The following is an extract of a Letter from Holland to a Gentleman in Bristol:

"My friend's house at Nantz, I find by a letter from thence last week, corresponds directly with the Congress, receiving from them sugars, coffee, tobacco, indigo, &c. and returning them ammunition of all sorts, stores, hardwares, brandy, salt, &c. and this publickly, constantly and very largely. He writes me, the people there are all mad after learning English, on account of this new connection with America, and all the houses of consequence are getting English clerks for this purpose. Thus you see how every power in Europe is anxious for the spoils of your old American commerce, and encourage the colonists to trade with them. This republic will come in for a share of what you have lost."