Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-12-02
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10" moment, Of 10. (bip CorneLa, Capt..
benjamin Prince, 40 days from Livey-
pool. Capt. Prince bas politely furnJtb-
ed me q0itb Engh6 papers TO The 3fb of
Ofober. They contain irfe,sqing effeiai
accounts gtbe movements effbs fbsails
armies-tbe msf important q q0bieb are
fbe final Jafesf Of the Duke g1ork in
Holland, and tie diJaqers offbe allies
. in Switzerland, the ebTieial details Of
sObirb lbaH be given IN my next-fbe
JollOsOing exfrads are all ffdn injsrt at
prssnf. They contain The principal cut
iinssgf the nes0s. 8 4
81. ..... LoNDoN, OCTOBER s.
The public are now-relieved from
that fate of anxiety occafioned by the
non-arsival of dispatches from Holland,
advices having been received yelterday
evening, from Field Martial his Royal
.Highnefs the Duke of York, with the
Important intelligence that our brave
troops and the Rullians, who o-operat.
ed with them, gained ,fgnal victory
over the Dutch and French on Thuri-
day laif, which put our troops in pof-
feaion of the LANCE Dyke, Alkinaar,
Bergen, Egmont-op-Hoof, and Egmont-
op-Zee. The news was, this morning,
between eight and, nine o'clock, an
nounced tothe public by the park and
tower guns, and publifhed in the Lon
don Gazette Extraordinary. Ya
From the contents of the Gazette Ex.
fraoydinay, and from what we have
been enabled to add, it ieems unnecef-
fairy to obferve, that the I'd of Oaober,
was a day glorious in the higheR de.
gree to the Britifh Arms, and no leis
honorable to the Commander in Chief,
ana advantageous to the caule which
they fupport': That ! the refult of it
ought to infpire us with gratitude TO.
wards the two former, and confidence
in the latter and that the total defeat
| ola French force, equal in number,
and with every poflible advantage Of
fituation, by Britih army, ihould
prove to us how much we have to hope,
and our enemies to fear, in our future
operations.
Oaober u.
We this morning received Paris
Journals to the 9TH inf. inctufive. The
news they bring is aiflfing to human
ity; and the only hope we have, in lay
ing it before our readers, is that the
lofes fuitained by the allies have been
exaggerated in the French reports.
That MAIZENA, fhould not only retrieve
the affairs of his army, but deitroy'
completely the two armies, well APP
pointed as they we're which oppoled
him, killing 5000, with their General|
Hotz). taking 5000 prifoners, with]
three Ruflian Generals, and wounded
upwards of 6ooo, appears TO be hardly
credible, yet iuch is the ifatement that
has been publiihed officially at Paris,
and which alto mentions the capture of
Zurich by the French army.
The intelligence, diitrefling as it is,
Teens to receive fome confirmation
from the circumffance of the Archduke
having been obliged to march great
part of his army with the utmot expe-
dition to endeavour to retrieve affairs
in Switzerland. This may be conf
dered as, perhaps, the mott painful part
of the intelligence it will enable the
French to iend great reinforcements
from the Lower Rhine to the aid of
their army in Holland and the allies,
in fpite of the fuccefs that has hitherto
attended Interpretations in that quarter
may in confequence be forced to aban-
don the enterprise of delivering the
Dutch from the French woke