The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-10-03 00:00:00

r7!' 707 e.T. , -'ed ;9 the rampart... which remainet Intact, and in coo seri:wore had sot IP ice been stormed. trot even when the trenches of the enemy were at the dittaaoe of liQ•t i oiles i froat the town, and he had still 4000 gamin an is capaliltgoltag datv. In a word. Flustlsog is mired to Ant* Aired at 4 through the first effects of isintubardwolst. S!soniri, be true, the Governor wnied•be guilty; alf - It would oely to wserrtaio, whether his conduct Ollghtt? 4 ;. in to treachery or to cowardice. ,• • - .• .1 ' 6 We semi you this letter, .19 , orviee * i nn prllli .as T . shall have received it, you would Dialect s owsiti9l4str ... spiry, which will be composed n# Giant Afield*, &mail ConoOnaspnes, ditto ; Vice-Admiral Theieoatil t tali Seng% Pint inspeaor General of liiiilleri. 'All tin p which will he found in the ofllees of yotir illbldielry's milt of the Navy, interior, Polite, or any eflibiNdleitatieilat. veering tbeserreodler of Flushing, not drily as bar as they' re! ite twits &Meer, bat to any obfeet which ataidollloll ear service, shall be conveyed to the Cbsactl, to Isola 1- fore .theso, with the revolt of this in/fairy. I • • I "?iris Wier hayiaa ea at'ocr end. we pray grad that be airy Mite you, Court De Hannehurg, M his holy keep*. "!Given in oar Imperial Oamp nt Schourbrur, Sept. 7, 1809. (Sigurd) " NAPOLEON." Tie )11alitsz Secretary of State,. (Sigurd) " IL. IL KARST." clt tJ . IMPERIAL DECREE. " Aiwa Imperial Camp of Seliseobrann, Sept. 3. 1809. WaretlielliEWPWßOß 0 rings FRENCH, KT Gby ITALY riaotacroa or TNII conrEvraartos or Tux antra, SM. Sr. Re. " We have decreed, and do decree. what follows: " Art. I. Our familia Muskat &Twirler, Seletwe, is ap pointed Comm ,Dder to Chief et the National Guard of sot good city of Paris. "S. Our imam of the Interior sad of Was are cheesed with the enmities or the !magi decree. • (Signed) N A " The /gambler Seemeary of State, "H. B. MA.ItET." senteo. PAM, Berv. lt. (reels ens 1110XITIVIL) ACCOUNT Or Ts* MILITARY OPERATION. OM THE EMU-DT, FROM VIE suattemoas OF FLUSMIno TILL THE IYACIIATION of TUE FORT OF SATS IT TUS Every clrcamstsnce relative to the military ope. rations oo the Scheldt, during the siege and bons. bardment of Flashing, is so important that it has been thought proper to publish the original pieces themselves, or extracts of the official correspon dence. The later operations, from the surrender of Fleshing, till the evacuation of Satz, do nut require to be detailed so minutely, it will therefo7 be, sufficient to sketch their outline. After taking possession of Flushing, the enemy: seemed, to employ the period that elapsed ths tween the 15th and 19th of August in collecting all his furce round the ,tort of Bata, situated it the extremity of &HSI, Beveland p at the poirit where the Scheldt dirides itself into two armp. Every thing seemed to indicate in the enemy lin intention of transportittg his army over the tistitn Scheidt, on the right hank, between Sindvliet and Bergen-op-Zoom, whilst his flotilla and s men of war should attack the forts on the .bahks of the Scheldt, and oar flotilla on that rifieb. Meanwhile the Prince of Poute.Cari(o, who ar. rived at Antwerp on the 13th, availed 'himself of 00 time spent by the English In making this hos. tile demonstration, to execute the orders of the Emperor, organise, dispose, and animate the twot s, accelerate defensive labours, inspire the army with confidence, and snatch from the enemy the possibility of attacking Antwerp. His Excel. Purl, General J;lejean, who arrived co the 16th, ce.operated in forwarding these dispositions as Minister Director of the War Administration, and First Inspector-General of Engineer. ; ,Visee..Ad. (eal Missiessy, thb Generals, the ClifieOre g ot Artillery, the Naval Perfect, the Preterit of,4be departtneut, all the attahoritiev, displayingin their urines functions thar,itame seal sad talents, di. mart, by the Lome spirit, presented a noble WIMMI• of will as well as rescetlors, tending towards one single end, the disgrace of the enemy, and lb. glory of the arms of France. lu Whilst the British forces were collecting round' Bats, new troops, cavalry and artillery, pouring, in from every quarter, swelled our army at Ant. werp. The two French and Dutch corps, posted Otter Bergen-op-Zoom and Heist, were continu ally reinforced, and in readiness to fall on the rear and the lank of the enemy, whilst the army should attack him in front, and throw him back into the Scheldt at the moment of confusion that would attend his attempt to land on the dikes, or the sands and muddy grounds that form the banks of the river. The French fleet ascended the Scheldt, and yielding for the service of the army part of its sailors and marines, co-operated in the defence of the land ; whilst the flotilla, covered by bat teries, and protected by gun-boats, grounded for that purpose on the banks, formed a double line that flanked both Fort t.illo and Fort Liefken. thoeck. New batteries were raised in the covered way of these fonts, the strength of which defied attack, to sweep the surface of the river. Under the protection of this line of defence, a second was formed. The 01,1 forts were raised aiww, and batteries were enxted on the ruins of those which conld not resume their former shape. thourers, cannons, and soldiers, covered alter. nately all those pools, forgotten since the famous reg e o f Alit twerp in ISHS ; the forts of St. Philip and St. Mary, which formerly defended the bridge Cast over del Scheldt by the Duke of Parma ; Fort Pearl, - which covered the opening of the mina), cut during the siege, to facilitate the conveyance of provisions and ammunition from Gand to the besiegers' camp below Antwerp ; 'the fort of the Cross, which protected the dike of Cowestein, the brave defence of which prevented' a flotilla from throwing any succours into the town whilst navigating on the inundations. To'all these posts was added the battery of Nielk hays, moat favour. ably situated on a portion of a perpendicular dike et one of the elbows of the river. In this position, rendered celebrated two con. eerie; ago by the offensive works of the besi oar marines re.produced those very same :Ted for oar defence; planted strong wooden posts n n ilacted boats, and prepared amain a manner k STATES WAN ~. wediar‘eaftit the enemy with his oven weapons. and With 414:naive means which the number and collection of his vessels would have rendered mere destructive. • Convinced, at last, that their miserable attempts, after the pompons display of attic Expedition, would only draw shame and ritlieule upon their arms, the English seemed to intend to terry thilr land and naval forces to other parts less well pre pared to oppose them. 'Amy threatested at Holland, the conetries . uf Heist and Axel, tfat `island of Cedsand, and . the toast of Flanders!. .Bet on the side of Holland they wisitid have Met. Geoeral Graties's division on its return from the, risorth of Germany, surd the patch population in: inns to defend their King, their country, and, their allies. In the countries of Heist, Azel, and Cadssod, an army created *hilst the enemy me. armed Antwerp, awaited him under the orders of the Marshal Duke of tornegllane ; and on the same line with that army, the First Inspector of Engineers had put all the towns •of Dutch Flan. `dens, and on the coast from Heist to Nieeport, • yond the reach of danger: Whatever be the jmint of their attack, the Prince of Ponte-Corvo, fleets! at Antwerp in the centre of the line, could Lilo* and defeat them with his army. Every Aims showed them that Franie and Holland wens capable of repelling their attacks. . . . ." The prospect of. so mahy obstacles,. I;eiesiei . by the sickness - prevalent io his army, caused t enemy to Offer ibis (hi:green of a retreat to that , of defeat . Ilia list densuristrations had no other object than to *once& the evacuation of his siek• and artillery. The island of Beveland and the fort of Bats were abandoned. As early as the V.9th of August, 1.50 sail, several men of wet, fri.- gales, and tittle* had tome 'down to Fleshing •, of fewibvs_fater the rest descended the Scheldt. On the 4th of September no sail was seen before Bats, our grin-boats took possesion of that fort, and in a few hours restored it to the Dutch troops be. lunging to the corps of General Dumunceatr. " !iiielt is the result of this grand Expedition. In order to diminish the disgrace with which it has been attended, the English will undoebtedly ex aggerate the importance of an easy conquest (Flushing). Bet Europe is ill see, by their own acknowledgments, that they have mined the prin. ~cipal end of their Expedition. Their allies will reproach them with having sacrificed the advan tage of the common cause to their commercial avidity. The wish of adding to their natal force by the capture or destruction of s few ships; the vain hope of shutting a river that rivals the 'Thames, have outweighed, in their consideration, and in the midst of the great events that took place in Austria and Spain, the interests of their allies. Were not, besides, the national guards, which twenty years ago compered them under the Lwells of Dunkirk, equal to the task of defeating itheir designs ? Should Spain be the sooner tram. quillfzed--should Aestris hasten the signature of peace, Europa will, this time, , owe 'these blessings to Esiglend. To her, France is indebted for the present opportunity of displaying her power against an unexpected attack, and proving that a single call of the Emperor to twenty of his department* is sufficient to raise in less than a month a hundred thousand warriors against his enemies, without detaching a man from his armies, which were - fighting at a &Rance of seven hun dred miles frees the point of attack." Alinement, Sen. O.— Ili§ iklajesty • has re. calved the following report of the passage of the ' Dutch troops item Brabant into the island of South Beveland. 44 On the 4th of this month, in consequence of the information obtained during the preceding days, General Heyligers put himself at the head of two companies of carabineers nod of chuseurs, and taking advantage of the absence of the Eng. lisp cruisers, be attempted the passage, which, although at low water, is more than a league wide. His gallant companions were above the shoulders in water, and it was with the greatest difficulty, and in swimming along the bank, that these brave men succeeded in effecting it without any accident. During the whole of the passage they were deprived by a dreadful storm of the sight of the island and the fort. The remainder of the army continued on the shore, but was agi. tated by alarming fears lest they should nut make themseltes masters of the fort. However, at 7 o'clock in the evening, the Dutch colours were distinguished flying on the fort, and as vaguest was immediately dispatched to Antwerp. The Prince of Poote.Corvo, the Coninsander In Chief, received the intelligence at nine, and it was announced at the Theatre by his direction. " Our troops were received by the inhabitants , with great marks of joy, and with reiterated shouts of ' Lung live the King General Hcyligers ' Praises in high terms the coolness and intrepidity displayed by Captains Staurmon and Tabor.— The innumerable dangers of the passage did not admit of may considerable rapidity of movement, and yet it was necessary to effect it befote the commencement of high watst; i instant's delay or indecision would have exposed all these gallant men to destruction" NAMES ) SRPT. 7.—A Royal. Decree a the 251 d of August, ordert all merchandise ui onto. nisi produce introduced into the Islensis of Pro.. cida and Ischia by the English Ist be confiscated and sold. - Whilst some English sad Sicilian troops alarm. ed the coast of Gallipoli, another corps of the enemy made a descent at Polierasto. Coon re ceiving the news, the garrisons of Naples and the environs set off immediately for Salerno. It is said the King himself sets off to.night to direct the attack. It is not possible that the enemy at this season should haeard a lung slay on the coast ; yet it is possible, from their RiOlClllteth that they may make their appearance aeein,either in the ulph of Venice, or against !Gelds - sad Procida. • Ceentestatims, Stns. s.—Signals have been sage frees the *nay of island that fifteen' or six. _toed . English frigates are on titter way from site ftiertio'Sen, ant! !truce/11411g - towards the Baltic: We caning diviue what •is the object et' Is ex. ""'""'-- traordinary an expedition's( this advaaynoceagd ago, of the year. The sale of an huge quantity of India mu,. tins, which took place here a f ew d ',loch were taken in English prises, attracted a gloat crowd of buyers. The value exceeded 600,000 rix-dollars. The new arrangesients of our Government with respect to neutral shipping, have already revived ihaterade of Toningen in an astonishing manner. Upwards of 50 American vessels have rscen'ly en. tared that poet, each of their cargoes - ireitig nut less ilia& 1.00,41141. dokliel e .. IsSsets take Continental produce Winters. The price of cern ; falls every erai; • . Awrwaue, SM. tontinoe wofkirig at the fortifications. The blistery, called the In. petiole, is finished. The _belch have erected a battery in South Bennis& r hand it 'race. sited by the enemy, and only t &dune of wag goners. . . Peals, Sem 14.—The Engli, who had had the audadty to elate their *pi ranee upon tfie . coast of Calabria, and of Pun*, have been vigo. toasty repelled, and thrown into the sec—(,/oer. nal de PIN/lire.) On Monday last, the Russia, Ambassador, Prince Keurakin, celebrated the fke of his. Sure. reign. . A Te Deno was ;wig in his preseece in the chapel of the embassy, after mass. All the Russians now in Paris attended that ccrreurony. The Ambassador gave theta a semptisous enter. tainment,to which the princeparpenonars ernes French Ministry bow In Paris• were alio in vited. The folleales- loans-goes- glees t— " His Majesty the llmpentfrif all the &min, and his august family." " Blestrion'triend and ally, the Empeior Napoleon." '• 'The Chance of the two Emperors, and the general peace which must be finest fruit of it." In the evening, the whole front of the Ambassador's hotel was inn. oi6cently illuminated; the grand arch which serves as a gateway was also illuminated, and sermennted with a brilliant cypher of the Emperor Alexander. An orchestra, which was placed near the gate, performed the whole evening, and contributed to attract the crowd. On the ninth of September the Eleanore privateer, belonging to St. Male, Captaiu Sauveur, fitted out by Mr. Surcouf, cap tured upon the English coast, two vessels, one of which is supposed to be worth 300,000 halms, and has reached Reseal'. The other, it is thought, has get to Brest. They had both sailed from England, and Were bound to Ireland. —T he letters from Vienna of the sth of September mention, that the Prince Primate of Hungary, Archbishop of Wertz, and brother to the Empress, died oa the 2d instant, of a putrid fever, which he caught l et Conaorre That place being very unhealthy, the Emperor of Austria has quitted it, and gous to Totis, where he now resides at a country-scat belonging to Count Esterhazy.—hket. Su-r. 19.—The last letters from Dieppe men. tion, that the brave Capt. Antoni Balidar, of the Peurveyeer privateer, which was fitted out at that port by Mr. Qiienouille Senior, attacked, and after an obstinate action, boarded and cap.. turgid the Jelin Bull English cutter, mounting .10 carroriarke The privateer and her prise came into port with the title. In this acting), Captain Bandar bad to regret only one man killed. Tb• English had 1$ men killed or wouneed. Captain ltalidar was well supported by his crew.--The lithe privateer, of Antwerp, captured, on the filth of this month; during the night, and in the midst of au Etiglisb squadron, nitre leagues from the Tore', the Fortune Hanoverian vessel, Capt. John Hendrick, bound from London to the island of Heligoland, laden with indigo,. muslin, and other valuable goods.—(Gozetie tie France.) ANT wise., SEPT. 1.5.---MilaTE at last rani wed accounts of what is going forward at Flushing. The English are fortifying it ; they have received positive orders to maintain it: but as our interests do not exactly accord with theirs, we shall suss devise means to derange the plats of the Keith* Cabinet. The enemy has beer, etiliged tuohaisdon a.74-gun ship which stranded near Zerinee, in I the island of South Bevel And.: All tlre news from Holland confirms the evacuation of the island of Schowen and the fun of Veere. b was nt first said that the English had filled up the passage at the mouth of the Scheldt, but that news wits false. His Highness the Prince of Ponta Cone set off this morning for the Fort of Betz. Ilia Excellency Marshal Diamonceau arrived at Antwerp to-day. The sedentary guards are to-do no other duty until further orders,than to make thu pat roles of the markets. The third cohort of the Moselle, corning from the department of the Scheldt, has just passed through this city on its march to Brussels. A strong detachment of men and artll. 'cry horses has just arrived here. BROWS, Scier. 27.—Ifisiterday fifty more eel of English vessels passed by Ilene steering for England. The transports now in the port of Flushing are computed to he only about forty. The 4000 surtouts and 4000 pair of shoes, which have been made for the active legions of -the de. penmen', &redistributing at this moment upon the different points where those troops are employed. —( lioniteur.) Irtrxma, Sam 13.—His Majesty the Emperor and King went on Friday to Krems to review the corps under the command of the Marshal Mike of Ragusa. Ife•reterned on the evening of Tuesday, in time to visit the performances of the Theatre et Schocnbrunn. Those entertainments are various ; the works of the most distinguished I(idian rod Germ*n Composers are there successfully repre sented. There is every mornings grand parade in the Court of the Palace of Schueeehruon. His Majesty has, within the last few da)s, reviewed the different Wurtemberg corps, and General nel's division of ligbt cavalry. ?Carets, 9.-t-The Chiefs of. the Briianda, w h o have so 1014 been the terror of Calabria, nu longer•esist. Such hl4ll been the lint result of the decree of the Ist of August. • L VIENSA, Sen. O.—A deputation from Caltiria had, on the 3d of this month, their tint audience of filet inpertir Napoleon. It consists ,r Count Igaiatues hgucki, General Brunikowski, and Count 'fluidises's klathusoweiz. Gnaw.' Brtini- I kowski . reseited tress his linperiaLMsjesty the :-~-_ ~ to prevent their being sank, and formed cdosble. !mom under the protectio.v of the forts and bat ' Cross italkl Pearl , Philip St. point whete of tort St. in thu whose would Ranks i brthe forts iver. erdinand, sup. third de. break th !k-yards, . might h as _ by sinking Vessels iu the Kerr that might have been raised ' again after the siege • last means of 'tearing from the grasrof the Ess;lish a prey which they might have thought almost in their power. Supposing all these difficulties to have been con. quered, the fortified town avid citadel of Amtwerp, still remained, and it would have : eelpieed i Alli greatest ezertiuns on the part of the etteniy hi:111V/ attaoked a brave garrison, protected by :good parks, and resolved to defend itself like the gar risons of Genoa and Ildayence—that is, to fight without its walls, and to contend obstinately in the midst of inuitilatlons for each. -of the Hume: roux natural posts with which Antwerp .is sur rounded. To this system of defence, the threatening dis positions of the English only served to inspire, us with the bold determination of adding new ones. three batteries were, by command of the Prince,. erected under the fire of tbe enemy. The o'he the point of Doel, the other in the ruins of the old fort of f retied. Henry, and the third between that fort eind LitlO; hr the elbow which the dike forms near the credit of Blawgaeren. • Such were the means of defence employe) to se cure Antwerp, its doek.yards, and its Bert. lie must, however, acknowkdge, that time would hart been wanting to . finish those inonsen+e preparations on every point, and that hostile for. tune might have granted some momentary echo». tages to the English, had they, on the Igth of August, made their attack, and displayed all their means with the prudence and boldness • in. dispensably necessary to meet loch dOicaleres.. and such adversaries. But even this was foreseen. lkfeusive positions were marked in the neighbour hood of Antwerp, to be taken by the army, which received daily reinforcements, and measures had been planned, in conformity with the &tote. rues commands, to mouse the very progres.s of the enemy to become a metre, by which he would be separated from his ships, and the punishment of his temerity would have been more complete and memorable. ► Every day of tisk* creetered the attack m ors *lseult, and its wilkltss *tore doubtful. New kw' gions followed - thane* which a first call had created, end French waraiiits, rushing in from, every part, displayed that unanimous resolution, which oared them at the hour of misfortune, of never suffering the enemy to invade their territory. Reinforce ments of troops and artillery - arrived incessantly. The first inundations were effected, and the others prepared. Labourers and means of conveyance grew every day more numerous ; and the soldiers beheld with complaanicy the progress of works which covered the Scheldt with. ,torts, .batteries, and booms. Every day it became more. probable that the naval forces of the enemy would not at. tempt to penetrate through the sinuosiiies of the rivet, in debases to all the obstacles raised against them, and with a total disregard of the danger they would rats of having their retreat cut off. It was, • therefore, likely that the English would begin by attempting to destroy the defences of the two :beaks ; that the only means of effecting this put. pose would be to attack our army ; and that they . wmaid net be abbe to resist the shuck of the forces, destined to attack thearat the moment, and in the confusion of their •landing, which, -if delayed, would prove still more difficult. Every thing skewed the enemy wavering in his plans ; misinformed, or mistrustful ; confinsndcd at the sight of unforeseen obstacles ; spending in reconnoitring, the time which served to increase !hens, and losing with the opportunity the will of attacking us. His boats employed in sound. ing the channel .4 the Scheldt proved that he was not acquainted with us windings.— lfis assailed every night with rock. eta the batteries erected at Duel, and iii the-reins of the fort of Frederic Henry, did lot chock the construction of these works, in which we ap proached to bid him defiance. In a word, 11.1 though the collected shipsat Bats made some uffea site demonstrations, they were such as not to an. nuance the transport or leading of tiny considera ble corps of troops, with its artillery, across the arm of a wide river, on a point selected before ' hand, and defended by as army. Information, however, founded on. thee° de. sionstratioes, led us to believe several. Bross, belt (Specially on the 2'2d of August, that the enemy's hitestiou was really- I. land ; and the Prince of POW Corvo atinsunted the approaching attack the order of the day, as as ordinary wrest, long intpected by the army. Every thing . was quiet ; but until the 25th of August, bombs and cannon balls, thrown by the enemy's gun-boats against dot batted= of Doel and Frederick Henry, a fire illtsketry against the dikes, wain discharges of *Hillery, and trifling engagements of eitt.posts, were the only hostilities committed by the English. When losing, with the hope of an easy vicieryi ' the wish of attacking our army, the enemy, U give credit to the rumours circulated in Zeal t littempted to devise means of sending firerships iefernal machines against the booms and the and closing the Scheldt by sinking into its **ea channels, vessels filled with stones, or whole blocks of stone work. - We might have entrosted the TAJ pid current of. the river tho care of opening new channels for our ships, by restoring or de. stroying these veil, obstacles ; but measures equally prudent khd bold were taken to seise and 'seek these looting:mhos ; and oar navy in reta r ''.:increased the optriber of its fire-ships, in s i. fil" tries of the Cross, Btelkhuys, Pearl, St. r= 4 .lhle and St. Mary. Behind this hooin, and beyond the point i. : 111 ilhipj., if‘ °Moe et? dgeble the Cape of irc ' , 11 2 z -OW? 4, 3 ! _.'''to 'describe a Corte .. .n I at" „three , ' 7- letter were stationed, a . pelile batteries4 m dianding the passage m Y9a , 1,•- .. 40. IlAYst mei** yit front, whilwt Ms aud i t aed teed M od lirla brie cannonaded brth c and batteries of Mill 'batiks of the river. .ifigher up, Ports taisballe and Ferdinand Pa go t .ported by tho Imperial battery, formed a ILI se ,,, r . fees's* line, wbieb h was necessary to broth yam, is , order to apsikaath the Beet and dock. mew l which might basn'been further secured by • • • •• - 1 • Pi