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PRICE SIXPIRCI-lIRLPPR*IIt.

What is the date of the Litter instruction think tiw
eith of July ; I received it in duplicate.
Have you got the duplicate !--I have it, bnt not with ms ;
I have a copy, which I can fornrah ; but the origival I can

get in the curse of to-morrnw.
By shuin were these instruct,
Strnehnn.

[Captain Owes read, and then delivered in, the Instruction
retested to, viz 1
" (Copy-10.)—.(Most secret.)
" Amethyst, in Downs atith Inly' 1809-
" Std—As the enemy has lamed his ieet to flasitisam
have abandoned the idea of ranking a-dreeent on the S W.
side of %Valetta to ; I have determintil to tie it from the an-

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ebonize of Stuue Prep and 11813,0'1in, tower& flee cuast be.
been Sconce Yowl and the towu of Cum Veers.
In eunsequruce of this determinative, the enemy way,
in the Crst inflame, detach his flotilla towards Cudeauk!

You will, thenrfiite;being apprised of this, use your eau
erel ism about lsodisig; 1 abeam, if a great boast appo.ittots w 1
°Mired, aud that you sod the Marquis of llustley thick it
ruaolua ton couch risi to laud, you are not to du it till •
contriueid and safe oppui loud, should offer ; keeping it 64
Wroi is yttsr reralketiva, that u is of t►e greatest 'rapines
*ace to uhtuu pooreasioe of Coriorod, when it can be 40.41
*wow that risk to whirls 1 hats ottodeti.,
" 1 ream* Sir, he. &C. dit. •
"Copt Owes, Clyde* " A. J. StRACHAN."

I will net pledge myself exactly IS the date, ror one came
witliect a dam and may bare tilled it up with 'lie date
tt when I reeee.l it ; ore came late in the evening GI the eta,
and the otber early in the usernii,g of the e7lh.
Relate what yea did iu conseqiienee of those instrortiona,
ss far as relate,. to the operation against Cielsanti.—My ori-
ginal institution lout been communicated to Lord Ilautlep
un Obi. moment (lull I received it ; the second was emisnia.
pirated n hen his Lordship embarked on the everting of the
27th. lly Lord Ileutky ala-i chewed we his tuatructiures,
soda question inure es to the number of en that could be
lauded; Lord Ilentley's instructions supposed that I had
the =taboo( tainting 4,1.10 own at *se opei maim ; 1 had mot
the means fur that number; the needier fur the men of
war was 615, at the rate that we relrelated tlw hurts to carry

but from some other means which I discovered, that
member was carried to 700); the traosporte boats, if the
weather had been fit fur them to act, wood have doubled
that number, My Lord liuntlisy was auseisas *cc the

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Commander iv-file( of the erm-y, or General froworiegs
the Adjutant•Genri al, to have thios orders imolai C.l; and
an early as the tide served ou the crania:kg of the Oath,
furnished bus with a react to go to the Commander-tn.
Chief. It will be accessary to sAy, I had been detached a
day or two before, and lay at au iraclutrage out nediately
la the Downs. ied Hontley, I understood, joim it the Ve.
aerobic, where the CCinSiaissltr-:11-Chief was, Just as she was
getting coder way, and was directed to follow her through
the Gull Stream, aril that she %timid heave to obeli she um
clear of the Narrows; she passed um where I was ',mg, fol-
lowing the Yen-table, but the anther was dims very foggy ;
I bore that orders mast ha ea their was to sae to get sailer
way, and I had great fiat of halo' the vessel that Lord theut ley
sae in, and that the trmips would be left sithout their t:ene.
ral, I therefore recalled bur. I reeei,ed my orders eery short
ly aft...wards to weigh soil pi ..ceed with the division; we
am :toned that night all ritaid.riihurg, iu a fair posito.o for
proceidistg to Citilsand in them ruing ; whilst the squAdrus
was getting unitssi way in the tamping fix that parte aie, I
had oval. a Courinsallun with Lor4 Illautley On the subjeet
of the 4,tion torn that trete expected to be lauded, sad tiko.
wive upon the cautionary order ; his Lordship sisheit to ace
the Generals of the division stoke him, Generale Layot and
Ifestrio...r, and they bombe so losivis, in ammensease sif Lard
Ifsetleylituatiocines and my order to nos discretion, it was
detcrtutued that the traltalleann should anchor low jovni is
the chasm!, whilst I promedelfortlier up, tut , a almassest
front which I conlil notice whet pouted either sa the cheerio&
I occupied, or the miter entratg.-e to fiasiiiiig, called the
Vuerloo ; say rsissaa for talcum *list position, was, that I
was given to isoutrrotanil toy Lid Gai.liier, with • squadron
of battle ships, then ['three Flushing, was to eau-operat•
wills toe, and to foram me through the damsel by which
catered; I obscured that his Liodship's tomastros was sod
in • vilnation to fielow me through that chsuisid, and that,
ti I had co-uperstiim Ave it, it could be by the clot/wee' of
the I.ho duo. 'llse ipih, theft that I catered, the channel,
u Ws, a too strong A,. bunts LID land, there was too merit serf
tattoo the beach ; disposition win made fur Mediae on the
tootling of the molt, at dawn of day. It efts nsistodi dto
late the last pail atf the dub tide tioshore, sad W Arco at low
water, slakb was Wilburn nine and ten o'clock ; bet- a nu. s-
tave arose as to the number amen tbit I could actually put
Aro slime. It blew than too strong for the trausiport hods
to act. The swims of the mew of war, were, as I ease be-
fore limited to-seven hundred, and my ord Huotley did woe
with thy instructiou that he hAd, that he ought to
risk the landing with tan small a force, especially, as I could
nut insure the boats seterming with a second evader of meta
under an hoar; & think that it sushi have been considerably
inure ; I stated an hour at the'time. Os the Moine of the
29th, I had a ktter from Ste Richard hirechati. sod I ria.
turned an answer, premiss apse bias, that ins Lord Iluorey
experts.' • greater Imre to land awe I had the moans of
putting on Aunt. Onthc eversiag of the 3iith, 1 had &maker
letter from Sir Pilchard attached, deairiog sic luw..cal use
operations upon that side, unfit we had better help ; my Lard
Guiltier's sqesdrou was at that time at the elitism:sof this
Doerltio. t.hi the ounraieg of the 3151, 31101hcf.11110501114601111
was made for hustling, and sneers were taker fur roaring
the if 3111.1101111 with (WO regiments, us abuse, to facilitate the
operation; but the enemy were them in coesicerabie Garret
and it ass still judged better to wait for the assistadec
Lard Gardwer's h oils ; I therefore Pest a letter to his Lord.
ship, i ifurining how that it was fur his heals thee we waited;
and, in return, its Lordship sent se• an extract from kis is.
afflictions, in which it ',mod, he was orders-0 to remain
whrre he was ; the etrarhaiirt drew from that order was,
that it was inteoded we should proceed further ; sod au ar-
rautement was made for that purpose.
Its. you know what prevented Lord Oarelner'sersopereting
with you in the dist instauce, as was intruded'—From she
adamant the skips were is warn I came off IlisitkeAburg. it
was rkse they could ant it Iv the Weida Chabbillf U Uses
Mew tiro hors, awl tiny welt to the leeward.
You state tlie I'.. 'iii to tillSe urea, the next day, is west-
denthk torte is taulsand ; cam yen bona any idea of what
amount of force 3ets could distinguish'—Abort aeon os the
itotb, a signal was made to tor, that the cueing were twing-
ing dewy tielthiderrs • aud, on the earning of the both, an-
otbtir si;o d was made to me for sword troops, is a situ, tram
where they could lee cusuo)e Iby gain vessels. I west imam -
diately,to the ship a Inch mails the signal, hat the 'oldies,
were then mot to be sees; they had takes peel hilasod the
sand-lulls and iu a battery, on tour Rusk of the beech wher•
we intended to land the report art the Meters of that ship,
made them it or holism, Monitord that bad bees area ; we saw
ns n wising in smell petit, Of so and too on the full.. ing
bit we could form no judgment of the whole force spot
the Island.
OMANI, that yea then invazised yea were minded for
a farther destlnat toe ; who. fors her demosauen dad you ea.
derstaied to be 'mended concluded I. pass iota the
Scheldt, arid too the itd of itagart I did reef ire aim order to till
trail, to pose in ....Jr.. cover •ifilir line of bottle ships, which
Sir Richard attaches nil erased me tt was his hitcciou to
lead in.
Have the rooters* to stile what woos your satosteshatat
upriaitionii +—Th.! letter I hare alluded to, of the an of Ao•
gust, dinned me to prncerd as near to flushing as I regatta,
esposieg the trail ipOrts to rhik from the eneuir'a tie,
11,1 endeavor rto eat .41tilV COUll4lllllllClition het ren Cad-
sand and Flashing. I piolud forward smut of Ike • onsets
that 'ilea night, hat I any ton lass fur the whole dais t'D
woo-, sod a...tut-Moms sere likes ise seat fv. the same put-
pale , vii the .3J. the whole irivritti3 above! as bra( Is they