Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

CHARLESTON, Jan. 6.

Capt. Smith in the Ship Cæsar, from the Cape of Good Hope, on his passage here touched at the island of Ascension, where the following intelligence was communicated to him in writing:

"All the settlements of the Dutch in India, are given up to the English, as well on the East as on the West side, except Macao and the island of Java. That Banda was given up was the last news we heard before we left Batavia, which was on the 13th of June 1796. The inhabitants of Batavia expected the English at the island of Java in the month of August. The representative of the prince of Orange, who in that character has the chief command of the Dutch settlements in India, was informed by the English when they went thro the straits of Bally to the Molucca islands, that they would visit Java at that time. This gives great uneasiness to the inhabitants. The old general and his son, the director, were busy in making preparations to receive them. The soldiers who formerly wore a blue uniform with white lappels and white feather, were a few days before our departure dressed in blue and orange, and wore an orange coloured feather.

"The governor of Malacca sold 200 Sepoys and 180 Hanoverians together with two frigates, to clear himself of a debt he owed of 200,000 rix dollars. In the Molucca Islands every thing is carried on in the same way, owing to the conduct of the new governor of Amboyna, Mr. Cornabe, who was formerly at Ternate.

"The representative of the Prince of Orange, who commands a great parcel of rascals and vagabonds, principally great ones, intends to call upon the gentlemen in the service of the company to deliver up to the English 100 millions of Dutch money, which will be rated at 150 millions; they will have a particular interest in doing this, as it will be the means of clearing them from the bankruptcy they are in to their masters

Van Kol,

Citizen of Rotterdam in Holland.

Island Ascension, 16th Sept. 1796"