The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

UNITED STATES.

NEWBURYPORT, February 6.

Tuesday morning arrived here the ship Charles, Capt. Perkins, in 45 days from Rotterdam. The Captain being a gentleman of information and veracity, dependence may be placed on the following related by him:

That the French army were at Nimeguen, and the English at Arnheim. The Rhine, which is only three quarters of a mile wide, is all that prevents the French from pursuing the English. The last of November, 200 of the French crossed the river on a raft, destroyed a battery belonging to the English, and threw the guns into the river. Rotterdam and Amsterdam were prevented being taken by the want of boats only to transport their cannon across the Rhine. Should the weather have continued cold as it was when Capt. P. sailed, the river would be froze sufficient to bear the whole French army. Maestricht, Nimeguen, and Mentz were taken. The Prince of Orange was at the Hague, and the Duke of York at London. The King of Prussia had withdrawn his troops from acting against France, having informed the English that he is in want of them to defend his own country. Capt. P. did not hear any thing of the treaty between France and Prussia. The Marquis de la Fayette, with two others, escaped from confinement the last of November--they were pursued, and one of them (an Austrian) re-taken. The Marquis, with the other, arrived at Hamburgh, and will take passage for America. Our old friend the King of England, has made a late Speech, expressing hopes in a cause almost hopeless.