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to prove them. much more expenfive than 
the celebrated Pruflian fubfidy, at- the 
commencement of the war, which far. ex 
ceeded in expence all thofe that ee 
it. He then contended ftrongly, that, upon 
a review of the prefent circumitances of 
the. belligerent powers, the prefent was a 
proper moment for making overtures for 
peace, while ‘the tertune ae war was in fa-. 
your of us, and the confederacy unbroken, | 
in which we could not long reft aflured of 
the co-operation of the Auftrians. -He: 
urged the immenfe expehce and lofs of 
lives incurred by perfifting in the war, and 
concluded by. moving an addrefs to his 
‘“that the prefent: 
ee reprefenting, 
vas a propitious moment for overtures to- 
wa: a. general pacification.” 
Lord Grenville oppoled the motion, as 
a continuation of the fr equent attempts on 
the part of oppofition, to throw embarvaf- 
ments and delays in the proceedings of 
wes which had fo often been 
anétioned by the approbation of the two 
ao ufes of Pailiament. When their Lord- 
ps divided, there appeared for the ad- 
drefs 2, againffit 15.» ; 
On the 12th of October the hoy al affent 
was given by commiifion.to the feveral bills 
patied by both Houtes; after which theit 
Lordthips adjourned tik the 21ft of Janu- - 
ary next. 
Tn our 
lat we left the Britith forces at 
after having repelled an at- 
tack of the Batavians om the roth of Sep- 
tember» Phe Duke ei orksaian) the 
morning of rhe gth, failed from “Deal with 
reinforcements, and arrived at the Helder 
on the evening of the 13th. Eight batta- 
jions of Ruffian auxiliary troops, “confifting 
of-z000 men, underthe command of Ge. 
‘al D’ Hermann, landed onthe fameiday. 
Duke alfo met the Hereditary Prince 
neral 
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of Orange at the Helder, who was occu- 
pied in ar a o corps a large ‘body 
of Dutch deferters and volunteers from the 
Dutch fhips oe had proceeded to Eng- 
land, ; . 
The Duke of York proceeded to join 
General Abercromby, and by a difpatch, 
dated Schasen Brug, September the a 
fates, that having idnteemiued to make an 
attack upon the enemy’s whele pofition, 
the arnty under hts command moved for- 
ward for that purpofe on the roth in four 
principal celumns. The object of the firtt 
was todrive the Batavians from the heights 
of Camper Duyne, the-villages under thefe 
heights, and: finally to take poffeffion of 
Berce en-zi the fe econd was to force the ene- 
ays pehGon at Waknenhuyfen and Scho- 
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column under the Ruffian General D’ Her-. 
mann 3 and the third to take poffeflion of. 
Oude Caripel, at the head of the Lange: 
Dyke, a great road leading to Alkmaer. 
The country in which the Britith and Ret, 
fian forces had to act prefented-in every 
direction the moft formidable obftacies.: 
The enemy upon their lett occupied the: 
high fand hilis, which extend from thie fea 
in front of Petten to the tewn of Bergen, 
and were entrenched in three intermediate 
villages. The country over which fome 
of the columns were to pafs, is a plain in- 
terfected every three or four hundred yards. — 
by broad, deep, and wet ditches and ca- ° 
nals. The bridges acrofs the only two or 
three roads which led to thofe places were. 
deftroyed, and abbatis were laid at -differ- 
ent diitances. General D’Hermann’s co- 
lumn commenced its attack with great ~ 
fpirit at half paft three in the morning, and: 
by eight had fucceededin fo great a degree: 
as to be in peffeffion of Bergen. In the 
wooded country, which furrounds: this 
village, the principal force of the entmy 
was placed y and the Ruflian troops, ad= 
vancing with an intrepidity which over- 
looked the formidable reifanee with which 
they were to meet, had not retained that 
erder which was neceflary.to preferve the 
dvantages they had’ gained; and they 
were in ‘confequer te, alter a mot vigorous 
refitlance, ob] lived to retreat in creat con- 
fufion from Bergen (where the Reflian 
Generals D’Hermarn and Tchertchekoff 
were made prifoners, the latter danger- 
oufly wounded) and to fall back upon 
Schorel, which village they were alfo forced 
to abandon. 
As foor_as it was fofficiently light, the 
attack upon the villages of Walmenhuy- 
fen, where the ee | ~ was ftrongly potted 
with cannon, was made by General Dun- 
das and ae ee oe village was entered 
and taken, but the difaftrous circumftances 
in another ee of the army compelled. 
them to quit it foon afterwards ; and the 
fame circumftances made it neceflary to 
withdraw General Pulteney’s column front 
the.pofition which he had taken within a 
_fhort diftance>of Alkmaer, and alfo the 
corps under General Abercromby, who 
had proceeded without interruption to 
Horne, of which city he had taken pof- 
feffion, together with its garrifon. 
The whole of the army therefore res 
treated to the pofition it accupied before the 
action. ' 
The lofs fuftained in*this battle is fo 
varioufly ftated by each fide-as to create a 
doubt of the accuracy of both.. Field 
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