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1 ea„ assnee ))one Lordship, without any fear of exaggsra.
ton, teethe fullitOing atateskent will heat MC oat, that the
situation of the troops in ltialsland is deplorable : and it
revels the Is say, that nose of the medical atoistanee, (one
soaff OtaelrOn nipit duce Moots* mates excepted), or soy
eirdtle promised munforta, have yet arrived. 0i the cow
trsay, our medical corps is daily diusiuisled, either from
airiness, or fehiu the 'serenity bending route of the
tat staff, with sick men, tat Eisiltuttl. Some curse, from
these causes are now left with ate assistant surgeon.
t usenet:led to give your Lordship a must corseet account
of these inelaucholy farts, as I lease only this day coin.
pitted My inspectioa of the general suit re4:ineiltal
at the several places mows& in the mai gie. • I therefore
write with the fresh impression on my mind of the miiee-
able situation of the greater proportion of our mirk, am
any fault of the medical gentlemen, fur I neuot do them the
inSiitt of the most nuirgaried mortice' and exemplary Wen.
lion, but owing to the uusvoidahle smut et areousuni-
dation comities in this centatry, and in our own resources.
—.llficldlehorgh, from the size of its buildings, affords the
best accommodation; but even in that for a. the sick are so
ettiordeel, as iii he two ire one heel in several places, and have no
eientlation of air y besides, from the homely adeniooion of had
eases into the general hospital, the slighter onus, though
foe trout being in a Et slate, are necessarily sent to the regi-
mental hospitals to make room. Yon oast old to the se
disadvantages,' the total wart of couvalescent weeds. where-
by relapses are often caused.
at Veer, a large church (under other circumstances an
elfgehle situatiou) contains about coo patients; the other
places occupied as hurepitale iu this town, arc miserably
smell, end exesseivey crowded.
At Arinu) den, the arcommodatios for the numerous sick
is wretched. But all this Mils far short of the truly deplor-
able situ:lamp in whit h the sick of the garrison of Flushing
are placed I exposed iii many of the hospitals to all the in-
tl. enemy ot this non huksome etiolate, owtag to the damaged
Stated the roofs, um er repaired since 'besiege.
This is a lamentable picture t. but it is prover I should
add, that every possible esertiou has been, and is still making,
to improve our situation, especial at Flushing ; but the
total iiiadcquary of our uncaps realms all our code:are:mu of
amaperat Tel) trivial impormace.
I have thought the actuation of the troops as aovrl and
detrersing, end our ?stare prospects so discouraging, as
piloted out by the uschosed letter floor Deputy Inspector
15urrowes, that I hoe judged it expedient to mud this 'their
by lay Aid.de.Camp, Capt. Worsley, who, hat mg attended
me through every lmswital, is folly rumbled to give ouch tid-
al Usual details, as year Lordship may require. I hare. See.
(Sigurd) • EIRE CA)OTE.
P.R..-Sinn the foregoing was written, I lean, that four
sof re Medical officer* have arrived from England; but we
hare :int lie. Aviting, Deputy Warden. of Hospitals, who
died last sight; and the Inspector, Mr. Webb*, has jest oh.
Wool my leave to letters home, on account of severe illness.
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("list iselosure, v.-famed to in No. a 1
Middleburg, Os September, 18(19
MY LOIIIO-.3Placed as I emits the command of this Islar.ll,
7 think myself called upon, by fiery feeling of public and
"private duty, to lay before your Lordship my opinion of oar
Inman to retain possession of it.
My ideas spew this subject are abrader well known to yowr
Lordship, hoeing mere than once declared them iu private
esiammunerat ions hut nos now necessary that I should state
them in Hue udicial torso, in jaatsicatiou of any future
troests.
lb len& of comet we have to watch and to elrfeuel (-or.
rerrila r the too !lords Of the roCulnrcir We or lima
falowal are by the enemy's possitimions)caseisiet to my mind re-
Oldie less Mau Memo men to guard it effectually; ard we
west take Into ruisideration the great facilities whirl. the
enemy h is of aorretilding, unmolested, boats of all due. Is.
given, though the canals of Lentisk, Hamad, Bruges, and
Ghent, asorethasfrom every part of Holland.
A fore. of 14,000 men has bre. appropriated for the de.
'nee of %%Midterm, oat of which li,oui, ere now sick sail an.
illt for any duty.. I should nut rat white that number as outfi-
yield +Velum a see.t.aut amok, ai.4l need scarrety rem.. I.
your Lordship, that nelson we has ea ferret rqnal to nu ct the
enemy use the betel,, soil ■fterwaidein the toil, our trome
of the island will not bed long duration, when once lit his
toe& pod his landins.
Jonetlaiiii, from its great proximity to South tkvelaud, is
the most eeposed to an attack, used should them-fine be
watched with ardent' e)e. la its person state it tillers but
trey means of defeat,. Two battalions are stationed there,
bet we have we barracks or proper quarters foe that number
of men, and sickness is much inure to he dreaded let that
lslaad than in Waleberen. Blockhouses at certain distances
is rear if the dyke opposite to South Ileveland appear to me
the host surf of barrack and deicing. These would he tediosse
and e apeman is building; we most, thereto's, leave them,
out 6f our caknlation. of immediate dame,. Your Lord.
Ship is aware, that, hi the erection of batteries, the:tunny
will soon liorce our g.id- busts to quit the :Moo hemmer.
Tare, in its pi went state, is a place of ao strength: The
approaches of au en. my along the dykes on either dank are
Completely cooled, awl their defences so extremely weak,
as to slier but very slight remistame. Cousi.krablt expeenic
tarn ronsequeatly he accuser, here, it bone an ampiwtsiit
point, from its harbour, and eoatigaity to North Bevels:id
and Schots-oh The Commanding °Meer of Engineers has
further reported this lilac.. to be withia full ran:e of shut
mid shells from the oouthern estrentitwo of North Bevelaud.
"'lashing, without cammateo, ranged be comidenrl a for.
treas. Its ge meal defeaces are week, and wilt require muds
Shoe sort espouse to be put in a proper atate.
The ships of war, auderstand, front the best authority,
will nut he able to keep the WA, or the surrouuding cbsuntle,
daring tbe winter. They mast entire tutu nuthink
*Dore they will cease to be of any use to out txtvtu.ll KOS-

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Walchreen, possessed liy as, must hinamory nei•zliboaring
ite curio!, thrtefore Gieiit Britain would have, in •
great measure, to teed its ialmuttaata, ad well as the army
and i.avy un Omit station.
Viewing 441 p s.ua of Watcheren in the light that I
liars represented, &oil left, as I am, to retain it, I should
emmeive myself highly cu‘shle, did I not submit to your
tip my coot ictiuu of its piestut defective, and, I may
ad.!, miteashle slate.
After each an exposition, His Majest)'s \tinnier' will be
the hest judges of the propriety or possibility of keeping the
1,10.n1. The tidy:unlin man indeed be great, that eau tem-
peasant the less of lin-saint irritate whirls the retentioe
west eternised) invasion. I hat, the honour to be, Le.
iSigad) EY It 1-: COOTE, Lieut.-Geo.
Lieut.-Gan. the Earl irf Chatham.

(Second indenture referred to in N.). 3 )
Slid•lleburg, 13th Sept lane.
Sew--In obedietter to your orders, I have the honour to
repent to you, my idriersations and opinions respe,:till,•the
Meknes, now prevailing to tile army under your comicality!.
In doing this, I weed ecarechy inform pent, that at all periods
the climate of 7Aalatil has been peculiarly destioetier to ibis
health of 2,1111.8.
Remittent mil lai• remittent fever are the endemics rof this
counter ; from them. the %intim; have at all times suaiered
ninth, but strong... s, yrir:.rolnrly troops, In a much
tinnier d• grew : with llntish soldiers, whether &ion pyretic,-
city orcouattintion, or u( the preilispooing raisins, the • tire,'
are winch MOTO general sad oggravatd J. To she* to what a

degree this Is already the ease, 1 have only to respoest boor
Illteotierl to the aecomp•oyisig sock fettles tot the haul t4et-1..
Yon will there perm-ire the lameatable fart, •that alreaoly
more than half the army ender your Contusatud rot ui 11010.
tat ; add, from the emmerows soidstimas daily, noo':,
baostr:y, asrellinc the sick tat, at a time whore Ilor wrath., ap-
pear' so favourahie ha health, add the sickly season to Itttle
advanced, yo•oi si ill he enabled to Goon a juolpartit, as well
myself, of 'allot we bate to halt forionrd to, nor need I *tap
lo you, whoa have so lately visited all the Hospitals to Mi.
island, the doestraawieg embarraosumenta pre experienee boos
Oillems and Orderlies daily hallow ill, and the int-
priaaltiAM,' of pewewrios adequate seconismolatiou and at-
tendees* tar the aassarows wk. The wrettiod state of the
\meetly to be deplored, more rnprt ally at Flush-
. an C.Albs, illetare of the Isle bomb irdment, the
olthap that eau Ite pne.trt 4as bth6pat•la awl

•aea•otatka m.ii‘t be tier;w4l Inas lthe u :atm r,

t1v.0,111 totapuutUity tSes i, in Column of Aiscleatget
but this, I an. sorry to ass, ft,ollllll en explestalion
te qLh-
ur to one hopes; nearly Hut hundred of those marked
discharged, big obis ,ate cases seat to England, as afford-
ing the only chnuee us recovery; and many of the others
Still laboaritig under disease, but removed to coavakscent
barrtoks, fer the purpose of making room in hospital, for
mere seceut and aggt4Tateel cases; so that but few bare beets
actually discharged toe duty; and with those there:is bet
too mut h re,tie,ii to apprehend relapses, ou exposure to the
Weal sicissitadea attending the duties of a soldier in this
climate. Coder such eitcuiustauces, I sun of opinion, that
we hart bat little mownds to calculate on the efficiesey in
this climate, for the next silt mouths, of those who bare la-
boured under serious attacks of the pervading disease; pro-
bably slot less them two-thirds of the army may heroine in-
eflbellee for that period ; during which we have to expect a
great mortality, art only from the effects of remittent and
intrimittent (ever, but Irons other diseases, which stay be
expected to supernal*, and which will probably be mini- •
cularly fatal to theme already so much reduced.
• A great amay of the easels which have already occurred,
have, lam sorry to say, run into typhus fever the disposi-
tion to this disease is readily to be accountelfor, 'toil was
, probably mars particularly to he expected amongst those
who so lately laboured tinder it on their return from Cutiosua.
HO have now, therefore, the effects of comagiow, in ad-
dition to climate, to cooked with ; and I should ill discharge
in, duties to the Service, or my Country, if 1 concealed the
serious apprehensions I entertain from their effects; not
ugly on the present, but possibly future teficisteecy of the
army.
From the knowledge which you possess of the abilities and
experience of Mr. Grant, Deputy Inspeetur of Hospitals, it
a dl, I sin sure, be satisfactory to you, as it has been to me,
to know that be coincides in the sentiments which I have
taken the liberty of submitting to you.
I have now only to apologise far the hasty manner in which
the pressure of my duties has compelled use to inoke this
coeutuunication. 1 base the bouonr to l.n Er.
F. BI It ftv•W ER,
Deputy limpector of Hospitals, end oculist Medical Officer.
To Lieut.-Gen. Sir Eyre Comte, he.

(Third inclosure referred to in No. a.)
werk I y rwt urn of sick and• wounded belonging to the British
Arun, serving under the command of Lieutenant-General
Sir Eyre Coote, K.B. in General and Regimental Hos-
pitals in the island of Waleheren, from both to ilith Sep-
tember, i sou, both days inclusive.
In (:rntral Hospitals 71;9
In Regimental U. 6,t75
Ter Virr 334
Embarked this day at run Ram.kins 75

Total 7,553
F EURROWS,
Derv., inspector of Hospital..

(Fourth I nrineare referred la is Ku. 3 )
Daily State of the 6ltk in tbe *land Wslehrn-n, I9th
' Rept. .n 9.
016eera, 914 ' • Si rjeants, 266; Drummers, Ila ; Rank
sad Ale, 9,113. ittagiaki, t Serjeants, 96 rack and tilt dead.

3.—Dispatris from Lieutenant-General Sir Ere Coote
to V 6401114 Cast lenripli, dated alidiUcherg, Ina Sept.
leAp. Middleburg, gOSeptemberosun
Ma' Lose—lt is with deep emieerii that 1 61111 m)self
called upon, sosbortly after ily letter of the ride Instant,
again to address suer Ler chip upon the mine seeetiag sub-
ject, the Meknes* of V r troops.
The alarming progress hourly made by this fatal disease,
is suds, that lilt should continue is the same proportion for
three "vas leafier. (sod is every prohability that it
will) oar possession of this island 1T..4111 become very micro.
rims.. Oar thief ilspendeoee viii then be upon the navy,
and that, dories the wilder nimiths, will be extreutely
uu-
rtain.
The Eneli,l3 newepapers rill inform !Le enemy of oar
perilous %dilation, exclusive of the ii.tii•n-tion winch sic
catliot prevent him from daily receiving boon this Island,
clicely surrounded as it 1. by his possessimie, and Sited with
his partisans ; under these cirrunodasicia, it is scarcely to
he supposed that he will lose so tmourable au opportunity
of •ttacki.ie Waltlicrea.
Fur your Lordship's information, I inclose the Mem of
the *irk fur the last three days, from which you will pee.
ems, the frightful increase which has taken place between
the 17th and esd instant, the death. I am sorry to add,
are becoming daily .asre rionereus.
The y3d Regiment has suffered an much, that I have
linind it necessary- to send it home. The tith and the sot
are se extremely sickly, that they have been struck of the
list of duty. The 77th, Bath. soil some other corps, have
almost waived at the same ileffiricnt state ; and the tuclused
Copy of a letter fruits 6rimalicr-Gener4l Mont ream, will give
yea a Melaneholy acrouat of the garrison of flashing.
At the representation of the principal raeilical °Slicers, I
Uwe determined un sending 2,000 seek, lielunvog to regi-
mens ia the island, to Liighuid; thei are at present totally
litairoble .4 duty, and must remain so for mouths to come.
It M therefore nowt de,irable that they return bane,
• rillke they will base a rhanee of rer..veroix ; and their re-
moval will afford tu, better accuminoaLtion foe the aielt that
remain.
I tenet your Lordship will approve of this measore, which,
in tart, is nue of neemsity, not of choice, a. in sonic regiments
we have at airily a amfEeitssey of latently incii to art as order-
lies it. their hospitals. s.
No medical assistaine (two hospital mates excepted) has
remind um since my last, in the mean while tire number of
oar medical ollicora rs deceeasing by itakeess. 7io comforts
or wine far the sick hove arrived, the consequence of which
is, that we already begin to he in meat distress for port wine,
although I have ordered the Cumaiimary.Gt-nes al to boy up,
at an exoebitaat prier, all that be could procure. lam fur-
ther concerned to state, that we shall he .Omni ia want of
Mile, an Gentle of smell indispensable aiLerasity in the pre
va,liag disorder ; if it he the inteation to retain Walchrrrn,
I would strongly recommend the reinforcements should br
rent front England at the latter red of October, Or beginning
of November, when the troops will NM Ise so habit to feel the
dills of the endemic disease ridge island.
I have. &e. &c.
(Sigurd) EYRE COATE.
Pit 1 beg leave to transmit the inclosed copy of Intel
ligence restive.' this day from South Ileveland

(First toelgnore referred to in No. 11

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