The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-30 00:00:00

TH g STATV.SMAN.

rilitE QUARrEitLY REVIF,W, Ho. 111., prevailed ; and there is bat too much reason to
JIL iiptihli,ard fa!, uar, for John Murray, yi, Dalt-
street, and .5. HiseT3.4:4, ficuuit.ly, 1-nodoo; sod way ikk I', ''" '
ani)rtsbouJ that with his wounded the number
I
b" übo of every 840k:ester 1101 XcKainga to To'bd 4ad' of sick alio abandoned in his retreat, swells the
caunafy.
—Nisiril. Aggregate to a very, fornsidablo amount. 'rho

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nutubet of Ai.nindertatlalavera was AIM-roll of
:%olsoni must tveceistrilihave been left, for it is
'hot to be suppostul that any would be included in
tkit list whose hurts were slight ;—but if, as is re.
ported, the number of sick should even exceed
that of the wounded, the reduction of the British
army will he found to be most important,—
Oat what is still more to be lamented is, the
rumour of the dissatisfaction of Livid WEr.t.nra.•
Tou with the conduct of some persons under his
command. Two Officers are mentioned to have
been placed under arrest—fur what reason, it is
not known.
The Expedilians to the Sc:idle and to the
Peninsula, will probably give rise to More
than one Inquiry—or, perhaps, Court Martial—
!Tow happens it that, with the exception of
shypoNT, Svc *ever bear of the dissatisfaction of
NAPOLEON with the conduct of his Officers—and,
what is not less extraordinary, we find them al.
ways ready to co.operate with each other...-.
SOULT, PICT, MoRTIER, VICTOR, and SERAS.
Tr*xi, in despite of all the dissensions created in
the Courier and Nabob's /sort, concur in the
execution of a plan devised and executed with
great skill. Notwithstanding all the ussertious
that general cordiality exists in our Expeditioa—
we have very good reason to doubt the fact.

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/110POSITI TBXAX.

LONDON:
wEvviso4T, *COVET 30.
Two, Mails from fleliktlAnd arrived in town to.
day between twelve and one o'clock, by which
ifaraburgh cud Altona Flatters to the Ilith inst.
inclusive are received. It will be seen that the
rupture of tits armistice is yet to be found only
in the detecting prints of this Metropolis ; and,
whit is not a little extraordinary, the Archduke

CRAiILtS, who has been loaded with abuse
by 'these very prints, for having urged the
c•oclusion of tlee Peace., is now assorted
to be decided fa his opposition to that swa-
m/re. We feel great cariosity to see how
this correction will be treated by the Ministerial
Toots—T,e Courier, and The Post —the Nabob's
Post. The abuse of these Prints will now, we
suppose, be transferred from the AIICTIOUILE to
his brother the EIFERt/R• Gee. Blit4fickiiDE,
nod not Prince J ow; of facuTssrunt,,is said
in these Pipers to he ylAced at the iend ofahe
Austrian Armies. The Archduke CnAtawriitas
always been suppose' to have had a poen
sheet fur the opiiiitnii and advice of Gee.
61.1itpt.
t is surely difficult, if not impossiblei 'far the
most sceptical to doubt of peace between France
4nd Austria. Russia is celled in-irdoubtless to
'resist in arranging the plan foe eisinumbering
tae tottering Empire of the °time's% he Eu-
rope—which, after having once been the scourge
and terror of Europe, is at length donned to
destruction by NspoLvix, the son of an obscure
individnal, of an obscure Island ;n the Maliier-
ratican

A division of 13,000 French troops. stationed
at Cadsand, men-ices the island of Walcherco.
Three hundred gunboats from Boulogne base been
brought np by the canals in the interlbr, to trans.
port that ditision, commanded, it is said, by Brit-
N A DOTTE, to Walchcrcn. The expectation of an
attack is so prevalent, that the British Governor
finds it necessary to adopt nearly all the precau-
tions called fur by the actual presence of an ene-
my, and a body of 10,000 men has been left for
the defeneirOf the island.
Sir -Tony:Hope is mentioned at having strongly
pointed out diellaprobability of succeeding in an
attack ow4knktris4), and many General Ofiek-ss
are stileci to hoselhupported his opinion. A let-
ter front an 0111 W at Fliisliing contains sonic se-
vere remarks oil the conduct of Lord CIIATVAIII,
which, it says, " will inevitably be submitted to
the consideration of a Cuurt-Nlartial."
Sir ET COOTW. has returned with his Stiff
from Besel-d to the Iceland of IValchereo, of
which he has bait appoioull to the command in
place of General M`lizN zit Fit 110 is come
I erne in bad Lei, h. Lord llowzyti, and a num-
ber of offic:rs, hate also been seized with the ape
, and fever. The French, it is thought, are so
,strong on rho Island of Cadsand, as to require a
very consid,-rable force to he left for the sectsri.y
of %Vali:berets, which will require 20,000 men to
defend it.

6' BAWLS OF vas ELS; Avo. bare
no news from Austria, that gives any certain:y of
war or peace, and the general opiitioti is, that the
affairs of Turkoy will also be decided in I::: Aus.
trips Congress of Peace, if it sliwild reely take
place. The Archduke CHARLES does not shore
in the sentimeate of Ais brother, lisitLEaspervi
FRA Ness, who is taidtobe prcisariv Tanelude
peace at inky rocrffica. The Archlygtelq.%of F •
has, on this eacattinty resigned the (Thiel (4qpiinand
of the army, aud mot from indisposition: ;A, Rms.
Sian pOECHIHIEY Inn hourly expected stSchtxm.
brunn, from St. Petbrsburgh,
" 4 i.ToNA, A no. 18.—General ott.i.ea \UDE
lon taken the command of the Austrian ar ny ;
General if Lt.sa and other Generale will act en.
der him. The Archduke FOIEDITAVID is arrived
in Bohemia with his corps. The Ding of 11. s.
T int A has granted an indemnity to the Insurgents
of the Tyrol, on condition that they lay down
their arms within the space of e:ght days ; the
Chiefs only of the Itaxtorrectiou are e4cepted."—
( Abate da Nord, Aug. 18.)
111•7 _ _ _

A% late is Sunday last. a greatiptantity of stares,
ammunition, rockets, ire. were shipped at Wool-
wich for the Scheldt. This looks as if Ministers
had nut relinqui,hed all further offensive move.
intents in that quarter.
An Officer who has jest left his station in the
neighboarhuoil of the Scheldt, acquaints us that
411 the ships of tsar of the enemy have had their
genii removtilf in order to citable them to pass the
shallow watey and that in consequeneo of being
lightened, liiist have approached the viciteity of
Antwerp, and are thus played mach beyond the
r. all of nosy of the dntritetive missiles the ingc.
unity of Colonel CONGREVN Cali supply. With
the artillery taken from the skipping, batteries
hive been form'ed through the extent of many miles
between B..velasid and Antwerp, which it is. to he
a p p re h en d ell will render it impossible fur our ships
of war to go up the river.
A considerable part of the garrison of Flushing
caasisted of Austrians and Spaniards.
it is reported in private letters, that 44 When
the Hirticilition made its first appearance at the
mouth of the Scheldt, so little was it expected
th•le, that the Governor of Antwerp was absent
Item his post, and was actually at itia, drinking
the waters for the benefit of his health, lie was
brought hack by an express, and immediately nn
his arrival, bait nut until then, were the least preps.
rations made to defend the town and harbour
against the impending attack."—We feel great'
dilliculty iii giving creilit to this statement. it is
inspussible that, amongst the various conjectures
as to the object of our Expedition, the Seivellit
should never once have suggested itself to the me-
i my, who is not very apt to be dull of apprehension
on titese siebjects.
1 A treat number of the men wounded at Flushing
land its vicinity, are happily recovering very ra.
i pidty sitter they have arrived at the hospitals.—
I 'There has fortunately no species of fever prevailed
i a.vi wig them, not% itlistauding the leßsuit of the
i year, and tat) only have died since landing.
1 Except in the article of water, our troops have
been must ahssndantty supplied, both in Walche.
I ten and South Beveland. That article was found
out to be of a good quality in either place; sup-
pliers of which are therefore daily sent el (rout our
1 own shores to the army and the fleet.
The prisoners which arrived in the Monmouth
from Flushing were landed on Monday at Var.
mouth, and marched for Stilton Barracks, under
4 detachment of the Royal Berkshire Militia.
Orders have bruit roreived at Woolwich to pre.

Another Communicitalm his been received from
Boer Jesuit, where it appears to have been be.
lieved on the 18th inst. that NAPOLZUN was actu-
ally on his read to Spain. The silence of the
German Papers is inconsistent with Oat- IDefief,
Pis return to Paris would, is all probability,
hive been known in Ilambnrgh on that day,
hielt is th. latest data of the Pipers now re.
c. irtsl. It is clear that nothing is known with
certainty on the subject.
Whin' N eoceom is arranging on the Banks of
the Danube the plan for the dismemberment of
Tarkey—tbe successful oppoeition of his forces in
Spain and on the Scheldt, renders his presence
less necessary at these points—where a more od.
verse fortune miAlit have been auticipatad. The
Iklinisters of England eli3Ullie, however, if they
b iTe it not, the adpearatice of hope, that tome.
.thinz may yet be done in the Peniniela sod in the
Scheldt. e'
Troops ari marching in various directions to our
coasts, fur the purpose of reinforciag (ice British a r-
gly in SpuittLwand artillery, animunitims, and rock-
ets, hare b.-en and cantinas tube shipflted at Wool.
with fur the Scheldt. The secrecreiserved, with
•tmpect to the r4ii Onto of airs at:those important
roiuts, it profound. illensoursi do, hoverer, tran-
. spire, which are by on awns eatesiated to dissipate
the gloom, "hid is now so rapidly egliesting ip
every leerier of the political horivm. Iu ths
errs qt Intl Winctionvois !kit wr. 100

, an urtilkry for another Expedition.
Prepafiations are makiag at Plymouth for the
reception of several thousand troops from the Mitt_
law 4 potiist, who .ire to proceed to Plymouth to
eashati for Spais. The ad battalion of the 3d
(or pldßs) is also to embark theie detach.
Monts of that corps are now doing duty as Marines
on bum! Abe prison-ships In iiisnioare.—The fast
battalion of this llng corps is alruagy in Spain.
Letters coma Filmic say, that Admiral V t
IHNF imam oailimito Normandy.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Pairesstevrtt, AVGCST 29.— Arrived the Revenge, Bern,
Revolution, and Moo:arch, of ;1 run each, *kb treuch pri-
soners on board, from Vi'olcheren ; and the Alas, of ith pia),
t. aptain way, from Chatham ; the Brilliant trivet,
Captain *myth, from kin Janeiro, !anima the Downs.
belled Is Loire joie, w juju the Donn; squndroo ; and
the Dcleader, Lieutenant Nop,, on a cruise.
Came into harbour, the Argo, of II gun., Captain Digtc,
•
lately from Jamaica.

fI:AL, ACQ. 19.-114 NlAji.bori ships Acltillci, Alfred,
awl Orioo, with prisooers from Fliottiog, sailed to the We,t-
ward this osonsing.

BV it Gentleman who arrived from the bland of Wale*.
rro last night, in 4 tsho.was at ('amp% Cr!' OA ‘Vedittida) kat,
we are iofonned that Ave sail of the lino and Moe frigates
►ad then sailed up the Scheldt, for the wartime of twest:totx
the chain awl Immo placed ;cross that Kiser scar runt:tilos
The outward-booed reamin.—.Wind S. W.

sponrow Lyn L LIG ENCE.

FGUAM RACIA.

TUrSnATI AUGIVIrt %9.
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Mn. Forth's Sunbeam, 4 In. obi .
H. R. 11. the Dike of Clareere's Nymplina. i yes, old
Mr. Ladbrokes. Trisisbnals, 4 )n.
14. liarry sires Aosiothsi. by Waxy, Syn. .. 4
Sit J. illawbey's b. c. Batley's, br Teddy. 9 yt..4.111...
4to tel against the wiener. Awilillint the favesibe. S
is the field.
The barmy Stokes of mss. each. ft. far tWegelliNlide►
nobs to eArrinen. 4th. Allies tot. foaled In the &My
Ma the law if of the new stk.
Mr. Durand's rb. f. sister so Tristram tsse
Sir J. Idawboy's di. e. by SAMerrer, ditiot by Saltrana....
WI ea the wsnner.
The Noblest° and Gottingen's Plata of pOl. for all WWI
two miles and ri half to each heat.
Last Egress •at's b. f. by Cuba's'. tt yrs. old I 1
Mr. Trevanioa's Jocasta. 9 yrs. old
Goo. Ilatiendeo's Sir Edward, S vrt. old . N
Duke of St. Albans's b. h. Mr. Goodall, b yrs. ell 4 dr

WOMEN AAD CHILDREN IN THE
FRE CH CARTEL.

TO TIII: LDITUP. OE THE STATESMAN.

Sic —ln the Silt column of your Paper of
Taetsday 14)t, uu have inserted an account of the
landing of a number of si omen cud children at
rtutuu tia. twiongi ng to our soldier.;—so far your
information is correct--but the subsequent insi.
nuation, of the inhumanity of tile French Go-
vernment in not having supplied them with provi.
sions on board the cartel, is certainly unjust—
'notwithstanding it is said to have Lem stated front

authority.
Ou the morning after they were landed from the
Cariet, I met three of the women, who asked re.
lid how the; I put a number of questions to them
Fen
the subject of theiradvenUires, and amongst
—kow they kid boen treated iis France?—
, liellk &Her, arts than tee seem likely to be

is trailed Acre;" wits the answer. —46 The
44 *per of Dartmouth las given w a shilling,
41 liNd al pint Se go la Portratotah., The Ft-twit
is paid durr expellee: down to the coact—we were
44 nem well treated an She way...and, when we
14 sot Mae, they gave us five doilars."—Stich
10111 the account given by those unfuctunato per.
tens, and I rely epee your candour anti lore of
truth for the correction d the erroneous account
you gise, which, being copied iatu the protinCia
Prints, bas tended to hisseainale tutoasbout tbe
kingdom so fod,e and unjust au imputation,
aui, &a.
Devonshire, Anent 46, 1114 g,

We feel at all times great pleasure in correct-
ing a mistake; and are grateful to our Corm-
poudent fur his information. On reference, we
find that the paragraph was copied from one of tho
Morning Papers, in almost all of which it ap-
peared. lii what motive such an imps' ition of
inhumanity cast have originated, it is difficult to
conjecture. The miseries of war surety require
not that aggravation which such taisrepreseeta-
lions are calculated to produce. England and
France are this most civilized countries on the fare
of the globe. The humanity and generosity of
England are kno:cn—and wiiatever may have been
the atrocities committed during the French Revels_
gloss, the public may rest assured (on the authority
of very respectable persons who have been rele.tsed
from confinimient its France), that the general
conduct of the people there has been marked by
humanity, and the most friendly civility to.
wards our countrymen. In the fury of ciril ani-
mosities; the people of France were guilty of
excesses, and even cruelties, at which humanity
shudders. Bit let us not be so prejudiced,
as to suppose that_ humanity exists not in France.
The people of that country are as strongly into.
cured by the social principle as any people in the
world. In reprobating the people of France, we seem
to forget the many acts of cruelty and outrage that
are reoorded of the people and the Government of
England at various periods of history. In the
reign of that Monarch who was called by the
peopk to the Throne for the preservation and
establishment of their liberties, en act was
committed, a hich might vie with almost :my to
be found the calendar of recent inhumanity,.
Is the massacre at Glencoe, a whole Clan was
Ay a deliberate order indiscriminately murdered—
men, women, and ehildren..-and that too by a
party of soldiers, who, previous to the commis-
siun of that maim deed, had accepted the huspi•
talky of the devoted inhabitants of the Talks), of
Glencoe.—That act dzed an indelible 'tent on the
reign of King %VALLI tir.-13sit %%ha: if ,ie turn
our eyes towards Ireland in 17V8 ? - Is it bet 'ming
in those people, whit to this uttur cqntinite tops.
tify those horrors—to load tb.: Purnell people
; with abuse fur cruelty ? ! ! !

No official intelligent , it a, orarb has yet bran
rec.vir d from Srain, and much aims. y I pm-
rails respecting ;he situati .n of the army under
Lord Wrt.i.tYGTON. It was stated, in I (tab ro.
wised yettersiziy from Falmouth, that the Non.
pored had arrived there with dispatches from his
Lordship. This *as, however, a mistaisv; the
;Nonpareil has not brought the expected dig.
patches io Government, and it is apprehended that
the vessel which sailed %ill& them has either beim
lust, ur captured by the enemy.
We are happy to have it in our power to state,
on 4he authority of an agricultural survey recently
made in the counties of Norfolk, Sutfolk, and
Cambridge, that the crops of IV heat are guneralty
good and free from mildew, and are principally
housed. Thu Barley is also good, but not quite
fit to cut. Turnips are eta very good, but soma
few pieces have gut the Hy.
The harvest has commenced in the neighbour-
hood of Hall, pretty generally, and the crops do
nut appear to be so much injured as "rob
dreaded from the numerous heavy showers ..st
have lately fallen in that country. It ss ht hoped
that a certain proportion of the liilitis a ill be al-
lowed to work in the harvest field.

In the days of HIVIRY VHI. the British metro-
polio swarmed with Kites, which wero attracted to
it by the different oft.iis thrown out in the streeN
and were so fearless as to take this their prey in
the miilst of the greatest criAwda, it being forbid-
den by public ordinance to kiU them that a
gite was as muck resered le the sterete of L a-
dult In those times, as the .0 Ntture is at preseiit in
Shoes of orstraisd Carob or the Stork la those of
4111sferiast.
.

THE EXPEDITIO.v.
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

" Mtaattaraosr, Ara. ^ll.—At leogth T hare had an
sisportinsity of *reins the effects of nur hotabarirocut on
Fiu,biogi Ws which it had be n, for some days, rather diffi-
cult to bed admission, and a more melancholy spectacle it is
scarcely possible to imagine. The enameled bodies of mos,
women. sad children, are daily extracting from the wreck
et their former habit:dims; nearly ime.third of the town A
in reins. or the Stadt House. which has been Sang the ad.
?iteration of travellers, which, is fact, was mop of the wad
opteitild hoildings in the Dutch territories, the niter walls
aims renlain; two chortles hare bees bona to the around,
•iiie of which was la the viebsity of the amens, ; the UM"
bad a most talraesbosomeares it received between forty and

liftY shots, mad wren live three Merest times. but owing to
the extraordinary pretending taken by the enemy, it was got
under. In see butersec the fie► appears to have reached
within a lard at the migaxim.. which contained smarty six
headrest barrels of powder. Had this caught are, what a
tremendous ellket!—,cost probably eat a vestige of the to we
would have been left stasdiag. But miseitief enough has been
door to this nafertmate town. Net a house have I sere
which has twit been perforated in mimes places. Althour,h
this asseinSinge of calamity must naturally eicile c impasbine
I. Caveat of the salferers, still it mug dispose oneie ackatiw-
ledge the skill of our artillery, of which it presents sue• gide-
niable testimony. Indeed the ability displayed sly this seeps
ryas roost convicangs. The batteries were disposed with
rest joigment. Their priseipal farce was ea the right of
tSe lines, and in the cent e. There were thirteen 21-pounderr.
and six 10-inch mortars at the former& ten 24-pounders, mid
'WS Menstar-batteries. the ewe of six 10-itch, ,sat the other

of four 10-inch, at the latter. ?be gins oft the right Ms?* dis.
reedy so the enemy's left, and enfiladed the sea-detewres to
the westward of the town ; the goat in the cestre estM*d,d
tbo•e of the enemy's left, and took their sea-daences in re-
sew; between the right and centre tbeee was a battery of
sit twenty-four-pounder, manned by the mimeo, and also

some ten-iscb which enfiladed part of tree ene-
my's defences. On the left was a buttery of Three?!-poun-
der. and four 10-ineh mortars. which bore on the right nt
the town. Such was the destructive operation of these
batteries and the shipping, the, it if supposed if their tire had
aot been suspended so 3.mlay evenitv. during for inter‘at
produced hv the anrunsms sent to the garrimpu. the whole
tooth would hive been in *sines cm Sunday night. An im-
mense eat= of fife and smoke enveloped the crown about
Ifileteeinek on Monday. It would be difficult to say which
of the batteries did most eseentina. I have heard it stated
pleat the mortar batteries ha the centre were peculiarly erre-
tat; ta a Atli fret* one of thee mortars the firing of the
fibs& Home is attributed. They mnrian were commanded
by Cape* Adye.!!aeartney, and Fyen. The ten-gun bat-
tery in the centre. ander Captains Munro and Scutt, is also
the object of mach panegNiric. The 11 a batteries on the
tight. under the eammand of Captain Smyth. were most judi-
*sash directed. Fortnnatety fie the shipping. a shot from
ea of these itatttiim rompletely demolished the furnace for
beating shot% at the very outset of the bombardment, before
indeed the shipping hal come entirely within the range of
the town.

" The fame at Ctigmli tv a's Roekets has not been ire-
pored bq their effect in this bombardment. They are stated
tit hates all Min shod of the toms. Color., Cognit, et
milettak,ier ylaina !bet his rockets are capable of a mach
UMW Nips 1110,111•1 and therefore he does not
Mask it stiessare se take an equally arlemmed position for
throwing them; h thi- opinion is. by the Artillery flllicers.
*Joust sminissously prosineseed ernmesua, mil certainly the
perience of the late beashardwient do, Remit justify their
ilea of the subject.
'1 it is but candid toterirds the Engineers to state the reams,
alleßed, to sive them frown the cersere so generally attached
to the delay that took Owe hi the constructing of the works.
It is stated, that is coasewseace of the resistance made by
Termer, which prevented the ordnance transports from bad.
nog their stores, &c. until Wednesday evening, the entrench-
ing tools, &c. necessary fir the ennetmetion nt the works
most be waited for until they were brongl, to the lines by
the roads tistongh llsdklwrgh. When these amessaties ar-
rived. it it mooned that the Engineers immediately ems-
Meneed their operatiorn, It is nor pretended that any delay
whatever took place in the conveyance of these necessaries,.
!..44e1 a
I Tetrvire Weed could not be alleged, for nit depart.
meat of the service has been cordoeted o itti such judgment,
ur esteemed nigh such dispatch, as that committed to the illa-
r re ilriaade,u Mel the direction iif Lord A. ileautierk, whose
activity and attention has beer moot exerapisry ever since oar
rainy landed. The progress of the works was aba retarded
by the inundation, and the galling Ere of the garrison. This
f.re was such, that each of our working-parties had two men
perpetually on :he watch for its protection. The business of
tarn. men VI3I to keep their eyes ors the enemy% goes directed
towards them, and, whei.ever they observed a Nash, to cry
out " upon which try Cie party were immediately
prostrate, mud so remained until exc shell bunt;' they thee
rose again and remised their kiliaor. It is not to be expected
elat area working under such circumstances could make much
progress, and I bare myself seen a party so proccediug.

" The iwitaares of primal counige, and endurance of toll.
which this siege has presented, are lii4hly honourable t• the
character of oar farce; but every day some extraordinary
sa.-etiote was to be heard relative to ow seamen composing
Me Marine Brigade. These men io fart submitted to every
deteription of labour wit► alacrity, and seemed to trek dan-
-r with eagerness. I sot endearourrig to roller/ the names
of those soldiers and seurneo who distinguished themselves.—
Thstigh the Caulk sever eoodeseends to notice surfs perions,
t►eir examples would trod, perhaps, wort to ilitru,e a mar-
Cal spirit in the 4ouotry arcade known, than that of °Seers
of raak.

" fhe army are inactive in Smith neveland. The troops
who% have gone intim hence have not diFeinl.sri-erl. The
wt.ele are improved to wait for frevh advice' from England.
!: » alleged that *large army is collected at Antwerp.
A report prevail.' that a peace ha! been concluded he-
loteori Aerftia and France.
A large depot of public property. of the value of one
million, has been farad at Middleburgh."

The Snake stoop of war, Capt. T. YourvG, in
company with the Fancy giin-brig, Lieut. SIN-
• Luz, has had a gallant action in the port of
Ilameerfest, in Finmark. Tho Snake and Fancy
entered the port at half-past seven in the morning
ea the 23d July, and anchored between two forts,
which, with the assistance of large divisions of
riflemen, continued a steady and well-directed fire
nn the Snake and Fancy fur mere than two hours.
The town fort first struck to the British gag, and
a detachment of men being landed to storm the
point fort, its defenders fled, and left Captain
TOL/VG in possesssion of both the forts, avhich
were inimetliltely blown np.
The defence :let up by the man sod Rife, who
were detected in plundering tho beds Of the :eve-
val ho,clit where they slept, was, that they wily em-
ployed theme •Ives in the natural pursuit of fee.
(kering (heir own nests !