Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

NEW-YORK, January 20.

Extract of a letter from London dated Nov. 3.

"A bloody continental war is looked on as inevitable. His Prussian Majesty's has refused the Imperial troops the liberty of marching through his dominions to the Low Countries, and the Emperor declares he will never recede from his just demand, the opening of the navigation of the Scheldt: he has also recalled his minister at the Hague, and is making every warlike preparation, that we may expect the spring will open with as bloody scenes of horror, as the world ever beheld. Our politicians give out, that a treaty is on foot between the Courts of Vienna, Berlin and Versailles, and that their ostensible view is to partition the provinces of the United States among them. This idea is too flimsy to be believed in America, where you have experienced so many proofs of the French Monarch's goodness. Depend upon it, he is in a close league with the States, and will grant them every aid. We Englishmen, with a little sophistry of argument, swallow the most absurd ideas, and are too easily gulled into the belief of any thing."

Private letters by the British packet mention, that the Emperor's troops have taken Port Lillo, a Dutch fort, situated on the Flanders side of the Scheldt: and that the forces of the Republic had taken a fort belonging to the Emperor. That the Empress of Russia had entered into an alliance with the Emperor: that France and Prussia were to join the United Netherlands, and that by the disposition of the belligerent powers, the war was like to prove very serious.