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*chelelf. But that opinion I aril well assured it butt!
erroneous. If the command of the Scheldt isifply a
power to-eontroul the ingress and egress of that river
no such power belongs to klueting. Sailing along-
side Cadsand is quite as safe from the batteries Of
Flushing AS sailing alongside the latter is front the
bats-tries of: the former. The fact is, that the pos-
session of both Flushing and Cadsand b neeesstrr to
command• the mouth of the Scheldt; and het we
have seen 1n instance in the recent passage of oar
frigates which serves to shew bow far this court and
can be considered as absolute.
The discuses peculiar to this climate are ahead,
makiiig their appearance among our troops ; several
intermittent cases have been reported to the physic -
cians --Achim the last eight days, and I am sorry to
understand that a considerable extension of such corn•
pl tints is apprehended. The Sufferings of our troops
during the siege, particularly from the rain and in-
undation, must _predispose theiz ennstitutioris for the
eackraic diseases of Lcaland. • The wounded go on
very ill.
" General Frazer has returned to England in a
very bad state of health. Sever.tl Officers complain
of ill health. The most unwholesome seas In here in-
cludes the worths of-September and October. -

" The public property which has been discovered. •...
at Middleburgh belonged to the Dutch East-India.
Company, and is understood to-have been. deposited .
therefor some tittle-back. It is, of course, deemed a .
legal priie.
" I think it not improbable that if Austria has made
peace, tli;.• whole-rof our forte will immediately return
from the Scheldt. •

4"Fhe Dutch do not -think that our army is likely
to stop among them. They doubt our power mpha
them in rase they were to manifest a di,positiott
to prefer our Covernment. This doubt indeed they
vary unreservedly express.. As to their inclination to
resist Bonapafte, or to promote insurrection, you can
judge of this n hen I tell you,that not a single Dutch -
v lunteer has offered-to join our army since it landed,
either in this island. Schowen, Bevel. di, or elsewhee:.
Not a word either has reached us to encourage the
hope of insurrection or co-operation in the North of
Germany.

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ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE. •
it We have receive-3 very gloomy accounts fmm
Beveland to-day. Several letters express the appre-
hension of a- general retreat. - Lord Chatham has
made a retrograde movereefit. His head-quarters,
which were advanced to the vicinity of Batha, are now
again. at Clues.
Louis Bonaparte is said to have collected a force
of 40,000 men near Bergen-air-Zoom But this I ,
think exaggerated, because it appeari inconsistent
with another statement, resting upona better founda-
tion, namely, that the country has been inundated to
prevent the advance of our army. If Bonaparte, or
Bernadotte, had actually an army sufficient to meet
o'ir's or to. promise dur defeat, it is unlikely that any
attempt would have- been nude to impede our ad.
vance. In such a case I rather imagine that we should
have been encouraged to approach. Approach, how.
ever, we cannot, as lam assured. Such is the effect .
of the delay that has taken place_ in the progress.of
our Ekindition. tut the whole effect of that delay'
is hardly yet to be conjectured. You may, however,
form some etimate of it when I state to you, that at
the close of June the enemy had not above 30a men
in the garris.on of -Flashing,. while the men in arms,
at this fort-did flat exceed 66, there being only a few .
gees-d'armes, for police purposes, at Antwerp, Beta-.
gen-op-Zoom, and Helvoet.
" The report of endemic complaints multiplies
every hour. The two physicians at islidaleburgh, .
Drs. Faulkner and Knight, have_had nearly 120 pri...
vote soldiers and 20 officers, consigned to. their care
within the last three days, the whole afflicted with in-
termittent, remittent, and low nervous fevers. The -
remittent fevers peculiar to this climate have the same •
ymptom and appearance as those which belong..,.
the yellow fever in the West Indies., although
quite so dangerous.
" The operation of the diseases which I have men.
tioned is so baneful, particularly to strangers, that •
no less than, 1500 French were buried in this island- -
within the last year, the garrison here being rather •
numerous, until the necessity for dispatching
forcements to Bonaparte, in Austria, had drained the
whole of the Dutch territories.
" A separate hospital is about to be esta'aliihed for
the use of the officers."

"His Majesty's ship rAte.t.a, off Antwerp, Aug.
" On the 13th we sailed up the river Scheldt, with nine other
frigates, and arrived off Antwerp on the 16th, where we still re-
main. Our troops will land in a few days, to take possession of
the forts on the main land. which protect the enemy's ships of
war. There are eleven sail of the line French, and three iltitch
but the information we haie received is, tbar only three sail of
the line have their guns and men aboard, the rest being nearly in II
mantled state. The enemy are said to base 30,000 men, moat
of which, hostever,'are Dutch undiseiplined troops; and who,
for The greater part, have been forced to take up arms by ti e
French. It is said that about ie,loo of these will join o•ir a-my
on its effecting a landing ; and there is no doubt of the Dutch,like
every other pro; le sullected to the domination of France, beint'.
heartily. tired of the gallirg yoke they are made to bear.. The In-
habitants of Antwerp are anxious that the ships of war should
be entirii t moved from that port, as the meditated attack
I wou'..l net fail most matelially to injure, the town."

Yeft7rJay evening, at six o'clock, the horses of a
hackney-coach took fright, from some unknown cause,
at Charing-cross, and r:ln against a shop with much
.iolence. An ;Ann old woman was dangerously
hurt, and was taken in a 'hopeless state to Westminster
Intirmarv: tiome'zOther persons sustained injuries of
less consequence.
Monday night, botween •11 and .12.o'c1ock, as a
young gentleman, of the name of Burroughs, lately .
an ived from the West Indies, was returning froth the •
West end of the town to Broad-street, in the city; he
was suddenly hestled by fOur or five well-dressed
lows, near Strand,lane,- Alio took from his person
valuable god watch, chain, and stags, vrith:whicl.: •
tiny ran off in different directions.
'Tuesday right, 'about i 1 o'clock, as a. young wc.
man of .the name of Newman, lately froin the noun-
try, was going along Chick-lane, she *as snrionneed
by sorrye females, who robbed her of a shawl anl five
pounds in Bank-notes; being all .she was wortkin the
ansi„iet'ictly)slie had savfd_to suppurt bet tAs • .
of .The 'offenders fisaai escape
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