Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

On Saturday arrived the brig Lydia, Capt. Shackerly, in 56 days from Amsterdam.

Letters have been received from thence as late as the 7th January. We have seen those addressed to a respectable house in this city. They at different dates, state the progress of the French —That, at one time, they crossed the Rhine and the Waal, and drove in the Posts established there. It had been afterwards reported at Amsterdam that they had re-crossed those rivers; but the Postscript to the last letter of the 7th January, declares all hopes of stopping the progress of the French to be entirely at an end, and that they would undoubtedly be in the city in the course of 2 or 3 days—No disturbances had taken place among the inhabitants, who, on the contrary, were calmly waiting their fate.
Capt. Shackerly informs that on the 20th January in lat. 46, 36, long. 17, he fell in with a fleet of French ships of war; consisting of 21 sail of the line, and 15 frigates, several of which were 74's cut down, carrying very heavy metal;—that he was boarded by the frigate Thames, who took one French passenger from him ; and that the Capt. of the Thames informed him that they had taken, in their cruise, among others, a fleet of 22 sail of vessels from Cork, bound to the West Indies with provisions. Same day Capt. Shackerly spoke the ship Peggy, Capt. Elliott, from Philadelphia bound to Bordeaux ; also, the schooner Rambler, from Boston bound to France.
Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, dated Jan. 12, handed to the Editor by a respectable House in this City.

"We are here groaning under the burden of the war ; the French are expected daily, being already in Gelderland— May God gives us soon a desirable peace to obtain which, two commissioners have been sent from the states to Paris. "
The passengers in the Lydia say, that it was reported when they left the Texel, the French had had two engagements at Utrecht. In the first they were repulsed, but in the second they carried it. Nothing now stands in the way of their march to Amsterdam, it being but -- miles from Utrecht.

Amsterdam has been long expecting its fate, and before this is doubtless in the power of the French A total revolution in the government must be the consequence. The Stadtholder's power will be annihilated, and Mr. Van Staphorst and his party will probably be permitted by the French to model the government at their pleasure, under the auspices of the French Convention.

It is not probable the French will treat Holland as a conquered country, and annex it to the Republic, as they have the Austrian Netherlands; but in reality the fate of Holland will be so totally in the power of the French, that a revolution will have all the effects of a conquest. What will become of the Dutch marine, is uncertain. This is however a serious point, as it respects Great-Britain.