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r pinion eating but be atroney witgaged by
t tete evrotß, and the !labile must 'be -destronis to
know not only the who.e, but also, if possible, all
the perticulara of that cc edition, •_
At the moment when this opinion renders' itself
conspicuous, by numberless traits of public spirit
and attaciinient, throughout all classes of French
'citizens, and by sacrifices of every description, by
• en unanimous submission to the measures adopted
by the Public Authorities, for the common defence,
nod by a general cry of war against the English ;
at the inoineut whelk these emotimos, truly national,
oppose considerable forces to the enemy, in !deeds
which lie suppoiall lie should be able to surprise
in a defenceless mute, and permit the Eilip:otit'e
nary, while it completes its grand work, to depend
I the fidelity and courage of another army, sprung
•,o", ;a-,t were, froin the territory achieh it is to de-
.ll; it is of very material iinportance, to satisfy
,apiaion, to fortify and enlighten it, and to in-
s- ,r,ii our enemies, that, oil this memorable °era-
sm, ;hey will see all the delusive hopes destroyed
for ever, which they had conceived, with re and to
the state of the public sentiments in Fri4ll.V, and
the extent of dee niest of Government: With
this view, all papers which relate to the op-rainms
uu thr Scheldt shall successively be comusiotiicatril
t,) the in their natural order, either at full
or be extrarts, lecoriliu4 to the degree of
interest and iniport.toce :tttaelted to them.
tory OT A REpottl MADE THE IST ACtiusT, ISO),
T tnti. MI IS IT.E AT WAE, TO HW MtJLITY TUE

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8. I had the honour, by a Report of the Mitt of
last July, to render the Emperor au ticcomit iii the
appearance and 100%mo:tits of an enemy's fleet on
the side of Flushing, and of the measures hitherto
adopted far the defonce of the Scheldt.
" I have this inoritiug had a conference with tlit±
Minister of the Marine, who thinks it neet.sury
that All that troops which can he drawn from the
garrison of Paris, should. provisionally be ordered
to march to the Scheldt and Boulogne. In couse-
queoce thereof, I have directed General thilliu to
order this day the lialf-brig isles of reserve to march,
one moiety to Litraithe, filtitl the other 'to Seidl..
These troops will dud, in both places. waggons* to
convey theta to their plates of destination. Those
ohs march to Boulogne sill reach it on the 4th of
August. The (self-hrigatles, which march from
&ohs to Ghent, will be there the stls of Angust,
and proceed from thence to the Scheldt. I have
also ordered reverted battalions and squadrons of the
second military division to march to the coast Of
Boulogne.
" All these orders lied been sent oil', when I
rte rived a telegraphic dispatch front it-tetra' Saint
Stir:mile, informitig me that he had ordered all
the national guards of the Departmeett cif the North,
to proceed in waggons to the Ishilid of Carhatiri,
independently of those tinder the orders of (learnt'
Weapon, who are marching ut the sante direction.
" Pursuant to these disiar‘itions, the troops em-
ployed on the coast will, iu three Jays, torn u very
considerable force, exclusively of the !bens cremes,
the companies of reserve, an the officers of cos-
sums, who have etl.o been called out. In addition
to these Ira pa, I have ordered the provisional bat-
talion* and stitmelnins of the 'l6th, ld, autl
4111 military divroutts, to OM, and repair in wag-
gons to Antwerp, with the utmost speed.
" I have charged the General of Artillery, Saint
Letirt•-.t, whose health is perfectly restored, and
sho happened to be its Paris, unemployed, to
hasten to Antwerp, thence to the Scheldt and
the isle of Ceirlsand, to direct the service of artil-
lery, and ascertain the state of the batteries. He
is also charged to inspect the artillery of Jim coast
of Boulogne, in the district of the 10th Military
Division, and to give all necessary orders, that the
service! may Le duly performed iu all its dilfereut
branchts.

. •u Indepeuilently of the force. employed between
the Somme and the Scheldt, every thing is ar-
ranged in the &strict of the 15th Military Division,
a4reeably to the orders which I gave before, and
winch I have lately renewed, to emburk, et I WU'
tn-iit's notice, Guest) choice national gaanis, to be
taken from the legions in the neighbourhood 4of the
roam, and to be marched to the four principal
'points of the twist; such as Havre, 17i clinp,
. Dieppe, and St,. Valery, exclusively of a .trong
rryerve, destined to march to the point of attack,
pinnitularly threatened by the enemy.
•• I have aisn given all necessary orders fur the
d ace of the coast from Havre to Bayonne.
•• I shall have the honour to report to Ilia Majesty
the molt of the measures adopted to repulse the
enemy's attacks on the side of the Scheldt, as soon
as the Generals shall have sent toe their reports.
. The Minister of War,
(Signed) tousr Hutt a ammo."
Meowear of Arse. V.)

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hr. itro.tiait and Polish smiles iu Gmnicht ure
•Lstrihotcd us follows : The nimians occupy that
1,..rt of Golti•is which extettds front the covirons
r.f to the frontiers of the Bockowine.—
I lie Poli h corps, truster the compound of General
Helmlutvsk.-. (tempi the environs of Santo Kart-
sew, five mites from Warsaw, and as lir as Pitica.
That guilder the orders- of General Kantinieicki iu
posted trans the environs of liarnew to the Bug.
Tin tik• ~..pirter. of Prince Pouistowski ate at