The Sun.
London, England, 1813-12-31 00:00:00

BOLLAND.

The anxiety of the People of Holland to see the
young Prince of ORANGE is not to be described
They were prepared, in spite of all the rigorous
police which took. place during the French usurpa- •
tion of their country, to expect in this young
Prince a pupil of the immortal WELLINGTON ;
and when they heard of his arrival at Helvoet, the
inhabitants of the Hague crowded before the palace
of Voorhoot, and remained there all day, in hope
and expectation. At Helvoet, the Brill, and at
Delft be was received by the
.Maikiitrats and the
People with the most joyous acclaMations , Meet-
ing with some Spaniards, amounting to nearly
11300, who bad beenieleased by the Prussians, he
addressed them in their own language. They
.
joined the people in general with shouts of
enthusiastic welcome. The Prince visited the
public works, and by the modesty of his
demeanor impressed all hearts with esteem,
and. affection. 'But the meeting between the So,
vercign Prince arahis Son was one of the most
affecting scenes that can be imagined. It took
place at the Hague, in presence of the Magis-
't
aces and the people arlarge.. They rushed into
tie anus of each other in speechless rapture. At
,4itgth the father was able to subdue his
emotions so much as just to utter " welcome
my Son;' All that the • Son could say in
answer amidst intense agitation, was ".my Father
and Sovereign. Thil scene operated with hardly.
leis effect upon the surrounding multitude, many I
of whom shed tears of sympathetic pleasure. But all
tenderness soon gave way to the most triumphant
shouts of universal gratulation. During the.whole
progress of the Prince Sovereign and . his son, •
' through the• several places which. they yisited,'
there was the 'same. ardent. manifestation Of po;• '1
pular delight.
The Hereditary Prince has been appointed a
General of Infantry and Inspector-General of
Troops and Arms, as well as Inspector-General of
the Netherland Militia. He left the Hague for
'Rotterdam, to commence his military duties in
that city.
lite British troops, consisting of detachments
Of the' 37th';and 56th regiments, which arrived at,
the Hague on Friday night, having been landed at
Schevening front the Brune frigate, rested there On
Saturday, and were on' Sunday marched to Delft,
antra froth thence to Maeslnndsluys, to join the'rest
of the British forces in Zealand.
The last accounts from that part of the country
which is occupied by the British forces, limn 'Wit-
liamstadt to the vicinity of Bergen-Op-Zoom, state
that it nos. GRAHAM was still at Tholen,on the
21st instant, with about 7000 men. That place is
1 ...
now ilii... British head-quarters, lint! is not three
leal;ues. froui Bergen-op-Zoom, against which our
troops were about to proceed.
Betz was also about to be attacked, as well as
Gorctn. Bois-le-Dim bad been already bom-
barded. The natives of Brabant, flying from the .
Frerich conscription, hastened to join the Dutch
standard. 1
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At the date of the most tecent letter s•from Wal-
eheren there were seventeen sail of the line in the
Roompot, three of which were .three-deckers,
under the command of Admirals GIB as,, Yotnto,•
011(1 FERRIER.
The 1200 Cossacks that had penetrated beyond
Antwerp to within two or three leagues Of liras-
sets, fell in with a body of 500 French, on their
way to trtinforce Antwerp. The enemy was en-
gaged and defeated at all points, the CossackS kill-
ing many, and taking about '2OO prisoners. The
precise 'details have not yet arrived.
The whole stream of the Rhine from Wesel had
been abandoned, and Wesel . itself was beginning
to sutler from want nt provisions.
A few letters which have found their, way. out
of Tlaniburgli represent that city as tranquil, but
anxiously waiting for the moment of revenge, Mo.
racy was scarcely to he seen ; the stock, of provi-
to'ns was diminishing .fast, anti a number of use-
mopths had been sent away. DAVOUST.S
thin; added, t( the consumption of Ham-
Must soon be subdued by famine.
.tn„and torenstein were taken • on the
thus all hope of
.communication Or
ti Uorcuua doge away. A flog of truce

had beets previon4ly sent by the General In earn-
maird.of the besiegers, Which wils refused
adtnit-
tance. •A second had been, tried, which was ad-
mitted, and which, at the-date of the dispatch of
the I7th, was still .within the walls, after a long
conference. If this failed, it was intended to
open all the batteries without loss of time. On
the 17th,, no' shot had been tired on either side
during .thritire day.
There has been a report at the Hague,
,that
Mutivi- had countermanded the Neapolitan rein-;
forcetrients for -11EAUUMMIS, declared himself
neutral, anti opened his ports to the Allies. The
first part only is believed. The principality Of
Hildesheim has been lately added to the King's
German States, *and as such, taken possession of
by COIMOVALNIODEN.
It is generally conceived that the French periple
want nothing hut a knowledge of facts to do what
becomes them. The security of the entire system
scents to be rested on the art of keeping the tui-
tion in ignorance. Persons who have lately:es-
caped from Paris speak as if thine') found themselves
in a new world the moment they passed the French
frontier. In Paris they heard Jitt le of Prussians or
Russians ; plays, concerts, and the Emperor hunt-
ing, or the presentation of standards, were the
only subjects of conversation. So late as the first
week in December)
call that-was 'said of Holland
"was; tliat -the trifling disturbance which had oc-
curred there was quelled, and that General Molitor
was in quiet possession of Amsterdam.
Still, by a keen . observer, even in Paris, it
might been discovered that all was not well. It
was remarked, that Buonaparte appeared of late
unusually gay; and this at a time when he was
known to have suffered reverses, and from a man
singularly grave, WaS accounted an ill Omen. For-
merly accustomed to .ride rapidly through the
~t rests with a crowd of attendants, stunning the
people, and apparently, scorning popularity, he
was now often seenattentled oily by General Caf-
farelli and a few aides-de-camp, stopping fre-
quently to speak even to the beggars, inqniring
their wants., and. ordering money. to be given to
them. This counilaisance was, however, confined
entirely to the lowei orders. 'There had been,
, •
immediately ni
after s return, a rumour of a con-
spiracy, in which some people of distinction were
involved, and, a cry of " down with the Tyrant !"
but it had. been hushed •Asp. Among a people of
trifles, even trifles: have their weight ; amf it
was tr common opinion, from the peculiarly stiff
and projecting appearance of BUONAPARTE'S dresi,
that he wore. ti Corslet of some species of mail.—
There was said to he discontent its the Palace ;
'and the Empress, who had come to France a
striking and full-fortned 'figure., was observed
to have become peculiarly emaciated and palo,
BUONArARTE.had been fully reconciled to JosE-
PlaNg, :vase resided at Malmaison ; nod his visit of
reeonelliation wits of so public anti prepared an
Order, that it was construed into an-intentional in •
suit to the Empress. The Theatre is the place in'
which a Frenchman still feels a kind of pivilege to
be sincere, and BtIpIiAPARTE',s reception at the
" Cosnedit," 'was almost universally marked by
" tine moine,silence." Thosa.syroptOnis,
taiiiasThey would bein a country where men COillsl
speak their full opinions, are perhaps seriousin one
where they can be the only language ; tt:?ri it is
more than probable, that France only wants better
knowledge to rise as.one nian, and overturn the
Napoleon dynasty. That knowledge can scarcely
he far off. The Prussians are now on'the edge
of Flanders ; and that country, though once al-
most the impregnable barrier of Prance, is now,
front all accounts, totally naked ;, the fortresses
on the direct road to Paris, Valenciennes, Mons,
Cambray, without garrisons,• ammunition, or pro-
Visions ; the people decidedly hostile in Brabant,,
.and only W3itilig for the approach of a regular
,force ; and the few soldiery scattered to preserve
communications, without pay or officers. The
Prussians conceive that•lluotiAPAnTE Will try an-
other campaign, },ist that it must be his last.

Letters from Fraw.e, received by the last con-
veyance state, that " sugar, colfee, and all' colo-
nial produce, sell for no more than the duty, and
that 111.toNAPAwrit was compelled to grant the hol-
ders of these articles permission to bond them for
six months; as, if sold by auction, they would
not fetch the duties ; in which case his revenues
would he utfproluctive, and the holders ut the
same time be ruined.

The Martial gun-brig, which arrived on Toes-
day at Plymouth, bad transports under convoy,
with the regiments of Nassau and Frankfort,
which left SOUGT and came over to Lord Wel,-
LINGTON on the 10th inst. These regiments, it
is said, are to be bullied in Holland, that country
presenting the shortest •course for them to,pro-
cued to join the standards of their countrymen on
the -Rhiac. - Their numbers ate estimated at 3000.
Among other facts asserted with confidence in
the DatCh letters, it is' stated, that Geiterai WEN..
Dims, late Governor of Batavia, who had been
appOinted by BuoNapaßTE to the command 01 the
fortress of Modlin on the Vistula,. being a native
Hollander, bad embraced the cause of his coun-
try, and brought away with hint from Modlin two
battalions, who immediately attached themselves
to the Orange standard.
Thelroops destined for India are now all
ern-
barked at PortsmOuth, and should the wind con-
tinue fair, the fleet will sail on MOnday next, un-
der a strong convoy,
Lieutenant-Coloncl PLENDEIq.IhTIi arrived at
the Horse thiards yesterday morning front Ame-
rica, and had it long' interview with his Royal
Highness. the Duke-011'0R and Lord BATFf uns'r,
at the Foreign Office.
By'the death of itams.tY, the important
office of Secretary to the 'East India Company be,
.conies vacant: Mr.•COati, tvlio has so long and
'-so ably filled the sitaticion of Assistant, will
no doubt be apnointed his successor. Mr.
RICItARD OwEN, the Senior Clerk in the Offiee,
will, we unierstand, succeed Mr. COWL
• We have heard with much pleasure, that Lord
ViSCOtliit Mst.vit.i.g, with kind attention to the
religious interests of the 'numerous poor High
holders resident in London, and more especially
of disabled Highland soldier; and sailors, has re 7
cently given a munifireut.donatioti to tha, London
Gaelic Chapel.