Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

BRUSSELS, February 4.

A council of general officers, in consequence of the imminent situation of things, is now holding here. The Prince of Cobourg, Generals Clerfayt, Colloredo and Seckendorf, the Duke of York, Prince Ernest and General Walmoden, arrived in this city, three days ago. The first conference was held on the 2d inst. at the Minister's Hotel, the Count de Metternich; at which the Archduke Charles, Marshal de Bender, and Col. Mack, assisted.—It is impossible for me to know what passed in this grand council, but it is evident that its object was to concert measures for the defence of Flanders against the meditated torrent. The young Prince of Orange is expected this day, and there is to be another grand conference to-morrow.

We seem here to place all our hopes in Col. Mack. He was at the theatre for the first time on Saturday evening: the moment that he appeared in the Governor General's box, the house burst out in an exclamation of "Vive le brave Colonel Mack," "Long live the Emperor, who has sent us back the hero of Famars!" and on Sunday when walking in the park with the veteran Generals and the young Princes, he alone attracted all the notice of the multitude: they pressed around and blessed him.

An officer of chasseurs, who in the affair of Thursday last came over to the Austrians, has given important information to the Prince de Hohenlohe, who commands in the absence of the Prince de Cobourg: he says, that since the arrival of Pichegru, the French armies are increased to 170,000 men; that a part of the army of La Vendée has arrived, as well as the garrisons of Valenciennes, Condé, and Le Quesnoy; and this officer supposes that by the 15th their artillery, horse, and ammunition, will be arrived so as to commence their grand scheme of attack.