John Cary was a well known, well respected, and well-trusted cartographer in Britain in the later 18th century and early 19th century. In this map which he produced in 1804, he produces an extremely detailed map of the Netherlands and Northern France focussing on the Netherlands. Like the other British maps, Cary acknowledges territory that would become Belgium as separate from France. However, this map does not take objection to all of France's territorial gains during the Revolutionary/Napoleonic Era. The title of the map reads "New Map of the Netherlands also of that Part of Germany Westward of the Rhine as Ceded to the French and Divided Into Several Departments." This map was created two years after an initial peace treaty, the Treaty of Amiens, was signed between France and Britain, but yet Britain did not officially recognize the territory of Belgium as part of France by the terms of the treaty. It would be beneficial to know how tied to the government the authority patronizing the creation of this map was, so it could be determined if this was an active attempt by the British government to keep French possession of Belgium out of public conscienceness or if this map is a more natural reflection of British public conception of this territory.
