Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Foreign Intelligence.

LONDON, March 28.

Extract of a letter from the Hague, March 17.

Last Wednesday the states assembled, and immediately adjourned the meeting 'till the following day, for the purpose of affording an opportunity of impressing the minds of the people with an idea of the majesty of their sovereign assembly; in consequence, the garrison was ordered to range themselves, being clothed in their best uniforms, before the door of the hall of the states. This being done, the president ordered the Stadtholderian gate to be opened, and a piquet of grenadiers immediately advanced to execute that command. On this occasion between three and four thousand people were assembled, appearing to be strongly disposed to tumultuous behaviour; but they were deterred from proceeding to acts of violence by the firm behaviour of the troops, who had their bayonets fixed. The door remained open during the sitting of the senate. and the meeting was dissolved without any tumult. But the same good order was not maintained this day: the corps of burghers, raised to support the cause of the prince, had secretly contrived to oppose the fatal door being opened, and particularly to prevent any of the members passing by that avenue. When the assembly was preparing to adjourn, and when M. de Gyzelar, the pensionary of Dordrecht, was proceeding in his coach toward the gate, two desperate persons supported by fifteen or sixteen adherents, interrupted him, discharging against him the most opprobrious execrations. A dreadful massacre was expected to be the consequence: but the troops performed their duty without proceeding to extremities, and a company of cavalry rushed upon the fanatics, Sword in hand. and secured one of them, but the other escaped; the rest of the Orange party then dispersed. The miserable victim to his enthusiasm for the Stadtholderian gate, was conducted to prison, and, it is expected, will be hanged on Monday. M. de Gyzelar passed in his coach through the gate, and may boast of having first made free that famous passage. Further consequences are expected this night, but sentinels are stationed in different parts, and a triple guard is upon duty. The prisoner is a master peruke maker. This tumult, it is supposed, will prevent the speedy return of the Orange family to the Hague.