Star.
London, England, 1809-09-01 00:00:00

roirTsmouTH, AUGUST 31.

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.Arri"ed his MAjeity's ships ti3IETICIIT and S.
rxs, r.):11 ; his I lajesty's ship TnAilsrr., and
pi;.:io on a cruize ; anal a fleet of merchant.
men, limn the Downs.--Bailed his M-ajesty's ship
SLIATILLANTE, on a cruize.; and his Majesty'rship
3A.Pf.R, to follow the fleet for I:Nirtiigal and -the'Me-
iintranean, which left Cowei Roitcis this rnorsu~.-_
Wind E. . .
DEAL, A1.1017.5T 31.
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Arrived the RJCItMOND gun-brig . from Yarmouth,
Jaavingunder convoy several gesseh,wiartroops which
racie their escape •A ith the Dime of Prituie*"*.reic.
C ;111aven, and sailed throiigh for the 141e:o1NCritht.
Also arived the liztotr.s sloop frortrthil4ure, and.
sa,led for Portsmouth, with the Douquizr store-ship,
who has on board prisoneri brought from the Isle of
WAcheren.—Sailed the Bruce, BUltriaN ; W;iiiatn,
; and Astell, DENHAM ; for Quebec : %ere-
memo, De SOUZA, for Pernambuco ; Santa Lorenzo,
FELIXfr and Pacquet de Bahia, for tile Brazils.

In the Downs—Lively, Unicorn, Sorting., Findon, Idas, and
Atalanta, cutters.—Wind N. E.

YARMOUTH, AUGUST 31.

Yesterday after Post arrived the Earl of Leicester
packet from Gottenburgh, with dispatches, a Foreign
Messenger, several passengers, and a mail ; the Hope,
J.JosEs fluster, from Heligoland, of and for Lon-
dol., having been blown into the North Sea, is put in
}:ere f)r provisicnq.--The British Fair cutter sailed
with t;an,port KX for Hull, to take in troops.—
Arrived this moming the Prince ofWales from Flush-
inz.—itlio arrived the STARLING and NED ELVIN
SIOOF with convoy from .Heligoland, and remain with
the sips 43 per lust.

LIVERPOOL, AUGUST Si.

Arrived the Elizabeth,. Wit DER, from. Miramaehie;
R6trt ;:nd Marl, —, from Newfoundland ; Ken-
rtr:ky, JosEs, from Philadelphia ; Exeter, BRAY, from
TrEin'a ; and Margaret, BnowN, from Quebec.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

Gus? d I .--AltiVtd the Protidente, Az:ter,
front fluthirg ; and Adelphia, Edwards, hem Nova Scud:l)=-
.51M ti,.; !lope, for Flushing; the Vl'oodland Castle, Free-
man, tur Oporto; the Pesoltttiot, Lewis, for Gueresey; and the
2.terr" ototzgh, Croke, for Wale beret . . .
Aatillso—At Hull, the Nottingham; Calender, from' New
BruiJvsck. Az Leith, the Aid, Langston, from Oporto; and
saittial, from Qze,bec. At Clyde, :he Hope, Henry, from
Qiet,t;; Ow Mark, Pack, from Charleston ; and
Socht Milling, :tom New hi unsvvick. :Nt Scarborough, the
!rook krown, from Nev.. lltutz-wick. At Plymrulh, the Dorset,
:;perrt,fronzt Quebec. At Portlmoutit; the AN rab, Harvey ; 'Essex,
Gatzude, Ctmcli ; and Isabella,lSacker, from Gibraltar.
The Vine, Hut,,,,:5, Crum London-, to Ne*ry, was
.tar in Cartes on the 29th ult, all well.

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Sunday arrived .at nymotrt'S a Greek vesselfrom
Crete, first Af thatnation eVer in part. Tire
crew ;,le little, ugly, diminutive, swarthy looking fel-
lows, and give one no idezi of a Grc.k seaman in the
days .of,t-lfwER.

Botrriss NAVY -The following is the amount of the British
Naval Fares up to this day.—At sea 94 ships of the line, 15 from
Oro 44 guns, 136 ft ;gates, 148 sloops and yachts, 5 borniss and
fire-snip,, brig;, 10 cutters, 132 schooners, gun-vessels, log-
gers, &c. Total e2o.—ln Port and Fitting, 6 of the line, 11 from
50 to 44 guns, 25 frigates, 28 sloops and yach:s, 3 bombs, 16
brigs, 3 cutters, 21 schooners, &c. Total 161.—Guard-shipv,
11soil:al-ships, Prison-ships, &c. 6 of the line, 2 of 50 sans, 6
frtintes, 3 sloops, 1 bomb, 1 cutter, 1 schooner. Total 14.
la Ordinary and Repairing, 56 of the line, 12 front 60 to 44 guns,
45 frizatts, 22 sloops and yachts, ?bombs and fire-ships, 8 brigs,
'alms', 9 %hoonerti, &c. Total 169.—Building, 49 of. the line,
•:17 fr:f.,--tte^, 5 elcerps and yachts, 6 brigs, 1 schooner. Total 117.—
rand Total 1,057.


GOES (Souris BEVELA NO), At o. 33.—The Fr :ncb
have made several bold sorties from Flushing—that
of Wednesday last must •have cost the English a
number of men. Twenty waggons with wounded
were brought to Middleburgh. The English, in their
landing on Walcheren, lost 500 men. Some wag-
gons with gold, it is said, have passed through Mid-
dleburgh.
The requisitions of provisions imposed ott this and
all the villages of this island, are very oppressive. A
scarcity of butchers' meat is apprehended.
A Mbi eit DA bf, Also. 12.—They write from Antwerp,
that 3,0(X) French, who are going to join the army of
Ossendrecht, passed through Antwerp on the 10th.
-The English have sunk some vessels in the Scheldt
to prevent the French flotilla, yihich is koifts'up the
river, nom coming down.. ; There iset.' report-it the
Hague, that the English leackre,eniblykecl, as they
could not accomplish the object of their expedition.
• Great preparations are making for some important
enterprise against South Bevelaud. The fort of Bathz
is constantly bombarded by the French flotilla, and
it is even reported that it is again retaken.
The American armed schooner Enterprize has left
the Texel, and put to sea again.
The King's head-quarters have been removed from f
Rosenctal, near Breda, towards Bergen-op-Zsom.--;
The whole army is united. General Collaert is Go-
vernor of Breda. Besides the Dutch army, about
40,000 French troops have, within these eight days,
arrived from Paris and the interior of France.
The object of th enemy was to take Antwerp and
to surprise the squadron in the Scheldt. But we have
reason to believe that th's object cannot be obtained.
The fleet is at Antwerp, where all preparations arc
made to produce in a few hours an inundation which
will protect the place against all attacks on the land
side. On the Scheldt the ships will be protected by
their own guns, as well as the batteries on the banks,
which have, by the order of his Majesty, been ang.
mented by four additional batteries, mounted with 36-
pounders.
Acouse 13.—The Royal Caarasa mentions no new
military events.
English ships arrive daily with ammunition and
provisions at, Wakheren ; and the enemy is forming
as considerable magazines there as if he meant to
hold that island for a year.
The recruiting goes on well, as the greatest exer-
tions are every where made to oppose the enemy. A
Royal Decree directs, that so long as a part of Zea-
land remains in the possession of the enemy, M. Er-
meeris shall till the office of High Sheriff of the De-
partment.
From the Sth to the 13th there have been daily ac-
tions and cannonading along the Scheldt.
The enemy, it seems, has shewn himself off Hel-
voetsluys, whence several ships of war have proceeded
to Dordrecht. A. great number of the enemy's trans-
ports have also, within these few days, been seen on
the coast towards the Texel.

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SAILINC MATCH.--Yesterday there was a Sailing
nitch for a Silver Cup and Cover, the gitt of Mr.
111.:PPARI), the proprietor of the Minor Vauxhall, at
MlP4ank, near Chelsea. The prize weighed 48 oz. of
silver, and was beautifully or iamented.

The following boats, all gentlemen's pleasure-boats,
5 :tried':

:ices' Name!. Owners. Places. Tens. Spots.
"riet" ' Caro. MAIOB Hunterford 4 1
Mete . SICII ChiSWiCk 8 2
I : dim, -- NLI:5011 Stangate a a
:verl . • ..--- Hr. wiz sor Nine Flllls 7 4
',..ri;e &Sarah I.EWIs Crantr.oe 6 5
Het° —,---- FA It LOW• Htuigerford 3 6
Imcluce —Hr Ras a-r Westminster 8 • 7
'fire - • '.----- Notts Hungerfcrd 4 S
Sc, Genes= -...— GUtIiTON Paul's Wharf 7 9
ti ohne ------ FILL° !I Staggatt 3 to
The St. George took the lead, and maintained it
CV A considerable distance ; but the Spitfire (about
1.,,1f her burden), when the steady breeze that was
recessary to fill the s.ils of the St. George had died
away, shot ahead andgained in a fine style, until
s!le came in dt the Minor Vauxhall at about half after
P ght o'cicck,. being, 'then about' ten boats lengths
1-,tad. fler proprietor was Consequently invested
Pm: die price in the Gardens, which were extremely
!k %...ded with company.

A f_..v drys sic'e, a soldier belonging to the Wut-
rr.v(l:u.(l I.lilita, in returning from the Ferry-house,
to the garrison at Languard-fort, had three small
rot.ek: to pass ; the first of which his friends saw him
clr,s, but as he s iid he well knew the others, they'.
; how ever, in crossing, the second, he missed
ii.rd way, got into the mud, and there stuck till
the dewing tide surrounded him, when he was
rir!'"Led. He was found the next morning standing,
tiprOt, fixed in the mud. The persons at the Ferry-
Luse !tail it voice calling out, but thought it came
ft:44l soldiers at the ganistri. •

PRLVATS LETTERS.
'• Flushing, Sunday, Anita P.O.
" The 79th, llth, and 14th regiments lift their
lines yesterday, to disembark at Fort Ramakins; and
join the other part of the army under ,Sir J. Hope. j
Sir Richard Strachan sailed from Room Pot Passage
yesterday, for Batz, in the West Scheldt. A brigade
of marines garrison Cam pveer, and it it rumoured
That Lieutenant General Fraser's division are to re- I
main in Walcheren. The two last days we were
principally occupied in 'conducting the prisoners to
itheir place of embarkation. It is impossible for any
language to describe the situation of Flushing. There
is scarce a house that has not suffered, and I am con-
! fident not one-third of the town is habitable. The
Stadt House, a very fine building, is wholly in ruins,
and all the churches have suffered considerably. The
unfortunate inhabitants have undergone afflictions in-
describable. The numbers lost it is actually impos-
sible to compute, as hundreds yet
_lie buried in the
, ruins. The survivors are loud in their execrations
against General Monet, for prolonging a defence
I which he had confessed to be ineffectual. During
I the bombardment he remained in the cellars under
the Stadt House, and from thence communicated his
orders. An English family, of the name of Freeman,
residing in the town, have been almost all destroyed
by the falling in of a shell, during the first hour of the
bombardment, when they were assembled at dinner.
The execution of the Shrapnell shells was tremen-
dous ; in their operation they far exceeded else Con-
greve rockets. ' In viewing. Flushing frog the bat-
teries on the sea side, the eye is presented with nothing
ibut the most evident marks of wreck and desOlatien.

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' On the second night of the bombardment, when a
battery of the enemy was stormed by a detachment
PROM THE FOREIGN ibiJRNALL , r ', of the llst, 36th, and 63d regiments, I was vlaeed to
ANTWON
.Ana: 7..ee-The-Vreda fleet, composed neat to-Flusking as-to hear the shrieks of the inhabi-
of 9 sail of the line and two frigates, were stationed tants, who continually cried out 8 Miserable ! misei--
about half . way between Antwefpl and Lithe: We able I' -The delay which took place in getting pos-
consider here the Left Bank of thd Western Schelthe sessiett Of the toern, after the capitulation, arose from
as far as Breskins, arid from thenee to Ostend; -as the autheetidited document of the surrender being
being in a good state of defence: A considerate]. -torn, instead of the rouglx -draft.' The garrison
number of troops occupy the other side, from Autweep. marched odt on Thursday morning, about ten o'clock,
to Lillo, arnifrout thence to Ossendrecht and Bergin- with all the honours of war. There were thirteen
op-Znem, and reinforcements are daily arriving. A regiments, amounting in total to five thousand tern-
number of troops passed through this place thiedaye hundred men: Our army was fOrnied in four lines
and we have a considerable garrison. Every possible on the rights and the French marched through t! !e
disposition is making for passing from Ossendrecht to two centres to a field, in which each regiment, at tl.e
south Be-eland. -The French Minister of War has command of General Austin, piled its arms. Previ-
the necessary orders from Paris for a number of rein- othly to his giving the word, that officer, with a
forcements to march hither. shrug of his shoulder, exclaimed -- ' • Heigh ho, moa
AUGUST 12.—Yesterday ten of theenemy's Mentes Dieu!' There yet remain one thousand of the woune
Li
and about )gun boats, forced the passage at Flush-1 ded in Flushing, and it is generally computed, that;
ings and s-tiied up the Scheldt. This flotilla landed iin killed and wounded, and priseners, the loss of the,
-some men at Ter Newze, not far fi-om Axel, on the enemy, since our disembarkation, has amounted to'
Flemish side Of the river ; but they soon made off.. ten thousand men. Our loss is calculated at I 100.
'The land.batteries maintained a heavy fire upon the I believe the only officer:taken was Major Bird of
vessels, burcould prevesit thetn from-arriving at the sth, who is now restored to his regiment.
Bathe. " That part of the capitulation which gave up itie
Trtotta, Ave. .127—0 n the 10th, his Majesty in- French civilians anderhabieants7as prisoners of war,
spected this fortress,. .Yesterday, durtug the whole of has excited much indignationeigeinst Monet. An intel
,L.t day, a',•heevy cannonade was
,heard- in the direc- ligene. French_ officensbrewuly.remarked to me on that
-tion ofloet Bathe. Ae vessel has been blown up, and subject " Dupont capitulated -and he is-dead !He
explosion was distinctly heard here. endeavoured to impress upon my mind that our oh-
The Dutch flotilla has taken a position in the jest at Antwerp wculel. be defeated, from the nume
Scheldt. Tl;,e'eluices are open at Bergen-op-Zoom, Tons force which Bernaaoce can (wieldy d-aw from
and the whole Polder between this and that town is G!ent, Bergen-op,Zoom, bre -eele and Ostend, he
under water. The hostile fleet has extended itself calculated it 45,000 men. Frenchmen, said he, no:
further along the Eastern Scheldt, and a number of such as our Prussians, Colonists, and Spanish troops
their small vessels have come up to Bathe. At the in Flushing. The Irish Legion were principally en-
departure of the post, a heavy cannonade is again gaged in the sortie of the 7th, with General Graham's
heard, which appears to be in the neighbourhood of brigade, and their commandant, Lawless, a native of
Bathe. Dublin, who arrived the day before from 17-

y troi.. :ranee, was
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killed at their head. There are amongst the prisoners
i but wry few Irish ; -from whom I learnt that most ( f
the officers had. been either killed or wounded: Th.:
latter had been sent off the day before the comrintre•
cation was stopped, to Cadsand. During our invest.'
ment the garrison was reinforced at different. times.
Between two and three thousand men were throeva
on the 6the They indulged a considerable hope ce
destraying some of our works on the evening ofethe
7th, when they were repulsed- by Generel_Gratham's
brigade. Since that -night their condition was hope-
less. Colonel Walker, of the sQt.h, and Captain Col-
burn of the navy, are appointed Commissioners to exa-
mine and sequestrate French property at Flushing.'
It is said that the gallant Colonel Burns, of the 31st,
will be the Governor of Flushing. . • •
"P. S. Eleven o'clock.--I hear this rnementeliat
Sir-Richard Sirachan is off Batz inedie West Scheldt,
with five fire ships, aerived. Seoul England, so that
should our•exertions to bring:off -the Fetencii ships of
war fail, we
. will at least destroy them. Ceeeral
Grosvenor's brigade are aboard, and the 11.1 and iced.
at South 13eveiand.embark this day."
" TERVEER, AITCAT.ST e 5.
" Our troops are still stationary in South neve.
and. Those which embarked from this island' re
main on board the transports which took them from.
Ramakenc. Intelligeactr of a larger force being
collecteti in the vicinity of Antwerp than v. e were led
to Apprehend can alone have produced this pause.—
It is supposed that no farther mevemero. will take
place until advices I•e received from England.
,g I wrote to you very fully yesterday with respect
to the siege of Flushing. The frigate and brig which
we have found upon the stocks there can, I under-
stand from a well-informed n ival officer, be launched
within a for:night, quite enough of stores for their
use being found in the arsenal. The man of war
(a 71) may also be finished if a company of ship-
wrights, with some requi,ite materials, be sent from
England. It that be not convenient, the timbers of
this vessel may very conveniently be conveyed to any
of our yards at home."
" Auo. `26.—Our army are still stationary in South
Beveland, and the troops which have embarked here
remain on beard. The general opinion, as I before
mentioned to you, i 3, that Orders have been received
from home to wait for farther instructions before any
movement is made. Lord Chatham is at Goes. If
the enemy have collected any material force at Ant-
werp, that would be a good reason—for • declining to
proceed, at least until a communication be had with
England, and the Collection of such it fOrte is alledged
to be the fact. Should' that•he the case it is the more
to be regretted, as our army advance. with dirhinished
strength in consequence of the force left behind heir,
and at ozber islands of Zealand, at some of Which
indeed it 'wag quite unnecessary to leave a single man;
for how could it be necessary to occupy a position
which, if left unoccupied, could not, in the event of
our defeat, impede the retreat of our army, or, if oc•
copied, impede the pursuit of. the enemy; while, in
the event of our victory, it must become subject to
our will. Such is the case wt's regard to several'
places, in which detachments have been left, ptrhaps,
with regard to all excepting this island ; and even
this island many intelligent persons are of ofirtion we
ought not to have touched until we'had first gone up
to deetroy the French fleet, or to make an experiment
upon. the popular feeling towards revolt against Bo-
naparte, or to follow any other main object of the
Expedition. According to those who entertain this
opiniOn, it would have been more advisable, in the
first instance, to make a binding with a large force
in Cadsand and in South Bevelend. Threogli the
possession of the former our shipping might have
gone up the Scheldt in despight of the batteries of
Flushing, and through South Bcvelaad our army
might have marched up alongside the river to perform
the object they now pursue. If this plan had been
adopted the delay we met with here would hive been
avoided, the enemy would have had less time to pre-
pare at Antwerp, and of course there would have
been more probability of success; that is in Cage the
enemy had not a larger force in readiness or in his
power promptly to muster than was calculated upon,
when our Expedition sailed, or Allan could justify our
Government in sending out such art Expedition at all.
For the supposition of sueh a force- alone could war-
rant the apprehension that our position at Cadsand.,
would be so formidably attacked as to endanger the.'
retreat of our army from the Scheldt, and while sve
had Cadsand that retreat must be secure:. When. I
state this, I and aware that I oppose the• general kyl2
pions that Flushing commands the inouth dfl the