The National Register.
London, England, 1813-12-05 00:00:00

TOE NATIONAL REGIBITR.

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mirance of the real state of
he landed a party of *marines,
them to Alkmaar, and demanded all the cash from the gene-
ral receiver at that place, which was given up to him.
It is expected that he will speedily receive a visit frnm
OUT fleet, which, should he persist in his refusal to surrender,
may at last compel him to prove faithless to the ‘. good
cause" to which he has hitherto so pertinaciously adhered.

We arc concerned to hear that about 150 young Gentle-
men, related to some of the first fa.nilies at the Hague, at
the beginning of the last week formed themselves into a
volunteer corps, and proceeded to Woerden, near Utrecht,
of which place, in the absenee of the enemy, they took
possession. Tile French suddenly returned, surprised them,
and thirty of them only escaped ; the rest were either killed
or wounded. The enemy having accomplished his purpose,
precipately withdrew by the toad to Gorcum.
The Prince of Orange was never till now Stadtholder in
possession. His Serene Ilighness commanded the Dutch
army in the two campaigns against the French, in one of
which he was wounded; but it was his father who was reign.
ing Stadtholder, whets the French obtained possession of the
United Provinces, by passing over the ice in the winter of 179%
The Dutch Papers received on TUesday state, that
on the 22d ultimo, the two Patriotic Generali Baron
Sweerts de Landas and General De Jough, established their
respective head-quarters, the one at Rotterdam, the other at
Leyden. Baron Sweerts immediately detached troops to
Capell and Ysselmonde, and compelled the French, who had
advanced to Dordrecht, to fall back on Goreum. General
De Jough moved his troops to Alphen and Voerden on the
road to Utrecht.—Energetic proclamations were daily
issuing from the press.—The National guards had changed
their appellation into Orange Guards, and the Dutch Jour.•
nalists affirm, that 100,000 patriots will, ere long, march to
drive the satellites of the Usurper far from their soil. The
Russian General W'inzingcrode, who, on entering the Dutch
territory, had issued a proclamation, calling on the inha-
bitants to support the good cause, proceeded along the banks
of the Yssel by Zwoll, Deventer, and Zupthen, and thence
marched to Amersfort, where he was on the Q3d inst. and
the next day Soo of his Cossacks entering the city of
Amsterdam, joined the patriots in compelling the last remains
of the French troops, who bad shut themselves up in the
Old Town House, to surrender ; after which they proceed6d
to the fort at the entrance of the Haerlemer Meer, of which
they took possession by capitulation. The approach of the
Allied Armies, and the expected arrival of the British fleet
and troops, removed all hesitation on the part of the patriots
of whom no fewer than 100,000 volunteered to march against
the enemy in the course of the day. The Dutch papers'
also contain the highly interesting fact, that SWITZERLAND
HAD DECLARED ITSELF NEUTRAL.

The Prince Regent's dinner to the Russian Deputation, on
Friday, was on the most magnificent scale, coriespondin
with the dignity of the British Court. His Royal Highness
the Prince Regent received the company with his accustom-
ed dignified affability.- Covers were laid for about sixty.
Besides the Russian Ambassador, General Balaschoff, and
suite, there were preient the Royal Duke;, the Spaniih,
Portuguese. and Neapolitan Envoys, the greater part of the
Cabinet Ministers, the Great Officers of State, &c. &c.

The Volunteers and Local Militia, in various parts of the
country, have come forwa:ci and offered their services to
perform garrison anti other duty in the room of those troops
of the line and regular militia that may be withdrawn at the
present moment,

DEC. 5.
French grain. A few days-ago
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