The National Register. — London, England, 1813-12-12 00:00:00

~ ~ ~', ~. ••• i I b et !- TNE NA army into that country, there is but little hope of its libera tion. You cannot therefore have intended to designate the present, as the proper time for treating with N A pol.EOs ; and I must yiu the justice of owning, that. when you agreed that all the resources of Britain should he placed at the &positl of the Executive to prosecute the war more vigorously, Ynti Must flare foreseen that the enemy would only sign a peace when he should be reduced to sue for it. • • .• But since you seem- convipced of the necessity of 'edu cing him to that situation, in order to ()limit' a solid peace, what kind of peace, c wistent with honour, do you think the European can grant hi;n lezfore the ar rival of that period ; ilis reverses have not lowered his pretensions. this frontier, on the Spanish side, is invaded, and vet instead of recalling for its defence the army which still occupies a portion of the Peninsula, be orders new levies to o ppose the advance of Lord ssV EL LI NGTON ! , r rhe armies which have driven him from the heart of Germany, threaten to enter his French territories, and yet he continues to declare himself . the Protector of the Germanic confedera tion ! Ile made war to enslave Europe and will sign no peace that would rob him of his conqueSts. The present is not a • .c.)rumon war. The revolutionary government of France has slot fought to procure a mere em rcasc of power, but urii versal dominion. The object of the contest is not therefore only to reduce. the French power; but to establish and secure the independence of Europe. Reflect then, sir, on the exhausted state of the Continent at the end of the war, :even supposing that its close should be at hand, and that 'France should he compelled to shrink-hack within her an cient limits. Think on the manifold advantages which the 'latter country possesses to repair her losses in less time than would be required fur the other Powers after their long and ruinous servitude. 1.04 at the triple line of fortresses which cover old France, and the garrisbus of which form,even in time of peace,a unlike! ous arms' ever ready to invade G errnany. Con sider that an usurper who owes his elevation to his warlike ex ploits,and who, to preserve his power has rendered France a na tion of soldiers, will always find plausible pretences to infringe • any treaty. made with his neighhourr,. But reflect particu larly on the peril which we must incur by making peace with BUON AP AET E at this moment,. and restoring three hundred thousand *prisoners to a .military col:meander, who liar proved that be.never kept treaties, acrd who can only secure his - throne and his power by external wars. IN QU ISITO R. OR NG!. BOVEI4 ally means-" Orance upper , moil" The Zealand flag consisted of three stripes. white, Hue, dad OPMIgN. • When The House of Orange possessed the, - mitts of Government over the United States, the orange stripe was placed uppermost on the flag. When the ri• I , oner De Witt vas at the ham, the orange stripe was'placed Lelow the other: hence Ortute Mi-cen ! became the rally ing cry of those who weie attached to the House of Orange. PUBL'ICREVENUE.—An' official aceonnt laid befoie the house of ConiMens, states the amount of the net produce of • the po-mailent taxes in Creat Britain, for the year ending the 2. - 4.11 of 0, tuber, 181 1 4•, •at : 7 :3,745,.' , 281. 16s. Bid : and : - for the scar enditrA the (2,5 th of October, 1813, at `37,533,3('61.• •a2s. 114.. a deticiel;cy of - about 900,0001. The same p• account states the total mount of the net produce of the war taxes, n.r the year ending the 2:)th January, 1812, at 15,821,5321.• 14s. fold. ; r.nd for • the year ending the 25th 24,140,A81. As. W(1. being an inctease • ••• 11, &bola ale >ametult • deficiency in the permanent es. Thus the net produce of the: iVehlit . reventie of eat Britain for the year eliding the lath Octulie..., 1813, ruirA 0 , ,1.)341. 1&. c.2d . ~, • % INAI, riEGISTE 1 . • c. \ FOREIGN I G ENCE. -..,wtw. DUTCH PAPERS. Am‘TERDVSI, DEe. 26.—Yesterday, td about three o'clock, hi= Serene Highness the Prince of Orange made hie solemn entry into the capital, throngh tile gate ot Haerlem. e n der the roar of artillery, and with the ringing octal the bells. The joy was general among all the classes el' the inhabitants ; the numbers ot the populace that were assembled, and Clew to every part win re Itii Highness passed, were past description : the joyful acclamations i f Iluz:a ! Ormtje Buren ! and Long lire Prince William the First, Sererrigm Prince of the Nellurlonds, wire uninterrupted: The whole city will be illuminated this eveniite. FRENCH r;:‘R BAerrIES. Woeenese Nov. 30.—Wednesrlay the .4th Inst. urns certainly the most dreadful day ever known le thie town, and which has bet 9 prodnetive ot. general sorrow and extreme misery. On the pre ceding evening, about ISO men of the natienal guards from the Hague, with two pieces of cannon, appeased before this town, and demanded of the Frc;icli Commandant, who had poeeession of it , vith ;bola 2eo men of his own nation, to surrender it.. This was . complied w.th, and on the same evening the town received its new earrisoll. On the tollooine, lour:dug, being ,he Vth of November, this new garriser was unexpectedly surprise .1 by a very nutheroue body of French troops from Utrecht, provided with some pieces of artillery, and eftsr a smart skirmish, in which !eerie men tell on both sides, taken by storm. Now commenced the dreailtlil plunderine, devastation, and inhuman murders. The licenses which mild nut be opened on account of the doors and N% indoni having been fastened, were beaten open by artillery; cabieets. eheets, and boxes. were cut awl broken open ; the ready money, et:coined gold aed silver, jewel", linen, and clothing, stolen ; valuable 'papers destroyed; glasses, china, awl other earthenware, broken arid de own into the Streets ; the poor hdisabitants, already trig:.tened almost to death, and begging for their lives, were forced to discover where they had secreted their other valuables. Death and destructimi had at length penetrated' into evevobabitation : the blood of the most virtuous husliamis and fathers, of the beet mothers, of grey-haired bncients, of tender infants, stained the walls of their peacetlil hathitations, and streamed out of the houses along the streets. Four and twenty in habitants of this little towne, which had 'already suffered by the bar bariaue, were cruelly murdered without any reason gii en for such proceedings. About 50 others were womeiedimore or less severely, several of whom must certainly die of their wounds.. it even the ministers of any religion were spared although they had fled to the altar. Old men of upwards of eighty years, infants in their mother's :risme were immediately shot or slain by . the sword. A woman in child-beil, and who would have been delivered of twins, was deli berately shot through the body, whilst laying in her bed, after bay log encovered her, and Aire bedetead set on tire, after miserably inurderine the mother and her offspring. No tears' of the poor crealttres begging 'for mercy, ti n of kneeling eitildien, - could soften the hearts of those miscreants ; who, on the contraty. and with loud laughter and derision, disgraceful to humanity, carried their cruelties so far as to commit their murders bcfure tie eyes ef the nearest relations, terowing ont the bleeding bodies, eoi err ti wiledire in pveseere of the deseairine widows 'and shrieking chil dren, and : committing all alises• on the naked corpses. It is iin• possible to give any particular statement of the atrocities and ern ellies committed in this slight description ; the pen refuses, and modesty.forbills..to describe all the enurmities of these caneite,ls, who have• rt•ndet'ed the former French tyranny a mere pwe line. temenor and mortal dread is to he read hi every comernance. .At the first meetine, people of all ranks embrace each other, wonder ing to meet again alive. The blortAy streets, the broken buildingv, the furniture destroyed, form a pict are. from whieli every human kimentust start with -honor. Those who comedy dispensed to others, are now themselves in iseett of the first- eecessaries'of. life, and cart the it Longing eyes to their tielow Netherlareiets, who, by the Di vine Providence, le,.ve lo en reici veil . from - these • esertetientes. They renetined here till they Intl •car,•ied off* their bieoly 1)001' with stolen lior,cs:;tl,d carriages, anti these Lhe nAinste - es,.who hiin . the light ashy, ;, i't the tovn in silt ere, 1 . .!“.: :*leves., - M the eielnt et the '- 7 t ll , leavi-•!e nothiee - behind tlsent not Wood and J teat , ;, • Co I til eserve tie, Neet;crlaeols in lieut . : trout stole miseries, -crest I'll. tho heart-. of all irencyclent Pctplc with. Cetsiiit ,, s of doe !110) -11 ." Y Inct.ards these MA.1141114;114 CP'iWIICS, and , silli gratitntlo iTor ;not I!;tv 111 . 1: pte'takee - 07•theie 4:renettif sulferinee, so aF te•ertt.t:i •.t , as Iv I. :, ee,-iide, to re:erne-4. theiy.losse‘, uhiel) they thee.• teves never can do without ac:istalice 'from others.; uoe . et•eti diet: 1...til iax (1 , is t V