Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

NEW-YORK, January 8.

We presented to our readers, a hasty sketch of the intelligence contained in a letter handed to us at a very late hour, dated at Amsterdam the 8th November, 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 surrendering and thousands oppose it; by which circumstances business is stagnated; no merchandize is current; especially West India produce.

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

Our friends at Hamburgh have desired us to stop our consignments the market being already so much overstocked with all kinds of merchandize, that the wharfs have become the only place to deposit them. All manufactories 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, no price. The agio of the bank, 95 per cent.