Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-02-20

letter TINS moment dCQfeSSed TO ME DV uGnGr-
al Chase, and which was delivered to me by
two superior officers, charged to treat in his
name l am about to cause the articles of the
capituation to be drawn up, which will be
grounded upon the instructions have received.
/ was unwilling to delay making you &C
quainted with this step, and Ihope ere long to
announce to you satisfactory conclusions
|"Accept, sir, &c' count GERARD"
Copy Of General Chasse's Letter.
CITADEL OF ANTWERP, Dec. %.
"Marshal-Believing that l have satisfied
military honor in the defence of the place, the
command of which was entrusted to me, am
DESTROYS of putting an end to the further ef1u
sion of blood. In consequence, Marshal, l
have the honor to inform you that am dispos
ed to evacuate the citadel with the forces under
my command, and to treat with you for the sur
render Of this place, as well as for that Of the
Tete de Flandres, and the dependent Forts
To accomplish this end, propose to you,
Marshal, that the firing shall cease on both
sides, during the course of the negotiation.
have charged two superior officers to deliver
this letter to your excellency. They are fur
nished with the instructions necessary to treat
for the aforesaid evacuation. Accept, Mar
shall, the assurance Of my high consideration,
EBARoN CHASE"
From Oporto the accounts come down to the
18th inclusive. From the statements, which
reach US through the English Tory papers, the
situation of Don Pedro and his followers is
apparently hopeless. Without money or pro-
visions, hemmed in on all sides, and exposed
to the commanding of the batteries constructed
by Don Miguel, his men dissatisfied and
threat ening to throw down their arms, the Ex
Emperor ofthe Brazls seems to have no course
left but to sue for permission to escape. At the
same time a circumstance is mentioned which,
if founded in fact, would lead to the superstition
that some negotiation is pending between the
brothers.
From the New York Evening Post.
CAPITULATION OF THE CITADEL
OF ANTWERP.
LATER FROM ENeLAND--SURRENDER OF
THE CITADEL OF Acknowledgement
OF THR DuTcn FLorILLA OF Cur BoArs.-
Last evening arrived the packet ship Florida,
Captain Griswold, from London. having left
Portsmouth on the 2Sh December. She
brings London papers to the 9Th containing
intelligence Of the surrender by Gen. Chase
of the citadel Of Antwerp and its Dependent
ces, on the 23d of December, after series of
vigorous attacks met by an obstinate resistance
on the part of the garrison, who held out until
their post was reduced to condition in which
all further attempts at defence was hopeless.
The conduct of the French and Belgians, how
ever, in relation to the Dutch gun boats after
the Capitulation is bitterly censured by the
Holanders, as a violation of the mutual un
derstanding on the part Of the French, and as
breach of neutrality on the part Of the Begians,
which it unquestionably was if it be true thai:
they were engaged in it. The Dutch FIotila,
on attempting to proceed down the river, WAS
fired upon by the French from the banks, and
their commander, Koopman, seeing it impos-
sibe to force a passage, and unwilling that HE
boats should fall into the hands of the French,
blew them up end sunk them to the bottom of
the Scheldt.
The elections in England are said to have
resulted in returning majority of 257 Re-
formers to the House of Commons, and Scot
land is expected to make up the number TO
300.