Kentucky Gazette And General Advertiser

The horrible excess of French tyranny have, according to private letters,
received yesterday from the Hague, at length produced throughout the Batavian
Republic, a spirit of discontent, which has broken out in repeated acts of
resistance and aggressions. 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
walking out during the day, they have met with insults or threats, which they
have resented with imprisonment or fines. At Maestricht, even French
soldiers, with a sergeant, on duty in the Corps de Guard on the banks of the
Meuse, have disappeared, and are supposed to have been thrown into that by
the fishermen 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 re-inforcement of twenty thousand men, said to be on their march from their
army on the coast, the most popular 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. Gen. Viguolie 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 Schimmelpenninck, have entered a protest, which the agent
of Bonaparte prevented from being printed and distributed.--London Paper.