The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, September 14.

Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, July 1.

"We were some time ago amused with the idea of peace, but that is now lost in great preparations for a vigorous campaign in Europe."

Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, July 1.

"You will find that the Dutch Fleet, consisting of 19 sail, large and small, sailed from the Texel the 5th. From every appearance, peace seems to fly from us. I hope our friends in America will not be lulled into too great a security."

The court of Petersburg is very industrious in her endeavors to accomplish a separate peace between England & Holland. Her minister at Versailles has made an insinuation to the French Court, that her Majesty will be much obliged to the King, if he would not make any further opposition to such a separate peace. To this insinuation the Following wise and firm answer has been given:

THE King is very Sensible of the new proof of confidence which he has received from the Empress of Russia, by being made acquainted with the steps he has taken, and her sentiments respecting a separate peace between Great Britain and the States General. His Most Christian Majesty is fully persuaded that she was actuated only by sentiments of humanity, and therefore takes the earliest opportunity of replying with the same frankness, as far as his Majesty is particularly concerned in the verbal insinuations delivered by the Prince Baratinki. The King, ever steady to his resolutions never to interfere in the conduct of any other power, has not ought to direct the deliberations of the States General, either to excite them to war, or to prevent them from making a separate peace. England having unexpectedly attacked the United Provinces of the Netherlands, his Majesty used the most speedy exertions to counteract her intentions, by rendering to the States General, in the most disinterested manner, all the good offices in his power, without exacting any acknowledgment from them. If the States General think that the services rendered to them by his Most Christian Majesty, together with the interest of their own Republic, engage them to persevere in the common cause with the King and his allies - the Empress of Russia is too wise and too just to imagine that his Most Christian Majesty would attempt to dissuade them from a resolution so favorable to the common cause; and that he can only rely on their wisdom, to determine what is the most convenient situation.
The Empress is not unacquainted, that these circumstances had induced the States General to act in co-operation with the King, who flatters himself, that the views of her Imperial Majesty were not to engage him to deviate from this mutual conjunction, which necessarily resulted from the situation of those two powers with respect to England, and which would naturally contribute to the re-establishment of general tranquility—this being the object of her Imperial Majesty's wishes as well as the Monarch of France.