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itemina; not enntlet:ted with the limy or cbatterim eat lire in "mitts
ot uktry,ist the gate* of the town. tient:rat Ferrier 1 ;ducts.. Dieing the minim, we ebeered the etwm4
was *painted Connuander-in-Chief in the island; 1 several time., mid were atemielsd by the Wake'
bet ,:i Mis returned to England ill, Sir Eyre Come . which was like...be a-gromul, attil the only 1,111111
'has gone back front this place to take theta,' iiiii 41/41 i 10'151411i nor own, whose tire was worth speak.
there; with an tooderstanding, however, thot it the Mg about. Note:111).m iii hag roar being so vhsse to
further objects of the Expeditiou are to be prose- the batteries, wr bail not one killid, slat hot twelve
cured. that galling Officer is still to go on as wooed men slightly reflood. tl, tilli.eugh ilea slog ~,i,n,
titeve
' ill command with the army. . over sad round us iu eeery direction. We were.
'• It was not till Monday, the ills4t. that the head- however, twice set on tire by the red-hot shot ;
quarters of the Commander-in-Chief were removed but fortunately gut it ender immediately. We are
i trout Middleburg lo this town. If it were est for told that, had it not been for the tire of the ship.-
the morel] of all the troops Mat could be spared ping, the enemy would ma bare so mew stirrri..
from WalcherCth towards this island. it would have dered ; but our shot mode such dreeth'itl liavork,
I been natural to suspect, that the slow removal of they could hold out mu longer. lo Flushing, a
i the head-quarters was an omen of an abanduntueut regiment of Irishmen is said to have buen made
of MI ulterior objects, so tar, at least, as the army prisoners. They were iii•Co sarong before the se gs.
could be renployed for their attainment. But the but only six hundred of them have eiirs teed.—
continued tratismieiost of troops, and the Retort They were comtnended by o Mr. 011tirs, wise is
edvauce of head-quarters, left uo WOW to doubt. slightly wounded. The etate•of the town is truly
that something more would he attempted, if not . dephinible. When the' army roweled in, the
accomplished, on this aide. Before the Comm/miler- st recta were covered with -Mood sod dead hedrea.
in-Chief left Middleburg, he issued the annexed A great part of the town hes berm literally beetle
Proclamation, which waiiyesterday posted up in this to ashes, and levelled with the ground. We are
town also. This is the oily towis of any come:tot:nee now preparing for atiotlier actiou, whtelt. I thick,
upon this island. The troops are consequently quay- will Ise more severe ou our shipinag. Sir R. Sitio-
tered in the several small villages wish which this CHAN having determined to proceed to Antwerp.
island abounds. They may be all assembled in /4 where the Dutch fleet is protected by strong bat.
hours for active service; but a variety of circum- teries, which we will have to silence before it can
staticett concur iu support of the impression that en- Le approached. We intend toint up the river to.
thing farther will be attempted. LottlChethatn pro- morrow. All our frigates, guts-boats. and several
visionally removed bus Iwittl-quarters to the podtioss drips of the line, have already %tritest."
occupied lay Sir John Hope. opposite fritflett-011- ENTILACT OF • LETTRIV. FKOII AN orrice* on
Zoom, on % 'adviesday. On the same day Sir lyre NOAND MIS MAJESTY'S fillip SAN DONIINUN.
Cootecame over from Walcheren with -leer- whole • OAT*O, et.nstitsta, AUG. 19, 1809:
Staff and Suite, and peoceeded to the adratfcell• ,t The French twilit. untrehed out this moraine.
head-quarters. us was :apposed, for the purprete of We go op to-morrow to Antwerp, to attack trait
an immediate comineticeutent oh active vperntions ; French fleet there. Thee are 7 sail of the hue, ..1
but yesterday lie returned to Walcltereat. A Cum,. frigates, and about 70 nail of gum-boats and brigs.
cot of War has been held—a eircum.moce, winch They have•got a boom and chain ecros the Biter,
*hews either that some doubt as to the propriety, protected by heavy batteries,• but that will hare tie
or come difficulty as to the means, of a movement A•
v..tet ; no chain. boom, or battery, can stop a Bri-
in *drawee, exists. The influence of the climate limit line-of-bottle ship. I have been tip the Scheldt.
begins to he felt by both officers and privates. The within four miles of the French Admiral's slue,
complaint is an endemic intermittent. which, tho morveYing the • 'River, and am to take up the fleet
seldom or evcr-fabil, is still always tedious. . to-mirror, it' the wind wit scree. lam appointed
s• On the whole, wlieer the large detachment to Master-Attendant at Fleshing, and shall minim
Walt:hire's is considered—wheo thfecooseg'sent re- my place its soon ail we tome down the Scheldt, if
duction of the active army, the ;warmed difficulty it pleare God Almighty to preserve me in the Next
of further operations, from the matured and exteire bottle. The Son Domingo woe laid talongsttle of
tore preparations of the enemy, are token into re- the walls. near the harbour's uteuth • ahortiv after
view, it is most probable that tiothing_ferther will we were ii, 'Action, we got agrooaci on the flog
he a". inPtrit• Yucloolite,llY, if tiny immediate "I' Sand, but ell the time we were on shore, the whole
eance were inten led, Sir Eyre Coots, the scrond in of I 1 I 1 A i,.. I.
our .41'0041'1a aro L.s.-e -ore oo the enemy's bat-
command, who Iris hitherto cooducted till the tie- tense. It was totally impossible for the oaeinv's
tire operations of the army. would not have beets tyr,wri, to stand i., the hatter,„ against tie. We
assn hack to Weleheren yesterday with the whole
completely knocked nit be 36-pounders that Wee
of that staff and suite which accompanied bite hillier upon us, mid the last halt-hour we were nu shore.
from Waleheren, but the day before, io the expect- they did not fire a single gun at as. We had 19
ll'i°ol sst"l"teedm,..h upon immediate servicSi--e, shot in oar hull, amt aimed. site) in cur sails and
Besides. it is coatmentiv asserted here,
at r rigging, and had nut o siioe Wall killed, and only
John !lope, and other *Generals, have strongly two aauiakii.o
pi teemed against say movement iu advance, water
Hie present eireamatauces, whatever might hare
beets their opittioit of such a proceeding at an earlier -
period of the campaign. , At all events, it is noto-
ems., that il cats Aderub I r differepce of opioion pre-
vailed upon the subject iu thetosucil of War.---!
Ilittif autsacthing be not done without fiarther delay.
it is wit unlikely, that, iustead of being the attack-
iu,7, 'the British army may be die assailed party ;
as the enemy base had fall time to collect alarge
forte, and the channel between Bergen-op-Zoom
and South Beveltoul may be passed by fording.
Of the operations of the navy nothing is known
here, but from rumours which it would not be
right to communicate, tecause it is impossible to
judge what depeutleace is to be placed upon
theta. The measures resorted to by • thom hi
authority for obatructing the usual channels of
information of that description, have- 7;een so vi-
gorous. and certainly so effectual, that all ac-
ems to such intelligence has been completely
closed : otherwise. the arrtiogements made for the
.early consmuniortion of such events as may hare
taken place, were of such a nature, us to tender a
priority of intelligence certath stud infallible. No
change has taken placein the quarters ofthe troops,
since the arrival of the Coneaututler-iu.Chief. Lord
Rosalyn and Lord Paget are here: the former is ill,
hut superseded in his chief command Ly the arrival
of Lord Chatham. It is to be feared that malty
more officer" may suffer under the influence of thus
tuitions climate ; and it taay without notch tetrad
be asserts], that there are but rearm( the officers of
the army or Navy, who, though not uctually
o.e.t, are not sick etiough of the climate, 11 out of
the Expedition."

NAVAL lATELLIGENCE.

PultTY4ll3l.lTil, AUG. 2A.
Arrived the Venus, Crslrtite. Iruus Loudon,
bound to the Mavis.
Sailed La Loire frigate, an a en:in.—Wind
W. S. W.

VALMMITS, Allo..

Arrived the Troia!Ardor, Capt. Wail. keit+, flout
London, bound to Martinique, 31 data qui; the
SodfUlls, Captain Kinawav, from Lowilon for St.
Toornaa'r ; the Arabella, Citpt. Ahercromliv, front
Linden, bound to Maderia; the 4ueinei Ila-
mouarita, Ceptaitt A. G. Merida. from Lotidoil for
Cadiz ; the brig Seallarrer, to gnus, with one trans-
port tinder convoy from Plymouth fur Commas.
The Elise packet i 3 appoiuted to take out the
Mails fur Coruntia.

PICIVIIATEN. AEG. 428.
French privateeni hnve been so very numerous
in the part of the channel bounded by the Sinisen
coast, ever since the sailing of the expedition foe
ll'alcherethsthat the coasting trade has been greatly •
annoyed by them ; and as minty as twenty or up-
wards, apparently v, ry valuable merchantmen.
have been captured and taken into Frerisit ports.
These impudent lianoyances inul serious lasses
having been revreiwitted to the Admiralty. the
Board has sent a fri;Tatr, three lamps, and a cutter,
to cruise off Beachy [lead, to protect the trade,
and scour the Channel of those petty but this..
eitievots 'maraud era.

sviacariEtm, AVG. lA.
Smiled the Aerie gun-Brig. with a tteet fur
Fieligulsitd.

DIAL, AUG.

FROM THE MIDDLEBULU COURANT.

MIDDLTSURO. ♦UO.
Oo the 2lst inst. the following Prochnuatious
were published :
PROCLAMATION. .

Early this morning the Nestor, Ayred, Bettina.
thesirions, Orion, and Achille, arrived 11(,i the
Isle of Walcheren.; they are said to have pus:niers
on hoard.
The Eagle sailed for the Nore this toornin.
The outeard-liound remain.—Wind W.

" His Excellency Lord Chatham, commanding the troops
of Ilia Britasitic klejcity. being iduruied the loony &ere.
it r 4, and persons belonging t o the French troops, and
s.• thaw armed, are no the island, wrier*, that the
mentioned armed or I.lllarmr4l deserters, or other persons,
be arrested an 4 denser...lover to the Dearest English detach-
ment, and that nu one presents to buboes such desrostere,
on pain of being owntented, on conviction, to pay a penalty
of n•u itoo 0i.4, ;inic lint( of which vita•l be given to the in-
former, whose name shall be kept secret), and be utherv.ise
eerarely punished according to military law. Military de.
w•rters, and mike persona lwlougiug to the French army,
not sorrentleriog a tibia three Jaye, shalt be po.nabcd
spiel."

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nAItRIAGE
Weslorslay, at Plyrouttlis, Captsou Bayotoo, of the
of; Mid
4 goals, to Mesa Mootters.
The eiltit of July, at the tirosulful battle of Wavers, Cop-
tain Henn, Jamey. of I tic let alnico', who ts,ll. glortus,l,
assumes( the fyseasusgt is the evotiss4—a young Olfserf
of the
bighea reputilloss and esteems, beloved uotl IssuseuttAl both
La a solslise and Is CA64.

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