The New Hampshire Gazette

WHITEHALL, July 19.

A letter, of which the following is an extract, dated Courtray, July 15, 1794, has been received from his Royal Highness the Duke of York, by the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.

On Saturday afternoon, the enemy attacked all the out-posts occupied by my advanced corps in front of the canal leading from Brussels to Antwerp, and being greatly superior in numbers, drove them into the town of Malines, upon which place they likewise fired; but upon a reinforcement arriving, under the command of the Earl of Moira, the enemy fell back with some loss.

This morning, however, they renewed the attack, and having succeeded in obliging the posts on the left of Malines, to abandon the canal, and retreat from the Dyle. Lieutenant General Dalrymple, thought himself obliged to fall back to Wellheim, where he has taken up a position to cover that pass of the river. I have detached Lord Moira to take possession of the village of Duffel, upon his left; and General Wallmoden, with the Hanoverians, is at Lierre.

From our Correspondent at Antwerp, July 13.

On the city of Antwerp the allied generals very properly place but little reliance. A great majority of the inhabitants are in fact so disaffected to the general cause, that in case of a siege it could not be expected to hold out three days. The line of defence is therefore to be withdrawn to the Dutch frontier.

At Bergen-op-Zoom, at Breda, at Maestricht, and at Bois-le-Duc, the most positive orders have been issued, that all strangers shall immediately withdraw themselves from those places, and that every inhabitant shall immediately supply himself with six months provisions. Bois-le-Duc, we have just now learned, is completely inundated.

In what proportion the British troops are to act upon this line is probably as yet unsettled.

The rumour still prevails in the camp, that a part of them is to return to England. It is decidedly the intent of Great-Britain, that Holland should be protected. The aid which England affords must therefore be set down to her policy and not to her gratitude. If she were to proportion her efforts either to the kindness or co-operation which she has lately received from her allies, there would not be at this hour a single British soldier remaining on the continent.