The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-12 00:00:00

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THE STATESMAN.

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LONDON:
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SATS/11t?l,', AUGUST 12.
PAITCE or WAbes's Biarig-DA r.—Holiday at the Public-
tykes.

DIJTATCHIS Were yesterday received by Go.
vernrnent from Flushing, of which extracts will
appear in The Gazette of this evening. There
ware several arrivals from the Expedition at differ-
ent points of our coast on Thursday night ; but
the dispatches were brought over, together with
the bold Mclennan himself, in perfect safety, by
Sir \V s. Cuarrs's yacht.
The following particulars of the dispatches,
which arc dated the Sth inst. have been circulated :
" The siege of Flushing was carrying on with ac.
46 tivit., although the enemy was taking every
ic measure for its defence. Another sortie had
64 been made, in which the enemy was repulsed
•‘ with considerable loss. A Lieutenant-Colonel,
44 six other o;ficers, and many private, were
64 made prisoners."
44 Our lon consists of nine OAcers wounded,
" 20 men killed, MS wounded. The 3d Batt.
" Royals, sth, and 36th Regiments, were chiefly
" engaged."

!•KES OF TUC OFFICERS WOVMDFD.
I.ieetewint Grant, of the Royal Artillery. slightly.
Regiment of Foot, Reigade-Major missing; Cop-
t/tin Hamilton, badly wounded; Lieut. Bird, slightly; Ea-
riga Galnr.tith, ditto; En.ign Walter, ditto.
95th ditto, Lieut. Clark, badly.
German Legion, Lieut. Du I.i , badly; Ensign Hichrnon,
,ditto.

The night of the sortie was extremely tern.
" pesimous ; our fleet had not been able to move
64 from foul weather; the divisions of the Mar.
" quis of Holerarr and the Earl of ROSSLYN
" had been landed in South lieveland."
A private letter says, " Flushing has not yet
" surrendered, nor hos the bombardment begun.
" The enemy has received reinforcements fi om
‘• the Flemish costa, and make frequent sorties,
" which have occasioned some loss on both sides,
probably about 1000 men. The opinion pre.
44 veils, that in consequence of the peace between
46 Austria and France, the English will drop
" their plan of further operations against Hot-
" land, or higher up the Scheldt. The be-
" sieging army before Flushing consists of about
" 26,000 men."
Such are the accounts which have been circu.
laced ; but the real stale of the case, we lament
to say, on very good authority, is this—. The peo.
pie of Holland are decidedly hostile to o:.tr at.
tempt!!!...and so far from shoeing the smallest
inclivation to second the efforts of England for
the delioerance of their country, have treated
with contempt a threat to inundate the country
by tutting the tlyev, in case of their refusal to
join in the deliocrunce of the Continent. That
such is the fact, we have very cogent reasons for
?g. The measures of England are not
stewed favourably in Holland ; and wherever we
go, obstinate resistance will certainly be opposed
to our attempts.
The discontent that has been reported to exist
in Holland, is to be found no where—but &spirit
of obstinate resistance every where.—Succours
frnm Cadsand have been suffered to be thrown
into Flushing—and the French Commander, know.
ing the important consequences that must result
from delay, instead of surrendering, as was at
.first expected, to a rapid, but irregular attack, has
determined to defend the place to the last extre.
mitt'.—Our Commanders arc thus reduced to the
necessity of besieging the place in form—and
when the lest vessels left the Island of Welelieren,
which was on Thursday—the regular siege
was to be begun only yesterday morniag
Of the ulterior objects, as they are termed, of the
Expedition we arc ignorant—but, in the grand
abject, the Expedition has absolutely and :omit!!
fuit.l. No impression dangerous to the pin:cr
and in,luenc3 of PlerotzoN will be made on the
Continent by this Expedition. Of that no hope
is entertaiaed. Thu fleet hi the Scheldt, ond
the Susedis4 fleet, arc thtm the wily ulterior
operations which are likely to be attempted.—
Now, while one-half of our 50,000 brave troops
Are oecepied by the French and Dutch at Flush.
eel the other half arc waiting, looking on, in
i•itith-Bevelend, the Trines of Poere-Comwo,
(Liernadutte) is assembling troops from all quar-
ters, fur the protectioa of A!itwerp. An attack
on Fort and the Aips of war that are ego
mud to Le moortml its a strong line neer it, will, inn!!
probability, be made by our (Let and arety.
It i. very publble that is srtch as attack dicir of.,
forts will be stic.,essfni, but nut ,vitaotit alum that
be felt. Het that we can ifter n arils watt,
°ire the V‘ltt be opposed to us At Antwerp.
reduce that city, is r.urely more than sell:robe-
irel so :t is f.lt to bt:, -run by Nlitesvrs t!ltas.

Faox • subject so painful the feeler of
Britons as the ill-directed message of Ministers
in the Scheldt, if we turn our eyes to Spain, we
shall see still less reason for hope. The probabi.
kty of Sir AnTIIIIR Wk.f.LESLZY9S retreat be-
gins to be admitted even in the Nabob's hire-
ling Print.— If intelligence to this effect hu
been received, it is studiously concealed ; but
Dispatches arc believed to hare been received
from Spain, by the troy of Corunna, last night
—be that as it may, all hope of success from
our exertions in the Peninsula arc extinct. Lord
WILLIAM BENTINCIL is about to proceed imme-
diately to Spain, in a diplomatic capacity. Un-
less his mission relates to arrangements respecting
South America, we arc at a loss to divine the
object.

CAPTAIN CAMPBELL landed at Yarmouth ycstcr.
day from the Lord Duncan packet, direct from
Heligoland, and arrived in town early this morn.
lug. He is said to be the bearer of dispatches of
extreme importance. ' It is difficult to conceive any
subject to which exclusive or pre-eminent impor.
Lance can now be attached. Every wind wafts
intelligence to our shores, of importance most
imminent.—From the Frcuch and German Pa.
pens that arrived lasi night, it will be seen that
although NAPOLEON cautiously continues to
strengthen his position at Vienna, every circum-
stance that transpires tends to corroborate the opi.
niun that peace will speedily be concluded between
France and Austria, the immediate consequences
of which will be, first the pouring of reinforce.
melts into Spain, and next the preparations for
the long meditated Expedition to India. Our Ex.
pedition, from the circumstances under which it
now stands, it will scarcely demand an effort
to expel. The first stage to India will be
Turkey, in whose European territory will
be found the material, fur compeusating the
losses Austria, atil fur the gratification not
only 8f her cupidity, but that of ALtxANALR•
That this attempt surpasses in difficulty an that
NAPOLEON has hitherto attempted, we readily ad.
mit—bat with those who deem it finally intprar.
lira!): e, we are not disposed to contend.—Whilst we
reale:ober the incursions of GENGIII2 KIIAN and
TAMERLANE, we shall uut be inclined to think
that the enterprising mind of NAPOLEoN Is in.
capable of effecting that vi hick was accomplish-
ed by those barbarians. Divested of all ap.
prehensions of the for in,,r great Powers of
Europe, the efforts of NAPOLEON, so far
from abating, will new be exerted with redoubled
force and activity. If England will obstinately
persevere in war, war she must have, and, with
it, we clearly foresee, calamities, of which no-
thing but the actual presence, will bring convic.
tion to the tear faction. What is to be risqueil
by Peace, that will not in a teu-fold degree cer-
tainly arise from war, our optics arc not suf.
ficiently clear to enable us to discern.—
The expenditure of the present year for Great
Britain and Ireland exceeds 90 millions sterling.—
We have sent an army to Sicily—an army to Spain
...and an army to Holland...at an expence per.
haps of mere than 20 millions—all of whirl► will
now return absolutely rc i ofecta—unsuccessful.....
and without attaining, in any one instance, the üb.
jests fur which this almost inzredible expense has
been incurred. We broke the peace of Amiens, fur
what ? to reduce the power of BONAPARTE-210d
Austria was laid prostrate at Austerlitz. We emit
up our caps and "cheered" when the news of Lord
LAUDERDALE'S return from Paris was announced
by the LORD MAYOR of London to his fellow.
citizens, and—Prussia was " blotted oast of the
map of nations," at Jena.—Wu refused the invi.
tatiun for peace from Erfurth—and NAPOLEON
drove& British army out of Spain....ln the same
obstinate disposition for war we ha►e continued ;
and, encouraging Austria to renew the contest, she
once more lies prostrate at the feet of NAPO-
LEON. This, by forcing the French into nal.,
we have compelled them to conquer Austria,
Prussia, and Russia; and removed those ob-
jects of apprehension which their existence must
always have presented.—Will the power of NA.
POLEON be reduced .1 —Will the power and re.
sources of England be increased by our perseve-
rance in war?—By war we have every thing to lose,
without a possibility of gaining. Let NAPOLEON
have ships, colonies, and commerce, and he will find
it no easy matter to persuade his people, once be.
come commercial, to go to war. They cannot ex.
pcct,like the "Shopkeepers" of England,to secu rc
even a temporary monopoly ; and ►+e know of nu
ether species of insanity w Inch can seduce a coin.
mercial people to prefer war to peace. Bet the
monopoly of is nu more.—ol that truth
her Merchants and her Ministers may be cer-
tain.

Wits Royal litighuess tlir Prince (if ix( COITI_
plcted the 17th yesr_ of his age this day, which
uas celebrated with the usual dethonstratious of
satisfaction.

This day her Royal Highness the Princess of
Wa.t.Es will give a grand entertainment, at her
argctiprats in Nensington ralace.