Kentucky Gazette

We have this day to perform the mortifying and unusual task of announcing the failure of the British arms, attended with a loss exceeding that which has purchased many of our most important successes. The disaster occurred in Holland. An enterprize undertaken by the orders of sir T. Graham, with hopes justified, in a great measure at least, by the impression made in the first instance, with the object of obtaining possession of the strong fortress of Bergen-op-Zoom, was finally frustrated with the loss on our part of nearly the whole of the troops engaged, by death, or by a capitulation containing a covenant for the exchange of the captives. The details of the operations, down to their disastrous close, have been published this morning in an extraordinary gazette, which we insert at full length, with feelings whose poignancy will not permit us to say more, than that we condole most sincerely with our afflicted country on an occasion so truly distressing.