Star.
London, England, 1809-09-15 00:00:00

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Twenty-five. sick Officers, from Flushing, turriyed
at Harwich yesterday morning, in the Lord Nelson'
packet. More than 9000 of the army in Walcheren
were reported to be sick at the time this Packet sailed.
A number of sick belonging to the 92d Regiment,
were landed at Harwich yesterday. Ninety:five men
of the 4th, reached the same port yesterday, in the
PEAcocx sloop of war.
We are extremely sorry to state that General
D/141(8NZIE FRASER died yesterday. He returned only
a few days ago from Flushing. He was an excellent
Officer, and much beloved in the Army.
" Flushing, Friday, Sept. 8, 1809,
" We yesterday received the information, that the
French, in considerable force, had entered South Be-
veland. They were observed from some of our ships
to move in the most vapouring manner, their advan-
ced party of tirailleurs, not suffering any covering,
ditch, or hedge to pass them without firing, under
the affected conceit that some English troops were
concealed, although they never put a foot upon that
island until they were fully convinced that the whole
of our force had either passed over into Walcheren,
or were disembarked at Batz. They, however, made-
prisoners of a midshipman's boat's crew of Ole Blood
Hound gun-brig, who had incautiously gone on s'..ore
to procure some vegetables. This intelligence has
made no change in the disposition of the troops which
were destined for home, as this morning the 63d regi-
ment and Colonel COCHRANE'S corps, embarked on
board transports. From the number of sick belonging
to both battalions, an hospital ship was provided for
each.

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44 Colonel CocuttAxes corps, which on its being
embodied at the Isle of Wight, in August last, con- I
sisted of 800 effective, cannot at this moment muster
four hundred effective men. The detachment of the
78th Highlanders which formed the constituent part
of Colonel COCHRANE'S battalion, has suffered consi-
derably from disease. It is extraordinary that during
the whole period when the army were subject to the
greatest privations, there were scarce any sick, but
when ordered into comparatively comfortable quar-
ters, disease advanced with the most alarming rapi-
dity. We have at length received a supply of medi-
cines from England. The greatest medicinal want
was in the article of hark, so necessary to impede the
progress of fever and alleviate the paroxysms of ague,
the two prevalent disorders here. The chemists of
Middleburg, the great medicinal depot of South Hol-
land, said, when applied to for this medicine, that it
was owing to our own Act of Parliament that they
could not supply us.
" The disease here affects the liver and the brain;
I was informed by the Surgeon of the Mb, who had
opened one of the bodies, that he found the part vio-
lently inflamed, and a great excess of water about the
lit!er But I must stop, as I fancy myself ill, from
thinking on this deplorable subject.
" Six o'clonx IN TIIE EVENING.—The gun-brigs
and gun-boats are coming dawn from Fort Lillo, and
I understand all idea of destroying the navigation of
the Scheldt, is also abandoned. In their passage
down the river, an attempt was made to annoy them
from some horse artillery of the enemy, which fol.
Towed them along the dykes on the right bank of the
Scheldt, but were forced to retire as soon as our
bombs took a favour position to earow some shells'
amongst them, which they did effectually.

46 General MONTRESOR has taken the command of
this garrison, and he had it in orders yesterday, with
a view of preventing the arrival of any foreign ships,
that no vessel should be allowed. to enter this port,
without a licence from the Seczetary of State, or a pass
from either of the Land or Sea Commanders in Chief."

CIVIC THEATRE —Two meetings ha', it seems,
taken place in the City, for the purpose of erecting a
Theatre within Temple Bar. A petition to the Crown,
it is said, is drawing up, humbly praying for a licence,
to which will be attached the names of some of the
first characters in the capital, who have put down
their signatures to sums amounting to 47250,000, to
be applied towards carrying the undertaking into
effect. The petitioners state, as the ground of their
application, that all monopolies are injurious, and pre-
vent that kind of fair and spirited competition, by
which the public are always benefited ; and that since
the limitation of two Theatres to the capital, London
has increased nearly three-fourths in extent and popu-
lation; so that those who wish to partake of the ratio-
nal amusements of the drama are nearly deprived of
that pleasure, from the distance to the present estab-
lished Theatres in the winter season, a grievance par-
ticularly feltby those citizens who do mt keepcarriages.
t —The 'Theatre is intended to be built in a most mag-
nificent style. The proposed scite is said to be that
part of the estate of Lord RADNOR, on the south side
of Fleet-street, of which Bouverie-street and Water-
-1 lane, with the unoccupied space of ground at the bot-
tom of the former, is a part. The idea is to purchase
the leases of the intermediate houses fronting Fleet-
! street, and form an elegant crescent. The Theatre
to be placed in the centre of this crescent, with a
grand colonnade leading to it on each side from Fleet-
street. Thus the whole will be rendered a conspicu-
ous ornament to the capital, as the building will strike
the eye of every person passing east or west along
Fleet-street. The petition to the Crown, it is said,
is to contain an offer of an undertaking that the prices
of admission to the boxes, pit, and galleries shall be
the same as those to the Haymarket Theatre, from '
which they shall not be altered, undecbthe penalty of
forfeiting the licence. The 'Theatre to be distin-
guished by the name of tbeLeatieferuntna ROYAL.