The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-02-16
LONDON, Dec. I

LONDON, Dec. 7.
This day, we understand, concludes the
final evacuation of Flushing, and closes the
last scene OF that melancholy tragedy, the
Waicheren Expedition. The incapacity
with which this enterprise was conducted,
has only been surpassed by the ignorance in
watch 1T was conceived. So unwholesome
has the Island always been considered by the
Dutch, that when troops are ordered from
daerlem, or Amsterdam, to garrison it, they
take leave OF their friends with the same
melancholy forebodings, as if they were 60
ing to the most unwholesome Island in the
wv. indies, In the most sickly times. OF
one Dutch regiment which arrived in Wal
cheres, eight hundred strong, about three
years ago, there remained only IS at the
time OF Lord ,Chatham's descent, and vet
1t has received 800 recruits from the con
tinent In the interval. We could state an
hundred similar cases in proof of the notori
GUS insalubrity OF the place--a facr that
must, or certainly ought to have been known
TO ministers If ever there was case that
cried out for enquiry, it is surely the Expe-
dition to Walcheren
1t is stated in private letter from Cadiz,
dated the 18th uit. that PaIafoX Ga member
OF the Supreme Junta, and the brother of
the hero OF Arragon,) with six of his adhe-
at Seville, and it is added, that they will
ce speedily brought to trial The nature of
the crime, of which these persons are accus-
ed, is not mentioned. We fear that it will
be found, that this revolution is of very
different character from that which was so
generally anticipated. Instead Of an insur-
rectlon G. the people against the Junta, it is
said to be bold and hazardous experiment
OF the Supreme Council, TO criminate those
who have been supposed the avowed advo.
Gates OF the rights of the mass of the COM
munity; and whether the latter will silently
acquiesce in thi, desperate measure of the
existing authorities, will probably be ascer-
tanned by the next advices.
Earl Bathurst Yesterday resigned the seals
OF the Foreign Office, and they were given
to Marquis Wellesley, now Secretary of
state Tor Foreign Affairs. 1t would thus
seem, that the idea of restoring sMr. Can.
ming, and of the removal of the Earl of Cam
den, is abandoned, at least for the pre-
sent.
December 9.
We received this morning some Dutch
papers OF the LIST, which contains the address
OF the Dutch Legislative Body to Louis Bo-
ndparte upon his departure for Paris, with
Louis's answer. The former argues the
necessity of fresh financial burthens, and
chpI esSeS WISHES 1Or the speedy return OF
sovereign whom they venerate as King,
and love as father. The anniversary of
Bonaparte's birth day is alluded to as the
cause of Louis's journey to Paris. but there
is not single word in praise of Bonaparte.
Louis Bonaparte, in his answer, says,
" You know, Gentlemen, in what difficult
ty the existing state Of commerce and ma
VlSatlon mas placed us--yOu are acquainted
with the particular situation, of the nation
in this respect, aud how delicate these at.
fairs are. In The hope that short absence
will be useful to the State, we yield TO the
wish OF the Emperor, our Brother to Sc; us.
Our absence shall be short, and we promise
to return time enough to terminate, before
the lst OF January, the business relative to
the finances OF 1870"
There is nothing in this speech to coun.
tenance the idea of a change in the Govern
meDt Of Holland.
According to letters received by the NAL
ia Mail from Palermo, the progress of the
Russians against the Turks has been so ra-
pd, that Constantinople has fallen into
heir hands, and the grand object of the
Empress Catharine's ambition has thus been
accomplished. Bot this intelligence we do