The New Hampshire Gazette

French Accounts,
Of the TAKING of AMSTERDAM, &C.

(From Bache's Aurora, of April 2 and 4.)

THIS morning arrived here, the ship America, Capt. Ewing, from Havre, which place he left on the 20th of February. The Captain communicates the following

Important Intelligence.

THE Republicans had taken Amsterdam, with 1000 Merchantmen, 19 Ships of the Line, and 36 Frigates. The Dutch troops offered no resistance, agreeably to a proclamation of the States-General. The combined forces had retreated also without attempting to oppose the progress of the French. The British troops retired to a corner of Zealand.

The Stadtholder resigned his authority, in a letter to the States-General, in which he declares that he must depart, as he cannot longer be of service to his country; and for the same reason he had accepted the resignation of his two sons.

A Convention had been called in Amsterdam, to frame a Constitution, which was expected to be published on the 5th of February.

The Dutch Admiral had hoisted the tri-coloured flag in the port of Amsterdam. The Stadtholder's arms had been taken down every where.

These particulars are contained in papers bro't by Capt. Ewing.

The Captain says, generally, that the French on the side of Spain continued to be victorious; and intelligence of the fall of Bilboa, was daily looked for.

Tallien's party in the Convention still prevailed. Barrere, Billaud, and Collot, were under arrest; but the general opinion was that they would not suffer death.

It does not appear that freedom of trade has been restored yet, agreeably to the projected decree, of which we lately gave an account.

Just before Capt. Ewing sailed, all restrictions, however, on the exportation of articles of luxury were taken off.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany has acknowledged the Republic, and obtained a peace.

PARIS, Feb. 7.

From BRUXELLES, Jan. 19.

The capitulation of the town and province of

Utrecht, concluded with the French, contains the following articles;

The lives and property of the inhabitants shall be under the protection of the law; no one shall be molested for his conduct during the war, or the period that preceded it. Entire liberty of the religious worship.

All the other articles have been declared by the French General beyond his power to grant, and have been referred to the decision of the Representatives of the French people.

January 27.

Every moment we are favoured with new details of the immense riches which victory has delivered to the Republicans in Holland. They exceed even the fondest wishes we entertained.

They found a superb foundery of arms at the Hague: the city of Delft offered the most considerable and best furnished arsenal of Europe.

The city of Dortrecht contained 632 brass cannons, 40,000 stands of arms an immense quantity of warlike stores of all kinds, and provisions enough to maintain an army of 40,000 men during a whole campaign. Excellent dock yards fitted in a masterly manner for the construction of ships, and provided with timber enough to erect a numerous fleet were only part of the immense advantages resulting from the capture of Rotterdam. Every where magazines glutted with provisions, which the Dutch, guided by a prudent economy, stored up, in order to sell them with double advantage in calamitous years.

Gold is not the most precious article the provinces of Holland offer us. Provisions of all kinds, and an abundance of those merchandizes which begin to become scarce in France, are of much more importance to the Republic, and if we know how to take all the advantages of this conquest, the former abundance will soon return to France. The maintaining of our armies will cost the Republic not a farthing, and our enemies disgraced, confounded, defeated and routed on all sides, will be glad to accept kneeling, the conditions we shall please to grant them.