The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-03-28 00:00:00

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;IA that it placed the invite of the expo.
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i.l t cliar:r point of view than (bet of soy;
r sV.IOC3S. I.:t them now rater to that od.
r. rtic Noble Lord
.woold not dispute tbs.
othen:irity of tho papers dravia ep by General
pot official capacity as Quarter-Ma,.
,1• ahe Noble lord would admit d
te.GAior
stikuritj'y of Ow paper subtnitted by General
sw.vortig ta the Lieutenaut-Gensral of the army.
se i ii;•z, on Co. 27th of August. Here Mr. Poo,
sill) read at e,
lett tlt the Journal of the Army, and
rut passages with the evidence' of
Broworigg; that 'Officer • had affirmed,
oat if nie army hd reached Santsliet by the 3d
L....it, the ultearior objects of the expedition
of
sect) not have been abandoned; bat it appeared
fro t!! . papi•rs before them; that on that very
or they h ad received intelligence, that the enemy's
tut were di ainctly seen lying at Antwerp. On
or It, Aligost, the ships bad get up between the
iitailet and the town. It appeared too, that
sri, mai :tom inforination that they did not knot*
~ pat part of the Won the naval arsenals were
iscoher was it the;; known that those or.
,01,1, acre pro:et:tett by the guns from the cite.
(11 the Bth of August, the day before' that'
atm. it had boon said, that the army might
lat. t oriel' Antwerp, and opened a fire upon it
.hat day intelligence was received of a eon.
0,1 rattle Merriam of force, so that were the
fiat ttartially, or, even half of thent.trtie,
loathe), proceeded, as, hail been sapposed fei;tit
sotalirs on ilic 3J, 'Un thee, 'subsequent arrival at
instead of fading, it in the defenceless
ow cot it was expected to have been found in;
pry would have found it strung, and formidably
orvieleil. Toe Noble Lord hail spoke of the
qat.
:of of the enemy's troops, which we would
am•
hoe to contend With ; .but dii the Noble
lord forrt abut undisciplined troops might effect
white nitilcr the cutter of town walls, fortresses
o,,:hatteiies, race. whist 'veteran troops Die
arliohle Lord feirtle,t the striking instances of this
ofwaril in the course .of the Spanish resistance
4.;,„; Ole Flame's ? In the felt, the armies
of ii•aiii Were enable so make any efft'ctoal con-
tr,l, hot tinder the walls of Sarragossa and' Ge-
r,„,a, the mere peasantry Were for a time ion o.
r 5411... as the 10th of Angust they had informs.
r„n she the Kiitgarf Holland hail reached Ber.
r.n.np Z.nou, and. tbat•lbere were near Antwerp
oj the iteighhouring cantonments, an army
amrto;int to 20,000 men,. au; or the greater part
of shmo, were sold to Its Fratah. 1.1.0 what said
tie Almy Journal of the 14th of August ?
Thn tar CummandO iu Chief had teceived eons.
hiiiiiratinha from Mrs most confidential quarters,
roaming the troth. of al; the preceding Intel.
krare received from the 3J down to the 101,
reflecting the force of tht enemy stud the st rength
of Ant* erp. Hilts the IStlitingd.lollr, they. got ac.
moots of Vie slate_ of tago Soul Lief kenshu
he the Noble Lord osiOt $47 all tins wait in.
tornation given to the C,onntatiders, but we the
Gerenintent had had different informaiirm, and
,poe that we acted. To recur, then, to the Noble
Lird's fi d n in format'', in. A tullo.re, io the first place,
ti wit to be remarked,. that the per.ons giving the
Warm (nun jif re out neat shave it
as !it he observed, that the citadel .of Antwerp,
able'. was said its be so weak, and concerning which
to•Governmetat piratti*nded to sonar') information,
that there was iii their awn's:Trot ovidence proof
M. they; could iiiit kora c the siateof that *ye' ;.
none hut militatfy mats were 014)4'4 to go into the
filgtii—toithsti ditch care and caution was it looked
lohy the French. Then what was. the informa•
tun still respect to Lillo and Leifkeitshoeik ? With
tetra to the focuser, Fort* 1;t11,),-.1t-'ap pea red to
'wit a strong slate Of defence,' with goals mounted
' J alsatlra, 'rite other f at, Lief kettshoeik., it
oiteto U. Of tlienwal the scite of Lill? op.
parttl to be .the must devoted. The informant
kJ no ‘telieve it to be bomb prOof. lire
N hie Lord's own spy hat told hi n that Lille was
is a stroog state of defence.. But there was other
Ofarinalion. I!. appeared (emit this, that on .the
lo of Aagust trout,' were marching to Antwerp
him all patters, though none had as yet arrived
title. It appeared also, that on the sth of Au.
tat{ the garrison of Antwerp consisted of 5,000
aira, heicht cote eripts, douaniers and volunteers.
flu dr sth and 6th, troops from Calair and
Emlegne were marching to Cattlind and Bres-
iini On the oth 31141 10th, there were at
Pada Blegett.op6Zoopp from 5,000 to
0.00.) BAH' troops ; and oh die 11th, at Breda,
fiergen.op.Zootn, &fitment and its vicinity, and
ea•! soda there were 26,000 troops, exclusive of
the garrison of Flushing. The head quarters
*meat Itoxertlial, anti the army was commanded
by the King of Holland in person. New all this,
Rao to he recollected, came from tile Ni le
land's own spy. His own spy told him that
riven were 26,M0 troops in the vicinity• on the
llth of August, and those 26,000 exclusive of
the ;orison of Flushing. This was the species
CIICOU raging information which the Noble
Lord had received from his own sry. [Hear!
hart] Not a single officer or engineer who
111 given his opinion upon the remote prac.
linhitity of the Expedition, who did not found
()Onion upon the most (ratified provision of
'my thing turning out favourable ; and indeed the
Nahle Lord seemed inclined to limit the provision
still more by araning, that the Expedition must
line h.en successful, if it had obtitaeles to
csntend %lib, either as to the .e.lcnients, the cli-
/I:Ate, or the enemy. (A laugh.) With regard''
l'o• natal part of the Expetlition, the Noble
Ind at the head of the Admiralty seemed to he
Its provident as the Noble Lord himself. Ills
opinion given in the secret information respecting
the navigittion of the Scheldt, had been treatc4
xWI the same care and attention that distinguished.
all the other proceedings of his Lordship. It
stated that the passage from the Dawns to Bathz
might be effected in forty-eight hours, but
IP" the condition of the 'must favourable cit..
riimainces ; .and that to effect tais passage with
expedition and safety, it was necessary that
unle*iiiinld be a pilot in every lima of battle ship
aid frigate; the other entitle of Secteri.sg the safe
pasting of the ships was, that of having t4ita
blloystd; now, with respect to the buoys,