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light. Although the enemy did not op- 
pele their landing, yet the firft divifion 
had fearcely begun te move forward be- 
fore they came into aétion, -which conti- 
nued from five in the morning until three 
e’clock in the afternoon. The enemy. 
had aflembled a very coniiderable body of 
infantry, cavalry and artillery near Cal. 
Yanitoog, and made repeated attacks on 
the right of the Britifh troops with freth 
Ses The pofition of the Englith was 
upon aridge of fand-hills, ftretching along 
ele coaft from north to eae 3 thew ri ight 
flank was unavoidably expofed to the 
whole force of the enemy. .The Englifh 
had no where on their right fnfficient 
ground te form more than a battalion in 
Hine; yet on the whole the~ pofition, 
theuch fingular, was not difadvantageous. 
By the courage and perfeverance of the 
troops the enemy was warn ont and 
obliged to retire in the evening to a pofi- 
fion two jeagues im the rear. ‘The con- 
tefi was arduous, and the lofs confidera- 
ble. The Englifh had to rearet many 
valuable officers, who either fell or were 
difabled by their wounds. The corps 
principally engaged were the .referve un- 
der the command of Colcne! Macdonald, 
confifiine of the 23d and «sth regiments. 
‘Phe regiments of Major General Coote’s 
brigade, which were much engaged, were 
the Queen’s, the 27th, 209th and 85th 
regiments. Major General Oyley’s oe 
gade was brought into the ation tov pots : 
the clofe of the day, and fuftained fome 
fofs. As the enemy {till poffefled the Hel- 
der, with a garrifon of near two thou- 
fand men, it was determined to attack-it 
before day-break, on the pas of the 
’ 28th 5 but about ‘Gight o'clock on the eve- 
sing of the 27th, the Dutch fleet in the 
Mars. Diep get under weigh, and the gar- 
Fifon was withdrawn, having previoufly 
fpiked the guns on the battery, and de- 
ftroyed fome of the carriages 3 about 
mine at night Major General Moore took 
poffeffion “of this important poft. All 
that part of the Dutch fleet in the: Ni- 
euve Diep, together with their nava} 
magazine at Nieuve Wrerk, fell into the 
hands of the conquerors. In this action 
Lieutenant General Sir James Pulteney 
was wounded, and nearly. twenty other 
officers. Lieutenant Colonel Smollett, 
Lieutenant Colonel Hay, and Lieutenant 
Crow were killed: of the rank and file 
there were about fixty killed, and four 
hundred wovaded. But the principal fue- 
cefs, and that obtained without lofs of 
bloed, was the cbtaining fas ‘flion of the 
Reale Tach) One the 28th of Au- 
eult, in the morning, all that part ef 
, State of Pultiz Afairs. 
the Dutch fleet: m the Nieuve Diep fell - 
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‘their earneft requeft. 
[O@ober, 
into the hands of the Enghfh, amounting 
to feven fhips ef war, and about thirteen 
Indiamen and tranfperts. Upon this 
event Admiral Mitchell fent to the Hel- 
der-point for a f{ufficient number of pilots 
to condn& the pe thips, td reduce 
the remaining force of the Dutch feet, 
which he was determined to follow to the 
walls of Amfterdam. Accordingly on 
the goth of Auguft; he got the fquadren 
under weigh at five o'clock in the morn- 
ing, and immediately formed the line of 
battle, and prepared for eGion. He 
continued his courfe along the Texel, in 
the channel that leads to the Vieiter ; the 
Dutch fquadron lying at anchor in a line, 
at the Red Buoy, in the eaft-fouth-eatt 
courfe.. About half paft ten, He fent 
Captain Bennie of the Vidtor witha fam- ~ 
mons to the Dutely Admiral; and in her 
way fhe picked up a flag of truce with 
two Dutch Captains from the Dutch Ad- 
miral te him. Captain Bennie brought 
them on board the Englifa Admiral, who, . 
from a converfation of a few minutes, 
was induced to anchor in a line, a fhore 
diftance from the Dutch fquadron, at 
They returned 
with Admiral Mitchell’s pofitive orders 
not toalter the pofition of the fhips,. nor 
do any thing whatfoever to them, and in 
one hour to fubmit, or take the. cenfe- 
quences, . 
In lefs than the time pee they 
returned with a verbal anfwer, that they 
fubmitted according to the fummons, and 
fhonld confider themfelves (the officers} 
on parole, until Ne heard from.the Lerds 
Commiffioners of the Admiralty, and the 
Prince of ‘Grange, for his further pro- 
ceedings. 
‘The Butch Adwciral Story accompanied 
_ his fabmiffion with a letter to the Engliih 
Admiral, wherein he ftates, that nei- 
ther the fuperi iority of the latter, nor the 
threat that the fpilling of human blood 
fhould be laid to his account, could pre- 
vent his fhewing what he could do for his 
fovereign, whom he acknowledged to be 
no other than the Batavian people and 
its reprefentatives. ‘* The traitors whom 
I commanded,” faid he, ** refufed to 
fight!” and therefore nothing remained te 
him and his br ave officers but vain rage, 
and the dreadful refleion of their ftua- 
tion. —He declared himielf and cilicers to 
be priioners of war. 
The force of the fhips that furrendered 
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