The Delaware gazette. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1809-1810, 1809-10-18

ochci.s forms into two branches AT Fort Lcllo, c
one OF which passes up among the Zcaans, Il y
lands; the other through Flanders, and commu- |
nlca'es with the province Of picardy in France. !
Inc French admiral drew up his feet at For, 9
Lilo and Fort Liefkenshock. lwost.ong forts di- 4
rectly opposite to each other seven miles below S
Antwerp, and made so formidable an appearance ,
that the British thought it mos, prudent TO re- Ee
linquish the enterprise. The English haze pu, !
strong garrison in Flushing, the capital OF
Walcheiin, a little island separated from North
and South Bcveand by a narrow channel, from
Dutch Flanders blythe mouth ofthe Scheldt, and
bounded OIL the other sides BY the Gerrlsan ocean.
The French are making formidable preparations
ter busting them from this position The right
bank of the Scheldt, from Aniwcrp to Bergen
op-Zoom, distance Of fecn miles, is covered
with Dutch troops, and French troops were ar
irving daily at Cheat and Antwerp.
The British ship OF war Dictator is reported to
have captured the island OF Ertholm in the Bais-
c. lfhis report should prove true it viii be, OF
| great importance to the British navy. J.
| Where the late battles in Austria took place !
II villages arc entirely ravagcd and ten partially: |
the whole are deserted. Between and 5000 |
wounded Austrians, who remained in a field OF
| rye a!,e, the last great battle, were burnt to
death, in consequence of the rye accidentally Ia
king fire.
The British national ship Alert, was captured
in the Schau, in calm. ~ six gun boats.
The Borvelburg nsu, gents have surrendered to
an army OF so. 900 French aud Bavarans at dis
erection; and the King Of Bavaria has granted an
indemnity 10 the Tyrolese insurgents, their
chiefs excepted, on Coz iton Of their disarn,:ng
in eight days.
Part of the British troops are said to have sail
cd in transports from Sicily for Gibraltar. In
abandoning the islands of ischia a.,d Prest'en
they blew up their forts, and threw their battc-
+ rics Into tie
The Austrian redoubts on the Danube down
J, to Presburg have been raizcd. Bonaparte wa.
e constructing stroeg tctes-du-pon,s on the Da-
n nuhe, and arranging every thing to put has
4 I troops in notinn at the first signal A Preach
c camp for 30, 900 men was formed fucing The
: Spi:z.
The British are said TO be planning an exped-
if ton against Guadaloupe.
: II appears that the French consul in Algiers
G has been arrested by order Of the i}ey, and thai
= war has been declared asains. France.
II The British affair, in Spain are truly disastrous
it In noticing the filure Of all the mighty plans
is the British ministry, the editor OF the l.o,.dar
n Statelnan nsuges the following severe r.fif,i
ID tinos
at We have at length arrived precisely at ,ha
n point OF failure aud disaster whAi has long
J. been forcsecn by spcl as chose to exercise the
e understandings. Our expedition 10 the Scheia
n returns to ngand-unsuccess!ul OhI gal
'c isnt army in the Peninsula Indignantly retire
W before Superior numbers; and lsch,a ard Pro
Or cida, in the Bay Of Naples, are evacuated B.
n, Sir John Stuart.
~ Thus have failed all our expeditions an
MS the Efforts 1--WE blush to use he term) of En-
a \ ~. / ,,,H, H..
In test in Germany, than the Protest. and excoln
w muncation OF the ci-dttaM Pope, now reduce
I'd to his pastoral and pristine simplicity OF charac
IN ter, mere Bishop OF those who weekly a
r. vert their e.cs from that on which they drca
b. to look, who prefer tie tabrications, lalacics
j, the decisions, the contradictions, the absurd
If ties of the Nabob Morning Post, the Times
or the Courier, and the whole IT. be OF hreilngs
SIS we implore their attention to the real Stale I
te which England is at last reduced. Observe
IL lions, applicable to the affairs Of commoa Life
ed are no less SO to those of nations and We a
nd know, that when an individual refuses TO es
ID, anime his real situation, destruction invariabi
lg follows. England, in extent OF surface, and !
e. population inferior but in point OF actual pow
eel err, possessing as she does, the ocean, certain
he superior to even the colossal power OF Franc
ot after having eoaded that kingdom to wal
has absolutely failed in every effort to rcstrai
Sc her power, and it is no longer possible to dout
ng that Napoleon now reigns paramount over tn
IS entire Continent Of Europe. Peace with Aus
tia can no longer be doubtful. In the p,ospet
of this event we certainly feel satisfaction, frot
our firm conviction that the renewal of hostiii,is
would have led, and that most speedily to III
= extinction of the Austrian Monarchy. Wha
ever may be the delusive expectations Of the in
n. possibility Of restraining commerce, the crisis
no approaching with accelerated velocity in whc
a the contintn: Of Europe, as to our commerc
m will be hermetically scaled. Then. and not II
nts then, will the people of England be taught, th
Ella too widely extended commerce cannot conf
as permanent power on any nation. The conte
ci- in which England is now struggng,. is specif
he cally war for commerce. Do we approac
,e, the object for which we drew the s~ord
art thar object, in the belief of any man Of orjn'