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tor thorelivf of the troops; and I him lo tot*
that you not tad to call 41 the iid *f. every
assistance oho+ can be procured fr&n the re.
looreti of, the Island far their comfort.
That part of your di;:patchl which relates to
the decri.asmg state of security of the Islaoti from
an hcstile attack', is under consideration.
I hare, &c.
(Signed) CASTL.PLEAGiI•
Firbi roclosure, describes the preparations made
forlhe reception of the sick in Flnglantf,

(Second Inclosure referred to in N0..P.)
Illiddlehurgh, 11th St bfr, tem
Si rt—The communication I have balm hofiourod
with from Lieutenatit-General the Earl o(Chathapt
is of su important a nature that I must lows
to trouble his Lordship with more did '. o r.
various on the subject than I should pretetteillfll9
on any ordinary occasion. • ''
Independent of the eitistiog records-of the en,
healthiness of Zealand, every object around Of
depicts it in the most forcihie manner; the hot
of every canal thst has communication Arith tie
sea, is thickly covered with an ooze, which, w
the tide is out, emits a most offensive and nois
effluvia ; every ditch is filled with water, Oki
is loadzal with animal and ve;otahle substances It
a state of putrefraction ; and the whole isleucl M:
ad Oat, and so near the level of the sea, that a,
lugs portion of it is little better than a swamp,
and there is scarcely a place where water Of a
tolerably good quality can be procured.
The effect of all these causes of disease is
strongly marked in the appearance of the inhabi.
tants, the greater part of whom are pale and list.
less. Scrophule is • a very general complaint
a:nong them. The children are sickly, and •inauy
Of the grown persons are deformed.
The endemic diseases of this country,
.remittent
and intermittent foyers, been to appear about the
middle of August, and continue to prevail until
the commencement of frosty weather checks the
exhalations from the cur.:, gives tone to the dcbi.
Mated frame, of the people, and stops thereby the
further progress of the complaints. It is corn.
Wed that nearly a third of the inhabitants are•
httaeked with fever every sickly season.
• If individuals who hare lived in this island from
their Infancy, who observe a degree of cleanli.
ness that can scarcely be surpassed, end who live
in spacious apartments, cannot obviate the effects
pf the climate, it may naturally be concluded
N; '...i a foreign army must suffer by being exposed,
in the first instance, to excessive fatigue, and to
the inclemency of the weather, end after wards
py beiniT provided into barracks, where, under
the most tivutirable circumstances, the sudden
tralsitioe must have produced a severe gild ex-
*tended disease.
The health which the troopsenjoyediluring the
rietive operetiens, seal but a proof (as have al-
ready had the honour to state to his ordship)
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that the powers of body and mind, when their
energies are called into.action, resist for a time
iho causes of disease. The fever which now un-
happily prevails in the army first appeared among
he battalions which were cantoned in South Beve-
-1 nd, and only began to demonstrate its influence
I;ere ahout the time that Flushing surrendered to
Iris Majesty's arms.
The rabidity s ith which the disease has extend-
ed itself during the short period that has elapsed
Once, that event is almost unexampled in the hia.
tory of any military operations. As the season
4as hitherto been is favourable one (for hot and
dry weather produces the most destructive dis.
oases), the cases have been slight ; bet a'very
considerable number of them have, notwithstand.
irie, assigned a more serious form, and have dege.
sierated into that species of low foyer which ones
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evails in gaols and other ill.veutilated plati
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'ltgland.
A melancholy proof of this is found la the 104
of valuable lives that has already been noticed,
spa which, I am concerned to state, is not dial.
ipishiog. Seventeen men diedin the regimental hos-
itals of this garrison alone during the last 24
hours.
'As the 'progress of the mischief in the short
period of three weeks is much greater than could
rationally have been calculated upon, and a
scarcely a third part of the sickly season has
elapsed, it is hardly possible to conjecture what
loss tray be incurred during the continuance of it.
The causes which operate on the human frame are
so powerful, and so generally applied, that all the
Ovulations and preventives which art can Invent,
though they may diminish, can never obviate
their effects in any great degree; it must there-
fore be sit inevitable consequence of the British
troops retraining in Walcheren, that a very con.
aiderable lon must be sustiined.. •
Although I have trespassed so much on his
Lordship's time, I beg leave to add one remark,
that I humbly conceive of Consequence, which is,
Cat those men who may be *Reeked with • fewer,
and recover from it, will have their tensdtstiesse
so affected by the shock, that their physkal pow-
ers, when called into action bereaftisr, will be
'cry materally diminished. I have, &c.
(Signed) JOHN WIWI,.
Lieut.-Cot Cary, laspecum of ihraplokh.
Military Sec. ste. be. &e.

N 13.—. Dispatch from
61. Lyre Coute, dated
Si it—l have received' you letter of tlis 141
incto,ing the report of Drs. Blanc and lit'Grellsrl
our applying fur 1001(3 line of bent; Wipe to be
9,,;5t to blushing to receive the sick; sod in an.
or thereto I am to acquaint you, khat preVious
t ► the receipt of your letter, instructions had been
i'isued by his Majesty's 'commands to the Lords
commissioners of the Admiralty to send to Wal.
eleven, for the reception of the sick, suds rimitil
battle ships and frigates as cud be spared ft*
that swvice; and I am now to acquaint you, sliit
ste ships named in the margin hare beefs wocred
DlFleshing for the purpose Drs. Blanc and
'Gregor reccimmetul.
it has been &infix!, that in a representation made
by General klonnet to his government, he hail re.
coomengedl that the genbuip of Welchem I

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should ewer reilierfr to 1•111PEIWINnow wow a
view to recovery, it Ming found by ascpwiewee
that t peaks; looker of the ',jilt who *ore kept
in the Wand raftq#val there, than of those who
were, with a psi to their recovery, removed.
wish yen twfommunicato this circumstance to
Dr. Moe, in order that the truth of it may be as-
certained. I em, &c.

• CASTLBRE•AGH.

No. 14.—Dispatch from the Earl of Liverpool to
Sir Eyre Coote, dated oct:l%, mg.
SlR—f. have received and laid before the King
your (wu lettere of the nth instant, with regent to
the sick in tip Island of Walckelien.
I have'written to the Commander in Chief,witb
;ogard to peuding out the heavy baggage for the
ireknicipth
' # agi ift;ppy to find that you have mitred to
the coop Imola of the• inhibit's/eh whom )oe
say pox Itpre employed to the numlller of 400.
I am filo to approve or your batwing appointed
ten inbaMteotp to attend each regiment ay order-
lies.
am rather at a loss for the comptant yen
make with regard to the Officers of the &met
Department, which have been sent out, .not haw-.
.log authority to order repairs or adtStioos awes.
may to reader the barracks habitable ; am I eon.
-.for you possess sufficieot authority to authorize
the expenditure of such sums as you may judge
necessary for the purpo-e, these Officers acting
under your orders, and not under the Commis.
simply. for Barracks. I am, &c.
(Signed) LIVERPOOL
No. 14:—(Mast secret and confidential.)—Dls.
patch from the Earl of Liverpool to the Officer
cominaiding his Majesty's troops in Welche-
m, dated ',4th October, 1809.
Sia—l am to desire you will lose no time in
calling upon the engineer to report to you how
far it is practicable to destroy the basun of Flush-
ing, and the other naval defences of the island ofl
IValcheren, and also to report to you, for the in-
formation of his Majesty's Government, in how
short a space of time those objects could be seve.
rally accomplished, and what permanent elfectsuch
destruction would have on the towns and island of
Welcheren.

I am likewise to desire your opinion, in the
event of its being determined by his Majesty's Go..
vernment to evacuate the IsLind of Welchem,
what length of time it would take, at this season
of the year, to complete the evacuation of the
island, in the two suppositions of the naval de-
fences being destroyed, or of their being left in
thcir present condition.
I am sure you will see the great importance of
thole enquiries being carried on with the utmost
secrecy, so that there may be no suspicion amongst
the inhabitanti, or even if possible, in the garrison,
that any such objects are in contemplation, pre-
vioue to the steps being taken which may be ne-
cessary to carry Chum into szecutiin.
I have,-el.
imittools
To the Officer commanding at Walchereo. • '"'