The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-07 00:00:00

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS.

14.forulay, the 28th ult. being the birth-day of
his HighnesiWilliain Frederick Charles, youngest
son of our Sovereign, it was celebrated here. On
the same day this young Prince was with the ad-
vance of General Bulow, at Laon, six leagues to
the North of Soissons.--(!Jague • Courant,
March 2.)
FLORENCE, FEn. 4.-01) the 3lst of January,
the Neapolitan troops, under General Minutolo,
entered this city. The Princess Eliza set out next
day for Lucca. The Neapolitan troops are al-
ready on their march for Leghorn, which the
French troops and authorities were preparing to
leave.

COLOGNE, FEB. 19.—Pursuant to the orders of
the Crown Prince of Sweden, two flying bridges,
and a bridge of boats, are to be thrown over the
Rhine, before our city, for the crossing of from
16 to 20,000 Swedish troops,
.who are expected
here on the 23d and 24th.
To-day entered fie squadrons of Swedish ca-
valry, of very fine appearance. The Staff' of the
Crown Prince, which consists of three hundred
officers, has arrived at Mulbeim, and is expected
here to-morrow.
It is supposed that the Crown Prince will reach
Aix la Chapelle, by the 23d.
FEB. 23.—The Hussar regiment of Bey passed
- through here on the 17th to proceed to Bonn : it
was destined for the corps besieging Mentz, but
received counter-orders, and is now on its march
to the interior of France, to join the army of
131nelier.
Yesterday about 6000 troops arrived here,
partly Swedish, and partly Hanseatic ; the greater
part of them have proceeded onwards, after being
reviewed by the Grown Prince.
During his Royal Highness's stay here, we had
within our walls the Russian envoy Count Such-
telen ; the Austrian Envoy, Baron Vincent ; Mr.
Thornton, the British, Genural Krusernark, the
Prussian, and Mr. Von Bourke, the Danish envoy.
DREMZN, FEB. .—The Russo-German Legion,
which belongs.to the corps of General Walmoden,
and is from o to 8,000 strong, is now in this city;
it consists chieay of Germans and Dutch, wbo
were formerly in the French service. To-morrow
the Duke of CuMbridge is expected here, to re-
view the corps of Walmoden, which will imme-
diately march for the Rhine.
GHENT, FEB. 23.—We learn from Courtray,
that the Allied Troops, which took possession of
that town, had advanced towards Ypres. The
latter town, as well as Niewport and Ostcnd, had
been summoned to surrender. 'The Allied troops
are in pussession of Paperingen, Belle, and the
surrounding places. A spy had been taken at
Courtray, who was on his way to Antwerp with
dispatches.
FEBRUARY 24.—We learn from the vicinity
of Ostend, that the enemy's garrison in that town
is 1200 strong. They had made several destruc-
tive sallies, collecting grain and levying contri-
butions. Last week 300 of them made a sally as
far as Slycker Sas, to pierce the dyke, by which
the whole environs of Ostend would have been
laid under water. Fortunately they were preVent-
ed from effecting their object by the peasants,
who collected to the number of between 3 and
4000, with weapons of all kinds, and drove theta
back with sonic loss.

MALE, FEB. 18.—On the oth, in the evening,
they again re-commenced bombarding !Junin-
guen. The French have thrown some bombs
upon our town, but as they fell part in the Rhine,
and part on the public buildings, they have not
occasioned any damage; a Hag of truce, however,
has been'sent to the Commandant of the fortress
to make representations to him on this subject.
Fatitiarovr, FEB. 20.—Orders have been re-
ceived here to remove the hospitals of sick in this
city further eastward, and some of them arc to be
replaced at Hannau. They consist of about 8000
infirm persons, and the removal is to take place
as soon as waggons and other conveyances can
be prOCUred.
UTRECHT, FEB. 24.—The prisoners of war from
the garrison of G,jrcuin are 4:aily arriving here,

Yin their way to Prussia. They are to march by

Nykick auci Valnive, towards Germany. The
third column is composed almost entirely ut Bel-
gians, which Lad been forced into the service of

the 'French, and which bas now been set at li-
berty, and permitted to return to their families.
Some of these prisoners have offered to enter the
service of the king of England, and have been
taken under the protection Of the British troops
in this town. A still greater number has volun-
teered to serve our Sovereign the Prince of
Orange. These last have been maintained by
the Burghers, diiiing five days, while arrange-
ments were making for their appropriation in the
different corps.
Within these few days,• above 80 Spanish Of-
ficers have arrived from diffetent parts of the
country, delivered from their bondage by the
events of ‘c ar. They are on their way to their
native laud.

. Besides several hundred English troops that are
now here, we are expecting. other detachments,
‘vith their train, baggage, and sick ; they are prin-
cipaliv infantry The cavalry will be quartered in
the villages, but they will remain only two days,
and then proceed to join the army of Bra-
bant.

Yesterday arrived three battalions of Dutch and
Prussians, which have broken up from the neigh-
bourhood of Gorcum, and which are on march
this morning for the Hague. A Dutch battalion
has also come in here to-day. This afternoon
about 100 French prisoners, taken in several
skirmishes, entered the place.

TintII,IGUC, :11An:At I.—The Duke of Clarence
has retur►►ed from Brussels. His Boyal High-
ness looks remarkably ; lie is co►►tinually
walking, and usually dressed in nniforin as au
Admiral.

To-morrow Count Meiotic! will leave this coun-
try for England. He goes, it is said, on the part
of his Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of
Orange, to propose for her Royal Highness the
Princess Charlotte. of Wales.

His Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince has
been since the 19th in the upper part vf Dutch
Brabant. He has crossed the Macs and 117aal,
and has' been at Nyrneguen and Arnbeint, and
will proceed to the neighbourhood of Groningen
previously to his return. His Royal Highness
will inspect the besieging corps of Deventer and
Coeverden. He is not expected here in less than
ten days.
On Saturday a corps of British artillery, under
the command of General Gower, firrived at,
Utrecht, and on Monday proceeded for Breda,
whither the Dutch troops lately employed in the
siege of Gorcum have also marched ; the whole
of this force, it is understood, will join the force
now under the command of Sir Thomas Graham.
The Dutch corps has left Bois-lc-Due in order to
strengthen the force before Grave. The siege
will, in future, he conducted with the utmost
vigour. On the 19th, the date of the latest ac-
counts from the army of Winzingerode, his head-
quarters were at Rheims. On the 21st ult. the
Crown Prince of Sweden was hourly expected at
Liege : splendid preparations were making for his
reception.