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at est'v 'mood !lefties"batik eta he inundated ; while the Exped.t.oo wiss in the Scheldt, three polders tapas that site were iminilneJ, namely, the loser Duel Folder, the upper rood Pold.ar, la which the fort stands, and dm Atemburth Polder, which stretches from this to the village of Kelldricht. in Ilse direct; in of Dalai ; this fort, the same a. Litho, cannot he approached except on out dyke, nut more Ilan ao feet wide. Do yin' limit whether there are any ea,... n iat e• N on :, p enn y! —As to Liefkeushorik, I ...moot speak with any certainty ; Is I.Hk/there ore casemate* for about too men. What number of men would you consider to be • compe tent garrison for thoue forts --.4,1f1at torn would be • com plete garrison for Lilla, and I,omi probably for lotfizen shotik ; but they might be deceuded by a great deal smaller garrison. . With the aid of the itiondation, what do you conceive wonl.l he the smallest garrison by which they could bare beeu &fended for any eonsiderable tune agoinst soda 10e4US as we had of attorkiug ?—ln case either of thisie fort* bad been attacked by the British, 1 euureive that the enemy would bare put lives, small garrison into them, because they contd, whoiever they close, reinforcs that garrison or relieve it Gum Antwerp, s• it was intpuatubk to cut off the commis. Mutton httwernleither of those pisces and Antwerp, on ac. room of the inundation, anti of satirise they would not choose In latitme their troops be having so may of them exposed, at one time, to either of those hots. II hat hearth of siege do you think Fort Lillo contd have snatataired?-s•Ilpon that point it would be netessaiy for me to enter iiito some minute caleulatioio, probably too long fur the Committee; I .snout auswer satisfactorily, without cute/r -ipe into them. Do roe think Fort hallo Could have been defeaded for a fortnight .swUndooloolly ; I should have statist a much looser period than that. I . ) e y ou conceive it could have been defended for a month' will state, as meentely as I can, how long I Doak that fort could have boon defebded To hart lauded au army to Item attacked Fort lolio, and to have inhaled that place, woolol ant Igive talon op less than three dam; the bringing of the heave artillery, famines, and storm of every hind tom shove t . the &lib% of the trenches, all of width must have Mend lot by band, could not have taken up less than Ate days. 11.14111( ill •3 ei:ht dn.s,before ibe trenches total Late hero opened. I coneeive, from the great linlienlte of arProachold the *lye. it mild not possibly hare been take under treaty do). of open trenches; I am ...ding the short. est time I thic'r possible; making in all twcaty•eight days, from the comraencenieut of the operation Fr int wboort Jo you *appose it whuld hare hero news. nary to have carried those fasciae, loisTforse varcines 'mot have been a'l brimoht from Routh Develaul, or nut of dm *Wm, from Fug'nsid, and landed upon the roost immedi at- It Opposite tot ,e fort, what W rallial the liaatvliet toast, about fuer miles distant from the fort. Are you aelsoisted with the Fort of Railia , -1 am. It'd! ymi base the toughies* to state what your opinion of that fort in, and of the I defending it ?—The foot uf Ilaths ton very had wink indeed, mote irregular, and 1114 vet all flanked ; yon ran approach ti by the dyke close to the fort ; under corn ; I .1.1 not thick it roast make any great mist. ante, dm Werlis are all Of earl's, 110 1111.1/1•. Will you stole what 'elicih of tint it w o uld have required to haredheuilsolted an army of twenty fir e thousand men at Sent/diet, with the ordnance that would he necessary for thr strze .uf .Antwerp?-1 cmwrier twenty tire thousand loot might have hems lauded in oar .1.. y quite easily; if monition .10•••• sod energy were mot, two or three days would laud the obi of the 01..11120Cr st.n. opine tlae beach, provided tdoreships were elos- to the brat 11. no you torhi//e Is:ohof all that was necessity for the Ism. • hardment of A otwerp, ilieluding the horses'—lt is a difficult question to answer exactly. It is impossible for me t o ne curate!. unless I previously make a r strulation of . the amonut of the stores actually to be lauded, cud the out.. ben of horses. Are you convertsint with the rum!, (vim Santeliet weep, *opposing the low royalty to be inundated, or sap goosing it to tic /11 y am acquainted with the road Cr Antwerp to Pergen-op•Zooin, lint I never was at &merino ; that rmi•lpassio. about three miles from ltantrlict, it is not a pared road ; the road trochee front Sanlvlict to Antwerp joins Die road I hate described, but three mile. of it I serer itr. At what time do you imagine all army of Isrentaillre Ihms. sand Obeia.laittiol ot Santehrt, w.uLl match toArstwerp,takii:g with them all that was nee, .....p for the lootyltsrdluent of 4tutworii?—An anoy thouand men might i march to Antwerp w Inst. dot Mi CO the ran o/lases of all the' stores stewsary far a siege, whirl, nia-t centrist of Maw 1110101.1114 111).111 a 'sway road non-teen smiles, that world .1, pool eioirtly liputi the means a bring. t n , f or w a rd th.... v atoms, whether they were •affitirot ; or it wise be done by the labour of men. l a what time would they mai rh to Antwerp. supposing a licludiardimmi :dour wigs 'wooled. and with tbehusst.which •re.•• • p suie d the Ea t . do got Mom bow many areompante.l the Expedition fur that puipme, abettor there . ere any at all. Hwy many horses du yes think wo u ld L aee been sect tar., mono that nn-1, to have drawn a thirtreit.loch 1001.13 f. with Ifs Ind, from %snlyliello Antwerp, and it it Isiu what time 1.- reileriVe that it wind.] take at the very beast tee or twelre homes; as to the tame, it would br at a pace maltose , as those horses would go What imailos of homes wools' hare hero secretary, upon the same road, to hate drawn an inn t ty-four pounder, moo a travelliog carriage would have required nearly the same number of hunt 2. fThe Witness wan directed to withdraw. The 11'1Inros war waist called in. Wises you were in n.sath Bei - elan& ant yule rereiwe any iattmastrua SIMI which yeas eoulel depend, of the state of the rreuels tweet at any period received considerable tarn vitalism P.M the 6th to the lath of August, from qaarters upon which I could depend ;Shat isfurniature w , I believe, all rioted. Will you state the setistaare of this information yea re tained, and the perouls at which that information was re ceived I—That is a question whirls it w quite impassible for Ole la ansser. because I was may sormussed Wrsterday I -have nut a s4tele paper of any kind with me it m o n, there. fart, with r.spest to the slates, it Waal Wray power to do it ; I des state from Memory, I torlarwr, patty nearly the sub. tenor* of the lint retumunieltium with respect to She rormy'll forte, tweausse they one rod thee nUmrruus, but the subse quent ennimunicatiout rates-et' inks eossidentble 14 , 110, wh i ch it is impaaluble fur nut to recollect, without having She papers with me What was the aidastanre of the firm cormanaiestion The 111 r‘t commuilleation I received *sedum* nose respect. able quarter, in whirl. !placed implicit mainftrtenee; it stated, OS rWeiy a, I ran reeollert, as follows, the enemy's force on or aliout the the att. of Auguit ; at that period there were Sill battalions of Duch in dergeninp.Zoom, namely, four of Ml:ume of 11w lain, and Iwo of guards, and fire coin. rani,* of artillery ; there wan a battalion of Dutch bras infantry at Tholes ; there were at Antwerp three battali , iiis, o n e of wheel, was Fuse'; there were cantourd betweeu Antwerp end BergenuipiZonew, at Caprivi, two battalions of Framele infantry of the line , Alla nue batialime of Dutch light infantry, together with tea mpisivlrous of caroler, munch., of Dutch, four of which were hussars and t▪ wo cowman-rt., inn wradrons of French cuirarstme *nil two st.ito of dragoons; h stiles that t , rr, them were in Antwerp • Ail (oar thousauJ lire hundred men, the workmen in .It dock• pin' nod se-weals theme Rini at re formed into tenable battaliona, and had regular °fitters placed over risen', and 1.04 town •liwiplised for Aetween two aria titter terra. Tarr ercw.../ the dret at that period amounted to mount eh wee thousand men, incluslimr the 'bailie en each ship of .ear there a ere between there and four hundred troops of the line, regular addten ; there was hesidei that force none twte hi the sleep of Dutch kl•ildtfi. but 1 du nut bison the react *alma of it. Has there eel Lido, Lief ketishoeik, or Cashew% at flint period I —Lillo and Liefkamslioeik were garrisuiseil hour the &et ; Latin heti • `are icon of shoal out thousand runt, and Lietitenshuelk ire hundred!: with nalisert re Cud sod, I have already mid 1 du out hoe, yisrlielilealy the hence la hatch Ilaa.ters. Wes the whole of this force in Cies, atatiiima os the sixth er firth of .lamsn ' hire alohay aaol, out keying my piueri or o rlon . -14• with me. fan - aol Pinill7el7 any I ,t ... f t o r Lat h . len base mail .4 that, i n the year reit, Cows year awn Agerrstieve. yen fosart the cask! of Aatwarf a shyer asul porfert work ; trios the heat information that 'wit balm Leas ■ble to obtaiu since, do you thiuk„ upon the whole, it is air strong, or "truager th.in it was at that time t believe the citadel of Antwerp imams precisely in the same situatioa am it was at that time. State whether, previously to the sailing of the F.epeditiun, you were colsolted by any of His Majesty's MOii,ters as to the state of defence suJ fortification of Antwei p , -loever was consulted by soy of His Majesty's Mi n iste rs 111,014 that subject. State whether you made any communication, of your own accord, to any of His Majesty's Minister. upon that sulaject —I never did ; it was not any business to obtrude my opinions uruit His M;sjesty's Ministers. Did you communicate to Om Comalandcr-is-Chief of the Expedition . the information, or oily pert of it, which you have cow communicated to the Hou.e ?-41 never dill to the Cominantleruf the Expedition, as 1 had not the honour of knowing toy Lord Chatham 1 1 was at Deal, and the head quarters of the army were at Ramsgate, IN, that I had no commonication with his Lordship whatever Isidore the em barkation of the troops'. Did you make any conatunnication of this nature to the Connuaixier-in•ehief, during thr time that y 011 were in South Borland ?—tuelois.m.illy, all the information 1 rireeieL4 1 communicated unniediatt ly to the Quarter-Mawr-Gt. it.. al. Do you recollect when you made that communication ?—1 have slremly skid, that I have te.t any Of my 'wire ht tuwu with me., a-al it is impossible for me to blare the dates or a great many letters : but I made that committitertiun, from tnue to time, as often as I received it, front the tith of Augn9t to the soh, in private letters to the Quartet-Mitati.v.tieneral of the army. Inform the Committee whether, in the estimate which you gave to the Cmuttitter of theateetth of time which you sup- posed it might moire to take the Fart of Lillo, you took mto aceouut the possible assistance that might be drawn from the Meet to the Scheldt ?—C,ertaiulv I did ; I conceive that the Heel mildewy little have accelerated the sarreader, because I cusweive that reels a place, se situated, with the' means of being relieved aid reinforced at the pleasure of the encore, could not have hero takeu, without a bleach having Zero made, and ate aiseaud given. Intirm the Committee what the width of the river is hr twee n the Tete.ite Flan , lre and the town of Antwerp 1-1 c3nn.4 91,1, flint ecsetly ; bat, al far as I recollect, I con ceive it to be a' nut eight handrail yards at the utmost,pro b .111 v I , ot P. 11111 , 11. _ _ ltiour of s ford screen the Bergea•op•Zoout Chatt ed I do. Dal euautinett yourself ?--I did. Ih you happen to recollect whether, about the time that the army reached Ratite, the toles rue epilog tides or steep tOielo 1 cast, of unower. Do you cousidrr that the ford tru prarticuble for infantry awl fur cavalry?-1 shoutJ cuocitare for uut more than oue burst'. • It was pearl* , Ade fie cavalry t--4• far as lam a judge, it would bare been possibly very difficult for cavalry ; I canuot answer that. for I never saw a home pass through it, ►ut I have seen own pass through it. I think that that ford would lime bemoan excessively difficult one indeed, both for cavalry and caution. because that the ground upon this side arriving at it h. very inneli bravo mdecd , whirb I thick cannon could hardly have passed beer, and cavalry with the greatest di& redly. I do mot know the opposite side of the fiord, but I was informed it env more difficult than the Baths side. In your optilion, supposing a f.wcs of tw.•uly thousand men hail Area a‘setubled in South &misc.! by the end of the first week in Angus., and that the iliatiugnished Of ficer who r vinmandi Mete had had power to act, might am• blew have been struck, by coup de es Ain, or otherwise, that might have facilitated the attainment of the ulterior objects of the Expedition ?—1 think it would have been wholly innoseticalile, at any period, to have tak.n Antwerp Ivy a coop dr Mai*, or any of the forts I have described. Ido a it know, in ancient or modern history, of a place with a wet ditch and ramparts, tbecountericarps of which were fe-ed with stow., that was ever taken by a cop tie mai*, ex er.,u•.g that tl.c place was surprin el, and that the enemy we.:t in at the gates; whteli could nut be the case with Aso we. p ►t err yon at Antwerp at the sam e t i me noels CAr Darla Datel..4 i•—.lt the tame period. What ra,.lt in thy orate did Fos. h. 43 as that 11 , 9 Mt MAW to tiGe 1:;11i Light priltiODUO, 11,14 I . : Amp to my falser, se, aod in comment! so the army. Who was thi rouituand ?—The Mike of York. Wan not Sir I. Duadas for a short tuna in the corn. mama of the army in Antwerp ?-1 kn o w nothing about that eunastaate ; I tity:rlf was in (patters at Contaag, shout tire utiles from it I 1 went into Antwerp WOO luriusity merely. )us know, fears the information won received, iu what part of the sewn of Autwerp the Fiend.' ships building there were I,iog ?—orLey were king in the marital, I have st ored', det-erilied, all Moog the river, between the citadel and tbi Inwen• eattcmity of the town. Was there any poschil i ty of those ships being destroyed in that arm tint from the land side, without the B la hew; in pousessaiii ef Vat town , --Teripeactieshle. An. there alm s telegtaplts established between Cadsend sod needling ammo& answer that question. • Are there any teletraphs along the rites h a d no op_ po t witty of knowing wit% reaped to Caolsand; the on ly te ;egraphs 1 know of ate Ate great line of telegraphs which pasgra from Flushing in Amoterdans ; there arc two tele graph,. upon that line, out on Nall, lieveland and the other 1111 the Island of Sehowen, butts of which I hare seen ; there is also a telegraph on the church of Zirieltice, which coustuu nieate• I believe to Bergemop•Znom and Antwerp. Can you say whether an enemy appearing olf the coast on the Cadaand or Flushing aide, that circumstance eau be eomelonirated in a short time by telegraph to Antwerp ?-- 1 conceive, hot this is only matter of opinion, that before our surho,aneerdown iu the Notimpot, the euente knew of our sop outs hot% in Antwerp and Bergeseop. loom, I...eau,* it.. ale lines of telegraph to kWh place,. of the force which eon state you were informed the ene my pte..•-•rel shout the ftth or 6th of Argent, in the ueigli hourhond of Antwerp, bow mufti du yuit suppose would hiee been thrown tutu Antwerp in the course tif twu or three the free r have staled, that at Capped might have 11,11 1111'111,11 into Autecip in a few hours ; that in Ber gen-op-Limn, if the enemy chose to prod it to Antwerp, :night hare been sew in one day or two (taps al the utmost. What force, from the information etni bare received, eould the eueuiy, bail lie been so disposed, Lave thrum a into Antwerp in t•u or three days 1--11 . 1 try saigLt Wive thrown in all this fore, I have ileserith d. To what amount ?—That will be seen (ruin what I have already said. Can you form any estimate as to the number ?—I do not know ; kiit I believe that these nein weir nil sery eh oug • the Dutch battalions in particular I du out believe Wcre be: pond 3 nr 6nu twos at the utmost. f'ould the varsity have assembled, in the course of two or three days, 10,000 men capable of defending Autwerp ?—I have already staled the forte that was there. Could the enemy, an the course of Iwo or three days, have collected from to to 1:no men, is your opiniou, to defend Antwerp ?—I have auswered that question. Supposing the enemy with isowo men withiu the works of Antwerp. soil a Hi itish forte besieging it of aii,ooto men before that tow u, what would have been the fate of our army, not supposing an exterior army to attack our besieging army ; you suppose they would have any probability of believe that 3n,000 men might have fakeer Ilie town of Antwerp, if they had nut beet at all disturbed with- out, rind you bad given them plenty of time 1 r do it in. What Hair do you think it would require to take it with wootoo men, and 1 i,tnat turn to garrison it must miter Into a mantle detail to answer that question. Supposing the army to have arrived before the tows with a garrison 15,000 strong, and the In siegang army 30,000 strong think that the stare, and every iLing sieenwary foe the siege of Antwerp so garrienutid, could not possibly have been brought up under 41 days, there was a great quantity of horses lathed employed, so that the hat. terns sheeld open iu the first parallel ; that is, it wouki be 111 (6,8 N the opening of the batteries in the first paralleh that is the ahonat time that 1 think possible l ihmk that to attack a town NA garrowsned, it would he P.TI M AI W y wards to priweed by n siege, by the up esalims• of a second and thus, parallel, to have breached the plate, amd filled lite ditch before the amealt could he given ; all *hide operahour could nut take up under to days at the least, that is the lowest 1,111111'60s 1 can put it at. After the vol. iif August, at that late period, what pro bability nas their, in your opinion, of success in any opera tion nuttiest Lino and Liefkesishoeik ?—I conceive that if any operation had berm attempted against Lillo awl Lielleu shorik, it would have hem at the utmost rads for the safety of the whole arniy. Allowing f u r the possibility of them two forts being cap hired at that late seasuu, would it Lave insured the capture of the town and citadel of Antwerp?—Hy no •u aum, I .lean that any attack upon Antwerp, after the 25tla of August, *mild base been utterly impracticable by the &High force Ikea . there. Do you remember the nausea of any other oaken of rank who acre in or near -Joinery in the year iyue, *lieu you were three !—There were no General t is with the Ex pedal tttt , that I AM aware of, that epee previously at Autaerp, except Licutenart-General Brunotigg. Do you Cr/14411 the 113111C1 , of any Officers who were in or near Auto-cry, iii the year two I dare say 1 could re-collect many : I remember nit brother, Major-General Cu Aisle, far one, and Lieutenant Grassiest Vple ; but I caning call to my recollettiam others at ibis moment. If the fasters, of Bath: had been skilfully and obstinately defended, what time avoid it hare taken to bare effected a prat twahle breach nWeh the British troop:. could bars as. '—There would have hems no necessity fur a breach at all at Baths, if the ditch had been blind, the troops cuutd have assaulted it immediately, for the work* were earth. What countryman ass it films shim, you gut the intelli gence of the numbcis, was it a British subject ?--"fut a Bri tish attlijsct. A Frei.rhman or a Dutchman ?-41 Dutchman. Are there any suburbs to the fortret.s "f Antwerp t--There are houses u ithout the gates upon all the roads, hut I cannot tell the exact extent. To what extent and how close do they approach to the work•. of the town !--Tbat omention I cannot answer coo re. ily, but 1 semi& ct that there were some; the suburbs me of no gnat extolls. When diJ you first uederstaml that the Expedition was &milord to Antwerp ?—t did ant positively know that the Espedisiou was destined to Antwerp before 1 was at Deal; but I certaiuly surmised it six weeks before. Did you comm•ruiccte your impression cyan the state of Antwerp, and the difficulty of the operations against it, in any ittfEccr at Deal, and to whom ?-1 did t.. many ; 1 1:J111111MA -atell to all lay Meads my opinion with respect to the difficulties of the Expedition. I t►ink I I . ollliftUnlCAlitli th.ot opinion to all the lieneral Officers at Deal, and to both of the Admirals at Deal, and to Home Popham. 1 was particularly anxious upon this subject, because 1 thought that those gentlemen were not aware of the difficulties they were to meet with. When Lord Castlereigh had commotion@ with yes at Deal, du you recollect having communicated to Lord Caset te:nth the nature of the mfonnatiuu you hare stated to this Committee ?—Nceer to his Lordship: I did not think it proper to obtrude flip opinion on His Majesty's Ministers. I thought it possilde that the gentlemen to whom I cum tunuicuted, might hare commuuicated it to His Nlnjesty's Ministers had it nut been fur that cirrninstance, 1 might hare communicated it to Lord Castlereagh. Is it probable that the enemy woald have destroyed the suburbs ?—t . udouhtedl v. So as to prevent tiMir Lentz any menos of annoy JIIVJ fruin, or protection. to the enemy , —Uudoubteelly. Would setting houses on tire et more the impediments of riving riner to a besieging army Attacking the plme it would depend upon the materoCv of widen the huusi-s wrre made. Are oot the houses there is general built of stunt ?—The houses ha the town of Antwerp are an gam al built of stone Do you recollect so mock of the place as to be able to ats:c to the Commuter, whether, akin the hank of the riser, near where the slnici s ore, there ra any high embank. wimit that would afford cuscr to a besieging army to make then• approaches nearer to the place ?—I die out recollect that circumstance. From the information Inn obtained respecting Linn, coo ,Litecoo alit:thee there was any etnhonkno:nt on curl' sltte of the fin t, to prevent ths river overflowing the counts y l Thcre is an embankment which runs along the whole course ig I ilt Scheldt from Auto cry. to bergen-op•Zwom, where that embankment touches the fort of the (Imo of the piece finals the mnimakrweat towards the ricer. Arc you able to state to the Committee, from soy iotw -111,1111011 you received, what the bright and breadth of that embankment is , —The embankment is, I believe, of a mani la, height to all the °than an that part of the country; it nee made for no military purpose, but to keep out the water of the Scheldt. Arc yott elite to state the heighth end breadth of the em bankment '—The embankment must be high enough to pre veut the tide at the highest spring from overflowing the country, and us the tide rises nearly lweuty feta, of cuhrse it must be considerably higher than that. Dv you 1111 . 311 to say that the bank is considerably higher than twenty fart?-1 say that the embaliketcnt- Was made to keg' out the unties of the Scheldt, and as the waters of the Selichlt rise at high spring tides nearly iYeaty feet, the nu. !sentiment of coulee must be that height. Iran embankment is twenty recline', du nut you imagiee it must be at the base about thirty feet wide, and probably at the top about twenty feet ?—t canted possibly enter into • calculation of that wort, that is • cresting in mechanics. The reason of uw pouting this Iteration is to endeavour to ascertain whither ur nut the embaiikutent is of such a nature as to afford corer fur 1111 attacking army to snake their up per*. hes nrim at hand Forts of Lill.. and Liefkre. *heck ran he approached by no means whater.v but by waking sig.sags along the dyke, and th a t i s tie great strength of those places ; the uuly approach is upon the dyke; you must approach "dung this dyke by sig.rags. Dorm recollect so much of Antwerp es to In able to state to Ilse Committee, whether there are a glacis Mali • covered way, or merely • ditch, with a cuuntensearp wall'-1 believe there is both • glans and a covered way, but at She time I was there the covered way was quite Out of repair. Do out you think that a hank of 2n feet high, and protialoly Jo wide, would give very prat . over fur a bitsielgitig army 10 01011 their hatterws close to lie pLorr. , —Vliost drprods upon the direr tin° of that eutb:toktuetA, with respect to the works of the place [alt o being n regular twyttg.ou, as you have el•seribad, lilt probable an etttbastkatent, constructed merely to keep out the eater fru= the ritcr, should be regularly Barked by any parts of such a wink '—t: rirlunlite illy the em bankment by %Inch you moat approneli the tort of Lille, I. Ranked by the wool:, of that place, it rues , I IJCIItWe, at riskt 'asks upon one tot the Notions Du you andr•rstaud that ilo , or is a similar hawk close to the wools at Antwerp, a1t11.7 the banks of the river bare al ready said there was aO. kr that extended all the way form Antwerp to Berra-op Zoom, all along the coarse ut t►e TIVCr. Do you recollect so murb of the The de rlandre, the eroww•ork )Vu 'oration, os to stale eloctio r it pteletts the whole of that sole uf the river, so as to pr. r. ,it that might he erected by our army from destroying the arse nolo '—Thc Tete de Flwm•Le ce.iamly Mauls e pert °Mal 410 w ; whether it llaulLs the whole, or to what thstance, I Cannot aus...v.. If the crua to. nook doors not di fend Ilse bank of the river, do not von *honk that bath r..• ...oarlock it on the opposite hank wioild very rssily do 1.1 rtoy the whole of that araennl ? There is no simmer of doubt Flat a asilitiornt noinber of ominous, idiot o ol upon the bark of shot rncr , nuuld, to lime, destroy the a... oosi _ Do you sudrr tend , that einem the bank of the river at Antwerp, wliert 11-genets were constracted Ivy the trench, there were any (oitificatione or weeks, or Inertly it wall to prevent a roinmunientina between the town and the erne- nal ?—Tliere WAS WO well at all along the bank of the river, the wall I metiti•onell before wan between the town and the sternal; Lrww the approach of the British squadron, that pert of the too is wan wholly open to the river , the enemy, linurver, began ectr.tracitng winks immediately upon the eppe,iinn eof the Brits'', and by shoot the isth of August several batteries weer tiuiehed 'spun due line, extending trout the rtholel to the other aunt snit) of the town: [The amts. The 11,4,rmnn It aee RS Jar tar reran ps pew alti, , athl r ank leave tu vat 'gam VAT—eta. ill Dent.-Genes She h Mori:, cell, le State to the C;;Ssinaninsi7leteirlioihr: CONll.ltiee. 11 0 11 Proceeded m i .... Mien !—The retort e of the army moinirkiA at we sailed ,pull th e unti l , anchored npoo ne t Lust the aurae escalate, weighed azain 0.4 444144 eb"- ,,,..."' auchored in the hoompitt, and upon the Ask Keats CJlllt-tii Lit id...re will( the shoe II t " . 4 ° --,„" with an interim* to dmenthark the 'roots s sue f,:;" lard. I should state that there wag a (La i ."" giscu the ( reserve I feces,. das urderugt. Wand hkhoweu fur the safety of the amernir a a „.• •"` Routspert t upon reaching that authoress., it wa, the wearily of it urinate depended noun th:,:11." . t Schowea. I salowtrii that to the Commoilre. m.c.„ ' Sant 14,111Y1l my proceeding up the East schridt , ow, . the original intention tutu animation, of disembark.,, ~ ! ialru~id South Iterrlanii, near Goes; atom th e ' fore kSir Hume Popham hawing periirosly.,..4 4 , h ~'.^- ticl) Sir Ito hard Keats priarcedual to Zwieksee, whoa foe end to come The hoops were th at d ay pu t • ▪ -117, boat., bat owing to a envie gale coining an, it a hie to carry the landiug lato exteutime, Cpua the 1 , 1 .f tess Aul S u i:o l lh s Be he s " T 'ler laud, c' and from ; l urk :t i p ° newly the tuts •k,a,tad rf.tethekmospotirfalitiieoi!nint 7rul*illiesr.:ll!Zurt: its the ins: Juhs Hope then proceeded with • replier do 4 from the tat I.,!.tugust.l Did you final horses and ptuvieious its the abundanea ale r you had expected from your instructions to flail the.: _L minion of horns ; a very consiilerattle suppl y tai t , - „r b one ., b ut in pilot of cattle I bad rano. et lust to t. 4. here we should nut be well supplied ; 1 b la re that then , sourer" of South Ileac:mil went afterwsirde Mer est ,' bt plow drawn from the ialatud of fichusen c hi e fl y, and fe w North Beechnut, and the troops certainly atter w ark ,; any shape except in apirste; there is.., at Gni a eery r , tst want of spirits, , Mich were out to lw h a d i n the istiad.` H owe .. after your arrival is did toe ri, reice any istellimnace of the state of the enemy's force, us. preparations ?--Upon the evening of the tut Iliad ennri. cation with acveint of the iiiitalmants of Gino, and 4.. the, • wide-tumid that the enemy Lad certainly thru•o trays it Bergen-up Loon. H at , : m i . ganloces to state to the Committre the idol. Illation you merited at ddhrrent times during t one coati.. ante in South Bei elnaill—U pon the clis August, the a s telligeme of the enemy baring thrown tem - mime Bercer... ? Zoom was contirini-d ; R was Ilk° 0314,1, teal 1n41,1 4a aides-able numbers were eitatiand bete tea Berenseploo and Antwerp. It aas nail that ricuch, arid t oo It.. troops e ere in Antwerp ; that the people belongan4 to t aired esiablishinents in Antwerp had hr.% for a coasoltni I time trained to arms, and dot duty in the lowa, ur h a t 4, duty its the town, and that trout•ts wi re expected at Alien from Itruesseic Upon the loth, it sta. atated tu me that the were troops in Twirls ; that the trees rotted:lie town, epos( glacia l and its the intuiedisie neighbourhood of that were ratting down; :nod that prep.:ol4d* wire melon( inandate the culotte) beta ern 1 . 01, u and Ile, zi atm./son that constant pairolcs were npou she roads; that an firths' been c,ven in Bergen-op Zoom for the inhabitants tom 'branch T 9 with provisions for a certain period, or fu ern. Iowa; and tli it in the usitiarlis, or certniu parts of the leer, Ike inhabitants hail been &aired to quit their hoists. rir Cantinittee ails moles stand, that iutilligence of that kilt cleniag from varioue sources, requires t, tic compared by r person who receives it at the tone, awl ain receive its silt from the circumstances' atteadin; it ; I do nut therefore pre tend to coach tor 11, or say that I give the ti h.., o f a pheit credit. Twesty•Gre thomatoi to nwt n eztid to he Anteirp, I state that, because I had uo Leann titan that many men were Its Antwerp at the time ; r. as A le said to he et week open the works 11l Antwerp at ilia ts lire loth of .tti,;iist ; th:s dale, the pas..o mho ailed Me there wait a veil bilge garrison is Di e,reti op Zoom, same time, its 11,, 0.4111111:11loy, remark e d th i s ii i c ou a x ,. of the inhabitant, bring desired to quit their tonne% or ,r ply themselves with provnitow. That curfirmed tar is I belief that n can ism was in BergemripZoom, and that a, • floe wag to be made; irtlid not abew Int Oat a tettitiu ter of men was in it.: bet that the enemy hid Shoran men to it, anti acre deteratiewil to derelict it. Vista the bah Attempt, it was also stated, sad to that I gate tmplwit rr for I saw the ships, that the Fri itch ant were mouriC kln the town of Antoci p. Upon the s tth of Asaest, it ; slated, that the enemy's eabionmeat hetwoen Lit',, mil Br. gesaip•Zonin lied lire. considerably reniforcerl....lC,ll3,lN of 3or dolor men; that I had unreason to doubt, 'about that tine, we had ptrerired more fronts ot par- , slung the coast, and more nuwessiesit of tomes than eel hefore perceived. Upon the ttth of A 1 , ;13A t, it Wall it, that the gasessost of Negro-op-Lima had been cis" that French troupe had !wen sr-at iu lieu of Dutch I weer had way mcaris of ascertaining the truth at li and am rather inclined to believe it was out the case. T, awns:and men from the khine were said to bare it,.' at HIVISCIP, a few days previously to the I ttla ; it itra,e said, that about that time, there were about lase dr.., men at Lillis, mud five hundred at Lief keinannik ; ups , n 1 bars tasty to say, that I believe the number was poki exaggerated. Upon the tath, Ike ietellictuce we bail f, different quarters gave the 1414.01 complete reaosus label that the inundatium Dear the lines of Siecrhergro, Telco and Bergen-up-Zoom, hail been carried Whit& On the lath, the whole of the intelligeace relating It garrison of Bergen•op Zoom, the cantonment of the ear and the arrival of troops, as well as the immolation of right bank of the Scheldt, wore count used. U poo the Ito I Yard there wee a still more partkular, and a Wring or archon of she foregoing witeltigarce. 1.-port 'Lc isit s bad iutelligenes of inundations all IN kft batik Mew laefkenshoefa, and below It towards the pull of Desch Cps the tritli of August, we were tafortned by a peras stn knew Attire's), or stated that he km, Astwery, thst hae•tit• battle slope could go ^heat lbw fuer nillm slant tuna of Antwerp. Upon the gist of Aug's?, ti Ours went alined to lie ae high .a the citadel of and that a bones bad Leas thessern across from Lille lobe Itionshorth ; the gurrisou of Autwgrp was then st.a d to 1 electsl thousand men. Upon the egil of Auguo, it etoteil, through a channel that as thought a ' , a-eve the gut min 0. Berges•op-Zooni eousistol afro's sun nine hundred sneer ; that there were twelve thous: std ran eslitonments between Bergcoop•Zorini nod Lillo ; sad it in all minces, thousand men were said bi be along Ls Itaisks or the Scheldt, comprehcading, I conclude, weep, the cantonment of Lillis, sad alai the tom! wet have nn the left bank ; sod that troops Were at shot u daily arriving at Antwerp ; and that the earn. had pilled the noundatiun on the !Oahu& near Liifkin,Lii and were preparing to sink veseets la the channel. Upon i i ard of August, is consequence of some c onverratwa had takes' place mintier to the works of Antwerp, it been determined to endeavour to obtain peee , se iltforta' ts ✓eapectiteg the rewctiltsent of the walks that etre noir': to exist, and upon that date, the odd of depot, it an , r"' fit incil that the stole re, ettmeot of the tatolni.aa a Pr'' en had been lately lc paned. Oa the asth ursine r,eeha'' . ' enumeration of the ear my'riforce,from a eurve y,ul.iiii than amount to 41,730 mco • it was elated thvi Thiene, hail bees in Antwerp, and thiC retnissatt of the as he a l , the citadel wee confirmed. That was the suhstence o(. I L inferseation that I received, or that passed thromth ewe, tle , in; come from 011icers under me, and which 1 trammed w to beed.inatters. ▪ th On sit gt.il4, the ietelligesee rewired by yell enem)`• force amount to 11,710 men ; hew Co yev ern for the difference between those aunibera, and don, steteJ the paper addressed to the LlentrnaorGi rel. the tilt 1":; ceding, which makes the (wee amount to 3:.,0it0 rnrm giving that 'tisk...cut, I donut give it as s stale:seat 1 •7 , can is any mauler vouch fur ,se a• coming boo a r" employed; the generality of pervnus are estrew'? ~ ~ unrest, sad as to numbers, 1 would in ter give eat r" thew' whatever, ankle stroogly coatis need by other ego,. stances. Ilad pow any information of the state of Irlla l sad / heoshook, when the Expedition arrived at Baths, or P ' after, end their sneeze. of defence,-11 was sta•ci r''' rally, by the prisons whom we employed, as well rs t) e sl.4l.itaisis of S,mth Ileveland, who pretended to L00 ... ' 'Stole of the r, that the furls of Lill.. end I seikroe, Mini in a gate of **mime meg the 'mks : s ith tofccl' ' !Mr L. 3j4i; of Wei " 1 1. 4.4 Boethee iLe od.e, ‘ 1. '° 1 0) w (1 4 r. 313. 1 1 64 L w. 4 4 th 1611, 1 .1 E: .5r,:,., 4 ie., tb. ✓e 4.. st jaa.4, the it, .4 tembs-,.„ 4 to alCici3„4 elar 4.334 ter,. Pint lute. hat the tr. .ed h. Le?. 3r.d L, m aid rauted a um eery 1 did tee Le. IJI filicr, Cheer:ea the ih nk Ifiloin iq e ib or" the Mk. if ce3lL33. at. 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