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very mope'', beets given to pet ore boopitah, at
Devil and Kam cute, for 1500 sick• and wounded ;
this is inteaded as prec►utionary only, 130 of Cie
latter beiug the utmost number at present expected
from the Dutch coast. Advices of the surrender
of Flushing are hourly expected, but none had
arrived. at • late hour last night. Completely
inverted as the place is by sea and land,
its hill is inevitable, but it may not be so speedy as
is expected. According to private accounts, its
garrison amounts to 6000 men, including the troops
which threw themselves into it from Middleburgli,
previous to the capitulation of that city. Of these,
3000 are end to be Irish, of a hich nation the Com-
mander cf Hushing is stated to be a native. He is re-
presented as an Oilier of determined conniqe, and
reso!,, d to bold out to the la►t extremity.— A pas-
sage in theCapitulatiou of Middlebargh hay heeii re-
lied upon, at evidence to spew that it is the intention
of Gave woe to Milieu %Velveteens permanently to
the British Empire. It is the drat article, granting
security to the inhabitants •' providi:d they conduct
theniselvee its peaceable Citizens, and moron], to
melt regolatimis us will be sweatier established
by Me artilittrity of the British (iimerantent."—
We do not see any thin; extraordinary in this
artisde to Lay the foundatiou for such an inference.
If we ta♦,e the whole I-land, we certainly will not
give it up without an equivalent; and if we are
only to establish u Pioredonal Government for o
year, it is iii-cessary In secure obedience to it. As
the Island of Walcheren commands the navigation
of the Scheldt, and is an acquisition of great im-
portance to the maintenance of our naval superio-
rity, we may presume that it is the intention of
Government to regard it as an integral part of the
British Empire.

lVe have some days ago had occasion to mention
the efforts already made, mill now iliak;iig, through-
out France, in order to
discover substitutes for va-
rious prodnetions or ■rtieles, either of Insttry or of
necessity, which are no longer to he procured iu
the countries *objected to liosAi•Aarc. Cotton,
indigo, and Peruvian bark, are among the chief.
But a much more important and serious discovery,
if it can Le fully realised, and brought into gene-
ral use throughout the French end Italian pro-
vinces, under the controul of Naeot.eolt, is that
of a syrup, which may, in a considerable degree,
supersede tire waist of sugar. On this subject,
peculiarly interesting to a state-, which, like Great
Britain, possesses almost all the sugar colonies of
the new world, and which is competent to furnish
all Europe with thee' commodity, more thou one
most curious and accurate Memoir has appeared in
the Mouiteure of the month of June, fur the present
year. Mans. PAKMENTIka, a Member of the Le-
gion of Honour. and of the Institute, is their ea-
; and the grape is the fruit flout which he has,
too siie,..e.sfolly, altritiiiird to extrort a juice, or a
substance.--for it seem■ topartake of both. which, he
avers, will. in all the ordinary purposes of consump-
tion, supply and replace the produrse of the sugar.
cane. His work is halide'''. 'l' Instruction relative
to Syrups, and Conserves of Grapes, intended to
replace Sugar in the p • oars of domestic
ecoooiny." We venture to declare. that it well
merits the perusal of our Cuarecv.i.hoe of the Err
(impute, during the recess of Parliament, if hw
pious cares for the support of the Protestaist Faith
in Ireland, and his correspondence with his Right
Hem. Friend, Dr. DUIGEN AN, on that vital puint.
4:1111 allow :Mr. PERCEV•L it few moments of kismet.,
to attend to financial objects. He will theorise
what acumen, what industry, and what penitent-
once, have been applied, to vanquish the impea i.
meats, and to surmount the prejudices, which
•away* oppose themselves to uew inventions. That
detestation of the Hy pn,sessing the sove-
reignty of the cuss, or, as PARMENTiLIt terms it,
ff the odious monopoly" of the production iu gees.
Lion ; it sentintrot which the Corsican Ruler of
France has fouled cacaos to impire meting 611 ratites
of people throughout his does', ss i tt ns ; adds a Sti-
Mtlillll to the other motives deduced from economy
and necessity.
The Memoir begins by *Whig, that the tract of
land, throughout France alone, affected to the cul-
tivation of the grape, ur thus ire, amounts to about
one millimi, eight hundred thousand acre, ; a pro-
duction, lie adds. flinch, siuce the French revolu-
tion, in defiance of all discouragement, or prohi-
bitions, on the part of the floverunient, has au-
neatly increased, and occupied, from year to year,
II larger proportion of the soil. Such has been the
fircuodity of late sedulous, that the proprietors of
vineyards were oppressed under the• load of grapes
which the earth yielded ; and have L•ecu actually
compelkd to abandon, in many diarist the wine
produced, from want of casks in which to keep it.
ruder theme circumstances, the notification of a
diarovery, by which a saccharine matter might be
extracted from the grape, %Ouch would enable the
French people to submit to the renunciation of
cigar, iu all eahita►y, or common purposes of life,
*sei. received with eothu•iasai. It electrified all the
Southern provinces ; in particular those exterefing
from the mouths of the Rhone. to that of the Allow,
the Tarn. the Dordogne, and the countries at the
foot of the Pyrenees. A': the Societies of Arts,
Academies, Prefects, and !mike bodies. from
Marseilles, to Y... oonne and Perpignan. offered
prised and rewards to encourage the attempts.—
Every family made a provision of it, duriirg the last

Vintage, fbr their own private ; and
the little town of Bergerac, in as ancient Gmenne,
the wines of which canton or territory are di,tin-
guidied fir their sweetness, actually fuhricated, nr
extracted, above ,250,000 pounds weight of this
syrup, fur sale, in the Amnion of tilos. Every
!sound was veined at half-a-crown, English onus}.
If such was the effect of the first disclosure of
this secret, what may not lie expected, says Veit-
MENTIEU, from future efforts and ameliorations,
aided as the yare, and will be, by all the encourage-
mein Hurl protection of Government ? On the last
ROVOlreesary of BON *PARSE'S Coronation, sfhlell-
did entertainment wec. given by one of the NI uilieipul
Public FUSICAMottfit'S, its the South of 1-.16111WC; wlie•C
all the pastry, confeetiouery, and jellies, were wade
with the syrup, newly extracted ; and the 4Orstit
declared no less their perfect satisfactiois at the
taste sod Revisor of these delicacies, than their
astoisishinent, at boding that not a particle of sugar
hail entered into their composition. " The jug ,if
syrup," adds he, ." will Routs, we trust. supplant
the rinzar-lieson, in coot's, tea, 14till every infils:ou
of that kind. Already it is admired in 'entailed..
as well as its making gingerbread, and every spe-
cies of pastry." .
Nor will its use he limited to these articles.—
The WAR MINISTIR, its consequenco of a Report
matie to him, bi SAVARTZI, the Physician-Genend
to this French armies; who, by order of N A PO-
I. RON, lied uoJettaktui a journey fin the purpose of
ascertaining the prisetiesibility of substituting syrup
in the place of augur, in the coinpoundiug of me-
dicines; has commasided it to be iiitriaduced into
all the liovitids of Fradee anal of Italy. Above
half the runs, antecedently expended in the pur-
chase of sugar and of honey, annually, for the use
of the sick, has be,,:i already saved. The phy-
%is:ilium and atiotheearies atteuding Ilar. hospitals
have taken cure to seeowl the views of the Admi-
nistration. Various individnals, among the pros
lessors of the beatify.; art, have eveu publkhed Re-
ports upon the emits resulting from the pr,.eLtip-
tion of inediciiies in which the aytup formed AO
ingredient ; with a view to prove, and to
persuade their countrymen, that it is far mare lie-
nefiesal, balsamic, awl usucilogiennis, than die. pro-
ductiou of the sugur-ease. In all ,Menses of the
lungs, or of the chest, they affect to give it a de-
cided preference over sugar. Above all, it is pre-
tended, that, in the disorder of the hooking-cough,
it administers to infauts and children immediate
relief.

Great as these pretended benefits iar advantages
are, they assert, that, as importaat, if not more va-
luable, uses, may be derived from this discovery of
PARldirirriLa, as affecting articles of commerce and
of consumption. We shall resume and continue
the subject with our first leisure. We believe that
it will be read with universal iutelest.

The Entreprenaare cutter sailed on Sunday even-
ing, in great haste, for the Mediterranean. She cu-
rie a out a me-asenger with dispatches for Mr.
Attain and the OTTOMAN PORTE, which are of
considerable importance. We cannot speak of
their contents with absolute confidence, but
we are informed, and from a reap ectahle quar-
ter, that they relate to a propuntiou to be
made to the Porte, that this country shall be
permitteti to garrison the Greek Islinithe with Bri-
tish trooes---the present state of Europe render-
ing it iadispensterbly aseessary that we should have
these Islusids under our care and iii our keeping,
to prevent then falliug into the hands of the
French Of Husaissus, who, by treetop) lug them,
would he enabled to fit out an immense navy—
which west nut be OA any &MUNI whatece► ➢er-
nmilted.
Earl Teuet.e, who has a house on the rope-
walk, at Dover, facing the see, has bran induced,
by late elario4 attempts of the French 111114.41f1:11.,
to huve a gnatsl of artillery-ineu, with some pieces
of cannon, placed before his door, which will be
of easrutiul service should the privateers have im-
pudence enough to venture eo close in there egliti;
the situation is well adapted, 44 it is about Wilt-way
between the Pier-head and the Castle, mid calcu-
lated to do great mischief to "our enemy/should oc-
casion require.
The ship, called the Mobiles Packet, has lately
returned to Liverpool, front South America ; where
she had been seventy miles up the river, to the Port
of Para, being the first British vessrl that ever en-
tered there. 'the Commander tired a salute upon
his entering the port, which ass answered by mul-
titudes of inhabitants on the shores rejoicing ; sod
the Mehra, from the %ludo's. of the houses, waving
their halislkerchiefs, and ceche; ttt Long live
the English," &r•. &c. On the Super-cargo of the
vessel going on shore, he woe received with all the
pomp of Prince ; nuutlrrrs of women
preceded hint in grant! procesaimi, *tit/wing flowers,
and every deu aaaaa stratiou of joy was manifemed..--
lit this fertile country, cows are sold for five dollar's.
Letters from Cadiz of the 16th ult. state, that
Gan. BLANC hid socceeding in re-orgaoixing his
army. He reduced upwards of sixty officers collie
rank., and appointed nuit.cioniiiissioned officers
their stereesso:s. Its his pun lametion, issued on
the late shameful occasiou, he threatened vitt;
death every man that did lint return to the service
of his country.
Some of the CON OR.CVE rockets( thrown into
Flushing, so far excited the curiosity of the Gu-
vernor, that he has offered a reward to any person
who will bring him One of them entire, that 1w may
examine its structure, and analyse its contents.—
The scieutific Governor may perhaps catch a Tar-
tu►. iu attempting to gratify this chemical euriority.
A formal intonation has lately been giten to the
Americans st Paris, that the Government of the
(;oiled States must snout determisse to join the
French or the British in the war, 81 it would uo
longer be possible to ruaintein a neutrality between
elm two Belligereot Potters: