The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-01 00:00:00

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1701 iirtite of Abgest Admiral Mitchell
sailed Jrem the , with, obel' I,tl •ship.
tooofijok the 161/11lagall fiord, efttatande4 by Sir
Kdssh Abe . woad division under
CeillOiske ri,ifftlie.tla person, who was named
Gliarsinitlitiot lot to take its departure until
thfeillilYr wog 11.110,011 that the lira had arrived at
the place of its destleatioe. Toe military part of
thy untainted was perhaps more OUGWOUS than
that which is wow collected. It consisted of
27,0 u( English troops and 18,000 Riasians, corn.
papist. a total of 45,00011m0.
Pia ',high hail, under Admiral Storey, nine
thins y 4 the-lift at author in the inner channel
behitd-lhe Island of reed and the fort, or rather
the pojet of the awl let, which is the northern ez.
trinity of the peueinee of Holland. Tne Dutch
14,0 forces at that time. consisted of 20,000 limn,
of *bleb only 10,000 were us the provinces, under
Gat. Blunt`, the rest being eruployal on the Rhine
and is Switsstriaatl. Tule front* Officer, aware
of.the miendod lousiest provided first for the de-
fense of Zealand, and placed a part of these forces
under Chn. ahlifilli:111 to pjutect the coasts of II ol-
Lied, end pet smother portion at the disposal of
General Domissecaiisi to Loud the eastern dis.
tries., Brtm•-mmitnataded in person the res. roe,
with. sr,hish-be assmooguch .to any point where
reiltiori;llolo•l4aPhadil,fiti,neepsoaiy. On the lgth

illhagesio the •l ilinstmi-Arst discovered
ea. tbd BOW, to filli-t.4011, oteiiiiiiinds sod tote
folloserlog day Admiral. Dungan,. sabu had jeined
hiltelle9, aunt a stilanyans tin, the Dutch COllllOllll.
ditto( Ow Navy to asitrunder it to the Prince of
• Orange. . On the $61114 the united fleets of the
Btitisis Admiral's zeissisted of IA shops of the line,
frees ••ii to Sj.ctiples, sloops, and cutters, at-
boded. by skeet ISO lrealloWth .cnn!lwfintli in
tide +whole, nearly SOO, sail. This armameu* was
soft.thichored between Us mouth of the Tezel and
Czlants*Oge. Tee following (ley Bor Ralph Aber-
crombie (stilled Ott the adjacent toast of tee HO.
der advanced guard, under the protection
et .the gnns of the • Beet, when lie was met by'
• General Thsensiels as he was proceeding to take
pmetseion of lir On.wos. The EmoSab lost One
tboassaint men a.this conflict. • The*Ohtch finding
liamilisadvantage of disputing the 'mind while the
el* 1013 continued from the ships, the Command-
ing Officer its the sequel abandoned the shore,
• and returned to his first position at Keeteo. Prior
to this retrograde movement, General Daentlets
oisdered that the cannon of the batteries should be
splitsti, god directed Colonel Guilquis to retreat
tattiemnal Ennis, and rally to the right.
artaagentat tweed the Helder to the Eng.
11*-.llleM, but, peeserved the garrison, and the
teeth ris?tholl it Is Almost inspoinibte to prevent the
leothiso' of an mom, protected bye squadron ()11
as opierehere.
• On ior 2sph and Ychis of August, Gen. Daen-
del+, who had now about 8000 men with him,
beet here position, having his left at Pelten, the
centre at Zaiid, awl his right at Keeten. On the
30.1) lit fell ftiek, placing his right wing at Avers.
hum, his left behi.id Pelteu, and the centre at
Skiroterhoorne.
• Sir Ralph Abercrombie had now finished his
landing, hail entrt..t, heJ hi. advanced pots to the
right, and to the left, occupied the point of the
Helder, and the batteries w isich nad been deserted.
The passage of the rext.l was al.', at ttli3 time
taken possession of by the Eisglish, whose de.
sign was to separate (ruin the laud batteries the
Dutch navy, which was at the entrance of the
Stroom. Thus .circumstanced, Admiral Story was
obli.ted to pat hack to the Channel through the
North, called the .4flictor, and wheti he was sum.
tamest to hoist the Orange flag in this situation,
141 fleet would not obey the signals to engage the
enemy, and the whole of the crews revolted.
In theticriticsi situation of affairs, at the begin.
hinged September, General Brune directed all the
Nees ha had to proceed to Alkmaar by the road
of Heetlaus. In every village through which they
rimed, the Citizens took arms, and requisitions
fur twe, three, and Gee hundred men, were an.
▪ tered by the supply of eight, ten, and twelve
hundred.
Our army now moved forward, and took post in
the Zyp, a low tract of ground, of about eight
miles latest, defended by a dyke, behind which it
was entrenched with a powerful train of artillery.
The advanced posts reached from Pelten to Eeni.
geohireg, the •••64.• %gas at St. Martin's, Volk/mg,
and tifiigenv with the left at Havinghuysen and
Zydewiud. hitherto the English had only
been reinforced with four or five thousand men
from the Duke of York's division, he himself
being detained by contrary winds, and the Rus.
scans not having joined their allies, so that at this
time Sir Ralph had only tinder dais orders 16 or
17.000 men. On the 10th of Sept. the French en.
desecrated to take advantage of his weakness, and
made a general, but fruitless attack, at the ea.
pewee of much blood, afterwards resuming their
former position. The same day the Duke of
York left Yarmouth Roads, with 80 transports,
and the Dutch fleet shortly afterwards sailed for
Es gland. The English flotilla, which bad entered
Alain Zeyderzees occasioned so much alarm at Am-
sterdam, that misses were immediately sunk 'in
the month of the Channel called the Pimps's, and
cannon was mounted on the batteries of Banker-
dam and Donmatlam, situated at the entrance of
tiormet of the capital.
On the )Sth a ii.nart action tdok place between
the advanced posts at Warmanhisysen, and the
shoe day the Dukeef York reached the Tesel,
the loglish army, thus strengthened, constituting
a form of -men. Two days subsequent
13,000 Russians arrived, when his Royal High.
news immediately "demoted to take possession of
the post of Pelten, on the right of the line. j'l

Ni Avail* of . Byrgeil . took, place on the 19
is four columns, set
,peiate. anrcaspg* tbehrtetitio9 to dank bis ts
r late .rimalt.llole action watt, that both are
Expo. -smammigg great lass, returned to their ft
',thaw lure the end of September ti
Fisio's of the P4tupus was completed, by -the
rtipre7 ur French,gunf4snats, . which bad
pecip from Diulltlrk through the interior can
grief. Low C0411'10.411 and ; but in
time the flotilla of the English had calm
httheli •pretlations on the coast ul the Zuider