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WEDWEiDAY, AUGUST 23, 1809.

Yesterday Captain cor...umfiwz arrived in Town
Dispatches from Culonel AI4xwEL.I., the Com-
mandant at Qoree, announcing 1114. capture of Sene-
gal. The Garrison, which consisted of t6O Europe-
Ans, surrendered Prisoners of I•Var. We sustained
nu, loss in men upon tliis occasion, but we ate sorry
to say that the So/e4ty Frigale, in at tacking a battery,
ran aground, and 'could not be got off. The crew
akd 4tl beer stores are saved.

The Gazette of Last night contains a letter from
I,,)rd G,j.a7•xaii, dated August 20. It appears that
t Garriion of Flushing was much stsonger than his
Lordship supposed, when he sent off, his former dis,
p tithes..

The 51CC6SS which has hitherto attended our Ex-
pedition to ttie Coast of Holland, seems not only to
have vxcited the anger, but to have confused the
undur,tanilit g• 4 of the Opposition Writers. In their'
to censure Ministers they never have been
vt.:iy attentive to justice, but it Was not till- lately
that they seemed determined to set common sense
at defiance. We have heard, and we have read, of
inoznerable attacks upon Ministers upon the subjet
of Expeditions, on a great variety of grounds; that
they' were direaed to a wrong object—that the forte
etuployed was not sufficiently strong to accomplish
cbjea—that the objea itself was .not worth
the expence and the risque=that it was not
Ole o'ojca, ere. bat the pre-
-,-•tit ();)r,,ition are the iTrst who ever censured
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!rl the success of
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which must 4tpen4 in a great degree on keeping its
destination a secret, they did not unequivocally any.
nounce to the Enemy its nbjea ; or, in other words,
because they did not send off a part of the Expedi-
tion before the whole was complete. This very se,
gacious mode of proceeding would certainly have
been worthy of all the Talents—it would have risqued
the safety of that part of the Expedition which was
sent off, and have enabled the Enemy to have prepared
for the reception of that which was to follow.
,B;:t,
in order to make their accusations more exquisitely
absurd, they censure Ministers for giving time to
the enemy to remove the stores from the arsenal at
Antwerp, and then suggest a plan of operations
which would have just given them double the time.
For if, according to their plan, a part of the Expedi-
tion lad been sent to attack Flushing, during the
operations against that place, the enemy would of
course have fortified South Beveland, and a fortnight
or three weeks more would have been occupied in
reducing that island, before we could approach Lillo
and Antwerp. • There is really something uncom-
monly paradoXical in the speeches and writings of
the Opposition of late; Mr. PONSotilly found out
that we had augmented the navy of our enemies by
taking their ships—and we are now told that the most
effeaual way of accelerating our approaches to Ant-
werp, would have been to have mutiplied the obsta-
clesthat retarded our progress.

To such reasoning it would be difficult to give a
serious answer; with such opponents it is almost
impossible to be angry; we shall therefore content
ourselves with asking them, where they got their in-
formation, that all the Stores had been removed from
the Arsenal of Antwerp ?—and in challenging them to
produce one single instance of delay, either in the
equipment of the Expedition, or in its operations
since it sailed, which could justify the Paper alluded
to, in asserting -that " time had generously- been
allowed the Enemy to remove the Depat at Ant-
werp."

Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at the Fo-
reign Office.
Yesterday morning his MAJESTY and Princesses
AUGUSTA and SOPH lA, rode in Windsor Park.
PreparatiOnS are makingfor the departure of their
Royal Highnesses the Princesses AMELIA and MARY,
on.an excursion to Weymouth, tor the benefit of
their health. It is supposed they will leave Wind-
sor on Monday next.

We have received the following letter from the
Island of Walcheren, containing some interesting
information relative to the state ot Flushing, &c.
TER- VEER, AUG,. 17.—1 have returned here
from the batteries before Flushing, vdreie I had
been from the commencement of the I;oeobardinent,
at half -past. ten o'clock, P. M. on Sunday. The
town capitulated about tour o'clo k on Tues,.ay,
and the garrison cousisied of neaily Goon men. T; e
town has been most dreadtitllt
menduus file of eight or nine ships ot the line on one
side, and the laud batteries on tile nt er, have re-
duced many of the houses to ruin 3. The Silica
House, the Old Church, the Exchange; and a great
part of the quay, are levelled to the ground. The
town was on fire during Itt onighis in several places,
and would have been reduce(' to ashes, had we not,
in pity to the, ‘i retched inhabitants, sometimes sus-
pended the dreadful woik of destruction. The gar-
rison made some desperate sorties during the siege,
but they were always driven back with great loss
by our troops. Their artillery, it must, however,
be confessed, was remarkably well served, and
'most of their shot entered our embrasures. Captain
Monro had five men killed at one gun, but fortu-
nately our loss, upon the Whole, has been compa-
ratively trifling.
" I understand that Sir Home Popham has re-
ceived information, that the French fleet, which
was supposed. to have ascended the Scheldt as high
as Antwerp, is still on this side of Fort Ldlo. We
expeti to be sent immediately against Antwerp.—
We shall be conveyed by the transports,up one of
the branches of the Scheldt, and it is said that a
ford has been discovered at the
,extremity of South
Beveland, where, at low water, 50 or 60 man can
cross abreast.
The whole of this bland of Walcheren is a gar-
den. It is finely cultivated. Monnet, the French
Gevernorof Flushing, tried to counterad our oper4-! •
Lions by an inundation, but this scheme had little
circa, and scarce any injury has been dune by the
attempt. ,
" It is the opinion of the best informedwen here
that the Island can be maintained against any force
the French may employ to retake it. We have
placed the men of war in situations where the oldest
men in the Island believed there was scarce water
enough for a brig. In fast, "the whole fleet has been
navigated through the narrow channels that separate
the Islands of Zealand, in a manner which astonishes
the most expert Dutch Pilots. The transports are
stowed here in tiers as crowded as merchantmen in
the river Thames.'