Alexandria Daily Advertiser

LONDON, March 11.

The horrible excesses of French tyranny have, according to private letters, received yesterday from the Hague, at least, produced throughout the Batavian Republic, a spirit of discontent, which has broken out in repeated acts of resistance and aggression. At Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Bois le Duc, French officers and soldiers found in the streets after dark, have been thrown into the canals by the people; several of them have been drowned, and when going out during the day, they have met with insults or threats, which they have resented with imprisonment or fine. At Maestricht, seven French soldiers, with a serjeant, on duty in the Corps de Garde on the banks of the Meuse, have disappeared, and are supposed to have been drowned into that by the fisherman of that village, which is reduced to beggary since the war. A report was current on the 17th, that as soon as the French troops shall receive a reinforcement of twenty thousand men, said to be on their march from their army on the coast, the most populous cities would be declared in a state of siege. The Batavian troops, though more numerous than the French, have hitherto remained quiet spectators: but an address to them, written in spirited language by some unknown person, who calls on them to assist in delivering their country from its foreign yoke, has made a great impression, and several duels have been the consequence between them and the French. General Vignolle has been obliged to separate the troops of the two nations both at Haerlem and Utrecht, by sending them to different quarters. It is said, that the Batavian Directors, forced to resign by Simonville, have entered a protest, which this agent of Bonaparte prevented from being printed and distributed.