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I 'ROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. • WAR DRPARTMENT. DWNING-STRIZT, Drennan 14, Is 6 . • •A Letter, of which the following is an exttactdps this day • been received by Earl • Baihurst, Atilt Major-General Taylor, dated the Hague, Deism ber 11, 1813. It is with the greatest Satisfaction • that I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship, that the Allies are in possession of the• two important fortiesses of Breda and Williamstadti' which have been aban doned by the enemy. From a person who hit seen General Benkeadorff this morning, I understand that upon the approach of three •hundred,Cossicki, who had spread the.re port that they were theeadvanced guard of ten thou sand Russians, the garrison of Breda, consisting of eighteen hundred men, had marched out, but the Cossacks having penetrated' into the town before the evacuation was completed; sixlmndred of the garri son had fallettinto their hlnds. Genial Benkendorff proposed going to Breda liimself to-morrow, and wilt . Frobably carry with hiin a great proportion . ofthe remainder of kis corps. 1" have not learnt in what,direction the garrison retired. The. evacu.atinnigf -Williamstadt..took placeAast night, in consequence of orders brought by a French' : General, who had arrived from Antwerp. The gar.. . rive, whose numbers are -variously stated at frog: l nine hundred to one -thousand six hundred, retired in: the direction of Bergen-op-Zoom. They left in the place one hundred thousand pounds of powder, one hundred and fifty-two guns mounted and on service able carriages, but spiked, and the supply of provi sions was small. They had taken measures to dei. strof the . flotilla, but had imperfectly executed the intention ; and - it was hoped that the corvette, be sides other vessels, might be saved. They -carried away with them four field-pieces, and are said to have withdrawn the Irish battalion, as soon as they learnt that British troops had landed in Holland. WAR DEPARTMENT. DOWNING-STREET, DECEMBER 14. Dispatches, of which the following are extracts, have been this day received at Earl Bathurst's Office from the Marquis of Wellington, dated St. Jean de Luz, the 22d and 28th of November. November 22, 1813. The rain which commenced on the 11 th instant continued almost without interruption, till the 19th .21 pighti - and'has kit the roads and country in such a ai to be at this moment impra4ticable for any , &tend movement of the army. : 'Lientenant-General Sir" R9Flatid Hill yet trod . the enemy's posts at* tete-cle-iicint it tomb), on the 12th, and again on the 16th the enemy witb. drew from it on the latter day; having blown by the bridge. Nothing of ipportancei has oCcurred- since, except -1;10:Mit-en the 18th instant,. the enemy reconnoitred Lieutenant-General Sir John :Hope's advanced. posts, as which ocCasion . Brigulier-GeisetalW.Bson was un fortunately Wounded: • .•Marshal Sir William Beretford, mi•thi same day, drove the entmy's posts across-the bridge - of Urdains, and established his there. Oil the following morn ing, before day-light, the . enemy made au auempt 'to drive them in and de s t r oy the bridge ; they failed in both attempts, and - the Marshal praises the conduct of the 9th . Portuguese regiment, 'under Colinsel . Stn- . ion; in the first operation, and that of tEe 11th CaSa_', dores, under 'Colonel* Duersback, in both. last reports from Catalonia are dated the 3.1.0 f No tuber, and nothing of importance has occurred. November 28, 1813. Nothing of importance has occurred since I ad dressed yuur Lordship on the .22d instant. The Situation of our line required -that, the ad vanced posts of the light divisim. should be pushed more forward than they were, whi c h uas effected on the 23d ; but the troops having gone rather more forward than was int en d e d, an d having got under the' fire of the entrenched camp near Bayonne, it was.ne cessary to withdraw them, in doing which some loss, of which I enclose a return, was incurred, and Ca ptain Hopkirk,of the 43d, was made prisoner. • My last reports from Catalonia are of the 1&b at which period no change had taken place. . : •. • Retorn of Killed, Wounded, and Missing of the Asimitinisder the Command of his -Exceitenty Field-Mar,hal the Marquis of Wellington, K. G. on the 231 November, 1513. • 43d Foot, Ist Batt.-1 Lieutenant, 1 Serjeant, 15 rank and file, killed: a ,Liegtrutlasa. T Serjeunts, 40 rank and file, wounded I I Captain, 14 rank and file, missing. 95th Foot, lit Batt.-1 Lieutenant, 1 Serjeaxr, 3 rank awl s % wounded. 95th Foot, 3d Batt Serjeant, 2 rank and file wounded. • " Total British Lossl Lieutenant, I Serjeant, 15 rank and file, killed; 2 Lieutenants, 9 Serjeants, 45 rank and file, ' wounded; 1 Captain, 14 rank and file, missing. Total Portuguese Loss-1 rank and file killed. NAME OF OFFICER KILLED. 434 root, let Batt.—Lieutenant Mackay Hugh aims or OFFICERS WOUNDED. 43d Foot, Ist Batt.—Lieutenant Alexander Steele, severely. 95th Foot, Ist Batt,—Lieutenant John Shaft), slightly., i ', NAME OF OFFICER MISSING. . _ 43d Foot—Ciptaln Samuel Hoplurk, wounded and taken prisoner. O (Signed) E. M. PAKENSImit. Adj. Gen. An Order in Council, dated the 13th instant, .declares, That all hoetilitles against the United Provinces of the Nether lands, (save and except such ports or places as may be still in the possession, or under the controul of France,) on the part of his Iviajosty, sl.all immediately cease. £dly, That the blockade of all the ports and places of the said United Provinces, (save 'and except such ports and places as before excepted,) and all other restrictions there on imposed by any Order in Council relating. thereto, shall Ertlawith cease and be discontinued. Silly, 'that all skips and vessels belonging to. the said United Provinces, (save and except vessels coming from, or proceeding to any ports or places in the possession or under the controul of France) shall have free admission into his Majesty's ports, and be permitted to carry on any trade now lawfully carriedeon in the ships of-States - in amity with his Majesty. Another Order in Council, of the date of the above, declares that the blockade of the port of Trieste, and the other portsiad places between Trieste aad the southern extremity of Dalmatia, (save and except sack as are still occupied by the enemy,) shall Jorthwidi case intim cDscontinved. • • • . . [For Military Promodons, Bankraits, Su. see the bat page.] • islitzpornmat r PRPCZEDOW. • HOUSE OF LORDS, DECEMBER 14. • The Royel.Asseat was notified by Commission to the Brandy Bin, the Madder Amendment Bill, the Royal Marine Mutiny Bill, the Temporary Insolvent Debtors' Bill, the Felons' Trans portation Bill, and a Road MIL The Commissioners ,were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, and Lord Waisinghana. With respect to Appeals the Loma Coatecst.tair moved that the Steadies Order be taken intn.consideration tomorrow, with the view filet only one more cause should be heard before the Recess, and that the remaining time for causes previous to that period should be devoted to giving judgments. Respecting the Appeal" Andrew v. Murdoch," his Lordship stated, that it was the wish of the Agent*, on both sides, that Scotch Counsel should be beard on the case, and therefore be proposed that one on each side should be hea rd after the recess, on the queellotts be had formerly stared, and such other questions as any other Noble Lord might in:s9ow • The Landon Militia Enlistment Bill, the Irish IllieitDistilla tion Bill, the Irish Peace Preservation MU, the Frav Imeaking Bill, and the West of England Fire and Life Insuronaelldlorere read a third time and passed. The French Wines Bill, the std,ooo,ooo Exchequer Bills Bill, the Portsmouth Works Bill, the County Fire Office Bill, and-the breperial Insuranie Bill, were brought up from the Commons by Mr.. Arbuthnot, Mr. R. Ward, Sir James Shaw, and other Members, and read a first time. • The East-India Nudes Bill, and the East India Shipping Bill, 011104.1hroogh Committees and were repotted. - - • EAST INDIA CI itcUITOVE.T-RA DE. • . On ehe~tovitst the I econd reading of the East India Circuitous Trade hilt, the Earl of livcstitoirsaiintite °Nerved, tharthis measure was a consequence of the Ace et last Bess:ton, opening the direct trade to India to the merchants .sf this country; it be ing distinctly - understood at the tittle passing that Act, that the • Circuitous Trade to India would also be opened to the British ' nierchlusti, and a clause - referring-to this object having also been introduced into that Act. • '1 his measure, therefore, was the re-. distinct Undernanaing to that effect with the Merchants tinthe one hand, and the Eait IMIla Company on the other, and under tbese.circunistances, he presumed, there could be -no eb jettlon to it. .The. Bill was read a second time and committed for t morrow • ROUSE OF COMMONS. A .Message from the Lord. informed the House, that the Royal Assent had be given by commission to certain public Bills, for which see Lords. .... *- The Imperial Assurance Office 1111 was read A third time and passed. •The Exchequer Bills Bill was read a third time and passed; as also were the French Wince Bill, and the Portsmouth Lands Bill. THE PRINCE OF ORANGE, AND THE ADJOURNMENT OF PARLIAMENT. Sir JAMES. MACKINTOSH rose and observed, that in consequence of having seen in the LONDON GAZETTE of last Saturday a new designation given to his Majesty's Ambassador at the Hague, and a new Sovereignty announced as subsisting in the territory which, in the ancient order of Europe, had been subject to the republic of the United Provinces, (a Government which, after two centuries, generally of the closest amity with England, had at length been destroyed upon the sole and avowed ground of alliance with his Majesty,) he had deemed it his duty to come to the House yesterday as soon as he had seen official and authentic evidence of so great a • revolution, to put a question respecting it to the No. ble Sthetary for Foreign Affairs. Circumstances' known to that Noble Lord had induced him to post pone the question till to-day. He was aware that he was precluded by the usage of Parlament from in troducing it by any preliminary observations;, and if hi had not been so, he should have imposed the same restraint voluntarily upon himself. For he could assure the Noble Lord, that though he trusted he should always boldly perform his public duty when: ever he thought that he clearly perceived it, yet he felt as strongly as the Noble Lord could, the painful *delicacy of the subject, and he should assuredly do nothing, either now or hereafter, to aggravate the dd. ficulty . which naturally belonged to it. He then sta ted his question, as tollows: ill Was it known to his Majesty's Government, be fore the departure of his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange from England, that his Serene Highness intended to assume or to accept titles and authorities unknown to the legal Consti.ution of the United. Pr ovinces, and manifesting a determination not to re eitablialithe ancient and lawful Government of that .Republic ? • -• .•• 1 4 - Were these measures adop te d by hi s S erene ' Highness _with the approbation of hi Majesty's Go: vernment, and with the concurrence of his Allies?? Lord CAS I'LEREAGH said, that he was not privy, before the Prince of Orange's departure, to any determination on the part of his Royal Highness with respect to the Government that was to be-esta blished, nor did he believe that his Royal Highness had come to any such determination, .as what was c Ailed the Provisional Government, already exercised . the Administration, froni which he had received the invitation. Thar the form of Government which had been adopted, was the resultotthe spontaneous and una nimous wish of the peePle of Holland of all parties, as much of those who were. formerly the enemies of . the - House of Orange, and who were now among its most Zealous partiaany; l as pf those who had always been attached to it.. '.. . i •. ''hat '-w appeared Zia Gazette was a notice of. the 'appointment of our Ambassador to .the Go- , vsiraMent of Holland. 'That in-making this appoint inee Ole King's Government had an anxious desire ici abstain from any interference with the domestic concerns of that country. .... I - That the credential s -t o 'Lord Clancarty had been purPosely delayed, until . his Majesty's Government knew what form of Government was established in Holland ; and it was not until it was communicated to'our Ambassador, under what tide the Prince of Orange was to exercise the Government, that the cre dentials were sent to him in the form it has appeared. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH rose to state, that in consequence of what had passed, and upon other • grounds of Constitutional and Parliamentary policy, he should, with his present views of public duty, feel himself bound to resist an adjournment for a much longer period than the usual recess of Parliament, unless the Mover should lay as strong ground forauch a proceeding before the House, as a Minister would think necessary, if upon his Ministerial responsibility he had brought down a recommendation to the same effect from the Crown. - Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, that it was his present intention to move that the House should adjourn only till Friday, and it was probable that the adjournment fur the recess would not take place till Monday. And on a question put by Mr. Homan, it was un ! derstOod chat the discussion of the long adjournment would take place 'on Monday. Here the conversa tion ended ; and upon the motion of Lord Cifoxia • . REAM, the Hottse was ordered to adjourn, at its ri ting, till Friday, - - INSOLVENT - DEBTORS ..IST 'IRELAND.. • Sit:SAMUEL ROMILLY wished to inquire of the Right Hon. the Seiretary for Luland v whom he saw in his place, whether it was intended to propose any amended bill, so as to ektend the benefits of the Insolvent Law to Ireland, or to pasi a teuspdtary• Insolvent Act ? Mr. W. FITZGERALD said, that it had not been deemed expedient to pass any - amended Bill for Ireland, because the same difficulties in carrying the one passed last Session into effect, were not found to exist in Ireland as in this country. , Sir S. ROMILLY replied, that he had been in formed this difficulty occurred in Ireland, that the pri. goners entered into engagements to pay their debts, whenever they should become solvent, but that ther e were some doubts as to what ought to be the nature of those engagements. Mr. W. FITZGERALD 'observed that he had received no intimation of the existence of any such I difficulties. He did not indeed speak from any offi- I cial authority, as his knowledge was merely general, and probably the Honourable and Learned Gentle. nun spoke from more authentic intelligence. • The House agreed to the Lords' Amendment in the Police Bill.—Adjourned till Friday. "% : - DUTCH Rd PER S. AMSTERDAM, DECEMBER 9. PROCLAMATION. We, William Frederick, by the Grace of Goo, Prince of Orange and Nassau, Sovereign Prince. of the United Netherlands, Ste. to all to whom these presents come, greeting. You invited axe, fellow-countrymen, to bring to completion the task so gloriously begun by yourselves. I have taken upon me the maintenance of that independence which your courage restored; and I now promise you, to deem no difficUlty, no la bour, no suritice, too great en my part, to convince you bow mach I love that people, of whose affection I have received, and am daily receiving, such signal proofs. But whet otter is our first duty at the present moment than the complete expulsion of the Frenc% from our country, which they have so long tormented by their oppressions A portion of that country is still the prey of the enemy, whose designs and inteations' the horrible events at Woerden must make manifest ' to us all. To arms, then, Netherlanders! to arms! to avenge the defenceless victims who fell under the murdering sword of these robbers. To arms! to secure for ever your wives, your children, and your property, against an possible return of these plundering murderers. The old flag is again the point of union, and the old flag shall also again revive the ancient valour. Every moment of lethargy may prove destructive to one Or other of your town+, to hundreds of your countrymen ; the time is come, which must prove for ever decisive of our fate—lost, irrecover ably lost, is our country, showld we slumber upon the success of 'our first efforts : the country is re4oued for ever, when its eons, animated with One spirit, shall every where run to arm+, to sup port the efforts of the allied deliverers of Europe : the Netherlands united to France were involved in the Infamy of France, the Netherlands united to the Allies shall participste in the glory of having delivered Europe. Ohl men ! the country and Orange call upon your sons, able to bear arms, not to be sacrificed in • battle in foreign dimes for a foreign yoke, but to prtnett you and ye...r defenceless children from plundering and murder.-... Wives! your husbands are sinninotied to arms, not to fight for a l foreign tyranny, which would leave you to perish here in beg gary, but to secure you in that tranquility for which the country will mike ample provision. • . . And you who cannot personally engage in this contest—thee noblest that PaovlDENcr ever opened to us, support those who fight far you provide, by your ample - contributions, for their arming, clothing, and sub,istencies; in s ort, for all the first necessarie: of war. Plundered treasuries, confusion and discord in thesdrninistra tions, were all that your oppressors left behind them; but your pyriotism shall teach the oppressors themselves, that no Nether. Zander reckons that a sacrifice which may place his country in freedom. I conjure you in the name of the country—l conjure you by your past misfortunes, enquire not what you ought to lay on the altar of your country; ask only, what would be your sufferings, should the return of your tyrants, which Cop avert, be the effect of narrow calculations. All the nations of Europe, whose magnanimous sacrifices have been crowned with the most glorious results, have their eyes upon you at this moment : our Allies expect the putting forth of all our-powers, and we must skew them that we are not back ward in the noble strife. Again I conjure you net to delay your voluntary offer for the support of our efforts towards the - deliverance of our beloved country. Forced loans correspond not with a people who have freely 'taken upon themselves the direction of their own affairs, and the increase of the debts of the State is one of those extreme mea sures, the adoption of which we must avoid. We would not commence our reign with financial regulations, which might tend to shake public credit ; that good faith with which our ancestors fulfilled their engagements, and which we still reckon among the virtues of the Netherlands, than be sacredly observed by us in all measures relating to the finance of the Country. We order our Commissaries General of War, Finance, and for Foreign Affairs, to make all the necessary dispositions for forwar ding the object of our paternal summons, and to submit to us the necessary regulations respecting the same. • We will and order, that the whole.of the slims arising trona voluntary contributions, being set apart front the general re-• venue of the country, shall be whilly appropriated for the pur poses of the extraordinary arming; and we require this Address to be read from the pulpits of the different churches, on the first ensuing Sunday, and otherwise made known in the most solemn manner. Done at the Hague, this 6th of December, 1113, and is the first year of our reign. (Signed) WILLIAM. By order, VAN Dra DUIN VAN MAAIDAM. [Another Proclamation, dated Hague, the 7th of. December, on the subject of the commerce and custom duties of Holland, annuls the principle on which the French customs were founded and exercised,,as being irreconcileable with the interest and wel fare of the inhabitants.—The custom duties on goods landed for inland consumption are to be regulated by the tarif of 1723, and the various allerations and additions Which it underwent up to the period when Hollaiidwas declired to be annexed to France.— The duty on convoys, liceitees,•and foreign lestage, to be regu lated by the same tarlf: and the dudes on certain foreign pro duce by the law of Decembet 18,1805, with the exception .of salt and tobacfo, concerning which there are to be pa rt i cu l ar re guladons. The *la boards of customs, kc. are to be reviied.-= All the prohlblioty' decrees against commerce with England and i ber Allies, are finally abolished.] ' • -LEYDEN, DECEMBER Os • This day, amid the ringing of bells and the sound of trumpets, while the whole body of armed cisivens stood under arms before the town house, the following Proclamation was read to the surrounding multitude: Tex PROVISIONAL 001IRRNIARNT Of 7•11 CITV OP LPTIMP 70 THR 0000 CITI7gNS OP ?RAT CITY. Ottzens and lahabitants'of Leyden I—Scarcely had the be. loved Prince of the Netherlands again we Ids foot en his nand soil, when from all sides the with was expressed OM Williaea Frederick, Prince of Orange and Mesas, should stand not4ole In the same dipiity and relation•to oar _country aelth illustrious anteaters, but that he should be leveretW Prince of the Nefluilliek. " We heartily wished, with you, to offer his Highnesstkiegreat dignity in the name of all the citizen*, and like the greakeity of Amsterdam to salute him as such on the day when Mikeisy , should be honoured with Idsiligh presence. But though the joyful day is rot far of, the inhabitants of Leyden are too impatient to mit for it to fulfil their wish. is Well, then, Citizens and lahab;santi of Leyden, Vern this day forward we recognise the Illustrious Deseendant of the Houst , of Orange as Sovereign Prince, and respect Wm as such, " The unity of the Sovereign Power must now be the corner stone of our political edifice—then shall our civil liberty revive. and be secured by wise laws. 'l'i'eu, under the government et a Prince of the Blood of Nassau, born in our own comtry, - cated in the principles of honour, and the religion of our fore fathers, who knows our wants, and rrspeets our manners, shall there-establishment of the Netherlands he begun, and under the' blessing of Gob be happily accomplished. " Let every one, then, take his pos: iteat one beloved prise.. and promote, with all his ability, the great work which he has to accomplish fbr oar sakes. The pre.ervation of the Nether. lands, our happiness, .ani that of our posterity, are his sole els• jeet, and shall be secured under his Government. " No sacr:fices can be too great to save, to preserve env coon. try. No foreign constraint, no domination more, no 'eternal power, shall longer drag our children to 'lonelier. " Let William Frederick, Prirez of Orange and Nassau, vereign of the Netherlands,. be then the rallying point of ale brave Netherlanders. Be be the shield against which all discord and patty spirit is broken, and strengthen the bond by which union gives power: and honour and prosperity may again abide among us. The Guts of the Netherlands, the Gen of our Fa thers, bless, strengthen, kelp, and support his. " Done and resolved by the Provisional Government of the city of Leyden, the Bth of December, 18IS; and the, ringing the bells, puhlished to the people from the tower of the Town-bousv, on the following day, by the bead. of the Provisional Govern. ment of the city of Leyden : Anthony Gustov, Baron of Boetse% laer ; Mr. Girardus Martinus Von Bontruti, Sultan Gael, Mr. Daniel Michael Gysbers Heldewser, and Mr. Vo'illiain Peter Kleist." This Proclamation was received with nonillions acclamations by the assembled crowds, with the try of 's-Long live William Frederick Prince of Orange, and Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands !" A similar Proclamation to the above was adopted by the cit,zens of Dort. EXTRACT OF A PROCLAMATION OF TRR PRINCE OP ORANGE, DATED THE HAGUE, bacluitEitit t. PROCLAMATION. . " We, William Fredet ick, by the Grace of Goo, Prince of • Orange and Nassau, Sovereign Prince of the United Netherlands, Sic. " When, on the Std instant, we accepted, at Amsterdam, the • sovereignty over the United Netherland t s, is consequenceof the universally-expressed wish of the people, we greatly wished to• confirm and crown, by a solemn installation, that event, which - binds us, our children, and de►cendants, more err.,ngly then ever to the fare of this nation. " But the circemstanees in which our country la placed, anti the important Occupations caused thereby, have made se deem k expedient to reserve, for the present, the fixing of the tine. villain that ceremony shall take place, in the pleasing expectation That in the course of a few weeks we shall be able to announce to the nation, and also to submit to ear beloved fellow -countrymen a constitution, which, under a monarchical form which they theta. selves have chosen, may secure to them their morals, theirlseee sonal right* and privileges—ii one word, their ancient freedom.. In the mean time we cannot longer delay taking the reins of Government into our own hands, and c►arging ourselves with the immediate direction Of the again of the State. " We therefore now declare, that the kkherto subsisting ge neral Government of the United Netherlands is this day dir salved, and that henceforth oo one can or may make any order or reguirion of binding force, but in as far as it has emanated from ns, or from Magistrates appointed e.nd commissioned by us.'' ROTTERDAM. DECEMBER 7. • It would be difficult to give an idea of the delight with which the intelligence of the arrival of the Eng lish reinforcements was received in this country.— While the French were still wandering through the States, nothing could be secure ; and the excesses which they committed on their return to some of the towns which they had left,. produced an anxiety dy 'no means unnatural among a people who had a twenty years' experience of their character. The first arrival was that of the Prince of Orange, who landed on Wednesday last with a few marines. His entry • into the Hague was a triumph, and nothing could exceed the delight of its population, who, indepen= dently of their patriotic feelings, must have looked. - forward to the establishment and, expenditure of the old Court in their superb win. The British Ambassador;'with'a few Officers, C L e-. neral Taylor, Colonel Bloomfield, and 'Lord Yar mouth followed ; and from that Moment every think was gladness and tumult. The road ftom Scheveling to the Hague is a handsome avenue of two miles, re-' gularly planted, and kept with the neatness of a pub lic promenade ; it was now crowded with trains of waggons carrying ammunition and arms, escorts of newly raised cavalry, and staff and burgher Officers gallopping with orders to the shore. It had the look of thick and hurried confusion, less resem b ling the highways of a peaceable city, thau the road to a • field of battle. At this moment nothing could be more aniniated than the look of those immense ranges of rna.sive buildings of which the Hague is composed. At leau every third house in the principal streets had a large . flag waving from its windows ; and the whole view, as far as the eye could reach, was a succession of rich ensigns, blue, yellow, and orange, floating above a multitude of all dresses a..d nations; British and Rus sian, Cossacks, Jews, Prussian cavalry, mingled among the gaudy dresses of the peasantry of the coun try, glaring with orange ribbons. The Prince who had gone to Amsterdam on his ar rival,returned on Friday to the Hague, accompanied by, the British Ambassador. At six in the evening the cannon announced his amproach, and the streets were,