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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBORO U G H-S TREE 7'.

A young man, named Gould Knight, recently
discharged from D Division, New Police, was
brought before Mr. DYER and Mr. CONANT on the
following account :—Some days ago a charge ap-
peared on the night list against a young man, named
David Thomas, who was represented by the pr►-
soner as having taken some indecent liberties with
him, but he did not come forward to support the
charge on the next morning. The accused party
having strongly denied the charge, Mr. Conant di-
rected that the person who made it should be found,
ai.d a warrant having been issued, he was taken into
custody as soon as he was met with.

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David Thomas on the night he was given into
custody was standing at a coffee-stall, near the
Quadrant, taking a cup of coffee, when the prisoner,
who was also there, struck him two or three times,
without any provocation, upon which he called a
policeman, and gave him into custody. When taken
to the Vine-street station-house, the prisoner re-
torted upon him, by stating that he had struck him
because he had taken indecent liberties with him.
The acting Inspector, Drewin, immediately allowed
the latter charge to supersede the former; and in
place of detaining both parties locked up Thomas,
and allowed the prisoner to leave the station-house.
Mr. CONANT having called upon Knight for his
defence, he said that he had struck the complainant
for the reason he had before mentioned.

Mr. CONANT-But why did you get out of the
way the next morning. Prisoner—Your Worship,
the reason was, that 1 went from the station-house
in company with two of the C division policemen to
a public-house, arid there got so drunk that I en-
tirely forgot my charge the next morning. Besides,
one of the policemen who took me into custody can
prove that the complainant admitted be had pro-
voked me to strike him for his indecent conduct.
Mr. CONANT instantly ordered the policeman to
be sent for, and on his arrival questioned him as to
this fact.

The policeman denied that any such admission
had been made, and also in the strongest manner
delared that he had never drank with the prisoner
in his life.

Mr. CONANT felt it was due to the complainant,
against whom a serious charge had been made, to
afford him the fullest opportunity of meeting and
disproving it. He was bound to say, that the evi-
dence completely cleared his character, and he
should therefore entertain his complaint of assault,
and considering it to be proved, directed the pri-
soner to find bail.

The complainant inquired of Mr. Conant if it
was competent for acting inspectors, when a charge
was brought to the station-house, to lock up the
complaining party, and to enlarge the offender, pro-
vided the latter chose to prefer what might after-
wards turn out to be a frivolous and groundless
accusation ?

Mr. CONANT said that question was for the Corn-
missioners of new police to decide, and therefore he
must refer the applicant to that quarter for satis-
faction.

LIVERPOOL CORN"EXCHANGE.—Jan. 1.
SWEAT, English, White, per 701 b.
Red
----- Scotch, Welch, and Manx
- Irish, White 7 4 7 6
-- Red 7 1 7 3
Foreign 8 6 8 10
OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 5 2 9
Irish
Foreign 2 2 2 4,
BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 34 0 38 0
Scotch and Irish, per 601bs.
Feeding 3 10 4 0
BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 38 0
Irish, &e. '32 0 31 0
--- Foreign
PECABE, Engnisn, per Imperial qua 44 0 al 0
42 44 0
- Foreign
FLUun, English, per 4COlb. .. 43 0 46 0
- Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b5. ...... ." 22 6 23 6
INDIAN CORN, per 4401 h.
RYE, per Imperial quarter
MALT, per Imperial quarter
IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Dec. 31.
Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. !Oatmeal.
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 1 IForeign, Brls.lrish,&c. Scks.l Loads.
5,272 515 2,645 0 4,245 I 2,317

DR. PALEY.—Dr. PA LEY was in high
spirits when he was presented with his first presentment in
the Church. He attended st a visitation dinner just after
the event, and during the entertainment called out jo-
cosely, " Waiter, shut down that window at the back of
my chair, and open another behind some curate."

LIFE IN IRELAND.—Your stupid English-
man retires to bed after his daily labour is ended—your
livelier Milesian then only lays himself out for pleasure,
and betakes himself to shoot at a Justice of the Peace, or,
still better, amuse himself with a too-row among the
Peelers. Do you go cut to dinner—calculate on being
fired at when returning. Do you require a physician—
the odds are, that the honest doctor is qualified for a pa-
tient himself before he leaves your lawn. Do you delight
in hunting—•you will find the monotonous period of wait-
ing at the cover side agreeably diversified by the occasional
whistle of a musket-bullet from some ambushed Rockite;
and if you venture to send a horse out to exercise, your
groom returns solos, to acquaint you that the quadruped is
no more, and that the gentleman who despatched him
sent you Ins regrets that he was so unlucky as to miss
yourself, but by the Blessed Lady—for they are a pious
and religious race—he hoped to be more successlul on
a future opportunity. Are you fond of a quadrille—as-
certain, before you attempt your first chassez, that the
ball•rootn windows are bricked up, and a guard of honour
rationed at the door. Are you, unfortunately, a parson--
insure your life to the uttermost farthing you can raise,
arrange your affairs, perfect your will, and, if you be cu-
rious in posthumous renown, prepare your epitaph ; then
demand one-thirtieth of your tithes—you are a dead man
to a moral, and your heirs, eicercutor., and assigns, secure
of opulence within a fortnight,— Wild Sports of the West.

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Joseph Walwyn Shepherd, late of Romford, Es_
sex, applied on his petition to the Court to be dis-
charged.

The insolvent is a Lieutenant in the navy on half
pay ; he was supporterl by Mr. WOODROFFE. A
person on the part of a Mr. Chippendale applied to
the Commissioners to aportion a part of his half-
pay, which amounts to about 100/. a year, for the
liquidation of his debts. It appeared that he has a
wife and two children, and that ais family is likely
to be shortly increased by the birth of another
child.

Under these circumstances, the Court ordered
101. a-year to be set aside for the creditors, and the
insolvent to be discharged.
Rachel Simes was opposed by Mr. WOODROFFE
for the executor of a Mr. Clarke and for Mrs.
Weeks; she was supported by Messrs. CooKE and
C. JONES.

The insolvent, who had been married to the bro-
ther of Mrs. Weeks, and whose husband is now
dead, had been in possession of a farm which she, in
co-partnership with Mr. Weeks, who is also dead,
rented of Lord Ashburnham, in Sussex. After the
death of Mr. Weeks the insolvent, by agreement
with his representatives, carried on the farm, but
never rendered any account of the profits to the par-
ties interested, nor paid them a single shilling. The
claim of the representatives of Mr. Weeks was
452/. The insolvent had sold the stock to a Mr.
Dawes, and it was asserted that her sister was
about to be married to that person.
The COURT adjourned the case for the production
of Mr. Dawes, and satisfactory evidence of the debt
of the father.

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of Billin agate on each other, the prisonerj°
pounced'ort-her rival, and knocked her down, ant
while she lay oristhe ground danced a hornpipe oti./
her stomach, sad, to use complainant's own mr,,,,d0,
" left not a breath of air in her body." As`
she recovered her legs, Creed laid hqd,cif‘ 4ntler-
son's hair, and dragged her about the robta‘nntil she
bad hut little hair left upon her head. Anderson,
to release herself, seized the other's arse with her
teeth, and made them meet in her flesh. She then
scratched her face until it appeared like scored pork,
and during the struggle inserted her teeth in Creed'.
right ear, and continued shaking her as a terrier
would a cur, until she was pulled away, but she
contrived to bite the under part of the other's ear
off, and one of the witnesses declared his belief
that the prisoner had swallowed the piece of flesh.
The complainant, whose head was bandaged with
a large handkerchief, uncovered it and displayed the
mutilated ear.
An old man, named Charles Shepherd, said the
ladies fought like tigresses, and when he interfered
he " got a lick in the chops."
Mr. 13a0DERIP—Who gave you that lick, old
man ? Shepherd—Should like to know.—(Laugh.
ter.) The complainant was doubled up under the
clock, and terribly slaughtered.
Mr. BRODERIP—Then they both had a good
fight of it ? Shepherd--Indeed they did, and I can't
say who had the worst of it.

The prisoner said that Mrs. Creed had seduced
the affections of her husband, and boasted that he
loved her best.

Mr. BRODERIP, after a long investigation, during
which it appeared the charge of trim. con, was too
well founded, ordered the defendant to pay a fine of
ss. to the King, and all the costs.
The defendant no sooner heard the sentence,
than she exclaimed, " I'll serve her out when I
catch her ten times worse, and bite off her other
ear."

Mr. BRODERIP immediately called her back, and
ordered her to find bail to keep the peace for six
months.--In default she was committed to prison.

HATTON-GARDEN.
Yesterday, Jane Beer, a prepossessing little girl,
10 years of age, was brought from the station-house,
charged with having thrown herself into the New
River, with intent to drown herself. It appeared
that on Wednesday night last, about half-past nine
o'clock, a crowd of persons assembled round the
New River, adjacent to Sadler's Wells Theatre, in
consequence of something struggling in the water
which resembled a human form. Henry Hastings,
a youth, residing at No. 9, Swinton-street, Gray's-
inn-lane, who is an excellent swimmer, plunged in
and brought out the prisoner iu his arms, she being
quite exhausted. Mr. Whipple, a neighbouring
surgeon, was procured, and being restored, and her
apparel changed, she was taken to the station-
house by constable 3, G division. On being ques-
tioned, she said that an old gentleman had enticed
her to walk with him, and under a promise to take
her to the play, and give her some money, she
went with him to the theatre, from which he took
her to the side of the New River, and threw her
in. Her friends were traced to Margaret-street,
Spafields, and her mother stated that she was seat
home with some work on Wednesday evening, and
was to receive some money, which not being paid,
she drew a shilling on account, and did not return
home all night. She was not habituated to stay
away from home, and her family were greatly
alarmed. Her mother never contemplated that one
so young would ever make an attempt upon her life.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON said it was a lamentable
thing for a child to make such an attempt, and
advised the parents to keep a strict watch after her.
The mother promised to do so. She supposed that
the girl was afraid to return home in consequence
of the lateness of the hour and spending the money.
The girl cried very much, and was taken away by
her friends.

UNION-HALL.:
Yesterday, James Hough ; a respectable-looking
man, who described himself the master of a trading
vessel, was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS, charged
with uttering forged notes.
The prisoner was committed for trial to the
sizes.

TOWN-HALL.
Yesterday, Margarft hear, and Mary Loader,
two good-looking young womt:!, were placed at the
bar, charged with inserting a narcotic, IN EOMe other
ingredient, in some gin, afterwards administered to
James Rickwood, whom they subsequently robbed.
James Rick wood on Wednesday evening, met
the prisoner Dear, and at her invitation went to her
house in Flint-street, w the Dover-road; the pri-
soner Loader joined; they all had some gin. Wit-
ness, after he had drank it, felt a nauseous taste in
his mouth, and shortly afterwards fell into a sound
sleep, in which state he remained a considerable time,
and on awak►ng discovered he had been robbed of
two sovereigns and some silver; on recovering from
his stupor, he went in pursuit of the prisoners, and
met them in the Borough-road, and questioned them
as to their infamous conduc., in first giving him a
sleeping potion, from which he was then suffering,
and then robbing him of his money, &c. This the
prisoners denied, and on a police constable coming
up, he gave them into custody.
Police constable 81, division 1%!., stated that he
took the prisoners into custody, and questioned them.
They both denied having any money, or any thing
else belonging to the prosecutor. Witness, on ar-
riving at the station-house, searched them, and
found on the prisoner Dear some silver, a knife, and
other things, which the prosecutor identified. On
more minutely searching Dear, he found in her right
shoe a sovereign. On the prisoner Loader neither
money nor any thing else was found that would im-
plicate her.

The ALDERMAN called upon the prisoners for
,heir defence.

Dear declared the property found upon her was
her own. The prisoner Loader declared her inno-

There being no evidence to criminate Loader,
she was discharged, and the prisoner Dear stood
committed for trial, but to be brought up again on
Saturday next.

At a public meeting of the subscribers to
Lloyd's, held on Wednesday, the grant of 1051. to the
Arctic expedition in search of Captain Ross was con-
firmed. The grant of 2001. to the Lloyd's Benevolent
Society was carried, but subsequently the vote to try the
question by ballot this day month was carried. The meet-
ing then adjourned, leaving the question of admitting the
public Insurance Companies to the information of the esta-
blishment, on the payment of a sum of money, or to be
entirely excluded, for public discussion on this day week.
After voting thanks to Alderman THOMPSON, the chair.
man, the meeting adjourned.
A correspondent says :—" I was one day at
Brocklesby, in Lincolnshire, the seat of Lord YARBOROUGH,
and what was my surprise to see borne in to the banquet-
ing-ball a baron of beef, so enormous that it required the
aid of two men to carry it to one of the sideboards. Its
weight, I learnt, was actually thirty-two stene, and it
occupied a day and night in cooking, which was superin.
intended by two sons of the anvil, 1. e. blacksmiths."
THE BUCCANEER.—" There is a great deal
of beauty, and a great deal of talent in the composition
of this work : and as to the historical part of it, we must
say for a poetical view of CROMWELL, the best is here
taken of that extraordinary man, yet given in fiction, by
no means excepting Woodstock.' Hugh Dalton' and
Isis vessel the Fire-fly, are conspicuous objects in the
' Buccaneer;' but great as is their importance, it fades
altogether before the mysterious personage—the true here
of the novel—who is found here, there, and every
where, in public and in secret, swaying every body to his
own purposes, knowing the thoughts of others by intui-
tion, and invariably appearing in she most unlikely !pots
possible, but always apropos to some of his own designs.
This extraordinary being—spy, courier, soldier, nay, bravo
and brave—is neither more nor less than the Protector
himself. There is something masterly in Dire. HALL'S con-
ceptions, indicative of a very superior mind."—Spectator.
At the Surrey Sessions yesterday, Benjamin
Jordan, a stout young fellow, was charged with commit-
ring a violent assault on JOHN CaocKIT, shopman to a
tradesman in Southwark. The defendant Was found
Guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoued for the space of
si4 Month* its the county gaol,

SIEGE OF ANTWERP.

REPORTS of GENERAL CHASSE to the DIREC.

TOR-GENERAL of WAR at the HAGUE.

HEAD.QUARTERS, CITADEL OF ANTWERP, DEC. 10.

In continuation of my report of the 3d inst., I
have the honour to inform your Excellency, that at
half-past 4 o'clock on the morning of the 4th, the
enemy commenced a violent fire of Tirailleurs against
the bastion No. 3, and Fort Kiel, and that during
the night he contiued the works with vigour; our
fire, nevertheless, prevented his making much
progress.
At 11 o'clock in the morning the enemy opened
a fire from seven batteries, and although it made
considerable ravages, it did not occasion the slightest
disorder amongst our troops, and our artillery re-
plied with the greatest ardour, which caused much
mischief to the enemy. At night-fall the firing be-
gan to slacken.
Our loss this day consisted of one killed and seven
wounded.

DECEMBER 5.

The fire on both sides having continued during the
night, the enemy, about seven o'clock in the morn-
ing, played fourteen hatteries.with so much fury that
none of us ever witnessed anything like it ; the firing
continued with this violence the whole day, and we
returned it in the same manner. Considering the
number of pieces opened upon us, the loss we sus-
tained was not very considerable. The buildings
suffered much. A bomb, having penetrated into the
place occupied by two companies of the flank batta-
lion of the 9th Afdeeling Infantry, wounded Cap-
tain Schouten and First Lieutenant Kerkhoff, as
well as several soldiers, but not one of them mor-
tally.
A sortie attempted at eleven at night was disco.
vered by the enemy too soon, and had no result.

DECEMBER 6.

At break of day the fire of the enemy commenced
with the same violence as yesterday ; and we soon
perceived from the result that the enemy employed
against us pieces of new invention called paixlzans,
the force of which nothing can resist,. and which
cause great havoc to the buildings and defences. At
four in the afternoon the grand magazine of provi-
sions was set on fire by this sort of projectiles, and
reduced completely to ashes. The First Lieutenant
of Artillery Count de Limburg-Stirum was so se-
verely wounded there that he was obliged to un-
dergo amputation of the leg—an operation to which
the Adjutant Sub-officer of Artillery, Roger, was
likewise obliged to submit, who was wounded in
bringing some palisades.
Several places which are bomb-proof were, how-
ever, pierced to-day, which, nevertheless, it so hap-
pened, occasioned no great mischief.
The bomb-proof hospital was likewise penetrated
by a projectile a la Paixhans, which cost the lives
of three soldiers.

At 11 at night, a similar projectile fell on the
powder-magazine of the bastion No. 2, and caused it
to blow ttp; without, however, occasioning any
other damage than knocking down an IS-pounder,
and rendering it unserviceable.
Having directed our Tirailleurs to occupy the
covered way on the left of the ravelin of the Porte
de Secours, in order to annoy the enemy in the
trenches, we obtained from this the best results; the
labourers of the enemy were hereby greatly re-
tarded, and he sustained considerable annoyance.
Lieutenant Van Burn, of the 10th Afdeeling In-
fantry, was mortally wounded on this occasion.
The firing continued throughout the day; as on
the sth, it slackened towards evening, and during
the whole night it recommenced at intervals.

DECEMBER 7.
At seven o'clock the fire commenced in the same
manner as yesterday. The enemy advanced in front
of the bastion No. 2, as far as the crown of the
glacis, before the counter-guard ; our Tira:lleurs di-
rected a continual fire upon this point. Our artillery
acted with unexampled courage and coolness, and
caused the enemy con-iderable loss.
At eleven o'clock I directed a howitzer and 13
small mortars to play from the bastion No. 2, in the
covered way, in front of the counter-guard ; by the
effect of this fire the enemy was forced, probably
after experiencing great loss, to cease his works
that side.
The embattled wall in the rite of the Lunette
St. Laurent was batt'cieti—iti breach by the enemy;
we worked tonerintrenchment behind this wall.
Pia three in the afternoon a bomb a la Paixhans
,- penetrated the defences of the laboratory ; it set fire
to the filled projectiles deposited there, and caused
the greatest havock ; the serjeant-major of artificers
and two artillerymen were killed, and one mortally
wounded.
The enemy worked the whole night, harassed in-
cessantly by our Tirailleurs and the bombs, so that
he was able to make but little progress.

DECEMBER 8.

The firing commenced on both sides, as yesterday,
at 7 o'clock. At 12 a fire broke out in the great
barrack ; the attempts to extingui.h it were fruitless,
consequently this building, which was already
riddled with bombs and balls, was wholly reduced
to ashes.

The enemy is received in his approaches by a
continual fire, and has been repeatedly forced to
cease working : it appears to occasion him great
loss. Several of his pieces are dismounted by our
artillei y.
The guard in the covered way is continually ex-
changing shots with the enemy.
The enemy's fire has been less violent than on
the sth and Gth, but it is equal to yesterday's. All
the buildings, except the great magazine, are com-
pletely riddled by the prjectiles, or already con-
verted into rubbish. The bombs ala Paixhans
create great destruction. Experience shows that
nothing can resist them: they pierce the strongest
defences at the first blow.

All the means in my power ate continually em-
ployed to retard the approaches of the enemy.
The approaches which the enemy at first directed
principally against the Lunette St. Laurent he now
confines to a trench before the saliant angle of that
foe t, ssMois L. hs prnlonged in the covered way in
both branches, between the third and fourth tra-
verses. However, our vertical fire from the lunette,
the direct tire from fort Kiel and the citadel, as
well as frequent little sorties, appear to have forced
him to renounce the undertaking, so that at present
his attack seems confined solely to the bastion No.
2. He has debouched from the second parallel near
this bastion by a zig-zag in the covered way, before
the counter-guard of the Esplanade, which extends
nearly to the place d'arines in the retiring angle on
the left, whilst along and at the foot of the glacis
of the Lunette St. Laurent another communication,
also in full sap, is likewise directed against the sa-
liant place d'arines.
The enemy has completed some embrasures on
the left flank of the counter-guard of the Esplanade,
to support the attack against fort St. Laurent, and
to open a breaching battery against that lunette;
but taken in reverse by the right face and the flank
of the bastion No. 1, he could not remain there, and
the works which had been raised there were de-
stroyed by the excellent direction of our artillery.
The effect of our mortars of forts 1 and 2 seems
also to render a stay in the Lunette Montebello ex-
tremely difficult.
Our loss from the 30th of November to yesterday
inclusive, amounts to 25 soldiers killed, 5 officers,
and 62 sub-officers and soldiers, wounded, and 3
wounded and made prisoners.

DECEMBER 9.

The enemy is still greatly obstructed i►► his works
by our well•directed file, which occasions much loss
in killed and wounded.
The firing, which recommenced this morning with
more violence, continued through the whole day.
Our losses today are very serious; the buildings
are tumbling down on all sides ; the works of they
enemy are attacked with the best results.
DECEMBER 10.

During the past night the fire of the enemy has
been briker than during the preceding nights, and
At 7 o'clock it recommenced with great fury. It

vanulfi appear that the enemy had received a Fresh
supply of ammunition. The bomb-proof cook-
rooms began to give way ; they were no longer of
any use. Generally speaking, no kind of defence
can resist such a fire.

I think myself fortunate in having been able to
manage matters so that, in present circumstances,
the city has hitherto been able to remain neuter ;
for otherwise the flotilla before Antwerp, as well as
the Tete de Flandres, would have been long ago
destroyed on the side of the city, by the superior
force of the enemy's artillery. I have availed my-
self also of this to convey to the Tete de Flandres
all the wounded in a condition to be removed, since
I find it impossible to afford a safe asylum to these
unfortunate men, all places tottering under the fu-
rious fire of the enemy, who, by a brutal abuse of
his gigantic means to destroy the citadel, wishes to
attaln an object which otherwise would have cost
him too much time, labour, and blood.

The places bomb-proof no longer afford security
for persons not employed; all who are not under
arms press towards the posterns, the communica-
tions, and galleries, which occasions much obstruc-
tion to the artillery and to the passage of pieces and
ammunition. The garrison is nevertheless full of
courage, and its disposition in general is excellent.
The conduct of the artillery especially is above
eulogy. This arm does wonders.
From the beginning of the bombardment, from
eight to ten pieces of cannon and 15 carriages have
been rendered unserviceable; there yet remain but
few spare carriages disposable.
I have further the honour to inform your Excel-
lency, that Colonel de Gumoens, of the Siaff, and
Captain of Artillery Van Roppart, arrived here safe
and well on the night of the 4th and sth, at one
o'clock ; their journey was attended with very great
danger. The arrival of the Colonel, in particular, has
caused me the liveliest satisfaction.

I take the liberty to entreat of your Excellency
that this report, which has been drawn up in the
greatest haste, may not be made public, so far as re-
spects the disasters we have suffered.

Baron CIIA SSE.
The General of Infantry, Commandant-in-Chief of
the Citadel and of the naval force of his Majesty
in the Scheldt, and before Antwerp.

HEAD-QUARTERS, CITADEL OF ANTWERP, DEC. 1%

6 O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING.

My report of the 10th of this month was carried
up to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. In continuation
of that report, I have the honour to inform your
Excellency, that at half-past 5 o'clock in the same
afternoon I directed a sortie to be made against the
enemy's works, which was executed with the best
effect by 60 men of the 10th Afdeeling Infantry,
under the command of Captain Morre, and a de-
tachment of miners and artificers, commanded by
First Lieutenant Camerling, of the miners. Up-
wards of 20 ells of the enemy's sapping were de-
stroyed, and six portable mortars were either sunk
or otherwise rendered unserviceable. In this sortie
Second Lieutenant Nantzig was killed; Captain
Morre received a severe wound, from the effects of
which he died ; one corporal and seven privates
were slightly wounded, and one miner taken prisoner.
On the same day, Caset, a native of Lillo, of
the 9th Afdeeling Infantry, and belonging to the
flank company, who was upon guard at the burnt
arsenal, passed over with his arms to the enemy.

DECEMBER 11.

The enemy's fire, as well as our own, has con-
tinued throughout the night. There has not been
a moment's cessation of the firing of the cannon.
In the morning an opening is discovered to have
been made by the enemy near the dam before the
curtain 1-11, by the discharge of shot from a low
battery, probably made for the purpose, near the
Lunette Montebello. The fosses are, consequently,
left entirely dry at every ebb.
The enemy's fire has continued all the day without
intermission.
A bomb has blown down the entrance of the
powder-magazine in the bastion No. 1., but the fire
was prevented communicating with ammun!tion -by
the presence 9f tnind of one of our gunners.
The riiidt under the grand barracks, which was
!Psxed upon as being perfectly bomb-proof, has
been destroyed by the bombs, as also the vault under
another barrack; so that there now only remain the
posterns and the communications within the bastions
for the reception of that part of the garrison who
are not on duty. Such is the confined situation in
which they are placed, the greater portion of them
are obliged to remain outside, while the rest snatch
4 moment's repost either sitting or lying.
Our position is becoming exceeding dangerous,
while the places which are bomb-proof are not se•
cure against being enfiladed the moment the enemy
has established his dismounting batteries.
During the last 24 hours five of our pieces have
been dismounted by the enemy.
DECEMBER 12.

The cannonade has not been so severe as yester-
day, but the bombs are falling without intermission,
and are destroying the walls of all the buildings that
were left standing. The firing along the whole
front of attack is maintained unceasingly, and
with spirit on both sides. Our artillery frequently
stops the fire and the works of the enemy. The
approach which extended in a zig-zag form along
the covered way of the counterguard of the Espla-
nade is now pushed by the enemy across the glacis
of bastion No. 2, in the direction of the saliant an-
gle of the covered way, without, however, being
carried to the capital.
In vain will the annals of history be searched to
discover the example of a bombardment equal in
brutality to that which the enemy is directing
against the citadel. Never among a civilized people
did anything similar occur. The shower of bombs
and grenades is beyond what any one could imagine.
Nevertheless, the garrison is continually animated by
the best spirit.
The state of the fosses, which are every day left
dry, rendered the defence much more difficult, and
requires increased precautions, whilst the low flanks,
if they were not continually watched, might be scaled
during the night.
Baron CHASSE.
General of Infantry, Commander-in-Chief of thr Cita-
del, and of the Naval Forces of his Majesty in the
Scheldt, before Antwerp.

HEAD-QUARTERS, CITADEL OF ANTWERP, DEC. 15,
'7 O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING.

In continuation of my report of the 12,h of this
month, I have the honour to inform your Excellency
that this day, after my report was despatched, Cap-
tain Van Onselen, of the 10th Afdeeling Infantry,
was killed by a bomb.
DECEMBER 13.

Last night the fire of the enemy surpassed in
force and frequency anything we had hitherto ex-
perienced ; and it has been remarked that there were
at one time no less than 13 or 14 bombs in the air,
the fire of which has caused the greatest ravages,
and so cut up the ground as to render it extremely
difficult to move about. The transport of ammu-
nition and the removal of the cannon are therefore
become exceedingly laborious, and sometimes im-
possible.
The soldiers suffer very much from the manner
in which they are placed in the posterns, the com-
munications, and the gorges of the bastions.
The parts in masonry bomb-proof, which served
,
as tne last refuge for our troops, are also beginning
to give way, and the enhances are obstructed by
the fall of rubbish, by which some of the soldiers
who sleep there have been woundtd.
The enemy's fire is now principally directed
against the bastions 3 and 4.
The vault of the powder-magazine is greatly
damaged, and entirely beat down on the side of the
church by projectiles.
The enemy's dismounting-batteries are opening
their fire against the bastions 1,2, 3.
Van Bory van Uostee, Captain of Artillery, has
been mortally wounded in the head. He died in a
few moments afterwards. ' The garrison have lost
in him an exceedingly brave, able, and experienced
officer. His death is generally regreted.
One of the beams of the bomb-proof hospital has

bAn brol<ri by a bomb ; it has not, however, fallen
down. Van der Velde, Sergeant Inspector of En-
gineers, while zealously engaged in repairing this
disaster, was mortally wounded. _

Captain Grceneveld, of the 10th Afdeeling In-
fantry, received a wound in the arm and side, at
Fort St. Laurent, where he was on guard.
The only bomb-proof place which yet remained is
now knocked down. Second Lieutenant Franche,
of the 10th Afdeeling Infantry, was wounded, and
a woman was killed there.

Second Lieutenant Van Deventer, of the 10th
Afdeeling Infantry has been wounded by the explo-
sion of a bomb.

The state of the enemy's works to-day is as follows :
He has advanced his approaches up to the capital
of the bastion No. 2, and has prolonged them from
thence by a new branch, which extends towards the
crest of the glacis, along the covered way of the left
face of that bastion between the Ist and 2d tra-
verses, where he has begun to establish the crown-
work of it. By a happily directed fire from that
side of the raised flank and the left face, and, thanks
to the grenades and portalle mortars of the bastion
No. 2, this work is rendered very difficult to the
enemy, who is even obliged at times to abandon it
entirely. The branches of his approaches situated
more in the rear connect the approaches of the bas-
tion No. 2 with those of St. Laurent. In the front
of the bomb-proof hospital a sinking was observed,
and we awaited with horror to see this building
tumble down. It was a terrible thing to foresee
the approach of such a misfortune as this, and not
to have it in our power to apply the slightest re-
medy to it. _ .

DECEMBER 14.

The fire on both sides continued during the night.
The enemy having effected three mines in the sailant
angle of the Lunette St. Laurent, sprung them at
half-past 3 o'clock in the morning, whereby a practi-
cable breach was made, through which the fort was
taken by assault. Our loss on this occasion, in
killed, wounded, and missing, consisted of one lieu-
tenant, one serjeant, one corporal, and forty-nine
privates of the 10th (Afdeeling) infantry, together
with five artillerymen. The wounding of Captain
Groenveld, and the explosion of the mines, having
depressed the spirit of the garrison, all the efforts of
the First Lieutenant (Boer), of the 10th (Afdeeling)
infantry, upon whom the command of this post de-
volved, could not prevent the loss of this fort. The
enemy having thus intrenched themselves in it, we,
on our part, directed a very heavy fire against it.
It was, under all the circumstauces, a source of no
small consolation that this lunette was the first ex-
ternal work that had been taken by such a powerful
enemy, though the trenches had been already opened
16 days.
The enemy has strengthened the crown of the
covered way upon the left front of the bastion; they
have enlarged it, but the fire from the right side of
the bastion 1 and 2 has prevented them from pro-
longing it further. They have opened a trench at
the gorge of the fort St. Laurent, along the wall,
and the ditch on the left side, so as to join the third
parallel. Our soldiers have taken post behind the
palisades de la Place d' Armes at the salient angle
of the ravelin de la Porte de Secours, and along the
palisades upon the right side of the ravelin, and they
have there thrown up works upon the platform for
the purpose of defending themselves foot to foot.
The progress of the attack has been withstood upon
this side by the fire of the artillery still existing in
the forts 2 and 3, and in fort Kiel. Another shell
has fallen in the postern of the bastion No. 4, and
one miner only has been wounded by it.

DECEMBER 15.

Last night the firing on the part of the enemy
was not so strong as usual. Towards morning it
was increased. We replied to it as briskly and with
as much success as our ruined works and fences
would enable us to do. The powder magazine of
the curtain v-I, which was supposed to be com-
pletely F,Eife, ccauld not; however, resist the shells of
the enemy. It blew up last night, without causing
any other damage.
The entrance of the powder depot of the 4th
bastion has also been totally overturned and de-
stroyed. It would be quite impossible to form an
idea of the ravages made by the fire of the enemy.
The whole surface of the citadel has been converted
into a complete chaos of ruins. The flag, although
it has been renewed twice, is repeatedly set on fire.
This morning the rope of the flag having been cut,
a sailor, in the midst of a shower of balls, imme-
diately attached another to it, and thus again hoisted
the standard.

This night the enemy established a dam, and a
lodgment in the saliant angle of Fort St. Laurent,
and prolonged the trench at the gorge of that lu-
nette, so as to communicate with their works in
front of bastion 2, and they endeavoured to effect
these works in leaving the crown of the bastion
across the glacis. Behind that communication they
have commenced another, departing from the 3d
parallel towards the crown, but these works have
been so disturbed by the fire from the left flank of
bastion No. 3, that they have been greatly retarded,
and for a while totally abandoned. The artillery.
which was rendered unserviceable under the fence
of this flank, has been in a great degree replaced by
the unwearied perseverance of the men stationed
there, which has also been the case in many other
places. The fire of bastion No. 1, against the
crown work upon the covered way from the left face
of the bastion No. 2, has been so strong that the
enemy has not reached further there this night than
half the distance from the third traverse. The bas-
tion No. 2 has played a mortar there with succes.t,
and the same has been done by the ravelin de la
Porte de Seeours.
This defence was seconded by a continual fire
from this fort, and by that of the Tirailleurs of the
infantry.
A most agreeable duty devolves upon me to
make known to your Excellency that I cannot suffi-
ciently express my satisfaction at the unwearied co-
operation which has been afforded to me by the
Colonel Commandant of the navy, Koopman, and
naval force trader his command. All the men act-
ing under him have exhibited a rivalry in their zeal
to carry succour where it was wanted ; and I have
been indebted to the intelligence of this brave
officer for the power of transporting such of the
wounded as were capable of removal over to the Tete
de Flandre, and of sending from time to time my
reports to your Excellency. Colonel Gumoens,
who arrived here so opportunely, has rendered me
great services. Unfortunately, he wounded himself
in falling in the left knee, but it is hoped that he
will very soon recover from the effects of this injury.
May I request your Excellency to recommend
those two brave officers to the kind consideration of
his Majesty. I cannot conceal from your Excel-
lency that it has been a very serious evil that those
places which were bomb-proof could not resist the
fury of the enemy's fire. The cumbrous ruins and
rubbish in the posterns, and in the communications
of the bastions, now excite compassion.
This afternoon the enemy has thrown hand gre-
nades and shells from the trench S•. Laurent, and
has forced the guard of the palisades upon the saliant-
angle of the Place of Arms, before the ravelin de la
Porte de Secours, and at the right of this work, to
retire with the loss of one serjeant, one corporal,
and nine soldiers wounded. The Place of Arms
retiring from the right, which is palisaded, has re-
mained in the hands of our troops, who continue to
lodge in it. The enemy has sent some Tirailleurs into
the covered way against ours. Our artillery, which
had been checked in its fire, while our troops re-
mained in this position, appears now to distress the
enemy a good deal by its projectiles. Eighty-three
sick and slightly wounded have been transported to
the Tete de Flandre.

The artillery dismounted since my last report con-
sists of eight pieces, rendered altogether, with
twelve carriages, unserviceable, whilst our loss in
men since my report of the 12th of this month, is
ninety (sic) killed, sixty-eight wounded, and sixty-
eight missing; our whole loss thus amounting, since

the commencement of hostilities, to sixty killed, 191
wounded, and sixty missing. _

Baron CHASSE,
The General of Infantry, commanding in chief the cita-
del of Antwerp, the dependant forts, and the na-
val force of his Majesty in the Scheldt.