The New Hampshire Gazette

OF AMSTERDAM

From New-York, Jan. 8.

We presented to our readers yesterday a hasty sketch of the intelligence contained in a letter handed to us at a very late hour, dated at Amsterdam the 8th Nov. and received by a gentleman here, via Charleston. We have since had the original in our possession; and finding it to come from a respectable quarter, now give the following translation of the most material parts of it:

"Every body is in arms; and skirmishes, (this alludes to the dissensions among the inhabitants themselves) every day in our environs, and also in the city. It is impossible to describe the trouble we are in. Our situation is dangerous. We are much divided in opinion: some are for inundating and thousands oppose it: by which circumstances business is stagnated; no merchandize is current, especially West-India produce.

Our correspondence with Hamburg is entirely interrupted by the French, who are every where successful: They are in possession of Nimeguen, and have both the rivers Rhine and Waal, in their power, by which our former trade with Germany was carried on.

Our friends at Hamburg, have desired us to stop our consignments, the market being already so much over stocked with all kinds of merchandize, that the wharfs have become the only places to deposit them. All manufactories here are stopped. Double patrols are day and night going through the principal streets: and the market places guarded by cannon.—Coffee is this day noted at 7 stivers.—Sugars, &c. no price. The agio of the bank, 95 per cent."

Capt. Whitwell says, that previous to his leaving Amsterdam, the Stadtholder with his family had sailed from thence, he believes for England; the Burgomasters were issuing proclamations for the Republican party to join them; and that the Duke of York's army were on the retreat to that capital, but was denied admittance or any refuge by the inhabitants: he further says, that on the 30th and 31st of October, 14 sail of transports, with a reinforcement of troops from England, he believes destined for the relief of Flushing were lost in a gale of wind, part to the eastward, others to the southward, and some on the bank of the Texel.