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The weather having moderated without any more 1
veffels having come in from the Channel fleet. there
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is little doubt that a fufficicnt force has been able to
retain its Nation ofFßrefl to keep the enemy in check.
Admiral CORWWALLIS'S (hip arrived in Torbay on

Friday.
It is known to every one, that but little informa•
don refpeiling the military movements of the enemy,
or any thing that related to matters conneaed with
the French army, can be obtained from the Paris
journals. Nothing difpleafing to the Government
dare appear in thefe vehicles ; and in France Welt:
excepting in the immediate neighbourhood where any
thing occurs, the people are kept in a Rate of com-
plete ignorance of every thing unpleafant that hap-
pens. It can excite no furprize. therefore, that in
Come inflances, a confiderable portion of time fhould
elapCe before we hear of certain events, or when we
do chance to hear of them, before any accounts ar-
rive tending to corroborate them.
So far back as the t4th of December, we prefented
in our Paper the following paragraphs :
1, Accounts have been received from Bofilogne,
which date, that there had lately been a mutiny
among the troops there. The mutineers were not
quelled till Come lives were 1011. Three Officers be.
longing to the 41R demi•brigade, are Paid to have
Leen killed, but whether in qiidling the mutiny or
previoufly by the foldiers we have not learnt." •
We have watched, but in vain, the French and
Dutch Papers ever fillet, to learn fame particulars
refpeeling this affair, as the intelligence came to us
through a channel that left us little doubt as to its
general correetnefs. The following paragraph, co-
pied from a Morning Paper of this day, fcems to
confirm the (Lament
We lag night law a le:ter from a naval officer
of high rank. which Rates, that intelligence has been
jug received from our critizers off Boulogne. in which
it is mentioned, that two of the French gun boats,
which were ordered from the inner harbour to the
outer. had, almoft immediately after getting into the
latter, fevotafted, each of them having too men on
board, all of whom were 1011. This incident is dated
in a letter alluded to. to have had fuch an effea on
the French army which was in fight. and under or-
ders for embarkation, that a number of them muti-
nied. The mutiny, however. was reprefied, and three
Officers if the 41 fi Demi-Brigade accufed of being
forward to promote this mutinous difpofition, were

put to death."
Shoulivthe above event really have taken place,
and it kerns very probable that it rells on fm
dation, it may account for the fcene of bultnle he f°avuinng.
for the prefent been in a glen meafure transferred to
the Ditch ports for a time. Some accounts, how. I
ever, have been received, which (peak of the prepa-
rations
there as being lefs forward than fume of
the late rumours have (Wed. Letters from Rot.
terdam and Amfterdam alert, that the entire force.
French and Dutch, in the provinces of Holland and
'Zealand, including the whole coaft, from the Weft
Scheldt to the Teta, does not d forty thoufand
men, parrifons included. The principal &qua:able
corps which the enemy has in the Batavian Republic.
is alfembled in the neighbourhood of the Helder, and
this does not exceed fixteen or feventeen thoufand
men, chiefly French. It is, however, to be obferved,
that the enemy poffefs the means and great facility for
the augmentation of this force from Hanover, &c.
There is another (mall army colleaed in the Wand
of Watcherec, apparently intended for the defence of
Hurtling, the "Folks of which have been fo extended
of late, as to ',rider a confiderable augmentation of
I its girl ifon neceffary ; this force our informant 'tai-
Imates at fonsething more than eight thoufand men.
The activity which has prevailed in the Dutch dock.