Star.
London, England, 1813-12-15 00:00:00

NAME OF OFFICER MISSING.
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43d Foot—Ciptaln Samuel Hoplurk, wounded and taken prisoner.
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(Signed) E. M. PAKENSImit. Adj. Gen.
An Order in Council, dated the 13th instant, .declares,
That all hoetilitles against the United Provinces of the Nether-
lands, (save and except such ports or places as may be still in the
possession, or under the controul of France,) on the part of his
Iviajosty, sl.all immediately cease. £dly, That the blockade of
all the ports and places of the said United Provinces, (save 'and
except such ports and places as before excepted,) and all other
restrictions there on imposed by any Order in Council relating.
thereto, shall Ertlawith cease and be discontinued. Silly, 'that
all skips and vessels belonging to. the said United Provinces,
(save and except vessels coming from, or proceeding to any ports
or places in the possession or under the controul of France) shall
have free admission into his Majesty's ports, and be permitted to
carry on any trade now lawfully carriedeon in the ships of-States -
in amity with his Majesty.
Another Order in Council, of the date of the above, declares
that the blockade of the port of Trieste, and the other portsiad
places between Trieste aad the southern extremity of Dalmatia,
(save and except sack as are still occupied by the enemy,) shall
Jorthwidi case intim cDscontinved. • • • . .
[For Military Promodons, Bankraits, Su. see the bat page.]

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islitzpornmat r PRPCZEDOW.
• HOUSE OF LORDS, DECEMBER 14. •
The Royel.Asseat was notified by Commission to the Brandy
Bin, the Madder Amendment Bill, the Royal Marine Mutiny
Bill, the Temporary Insolvent Debtors' Bill, the Felons' Trans-
portation Bill, and a Road MIL
The Commissioners ,were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of
Liverpool, and Lord Waisinghana.
With respect to Appeals the Loma Coatecst.tair moved that
the Steadies Order be taken intn.consideration tomorrow, with
the view filet only one more cause should be heard before the
Recess, and that the remaining time for causes previous to that
period should be devoted to giving judgments.
Respecting the Appeal" Andrew v. Murdoch," his Lordship
stated, that it was the wish of the Agent*, on both sides, that
Scotch Counsel should be beard on the case, and therefore be
proposed that one on each side should be heard after the recess,
on the queellotts be had formerly stared, and such other questions
as any other Noble Lord might in:s9ow •
The Landon Militia Enlistment Bill, the Irish IllieitDistilla-
tion Bill, the Irish Peace Preservation MU, the Frav Imeaking
Bill, and the West of England Fire and Life Insuronaelldlorere
read a third time and passed.
The French Wines Bill, the std,ooo,ooo Exchequer Bills Bill,
the Portsmouth Works Bill, the County Fire Office Bill, and-the
breperial Insuranie Bill, were brought up from the Commons by
Mr.. Arbuthnot, Mr. R. Ward, Sir James Shaw, and other
Members, and read a first time.
• The East-India Nudes Bill, and the East India Shipping Bill,
011104.1hroogh Committees and were repotted.

- - • EAST INDIA CI itcUITOVE.T-RA DE. • .
On ehe~tovitst the I econd reading of the East India Circuitous
Trade hilt, the Earl of livcstitoirsaiintite °Nerved, tharthis
measure was a consequence of the Ace et last Bess:ton, opening
the direct trade to India to the merchants .sf this country; it be-
ing distinctly-understood at the tittle passing that Act, that the
• Circuitous Trade to India would also be opened to the British
' nierchlusti, and a clause-referring-to this object having also been
introduced into that Act. • '1 his measure, therefore, was the re-.
distinct Undernanaing to that effect with the Merchants
tinthe one hand, and the Eait IMIla Company on the other, and
under tbese.circunistances, he presumed, there could be -no eb-
jettlon to it.
.The. Bill was read a second time and committed for t morrow
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ROUSE OF COMMONS.
A .Message from the Lord. informed the House, that the
Royal Assent had be given by commission to certain public Bills,
for which see Lords.

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The Imperial Assurance Office 1111 was read A third time and
passed.
•The Exchequer Bills Bill was read a third time and passed;
as also were the French Wince Bill, and the Portsmouth Lands
Bill.

THE PRINCE OF ORANGE, AND THE ADJOURNMENT

OF PARLIAMENT.

Sir JAMES. MACKINTOSH rose and observed,
that in consequence of having seen in the LONDON
GAZETTE of last Saturday a new designation given
to his Majesty's Ambassador at the Hague, and
a new Sovereignty announced as subsisting in the
territory which, in the ancient order of Europe, had
been subject to the republic of the United Provinces,
(a Government which, after two centuries, generally
of the closest amity with England, had at length
been destroyed upon the sole and avowed ground of
alliance with his Majesty,) he had deemed it his
duty to come to the House yesterday as soon as he
had seen official and authentic evidence of so great a •
revolution, to put a question respecting it to the No.
ble Sthetary for Foreign Affairs. Circumstances'
known to that Noble Lord had induced him to post-
pone the question till to-day. He was aware that he
was precluded by the usage of Parlament from in-
troducing it by any preliminary observations;, and if
hi had not been so, he should have imposed the same
restraint voluntarily upon himself. For he could
assure the Noble Lord, that though he trusted he
should always boldly perform his public duty when:
ever he thought that he clearly perceived it, yet he
felt as strongly as the Noble Lord could, the painful
*delicacy of the subject, and he should assuredly do
nothing, either now or hereafter, to aggravate the dd.
ficulty.which naturally belonged to it. He then sta-
ted his question, as tollows:
ill Was it known to his Majesty's Government, be-
fore the departure of his Royal Highness the Prince
of Orange from England, that his Serene Highness
intended to assume or to accept titles and authorities
unknown to the legal Consti.ution of the United. Pr-
ovinces, and manifesting a determination not to re-
eitablialithe ancient and lawful Government of that
.Republic ? • -• .••

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4- Were these measures adopted by his Serene
' Highness _with the approbation of hi Majesty's Go:
vernment, and with the concurrence of his Allies??
Lord CAS I'LEREAGH said, that he was not
privy, before the Prince of Orange's departure, to
any determination on the part of his Royal Highness
with respect to the Government that was to be-esta-
blished, nor did he believe that his Royal Highness
had come to any such determination, .as what was
c Ailed the Provisional Government, already exercised
. the Administration, froni which he had received the
invitation.
Thar the form of Government which had been
adopted, was the resultotthe spontaneous and una-
nimous wish of the peePle of Holland of all parties,
as much of those who were. formerly the enemies of
. the-House of Orange, and who were now among its
most Zealous partiaany;las pf those who had always
been attached to it.. '.. . i
•. ''hat '-w appeared Zia Gazette was a notice
of. the 'appointment of our Ambassador to .the Go-,
vsiraMent of Holland. 'That in-making this appoint-
inee Ole King's Government had an anxious desire
ici abstain from any interference with the domestic
concerns of that country. .... I
- That the credentials -to 'Lord Clancarty had been
purPosely delayed, until . his Majesty's Government
knew what form of Government was established in
Holland ; and it was not until it was communicated
to'our Ambassador, under what tide the Prince of
Orange was to exercise the Government, that the cre-
dentials were sent to him in the form it has appeared.
Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH rose to state, that
in consequence of what had passed, and upon other
• grounds of Constitutional and Parliamentary policy,
he should, with his present views of public duty, feel
himself bound to resist an adjournment for a much
longer period than the usual recess of Parliament,
unless the Mover should lay as strong ground forauch
a proceeding before the House, as a Minister would
think necessary, if upon his Ministerial responsibility
he had brought down a recommendation to the same
effect from the Crown.
- Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, that it was
his present intention to move that the House should
adjourn only till Friday, and it was probable that
the adjournment fur the recess would not take place
till Monday.
And on a question put by Mr. Homan, it was un!
derstOod chat the discussion of the long adjournment
would take place 'on Monday. Here the conversa-
tion ended ; and upon the motion of Lord Cifoxia-

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REAM, the Hottse was ordered to adjourn, at its ri-
ting, till Friday, - -
INSOLVENT-DEBTORS ..IST 'IRELAND.. •
Sit:SAMUEL ROMILLY wished to inquire of
the Right Hon. the Seiretary for Lulandv whom he
saw in his place, whether it was intended to propose
any amended bill, so as to ektend the benefits of the
Insolvent Law to Ireland, or to pasi a teuspdtary•
Insolvent Act ?

Mr. W. FITZGERALD said, that it had not
been deemed expedient to pass any -amended Bill for
Ireland, because the same difficulties in carrying the
one passed last Session into effect, were not found to
exist in Ireland as in this country. ,
Sir S. ROMILLY replied, that he had been in-
formed this difficulty occurred in Ireland, that the pri.
goners entered into engagements to pay their debts,
whenever they should become solvent, but that there
were some doubts as to what ought to be the nature
of those engagements.
Mr. W. FITZGERALD 'observed that he had
received no intimation of the existence of any such
I difficulties. He did not indeed speak from any offi-
I cial authority, as his knowledge was merely general,
and probably the Honourable and Learned Gentle.
nun spoke from more authentic intelligence.
• The House agreed to the Lords' Amendment in
the Police Bill.—Adjourned till Friday.

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DUTCH Rd PER S.
AMSTERDAM, DECEMBER 9.
PROCLAMATION.

We, William Frederick, by the Grace of Goo, Prince of
Orange and Nassau, Sovereign Prince. of the United Netherlands,
Ste. to all to whom these presents come, greeting.

You invited axe, fellow-countrymen, to bring to completion
the task so gloriously begun by yourselves. I have taken upon
me the maintenance of that independence which your courage
restored; and I now promise you, to deem no difficUlty, no la-
bour, no suritice, too great en my part, to convince you bow
mach I love that people, of whose affection I have received, and
am daily receiving, such signal proofs.
But whet otter is our first duty at the present moment than
the complete expulsion of the Frenc% from our country, which
they have so long tormented by their oppressions A portion
of that country is still the prey of the enemy, whose designs and
inteations' the horrible events at Woerden must make manifest '
to us all. To arms, then, Netherlanders! to arms! to avenge
the defenceless victims who fell under the murdering sword of
these robbers. To arms! to secure for ever your wives, your
children, and your property, against an possible return of these
plundering murderers. The old flag is again the point of union,
and the old flag shall also again revive the ancient valour. Every
moment of lethargy may prove destructive to one Or other of
your town+, to hundreds of your countrymen ; the time is come,
which must prove for ever decisive of our fate—lost, irrecover-
ably lost, is our country, showld we slumber upon the success of
'our first efforts : the country is re4oued for ever, when its eons,
animated with One spirit, shall every where run to arm+, to sup-
port the efforts of the allied deliverers of Europe : the Netherlands
united to France were involved in the Infamy of France, the
Netherlands united to the Allies shall participste in the glory of
having delivered Europe. Ohl men ! the country and Orange
call upon your sons, able to bear arms, not to be sacrificed in
• battle in foreign dimes for a foreign yoke, but to prtnett you
and ye...r defenceless children from plundering and murder.-...
Wives! your husbands are sinninotied to arms, not to fight for al
foreign tyranny, which would leave you to perish here in beg-
gary, but to secure you in that tranquility for which the country
will mike ample provision. •

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And you who cannot personally engage in this contest—thee
noblest that PaovlDENcr ever opened to us, support those who
fight far you provide, by your ample- contributions, for their
arming, clothing, and sub,istencies; in s ort, for all the first
necessarie: of war.

Plundered treasuries, confusion and discord in thesdrninistra-
tions, were all that your oppressors left behind them; but your
pyriotism shall teach the oppressors themselves, that no Nether.
Zander reckons that a sacrifice which may place his country in
freedom.

I conjure you in the name of the country—l conjure you by
your past misfortunes, enquire not what you ought to lay on the
altar of your country; ask only, what would be your sufferings,
should the return of your tyrants, which Cop avert, be the effect
of narrow calculations.

All the nations of Europe, whose magnanimous sacrifices have
been crowned with the most glorious results, have their eyes
upon you at this moment : our Allies expect the putting forth of
all our-powers, and we must skew them that we are not back-
ward in the noble strife.
Again I conjure you net to delay your voluntary offer for the
support of our efforts towards the -deliverance of our beloved
country.

Forced loans correspond not with a people who have freely
'taken upon themselves the direction of their own affairs, and the
increase of the debts of the State is one of those extreme mea-
sures, the adoption of which we must avoid. We would not
commence our reign with financial regulations, which might tend
to shake public credit ; that good faith with which our ancestors
fulfilled their engagements, and which we still reckon among the
virtues of the Netherlands, than be sacredly observed by us in all
measures relating to the finance of the Country.
We order our Commissaries General of War, Finance, and for
Foreign Affairs, to make all the necessary dispositions for forwar-
ding the object of our paternal summons, and to submit to us the
necessary regulations respecting the same.

• We will and order, that the whole.of the slims arising trona
voluntary contributions, being set apart front the general re-•
venue of the country, shall be whilly appropriated for the pur-
poses of the extraordinary arming; and we require this Address
to be read from the pulpits of the different churches, on the first
ensuing Sunday, and otherwise made known in the most solemn
manner.

Done at the Hague, this 6th of December, 1113, and is the
first year of our reign. (Signed) WILLIAM.
By order, VAN Dra DUIN VAN MAAIDAM.

[Another Proclamation, dated Hague, the 7th of. December,
on the subject of the commerce and custom duties of Holland,
annuls the principle on which the French customs were founded
and exercised,,as being irreconcileable with the interest and wel-
fare of the inhabitants.—The custom duties on goods landed for
inland consumption are to be regulated by the tarif of 1723, and
the various allerations and additions Which it underwent up to
the period when Hollaiidwas declired to be annexed to France.—
The duty on convoys, liceitees,•and foreign lestage, to be regu-
lated by the same tarlf: and the dudes on certain foreign pro-
duce by the law of Decembet 18,1805, with the exception .of
salt and tobacfo, concerning which there are to be particular re-
guladons. The *la boards of customs, kc. are to be reviied.-=
All the prohlblioty' decrees against commerce with England and i
ber Allies, are finally abolished.]

' •

-LEYDEN, DECEMBER Os
•
This day, amid the ringing of bells and the sound
of trumpets, while the whole body of armed cisivens
stood under arms before the town house, the following
Proclamation was read to the surrounding multitude:
Tex PROVISIONAL 001IRRNIARNT Of 7•11 CITV OP LPTIMP
70 THR 0000 CITI7gNS OP ?RAT CITY.
Ottzens and lahabitants'of Leyden I—Scarcely had the be.
loved Prince of the Netherlands again we Ids foot en his nand
soil, when from all sides the with was expressed OM Williaea
Frederick, Prince of Orange and Mesas, should stand not4ole
In the same dipiity and relation•to oar _country aelth illustrious
anteaters, but that he should be leveretW Prince of the Nefluilliek.
" We heartily wished, with you, to offer his Highnesstkiegreat
dignity in the name of all the citizen*, and like the greakeity of
Amsterdam to salute him as such on the day when Mikeisy,
should be honoured with Idsiligh presence.
But though the joyful day is rot far of, the inhabitants of
Leyden are too impatient to mit for it to fulfil their wish.
is Well, then, Citizens and lahab;santi of Leyden, Vern this
day forward we recognise the Illustrious Deseendant of the Houst,
of Orange as Sovereign Prince, and respect Wm as such,
" The unity of the Sovereign Power must now be the corner
stone of our political edifice—then shall our civil liberty revive.
and be secured by wise laws. 'l'i'eu, under the government et a
Prince of the Blood of Nassau, born in our own comtry, -
cated in the principles of honour, and the religion of our fore-
fathers, who knows our wants, and rrspeets our manners, shall
there-establishment of the Netherlands he begun, and under the'
blessing of Gob be happily accomplished.
" Let every one, then, take his pos: iteat one beloved prise..
and promote, with all his ability, the great work which he has
to accomplish fbr oar sakes. The pre.ervation of the Nether.
lands, our happiness, .ani that of our posterity, are his sole els•
jeet, and shall be secured under his Government.
" No sacr:fices can be too great to save, to preserve env coon.
try. No foreign constraint, no domination more, no 'eternal
power, shall longer drag our children to 'lonelier.
" Let William Frederick, Prirez of Orange and Nassau,
vereign of the Netherlands,. be then the rallying point of ale
brave Netherlanders. Be be the shield against which all discord
and patty spirit is broken, and strengthen the bond by which-
union gives power: and honour and prosperity may again abide
among us. The Guts of the Netherlands, the Gen of our Fa-
thers, bless, strengthen, kelp, and support his.
" Done and resolved by the Provisional Government of the
city of Leyden, the Bth of December, 18IS; and the, ringing the
bells, puhlished to the people from the tower of the Town-bousv,
on the following day, by the bead. of the Provisional Govern.
ment of the city of Leyden : Anthony Gustov, Baron of Boetse%
laer ; Mr. Girardus Martinus Von Bontruti, Sultan Gael, Mr.
Daniel Michael Gysbers Heldewser, and Mr. Vo'illiain Peter
Kleist."

This Proclamation was received with nonillions
acclamations by the assembled crowds, with the try
of 's-Long live William Frederick Prince of Orange,
and Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands !"
A similar Proclamation to the above was adopted
by the cit,zens of Dort.

EXTRACT OF A PROCLAMATION OF TRR PRINCE OP
ORANGE, DATED THE HAGUE, bacluitEitit t.

PROCLAMATION. .
" We, William Fredet ick, by the Grace of Goo, Prince of
•
Orange and Nassau, Sovereign Prince of the United
Netherlands, Sic.
" When, on the Std instant, we accepted, at Amsterdam, the •
sovereignty over the United Netherlandts, is consequenceof the
universally-expressed wish of the people, we greatly wished to•
confirm and crown, by a solemn installation, that event, which -
binds us, our children, and de►cendants, more err.,ngly then ever
to the fare of this nation.
" But the circemstanees in which our country la placed, anti
the important Occupations caused thereby, have made se deem
k expedient to reserve, for the present, the fixing of the tine.
villain that ceremony shall take place, in the pleasing expectation
That in the course of a few weeks we shall be able to announce to
the nation, and also to submit to ear beloved fellow-countrymen
a constitution, which, under a monarchical form which they theta.
selves have chosen, may secure to them their morals, theirlseee
sonal right* and privileges—ii one word, their ancient freedom..
In the mean time we cannot longer delay taking the reins of
Government into our own hands, and c►arging ourselves with
the immediate direction Of the again of the State.
" We therefore now declare, that the kkherto subsisting ge-
neral Government of the United Netherlands is this day dir
salved, and that henceforth oo one can or may make any order
or reguirion of binding force, but in as far as it has emanated
from ns, or from Magistrates appointed e.nd commissioned by us.''
ROTTERDAM. DECEMBER 7. •
It would be difficult to give an idea of the delight
with which the intelligence of the arrival of the Eng-
lish reinforcements was received in this country.—
While the French were still wandering through the
States, nothing could be secure ; and the excesses
which they committed on their return to some of the
towns which they had left,. produced an anxiety dy
'no means unnatural among a people who had a
twenty years' experience of their character. The first
arrival was that of the Prince of Orange, who landed
on Wednesday last with a few marines. His entry •
into the Hague was a triumph, and nothing could
exceed the delight of its population, who, indepen=
dently of their patriotic feelings, must have looked. -
forward to the establishment and, expenditure of the
old Court in their superb win.
The British Ambassador;'with'a few Officers, CLe-.
neral Taylor, Colonel Bloomfield, and 'Lord Yar-
mouth followed ; and from that Moment every think
was gladness and tumult. The road ftom Scheveling
to the Hague is a handsome avenue of two miles, re-'
gularly planted, and kept with the neatness of a pub-
lic promenade ; it was now crowded with trains of
waggons carrying ammunition and arms, escorts of
newly raised cavalry, and staff and burgher Officers
gallopping with orders to the shore. It had the look
of thick and hurried confusion, less resembling the
highways of a peaceable city, thau the road to a
•
field of battle.
At this moment nothing could be more aniniated
than the look of those immense ranges of rna.sive
buildings of which the Hague is composed. At leau
every third house in the principal streets had a large .
flag waving from its windows ; and the whole view,
as far as the eye could reach, was a succession of rich
ensigns, blue, yellow, and orange, floating above a
multitude of all dresses a..d nations; British and Rus-
sian, Cossacks, Jews, Prussian cavalry, mingled
among the gaudy dresses of the peasantry of the coun-
try, glaring with orange ribbons.
The Prince who had gone to Amsterdam on his ar-
rival,returned on Friday to the Hague, accompanied
by, the British Ambassador. At six in the evening the
cannon announced his amproach, and the streets were,

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of Mine, tiled immediately. Od tilt Pisces':Bd-,
rt,ching tht house in which he was to remain for
tt night, a proclathation was read, decntring
Prince Sovereign of the United Netherlands. He
tone to the Window, bowed frequently, and was re•
eitived with great acclimation.
On SatOrday, the opera of Pierre le Grand was per-
formed at the theatre, and there was a general expec-
tation that he would have adopted this first opportu-
nity to resent himself on the acquisition of his new
tank. • The house was showily filled towards the
woad act with military men. Orange songs, and
44 GOD save the King." were played, and highly ap-
plauded ; but the Prince did not appear. On Thurs-
day he is, however, to come to Rotterdam, where
some preparations have been already made for his
reception : arches of painted wood erected—festoons
of laurel hung with lamps across the principal streets
rand all the vivacity of Dutch rejoicing threatening
to be put in requisition.
Of the future objects of the Allies in this quarter,
it is yet difficult to form a conjecture : but it appears
that, f r the present at least, no serious design is en-
tertained against the French frontier. The only
troops in Holland are detachments from Bulow's
corps, sufficient, of course, to sweep away the rem-
nant of the French, and give a temporary confidence
to the people.
The Crown Prince has marched back on his own
steps ; grid the report of the day is, that Davoust has
been driven into liamburgh. He must fight or Ay,
in the narrow boundary within which he has circum-,
scribed himself. Expecting no assistance from the po-
pulation of a district in which his name was synoni-
rnous with insolence, extortion, and brutality, nothing
less than a miracle can save him from ruin ; and the
inauspicious gallantry of the Hamburghers may yet
be consoled with the sight of this satrap dead or in
chains.

The United Netherlands may be now considered
free : the scattered movements of the French have
been hitherto nothing but those of men flying from
plate to place, without communication, without or-
deis, and without an object but tbat of safety. Those
rear the frontiers have already fled into France; those
in the interior, terrified by the ptpular expression,
have flocked together intb a few strong holds, which
are falling in succession.
About 4500 had got into Gorcum, and appeared
determined on defence. They were chiefly douaniers.
Yet as these are regularly armed and disciplined, and
even from their habits of a more intelligent order than
the common soldiers of any service, there was some
doubt of their reduction without the employment of a
serious force. But a secure retreat seems to have
been their only object ; and after menacing Rotter-
dam for a few days, the fortress was said to be finally
evacuated yesterday. A few hundreds who had hur-
tied into Helvoetsluys, and produced still stronger
inconvenience by obstructing the communication with
t ;Island, made their escape last night about twelve.
They had been attacked by some boats, and a can-
bcnnade, which was heard in Rotterdam, on the
land side.
Detachments of Russian and l'russian light troops
have been pushed towards Antwerp, which is now
the grand object. Its capture may be difficult : the
works, always strong, have been lately strengthened ;
and the consequence annexed to the name of the grand
depot of the North Sea fleet will make its defence a
matter of peculiar interest. The force of this fleet
appears to have been-exaggerated in England. It is
described here as consisting of only twelve sail oithe
line afloat, and six, with six frigates, on the stocks.
The crews have been almost totally drafted some
time since, partly through tear of disaffection, and
partly through the wants of the land service. The
ships are now removed within the docks, which are
capable of containing a navy, and are completely '
tinder the guns of the fortress. The Texel fleet will
I probably fall more readily. But before Verheuil, the
Admiral, retired from on board, and shut himself up
/kith the principal French in Fort La Salle, he exhi-
bited his aversion to the patriotic cause, by hanging I
ap four sailors who raised a premature cry of a Orangel
Boven." The place is strong ; and after this demon-
stration
of his French fidelity, he will probably feel
it important for him to defend himself to the last.
You have now the general details that may be given
on a passing view of affairs ; and they are favourable
to the hope of a successful result. Knowledge deeper
Arid more intimate must come from maturer observa-
tion. But in Holland, as in all countries, national
vigour must be compounded of different elements,
and a failure in one may enfeeble the whole combina-
tion. The materials of Dutch resistance are excel-

lent. Enthusiasm, the first quality of individuals,
yields, u a national virtue, to resolution, and the
Hollander has chosen the better part. The nation
might, at this moment, be roused to any effort: but
it mu4t find the first impulse from its Government;
and much energy, much animation, and much per.
sonal promptitude, will be necessary to the Prince
who would draw the full advantage from the time.
If the new Sovereign is to have a solid throne, his
first policy must be to prove to his people, that he
can share in their spirit, and direct their efforts.
[IITRACT L • mtrrea.)
" Head-quuten, Hartingftld, Dee. 11.
" We are arrived here, after assisting at the me-
vaony of the triumphal entry of the Sovereign Prince
cf the Netherlands into Rotterdam.
" General Benkendorff commands the Russian

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corps here. Every thing we have heard of the Cos-
sacks is outdone by the reality. They march sixty
miles a day, and take towns, which formerly required
Inge*, at the end of their pikes. Yesterday they got
-nu) Breda, took 600 prisoners, and drove the remain-
ing 1000 before them.

0 The French are concentrating at Antwerp.
The Pmbanters, Prussians, &c. are quitting them as
„fast as they can. I believe we have got Gertruyden-
iero but am not certain.
Some Prussians from Bulow's corps bit ckade
Gomm. Winzingerocle, with 15,000 men, is in full
maid this way. Tu-morrow head-quarters will be
at Breda.

" P. S. We have. just received the intelligence
that Donapartehas made an offer of peace, which has
been deckied ; but the new Minister for Foreign
Affairs,Caulaincourt, is said to be going withhumbler
terms to Frankfort.
44 For commerce with this country, the tarif of 1725
!:as been agreed upon."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1813.
PRICE oh s'l'oCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Reduerd Go; I—Cons. shut—for sec. 62111
4 pa Ct. 70—Navy shut—Bank Long Anns. 14i 15-14ths
New Own. 9-I„—bunds, 2s. Ss. Bills 3s. 51 pre.

We had yesterday the satisfaction to communicate
an official extract from Major-General TAYLOR'S dis-
patch from Holland. The restoration of William-
stack and Breda to the Dutch, is a subject of in much
the higher triumph, as the latter place opens the road
to Antwerp, from which place Breda is only thirty
miles distant. Antwerp, therefore, cannot long with-
stand the attack of the Dutch and their British and
Prussian allies : its strongest points are towards the
Scheldt; on the land side the fortifications were
strengthened during the Walcheren Expedition, but
not to a very formidable extent. The evidence given
before the Committee of the British House of Com-
mons, on the Inquiry into the propriety and conduct
of that expedition, completely proved, that on the
land-side Antwerp was vulnerable, it not almost in-
defensible. It will be observed also, that the gar-
rison is in a great measure composed of foreign
troops, many of whom are. Dutchmen and Nether-
landers. The most prominent part of the successes
recorded in the Gazette of last night was certainly
the interception of the flotilla, on its way from Wil-
liaznstadt to Antwerp. This was effected by the pre-
vious seizure of the island of Overflacken by a Dutch
Engineer Officer t the flotilla to Antwerp could not,
therefore, pass.
Gorcum is one of the few places in Holland now
in the possession of the French—it cannot, however,

i 614 (Alt Bitty Clap; for VOX &awls emit bloeir-
ades
an: they are daily receiving reinforcements.
On the fth instant. the Teed Island eapitulated,
and the troops which ds copied it instantly joined the
Dutch standard ; the Commandant and, two other
Officers only adhered to the French cause.
Admiral Vzeuzuu. still bolds out in the Teal,
and we regret to add, that it is reported that he has
put to death, by hanging, four Dutch sailors, for.
uttering the patriotic watch-words of 44 Ordage Roves."
This wanton and atrocious act alone must decide his
fate, if his former conddct had not . already forfeited
his life. •
The detestation in Which his name must now be
.held by all Dutchmen, and, indeed, by the Patriots
of every country, wciald be punishment enough, did
not the great cause demand that an example should
be made. While we add our censures to that of the
public on this miscreant's conduct, we ought not to
suppress our sentiments of approbation of the noble t
and generous conduct of the lawful Sovereign of Hol-
land, in retaining in their situations many of the
Dutch Under-prefects, who had endeared themselves
to their fellow citizens by their moderate conduct un-
der the French regime.
This is acting precisely upon the injunction of the
first Proclamation of the Dutch Patriots-44 Old times
—.but let every thing be forgotten and forgiven--
()hinge Boven !" Among true Dutchmen who em-
brace the cause of their country from proper feelings,
all party spirit will be forgotten ; but in the case of
VERNIVIL to forget and forgive would be a stretch of '
humanity, which would shake the very foundation
'of the Dutch revolution. There is too much spuriotu
benevolence abroad already—it is not sufficient with
some mistaken zealots, that such monsters as VAN•
DAMME and BONAPARTE ought to be allowed to
live when taken prisoners, but they would ex,
tend mercy even to the traitors who have aided
in the subjugation of their native countries.—
The Government of the PRINCE of ORANGE pro-
mises to be conducted upon more manly and resolute
principles. The Proclamation, in which he calls
on his countrymen to expel the French, is drawn up
in a stile of earnestness and noble animation which
well suits the great occasion. With the feeling of a
Man, it points to the horrible events of Woerden, as
affording an argument stronger than any syllogism
for avenging the defenceless victims who fell under
the murdering sword of the robbers : and it proceeds
to touch with a.snasterly hand those chords which
must create a responsive vibration in every patriotic
breast. Some of sour private letters assert, that Zie-
rickzee, the capital of the island of Schouwen, has
declared for its lawful Sovereign.
The private letters from the Hague mention a re-
port that CAULAINcOURT, BONApARTk's new Foreign
Minister, had been sent to Frankfort to negociate.—
We do not think it probable : this most unprincipled
and worthless villain—he who kidnapped the Duc
D'ENGMEN on the Baden territory, and afterwards
murdered him in the wood of Vincennes—surely this
41 most toad-spotted traitor" will be the last BONA-
PARTE will send as a Negotiator. We apprehend, at
any rate, that he will be the last that will be listened
to by the legitimate Sovereigns of Europe, now as-
sembled at Frankfort. We cannot, in short, believe
that this wretch will trust himself out of Paris. It
was he who accompanied BONAPARTE in the sledge
from Russia, and he has retained him near his person
ever since : he was appointed Minister for Foreign
Affairs shortly after Bouapaarts return from the
Rhine last month.

To-day we lay before onr Readers a most singular
document from France. It is a circular issued by
the Grand Judge REC;NIER (Duke of Messa►) to the
Judges of the Departments of France, calling upon
them to use their influence to preserve the public tran-
quillity, at the present awful crisis, to that country.
This document breathes a most bumbled spirit, and
not a syllable transpires from it about the virtues, or
the " sublime genius of the EMPEROR." After this,
who will believe that BONAPARTE is popular in
France ? Let those who are of a contrary opinion
read this document ! Flow different from the Pro•
clamations of the allied Sovereigns to their subjects !
The love and reverence their characters have inspired
are uniformly the excitements to which they resort.
On turning to our files of Paris Papers, we find that
on or about the 21st November, REGNIkE resigned
his office of Grand Judge from " ill health." Did
the mildness and moderation in which he had drawn
up this document now before us, contribute to his
dismissal from office ? His circular to his brother
Judges, is dated on the 19th of the same month.

Yesterday morning the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE re-
ceived a visit at Warwick House from the Hereditary
PRINCE of ORANGE, to which his Serene Highness
was introduced by her Royal Father the PRINCE
REGENT.
DURHAM ELECTION.—On Monday, at half-past'
two, Mr. BAKER, having only polled four, gave up
the contest ; and Mr. ALLAN was declared duly
elected, and chaired through the town.
Willemstedt, or Williamstadt, is a strong town of
Holland, situated upon the part of the Meuse called
Buttervleit, built in dse year 1584, by William I.
Prince of Orange, from whom it receives its name.
This fortress is one of the keys of Holland, and is
defended by seven bastions and a double fosse ; it has
also a good harbour, but which it is sometimes dan-
gerous for vessels to enter, at certain times of the year.
It was besieged by the French in 1793, but by the
brave resistance of the Governor and garrison, as.
sisted by the English with gun-boats, &c. the be-
siegers were obliged to retire with great loss. Twelve
miles S.W. of Dort, and 14 W.N.W. of Breda, long.
21. 52. E. Ferro, lat. 51. 41. N.