O.C. (Utrecht, 1984), 177.Google Scholar

3. Steur, J.J., Herstel of ondergang, 178–183.Google Scholar

4. Nederburgh collection, ARA, 171.

5. Simon Hendrik Frijkenius (1747–1797) was born in.Wijk bij Duurstede in a regent family. As a Naval Commander, he had made various journeys to both the West and the East Indies. His salary began at f 75.000 a year.

6. Mr. Willem Arnold Alting (1724–1800) left for the East in 1750 as an under-merchant. In 1777 he was appointed, as Director-General and in 1780 as Governor General.

7. Hendrik van Stockum (1739–1793) went to the East in 1754 as a ships boy. In 1789 he was appointed Director General.

8. Willem Jacob van de Graaff (1737–1804) went to the East in 1756. In 1776 he was appointed Director of Surat and in 1785 Governor of Ceylon.

9. Number one of the nomination list was D.A. Meerman van der Goes. He had been second advocate of the V.O.C. until 1783 and at that time he was Pensionaris of Amsterdam.

10. Nederburgh Collection, 169 and 170.

11. Nederburgh Collection, 224. Nederburgh toStadhouder and the Holland-Zeeland Staatscommissie, 1 07 1795Google Scholar.

12. Johannes Siberg (1740–1817) left for the East in 1757 as constable's mate. In 1780 he became Governor of the North-East coast of Java.

13. Nederburgh Collection, 220. Nederburgh to Roadpensionaris Spiegel, Van der, 2 10 1794Google Scholar.

14. Nederburgh Collection, 880. Frijkenius to Daniels, 31 March 1795.

15. Nederburgh Collection, 223. General Commission toHeren XVII, 30 11 1794Google Scholar.

16. Nederburgh Collection, 221. Nederburgh toStadhouder Willem V, 30 November 1794.

17. Nederburgh Collection, 224.

18. Nederburgh Collection, 220.

19. Nederburgh Collection, 222. General Commission to Stadhouder Willem, V and Heren XVII, 25 03 1794Google Scholar.

20. Nederburgh Collection 220.

21. Nederburgh Collection 222.

22. Nederburgh Collection 825. Correspondence between Nederburgh and Van de Graaff.

23. Nederburgh Collection 224.

24. Nederburgh Collection 220.

25. Nederburgh Collection 224.

26. Nederburgh Collection 880.

27. Nederburgh Collection 881. Frijkenius to his wife, 1 April 1795.

28. This is largely based on:

SchutteDe, G.J.Patriotten en de kolonien. Een onderzoek naar nun denkbeelden en optreden 1770–1800 (Groningen, 1974), 157–161;Google ScholarBerg, N.P. van der, “De Bataviasche Decemberbeweging van 1795”, Uit de dagen der Compagnie (Haarlem, 1904), 256–304;Google Scholar Nederburgh Collection 827. Nederburgh to Heren XVII, 22 December 1795.

29. Nederburgh Collection, 224.

30. Nederburgh had himself drafted this honerating statement, and the Hoge Regeering adopted its contents.

31. Nederburgh Collection, 827.

32. Nederburgh Collection, 224.

33. Berg, N.P. van der, “Een conflict tussen de regering en de Raad van Justitie 1795”, Uit de dagen der Compagnie (Haarlem, 1904) 230–231.Google Scholar

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35. Nieuw Nederlandsch Biographisch Woordenboek.

36. Schutte, De Patriotten en de koloniën, 151.

37. Idem, 153.

38. Nederburgh Collection, 224.