Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

ROTTERDAM, February 3.

Capt. Samuel Story Commander of the Road and the Citadel at Helvoetfluys, at the time this little place was crowded with English troops, who on the approach of the French had taken flight thither, and who, not being able to get away soon enough on account of the sea, began to riot, by which the whole place, dock-yard, ships, and magazines were on the point of being burnt, and of falling a prey to their rapaciousness, boldly declared he would take possession of the Fort in the name of the Dutch nation; he called the citizens together; and acquainted them with his designs, they offered him their assistance upon which he set free about 500 French prisoners who were guarded in two armed vessels in The Roads. They transported with joy, when they heard that in common with their Brothers, the Dutch, they were to fight their and our enemies. The plan succeeded so well that we got the better of the insurrection, and frustrated the wicked design of the English contingent of about 600 men, who were made prisoners in the same place where the French had been confined.