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Athereorn, to the Cuawdsioners of etc B
well as to a numbeeof distingnMed persons of tbia
city. Ilia Majesty condescended to receive at the sante
time all the Functionaries who have already had the
honour of being presented to him.

UTRECKT, OCTOBER I.

The-march of events had brought Holland to the
situation of being no longer an independent nation,
but a simple commercial factory between England
and the Continent. —France, forced to exclude her
blind and implacable enemies from the Continent.
;was, of necessity, obliged to change the destinies of
Holland. If this country had remained shut up be-
tween the sea on one side, and the line of French
enstotn-houses on the other, she would have had but
a precarious iade e, accompanied with the total
ruin of individuar:trdc even with a general famine.
r United to the great empire, Holland suffers, undoubt-
edly, aU that a commercial house mutt suffer which
loses her ancient relations ; but, at least, ste does rec.
suffer without hope. She must foresee that a power so
formidable as France, cannot, in the end, be deprised
of the benefit of a safe and hononrable maritime peace
—a peace which, thence forward, will guarautee to
the Dutch a new sphere of activity, not less extensive
.tad meth less precarious, than that of which they
sere masters in the lest century. Situated at the
mouth of the Rhine, the finest Jiver of France and
Germany, Holland is the natural port and the ecru-
mon market of those vast and rich countries that are
watered by so many rivers, the tributaries of theßh;ne
—the Alps of Switzerland—the vineyards and cert.
fields washed by the Moselle and the Meuse, the
Necker and the Mein—the woods and mines of the
Vosges, the Ardennes, the Black Forest, and
. Odenwald—the manufactures of Appenzell,
Wirtemburgh, Frankfort, Henan, Llcc. Such art the
objects to which the speculating spirit of the Dutch
become Frenchmen will be directed. They will be
the agents of all the northern part of the great Ern-
, pire. .The Dutch, who are the most attached to t'..e
old commercial reputation of their country, fccl thee:
oaths, proiess and circulate them amonva the least
enlightened classes.
The Dutch seamen feel, with some pride, that they
form One of the most essential branches of the French
Empire; and it is partly on their talents, zeal, and
courage, that the Continent relies for the arrival of
the happy epoch of the freedom of the seas.- The Fle-
mish, German, and Danish seamen, speaking aktskost
the same language as the .Dutch, having the tame
manners, fraternise, on board the Scheldt fleet, with
the countrymen of Ruyter and Tromp.
Moreover, the Emperor is visiting our cities, ports,
and dykes—he enquires into our wants, studies our
resources, and will leave here, as every wi.ereclae.
sernorable oath of 114 vizi!.

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- THE EVENINU STAR.

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LONDON.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER SIC
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE (TU.O=
3 per Ct. Cons. for money 63if —Ditto for account ft
s per Ct. Reduced 6211,—1 per Cent. 'NO
Nary Spa Ct. 96f—bonds 1 13s. pTe.—Otnniusst H eke,
Lit.b. BIM (341.) Is. to 2s. pre.—bitso (4.1) 41. to Ss. 'pm
DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH BY GENER&I.
BALLASTEROS.
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STAR-OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK.
We have just received the following imporuut lets
ter from Portsmouth :
" PORT SMOU TH, o:Tosta 23.

44 Arrived the ship Henry, Dozovms Master, in
eight days from Cadiz : she pissed by this port this
morning ; she is a running ship. By her we learn
that the French were, at her departure, firing on the
Garrison, but with little effect.
BALI.ASTEROS had engaged the French updeT
General Gounmor, on the 27th and 29th ultirne.. in
both of which actions he had been successful, tAing
above 400 prisoners. The French under the above
General were .5000.

" Some Spanish Gentlemen, whom we have sass,
have landed here from the Henry, they say that BLAICI
has been successful in an attack made by him on the
French in Valencia."

MimMINIMMI

The Princess Amelia packet, Ciptain Mnott•nw,
has arrived at Falmouth, with Mails from the Medi-
terranean and Gibraltar; left Messina on the firs: of
September, Malta on the 11th, Girgenti on the lf,ch,
Cagliari en the 24th, and Gibraltar on the loth Oc-
tober. On the 10th Septembet, the Ann packet let
Malta for Girgenti ; the Lapwing 'packet had also
arrived safe at Malta. His Majesty's ship Caunrua,
with the TuaonostA schooner, left Malta for
Admiral BOuE. had hoisted his flag on board the
TRIDENT. The packet left at Gibraltar his Majesty's
ships SAN JUAN, WHOPS. and RICHMOND gun-br.g.
On the 7th inst. a fleet for England was standing out;
of the Bay, His Majesty's ships l'Awta and Clara
were cruizing in the Gut. The Norton packet, Gap•
taro Navvia, is also arrived, but having left G bral.
tar two days before the Amelia, btings no later
teliigence. It was reported at Gibraltar that an
surrection bad broken 011 t at Naples, but coul cm
be traced to any authentic squire. The Noetno ►lr k:
his Majesty's brig l'Erota on the 4th Septembet,
near the 11.ubary shore, with a fleet, bound to Malts.
Tha intelligence from Sicily by the above Mails
states, that all is tranquil. Among other commuai-
cations from that Island, we have received the fd•

lowing
" PALERMO, AUGUST IC
14. The news from Naples represent that city anJ
kingdom in a most wretched state.—ltaly is fast ap-
proaching that barbarity of the dark ages, to which
Bonaparte threatened to reduce aU Europe.—Tiot
landed proprietors pay upwards of £l6O per cent. of
the produce of their estates to the Government.—The
large Palaces of the nubility she rapidly falling to
ruin-4—the streets unpaved—every appearance of a
city 444,4 by its enemies' go of 611 the brilliancy

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