by the commanding officers of corps, and the zeal and ardour of all ranks of officers.

It is with great pleasure I can report the uniform good conduct of the troops, who have not only on all occasions shewn the greatest intrepidity in presence of the enemy, but have sustained, with great pleasure and chearfulness, the laborious duties they have had to perform. The active and persevering exertions of the corps of royal engineers have been conducted with much skill and judgment by Col. Fyers, aided by Lieut.-Col. D'Arcy, and it is impossible for me to do sufficient justice to the distinguished conduct of the officers and men of the royal ́artillery, under the able direction and animating example of BrigadierGeneral M'Leod.

The seamen, whose labours had already been so useful to the army, sought their reward in a further ́opportunity of distinguishing themselves, and one of the batteries was accordingly entrusted to them, which they served with admirable vigour

and effect.

camp, Major Bradford, who is fully qualified to give your lordship every further information, and whom I beg leave earnestly to recommend to his Majesty's protection. I have the honour to be, &c. CHATHAM.

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[Here follow the articles of capitula tion, by which the garrison are allowed to march out with the honours of war, and are then to lay down their arms, and surrender themselves prisoners of war, and to be sent to England as such; among whom is included every person not being an inhabitant of Flushing previously to 1807.]

Account of the Garrison which surren dered at Flushing on the 15th of Aug. under the command of Monnett.

16 staff officers, 101 officers, 3773 non-commissioned officers and soldiers, 489 sick and wounded.—Total 4379. Return of Prisoners and Deserters taken in the Island of Walcheren, from July 30 to August 15.

captains, 27 lieutenants, 1 staff, 5 ser1 colonel, 1 lieutenant-colonel, 15 jeants, 13 drummers, 1700 privates. Total return of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing before Flushing.

3 officers, 1 serjeant, 1 drummer, 26 rank and file killed; 15 officers, 5 serjeants, 2 drummers, 83 rank and file wounded; 1 rank and file missing.

[Here follows a return of ordnance, &c. found in Flushing, containing 224 pieces of artillery, large quantity of shot, shells, and stores of every description.]

Admiralty-Office, Aug. 20.

Dispatches of which the following are copies, were received last night at this office from Sir R. J. Strachan, Bart. and K. B. Rear-Admiral of the White, &c.

Flushing Roads, Aug. 17. ` SIR-I have much satisfaction in acquainting you, for the information of their lordships that the town and garrison of Flushing have capitulated upon the terms, a copy of which I send herewith.

Their lordships have already been apprised that it was my intention to have proceeded up the Scheldt, with the division of frigates under Lord W. Stuart, and that the greatest

part of our flotilla had advanced to Bathz, in the charge of Sir Home Popham, by whom the enemy were driven above Lillo, where their ships and gun-brigs had taken up a strong position. The command of the important service of the Scheldt I have given to Sir Richard Keats, and he has my directions to co-operate with Lieut.-Gen. the Earl of Rosslyn, as well as to use every means in his power for capturing or destroying the fleet and flotilla of the enemy.

Rear-Admiral Lord Gardner remained with the ships named in the margin off Dykeshook, and his lordship had received my direction to hold that squadron in readiness to go against the garrison of Flushing. On the 12th inst. I was informed by Lord Chatham, that the advanced batteries were sufficiently prepared to open on the enemy the day following, at one o'clock in the afternoon; and as it appeared to me of consequence that the line-of-battle ships should pass the town at the same moment, I therefore abandoned my intention of going up to the advanced flotilla, and proceeding to Dykeshook, hoisted my flag in the St. Domingo. The batteries opened on the garrison as it was previously settled, at one in the afternoon of the 13th inst. and the fire was returned with great vigour by the enemy. The bombs and gun-vessels, under the direction of Capt. Cockburn, of the Belleisle, were most judiciously placed at the south-east end of the town; and to the south-west, Capt. Owen of the Clyde, had with equal skill and judgment, placed the bomb and other vessels under his orders. I had much satisfaction in witnessing the fire that was kept up by these squadrons under the command of these two officers, and the precision with which the shells were thrown from the bombs.

St. Domingo, Blake, Repulse, Victorious, Denmark, Audacious, and Ve

nerable.

Unfortunately the wind was tod scant to allow me to weigh when the batteries opened, but it proving more favourable the following day, immediately put that intention into execution, and at ten in the fore noon of the 14th, proceeded with the ships already named towards Flushing, meaning to pass to a more convenient anchorage for placing the squadron against it, when such a measure should appear to be ne

cessary.

This squadron was led in by the St. Domingo, bearing my flag, and I was followed by the Blake, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Lord Gardner; the other ships advanced in succession. Soon after we had opened our fire, the wind came more southerly, and the St. Domingo grounded inside of the Dog Sand. Lord Gardner not knowing our si tuation passed inside of us, by which the Blake also grounded. The other ships were immediately directed to haul off, and anchor as previously intended.

After being some time in this si tuation, during which the enemy's fire slackened, by the active and zea lous exertions of Captain Owen, of the Clyde, who came to our assistance, and anchored close to the St. Domingo, she was got off, and soon after I had the satisfaction of seeing the Blake also afloat, and come to anchor with the rest of the squadron. I was also much pleased with the conduct and exertions of Capt. Gill of the St. Domingo, and his officers; and with the steadiness, energy, and good order of the ship's company. Lord Gardner bears equal testimony to the behaviour of the officers, seamen, and marines, of the Blake, and his lordship mentions the assistance he received from Captain Codrington in the highest terms of praise.

The fire of the enemy towards the evening had considerably abated, the town was burning in many places, and much damage was done to the

houses. At seven o'clock I received à message from Lieut.-Gen. Sir Eyre Coote, requesting I would cease hos tilities, as a summons had been sent into Flushing; but at night the firing again commenced, and was kept up without intermission until two o'clock of the morning of the 15th, when the French commandant, General Monnett, offered to surrender. This was communicated to me by the lieutenant general, and in consequence I directed the flag of truce to be hoisted at day-light on board his Majesty's ships, and that hostilities

should cease.

The lieut.-gen. having also intimated his wish, that two commissioners should be sent on the part of the navy, to assist in the proposed tapitulation, I accordingly nominated Lord Gardner to meet Sir Eyre Coote, at East Zouburg, and to take with him Capt. Cockburn, to act in conjunction with the officers on the part of the army. Shortly after I received a message from the Earl of Chatham, requesting to see me at Zouburg. On my arrival there, I found his lordship had selected Col. Long, adjutant-general of the army, and Capt. Cockburn, to be the commissioners for settling the terms of capitulation, which were finally concluded late in the evening of the 15th.

[Here follows the commendations of different officers, concluded as follows:] I cannot conclude this letter, without assuring their lordships that every captain, officer, seamen, and marine, have most zealously done their duty; nor will it, I hope, be thought taking away from the merits of others, in drawing their lordship's particular notice to the energetic exertions of the captains, officers, and men, employed in the gun-boats; they have been constantly under fire, and gone through all the hardships of their situation with the utmost cheerfulness. Herewith I enclose the report of the officers who have

had commands in the present service, including the return of killed and wounded.

I have the honour to be, &c.
R. J. STRACHAN.

A letter from Sir R. Keats to Admiral

Strachan states," I am at present with sions of gun-boats, lying between the 18 sloops and gun-brigs and four divie Saeftingen shoal, a position judiciously chosen by Sir H. Popham, as it effectually cuts off the communication between the East and West Scheldt. The

enemy's flotilla, considerably increased the protection of Lillo, and the men of in number, has retired above or under war with top-gallant yards crossed, are anchored off and below Antwerp, as far down as Phillippe. Six of our frigates are off Wearden, waiting an opportunity to come up."

A letter from Captain Cockburn, of the Belleisle, dated August 15, gives an ver sloop, with the flotilla under, his account of his co-operation, in the Plocommand, in the attack upon Flushing, with a statement of his loss, amounting to 7 killed and 22 wounded; among the former is Lieut. Rennie, of the Marlborough; and the latter include Lieutenant Russell, and Mr. Burnside, surgeon of the San Josef. A letter from Captain Richardson, of the Cæsar, who commanded the brigade of seamen, contains an account of his subsequent proceedings in the attack on Flushing, &c.-The total loss sustained by the naval force employed, amounts to 9 killed and 47

wounded.

A letter from Rear-Admiral Sir R. transmits one from Sir R. G. Keats, staStrachan, dated off Flushing, Aug. 17, ting the surrender of the towns of Zeirik Zee and Browershaven, with the islands of the Schowen and Duiveland, by capitulation.]

Extract af a Letter from Lord Chatham, Downing-street, August 21. dated Middleburg, August 18.

MY LORD, The inclosed return of the late garrison of Flushing, received from Gen. Monnet last night, so materially differs from that which accompani ed my dispatch of the 16th inst. that I think it expedient to transmit it for your lordship's information.-I am also informed, that the enemy, during this service, has suffered a very heavy loss in

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killed and wounded, which, together
with the prisoners of war who have fallen
into our hands, the enemy's force op-
posed to us, in this island, may very
fairly be stated at nine thousand men.
I have the honour to be &c.
CHATHAM.

Amount of troops in the garrison of
Flushing, on the 17th. of August.
200 officers, 4985 rank and file, 618

sick and wounded.-Total 5803.

FRENCH OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS OF THE WAR WITH AUSTRIA.

TWENTY-FOURTH BULLETIN.

Vienna, July 3.-Gen. Broussier had left two battalions of the 84th. regiment of the line in the town of Gratz, and proceeded to Vildon, to of Dalmatia. On the join the army 26th, of June, Gen. Giulay appear ed before Gratz, with 10,000 men, composed, it is true, of Croats and frontier regiments. The 84th. which was cantoned in one of the suburbs of the town, repelled all attacks of the enemy, routed him every where, took 500 men prisoners, and two standards, and maintained himself in his position 14 hours, giving time to Gen. Broussier to come to his as sistance. This conflict of one with ten, covered the 84th. and its colonel, Gambin, with honour. The standards were presented to his Majesty at the parade. We have to regret that 20 of these brave fellows were killed, and 92 wounded.

On the 30th. the Duke of Auerstadt attacked one of the islands of the Danube, at a small distance from the right bank, opposite Presburg, where the enemy had some troops. -Gen. Gudin directed this operation with skill; it was executed by Col. Decouz, and the 21st. regiment of infantry of the line, which this officer commands. At two o'clock of the morning, with this regiment, partly in boats, and partly swimming, crossed a very narrow arm of the Danube, seized the island, rout

ed the 1500 men who were upon it, and made 250 prisoners, among whom were the colonel and several officers of the regiment St. Julian, and took three pieces of cannon, which the enemy had landed for the defence of the island.

At length there exists no longer any Danube, as far as concerns the French army. Gen. Count Bertrand has rsised works which excite astonishment, and inspire admiration.Over a breadth of 400 fathoms, and over a very rapid river, he has in a fortnight raised a bridge formed of 60 arches, on which three carriages can pass abreast; he has built a second bridge upon piles eight feet broad; but this is for infantry only. next to these two bridges is a bridge of boats; we can therefore the pass Danube in three columns. These three bridges are secured against all insults, even against the effects of fire-ships and incendiary machines, by stoccadoes raised on piles be tween the islands, in different directions, the furthest of which are at 250 fathoms from the bridges. When these immense works are contemplated, they might be thought to be the labour of many years; they were, however, produced in 15 or 20 days. These works are defended by tetes-de-pont, each 1600 fathoms in extent, formed of redoubts, surrounded by palisades, frises, and ditches filled with water. The island of Lobau is, a strong post; it contains magazines of provisions, 100 pieces of heavy cannon, and 20 mortars, or howitzers. Opposite Essling, on the left arm of the Danube, is a bridge, which the Duke of Rivoli has fixed there. It is covered by a tete-de-pont, which had been raised there at the time of the first passage of the river. General Legrand occupies the woods in the front of the tetes-de-pont. The hos tile army is in order of battle, covered with redoubts; the left is at Enzendorf, the right at Great Aspern;

a few discharges of musketry from the advanced posts have taken place. Now that the passage of the Danube is secured, and that our bridges are sheltered from every attempt, the fate of the Austrian monarchy will be decided in a single battle.

The waters of the Danube were, on the 1st. of July, four feet above the lowest, and thirteen feet below the highest point. The rapidity of the river at this part is, when the waters are high, from seven to twelve feet; when the water is moderate, four feet six inches, each second, and more strong than at any other point. In Hungary it diminishes a great deal; and at the place where Trajan raised a bridge, it is almost insensible. The Danube is there 450 fathoms broad; here it is only 400. The bridge of Trajan was a stone bridge, the work of several years. Cæsar's bridge over the Rhine was raised, it is true in eight days, but no loaded carriage could pass over it. The works on the Danube are the most beautiful military works ever formed.

Prince Gazarin, aid-de-camp general of the Emperor of Russia, ar rived at Schoenbrunn, at four of the morning the day before yesterday, at the moment the Emperor was mounting on horseback. He set out from Petersburgh, the 8th. of June. He has brought intelligence of the march of the Russian army into Gal

licia.

His Majesty has quitted Schoenbrunn; he has been two days encamped. His tents are very beautiful, and made in the style of the Egyptian tents.

TWENTY-FIFTH BULLETIN.

Wolkersdorf, July 8. -The works raised by Gen. Count Bertrand, and the corps he commands, had, since the beginning of the month, entirely subdued the Danube. His Majesty instantly resolved to collect the forces in the Island of Lobau, open upon the Austrian army, and bring on a general engagement. It was not because the position of the

French army was not a very fine one at Vienna: master of the whole right bank of the Danube, having in his power Austria, and a considerable portion of Hungary, he enjoyed the greatest plenty. If some difficulties had been experienced in providing sustenance for the people of Vienna, this arose from an ill-organized administration, from embarrassments which were every day diminishing, and from difficulties which were naturally produced by the situation in which the country was placed, in a land in which the trade in corn is an exclusive privilege of the government. But how could the troops continue to be separated from the hostile army, by a canal of three or four hundred toises in breadth, when the means of passing over had been prepared and secured?-This would have given credibility to the impostures which the enemy had scattered with so great profusion throughout his own and neighbouring countries: this would have cast a doubt over the occurences at Essling, and would, finally, have authorised the supposition of there being in fact, a substantial equality between armies so different, of which one was animated and in some measure reinforced by the multiplicity of its successes and victories, while the other was dispirited by the most striking reverses.

Austrian army shewed that it was consiAll the intelligence concerning the derable; that it had been recruited by numerous bodies of reserve, by the levies from Moravia and Hungary, and by all the landwhers(fencibles) of the provinces; that its cavalry had been re-mounted by requisitions in all the circles, and its draughts of artillery tripled by immense levies of horses and carriages in Moravia, Hungary, and Bohemia. To add new chances in their favour, the Austrian generals had raised military works, of which the right was protected by Gros-Aspern, and the left by Enzersdorf, and the intervals between them were covered by redoubts, surrounded by pallisades and frizes, and defended by more than 150 pieces of battering cannon, taken from the fortresses of Bohemia and Moravia.

It was inconceivable how the Emperor, with his experience in war, could think of attacking works so powerfully defended, backed by an army estimated at 200,000 men, as well troops of the line as militia and new raised levies, and who were supported by 800 or 900