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4tan.sYntrtryaUrs. sobtuuistotput, 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 too 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 feorliticatious. lu this periloue
servier, they were compelled to ma'am during the
• whole of mite two towee,siye teimbnolimms, and 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 the 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-

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