Star. — London, England, 1809-09-01 00:00:00

N.II"AL INTELLIGANCA TALitiOtYTH, AUGUST 49. Arrived the Dispatch packet, ftom the Leeward lsian "3, in 35 (Lays Put back the MERMAID frigate, with the Quebec convoy. PLYNIOUTH, ACCUST SO. 11,;, afternoon the nee- , NIII.FORD, 74, went out of h ar bour in 11.3 e style, aid anchored in Cavrsand say. tlre liitt - rANT-a hired cutter ;frOm Ffal riouth.—SAiled the COSSACK sloop of war,. .with trg's Messenger and dispatches for Spain. - roirTsmouTH, AUGUST 31. „. .Arri"ed his MAjeity's ships ti3IETICIIT and S. r xs, r.):11 ; his I lajesty's ship TnAilsrr., and pi ; .:io on a cruize ; anal a fleet of merchant. men, limn the Downs.--Bailed his M - ajesty's ship SLIATILLANTE, on a cruize.; and his Majesty'rship 3A.Pf.R, to follow the fleet for I:Nirtiigal and -the'Me iintranean, which left Cowei Roitcis this rnorsu~.-_ Wind E. . . DEAL, A1.1017.5T 31. • Arrived the RJCItMOND gun-brig . from Yarmouth, Jaavingunder convoy several gesseh,wiartroops which racie their escape •A ith the Dime of P ri t u ie*"*. reic . C ;111aven, and sailed throiigh for the 141e:o1NCritht. Also arived the liztotr.s sloop frortrthil4ure, and . sa , led for Portsmouth, with the Douquizr store-ship, who has on board prisoneri brought from the Isle of WAcheren.—Sailed the Bruce, BUltriaN ; W;iiiatn, ; and Astell, DENHAM ; for Quebec : %ere memo, De SOUZA, for Pernambuco ; Santa Lorenzo, FELIXfr and Pacquet de Bahia, for tile Brazils. In the Downs—Lively, Unicorn, Sorting., Findon, Idas, and Atalanta, cutters.—Wind N. E. YARMOUTH, AUGUST 31. Yesterday after Post arrived the Earl of Leicester packet from Gottenburgh, with dispatches, a Foreign Messenger, several passengers, and a mail ; the Hope, J.JosEs fluster, from Heligoland, of and for Lon dol., having been blown into the North Sea, is put in }:ere f)r provisicnq.--The British Fair cutter sailed with t;an,port KX for Hull, to take in troops.— Arrived this moming the Prince ofWales from Flush inz.—itlio arrived the STARLING and NED ELVIN SIOOF with convoy from .Heligoland, and remain with the sips 43 per lust. LIVERPOOL, AUGUST Si. Arrived the Elizabeth,. Wit DER, from. Miramaehie; R6trt ;:nd Marl, —, from Newfoundland ; Ken rtr:ky, JosEs, from Philadelphia ; Exeter, BRAY, from TrEin'a ; and Margaret, BnowN, from Quebec. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Gus? d I .--AltiVtd the Protidente, Az:ter, front fluthirg ; and Adelphia, Edwards, hem Nova Scud:l)=- .51M ti,.; !lope, for Flushing; the Vl'oodland Castle, Free man, tur Oporto; the Pesoltttiot, Lewis, for Gueresey; and the 2.terr" ototzgh, Croke, for Wale beret . . . Aatillso—At Hull, the N o ttingham ; Calender, from' New BruiJvsck. Az Leith, the Aid, Langston, from Oporto; and saittial, from Qze,bec. At Clyde, :he Hope, Henry, from Qiet,t;; Ow Mark, Pack, from Charleston ; and Soch t Milling, :tom New hi unsvvick. :Nt Scarborough, the !rook krown, from Nev.. lltutz-wick. At Plymrulh, the Dorset, :;perrt,fronzt Quebec. At Portlmoutit ; the AN rab, Harvey ; 'Essex, Gatzude, Ctmcli ; and Isabella,lSacker, from Gibraltar. The Vine, Hut,,,,:5, Crum London - , to Ne*ry, was .tar in Cartes on the 29th ult, all well. . . Sunday arrived .at nymotrt'S a Greek vesselfrom Crete, first Af thatnation eVer in part. Tire crew ;,le little, ugly, diminutive, swarthy looking fel lows, and give one no idezi of a Grc.k seaman in the days .of,t-lfwER. Botrriss NAVY -The following is the amount of the British Naval Fares up to this day.—At sea 94 ships of the line, 15 from Oro 44 guns, 136 ft ;gates, 148 sloops and yachts, 5 borniss and fire- snip , , brig;, 10 cutters, 132 schooners, gun-vessels, log gers, &c. Total e2o.—ln Port and Fitting, 6 of the line, 11 from 50 to 44 guns, 25 frigates, 28 sloops and yach:s, 3 bombs, 16 brigs, 3 cutters, 21 schooners, &c. Total 161.—Guard-shipv, 11soil:al-ships, Prison-ships, &c. 6 of the line, 2 of 50 sans, 6 frtintes, 3 sloops, 1 bomb, 1 cutter, 1 schooner. Total 14. la Ordinary and Repairing, 56 of the line, 12 front 60 to 44 guns, 45 frizatts, 22 sloops and yachts, ?bombs and fire-ships, 8 brigs, 'alms', 9 %hoonerti, &c. Total 169.—Building, 49 of. the line, •:17 fr:f . , -- tte^, 5 elcerps and yachts, 6 brigs, 1 schooner. Total 117. — rand Total 1,057. GOES (Souris BEVELA NO), At o. 33.—The Fr :ncb have made several bold sorties from Flushing—that of Wednesday last must •have cost the English a number of men. Twenty waggons with wounded were brought to Middleburgh. The English, in their landing on Walcheren, lost 500 men. Some wag gons with gold, it is said, have passed through Mid dleburgh. The requisitions of provisions imposed ott this and all the villages of this island, are very oppressive. A scarcity of butchers' meat is apprehended. A Mbi eit DA bf, Also. 12.—They write from Antwerp, that 3,0(X) French, who are going to join the army of Ossendrecht, passed through Antwerp on the 10th. - The English have sunk some vessels in the Scheldt to prevent the French flotilla, yihich is koifts'up the river, nom coming down.. ; There iset.' report - it the Hague, that the English leackre,eniblykecl, as they could not accomplish the object of their expedition. • Great preparations are making for some important enterprise against South Bevelaud. The fort of Bathz is constantly bombarded by the French flotilla, and it is even reported that it is again retaken. The American armed schooner Enterprize has left the Texel, and put to sea again. The King's head-quarters have been removed from f Rosenctal, near Breda, towards Bergen-op-Zsom.--; The whole army is united. General Collaert is Go vernor of Breda. Besides the Dutch army, about 40,000 French troops have, within these eight days, arrived from Paris and the interior of France. The object of th enemy was to take Antwerp and to surprise the squadron in the Scheldt. But we have reason to believe that th's object cannot be obtained. The fleet is at Antwerp, where all preparations arc made to produce in a few hours an inundation which will protect the place against all attacks on the land side. On the Scheldt the ships will be protected by their own guns, as well as the batteries on the banks, which have, by the order of his Majesty, been ang. mented by four additional batteries, mounted with 36- pounders. Acouse 13.—The Royal Caarasa mentions no new military events. English ships arrive daily with ammunition and provisions at, Wakheren ; and the enemy is forming as considerable magazines there as if he meant to hold that island for a year. The recruiting goes on well, as the greatest exer tions are every where made to oppose the enemy. A Royal Decree directs, that so long as a part of Zea land remains in the possession of the enemy, M. Er meeris shall till the office of High Sheriff of the De partment. From the Sth to the 13th there have been daily ac tions and cannonading along the Scheldt. The enemy, it seems, has shewn himself off Hel voetsluys, whence several ships of war have proceeded to Dordrecht. A. great number of the enemy's trans ports have also, within these few days, been seen on the coast towards the Texel. : ' SAILINC MATCH.--Yesterday there was a Sailing nitch for a Silver Cup and Cover, the gitt of Mr. 111.:PPARI), the proprietor of the Minor Vauxhall, at MlP4ank, near Chelsea. The prize weighed 48 oz. of silver, and was beautifully or iamented. The following boats, all gentlemen's pleasure-boats, 5 :tried': :ices' Name!. Owners. Places. Tens. Spots. "riet " ' Caro. MAIOB Hunterford 4 1 Mete . SICII ChiSWiCk 8 2 I : dim, -- NLI:5011 Stangate a a :verl . • ..--- Hr. wiz sor Nine Flllls 7 4 ' , ..ri;e &Sarah I.EWIs Crantr.oe 6 5 Het° —,---- FA It LOW• Htuigerford 3 6 Imcluce —Hr Ras a - r Westminster 8 • 7 'fire - • '.----- Notts Hungerfcrd 4 S Sc, Genes= -...— GUtIiTON Paul's Wharf 7 9 ti ohne ------ FILL° !I Staggatt 3 to The St. George took the lead, and maintained it CV A considerable distance ; but the Spitfire (about 1.,,1f her burden), when the steady breeze that was recessary to fill the s.ils of the St. George had died away, shot ahead andgained in a fine style, until s!le came in dt the Minor Vauxhall at about half after P ght o'cicck,. b e i ng, 'then about' ten boats lengths 1 - ,tad. fler proprietor was Consequently invested Pm: die price in the Gardens, which were extremely !k % . ..ded with company. A f_..v drys sic'e, a soldier belonging to the Wut rr.v(l:u.(l I.lilita, in returning from the Ferry-house, to the garrison at Languard-fort, had three small rot.ek: to pass ; the first of which his friends saw him clr,s, but as he s iid he well knew the others, they'. ; how ever, in crossing, the second, he missed ii.rd way, got into the mud, and there stuck till the dewing tide surrounded him, when he was r ir!'"Led. He was found the next morning standing , tiprOt, fixed in the mud. The persons at the Ferry- Luse !tail it voice calling out, but thought it came ft:44l soldiers at the ganistri. • PRLVATS LETTERS. '• Flushing, Sunday, Anita P.O. " The 79th, llth, and 14th regiments lift their lines yesterday, to disembark at Fort Ramakins; and join the other part of the army under , Sir J. Hope. j Sir Richard Strachan sailed from Room Pot Passage yesterday, for Batz, in the West Scheldt. A brigade of marines garrison Cam pveer, and it it rumoured That Lieutenant General Fraser's division are to re- I main in Walcheren. The two last days we were principally occupied in 'conducting the prisoners to itheir place of embarkation. It is impossible for any language to describe the situation of Flushing. There is scarce a house that has not suffered, and I am con ! fident not one-third of the town is habitable. The Stadt House, a very fine building, is wholly in ruins, and all the churches have suffered considerably. The unfortunate inhabitants have undergone afflictions in describable. The numbers lost it is actually impos sible to compute, as hundreds yet _lie buried in the , ruins. The survivors are loud in their execrations against General Monet, for prolonging a defence I which he had confessed to be ineffectual. During I the bombardment he remained in the cellars under the Stadt House, and from thence communicated his orders. An English family, of the name of Freeman, residing in the town, have been almost all destroyed by the falling in of a shell, during the first hour of the bombardment, when they were assembled at dinner. The execution of the Shrapnell shells was tremen dous ; in their operation they far exceeded else Con greve rockets. ' In viewing . Flushing frog the bat teries on the sea side, the eye is presented with nothing ibut the most evident marks of wreck and desOlatien. . - _ - ' On the second night of the bombardment, when a battery of the enemy was stormed by a detachment PROM THE FOREIGN ibiJRNALL , r ', of the llst, 36th, and 63d regiments, I was vlaeed to ANTWON .Ana: 7..ee-The-Vreda fleet, composed neat to-Flusking as-to hear the shrieks of the inhabi of 9 sail of the line and two frigates, were stationed tants, who continually cried out 8 Miserable ! misei-- about half . way between Antwefpl and Lithe: We able I' -The delay which took place in getting pos consider here the Left Bank of thd Western Schelthe sessiett Of the toern, after the capitulation, arose from as far as Breskins, arid from thenee to Ostend; -as the autheetidited document of the surrender being being in a good state of defence: A considerate]. -torn, instead of the rouglx -draft.' The garrison number of troops occupy the other side, from Autweep. marched odt on Thursday morning, about ten o'clock, to Lillo, arnifrout thence to Ossendrecht and Bergin- with all the honours of war. There were thirteen op-Znem, and reinforcements are daily arriving. A regiments, amounting in total to five thousand tern number of troops passed through this place thiedaye hundred men: Our army was fOrnied in four lines and we have a considerable garrison. Every possible on the right s and the French marched through t! !e disposition is making for passing from Ossendrecht to two centres to a field, in which each regiment, at tl.e south Be-eland. -The French Minister of War has command of General Austin, piled its arms. Previ the necessary orders from Paris for a number of rein- othly to his giving the word, that officer, with a forcements to march hither. shrug of his shoulder, exclaimed -- ' • Heigh ho, moa AUGUST 12.—Yesterday ten of theenemy's Mentes Dieu!' There yet rema i n one th ousan d o f t h e woune Li and about )gun boats, forced the passage at Flu s h-1 ded in Flushing, and it is generally computed, that; ing s and s-tiied up the Scheldt. This flotilla landed iin killed and wounded, and priseners, the loss of the, - some men at Ter Newze, not far fi-om Axel, on the enemy, since our disembarkation, has amounted to' Flemish side Of the river ; but they soon made off.. ten thousand men. Our loss is calculated at I 100. 'The land . batteries maintained a heavy fire upon the I believe the only officer:taken was Major Bird of vessels, burcould prevesit thetn from-arriving at the sth, who is now restored to his regiment. Bathe. " That part of the capitulation which gave up itie Trtotta, Ave. .127—0 n the 10th, his Majesty in- French civilians anderhabieants7as prisoners of war, spected this fortress,. .Yesterday, durtug the whole of has excited much indignationeigeinst Monet. An int e l , L. t day, a', • heevy cannonade was ,heard - in the direc- ligene . French_ officensbrewuly.remarked to me on that -tion ofloet Bathe. A e vessel has been blown up, and subject " Dupont capitulated -and he is-dead !He explosion was distinctly heard here. endeavoured to impress upon my mind that our oh- The Dutch flotilla has taken a position in the jest at Antwerp wculel. be defeated, from the nume Scheldt. Tl;,e'eluices are open at Bergen-op-Zoom, Tons force which Bernaaoce can (wieldy d-aw from and the whole Polder between this and that town is G!ent, Bergen-op , Zoom, bre -eele and Ostend, he under water. The hostile fleet has extended itself calculated it 45,000 men. Frenchmen, said he, no: further along the Eastern Scheldt, and a number of such as our Prussians, Colonists, and Spanish troops their small vessels have come up to Bathe. At the in Flushing. The Irish Legion were principally en departure of the post, a heavy cannonade is again gaged in the sortie of the 7th, with General Graham's heard, which appears to be in the neighbourhood of brigade, and their commandant, Lawless, a native of Bathe. Dublin, who arrived the day before from 17- y troi.. :ranee, was _ killed at their head. There are amongst the prisoners i but wry few Irish ; - from whom I learnt that most ( f the officers had. been either killed or wounded: Th.: latter had been sent off the day before the comrintre• cation was stopped, to Cadsand. During our invest.' ment the garrison was reinforced at different. times. Between two and three thousand men were throeva on the 6the They indulged a considerable hope ce destraying some of our works on the evening ofethe 7th, when they were repulsed - by Generel_Gratham's brigade. Since that -night their condition was hope less. Colonel Walker, of the sQt.h, and Captain Col burn of the navy, are appointed Commissioners to exa mine and sequestrate French property at Flushing.' It is said that the gallant Colonel Burns, of the 31st, will be the Governor of Flushing. . • • "P. S. Eleven o'clock.--I hear this rnementeliat Sir - Richard Sirachan is off Batz inedie West Scheldt, with five fire ships, aerived . Seoul England, so that should our•exertions to bring : off -the Fetencii ships of war fail, w e . will at least destroy them. Ceeeral Grosvenor's brigade are aboard, and the 11.1 and iced. at South 13eveiand . embark this day." " TERVEER, AITCAT.ST e 5. " Our troops are still stationary in South neve. and. Those which embarked from this island' re main on board the transports which took them from. Ramakenc. Intelligeactr of a larger force being collecteti in the vicinity of Antwerp than v. e were led to Apprehend can alone have produced this pause.— It is supposed that no farther mevemero. will take place until advices I•e received from England. , g I wrote to you very fully yesterday with respect to the siege of Flushing. The frigate and brig which we have found upon the stocks there can, I under stand from a well-informed n ival officer, be launched within a for:night, quite enough of stores for their use being found in the arsenal. The man of war (a 71) may also be finished if a company of ship wrights, with some requi,ite materials, be sent from England. It that be not convenient, the timbers of this vessel may very conveniently be conveyed to any of our yards at home." " Auo. `26.—Our army are still stationary in South Beveland, and the troops which have embarked here remain on beard. The general opinion, as I before mentioned to you, i 3, that Orders have been received from home to wait for farther instructions before any movement is made. Lord Chatham is at Goes. If the enemy have collected any material force at Ant werp, that would be a good reason—for • declining to proceed, at least until a communic a tion be had with England, and the Collection of such it fOrte is alledged to be the fact. Should' that•he the case it is the more to be regretted, as our army advance. with dirhinished strength in consequence of the force left behind heir, and at ozber islands of Zealand, at some of Which indeed it 'wag quite unnecessary to leave a single man; for how could it be necessary to occupy a position which, if left unoccupied, could not, in the event of our defeat, impede the retreat of our army, or, if oc• copied, impede the pursuit of. the enemy; while, in the event of our victory, it must become subject to our will. Such is the case wt's regard to several' places, in which detachments have been left, ptrhaps, with regard to all excepting this island ; and even this island many intelligent persons are of ofirtion we ought not to have touched until we'had first gone up to deetroy the French fleet, or to make an experiment upon. the popular feeling towards revolt against Bo naparte, or to follow any other main object of the Expedition. According to those who entertain this opiniOn, it would have been more advisable, in the first instance, to make a binding with a large force in Cadsand and in South Bevelend. Threogli the possession of the former our shipping might have gone up the Scheldt in despight of the batteries of Flushing, and through South Bcvelaad our army might have marched up alongside the river to perform the object they now pursue. If this plan had been adopted the delay we met with here would hive been avoided, the enemy would have had less time to pre pare at Antwerp, and of course there would have been more probability of success; that is in Cage the enemy had not a larger force in readiness or in his power promptly to muster than was calculated upon, when our Expedition sailed, or Allan could justify our Government in sending out such art Expedition at all. For the supposition of sueh a force- alone could war rant the apprehension that our position at Cadsand . , would be so formidably attacked as to endanger the . ' retreat of our army from the Scheldt, and while sve had Cadsand that retreat must be secure:. When. I state this, I and aware that I oppose the• general kyl2 pion s that Flushing commands the inouth dfl the ' . --; • - ,~ Ii *chelelf. But that opinion I aril well assured it butt! erroneous. If the command of the Scheldt isifply a power to-eontroul the ingress and egress of that river no such power belongs to klueting. Sailing along side Cadsand is quite as safe from the batteries Of Flushing AS sailing alongside the latter is front the bats-tries of: the former. The fact is, that the pos session of both Flushing and Cadsand b neeesstrr to command• the mouth of the Scheldt; and het we have seen 1n instance in the recent passage of oar frigates which serves to shew bow far this court and can be considered as absolute. The discuses peculiar to this climate are ahead, makiiig their appearance among our troops ; several intermittent cases have been reported to the physic - cians --Achim the last eight days, and I am sorry to understand that a considerable extension of such corn• pl tints is apprehended. The Sufferings of our troops during the siege, particularly from the rain and in undation, must _predispose theiz ennstitutioris for the eackraic diseases of Lcaland. • The wounded go on very ill. " General Frazer has returned to England in a very bad state of health. Sever.tl Officers complain of ill health. The most unwholesome seas In here in cludes the worths of-September and October. - " The public property which has been discovered. •... at Middleburgh belonged to the Dutch East-India. Company, and is understood to - have been. deposited . therefor some tittle - back. It is, of course, deemed a . legal priie. " I think it not improbable that if Austria has made peace, tli;.• whole-rof our forte will immediately return from the Scheldt. • 4 "Fhe Dutch do not -think that our army is likely to stop among them. They doubt our power mpha them in rase they were to manifest a di , positiott to prefer our Covernment. This doubt indeed they vary unreservedly express.. As to their inclination to resist Bonapafte, or to promote insurrection, you can judge of this n hen I tell you,that not a single Dutch - v lunteer has offered-to join our army since it landed, either in this island. Schowen, Bevel. di, or elsewhee:. Not a word either has reached us to encourage the hope of insurrection or co-operation in the North of Germany. N ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE. • it We have receive - 3 very gloomy accounts fmm Beveland to-day. Several letters express the appre hension of a- general retreat. - Lord Chatham has made a retrograde movereefit. His head-quarters, which were a dvanced to the vicinity of Batha, are now again. at Clues. Louis Bonaparte is said to have collected a force of 40,000 men near Bergen-air-Zoom But this I , think exaggerated, because it appeari inconsistent with another statement, resting upona better founda tion, namely, that the country has been inundated to prevent the advance of our army. If Bonaparte, or Bernadotte, had actually an army sufficient to meet o'ir's or to. promise dur defeat, it is unlikely that any attempt would have- been nude to impede our ad. vance. In such a case I rather imagine that we should have been encouraged to approach. Approach, how. ever, we cannot, as lam assured. Such is the effect . of the delay that has taken place_ in the progress.of our Ekindition. tut the whole effect of that delay' is hardly yet to be conjectured. You may, however, form some etimate of it when I state to you, that at the close of June the enemy had not above 30a men in the garris.on of -Flashing,. while the men in arms, at this fort - did flat exceed 66, there being only a few . gees-d'armes, for police purposes, at Antwerp, Beta-. gen-op-Zoom, and Helvoet. " The report of endemic complaints multiplies every hour. The two physicians at islidaleburgh, . Drs. Faulkner and Knight, have_had nearly 120 pri... vote soldiers and 20 officers, consigned to. their care within the last three days, the whole afflicted with in termittent, remittent, and low nervous fevers. The - remittent fevers peculiar to this climate have the same • ymptom and appearance as those which belong. .,. the yellow fever in the West Indies., although quite so dangerous. " The operation of the diseases which I have men. tioned is so baneful, particularly to strangers, that • no less than, 1500 French were buried in this island- - within the last year, the garrison here being rather • numerous, until the necessity for dispatching forcements to Bonaparte, in Austria, had drained the whole of the Dutch territories. " A separate hospital is about to be esta'aliihed for the use of the officers." "His Majesty's ship rAte.t.a, off Antwerp, Aug. " On the 13th we sailed up the river Scheldt, with nine other frigates, and arrived off Antwerp on the 16th, where we still re main. Our troops will land in a few days, to take possession of the forts on the main land. which protect the enemy's ships of war. There are eleven sail of the line French, and three iltitch but the information we haie received is, tbar only three sail of the line have their guns and men aboard, the rest being nearly in II mantled state. The enemy are said to base 30,000 men, moat of which, hostever,'are Dutch undiseiplined troops; and who, for The greater part, have been forced to take up arms by ti e French. It is said that about ie,loo of these will join o•ir a-my on its effecting a landing ; and there is no doubt of the Dutch,like every other pro; le sullected to the domination of France, beint' . heartily. tired of the gallirg yoke they are made to bear.. The In habitants of Antwerp are anxious that the ships of war should be entirii t moved from that port, as the meditated attack I wou'..l net fail most matelially to injure, the town." Yeft7rJay evening, at six o'clock, the horses of a hackney-coach took fright, from some unknown cause, at Charing-cross, and r:ln against a shop with much .iolence. An ;Ann old woman was dangerously hurt, and was taken in a 'hopeless state to Westminster Intirmarv: tiome'zOther persons s ustained injuries of less consequence. Monday night, botween •11 and .12.o'c1ock, as a young gentleman, of the name of Burroughs, lately . an ived from the West Indies, was returning froth the • West end of the town to Broad-street, in the city; he was suddenly hestled by fOur or five well-dressed lows, near Strand , lane,- Alio took from his person valuable god watch, chain, and stags, vrith:whicl.: • tiny ran off in different directions. 'Tuesday righ t, 'about i 1 o'clock, as a. young wc. man of .the name of Newman, lately froin the noun try, was going along Chick-lane, she *as snrionneed by sorrye females, who robbed her of a shawl anl five pounds in Bank-notes; being all . she was wortkin the ansi„iet'ictly ) slie had savfd_to suppurt bet tAs • . of .The 'offenders fisaai escape i! • towards lialfroa-lalll. I li .