Star.
London, England, 1808-08-29 00:00:00

BRUSSELS, AUGUST IS.

The fleet at Flushing is in perfect readiness for sea,
and the utmost exertions are making at Antwerp to
reinforce it; and s,o successful has the marine recruit.
ing service been in the northern parts of Germany,
that every ship has one or two hundred supernumera-
ries on board, and there are independently upwards
cf 1500 spare seamen in Walcheren. . The enemy's
cruizers off Flushing, Dunkirk, and indeed along the
entire coast, have been reduced in number--they sel-
daM appear. The ex:cnsive establishment of a Garde
des Coster, or custom•house sol.liers, has nearly put an
end to smuggling. The tmop; at some distance from
the r^:,st of the Channel arl quiet in their canton-
al * s, excepting at Boulogne, where several regi-
men s are in barracks, charged with the duty of the
nwn: ous batteries erected there two years since.—
The fotilla there is in excellent preservation, and fully
dequate to the service for vrbieh it was constructed.

Ort the Sd of August, his Swedish Ma)
ceivcd a Report from Field Marshal Klingipc:lllted
Lacpo, July 25, of which the following is an extract
" After the victory obtained by the Swedish army at ~apps,'
the enemy have retreated from Lindulax and Salmi, and are ho*
at Alm° and Sarigarfri. The rear of our army is perfectly safe,
and communication has been opened between the bead army
and Major Freincit, who is acting against Savolax. Coinoel
Palnifeldt, with his detachment, is at Knolarne; and Colonel
Count Cronsted has proceeded to Sestijocki; and Major Oiler
has advanced to Rauhajocki. The galley fleet has, owing to
contrary winds, only proceeded as far as Wasa. We have takes
from the enemy nine boats with prov Hons, and we have blunt
the bridge near 'cVisuvassi ; so that I almost think that the ene-
my's retreat towards Tamerfors will be impracticable."
Extract from a Repert from Admiral Hjelmstjer-
na, dated on board the Seraphim, at anchor near
Holmo, Aug. 2, 1808:—Lieutenant-Colonel Jonson,
being mortally wounded, c.tnnot have the honour to
wait on your Majesty with his Report. At three
o'clock this morning, several batteries on the island
of Kemito, and two on the main land, began to fire
on the.right wing of our gtin-boats, and we expected
every moment to be attacked by the enemy, but
which did not take place till half past two o'clock,
when 40 of the enemy's gun-boats bore down upon
us ; and we having only 12 gun-boats, and the
enemy having, after a severe conflict, forced their
way through; we retreated to the mouth of Sando
river, where I had placed the galleys on the right,
and nine gun-boats on the left side, and the attack
was renewed, and lasted till twelve o'clock. How-
ever, the wind shifting more and more to S.S.E. add
as we were lying in the open sea, and expected every
moment to be attacked in the rear by the enemy's
gun-boats and sloops from Abo, I ordered a retreat
to be made, and at one o'clock we dropped anchor
off Holmo, without having lost any vessel. Ten of
our Officers, and 80 men, were wounded, and 40
men were killed." _ _ _

Extract of a letter, dated Wasa, July 11,1808:
" On the 25th of June the Russian General M. De-
midoff gave up the town of Wasa to be plundered.
The soldiers immediately set to work, and from the
house of the first Magistrate to that of cite lowest in-
habitant, all were plundered. On approaching a
house, a whole company of soldiers fired their guns
in 'at the windows, v.-hereupon they entered the
house, and with fixed bayonets attacked the inhabi-
tants. The General had allowed the soldiers to plun-
der for two hours ; but they, nevertheless, continued
their barbarous conduct from the 25th till the
29th of June, the day they left this place ; during
which time, the Russian Governor, Emine, General
Demidoff, and several Officers, were riding on horse-
back in the street, and crying, 4 dobbra, karacho!'
(well done ! charmingly done !) The unhappy in.
habitants fell on their knees, and implored mercy,
but the Russians stabbed them with their bayonets.
Baron Reuterhohn, the President of the Supreme
Court at Wasa, and the Honourable M. Wanberg,
Lord Lieutenant of the Province, were both attacked
in their houses, and on the point of being killed, had
not their wives interceded. Indeed the Russians went
so far, that after having taken money, plate, &c. and
destroyed every thing in the house, they tore from
Baron Reuterholm the very order, or star, from his
coat. Every house was visited by these inhuman '1
beings ; many houses were burnt down to the ground,
and eleven men and two women killed. When the
Russians left Wasa, they tock several of the burghers
‘vith them, and, in .the most cruel manner, forced
them to run backwards and forwards between two
lines of soldiers, where they -.vcre beaten almost to
death."

WEST INDIES.

BARBADOES MERCURY, JUNE cl.

The result of the General Court Martial, held at
St. Ann's. on the soldiers implicated in the affray
which happened there on the evening of the 28th ult.
and stated in the Mercury of the 31st, bas at length
been promulgated. We regret to find by it, that•the
fact of a very serious insubordination has been fully
established, although without any apparent premedi-
tation ; and one of the principals has been made a
just sacrifice to that discipline and good order which
he was too active in subverting. The party arraigned
were two Serjcants and two Privates of the Ist W. I.
Regiment, and two Privates of the Royal W. I. Ran-
gers. They were charged generally with mu-
tinous and disorderly conduct in an affray at St.
Ann's, on the evening of the '2Bth of May, and for
aiding and abetting therein ;" but one of the Ser.
jeants of the Ist W. I. was more specifically charged
with “ exciting and promoting the same, by drawmg
his sword, and encouraging his comrades to mu-
tinous and disorderly conduct, &c."—and this man
being convicted thereof, was sentenced to be shot ;
but the other likerjeant was altogether acquitted.—
The two Privates of both Regiments were however
also found guilty, and received sentence of corporal
punishment, according to their respective deserts;.
but Lieut.-General Beckwith, taking their offence
nto serious consideration, has been pleased, for im-
portant reasons, to remit their punishment. The
Serjeant sentenced to be shot was executed yesterday
morning, on the lower parade, in the presence of the
whole garrison, assembled under arms.