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--.►,ri ' - -r ' • " • • • • W:4l-eIfEREN. IRTSACT Or A I'AITATN. I.4TTILR rllOll TUC iNKS (or iroK wok:msg. " fiesfl-quatters, I'er Lacs, gourn:perrlasil, Aisg. " Sitte.• toe sill r tow al lu-iitiros itotieno, has occurred in - throw Woods et sulk. wilt niterstot or importance to mint a special coinnittitie,tion.--- Tiiis real or apparent interruption of active opera tions has. oiveis rise to a variety of coojcettires !mid touch regret. The reduction of ..le7lushitig by means of replar approaches and bombardment, had already cosithinieot ,uumb precious time ; sad those olio catisider celerity its the great element of militury suecess, were uisturalke anxious to eel the investitio.furee transferred from before the sateen: dereol fo;lotress to a scene of active service. Whilst, this ft-cling u'lirershily pervaded tile tinny. nod the lethal:swots who wished Its operations to be emirat e-II with soccer', it was* source of much disoppoint , surto to learn, that allay of 9,4 hours after the time stipulated fur the evacuation of the fortress by the prisoners of star was to take place. This delay, Omagh by some represeoted as granted upon the request of the French Coontnandaat, was by others, attod these not the worst informed upon such sub jects, attributed to an inadvertent unmake on the part of rote of the English Commissioners fur 'moo cieting the terms of capitulation. The conditions of surrender had et first been prepared ill the shape of a rough draft, into which all the necessary alterations and orterlineations ought he i n troduced, previously to the nicking a lair copy, which was to be the official instrument, and signed, in form, by the Commissioners on both sides. When the whole process had, after some nine and discussion, beep completed, it was not thought necessary .to preserve both the interlined rough draft and the executed document, cud cousequently one was destroyed ; but it was not till the Commissioners reached I laud- Quarters, that it was discovered that it was the unesecitted rough droll only that was presooved. Without au authentic instrument, the terms of the copitulatiou could not be acted Nom ; and hence arose the delay of 3t hours in the final execution of them, according to the representations of per sons professing to be well informed upon the soh ject. No blotone is perhaps ottrobeta:ole for t h e *mistake,' if evert this statement be correct ; bait, no queAtionshly, the loss of a single day, when so mach depended aorta expedition, is a grouts! of 'much regret. Sane Galejealousy„ too, has beta stated to exist between two of the highest officercio the comatismil.of the army, respecting the appututto meat of Commissioners ; one cousidering it as his.' right, by virtetiof his haiincarranged ate] direcisof all the uperatious of the sieg,e; whilst the other ex- ' ercised the right of aerual uppenitoisesit, ill virtue of his t horityns Contra's/ides-so-Chief: • This hit hero rumoured in diedhilhary aide; but it is diiF ' to both these oificersoto skate, that the mo4Kerfeet harmony and cordiality sec.o unifiantily td -,hare sulisistril betwixt theta throu;ihnut.all the tokilatious ef the campaign. .• • • 14 The situation of the town of Pitishidg e when put iuto the peotession *of the British army, and British subjects were adon4tecl to see it, was de plorably frightful. Scareph it house hod swotted • dada • e, and imally two-tfindsof the whole were in a slate of sroolting ruins ; or, though still stand log, shattered, and tottering to the foundattoti.— • Great numbers of the inhabitants suffered. perhaps not less iii the whole than 500 ; and those elits es caped, were chiefly indobted for safety to the *Lei ter of their cetlers, or where they had none, to the humanity of their ueighbours who had. In one cafe, that Of AO English family lung resident its the town, the extensive vaults under their house were thrown open to the inhabitants, without distinction ttf ape or sex, of country or religion ;. said it is gratifying to add. that of above 300 per sons who took refuge there, pot ourssuffered injury, though the house had beau • Vepeatedly perforated with °moon-bolls rockets, a n d bombs. wire the to and it- tioforteusto: Mind:anode w ire thus exposed to ti n t destructive effects of the bombord anent, more terrible than so} upon record, the MCP. cites* Commatollitit took possession of the vaults under the Stadthouse, ;shove . he contitioed femtisig. owl unaffected by the bavot..ausl lainantatiotts thot surrontoled him on all *Who, swutil that great pile became itself a victim to the tames, acrd tioretrt coed to WI the cause of its destruction under the at .ss of its ruins. W heti driver from this looletog hole, he it represented by some of his pots offieers,. as haying peso • .rots one vault to soother, until he reached that under his olio house, where he was wheu the itievotoble destruction, to which lie bad never before been exposed, compelled him to un coorlitioluil surrender. He is justly an object of oxecratiou in the town, which he has successively pillaged, oppressed, and laid in ashes; whilst the second in cominsuol, a boot mid generous soldier, who fearlessly shared the dangers of the bornburri mem with his comrades and the inhabitants, is the object of their commoo respect and esteem. " The offensive stench which proceeded from the half smothered flames, on the first entrance of the British, 'added considerably to the afflicting im presioiou produced by the sight of so much havoc mod human misery. But the desolation is not con fined to the town or the present semon. The des perate pleasure of opening the sluices, resorted to by the French coineral, has kid a considerable portion of the ishiGd under water, anal eaused an extent of mischief, which it will he the work at least of three years to repair. Had the inundation takers place smile months sooner, it would not bare been attended with the some serious cootie .9nences t bat at this season, when the power of evaporation is so email, ,and the quantity of autumnal rains so considerable, the mischief mist he greatly aggravated before the inters position of a dry summe r can arrest its progress.' Die immolation was widely spreoloog throughout thrf British lines; sad, if the sluices lead continued open .but 4$ hours longer, it would have been im possible to have orosecuted the operations of the siege. The boodoinloneut took place at the critical moment; and the um/sr-allele(' gallantry with which the flattery was carried that cominomoted the shoves, put an rod to the danger, and insured thee:ono:test of the town. It is so ()phonon generally ',reorient hers, that the town might have been coaled fly too swat on the first light. The Fron..h prisoners svh wit their pooh: to have beet' ell ..re.it *loot driven , it hits the toms, that they fount, impossible to ulna. tsr a siogle visupoity, still less a regitneot ; arid. it WwNW • 4 Yr • . • • . . •' • • • r woo.* „lit« • 4 ta n .s Y n t rtry a Ur s . so bt uuistotput, unkhrinly proe nano thisobservation: • Whose fault it it, that the town hay itutlered so much ? Why did nut your ;Iraq coati?. in at °ore, sod then t oo would have taken ONOWI.1•1011ut the town, without. au huuthredth port of the injury, mid with one-third of the loss ?" In deed it has been stated, that a proposition was snide in the first instance to curry the town by as sault; but that the'proposal wis declined, Iron' a humane regard for the safety of the tiowerut Mho bitients, who might fall %Winos to an assaolt. This is only rummer, end upon such a ground it is not right to' draw iniurious loferences ; and certain it is, that whether }hushing could or could not have heeu taken by assault, the utmost skill mud gal lantry were displayed in its Anal Teduction. " The loss of the French by the binulaerdinent must have been immense; but thi tune allowed between the executiou of the in:detuittetit of capitu lation, and the actual surrender of the fortress to the British troops. rambled thins to remove most of the evidences of its extent. In one *mull hovel, near the battery on tha left of the town, allure 300 of their dead repose together, under tt very super fiend catering of baud. Any estimate of the num ber of inhabitants killed eau yet be but coujec torah, us the mutilated and nialisetuguisliable tr iunity* of many unfortunate victim's are evely hour talteu out of the ruins, and rustautly deposited in a far promisenous interturot. But of all de scriptions of the thin/datums, the Burghers suffered the most. On the morning after the first bout bardineist, ninety of that class, many of them of considerable respectability, ware borne to their graves; and the uundier of their dead could scarcely have beets inferior on the second day. This extra ? ordinary havoc amongst that particular class. arose Non their having been compelled. previously to the sire, by General Moaner, To form themselves into - corps of city militia, far ostensible purpose , of maintsainitig the ponce of the town, Lut with the real design or putting them into if state for ser ' vire against any British force that. 'night be cut , Oiled against the fortress. Accordingly, On the first iavestincut of the town, the colyseif Iltirghers had the post of hounurassigned to Overheat the most •esposeti parts of the f e orliticatious. lu this periloue servier, they were compelled to ma'am during the • whole of mite two towee,siye teimbnolimms, an d to this eircumstlince is owing the greet loss . that en !soca ititiougst them. At one time, when they could , no longer Ylllnatautl the treineudons tire from the Brattish batteries and ships, tar corps of Burghers atti•ropted to retreat from the ramparts, but lucre met by the French with tised hayourts, and, ns may well tic suoposed, reluctantly forced to face that dagger they sought 'to avoid. in order to es cape the inure inevitable destructiott by the hands of tlwir oppressors. The consequence vas, that they suffered emit wlllst Flitter a it. was discharged against th e inti.,ll lines or fleet that w . ns ooh pointed by bete: molds. or ..011 of' burg4er-eannoirierel costsisting of N. two . ly escaped, all the rest Imm( been either killed, or dreadfully wounded. From the active Fat t.,ey took in the defence of the town, it was impossible that their combict could he passed over without some notice. The Coinniander-io . wChief, t .o.refore, as soon as the British two.• otre in pamiessiou of the town, ordered the cure- • Borgisers out before him, with their /trios and aecomrements; but, upon its latiug . proilltl, that they had hero forcibly obliged to assist :it the tiErt:siCe of the tuwu. he directed that they ithould lay down their arms, and did not think it necessary to uutiee any further their previous hostility. " Immediately upon the fall of Flirhing, ar ratigesisents were made for the distrioution of the , forces employed in the lines ladore that town. The oiniotio sod alartuitig accumulation of the enemy's troops on the opposite shore of Ctidsand, rendered et necessary to leave a much st r ger garrison its lusliitig aud the other _fortresses of the island, ilium would- otherwise have been necessary. Her uadotte loinself was aid to be in that quarter at the bead of 13,000 men, with the avowed intention of attesoptiug the re-conquest orWalchcresi. The French ramp . became visible. and was observed to be gradually niereasing, fro - in Flushing. In such a state of things, and as it was in contemplation to secure the possessiou of 111i.bileloorg. by phoning above our hundred pieces of ea upon its points of defeuce, it was not at once nut all the arrnge . tarots could have been completed, as well for adjusting the strength anti proportions of the dif ferent garrisons, as for expedi g the march of the remaiwicr of the -troops from the hoes to reinforce the main body of the army in South Beveland. A delay of some slays consequently succeeded; and it was uot till the 9.oth or 414, that the last of the troops had been removed from the liars. Some of the most distinguished ittalions have been left in WH:chteren. The 3Gdr, 77th, Colonel Coclinme's corps of de tachments. and three companies of artillery, form the chief of the garrison of Flushing. of which fortress General Komi is Governor. The 'Oath, ith the marines, garrison Cainvere ; the otith Ire at Arneturydit, and the -71ist amid slot form part of the garrison of ,Middleburg, of which Gen. Sontag is Govern's'. The whole British force ye t:need to the island, ineludiog artillery, cavalry, and other corps, the Wei and 633 not already spi is estimated at 9 or 10,000 MPH ; so that if, to tit. absence of the. maim body of the army, the French *Omaha 'mike any attempt upon the island. they will not fail to inert a 'Warm receptor nod a brave resist. rice. Bernadotte is represented as collecting stone hundreds of gaio-boats from Ilnulogae, etc. through the coital* in the interior, with a view to some °ltem „Aire -operation. Whatever may be the extent of the ensonyls preparations or views, his appearance in force npou the coast of Colored has operated already as it diversion in favour of Antwerp, and *Oust the accomplishment of the ulterior objects of our expetlitiow : sad so strong is the imprrsw sion that this demonstration of the enemy is se rious, that the inhabitants of Flushing are terrified at the prospect of anotlivr bombardment, and the Goveroor naps it nreeioary to adept "wooly all the precautions that could he called tor by vie prailltWer of atieortuy before•lio fortress. The vim tinels are doubleil•every night; tim.e. of the itsinstr.t ants are allowed upon the ramparts; no ve,sel, even British, is permitted to voter or leder the liar biur without &passport; :awl the strictest regulations . Ore 'domed with ressxci to the entrance or depar- r ~~• - RRIORRIP'7 I -- • . . . :. ' all i' itemina; not enntlet:ted with the limy or c batterim eat lire in "mitts ot uktry,ist the gate* of the town. tient:rat Ferrier 1 ;ducts.. Dieing the minim, we ebeered the etwm 4 was *painted Connuander-in-Chief in the i sland ; 1 several time., mid were atemielsd by the Wake' bet , :i Mis returned to Engla n d ill, Sir Eyre Come . which was like...be a- g romul, attil the only 1,111 1 11 'has gone back front this place to take theta,' iiiii 41/41 i 10'151411i nor own, whose tire was worth speak. there; with an tooderstanding, however, thot it the Mg about. Note:111).m iii hag roar being so vhsse to further objects of the Expeditiou are to be prose- the batteries, wr bail not one killid, slat hot twelv e cured. that galling Officer is still to go on as wooed men slightly reflood. tl, tilli.eugh ilea slog ~,i , n , titeve ' ill command with the army. . over sad round us iu eeery direction. We were. '• It was not till Monday, the ills4t. that the head- however, twice set on tire by the red-hot shot ; quarters of the Commander-in-Chief were removed but fortunately gut it ender immediately. W e are i trout Middleburg lo this town. If it were est for told that, had it not been for the tire of the ship.- the morel] of all the troops Mat could be spared ping, the enemy would ma bare so mew stirrri.. from WalcherCth towards this island. it would have dered ; but our shot mode such dreeth'itl liavork, I been natural to suspect, that the slow removal of they could hold out mu longer. lo Flushing, a i the head-quarters was an omen of an abanduntueut regiment of Irishmen is said to have buen made of MI ulterior objects, so tar, at least, as the army prisoners. They were iii•Co sarong before the se gs. could be renployed for their attainment. But the but only six hundred of them have eiirs teed.— continued tratismieiost of troops, and the Retort They were comtnended by o Mr. 011tirs, wise is edvauce of head-quarters, left uo WOW to doubt. slightly wounded. The etate•of the town is truly that something more would he attempted, if not . dephinible. When the' army roweled in, the accomplished, on this aide. Before the Comm/miler- st recta were covered with -Mood sod dead hedrea. in-Chief left Middleburg, he issued the annexed A great part of the town hes berm literally beetle Proclamation, which waiiyesterday posted up in this to ashes, and levelled with the ground. We are town also. This is the oily towis of any come:tot:nee now preparing for atiotlier actiou, whtelt. I thick, upon this island. The troops are consequently quay- will Ise more severe ou our shipinag. Sir R. Sitio tered in the several small villages wish which this CHAN having determined to proceed to Antwerp. island abounds. They may be all assembled in /4 where the Dutch fleet is protected by strong bat. hours for active service; but a variety of circum- teries, which we will have to silence before it can staticett concur iu support of the impression that en- Le approached. We intend t oint up the river to. thing farther will be attempted. LottlChethatn pro- morrow. All our frigates, guts-boats. and several visionally removed bus Iwittl-quarters to the podtioss drips of the line, have already %tritest." occupied lay Sir John Hope. opposite f rit fl ett-0 1 1- ENTILACT OF • LETTRIV. FKOII AN orrice* on Zoom, on % 'adviesday. On the same day Sir lyre NOAND MIS MAJESTY'S f illip SAN DONIINUN. Cootecame over from Walcheren with -leer - whole • OAT*O, et.nstitsta, AUG. 19, 1809: Staff and Suite, and peoceeded to the adratfcell• , t The French twilit. untrehed out this moraine. head-quarters. us was :apposed, for the purprete of We go op to-morrow to Antwerp, to attack trait an immediate comineticeutent oh active vperntions ; French fleet there. Thee are 7 sail of the hue, ..1 but yesterday lie returned to Walcltereat. A Cum,. fri gates, and about 70 nail of gum-boats and brigs. cot of War has been held—a eircum.moce, winch They have•got a boom and chain ecros the Biter, *hews either that some doubt as to the propriety, protected by heavy batteries,• but that will hare tie or come difficulty as to the means, of a movement A• v..tet ; no chain. boom, or battery, can stop a Bri in *drawee, exists. The influence of the climate limit line-of-bottle ship. I have been tip the Scheldt. begins to he felt by both officers and privates. The within four miles of the French Admiral's slue, complaint is an endemic intermittent. which, tho morveYing the • 'River, and am to take up the fleet seldom or evcr-fabil, is still always tedious. . to-mirror, it' the wind wit scree. lam appointed s• On the whole, wlieer the large detachment to Master-Attendant at Fleshing, and shall minim Walt:hire's is considered — wheo thfecooseg'sent re- my place its soon ail we tome down the Scheldt, if duction of the active army, the ;warmed difficulty it pleare God Almighty to preserve me in the Next of further operations, from the matured and exteire bottle. The Son Domingo woe laid talongsttle of tore preparations of the enemy, are token into re- the walls. near the harbour's uteuth • ahortiv after view, it is most probable that t iothing_ferther will we were i i , 'Ac tion, we got agrooaci on the flog he a". inPtrit• Yucloolite , l l Y , if tiny immediate "I' Sand, but ell the time we were on shore, the whole eance were inten led, Sir Eyre Coots, the scrond in o f I 1 I 1 A i,.. I. our .41'0041'1a aro L.s.-e -ore oo the enemy's bat command, who Iris hitherto cooducted till the tie- tense. It was totally impossible for the oaeinv's tire operations of the army. would not have beets tyr , wri , to stan d i., t h e hatter,„ aga i nst tie. We assn hack to Weleheren yesterday with the whole completely knocked nit be 36-pounders that Wee of that staff and suite which accompanied bite hillier upon us, mid the last halt-hour we were nu shore. from Waleheren, but the day before , io the expec t- th ey did not fire a single gun at as. We had 19 ll'i° ol sst"l"teedm,..h upon immediate ser vic Si -- e , shot in oar hull, amt aimed. site) in cur sails and Besides. it is coatmentiv asserted here, at r rigging, and had nut o siioe Wall killed, and only John !lope, and other * Generals, have strongly two aauiaki i . o pi teemed against say movement iu advance, water Hie present eireamatauces, whatever might hare beets their opittioit of such a proceeding at an earlier - period of the campaign. , At all events, it is noto ems., that il cats Aderub I r differepce of opioion pre vailed upon the subject iu thetosucil of War.--- ! Ilittif autsacthing be not done without fiarther delay. it is wit unlikely, that, iustead of being the attack iu,7, 'the British army may be die assailed party ; as the enemy base had fall time to collect alarge forte, and the channel between Bergen-op-Zoom and South Beveltoul may be passed by fording. Of the operations of the navy nothing is known here, but from rumours which it would not be right to communicate, tecause it is impossible to judge what depeutleace is to be placed upon theta. The measures resorted to by • thom hi authority for obatructing the usual channels of information of that description, have- 7;een so vi gorous. and certainly so effectual, that all ac ems to such intelligence has been completely closed : otherwise. the arrtiogements made for the .early consmuniortion of such events as may hare taken place, were of such a nature, us to tender a priority of intelligence certath stud infallible. No change has taken placein the quarters ofthe troops, since the arrival of the Coneaututler-iu.Chief. Lord Rosalyn and Lord Paget are here: the former is ill, hut superseded in his chief command Ly the arrival of Lord Chatham. It is to be feared that malty more officer" may suffer under the influence of thus tuitions climate ; and it taay without notch tetrad be asserts], that there are but rearm( the officers of the army or Navy, who, though not uctually o.e.t, are not sick etiough of the climate, 11 out of the Expedition." NAVAL lATELLIGENCE. PultTY4l l 3l.lTil, AUG. 2A. Arrived the Venus, Crslrtite. Iruus Loudon, bound to the Mavis. Sailed La Loire frigate, an a en:in.—Wind W. S. W. VALMMITS, Allo.. Arrived the Troia !Ardor, Capt. Wail. keit+, flout London, bound to Martinique, 31 data qui; the SodfUlls, Captain Kinawav, from Lowilon for St. Toornaa'r ; the Arabella, Citpt. Ahercromliv, front Linden, bound to Maderia; the 4ueinei Ila mouarita, Ceptaitt A. G. Merida. from Lotidoil for Cadiz ; the brig Seallarrer, to gnus, with one trans port tinder convoy from Plymouth fur Commas. The Elise packet i 3 appoiuted to take out the Mails fur Coruntia. PICIVIIATEN. AEG. 4 28. French privateeni hnve been so very numerous in the part of the channel bounded by the Sinisen coast, ever since the sailing of the expedition foe ll'alcherethsthat the coasting trade has been greatly • annoyed by them ; and as minty as twenty or up wards, apparently v, ry valuable merchantmen. have been captured and taken into Frerisit ports. These impudent lianoyances inul serious lasses having been revreiwitted to the Admiralty. the Board has sent a fri;Tatr, three lamps, and a cutter, to cruise off Beachy [lead, to protect the trade, and scour the Channel of those petty but this.. eitievots 'maraud era. sviacariEtm, AVG. lA. Smiled the Aerie gun-Brig. with a tteet fur Fieligulsitd. DIAL, AUG. FROM THE MIDDLEBULU COURANT. MIDDLTSURO. ♦UO. Oo the 2lst inst. the following Prochnuatious were published : PROCLAMATION. . Early this morning the Nestor, Ayred, Bettina. thesirions, Orion, and Achille, arrived 11( , i the Isle of Walcheren . ; they are said to have pus:niers on hoard. The Eagle sailed for the Nore this toornin. The outeard-liound remain.—Wind W. " His Excellency Lord Chatham, commanding the troops of Ilia Britasitic klejcity. being iduruied the loony &ere. it r 4, and persons belonging t o the French troops, and s.• thaw armed, are no the island, wrier*, that the mentioned armed or I.lllarmr4l deserters, or other persons, be arrested an 4 denser...lover to the Dearest English detach ment, and that nu one presents to buboes such desrostere, on pain of being owntented, on conviction, to pay a penalty of n•u itoo 0i.4, ;inic lint( of which vita•l be given to the in former, whose name shall be kept secret), and be utherv.ise eerarely punished according to military law. Military de. w•rters, and mike persona lwlougiug to the French army, not sorrentleriog a tibia three Jaye, shalt be po.nabcd spiel." E ETI N G OF CUEDITOKS AT OEILDII.4I.L. TO MORROW. Me •. Cirtie, Uosia•lue, Wat Smithfield, sales man - . . I. PKICiOV EVICKS TESTERHAY. ......,.. Bank Stock—. - 3 per Ceut. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consuls 4 per-Cent. - s per Cent. Navy 9ml 9 I-Aunt Annuities - ititlia Imperial Asionities 7 7- intl.. i India Bonds ..!. .1 .24 prem. Exchequer gills • - ..9 13 prem. English Lottery Tickets.. ....... .. ell 17.1.. Cuneols fur ..... T. • IFISH, Stork -I.roker, 4. Combat, smut n. ( i•nritog.ci osS. nAItRIAGE Weslorslay, at Plyrouttlis, Captsou Bayotoo, of the of; Mid 4 goals, to Mesa Mootters. The eiltit of July, at the tirosulful battle of Wavers, Cop tain Henn , Jamey. of I tic let alnico', who ts , ll. glortus , l, assumes( the fyseasusgt is the evotiss4—a young Olfserf of the bighea reputilloss and esteems, beloved uotl IssuseuttAl both La a solslise and Is CA64. 1116f1 IVATF.R AT WNW: nitiDGE Tills DAY monqug unit after S I Arlrrovvoil t l 1111.1. after I.W.SI)ON r-LPrieleal by C 3 1 4 1 4141, N.l 1, llemeee's ldllo.byl: al the No. tu, Ruck ..felt. ClelliNes t•l•orrh, 5t..1,41, by .1 WHITE, .4 es : •.• Ogee —AMU's, .lc toe On, l'uper, w ire U' N, j••• , rit:ij, b• duly Ytteatk S W. PROCLAMATION. " Ilia Eileen/Uri Sm. brio% inf wined that many persons pies front one island to another mitthem; fornwhed with the iieriasary posspoits, orders, that SO tone ',resume to repair from the island of w Lich he is au inithitan . , to &nut bcr island, without having obtai.ieil pmemott from the Ma f rotrate, which must he signed by the General, or l'inumainliug 4)Oicer, on pain of bcinz arrested. " All ferrymen and mariners are commanded to take no one user, unfurnished with a p.i.s. trasiarresmir of this command shall not ads sutler the loss of the Mini, or vesgel, hut shalt, according to circanistai.ev, Ik puoislieJ according to military law." Warm. DATI'D OR BOAKO 1111 MAJVSTYS sun" SAM °nut S 110, OFF FI.VSIIISti, AUG. 15. " Vesteslay morning', about 10 o'clock, the Admiral made signal for the line-of-battle shies, nine in number, to prepare for tn:tion. We, lead ing the wits, at a quarter mist ten, ran in under the forts. within niumket-.Mot, when o e anti rtiga4.l tine enemy for threw howl, one hour ati.l h a ir of which we we..e in that aittiatitin, ttnel completely expea:tl to their tire. Ilat, by our kit& osinionatle. we succeetied to silencing the a: I - I.* 1 ar I