The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-17 00:00:00

FLUSNING.

WIDDLIMIROIN, Nun O'CLOCK,
TVITDAY AFTERNOON.

44 Floshieg, after haring been etposed, during
the two last nights, to a most tremendous bombard.
melt, offered to stirrer' ler at half past two this
morning. Tae place has not yet been fur.
malty taken possession of by the British troops ;
but the delay has arisen, not from any supposition !
that the garrison could possibly hold out longer,
or any consequent difficiilty respecting t Tins, but
for the purpose of adjusting satisfactorily some de.
tails of miaor importance, which, tho•igh nut essen.
tial to the merits, are necessary to the cucution of
the conditions ofsuri cutler. The garritin are to be
prkoners of war; and, indeed, sock had been the I
progress made by the Br.tisio naval ani I itid forces
against the works of the fortress, that the enemy
could not hope to obtain say terms than those of
an toneunditiolial %urretider. II k understood that
the 95.10, and the German uxiinelit of Col. Ilal het.,
mill Inf:e pnrees,ien ,f the rates of the town at
six o'clock Mit evening, when the British flag
will he hoist.ll 411 the ramparts, and the whole of
this ist nil will then be completely in possession
of th.• army. The terrible havoc made by
the to tnibardment of Sunday in the ton n of Flush.
inistc,..l the Guirernor to offer yesterday terms
of crpitalation.

" The offer, however, was not considered ad.
sois-ible, and conseptently the b.onb trilment was
resumed with eq•rtl vigour, but with more die. t,
last eight, and the firin: did not cease till Milt' past
too o'clock this morning, when terms nearly of
un:ondilivn.rl surrender were proposed by the
garrisoo. The nature of the enemy's otrr yester-
day has not transpired ; but the rejection of it in
the most p;Teinptory manner is said to have ar sin
from the dem and, on the part of the French Go-
vernor, of owe favours:ldle terms for the Irish.
Inca in the garrison of Flushing than the British
General coul:I with propriety grant, or the French.
mall had any right to etpeet. That point is now,
however, settled, and the fortune of war hrs con.
firmed to British valour the uncrialified reduction
of the place.
" It is not yet possible to collect any materials
to form a correct estitloste of the I. Si un the part of
the French, or of the estent of the injo y su
tabled by the town. That must• he the business
of actual observation and delail.4l inquiry. It is
mot satisfactory, however, to be able to state,
th it the loss the British army is comparriiv ly
small, when the strength cf the eteem)'s sy.wks,
the obviatey of their resistance, anti the earl r
intectoo4.) of our troops in the contest, are taken
into con.ileration. The whole of our loss dues
not exceed eight or nine kindred in killed,
wounded, and missing. The loss on the part of
thr litie.of.b.itt le ships, tibia had a must impor.
taut an I a most exposed post assigned to them, is
not y.t known; but from their incessant fire, and
the catisegnent havoc and confusion amongst the
&feed...pi of use batteries opposed to them, it is tier
to conclude that it could ant have been very con.
siderrble. With the town tumbling about them in
ruins, and a well.directed and accumulated fire
coins' tl:eir batteries, it was scarcely possible fur
th. enemy to return the fire with equal ur ado.
go tie effect ; the shies, therefore, tivough most
eadose.l, cool I searnely have 'Weird very mate-
rially no lcr such circumstances ; and the value IA
Cie arq isitirts, no less than the splendor of the
c.eitricst, most be greatly beighteiteJ by the late.
.if the sacrifice made fur its attainment.
" 1.) elrort was mails during the course of
last :seek, to compl..te the batteries, in ordt r that
no delay 5:10111 I take place in the attack of the
tout', as soon as the ships of war destined to
cu-sir.r tie with the -arm) should come into their
twins,. B. Ind. fatigable and unreteitted vier.
on the [List of both •ervices, the w bah of the
preparations were complete at an early hoer on
Stool iy. About half., est two, P. M. the bons.
L.sr !men, c ~,,, menced, and confine' s! without the!
slightest int. risitsion until five o'clock. Thy toon
was s t fire to in sercr.ti plrees, anti the works
of the enemy materially injured. Soch was the
tientendous extent and continuity of the vz tin.
sin 'to b aides, that several Officers whet have
been in miss• of the great battles, which have de.
tided the fa.e of nations on the Continent, declare
that they nevyr a itnessed so terrible Intl destrise.
ti', a cannonade. Besides the impression made on
the town an I its d •fence by this bombardment, an
important butter) in front of the town was taken
from the en my, an aeqtoisition the more valuable,
b cruse it was so situated as to give :he enemy the
Watts of greatly annoying the British troupes in
their approaches. 'Jumbled by a'l these circtito-
s.anres, an.l depressed, too, by the disastrous result
of another sortie,theene.ny moderated hislofty tone,
and condescended to prulfer those terms of capita.
Ilion which the Commander in Chief felt himself
bound in duty and bower to meet with amass-
tumults election. A short interest of impended
hostility mooed, but the awful pause served only
to atigoent by contrast the horrors of the re.
tested beedoudalcst. lioett after dark the casco.