» been far {uperior to our own,” 
/ 
1-799. ] 
capture of fixty officers and upwards of 
three thoufand men, and the deftru&tion of 
fixteen pieces of cannon, with large fup- 
plies of ammunition, which the interfected 
nature of the country did not admit of 
being withdrawn, are convincing proofs 
that the lofs of the enemy in the field has 
The total 
lofs‘of the Britith was about two thoufand 
in killed, wounded and prifoners. That 
ef the Biihans was from three to four 
thoufand. 
Admiral Mitchell was, however, more 
fuccefsful in fome ufelefs marauding expe- 
ditions upon the Zuyder-Zee; and the Duke 
of York was encouraged to make‘another 
effort-by land. Accordingly , having made 
the neceffary previous arrangements, he 
commenced the attack on the whole of the 
enemy's line on the morning of the 2d of - 
Oétober ; and after an obftinate 2étion, 
which lafted from fix in the morning until 
the fame hour at night, the Br itifh and 
Ruffian troops prevailed on the right wing 
and the enemy were compelled to. retire a 
the night from the pofition which they oc. 
cupied on the Lange Dyke, and the Koe 
Dyke at Bergen, and upon the extentive 
range of fand-hills between the latter place 
and Egmont-op-Zee. On the night of 
this'day, the Britifh and Ruffian armies 
Jay upon their arms, and on the following 
day moved: forward and occupied the po- 
&tions of the Lange Dyke, Alkmaer, Ber- 
gen, Eomont-op-Hoop, and Egmont-op- 
Zee. The enemy’s force was faid to con- 
fit of between twenty-five and thirty 
thoufand men, of whom the major part 
were French. 
The lofs of the Britifh on hisoccafion 
was about 1,500 killed, wounded, and 
miffing, that of the Ruffians about 2,500. 
The enemy after this a&tion of the 2d. 
having taker up the more advantageous 
pofition between Beverwyck and Wyck- 
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INCOME of Great Britain for the Year 1798. 
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Excife {including annual’Malt duty) 
Stamps _ 
Land and-Affefied Taxes 
Salt Duties 
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Shillings in the Poundion Penfions, &c. 
Sixpence in the Pound on 
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as 
op-Zee, the Duke of York determined to 
endeavour to force them trom thence before 
they had an opporturfity of ‘ftrengthening 
by works that fhort and very defenfible - 
line. Preparatory-therefore to ‘a general 
movement, he ordered the advanced pofts 
which the army took up on 3d before Alk- 
maer, to be rufhed forward on the 6th of 
Ofoba, At firlt little oppofition was 
fhewn, and the Britith forces had the ap- 
‘pearance of fucceeding instaking feveral 
villages: but the column of ‘Ruffian troops 
in endeavouring to gain a height near Ba- ~ 
cums was vigorcufly oppofed, and after- 
wards attacked by a {trong body of the 
enemy; which obliged General Abercr, omby 
to move up in fupport with the referve of 
his corps. 
‘The enemy advanced mya whole force ; ” 
the action bezame general a] ong the oe 
ine, from Lemmen to the fea, and was 
maintained with obftinacy on both fides 
until night: this confli&, the Duke was 
concerned to ftate, was (vcd, and was at- 
tended with as ferious a lofs as any of 
thofe which had been fought by the tr oops: 
fince the arrival in Holland. 
Thefe conflifs have fince proved ex- 
tremely difaftrous in their confequences ; 
for the Duke of York was obliged-to' re- 
treatto his former head-quarters at Scha- 
gen Brug on the gth of O&ober, where he 
ftill continues to be yee up by the ene- 
my. 
‘Tt appears by difpatches from Lord H. 
Seymour, commanding his Majetty’s forces 
in the Leeward and Weftern Iflands, that 
the Dutch Colony of Surinam furrendered 
to the Britifh forces in the month of Au- 
guft with all its dependencies. 
La Lutine frigate of 32 guns, has been 
totally Joft in its paflage from Yarmouth 
Roads to the Texel, with feveral paffen- 
gers, and dollars worth £.140,000 fterling, 
on board, defigned tor Hamburg. 
~ 

REVENUE. 
HS Sate 
o 6,086,518 6 4 
— 10,655,981 17 82 
oe = Ayer ODT pycGe 
= aa 4,437,979 0 32 
—_ _ JOA ,028" AY )T 
a. pe $24,378 2 2£ | 
— FO, 08S EA» Oe | 
Ditto  — — 50,639 6 7 | 
— — P4540 5 1 | 
ee co 4,954 3 6 | 


Carried over 2,55457,654 18. 112 
