Dutch merchant ships leaving Portsmouth harbour on June 2, 1833. From an etching dated 1835 by Robert Havell after John Christian Schetky. England had embargoed twelve Dutch ships in 1832 to put pressure on William of Orange to support Leopold’s election as first King of the Belgians after the country gained independence from the Netherlands. This picture is one of a set of three showing the ships leaving England after the lifting of the embargo.

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