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    Inees devoutly to the God of love , they will prove their love to him by loving their brethren . In that . case , differences of opinion will be softened by ether modes than those of force ; and the instruments of destruction will be converted to their proper purpose , the subduing of the earth to the benefit of mankind . We enter not into the

    necessity of the destruction which has taken p lace , on which our brave soldiers and sailors can feel like ourselves ; but we will soothe the distempered mind by the hopes of better days , by the assurances that war and tumult cannot last forever . Who that lodfts on the

    destruction of Flushing , and the noble road cut through the Alps by-the Duke of Savoy , would not wish that the money and labour employed to overthrow the works of human industry , were expended in giving facility to the nobler exertions of peace . •* _

    The Expedition , for which such grand preparations had been made , and on which mighty expectations had been built , has begun its enterprise , and succeeded in the previous steps to its opera " tfons . The number of ships of war , of men , of guns , and ammunition , exceeds any thing of the kind that has ever departed at the sarae time from our shores , it sailed over to the Dutch coast without

    interruption , and troops were landed on the islands of Walcheren and Beveland with scarcely no opposition . The Jatter island , of course , surrendered ; and of the former , nothing could make-resistance but the town of Flushingywhich W 3 s strong-ly fortified and garrisoned . To hold out against the force sent against

    it was impossible : the only thins : ' that could be done-by the French commander was done , and he compelled qs to-make those approaches which checked + us in our future operations . After tbe batteries were opened on the town , and the ships had taken their posts to pl ? . y upon it , tiie fall of the place . was inevitable . Nothing could withstand such imrriense

    powers £ > f destruction , and the Governor ' s flags of truce were listened to , as soon as he could make his mind up to deliver the place . The garrison were niade prisoners of war , and the citizens placed in a very favourable situation . Xl \ us the whole island is subject to us , and the forces are now employed on the ukerior object of tfoein ' embarkation . I he importance of this conquest will *> e differputl y estimated .. It depends on

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    ' the immediate object to be attained , and the value set on haying the . complete command of the Scheldt . The immediate object is supposed to be the destruction of several men of war in the river , which have been built near , and are now lying above Antwerp . This enterprize is doubtless attended with considerable difficulty , as , by the length , of time consumed against Flushing , the French must be completely prepared for their defence , and they may bring in all the forces under the king of Holland , as

    well as those that tilled the garrison towns in Brabant and the Netherlands . To be baffled in the undertaking , would doubtless be extremely mortifying to its projectors , thowgh it is certain , that the possession of the island of Walcheren must render those ships ij 3 effic . ien , t , $ nd . leave the trade of Antwerp at our mercy . What a fluctuation there is in h-uman

    politics i A few years ago an Empercfi : of Germany and King of Austria , whs bestirring himself , to render the Scheldt navigable to his subjects in the Netjher lands . This was opposed by the Dutch

    and the fort of Lillo stopt the progress of his ships . At this moment the whore i # ver is lost to Austria ; the Dutch fort of JLillo has probably surrendered to us % our ships are in the Scheldt , and the French are baffled in their attempt to form a marine on this river .

    . Success has so far attended the arms of the British ; - but in another quarter victory has not been obtained without great slaughter on our side . The state of affairs in Spain is very imperfectly known in this country . The junta lias possession of the southern provinces ; the

    middle were chiefly occupied by the Galio-Spunish kins ; , and Madrid * the capital , 'was in his possession . A ) ar <* e ai-iny of English , under tlus . command of Sir . A . Weliesley , marched through Estrarnadura , and entered New Castillo , the pwvince in which Madrid is situated . There they \ v £ re joined by Spaniali

    forces , so that the combined army amoimted to about sixty thousand men They encamped near the Tagu . * , having ; before them the small river Alberchc , and the town of Talavera on the rig-Lt The Gallo-Spanish king had collected his troops , to tfre amount of fifty thousand men , and determined to prevent the farther advance of the combin « 5 d army , as the country was open to Madrid ; and if it was not checked here , he might treorxblo * for his capital . With .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 469, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/55/