The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-02-10 00:00:00

- THE STATESMAN. 11.112Fda RAPERS. 1144.17A1, Jaw. 19.—The Quebec Mail which ar• Aired on Monday evening last, left Quebec on the ultimo; by it two very interesting General Orders were received : one announcing the fur'" imprisonment of American Officers under the reta. liv tory system. the other th . capture of Fort George on the l4t.h of December, by a British force. 0#D17.11. Meatl. q uorters, Montreal, Dec 12. Ilia Excellency the Governor In Cisief and Com- Vander of tae Forces has to announce to the troops under his command, that he has received a commu nir alion frown Genova Wilkinson commanding g .li , i-ino of the army o the United States of America, n• ..rtleo- of his Government, ofirldclv the followiaig It an extract:— • 3. me +itti The C..ver,•ment of Me. Stateik either. i•ogenalterably to tilopnineOdestrod purpose declaied in the, oomniunicatiun of Utperal Dearborn to you, on the subject of theln American voldiers prisoners of sent In England t be tried as criminals, and , treaty of league alliance . been renewed between Ei!gland And the States • hie _ he hoped to derive adrantages•from it in conseqi;ence of his superior naval (tree. Sir Ronsitc_flotasse was secretly distill wheal - a lilt a squadron to the coast of Africa, where he not only-expelled the Dutch from. Cape Corsr„iret seised their settlements'of Cape Yerd and the Isle of Goree.. Another squillron. sailed soon after to North America, Under the cant. .nattnt! of Sir lttcnAttn NiCl4 . oLAl:itho . tiplt posses* ,iion. of the Dosch settlement of Nova : &eight, after. .wards felted New York, in hoiinur df the Ding's )posther,, the Duke, w 1 had obtained .a great of it • . . from :.Siiiee the dentliOf Wrpo Ali TX. Prlitee of Orange, ~whp attempted trLattcreach on the liberties of the,: aforn4lo to ,Stadth4der.,— the confinement 0f4114 liki number of Briti.h dies prisoners of *at; selected to *bide the fate of the Coroner, has, iv consequence .of the step taken by ohe British Qnsernment, its now communicated, molered fort v.siot 1 ti'ish Officers int. , close confine- Republic of 11011aufh, the, Datch t „oett 416 1 ,' elected , Thestievernment had basttiimed whollylrisillia hands. of the Lenvesteln t or ieshifis republiciedidity t ,Arlie *ere declared enemies to the House of : Oranp..-- n;pai i as I that . 6.1 1 shall :hot he discharged from their Ont:Ptioment, until it hi known that the fully, 1 1 / I k•oricn'ii, (Weer:, NO n• snmissi eers torquestiottout up longvr cppfined," It would be suptirenoui.to use any argument to refntc an assumption act estravagnut, unjust, and un.:. twocedented as to depy the right lof ;a free nation; to hung to legal trial, ittdue coedit of law, her own' nltural.horts sul4ecta, *ken intittrictual commission of the most henious offence that man can commit ig4ifist his-.l(os,:his.country, and. his God,,tliat of rtiiitig his jottricidw:itrm against Itia allegiance to his' .countrymen, by Imgoing with their : enemies ;a crime held lu Ahhorivqes . by .evig,icivilised.,4ition: is Europe, that summary, death tif.tha low!partial is its avowed reward, and_ is indicted with ourelenting sererity by France, tho Ally of United `itaies. This pretension must *pear to empty unprejudiced ‘richt ut as iniquitous and unjust •as ie'ihe awl oprighj Inkn retelintien,the ciovernment of the United Stetesivet acissptt**by:Oaefog in clossroonfinement 23 British ,ber.ef. _ . its frost which thq !iitd:,lteen. violently' esciplllll;* ,I)atch`Adinivil, who. 64 ,a'considerable unpins , swf tr -on board, recovered ail the - , mew ; The p l ow besieges for on equal nom in--of troops - _ _ . conquests fatuous wretches, the unworthy offspring. of C ltrigilsh had made, except Cape Corse-castlii,,lts firitobe c t i oxbo, when drawn Iron the yanky of the eves% dispossessed them of some of their ohl-tettle;) enemy, ; s eoiyited he suffered to expiate their' . ments: and sailing for America, insulted Bertnsdnbe, treason: by 4 04ir arms *Oast their recent committed. hostilities on Long 'Maud, and tOOtis einigoYers. Thee, et.s hat% AO. I.leq contempt consWerlible number of :hips, • • . • _ " • deelaiation of - the ci . - . • .. ........ . 4, , . they merit; lie'esi consigned tgt,the infamy and punish.; 1 A . -station of war was .....- consequence of ASO, i ii`dl---- ,agaged ). . went that await them from thelget , lags of their • mutual hostilities' s -awl-both sides prepared for the :defeatetilitelmseirY!Sitt•rar, Admiral of the Iflet "nflended country while the Arrertveirt of .the Most yslgiStois4:: iitectroist, of their navel strength.—.! liutarefortuttattiliforlyitionntry•men, by parse ttiiocs' .., United States 4ges nut ¢hutb.tit„ claim these outcast,. Hy the minageotent'olipa, Wiy . a navy, composed I eagerly,. he: mos. utterly a separated from the Dat' • traitors as ihetr i ‘gwp,,and Atutrage.lite `custom or, *Or larger Ships than . life Dutch hid ere,' sent tusea,„ centre, .wiiere his aaltistahce wl4. Much wanted.-- . ' , is ( iti ... csed was.its' the persons of • boaonrable men, by . Was. speedily i•quipped. CRAALLIS, who *at per- Meanwhile hi EteYTER., who occupied that. -din. ••pl a ' c i ll i th em o n ape with rebels and deserters. .j fectly acquainted with naval architecture, went Idro. geraus station; maintained with ' ettosi cilia t,.; . • ; . No alternative remota, .to .the Comm der of the; ' 'Self from port to port, inspecting the DeeN t yards, and and courage the combat agaiusi i , tile. cent tt of. Forces, .in kilp discharge :of ,h is duty . to a King, his ; hastening the preparations. JAMES, Duke of YORK, . the English p fleet, comaigededi by iteterr and Ausa.a. , • his brother, then Lord High Admiral ot England, enuotry, and, his fellow - soldiers , to order an :, MARLS. 9verpo+sered br eumbers t " bts high stkitt the Anwricax •O ffi cers, prisoners of war, without ' put to sea with a fleet of a hundredsail, besides" fire. i was at last obligati' to' sikbqik to a retreat, which he . flippant& of rank, to be immediately placed in close ships and bomb-ketches, and stood for the coast of gooducted with divot ability,: Ir..t.4se could /sof nfsnatnerit t .aoPstogeslar..tht.46•lltitish Onions, H° ll4ll4 ` . Prince :aii ,10, -,.....Na. r 1 of• SAste.-;Ocip exeteiniing, •" MI 0136'1 what a wretcb Cain, Ilitiv;•' Ws' Ich bk•bisotociolloct fell/both to this tliagratfert iiitsoiC _ .., iressahlito =kit:some way ; and k lifternoon beforeDs,RUTTEit could come up wit% Meg Ilis disabled ships were ordered to make all ~the sail possible; and, keep a:head, while he Memel, closed the rearodth sixteen of the best Con ditioned ships, and prevented an undaunted comae- Jones to theHolianders. Determined to perish sooner than to strike, he prepired to renew the action.— But as he was sensible the probability of success was against him, he declared ttthe Earl of Oman; sop of the Duke of 0104'01:4O; wb P1P0.,4 board with him, his intention to .blow,wp his shiporath‘r than fall into the hands or the enemy, and the gal lant youth applauded the desperate resolution._ But fortune rescueeboth ,frogioch a viulent4tlt; .at 'ish vox ..f. 's -- so con fi ned by the express command of the supreme _. e scree ceniKtirittid 'litter; _ fleek t ,ool 4 , . . -- ---.- ~_ . authority in .thet, country, ago the cow of ,eq . u . e.i ., torce, was commanded by Ctr'DAN in • unctiign iso many tiatiiisind bullets, it there not one To prid On, 46 .be PRlOetell, A ver and a b ose iho s , upw i n go i.,larito v.vaturso i andyoung TROMP , son ;I:, the famoits : end to nrillitserable life,?" taostay too, after all his 1 .. , t killed in the former war.-i- i success, was . obl i ged to yielctio the combined effe . rts I finomiet. • • . ' ' • , 1 Admiral of that name, , &cal micyalireets that this Ilia ' i • General . 01 , 4 e• ri f Neither patty 'declined the combat, and the sea w a s of tha,English Red and'iltae Squadrons. ' The pig-. together with the Girder lowed 60'the 2,/tai tif:ficiti. quite smooth, with not a cloud to be seen In the s sky.r !fah AM. this remained Mitt(o l o or the Channel, ands lA, i The Duke, ,in the. Royal Charles, bore dove upon ' a squadrne, under Sir Rebitet EICIptIES, entered the her, be read- to the troops, that the .British mower . OrDAM, and ..a furious battle ensued. ()MAWS road of Vlie, and burnt too men of uric and a bun , may be sensible of Ow terms on Which America h as ,`. uht i v u u , up . . o d .. e. - ;ft Dutch, discouraged by the dyed and forty rich merchantmen, togetber with the . ; determined to wage this War; . c fel t -" eat that he will ; awful fine of , •theli. Adriiirel. and his gallant crew,! large village of Brandaris; ,the wiseledamage being i meet them with proper spirit and indignatien ; for, ! „__,., .._„, t o ~ , should he become the prisoner of a foe so regardless : neo Lower - us th e Lease. They lost ,nsar thirty ships t ) dompOted at several millions sterling,' -• , , • of those laws which for ages have governed civilised and theii whole ten t Might hale been sunk or taken, -, • The situation of De Wit was .now truly critical. had the English made a proper use of their victory:: The Dutch merchants, uniting with the Orange fac. nations at war, he would be doomed to a rigorous But about midnight orders were given to shorten ! tion, violently exclaimed against' an Administration confinement, and that, perhaps, only preparatory . to , . . , .. . i sail ;so that , at morning, tie hopes of overtaking i which, as they said, had brought disgrace and ruin a more savage scene. (siaued) EDWARD BAYNES. Adjeteut• ! the enemy remained ; and thus was neglected an 0p... on their country. DE WIT'S intrepid mind stood la . i &octal, North Aturrica. ' portnnity of destroying the natal force of the Dutch, ill, and hinting quieted , the provinces of Holland ariß which never returned in this nor in any succeeding : ieatand, lie gave himself little trouble about the GENERAL. ORDER. war. The English lost but one ship. 1 murmurs of the rest. The fleet was refitted in an . Head-quarters, Quebec, per. 21. Louis XIV. was obliged to assist the Dutch, in ' incredible short time, and again sent to sea under Ws Fecellency the Governor in Uhig And Com- consequence of his alliance with DI WIT and the this veteran sailor: and the King of France, though . mender of the Fortes has received s dkpatch frOm rStates • and the King of DENMARK, who was je f it.ri pleased to see England and Holland weakening each isisjor-General de. Rotteuburg, srensmit(ing a letter ; loos Of the naval power of England, engaged tb ;other's navel force, hastened the sailing of the Duke 'from Major-General Vincent, containing an . official furnish 30 ships in support of the same cause. Ds of Beat/rose' , lest a second defeat should oblige his - report fiom.Col.. Murray, of hii having taken pos. ; Wit Wile, after the above disaster, was blamed for friend - ;Dst WIT, to abandon his dangerous station. session of Fort George , at Niagisaavon the 12th in- 1 the war, did not wholly trust to these alliances.— Such i'defeat Would have happened to one, if not to slam ; withoutipPosition, !- • , ~, • . • I Re Mat'only forwarded the naval preparations, but both !fleets, had not a violent storm obliged Prince ' • • The Colonel . Sititet t flikt 4,44. regraid intelli. i weal on board ihe fleet himself ; and so extensive * RuezaT to retire into St. left's. While he remained Recce of it being the'etientiyVinteritinoi 'to - rffender iw, 'Otis genius, that he soon became as much master there ,repairing the dams . 'he "had sustained,. Dc 'mile adjacent country , and to' Carry off thelnysil to them. Kind RU Tar, who had taken shelter in the road'of Wu ' iu.i,faee affairs as if lie . had been bred . i i . habitants of that district, lie immediately 'Wide ii • MARL= attempted, in vain, to aegociate an alliance - iligne, returned home slit his fleet in a sickly . 4iie 4 i forced march ',Attic* 4mall . detachment of the 'ail. - lids Spain, io counterbalance so formidable a com. ition. . - ... . vanced rorps nail. his "Command, censistifig -of a blinitiftn. He felt conscious, however, that Lour' Thii`DoOf BEA kewho came too late 'to ' v roe * party • of 'Halal' iplitiity, with two' field 4 4 e.aei l ,_ could have no serious purpose of exalting the powei, form a junction with the ,Admiral , passed both _ _ __.. 7 1 0t be eta up tifid down the Channel witaibut being observed b .. _. _ . about fort/ 'and 340 of the 100th re.l gi event, • ander. Lidat.'.*Coltlferllttlnlltrin, the whOle otnoontitt only fty Alt i't4tit and :file, fogbtiter with shoot 9;0 roleitteeititha: Western lrndiani; under Colonel F.lliotf , tinB notilthstiinilinK the tiOeinenCy • of the. wehther, - tniceeeded in" ; 16'104 :to frustrate the enemy's predatory di I; *ltir bi l 'Holland ;he was not so alarmed as migh, ea. pected when every shore was hostile to the seaman, from the extremity of Norwity to of Bayonne. A formidible feet of 78 sail of Hue, commanded by the Dote of Aratessaar.a and, Prince RIREII7, !leaned to justify CIIARLISNI Cant tclen'ce. "But unfortunately , th is foroe sees di- Y 1 iverit t i ff fleet under _AZT - *NI asa,4:.The force on befit 1- eitf#ii istukt m lite Dutch bore (awards lite' ti o "1 • ••i rte. W•• peah _ Oast galand, butworialattely porsuat.: ,Ailit:tottgtk they ; formed , theutselrei itt yar&r, of battleOmd.a tearable conflict., instted: ritcisiAe .oat asst, who cqm atanded the English Whitsi*lnitdron,, attacked Ow nutch-iiiti4lth irresistible dry, andkilled . the t4sree (Imitate who Cothotanded it. . Taws* , and .4eair,h, . .. - ehinett t'h* . fortreis With such precipitation, on the' vided in the moment :oriptizer. It having been re. approach of the detachme n t, th a t his tents - were left ported that the Dueit i liEsuroav had entered the standing, nn ad he time, to injure the works of the . Channel, with a tench fleet of 40 sail, Prince piece, which. Mlve been restored to a respectable state . RVPERT was detached with 20 sail to oppose him. - - Mean,. Of defence by the taemyrottdoweuld•kave'reqbailid I , Iwbil, the Dutch beet, to the number of 90 sail, $ regehr siege to reduce. -4 ,-;_ 0 e.. .• ,-• ',.' - ' .:'v commanded by DE RATTIER. and Tuna', had put to .ie •' „; t. 4 ;___ f __i ' 0 47_,''• sea ; illtd AT.IIEXARLZ,' notwithstanding his inferior 4 The enemy succeeded .in Clessts4.- 1 1 1 M- 1 67 ... ru . '':. !y r -rashly, sought an engagement.. fiance and stores, previpus to his MLitt, which hat But his valour iotoned for his temerity. - The battle that ensued was been marked by eternal infamy an't"-18gra", in t he; one of the most memorable iu the annals• of mita wanton conflagration of : dm whole town, which, In ' 'k in d ; whether we consider its duration,- or the' k l-fiance of thecommen eights of humanity, and in i desperate cou r age with which it was fought. Four direct violation of the reiterated protestations of the days did the combat rage, without any -appearance American Commanders to respect private property,' of valour slackening on either side. The Dutch has at this inclement season been reduced to ashes. I had the advantage in the action the lilt day ; yet, By the judicious and prompt movement of Col. AcaEstattEr., in eagaging DE RUTTIR, bad sh owed 141nrvay, the Niagara frontier has been rescued from : himself worthy of his former renown. Two Deft '' ' its invaders, and a fruitful and extensive district pre-1 Admirals were slain, and three tti,glish ships takes. I; served from meditated plunder, and its loyal intit& i One Dutch ship was burnt. Da r k ness p ar t e d the' (ants from . further outrage, and imprisonment— combatants. v. hich neither the pledged' faith of the American 1 Next morningthe battle was renewed with redoubled Commander, 'nor their patient submission to the im- fierceness ; and the Dutch woetnedy to give way, perious will of the lawless invaders, would have se- when they were reinforced witkill capital ships. The cured them from suffering. English now found that the post heroic valour can (Sisred) E. BAYNES, AdJeleot-Geeeral. not counterbalance the Olitariorlty of Ilmobeis in Huh fleet ; and Louis XI V. anxious for the his infant navy, which he had reared with care and Industry, dispatched Orderslo - Bariii t to make the best of ' -' way to Brest. (ter this Caiatuas plied the money that voted him fog* kw the navy but paid his hIES in PI rookatfr . ,p.„ p ti ilia st, laid is first ant second rate Da Wir wbo w formed of this supine security, hastened the pre retions of Holland ; and the Dutch Beet, ender De RUTTER,. took pOssq!sion of.the istoudt of the Thames ; while a — squadron, cismsehnded 'by VAN GtiAiir , assisted by it.'east 'Wind isTd a spring tide, After reducing Sheerness, hrok.c,a. chain which had beets •drawn across the Iliesiwpay, and destroyed , three ,ships stationed to vitid ; advanced as far as Chatham, and burned So 401 Oak, the Loyal London, and the Great /Wises all first rates, and ,carried off the hull of the Rosakharlea. Thkde,strnction of all the sltips.at ,Chatham, threw the City of London into the greatest .contteruation. The snow still continues so much nndimioiehed between Naas and Dublin, that there is roombAttoit one coach to pass, in consequence of which,. D. goons are continually on the alert to prevent do'Y carriages from , euteriog this defile until the;, coach has passed. The dragoons risk on the snow at either Ado of this temporary road, and their. horses' feet *eve the level ortittnifiaf theiiid)74mactor M . they puss. • . !t. • Mr. Mai. Deo ' A 0 0 • Comma . 4 , 1 O 1 O PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT it NI O'CLOCK. emit India Bends 7 5 6 p 3 per Cent. Red. 67) 81 Exchequer HitixAti. per Cent. Cons. 64 fin Ditto 9 . 4 5 p I per Crnts. 83113 :Onaitin 4 • • 5 per Cent. Nitys 964111 'New D t 0 .114 93 31 ' • Long. Aug. 1V:1(ii. (,'m:94 Cur Axil. cat fi~.~ - ~s?~~s~~.~v: DO . N . • tIIURSDAT, .FIVIRUAILY A-Up .4 8 14,• ••". ........11T , .A i • Never were the affairi 01, &MAO in, so &Nal II rove situation as 'at this MOmeni. , lint jhapes sod .. t rs of nations may be said to.bis4474lsy a t it 'km what may take place in France atithiar theteiti'Asti weeks, nay, we may almost say, few {lays. Durikthe the tame time th4t . . it caned the Engli , . Navy—a : ' tunes of (;11A,ALcs V,,. Potts, 11., nail Losits tat, sv delst ive be us i e n f g o d r e a sles4 w llifd tro te i ti th e : li. acti , o r n ig iv e ll o s c re o ir c w o r m ill . 1 • in the most prosperous ' momenta of their citric I f ili. Owe potty isomeleded it to bethe Doke of ,_. • . ~..,.... o r o l t r i ‘be OkotiiTrolpofßkettt. - end'both rent expectation asylosusitty wAtctiot called up in the ~ . Art ,... ;thrir riosite. -- ; At length, to , tint in- . degree they ere at this luitaitti lffipirsopier *ton,. ihi; state of the affairs of the MHO . • Preglabei,l4.4l . .kimkt bta 1-,?1" the ,Ir t uglish, it was discovercd.to could not be very agreeable to the Kini of .Begided. t : t isPlC . tion solely •to the .repriAs the ‘4 l l 7 ;iiiiiesit' et who must naturally desire to see his nephew, Wm- ,Ae trl ' t , lifighti prevented ii renewal of .tbe tile ...progress their.,. . 4e, agijos i . ,• 7 - . -. ~ we ineoserios . o: ifix. , :eitef._ e. ....: To tomh , t. p m who w l,e iti r ge otiL l:s_lioul_d be re / ii ' dy ' te . .4elis___3L'th_ tilt:o4l9 i * 4 'ol_,lltir tt.tm 111. reinstated in that authority his ancestors ect.ißii,-Init paatoteesmietithe battle riled possessed. Ile was, suspected of a design,- .no means improbable, in conjunction with his bt*her, , dry, t the 'eonteat..einateest . gionlitftilv and tiewerds iSktflpporariee, ;and lakir it ia all am with Seat*. of 'rendtitingthe young Prince absolute, and briil(ng. evesAdg both testi, aerie' weary► of carnage , : *bud , ket & u,..s t egi th e o ree t i N a tk en too . i Bat we hear, as theAliii,i.,to'edepondonce on England. The ( m ew l s under a thick tog to their . respec tive harbouri.: it ware, little. mom Alselk...one aide of the argu... merit: like 'French 'sol i ' ' ' little much fess than Jewels Wer t -Pensionary of Holland, the 'coal' of i ThePfglish itcimirsts were men . of too bigl ye the,„eepahlicast party, afraid of such . desige, 'hid, , 1614' tf> . be ai:aii . fiedi ail') lees tha n . Victory. -.W,itile 1 1 I tlinii•oeiliebeCcasinni.,`„they *are resioried, but we soon after the Restoration', entered into a close al- . they tent the disabled dyes to d:ffere . ut.docket,tie be ri ii . lo "re*: be vs they,, : mil not ilia Ois e! v hi-4,0 lialice4ith France: - .De Wry,. whose powes•s. ?sere . refitted , they remained-ea:board theist ow n dictatoriti t 'lrld'it down 'tea maxim, that sae l 'Whote . fi eetl was soon rinitg. to tilt toliea t ,'Wilkei . sfp w . population of that .andtseral.eountry be, Mill give witi:itiMair•di" 1 to military ' fame anti glory (their regard otillslike to 4tiliteV4voktewer -small, , should tamely. teller 'a hesiiileli eiegageMeot vas eagerly,iought: . Roe! pAjaquity, from antstiterieeiit' oiAc i t i tpm4 svici t 44 ale& &sow RuirTett : anti' l'aoseti , with ilm %lob st. . 1 1`,.NAPARTE (Mt Of the IdriAon),. the inhabitants of 4oio was cruising l oath a dept he 1 allielliteetilefe, fleet, consisting Of eighty With, her*ta — illeba...l _. i l . .. 12 7 . western ‘ departie4 ,.. . n ‘ ‘ iii, , *it les! einpire; will not for the purpose of-ehaatiting the hiridicelPfitglie of i Selves at the mouth 'of 'the ThaeetlLAin hopes , . 1 , be unmoved by the few. but.euergetac appeals whiph Barber'', to sail towards the cOest. o f tigiuoirauct of being joined by e Fressebaqtiedroli s ' 'aßtl. riding , put die Deitch again in posseasien,•er •iie t eoeleuss!e. , (riumphant is ti - itbeinel: — Ther ~ ,4js.. I have been made to them . tlitnegie Colassiesiener• _ - .. ..... . . . ._•_ . _ ' der - -41 stir,, . wry- - item : but '('- ' killer 'of sent among tL , :. „3, 40110 the eastern provineesi stilf-Attill*MOY*4l4,o** ful invaders. This iorttoleOrr;•* 4 4r liket itself tvaett witir#..4looo ',Ef t al4 *O l 4 :oFtit ti;Piciev'': gitni4r,hi..; ~ . - :ialiiC , illist iimetise .t 0.,. opera* opine . 410 i, zags* 1•61.6*-i -Wiv inn , theittfore,' . -*" 3 Wert4t, t,Vilt dilik4l. 4 .golir:eighe:Mit i 4. _4o* .11004***Ak brit:ll4 e rli 01'1 t -•] . *O.-tale ...T•gry little Jai. mewl. *WO tM t tN liftite , aatious reports of so `lniillkftatehe the. • litiAtifirits Netherlands being .w.l3re.frkfr,, a o, French:. even. Ostend among the nuteberl ltisough,..of thie mach may he said with re .spect• 44i. the different Tie*: lgitgland, Holland, and P lOstila Mit 11 4 4 .;o&l{s peritiagent occupancy. But as we have said before, and it cannot be deemed ta. dious or tante-legions to repeat it, all depends upon the spirit oilkirentaining population of France: fur to affirm - 'believe that-country totally depopulated A at. -Or - /4 Tol A, is the height of ebsurdity,n otwithsta ndiag the ea rigui na ry and exhausting war it has endured for the lastigi yesrs, part of which a civil war consumed its people. ,lf.thati spirit which manifested itself at the. time of the Duke of BRUNSWICK'S invasion, be udt•utterly confuted or dissipated, if the people are not beartily weary of exertion and resistance, be their contiog fate what it - may, they are t able to furnish a million of men; an army sat - dent gitickly to make head agaitist their assailants, and, finally, to expel them the WI ivhatevev ponied of it they may have over-run. In deed, in such case, the greater may appear the Me.. COS and the effect of dip invaslon'now, and however it may 'odd to the distress of the Governuient of Preece, and the destruction of the individual property of the Inhabitants the *ore terrible lOU be the riposte, or weturning ' blow of the assilled, whets prepared and determined - to strike. %Ye most, therefore, wait a short time longer; and it cannot. be a long time ere we draw those inferences or auguries from appearance or *Tents, which chn afford our fteaders solid satlsfactiod. So apt ere mankind to judge of measures by events, and to connect wis. dom with good fortune, that shoidd the Allies ulti mately succeed in their *ion of France, their generalship gill be sai *live surpassed that of BONAPARTE BONAPARTE a million tim ever ;on the other hand, should the latter repel the Invaders, contrary to the Ihecies of 'Ministerial writers, why these Prort- . our ~ very men may be Indemill tor ck o w ledge, that the ailo.Carsican," as they, sitstominige him, may not be devoid of pretensions to rank among the modern warriors who have illustrated the military his,tory of • Europe.. s'o it inta.ll44B/01s, • •the eqtrance of the Allied troops seems in a great degree confirmed by pritlitt 1 1 0, 3 . . from Holland, datedtthe 6th inst. They add efee, that Bruges had fallen Into . Ira 'bifida of the Allief and that the Freseh' Authorigerteettelditietteetiesdy there nel being a prAzoo, it it militient . te leah Am , least resistance.:. if 41.11 , .reiocrrt be. correct, ;the French. Government must, indeed, have been as tounded, by . the • repeated blows it. has received. What is to liecinee 'of AntwOp; . OMEe'hil 'these cir cumstancesi It mast 'be, as •it werev starrounded. Suggestions: hive been ehirowri oat thae.the:ittrer tem provinces of the' Netherlamy Ont . te: 'added to. ••••• •. the seven 'of Holland, as in Plintlet time, by sre, of eslablishing. a, present :tinited Sikes: .unposed to the plats 46Y: theory Ot t ' ihe AttleA illfdk''eart fi d, **COM Abe - prospective' and probabhneonnimileb, p•eli# and tOpalp, she is about to enter:Pito with Hollatili v R tiiitneetvbart regard with views• ansk feelings of - ' plrte y. *A design like thil" c0n,w:4,110 prorrerr --- .4.....:icr ------ HOLLAND. against an enemy not defective in either courage or --ilea.— conduct. -_„aisteAmance, however, world AK*. tC . hisatino oft y Nal .1 16 1, ii, nothletiaet thinitiOrposition of night, and, Abate li lir. . the •iti gy • lo p .. - , ww-- - , , rl , ~ I. i I 14 . . , iiiiro:, i . u _ N vgi tt .....- _ ~.. ti.:4llcbahli6.l44lnia.a:miirsanivi:oetahvklievnirdc and; "thaillett was four neral *e 1 1 tited'Stutes., though, untorttinhtety fo r th e credit iigibuice of Ale 'enemy, however, and the shattered of the King, they had been Perpetrated before the condition of his fleet, prevented him from fu lly 4:l l ce ecti e ti Olyi ngitio tai dedger,, e orthe+idaereriusesa 9 and 'morning, irthe '._ L 1 ',... • re . 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