Star.
London, England, 1813-12-18 00:00:00

AMSTERDAM, DECEMBER ii.

In order to compel the fortress of Naarden to a
speedy surrender, the Governor-General of this city,
Krayenhoff, has determined on forming a corps of
observation, to secure the villages and isolated dwell.
ings in the vicinity of that fortress from plunder and
murders.

In Naarden there is already a great want of every
thing : yesterday the bakers left off baking, as they
had no more supplies of flour on hand.

THE HEREDITARY PRINCE'S BIRTH DAY.

HAGUE.—The .6th. was the happy anniversary of
the Birth-day of his Illustrious Highness Willem-
, Frederick-George-Lodewyk, Prince of Orange and
1 Nassau, eldest son of his Royal Highness our dearly
beloved Sovereign Prince. His Highness having on
that day entered into the 22d year of his ago, the
same was solemnly and joyfully celebrated here by
the firidg of the guns, ringing of the bells, and the dis-
playing of flags on all public buildings, as well as
private houses.
His Royal Highness our Sovereign on the same
.day gave audience, and the Court was very brilliantly
attended ; and after the audience inspected a very
numerous corps of English troops, which had disem-
barked at Scheveling.
At the house of Baron Collot d'Escury, where his'
Highness at present resides, a grand dinner was given
to the principal Ministers of State, Generals, and
Staff Officers of the army and** the troops of our
Allies now here.

In the evening, his Highness honoured the Dutch
Theatre with his presence. As soon as he entered his
box, the national favourite Willie/In- van Nanowenb,
was called for, and executed by the Orchestra.—
' The loud applause and cries of Vivat Oranje, Viva
Willem den 1. our Sovereign Print e ! deeply affected
his Highness.
At night there was a general illumination.
Th% French stamp is still continued on the Dutch
Papers. They are marked " Vise pour embre Extra.
ordinaise Besse-3 Centimes."

In all the Dutch Papers, there are advertisements
frcim Committees which are established in each town,
for the purpose of supplying • the wants of families
left destitute in consequence of those who supported
them having, from zeal for the deliverance of their
country, joined the standard of independence: These
Committees, in general, sit from ten in the morning
till or.e o'clock, to ieceive applications, and to inves-
tigate the claims made upon them.
Prices current are advertised to be published as
usual, at Amsterdam and Rotterdain. In some in=.
stances, the prices of articlet in advertised sales are
mentioned sometimes ip Frew* 'Nosey—franks and.
centimes,
Portraits of the -Prince and Princess of of'

Orarte44
the Hereditary prince and all the (midi, are
for sale by booksellers in the principal towns.'' •••': - •
The price of .&ttineits 4g Ainsterd4m)_ on t (kb

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instant, as appears by the Amsterdam Cat/east of the
7th. was 47 florins and a fraction per ounce.
There are many advertisements of ships for Eng
land.
The Theatres are open in all the principal towns,
and it seems that the Dutch are very fond of drama.
sic entertainments.- The pieces chosen for represer.
cation are chiefly of a patriotic nature, and founded
on interesting events in Dutch history. The follow
ing is frequently advertised—hit Turfichifi, of & Vire,
voiles vats Breda: i. e. 44 the Turf Boat, or the Cor.
quest of Breda." This play has been performed
with great success and applause, at Rotterdam ace
the Hague.
The following is a Theatrical Advert:seraent fru:-
one of the Amsterdam Papers :
THE THEATRE.
,—K.AREL EN K AROLINA, a Drams.
Acton—Heeren Westerman. Von Hold, Katurhayzen. Ram
bath, Majutsid, Zeer rs, Wyman.
Actrice—Mejufrow Itatimbuzren, formerly Snook.
Followed by

OD WI

HET LANG GEWENSCHLE VRIMGDEFF.EiT ! of, Hrl
KAMPMENT DES KOLAKKEN BUJ I F.NDE-ivitnpri
POORT DE AMSTERDAM—[The Jong.driirrd F‘stivA, ,
or, the Encampment of the Cossacks before the tiktider Ga."
at Amsterdam)—a new Ballet, with now Decwati3a6.

The same Pieces are advertised to.be performed or.
the following day, for the benefit of the families N.
the unfortunate sufferers at Woerden.

REGNIER, DUKE OF MASSA.

BONAPARTE'S GRAND JUDGE.

The resignation, or more probably the distni.s%l
of this faithful and zealous Jacobin, who has ce:-
tainly for many years been BONAPARTE'S right hand
in the interior government of France, is a most fa-
vourable omen for the restoration of old times to that
unhappy country. It was probably one of the cause,
which contributed to keep up the French funds.—
Let us see of what materi.ds this Grand Jude is
composed, lest he shOuld offer his services to any of
the allied Sovereigns.
REGNIER is the son of a waggoner near Nancy :
educated by the Jesuits from charity, and by a sub-
scription of some noble families at Nancy, afterwards
enabled to pursue the study of the law, the French
Revolution found him an humble davosate of little
practice, and less talent. He persuaded both the no-
bility and the clergy, that he was not only a loyal
subject, but a sincere Christian ; and the united into.
rest of these, the two first orders of the state, pro.
cured him in 17S0 the election as a Deputy of the
_Tier.: Etat to the States General, soon after called,
and better known by the appellation of the Consti-
tuent Assembly.
, Among these men REGNIER condticeed himself
with,a- duplicity which he called prudence ; because
he deceived all parties, while he was toutt:d and
paid by them all. He was, howeier, both from
birth and inclination, attached to those innovators
who, like fiimself, had no property to preserve, and
no morality to prevent them from regarding all the
riches of France as their patrimony. In October,
1784, therefore, he was chosen by the National As-
sembly a member of the Financial Committee; and
in May, 1790, of that of Legislation. put he never
declared himself in any decided manner, either in de.
fending the prerogatives of his King, the rights of
his benefactors of the privileged classes, or the anar-
chical and destructive opinions of coospiratore, rebels,
and atheists.
On the 22d of June, 1791, he was sent as a repre-
sentative of the people to the department of the Rhine
and of Vosges, to keep np the public spirit in favour
of the Revolution, and to prevent an insnrrection,
which the Natiosnal Assembly apprehended would be
the consequence of the unfortunate departure from
Paris of the betrayed Louts XVI. and his family at
that period. Except some few arbitrary imprison-
ments and requisitions, he acted during this mission
with moderation ; being yet, from the sentiments
that he beard expressed every where by the majority
of the inhabitants, uncertain whether loyalty would
not finally crush rebellion.
At his return to Paris, LA FAYETTE, the two bro-
thers LADIZTU, TALLEYRAND, BAREAVE, &EYES, and
the other leading members of the Assembly, had
been bought over by the Court; and to wear his
crown of thorns some few months longer, the good,
but ill-advised Lours XVL had enriched instead of
punishing those traitors, to whom alone he owed all
iris sufferings, and his subjects all their misery. Of
these spoils of royalty REGNIER had his share; be,
cause, after the KING had been forced to accept the
code of royal democracy decreed by the Constituent
Assembly, he went back to his province, and sud-
denly exhibited an affluence which was an humiliating
and dishonourable contrast to the distressing situation
of those plundered, beggared, or proscribed noble-.
men and gentlemen, to whom he was indebted for
every thing, except his ill-gotten riches.
Hitherto REGNIER was looked upon as a man of
moderate rather than of violent notions ; as mot::
.avaricious than sanguinary; as an intriguer, but no:
as an assassin. But meeting with a well-deserved
contempt, when, with the insolent airs-of an upstart,
he pretended to an impertinent familiarity with his
former patrons, he entirely threw off the mask, be-
ame a terrorist—a President of the Revolutionary
:Committee at Nancy—and, as he signed himself, une
.of the purveyor: fur the republican guillotine of Mc I
itertnan*of La Meurtbe ; and among those whom he
thus melded. far, and recommended to inevitaVe
destructions, were two noblemen who generously
articled him as clerk to an attorney, who had elc,
vated him, and paid for his board and lodging dui