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.DbfiCH PAPERS. DORDRECHT, JANUARY 9. we heard a heavy cannonade in the This m ornin g leighbeerhood of Gorcum, and the wind being N.E. y g , und shook with the explosion. The dis til' ver. be - : ' n at about seven in the morning, and con gilatedru—ntTla about half past nine, but we do not at tiothe firing was from the town, ffesea t k n ow w h e ther er r from the batteries which the Allies,have raised at trick, k for the attack of the fortress. p sox DATE. —We understand that the garrison of Gorcum h as proposed a cessation of-hostilities. It is farther reported, that Gorcum was ter have surren. t i ere d yesterday evening, a t half past nine. We hope to co nfirm this agreeable intelligence to-morrow. HARDENBURG, DECEMBER es. . • The day before yesterday for this and the neighbour melancholy and destructive. The iForegnpcl,hicegsaw as very r • r isun from Koevender , , nine miles from hence, made a s a l l y with a considerable force to the 2 41.theurhood of our city, which produced the greatest confusion, all'persons endeavouring to pack ; p t h e ir goods and put them on board boats and i n w aggons. The enemy was detained about two t il e s off by the Cossacks, the burghers, and the pea ants,but he overcame them, and proceeded to Aaner rmandHalthen, which they plundered of every thing, as well as this place, when they rifled our chests, our drawers, and stole our clocks, and all the household goods that were valuable. a_ PRIVATE LETTERS. r 44 BANKS OF THE LOWER RHINE, JAN.I2. e A gentleman who quitted Paris as late as the yOth of December, having made his escape and era felled through France by the usual means of bribery assisted by a,Danish passport, states, that on his way m Holland he first went to Soissons and Laon, where ate large founderies for the manufacture of arms of ill descriptions, and they all appeared to be working with great rapidity ; but his observations were limited of course, wishing not to give any suspicion that eight lead to a discovery. At both these places are_ /pots for troops ; but although he could not ascera. pis whether they were or were not full, he saw a great many recruits who were manoeuvred and ex ercised daily. On the road from Paris he had met numerous detachments of troops, many of whom were not such mere boys as has been represented.— They had all clothing, and most of them arms ; in general, from his own personal knowledge, and from what he had heard, he was of opinion that the num her of men raised in and conveyed . to- the vicinity of Paris, was very considerable. " At Mons he saw nothing remarkable excepting the continuance of military organization with uncom mon vigour, in consequence of the order's received from the Minister of the Interior. He did trot think it sate to proceed by Brogvel, and therefore took the road by Namur. He says, that at that fortress, a day or two before he arrived, a considerable park of ar tillery had been marched in, as well as a body of troops not lets than 15,000 strong ; they were priia tipally levies raised within a feel months ; bat ac cording to all appearance, as far as he had an oppOr l tunity of judging, perfectly disciplined. They were t 3 remain there as the garrison of the place. It WAS true that on the walls very few pieces of cannon were mounted, but it -was soon expected that.tbe artillery could be placed upon the ramparts, and the fours. clerics There were at work as diligently as the mann. factories of small arms in other places. It was stated ;Int several new fortifications or additions to the old works had been made, and It was understood when he left Paris, that orders to this effect had boen sent to Lisle, Arras, Brussels, and other fortified townkon Vie frontiers for the same purpose: He only men tions this circumstance as a matter of public rumour, as he saw nothing which Roved the execution of -those commands. " At Ramillies he met a body of 7000 men, on its march Southward : these were conscripts raised in that vicinity, and most of them were certainly not more than from 15 to 17 years old: they had no arms, bat were cli their. He has reason to believe from what he could learn, that here there was a consider able quantity of artillery collected, but he saw only a few pieces, and they were upon the ramparts ; but in the neighbourhood of Tiflemond, and between that place and Louvain he overtcok several transports of guns and men : the artillery he calculates about fifty pieces, and the men, perhaps, altogether, 9 or 10,000; they were not recruits, but apparently veteran cavalry well m'wntcd. With the artillery were also a num ber of horses, apparently in good condition—:hejr des tination he dal not know. He had intended to have passed through the country adjacent to Antwerp, but' WAS deterred by what he tlard at Louvaine respec ting the situation of that city ; he therefore proceeded to the eastward to 14atestricht, here he heard more distinctly of the sassage of the Rhine by Generals 'Hitcher and D'Yorke, who were represented as on their march with 50,000 men, from the neighbourhood of Cologne, towards Aix-la-Chapelle and Macstricbt. This intelligence created great alarm, tis the French. troops in that direction were in no fore to resist the Prussians, should they advance. -* •.‘ Ire could not form any correct estimate of" the force of the enemy4st Macstricht, Liege, Aix-la Ois e pelle, and in that part of the country, but he shoulJ have thought that they outnumbered the Allies. The • Puste of „the Rhine, however, had panic•strock the F. rerich', - who hid sent manjimessengera to Namur,, a . ..-. 4 evert tb Paris, requiring muirediate assistance.a— arom hlaestricht he went, by Winsterlag to Hech "lel, on his way to Bois :le-.le hearing that the French had quitted et; bat before he had proceeded far, he turned of to Brea, which he reached the slay liLt,,:e yesterday. The whole district between Maes:' trick and Bois-to-Duc, at far asle went over it, bore a very military appearance, the march and counter-, blarch of troops in large bodies of 4000 or 5000 men, being continued with great activity. 46 1 here is one circumstance in this Gentleman's, narrative that will seem remarkable, for he stars* that so great and so active were the warlike prepare: tions in France, that when he entered the districts' freed from the controul of the Emperor, where lie expected to find at least equal energy and bustle, he ' was somewhat struck with the comparative tranciloil r lity that prevailed, In France all persons seemed Ibusily engaged in one object, the whole country was in motion, but in the Netherlands,,little was obvious ly accomplished, and little vigour shewn, but on the trpression'nf joy at being relieved fr o m the enemy. Many observations might be made upon this isnot.. taut remark ; but, above 111 4 twotonclusions, too ob vious to need pointing out, may be drawn from it " The state nf ignorance in which the people of Paris, s and of France generally ) are kept of passing events, is most astonishing, and not less so the means by which it is accomplished. The posts are stopped to all countries and places occupied by the Allies, and this obstruction is almost the only means that are afforded of knowing their progress. No scruple, as we have long known, is made of opening and de taining private letters. 66 The system of police, particularly among ser - ts, who are made spies over the families in which they are employed, - is cafried to a state of mechanical perfection, and the budgets o f the fruits of espionage are as regularly conveyed to the office of the Minis ter of Police as a ditch draining mill fills and dis charges its buckets in the reservoir. Of this fact many woeful examples could be produced by the in habitants of the French metropolis. A gentleman, who was a friend of the Minister of Police, on one occasion in a select party, had been guilty of un-1 guarded expressions; he was sent for, and warned by the Minister, who, to produce the greater effect upon the persqn accused, quoted the secret words— " When two dr three are gatherid together I am in the midst of you," as literally applicable to himself. The spies are not, however, confined to the servants, but many of the better orders are employed in this disgraceful capacity. " The inhabitant- of Paris were not so ignorant respecting the general state, of affairs in Holland as might be imagined, owing to the post, by some acci dent, rot s having been stopped until the 6th December, nine days after the French had quitted the Hague. Of the operations of the Allies they were kept in ig norance as much as possible, but events, the success of which had created bursts of joy that have echoed through Europe, could not tail td be heard even in Paris, and to find many sympathising - hearts, that leafed lest their conntenances should betray their felicity. 66 The discharges of artillery heard in the vicinity of Gorcurn within the two last days (for it was re newed and continued at-intervals yesterday, as well as in the morning of the day before) lead many to expect that it would be compelled to surrender. It now, however, appears that the principal part of the firing was from the town, against the, works erecting and elected from Sleswyk to Worcum, a distance of about half a milts:along the south bank of the Maese. The dilatoriness of proceedings against this place is really astonishing ; for after all that has been said of the batteries erected, and the artillery and stores ;Ir. rived, it will hardly be believed Char there is scarcely a gun mounted; and'` we are informed that the fire of the enemy has done considerable mischief to the works that have been commenced. " If what we have just learnt be the fact (and we, have no reason to doubt it) there can little hope he indulged of the speedy surrender of the fortress; for we are informed that the greater part o' the Prus sians that were before the plate, be to Gene ral Bolaw's corps, have been drawn away to march further south into Brabant. We are told, that there as not one thousand men before Gorcum, the garri son of which consists of at least between three and four thousand men. (4t-the 9th instant. the whole corps of General Bulow, calculated at abobt 40,000 men, passed through Breda, on their way southward, and took up a position at Groot-Zundeit, Klein-Limdert, bergen, and the surrounding places. They were to proceed onward ibti fdliotaiing day, having received a fortnight's provisions. For this movement two ob jects have been assigned. By The direciion that has been already taken to Groot-Zttudert, it should seem as if the first supposition were correct, which is, that General Bulo - vr is to co-operate with the British forces in 8e capture of Antwerp and Bergen-op-Zoom. 44 The other supposition is, that he was to make his 'veay into Brabant as-fast as possible, that he might unite his division to that of Generals lilucher and D'Yorke, who so recently crossed the Rhine near Co logne, and were marching, by the last accounts, towards Maestricht. These two designs would not be incompatible, if we could suppose that the taking of Antwerp would he an achievement easily effected, but this it is impossible, under the circumstances, to believe. "Besidesthe reinforcement which was sent into An twerp, several other large bodies of the eneiny's troop.: must have arrived in that neighbourhood, if the ac count with which we have been supplied below is correct, and we have every reason to place teliance upon it : At West Wesel and it vicinity, about At Turnhout and Hoogstraaten, fIOL less than At. Achterbrock • In the Bosch de Flees, and at Rykvorsel M Brecht, and its neighbourhood In Places iminediately rusud Atitwerp 3,500 9,000 '2OO 2 2r,co 600 4,000 Total - 19,800 " Unless this account be a very gross exaggeration indeed, and it is somewhat confirmed by an article in the Dutch papers (upon which, however, much re liance is not to be placed) the British forces at Klun dem- Tholen, and before Bergen-op-Zoom, are not adequate to cope with the enemy, who seems to be straining every nerve to keep possession of Antwerp. We tiiink it not improbable, therefor e , that Bulow s corps is advancing southward to assist them. A Prussian force to the number of 14,000 - men is stated to have already reached Tilburg. " From the British army in the vicinit?of Bergen op-Zoom, and at Williamstadt and Klundert. we have no intelligence of any consequence. The 4500 Bri tish troops, -principally Guards, that had occupied Breda, have returned to Leven, Burgen, and Klun den; where the head-quarters were still continued. We have not learned ,that any operations had yet been begun against Bergen-op-Zoom; and indeed the frost, which for the last three or four days has set in withtuncommon severity, will much impede them. The - Maese is completely choaked with immoveable' masses of ice, and we are informed that the Scheldt is also very much filled. 4 $ In our last we noticed the arrival in Holland the Hereditary Princess. She was accompanied by her - brother and sister. Her Royal Highness the Mother did not reach the Court until yesterday morn• ing, when she, the - Prince of Orange, and the Here dibary Prince, were drawn into the Hague by the po= pulation from the House in the Wood.- At night , illuminations took place." . • l . . •. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. , .-• TO-MORROW.. tat trial LOTTERY BEGINS DRAWING. MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1814. PRICE OF MTOCKS THIs DAY AT TWELVE O'C LOCK Redu.66H—Conv. 95f—for etc. 67{}-4 per Ct. nu 5 per Ct. 954 —Onln.lBi 15.515. prem. Exch. Bills Ss. Ss. pr.—Lg. Anns. Ist The Gazette of Saturday night, and its Supple- ment, contain intelligence from the Continent of the , highest interest. In a dispatch from Sir CHARLES STEWART, dated on the sth inst. from Frankfort, we are informed of the crossing of the Rhine by the t orps of that gallant chieftain Marshal BLUCHER. This operation was attended with all the characteristiC marks of genius and intrepidity, which distinguished his former military career. Sir C. STEWART observes, that the passage of the Rhine, on this occasion, was an achievement which deserved to be considered in the same light as the rapid passage of the Elbe, ef fected by the same hero, previous to the battle of Leipsic. The dispatzhes from Lords tAI ttcna•r and BURGHERSIT, which came next in order, are dated from Basle and Freyburg, on the 2d and 6th instant. The dispatch from Lord BURGHERS!, announces the restoration of Gerieva T6lii`tild form of government, and the re•organizatioo of die Duchy' of Savoy under its old masters. It is a matter of no small importance, at. the per. sent moment, to know - upon the authority of Lordi CirruckaT. and BURGH ERSH, that the inhabitants of France have received the Allies in the most amicable., manner. In,:leed it cannot be otherwise. After the experience which the people of France have had for the last fifteen years of the mild and merciful disposi. tions of BONAPARTE, it would bQ wonderful if they refused to receive the Emperor of MOROCCO or the Dey of ALGIERS as their 'Sovereign in his stead. It will appear, on referring to the Mip of Fr incei l that all the Allied Armies are infull communication, i 'with the exciftion of Lord WELLING - roN's forces one ', the Adour—bnt from the direction which part of Prince SCHWA RTZ ifY BERG'S corps is taking, we pre. sume that a communication will be opened immedi ately betwei:n the Allied Armies in the South of France also. As to any opptsition which SOcur ma} have it in his power to make, we are not alarmed. Frankfort Gazettes to the 4th instant arrived this day. Their contents are of the same pleasing de scription as the accounts which we bAve for some time been in the hjbit of receiving from the Continent : " SCHAFFHAUSEN, DEC • 20. gi Ctilumns more or less numerous of Austrian troops, infantry and cavalry, continue to pass through here. Among diis number is the'Landwehr of Bo hemia. The day befote yesterday a considerable train of artillery passed, which has been follo,wed by an enormous number of waggons. The principal de pot for artillery has be►rn established htre." • " FRANKFORT, JAN. 8 . 84 The fortress of Torgau ,has capitulated. Ge• neral Count de Tauenzein has proceeded with his 'corps d'atrzie against Wittenberg, which wa, in flames•at the departure of the courier. 66 Direct accounts from Milan, of the 96th ult. contain nothing important. FIELD-MARSHAL 4 DE BLUCHER TO THE ARMY OF SILESIA. 6 . When you advanced from the Oder towards the . Rhine, it was necessary to take from the enemy the provinces which he had previously occupied. Now you are going to pass the Rhine, to force peace from the enemy, who cannot console himself for having lost, in two campaigns, the conquests which he had. made during nineteen years. . ds Soldiers ! I haye only to point out the road to glory to the conquerors of Katsbach, of Wartenhnurg, of Mockern, and Leipzic, and I am certain of suc cess. But I have new duties to prescribe to you.— The inhabitants upon the lc(t batik of tile Rhine are got our enemies. I have pr6mised them protection and security for their property—l have done so in your namit— It belongs to you to perform what I have promised. Bravery does honour to the soldier, but subordination and an exact discipline are his highest tides to glory. (Signed) DE BLUCHER:" TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE LEFT BANK OF THE RHINE. " I have condufted the army of Silesia beyond the Rhine, to establish the liberty and the independence of nations, and t 6 conquer pence. " The Emperor Napoleon has incorporated _with the French Empire, Holland, a part of Germany and of Italy ; he has declared that he would not give up a single village of his conquests, not even if the ; enemy waa upon the heights of Paris. • " The armies of all the Ettropean powers are acting against this declaration and these principles—will you defend these principles ? If so, range yourselves in the battalions of the Emperor Napoleon, and endea vour to fight against the most just of causes, which PROVIDENCE so visibly protects. Do not partake ih this opinion—you will find protection on our part— I will protect , your property. " Let every-citizen, and every landholder, peacea bly remain at his home, and every magistrate at his post, to continue his functions without interruption. " However all connections with the French em pire must cease, from the moment of the entrance of the Allied troops: whoever infringes this order, will render himself guilty of treason against the Allied Powers s he will be carried before a military coun cil and condemned to death.—Given upon the left bank of the Rhine. 44 DE BLUCHER. _ 4 . 6 ISt hauary • 1814.7 (Arealfirt I t suresil, Jac 34 41" ^ REPORTED REPEAT OP Tll FRENCH, NEAR UEDA, The following Litter WAS received in WWII 'morning : it was afterwards posted at LLOYD'S _ ." HARWICH, JANUARY Illk 11111 , , gi A schuyt has ibis day arrived from SEheviii; By her passengers we learn, that a nstßtaetrete acti has beenlought before Breda, betaken OfuLoW the French, in which the latter have been defeated. A Gazette Extraordinary was to hags liven published ay the Hague at six o'clock on Wednesday night. ,(Signed) " HESILCTINE and BILLINGSLObb " Lloyd's, Half-past Otte i'Cloelt." 4. . . 77 _,,, v _. —.......r. NA p IL INIPLLIGENCZ, Mae of the Falmouth Mails have as yet arri Inatherotre fivenow due, and one Plymouth. POR'T'SMOUTH, JANUARY 16. ._ The whole of this day it has been so thick hazy the only arrival we have ascertained, is his t jesty's ship Panstus, from Plymouth. No eailjni or additional corivoyi appointed. Arrived . yeste his Majesty's ship CaostVs, with a fleet fro, ; ; : .- i Downs ; PACTOLIJS from the Eastward ) too with a convoy from Guernsey and Jersey. Sailed Gamma aad-t ADNIUS on a cruize.—Wind N.E, The Tian, 1 74 Captain Hati.mar, arrived Thursday evening here from the St heldt. • She lett Admiral YooNo in the Roompot, on .the prem . morning, with the.ratengspinut, CHATHAM, COLAS UM CHEAT, FATe, NTMPMESt and a Russian line-of . mile ship (the English of whose name is 6.T, me net The Coni:wAtr., Capt. Ow et., GI PUS, and AMMION, were lyillg between the Meads of South Bevafand and Tholeni and it was au) ed they had been frozen in, as no recent munication had been, shade by !hens to the ships. The Hotta - tie, bird Qantas SWAM in *e Zoyder Zee ; the CvagagaLANDiad Cr% CAROLUIS Were: of the Texel. Them, -no expectation that the Dutch squadron in the ' would surrender ; they were lying under the gt an almost impregnable fortress, of which AI VERMEUL had pclseision." His crews had been 'dished by desertions; but this, in one respect, be an advantage to him; as his stock of provision tvosid thereby t last-for several months longer. '- mni,.re Ownr, viith about loola marines and seamen, belonging to the fleet unrGr Admir.ll Yr held posscssiol of 'all South Beveland, except ,f, iron' hence, a few days before the TIGRE sailed, enemy made an incursion, surprised the seamen, whcm they made 40 . prisoners, killed three marines, and wounded twelve others. ptAls, JANUARY 16. Sailed the Prolamin Shaw, Navigator, Choice, .fence, and Robert Taylor transpOrts, under corm? , the BMWs sloop of wan,' for Portsmouth. dawn from the River, the Surat Castle, ,Rot for India.—Arrived yesterday, the Avow" ichooper, with dispatches from Admit 41: 1 Vtnii the Knompot ; and Vire cutter, from Porison( 'His Majesty's ship DICTATOR, with a detacbmen, the Guards on board for Holland, is still detained contrary winds.—Wind E. - HMtwlcl-1. JANUARY 16 No arrivals. Sailed the Beaufny packet, N 4 and Auckland packet, LVNF., with mails and gers for Holland.—Wind E. • COVE OF CORK, JANUARY 12. His Majesty's ship MARMIOROtIG“, 74 gusts, HONEYMAN, and ESPIEGLE, 18 guns, Capt. J. ' Loa, with th.! homeward,bnund West insliamel still detained by contrary, winds.—Yesterdaytil jesty's ship hir,ousr, Capt. LOWE, and PRO/ Lieut. Mt rolls:con, with a fleet of transports, the Ist Somerset Militia on board, arrived here Plymouth.—His Majesty's ship Balm, MAN, returns to her th:ial cruizing-ground, bet. this harbour and Scilly. The contents of the Dispatches which appeal Saturday's Gazette, had the effect to raise the this morning. Omniurn commenced at 184; a, as high as 20 premium, for February payment ; and at half past I-2 o'clock, was at l9# per cent. pre: l Among the records of modem times, not thf singular will be the Gazette of last Saturday, in " divers ports and places in France" are freed the effects of the admired Continental System, one of those calumniated documents, the British den in Counci) ! In a Second Edition of Saturday, we gave .. lowing sketch of the contents of Sr CHARLES STEW.. ART'S dispatches, as issued by' Government FOREIGN OFFICE, JAVU 44 Dispatches from Basle, dated the 2d instant, and from Fribourg the 6th, confirm the account of the occupation of Gene v a by Count Buarsa, and state that he had secured the passes of the Alpa by the Simplon, St. Bernard, and St. Gothard. The main body of the Grand Army was assembling in the neighbourhood of Besancon : the advance at Re merernont, Langres, and Epinal. 44 General Count WREDE had his head-quarters at Colmar; Prince SCHWA RTZENBUItO was on' his match from Altkirchen on Monbelliard ; Befort was" observed by a detachment; Marshal &masa had crossed the Rhine, and held Coblentz ; the Ruassian corps tf L'ANCIEROW was before Mayence ; General 'SACKEN, at Openheim, took six pieces of cannon and seven hundred prisoners. " General ST. PAILST crossed below Mayence. None of time troops made . any serious resistance, 1 ... , % ; Ts . -•,. A {i 1 1114. 1 • * 4 , 14111.- I acti • ... 1, a,;= • 1 ted.— )lished t. ma** .• ' -rived ; ck and iis Ma- silings, sto, e.,1:';,: st roar • ••• lied thi red nit he left ending Coos. line-of- 'Touch • GRAN- Meads • • . luPP•s• . . t cow . s - . 'AA* 11T,44! I hue.' me was le Texel guns Of . iidmirai en dimi. , would •orisiong - aJ I O I O Youno, it Bats .; led, the men, of marines, - • i , )iee, toe- , . onvoy of Carne toasts r% . ~ . W - ran ;Min t .its . .. imamate. invent of wined by NORR:s, i pas,vi.- 1 • i its, Capt. J. TAY. nen. are yi,it; M - 01•11CTc•R, ' 1, hAVing .. ere from pt. HlV- between - - 'eared itt he Funds • r a n.irose it ;. z -and Is-akin). . the least , in which red from 'stem, by ritish Or , 'e the - foie - IA STEM.' and they were well received by the inhabitants. " The siege of Huninguen still continues." CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, lAN 17. Every tiling remains nominal. We have no prices that can be quoted with any degree of certainty navigation is entirely closed up to Uxbridge, and as to t, tbohiVolo wish to b e can get no settled pries, the musk= thishodiiir what they think proper. I