Star. — 1813-12-03 (London, England)

AMSTERDAM, NOVEMBER 29.  This morning between four and five hundred Cossacks entered this city. Yesterday, at noon, there again entered this city, through the Meudergate, twelve or thirteen hundred Cossacks, who, riding up to the dam uefore the Palace, accompanied by an innumerable concourse of people, afterwards returned to the Plantation, where they were quartered. The General Commissaries of the Provisional Goarernment have this day received certain information, that Utrecht, Worrden, and the neighbouring country, are now free from the enemy. as General Molitor with his troops hf4d r.aired r G ,rcum. The Russian officer Niewciciefl, who has arrived here, asserts with confidence. that ti e al my of the Prince of Eckmuhl has been totally defeated by the Russian General Woronzoff; that the former with great difficulty escaped, with a single Aide-de-camp, 'and that the loss of his army, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, amounted to from sixteen to eighteen thousand men. According other intelligence which has arrived, Dresden and Wittenberg have been evacuated by the French ; and the Fort c f Kchl, oppniite Strasburg, has been taken by storm by the Allies. Yesterday the corps of the Burgher Guards was assembled at the Grand Parade at the aim, and there, in the name of the Prince of Orange, and the whole people of the Netherlands, received the thank, of the General Commisata:ies of the United Netherlands, for the important services which they had rendered to their country by the preservation of this city, amidst all the difficulties to wear they had been. I exposed. Afterwards, Colonel Van Brienen, Commandant of this city, the Officers of the Burgher Guards of all ranks, the GovernorGenerat of Amsterdam, the Admiral of the Zuidersee, Baron Marklay, Major of CossacksipßarouVon Zwiel, Aide-de-camp of Prince Narishkin, and Lieutenant Niewcicieff, of the Don Cossacks, sat down to a public dinner with the General Commissaries; where, amidst the music of the Guards, the following toasts were given :—" To the arrival of his Highness the Prince of Orange"—" the restoration and prosperity of the United Netherlands" --"the Emperor of Russia"—" the King of Great Britain"—" the Emperor of Austria"—" the King of Prussia"—" Union among the Allied Powers"-" the continuance of their successes over the common enemy, the French," &c. During dinner Mr. Alewyn arrived, who had just landed at kcatwyk _ from England, and who reported, that he had there seen a regiment of the Guards embarked ; and that that day, along the coast, he had seen the English convoy fleet ; upon which " the deliverance of the country" was drank to the air of GOD save the King. The Commissaries of the General Government have this day issued an order, prohibiting the use of the French language in any document issued by the Public Functionaries of Amsterdam and North Hol. land, and ordering the use of the Dutch language is its stead. , ° LEYDEN, NOVEMBER its. Last night, at about one o'clock, the French quitted Woerden. The accounts from that unfortunate town, concerning the plundering and murders committed by the French, are very deplorable. It is generally reported as certain, that the French have likewise quitted Utrecht this day.