text:  Sixteen or eighteen thousand men are already moving up from Flanders; a strong corps under my old acquaintance and countryman Kellerman--and whatever he may be as an officer a bolder and braver veteran does not exist--are coming by forced marches from the Rhine; the sea-coast towns are stripped of their garrisons to supply a supplementary force; and I should not be surprised to find that we rather under than over calculated the force which will be in line against us within a week