The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-29 00:00:00

CAMBLIDGE, AUG. 23.

On Monday the Rev. Dr. Dampier, Lord Bishop
of this diocese, held his Primary VisitatiOn at St.
Michael's chur,.i!, in: this town. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. Mr. flaggitt, Recior O(Daton,
troth Proverbs, chap. xix. v. 1 and 2; aster w filch
his Loids.)ip defkered a Most excellent and affeetion'
ate charge to the Clergy, who afterwards, by ago'
neral invitation, dir,•ed with his Lordship ai the nose
Tavern.

The Rev. Robert Leman Pitge is institute', by the
Lord Bishop of London, to the recthry of Pantield ,
in Essex, on the presentation of 'Roger Kyilaston,•
Esq.—The Rev. James Grant Is instituted to the
rectory oT Wr4bneic, in the sante county, on the pre-
sentation of the Lord ChancellOri—Also the Bev.
Charles Fisher, to the rectory ot Tiliwryjuxta Clare,
on the presentation of W. tither, Esq. _
.Saturday the 12th, :the Rev: S. Wilson Warue'.
ford, LL: B. was inclne'ted to the valuable liYing
of Liddiatel ,Millicent, Wilts, on his own presenta'
tion.
Bishop of Chester is translated to the. See of
.Bangor, in the roost olthe late Bishop, promOted t 0
the See of London.

' Tbe Prince of= Wales has been—pleased to appoint
the Rey. Houlton Hartwell, of Now College, Os--
ford, A. M. to be one of Iris Royal Hlghness's chk-
lains in Ordinary.
The Hon. and Rev. .Mr. Agar, late.of Chtist
Church, Oxiotd, is presented to the-prebend of St.
Michati; in Dublin.
The Rev. John 'Monkhouse, M.A. Fellow of
Q teen's College, Oxford (and incumbent of the
New• Church at W,,kefteld) is presented to the Rec-
tory of Bratrthot, Hants, vacant by the dej!li of tie
Rev. jr. Hetv,on. •

The Rev. Thomas .Evaris is prei,ented to the aug-
mented Perpetual coracles of Chell.ngton and Seav•
ingtOn St.. Mary, Somerset..
The Rev. J. M. Wade, Rector of Ashcorne;ls
prteiented to the viclrage of Barnstable, -Devon.
' The Rey. Win. Beeby, M.-A. Fellow o'-aneen-'S
college, Oxt-ord, is eieried Master of Northleacb
school, in tie county of Gloucester, in the•roura.4
the Rev. John- Alen, M. A. deceased._
A Dispensation has .passed, the Great Seal, to erg
able the Rei7.3.Thomas-Shuttleworth 1
ChapliOn LaidiNt ifoo
-the rectory-of Boon-n, Northamptonshire, with the'
living of 'Ridden ham, -in the county of Bedforti•
eti
The D4-hes4 Dow.-,ger of Newcastle li.as appoint r
the Rev. Hugh Jonas, Master of the Gram"
School at Borron-Opon-Trent,, to' be; her Grace
Domestic Chaplain. .

A? te.rtevQlent Quaker, on the Western hbreeeS ()f
Nortolk, solely al hi'
own ex},,: ce, t-mrit‘'..,school ion" boys, on- t Vi`
i",
cararian hie!' lea; been attended With the
wish&d-for success: Friday se'nrtight the boullli,ic
donor incited all the pupils to dine with him at
house; '.cash carrying hii-knite, fork, and Pl3le:
the boarcrs'cniled with a• proftt.ion of excellent f0(4)...
a!,d !he comfortable brown jug was not forgotteo-
be passed to the little rosy-faced set, v'll9'.‘;
countenances rewarded the daughters of Ibe
orthy host Otho otlicitit,.ed as waiting-maidm),
they departed with Learts filled with gratitude,
tittering Ora ises of their worthy pat roil. I►.
taitiker•l•as.•longsince set a laudable ex:tipple,
_ .

di trlbuting coal 4 every winter to all the pi-wr
titAvs'in.threo ditirent parishes,

?'VdLCHEJ ;

[The following are Extratis of I.ettcrs.l

" FLUSHING,. AUG. situatioi, or the
town of noshing, when pin infd the post,essioo of
the
.British `arms', mlßritish subjects were admitted
to see it, was deplorably frightful. ScarCely a house
had escaped damage, and nearly two-thirds of the-
whole were it, a state of smoking ruins; or though
still standing, much shattered, and tottering to the
foundation. The -dead bodies had, however, beet,
removed, and consigned precipitately to their.graves.
Great nUrobers of the inhabitants suffered, perhaps
hot less in the whole than 500; and those who
escaped etere chiefly-indebted for satety -to the shel-
ter or their cellars,. or where they had none, to the
tom nuity of their neighbours' who bad. In one
Case, that. of ail English family long resident in the
town, tbe extensive vaults under their house were
- thrown open to the inhabitants, without distil-it-fon
of age or sex, of country or reliiziou ; and it is
tifyiog to .add, that of above 300 persons. who took
refuge th ere, not
.one &offered injury, thotigh the
house had been repeatedly perforated with cannon
balls, rocketS, and bnuabs. •
• " Whil:tt the tow n and i's",onfortunate inhabitants
were thus exposed to the deqtudive effects of .the
bothbardn more terriblz:han any upon record,
the tnerciLess Commandant took possession of the
vaults under the • Stadthouse, where be continued
feasting, and unaffected by the havoc and lamenta-
tions that .surrounded him on all sides,,until that great
pile becyme itself a victim to the -thanes, and
threatened to bury the cause of its destruction under
.the mass of its ruins.
When driven from this hiding hole; he is repre--
sented by sorije cif his cy.vu Officers, as having passed
from onto vault to another, until he reached th..t
der his 6wn hous::, where he was, when the it:LI/Au-
:hie des;-1161km, to which he had never before been
exposed, compelled him to. tncJuditionill surrender.
lie is justly. ail oljetn car extcratiott in • the town,
'which he has successively pillaged,.oi.pressed, and
laid in ashes ; whilst the second in command, a
.brave and generous soldier,' who fearlessly shared
the dangers of the .bombardi.tent with his comrades
and the inhabitants, is the objea of their conunon
resped andesteenr. • ,

The Offensive stench which proceeded from
..the- half smothered flames, on the first en-
trance of the, British, .added considerably. to the
afliteting impression- produced by the gight of so
ranch bavock and human, misery. But the de-
solation is not confined to the town or the pre-
sent season. The.desperate measure of opening the
Sluices, resorted -to by the French General, has laid
a Considqable portion of the island unde'r water, and
caused an extent of tnischiet, which it will he the
work at least of three years to repair. Had lire in-
undation taken pbce some months sooner, it wouid
not have been attended with the same serious con-
sequences ; but at this season, when the power of
evaporation is so small, and the quantity of autum-
nal rains sn considerable, the mischief must be
greatly aggrivizated before the interpo?ition of a dry
summer can arrest its progress. Ihe inundation
was widely spreading, throughout the British lines ;
and, if the Sluices had continued open but forty-
eight hours long,r, it -would have been impossible
to have prosecuted the operations of the siege. The
bombardment took place at tiie critical moment ;
and the unparalleled gallantry with whici; tile•uattery
was carried that connthincien the sluices, put an end
to the danger, and ensured the conquest of the

town.

"The loss of the French by the bombardment
Must have been iinmeteie ; but the time allowed be-
tween tiro kxrcution of the instrument of capitulation,
and the a6lual surrender of the fortress to the British
troops, enableti them to retrieve most of the e% l-
attices of its event. In one small hovel near the
battery on the left of the town, above 300 of their
dead repose together under a very superficial cover-
ing of stied. Any estimate of the :lumber of inhabi-
tants killed can yet be but conjectural, as the mutilated
and undiStinguishable remains or many unfortunate
vitlims are every hour taken out of the ruins, and
instantly deposited in a shell for promiscuous inter-
ment. But of all descriptions of the inhabitants, the
Burghers Suffered the most. On the morning atter
the first bombardrnenr, ninety of that class, many
of them of considerable respectability, were borne to
their graves ; and the number of their dead could
scarcely have been inferior on the second day. This
extraordinary havoc amongst that particular class,
arose from their having .been compelled previously
to the siege, by General Alonnet, to torn) themselves
into corps of city militia, for the ostensible _Purpose of
maintaining the' police of the town, but with the,
real design of putting them into a state for service
against any British force that ought be employed
against the. fortress. Accordingly, on .the first in-
vestment of the'to'wn, the corps of burghers had the ports st of honor assigned to them, on I he most exposed
they
of
the; fortifications. In this perilous' service
were compelled to remain during the whole of the
successirve bombardments, and this circumstance
is owing to the great loss that ensued among them.
At one time, when they could nu longer withstand
the trernetedous foe from the British batteries and
ships, the corps of- burghers attempted to retreat
from the 'ramparts, but were met by the French
with fixed bayonets, and, as may be welt sup-
Med, relttaantly forced to face that danger they.
sought to, avoid, in order 'to, escape the tnOre
inevitable destruction by the hands of their oppres--
sors. Th u consequence was, that they suffered most
grievously, whilst scarce a gun was discharged,
basinst the British lines or fleet that was not pointed
Y )etch. hands. Of a corps of burgher-cannottiers,
°lls:'_siinit.of 22; two only escaped, all the rest hay-
ttrg 'either killed, or dreadfolly wounded. From
e atiine part they took in the defence of the
town,
it was impossible that their condua could .be
Passed over without some notice. -The Commander
tut Chief, therefore, as soon as the British troops were
i" Pozisessiou of the town, ordered the corps of -Bur-
ghers out before him, with their arms and accoutre
dents;; but, opon'its being proved, that they had
been fineibly obliged to assist in the defence of the
town, lie directed that they, should lay down their
arms, and did not think it necessary to notice any
further their previous hostility.
" Immediately upon the fall of Flushing, arrange-
ments were made for ethe distribution of the forces ,
t roplctyed in the lines- before that town. • The ob-
vious and alarming accumulation of the enemy's
t'oops en the opposite shore 'of -Cadsand, rendered

ti tieCesiao ta teaire i much stronger garrieori 16
Flushing and the other fortresses of the bland, than
would otherwise haVe been necessary. Bernadot!e
himself was said to be in that'quarter at the. head of
11,01),1 men, with the avowed intention 0 attempt-
ing the re-conquest of Walcheren. . The French
camp became visible, and was observed to be gra-
. dually increasing, from Flushing: Id such a state
of things, and as it waS in contenaplation to secure
the possession of Middleburgh, by planting aboVe
one hundred pieces- of cannon upon its points of de-
fence, it was not at once that. all the arrangements
could have been completer, as well for adjusting the
strength and proportions of the different garrisons&
as for expediting the march 'of the remainder of the
troops from the lines to reinforce the main body of
the army in South BeVeland. A delay of some day,
coniequently succeeded; and it was not till the 20th,
or 21st, that the last of the troops had been removed
from the lines. Some of the most distinguished
battalions have been left in Walcheren. The 36th,
77th, Colonel Cochrane's corps of detachments, and
three companies of artillery, form the chief of .the
garrison of Flushing, of which fortress Gen. Pion
is Governor. The 84th, with the marines, garrison
Camvere; the 26th are at Atnetneyda, and the 71st
and 81 st form part of the garrison of Middleburg,
of which General Sontag is Governor. The whole
British force retained in the Island, including artil-
lery, cavalry, and other corps, the 23d and 63d;
not already specified, is- estimated at nine or ten
thousand men ; so that if, in the absence of the
main body of the army, the French should make
any attempt upon the bland, they -will not fail to I
meet a warm reception and a brave resistance.—
Bernadotte is represented as collecting some hun- i
dreds of gqii-boots train Boulogne, &c. througit. the-
ta lal, a .lie interior, with a view-to some offensive
operation. • . '

•
The centineli are doubled every night; none of
the -inhabitants are allowed on the . ramparts ; no
vessel, even -British, is permitted to enter or leaVe
.the harbour without a passport ; and the stt iciest re-
gulations are enforced with respect to the entrance or
departure of all persons, not connected with the
army' or the navy, 'at the gates of the town.: Gene-'.
rd. Fraser was appointed Commander in Chief in
the Island ; but as he is returned to England ill,
Sir •E)re Come has gone .back from this place to
take the command there, with an understanding,
however, that if the further objects of the Expedi-
tion are to be prosecu►ed, that gallant Officer is still
to go on us second iu command with the army."