of the New Diep, with the fhips and veffels undermentioned, and alfo of the naval arsenal, containing 95 pieces of ordnance. A copy of the naval ftores I will tranfmit you as foon as it can be made out. I have the honour, &c. R. Winthrop, Ships. Urwachten, 66 guns.Broederfchop, 54.-Hector, 44.Diuffee, 44.-Expedition, 44.Conftitutie, 44.-Bell Antionette, 44.-Unie, 44.-Helder, 32.-Follock, 24.-Minerva, 24.-Venus, 24.-Alarm, 24. Dreighlerlahn, Howda, Vreeddluft, Indiamen; and a fheer hulk. Andrew Mitchell, efq. London Gazette Extraordinary, Sept. 9. Downing-Street. A difpatch, of which the following is an extract, has been received from lieutenant-general fir Ralph Abercrombie, by the right honourable Henry Dundas, one of his majefty's principal fecretaries of ftate. Head Quarters, Schager Brug, From the 27th of Auguft to the ift of September, the troops continued to occupy the Sand Hills on which they fought. On that day the army marched and took poft with its right to Petten, on the German Ocean, and its left to the Oude Sluys, on the Zuyder Zee, with the canal of the Zuype in front. A better country is now open to us. We have found fome horfes and waggons, and a plentiful fupply of fresh provifions. The troops continue healthy, and behave extremely well. The 11th regiment of dragoons are arrived, and have begun to difembark. The tranfports have been ordered to return to the Downs. I have the honour to enclofe herewith a return of the artillery, ammunition, and engineers' ftores, cap tured at the Helder. To the right hon. Henry Dundas. Helder, August 31. Return of Ordnance, Ammunition, and Stores, taken on the 28th inft. at the different Batteries and Mdgazines at and near this Place, viz. Brafs ordnance, mounted.-24 24-pounders, 5 9-pounders, 4 6pounders, 1 3-pounder, 13 8-inch and 4 5 and inch howitzers; 5 10-inch mortars.* Iron ordnance, mounted.-18 24pounders. Ditto, difmounted.--41 24-pounders, 56 9-pounders. Round hot.-713 24-pounders, 2780 12-pounders, 164 9-pounders, 3492 6-pounders. Cafe hot.-345 24-pounders, 64 9-pounders, 77 8-inch, and 61 5 and inch howitzers. Fixed fhells.-148 10-inch, 224 8-inch, 394 5 and inch. Empty fhells.-447 10-inch, 920 8-inch. Round carcaffes.-15 8-inch. Cartridges (flannel filled with powder), 685 24-pounders, 37 9pounders, 168 6-pounders; 530 5 and inch howitzers-(paper filled with powder), 11 24-pounders, 620 9-pounders; (mufket ball), 77,888; (fuzee ball), 1800—521 whole barrels of corned powder. J. Whitworth, lieutenantcolonel, commanding royal artillery. General fir Ralph Abercrombie, &c. Helder, that we were bufily employed completing two ravelins for the reception of cannon to flank the enemy's neareft approaches, diftant only ten yards from them. They were attacked that very night, and almost have each time been repulfed with every night fince, but the enemy very confiderable lofs. The enemy continued to batter in breach with progreffive fuccefs, and have nine feveral times attempted to form, but have as often been beaten back mode of defence has been frequent with immenfe flaughter. Our belt forties to keep them on the defenfive, and impede the progrefs of their covering works. We have thus been in one continued battle ever fince the beginning of the fiege, interrupted only at fort intervals by the exceffive fatigue of every individual on both fides. We have been long anxiously looking for a reinforcement, without which we could not expect to be able to keep the place fo long as we have. The delay in its arrival being occafioned had orders to join me in Egypt, I by Haffan Bey's having originally was obliged to be very peremptory in the repetition of my orders for him to join me here: it was not, however, till the evening of the day before yefterday, the fifty-firft day of the fiege, that his fleet of corvettes and tranfports made its appearance. The approach of this additiona firength was the fignal to Buonaparte for a moft vigorous and perlevering aflault, in hopes to get poffeffion of the town before the reinforcement to the garrifon could difembark. The conftant fire of the befiegers was fuddenly increased tenfold, our flanking fire from a-float was, as ufual, plied to the utmoft, but with lefs lefs effect than heretofore, as the enemy has thrown up epaulments and traverses of fufficient thickness to protect him from it. The guns that could be worked to the greateft advantage were a French brafs 18-pounder in the light-houfe caftle, manned from the Thefeus, under the direction of Mr. Scroder, mafter's mate, and the laft mounted 24-pounder in the north ravelin, manned from the Tigre, under the direction of Mr. Jones, midshipman. These guns being within grape diftance of the head of the attacking column, added to the Turkish muf ketry, did great execution; and I take this opportunity of recommending thefe two petty officers, whofe indefatigable vigilance and zeal merit my warmeft praife. The Tigre's two 68-pound carronades, mounted in two germes, lying in the Mole, and worked under the direction of Mr. Bray, carpenter of the Tigre, (one of the bravest and most intelligent men I ever ferved with), threw fhells into the centre of this column with evident effect, and checked it confiderably. Still, how ever, the enemy gained ground, and made a lodgement in the fecond ftory of the north-eaft tower; the upper part being entirely battered down, and the ruins in the ditch, forming the afcent by which they mounted. Daylight fhewed us the French ftandard on the outer angle of the tower. The fire of the befieged was much slackened, in comparifon to that of the befiegers, and our flanking fire was become of lefs effect, the enemy having covered themfelves in this lodgement, and the approach to it by two traverfes acrofs the ditch, which they had conftructed under the fire that had been oppofed to them during the whole night, and which were now feen, compofed of fand bags, and the bodies of their dead built in with them, their bayonets only being visible above them. Hallan Bey's troops were in the boats, though as yet but half way on flore. This was a most critical point of the conteft, and an effort was neceffary to preferve the place for a short time till their arrival. I accordingly landed the boats at the Mole, and took the crews up to the beach, armed with pikes. The enthufiaftic gratitude of the Turks, men, women, and children, at the fight of fuch a reinforcement, at fuch a time, is not to be defcribed. Many fugitives returned with us to the breach, which we found defended by a few brave Turks, whose moft deftructive miffile weapons were heavy ftones, which, ftriking the affailants on the head, overthrew the foremoft down the flope, and impeded the progrefs of the reft. A fucceffion, however, afcended to the affault, the heap of ruins between the two parties ferving as a breafiwork for both, the muzzle of their mufkuts touching, the fpear heads of the ftandards locked. Ghezzar Pacha hearing that the English were on the breach, quitted his station, where, according to the ancient Turkish cuftom, he was fitting to reward fuch as fhould bring him the heads of the enemy, and diftributing mufket-cartridges with his own hands. The energetic old man coming behind us, pulled us down with violence, faying, if any harm happened to his English friends all was loft. This amicable conteft, as to who fhould defend the breach, occafioned a rush of Turks to the fpot, and thus time was gained for the arrival of the firft body of Haf fan fan Bey's troops. I had now to combat the Pacha's repugnance to admitting any troops but his Albanians into the garden of his feraglio, become a very important port, as occupying the Terre-plein of the rampart. There was not above 200 of the original 1000 Albanians left alive. This was no time for debate, and I over-ruled his objections by introducing the Chifflik regiment of 1000 men, armed with bayonets, disciplined after the European method, under fultan Selim's own eye, and placed by his Imperial majefty's exprefs commands at my difpofal. The garrifon, animated by the appearance of fuch a reinforcement, was now all on foot, and there being confequently enough to defend the breach, I propofed to the Pacha to get rid of the object of his jealoufy, by opening his gates to let them make a fally and take the alfailants in flank: he readily complied, and I gave directions to the colonel to get poffeffion of the enemy's third parallel, or nearest trench, and there fortify himself by fhifting the parapet outwards. This order being clearly understood, the gates were opened, and the Turks rufhed out, but they were not equal to fuch a movement, and were driven back to the town with lofs. Mr. Bray, however, as ufual, protected the town-gate efficaciously, with grape from the 68-pounders. The fortie had this good effect, that it obliged the enemy to expose themselves above their parapets, fo that our flanking fire brought down numbers of them, and drew their force from the breach, fo that the fmall number remaining on the lodgement were killed or difperfed, by our few remaining hand-grenades thrown by Mr. Savage, midshipman of the Thefeus. The enemy began a new breach, by an inceffant fire directed to the fouthward of the lodgement, every fhot knocking down whole fheets of a wall, much lefs folid than that of the tower, on which they had expended fo much time and ammunition. The group of generals and aidsdu-camp, which the fhells from the 68-pounders had frequently dif perfed, were now re-affembled on Richard Cœur de Lion's Mount. Buonaparte was diftinguifhed in the centre of the femicircle; his gefticulation indicated a renewal of attack, and his difpatching an aid-ducamp to the camp, fhewed that he waited only for a reinforcement. I gave directions for Haffan Bey's fhips to take their station in the fhoal water to the fouthward, and' made the Tigre's fignal to weigh, and join the Thefeus to the northward. A little before funfet, a maffive column appeared advancing to the breach with a folemn ftep. The Pacha's idea was not to defend the brink this time, but rather to let a certain number of the enemy in, and then clofe with them, according to the Turkish mode of war. column thus mounted the breach unmolefted, and defcended from the rampart into the Pacha's garden, where, in a very few minutes, the bravest and most advanced among them lay headlefs corpfes, the fabre, with the addition of a dagger in the other hand, proving more than a match for the bayonet; the rest retreated precipitately; and the commanding officer, who was feen manfully encouraging his men to mount the breach, and who, we have fince learned, to be general Lafne, was carried off wounded, by a mufket-flot. General Rom The baud baud was killed. Much confufion arofe in the town, from the actual entry of the enemy, it having been impoffible, nay impolitic, to give previous information to every body, of the mode of defence adopted, left the enemy fhould come to a knowledge of it by means of their numerous emiffaries. The English uniform, which had hitherto ferved as a rallying point for the old garrison wherever it appeared, was, now in the dufk, mistaken for French, the newly-arrived Turks not diftinguishing between one hat and another in the crowd, and thus many a fevere blow of a fabre was parried by our officers, among which colonel Douglas, Mr. Ives, and Mr. Jones, had nearly lost their lives, as they were forcing their way through a torrent of fugitives. Calm was reftored by the Pacha's exertions, aided by Mr. Trotte, juft arrived with Hafan Bey, and thus the conteft of twenty-five hours ended, both parties being fo fatigued as to be unable to move. Buonaparte will, no doubt, renew the attack, the breach being, as above defcribed, perfectly practicable for fifty men a-breast; indeed the town is not. nor ever has been, defenfible, cording to the rules of art, but according to every other rule, it muft and fhall be defended, not that it is, in itself, worth defending, but we feel that it is by this breach Bucnaparte means to march to farther conquefts. It is on the iffue of this conflict that depends the opinion of the multitude of fpectators on the furrounding hills, who wait only to fee how it ends to join the victor, and with fuch a reinforcement for the execution of his known projects, Conftantinople and even Vienna muft feel the fhock. 11 Be affured, my lord, the magni tude of our obligations does but increafe the energy of our efforts in the attempt to difcharge our duty; and though we may, and probably fhall be overpowered, I can venture to fay, that the French army will be fo much farther weakened be fore it prevails, as to be little able to profit by its dear-bought victory: I have the honour to be, &c. Rear-admiral lord Nelson. Tigre, at Anchor off Jaffa, May 30. My lord, The providence of Almighty God has been wonderfully manifefted in the defeat and precipitate retreat of the French army, the means we had of oppofing its gigantic efforts againit us being totally inadequate. of themfelves, to the production of fuch a refult. The measure of their iniquities feems to have been filled by the maffacre of the Turkish prifoners at Jaffa, in cool blood, three days after their capture and the plain of Nazareth has been the boundary of Buonaparte's extraordinary career. He raised the fiege of Acre on the 20th May, leaving all his heavy artillery behind him, either buried or thrown into the fea, where, however, it is visible, and can easily be weighed. The circumstances which led to this event, fubfequent to my laft difpatch of the 9th inftant, are as follow: Conceiving that the ideas of the Syrians, as to the supposed irresistible prowess of these invaders, must be changed, fince they had witnessed the checks which the befieging army daily met with in their operations before |