DOWNING-STREET, JULY 30, 1796. THE Letter, of which the following is an Extract, was received from Colonel Graham, by the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, his Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated Roveredo, July 4, 1796. On the 30th ult. I had the honour of informing your Lordship that the enemy made an unfuccefsful attack on Monte Baldo on the 28th; fince that all remained quiet, Marthal Wurmler arrived here this morning. DOWNING STREET, JULY 30, 1796. . THE Letter, of which the following is an Extract, was received from LieutenantColonel Craufurd, by the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, his Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated Head-quarters of his Royal Highnels the Archduke Charles of Austria, Eifingen, near Pfortzheim, July 11, 1796. I have the honour to inform your Lord. hip, that, on the 7th and 8th inftant, the Archduke remained in the poffeffion of Ettingen, in order to give time for the arrival at Pfortzheim of the Saxons, who were advancing from Graben to reinforce his Royal Highness's army; and the corps that had been detached into the Mountains, under the command of General Keim, to 'cover the left, was ordered to take its principal polition at Frawen Alb. The Saxons reached Pforzheim in the night of the 7th. On the 8th, difpofition was inade to attack General Moreau on the roth, in the position of the Murg, at Rattadt, Kupenheim, and Gertzbach; and on the 9th, whilft the preparatory movements were executing, in order to bring the troops forward to the different points from whence they were to advance the next morning, the enemy forced back the Archduke's advanced polts with a part of their army, whilft their principal force attacked General Keim. His Royal Highres immediately fupported his advanced posts, and was victorious on his right, and along his whole front; but General Keim, after having made a moft obfinate refiftance, was obliged to yield to the fuperiority of numbers, and he retired to Pfortzheim. The Saxons, who were in Vol. XXX. OCTOBER, 1796. march to cover that General's left flank, did the fame; and, as this unfortunate circumftance gave the enemy poffeffion of all the paffes in the mountains on the Archduke's left, his Royal Highness ing with his main army to Pfortzheim on found himself under the neceffity of marchthe roth, where he is now encamped. fixteen hundred men and four pieces of cannon The lofs of the French cannot The Auftrians loft on this occafion be exactly ascertained, but it must have been very confiderable The Prince of Conde's corps, which has behaved with great bravery, was at Villingen on the 8th, the date of the laft accounts that were received from it. The Auftrian General Frolich still remained in the Brifgaw. The enemy has paffed the Lahn; and the army which was left for the defence of that part of the country has retired to the pofition of Bergen, having thrown proper garrifons into Mayence and Ehrenbreitstein. Extract of a Letter from Capt. James Atbol Wood. Commander of his Majef ty's floop Favourite, to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated Fort Royal Bay, Martinique, June 2, 1796. had no opportunity to forward to Sir John INCLOSED are fome letters which I Laforey before he left this country, therefore tranfmit them for your perufal. Favourite, St. George's Bay, Grenada, SIR, February 17, 1796.5 1 Since I did myfelf the honour of writing you on the sth inftant, his Majesty's floop under my command has captured two French privateers, and run one on fhore within the Bocas on the Island of Trinidadag at the fame time the Alarm and Zebra captured a privateer to leeward of us, and retook two fchooners. The name of the largest privateer captured by the Favourite is the General Rigaud, of eight guns and 45 men, moftly Italians and Spaniards, a moft defperate fet, without any commiffion; the small one was lately the Hind packet, taken off St. Vin cent's. The men jumped overboard and got afhore before we could take poflethon РР of of the Hind. The name of the privateer run afhore is the Banan." 'I have the honour to be, &c. Admiral Sir John Laforey, Favourite, St. George's Bay, SIR, Grenada, March 12, 1796. Three days ago, about feven in the morning, in his Majefty's floop under my command, we fell in with three of the enemy's cruizers to windward of this illand; two schooners, one of 10 and the other of. 12, and a fhip of 14 guns. They at first bore down on us, but, perceiving we did not alter our courfe, they foon after hauled their wind, to the fouthward: light and baffling winds prevented our getting along fide of the hip until 11 at night, when the furrendered without refiftance. This hip was the Sufannah of Liverpool, that had been taken only a few days before, and was fitted and manned by the enemy to cruize against the trade of his Majesty's fubjects. The two fchooners efcaped under the favour of the night. Having had about 70 French prifoners on board the Favourite, I have taken upon me to distribute them, to the number of two or three, on board of each of the tranfports and merchant ships homewardbound. The Officers I have put on board the Charlotte floop, Lieutenant Williams, the remainder I have put on board the prison ship at this place. I have the honour to be, &c. JAMES ATHOL WOOD. Admiral Sir John Laforey, Bart. &c. DOWNING STREET, AUG. 6. 1796. A DISPATCH, of which the following is a copy, has been received from Colonel Craufurd by the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, dated Head-quarters of his Royal Highnefs the Archduke Charles of Auftria, Felbach, near Stutgard, July 19, 1796. MY LORD, I Have the honour to inform your Lordhip, that the Archduke, upon receiv. ing intelligence that the enemy were marching towards Stutgard with a view to cut off his Royal Highness's direct commu. nication with General Frolich and the Prince of Condé, moved from his camp near Pfortzheim, on the 14th inft. to Vahingen, upon the river Entz, where he remained the 15th and 16th. On the 17th, as the enemy continued their march to. wards Stutgard, his Royal Highnefs moved to Schwebertingen, and on the 18th to Ludwigfberg, having detached two finall corps to occupy the bridges over the Neckar at Canftadt, Unter Turhnen and Eflingen, in order to cover his left flank, and fecure the great road from Stutgard to Ulm, by which lays his communication with his principal magazines. In the afternoon of the 18th the enemy arrived at Stutgard, and attempted to diflodge the Auftrian advanced pofts, which were placed in fuch a manner as to com. mand the roads leading from that city to Ludwigsberg and Canttadt. The attack commenced about four o'clock, and was directed with much vio lence against two diftinct corps; that on the left, pofted near Canftadt, under the command of General Baillet, and that on the right, between Canftadt and Feyerbach, under the Prince John of Lichtenftein. On the heights of Canftadt the enemy were repulfed three times; but they fucceeded in making themselves mafters of the commanding ground on the Prince of Lichten ftein's right flank, as he had not troops enough to occupy it in fufficient force. However, his Royal Highnefs determined to wait till the laft moment for the arrival of General Devay, who was march. ing to his fupport with another divifion of the troops that formed the arivanced potts of the army. In the mean time the enemy gained fo much ground, that even their mufquetry fire along the front and on the right flank croffed in the Prince of Lichtenftein's ranks, and it was with the greatest difficulty he could keep them from falling upon his rear. At this critical moment General Devay appeared, and defeated that part of the enemy's troops who were in poffeffion of the heights on the Prince of Lichtenftein's right. This gave his Highness an opportunity of at tacking in front, which he did with a degree of fuccefs that fully rewarded the exemplary firmness displayed by himself and his mall corps during the whole affair; and General Baillet having maintained his ground on the left, notwithstanding the repeated efforts made to diflodge him, the action terminated, towards nine o'clock at night, in favour of the Auftrians. Their lofs amounted to about goo men; that of the enemy was certainly much greater. On the 19th his Royal Highness crossed the Neckar, and encamped at Felbach, for the purpose of covering more effectually his communication with Ulm. The contingent troops of the Circle of Suabia having quitted the pofition of Sultz, on the Neckar, and retired behind Keckingen Keckingen, the Prince of Condé and General Frolich, who had united at Viilin. gen, and were still there on the 17th, will by this time have been obliged molt probably to fall back, General Wartenfleben withdrew the gartilon of Frankfort on the 14th inft, as that place is not capable of defence; and he arranged with General Jourdan a partial armiftice for two days, to give time for carrying off what ftill remained there be, longing to the Auftrians. On the 16th, finding that the enemy were detaching round his right, through the bishopric of Fulda, his Excellency continued his retreat towards Wurtzburg, in the neighbourhood of which place he was with his whole force when the laft accounts came from him: fo that Wurtzburg upon the Mein, Canftadt and Ellingen on the Neckar, and Sigmaringen on the Danube, may be confidered at this moment as nearly the principal points of the Auftrian pofition. P 2 I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) C. CRAUFURD. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, AUG. 6. Copy of a Letter from Vice-Admiral "King fmill, Commander in Chief of his Majelly's Ships and Veffels at Cork, to Mr. Nepean, dated L' Engageante, Cork Harbour, July 31, 1796.. SIR, PLEASE to inform my Lords Commiflioners of the Admiralty, that his Majefty's fhips Cerberus and Seahorfe arrived here yesterday afternoon; During their cruize they captured a Erench privateer cutter, called the Calvados, mounting fix guns, ten fwivels, and thirty-eight men, which had been out ten days from Breft, but not made any prize, and they sent her to Plymouth. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your moft obedient humble fervant. R. KINGSMILL ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, AUG. 8. 1796. Exuat of a Letter from Admiral Sir Peter Parker, Bart. Commander in Chief of bis Majefty's Ships and Veffels at Portsmouth and Spithead, to Mr. Nepean, dated Royal William, at Spithead, Aug. 6, 1796. THE Telemachus cutter returned this morning from a cruize, with the Marguarita French privateer, of four guns, and 40 men, which the captured early yesterday afternoon off the Owers: the faid privateer had, the fame mornAng taken the floop John, William Ayles Mafter, from Sunderland, bound to Weymouth, which the Telemachus retook, and fent into this part. Inclofed is Lieutenant Crifpe's letter, giving an account of the capture, and recapture above-mentioned. Telemachus, at Spithead, Aug. 9, 1796. SIR, I Have the honour to acquaint you, that yesterday morning, being off the Needles, I food in thore after a floop and cutter; foon after the cutter made fail to the eastward, and at eleven com. ing up with the floop, recaptured the John of Weymouth, William Ayles Mafter, loaded with coals, who had been taken in the morning early by the cutter. After making all poffible difpatch in taking poffeffion of her, I immediately gave chace to the cutter, which had got a great diftance; but the faft failing of the Telemachus brought us up with her at a quarter paft two in the afternoon, being then off the Owers, when firing a fhot at her, the ftruck, and proved to be the Marguarita, French cutter priva teer, mounting four guns and four swi vels, and manned with 40 men. She' had been three days from Cherbourg, and had only taken this loop; but I have the fatisfaction to add, that by taking her five other veffels escaped be ing captured. I am, &c. JOHN CRISPO, Lieutenant and Commander. Admiral Sir Peter Parker. about one mile to the weftward of the town, under the direction of Captain Stuart, of the Peterel, and the Major immediately marched clofe to the gate on the weft fide; and at five o'clock this morning fent to the Governor the Viceroy's letter, containing the terms which would be granted to the town, and gave him two hours for his aufwer. At half past five I came on fhore, when we received a meage from the Governor, dekring one hour more to confult with the principal inhabitants. We took this opportunity to affure the Tuscan inhabitants, that they thould receive no injury whatever in their perfons or property. Having ordered the hips into the harbour to their feveral ftations, before appointed, the Major and my felf determined, thould the terms offered be rejected, to inftantly open the fire of the fhips, and to form the place at every point from the land and fea. News arrived this morning of GeneWartensleben's having been attack. ed, on the oth infant, by General Jourdan, at Friedberg, just as he was preparing to retire to Bengen, and af femble his army in that camp. The enemy were, according to all reports, near four times as ftrong as the Au ftrians; and the latter, after having repulfed three fucceffive attacks, were obliged to retire to Bengen, with the lofs of leveral hundred men, and one I cannot conclude without expreffing_ral my fulleft approbation of the zeal and good conduct of every captain, officer, and man in the fquadron; and alfo that during the time I was neceffarily employed on fhore, my firft Lieutenant Edward Berry commanded the hip, and placed her oppofite the grand baftion, within half piftol-fhot, and in fuch a manner as could not have failed, had we opened the fire, to have had the greatest effect. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. (Signed) HORATIO NELSON. Sir John Jervis, K. B. N.B. The place is mounted with one hundred pieces of cannon, and garrifoned by four hundred regulars, beide militia, ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, AUGUST 20. BY a letter from Sir John Borlafe Warren, commanding a fquadron of his Majefty's frigates, dated the 7th inft. information is received that he had chaced into Dovarnenez Bay near Breft, a French convoy, under the protection of a frigate of 30 guns, and a brig of 18, which were driven on shore, and the latter bilged; as were alfo a tranfport of 600 tons, and a fchooner of 80 tons; and that five brigs of 250 tons each, two chaffe marees of go, and a dogger of 100, were abandoned by their crews and burnt.' [This Gazette likewife contains a letter from Admiral Murray, on the Halifax ftation, giving an account that Capt. Evans, in the Spencer floop, had cannon. General Wartenfleben's army had been divided into three corps along the Lahn, all of which were directing their march towards Bengen; but neither of them was fufficiently ftrong to make a ftand of any confequence, with a pra bability of fuccefs. The enemy, there fore, having arrived at the point of Friedberg, by rapid marches, the moru ing of the day that the Auftrians intended to quit that poft, found a force by no means adequate to refit them, and profited by the circumftance. Proper garrifons are left at Mayence, Manheim, Philipsbourgh, and Ehrenbreitstein. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. MY LORD, His Royal Highness the Archduke, upon receiving intelligence of the ene"my's intention to dislodge the corps at Eflingen, and thus make themfelves mafters mafters of the great road from Stutgard to Ulm, reinforced that important poft in the night of the 20th, and made the n cellary difpofitions for a most vigo rous defence: On the 21ft the enemy made feveral feints on the right, and along the whole front of the camp of Felbach, whilft they marched against the heights of Eflingen with a very fuperior force. Their atteck commenced there about feven o'clock in the morning; and, after five unfuccessful efforts, they were obliged to retire to Hohenheim near Stutgard. The kill with which this pofition was defended, and the vigour displayed in repulfing the reiterated and fevere attacks on grounds to interfected and woody, that neither cavalry nor artillery could act with efficacy, do equal honour to General Hotze, who commanded, and the gallant troops that executed his orders. The exceflive heat of the day, and the great fatigue that they experienced, as they had all been under arms, and most of them marching the whole preceding night, did not prevent them from contending moft courageously with near double their numbers till eight o'clock, when victory rewarded fuch exemplary conduct. I have not the leaft intention of making any distinction between the merits of those brave meu, who are all eptiled to lo great a fhare of praife, but I cannor help obferving re your Lordship, that the first battalion of the Hungarian regiment of Spleny fought from the beginning of this action without being relieved, and though it loft between 3 and 400 men, remained in fire till night put a stop to its un common exertions. This circumftance is fo much talked of in the army, that I feel called upon not to pass it over in filence. The total lofs of the Auftrians on this day was about 1000 men, including feveral officers; that of the enemy amounted, according to the best estimates which can be obtained from deferters and prifoners, to near 2000. I have the honour to be, &c. C. CRAUFURD. Head-Quarters of bis Royal Highness the Archduke Charles of Auftria, Nordlingen, August 4 MY LORD, His Royal Highness the Archduke marched from Gemund on the 26th of July, and encamped with one part of his main army at Bohmenkirchen and another at Uripingen. General Frolich was on the fouth of the Danube near Waldfee, the Prince of Conde near Re venfpurg, and a corps under General Wolf at Bregentz; the Suabians were fill at Biberach, to which place they had retired upon the conclufion of their arm:ttice-General Wartenleben kept his petition near Bambergh, having a fmall body of light troops between Nuremberg and Aufpach, for the purpofe of communicating with the Archduke. On the 29th General Frolich, in compliance with an order from the Archduke, marched to Beiberach, furrounded and difarmed the Suabian corps, obliging them to difperfe immediately, and retire behind the line of operations.--After which he took his pulition in that neighbourhood, and the Prince of Conde marched to Waldfee, leaving an advanced guard near Revenfpurg. From the 26th to the 30th fereral kirmishes happened between the advanced potts; in all these the Austrians had the advantage; and a detachment of Huffars furprited a large French reconnoitring party acar Hohenstadt, between Blanbeuren and Geilengen, every man of which was either killed of taken. On the 31f, as the magazines on the Danube were placed in fafety, and as the enemy began to manoeuvre to wards the Archduke's right, his Royal Higanels determined to concentrate his principal force. He therefore moved, on the aft of Augufi, with his main army, to Haydenheim, on the 2d to Nertheim, and on the 3d to Nordlingen, the detached corps retiring gradually, 1o as to cover his march. His Royal Highnefs's general pofition is now as follows; the main army at Nordlingen, with an advanced guard at Nertheim; two fmall corps near Boppingen and Weiltengen, to observe the roads leading from thofe places; and a corps of fuperior force at Gundelfingen, for the purpose of covering the left, and keeping up the communication with General Frolich and the Prince of Conde, the former of whom is at Wiffenhorn, on the Both, and the latter at Memmingen, with his advanced guard at Wurtzach. The enemy having difcovered the channel by which the water was con. veyed into the fortrefs of Koningstein, cut off the fupply, and by that means reduced the garrifon, confifting of about 500 en, to the neceffity of furrendering. The troops marched out with arms and baggage, and they returned into the Emperor's dominions, on condi tion of not ferving till exchanged. Auguft |