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Fribourg. The advanced guard of the Archduke's column diflodged the ene my from Denizlingen without difficul. ty; but as General La Tour met with Confiderable e nofition, and was obliged to resettablish the bridge of De Bingen, under the fire of the enemy's artillery, it was evening before he was able to force the paffage of the river; fo that his Royal Highness did not judge it expedient to bring on a general affair, in which only one part of the army could have been engaged. The Prince of Furftenberg, however, who commanded the right of General La Tour's column, found means to diflodge the enemy from Riegel, from whence he menaced the great road to Brifach.

The whole army paffed the night within half cannon fhot of the enemy's advanced pofts, and every thing was prepared for renewing the action carly this morning.

The enemy, however, did not wait the attack; his main body retired during the night, and the rear guard fol. lowed at day-break, A fmall corps on ly took the route of Brifach, where it paffed the Rhine, and destroyed the bridge the rest of the army directed its march upon Huningen, where a large tete-de-pont is faid to be eftablithed.

During the operations of the main army, the corps of the Prince of Condé and General Frolich were extremel active in the mountains. On the 18th the Prince of Condé drove the enemy, with very confiderable dofs, from the ftrong pofts of St. Megers and St. Peter, in the valley of that name, and 7 General Frolich forced fome of the moft

important paffes of the Val d'Enfer. On abe 19th and 20th they continued to drive the enemy before them, and his morning appeared defcending from the mountains above Fribourg, at the mo ment that the Archduke's van guard entered the town, and contributed much towards prefling the rear of the enemy. I am not at this moment able to ftate to your Lordship, with any degree of accuracy, the lots of the Auftrians in the different actions fince the 17th, but am confident it does not exceed a thousand men killed and wounded. Amongft the latter is General Count Wartenfle ben, who received a grape-fhot in the arm, whilft leading his column to the at tack on the 19th. There is, however, reason to hope that the wound will not prove dangerous,

The lofs of the enemy has been ve ry confiderable. Several pieces of are tillery, and upwards of 2000 prifoners, have fallen into the hands of the Auftriaus. The number of killed and wounded is certainly not smaller,

I have the honour to be, &c,

ROB. ANSTRUTHER.

Head-Quarters of his Royal High

nefs the Archduke Charles of Auftria, Schlingen, October 25, 1796,

MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to inform your Lordship, that his Royal Highnefs the Archduke yesterday attacked General Moreau's army, in the formidable pofition of Schlingen, with fo much fuccefs, that the enemy quitted it last night, and is now in full retreat towards his Tetes dePont near Huningen.

Notwithstanding the victory obtained by the Archduke on the 19th, and the confequent operations of the 20th and 21st, General Moreau, contrary to what was expected, determined to make another effort to maintain himself on the right bank of the Rhine, or at least to defer, as lung as poffible, the paffage of the rivet ; and for this purpose he took up a pofition near Schlingen, the uncommon fuength of which could alone have enabled us to adopt fuch a refolution without expoliag his army to destruction.

This polition, which General Moreau had chofen, is fo uncommonly strong, that I will attempt to describe it to your Lordhip, in hope of conveying Come faint idea of the difficulties of the operation which has been performed..

The flat country, which, extending from the Meyn to within two German miles of Bale, feparates the mountains of Franconia and Suabia from the Rhine, becomes, to the fouthward of Mulheim, almot a regular oblong, about an Engih mile and a half in breadth, at the fouth east angle of which is the village of Schlingen. This is bounded on the fouth by a rivulet, which, rifing near the plain at the foot of the high mountain called the Hoher Blauen, the village of Sitzenkirchen, runs to Cber Eckenheim, and from thence, in a western dire&tion, throngl Nieder Eckenheim, Liel, and Scalingen, to Steinitadt, where it falls into the Rhine. At Schlingen the hills on the right of the rivulet (which are steep and covered with vineyards), turn fuddenly to the northward, and running in that direction towards Mulheim, form the eastern boundary

boundary of the plain, but those on the left bank of the rivulet, which are very high and commanding, continue quite to the Rhine, when they terminate abruptly. Not far from the fource of the abovementioned rivulet, there rifes another, which, taking an oppofite, that is fouth. easterly direction, paffes through Sitzen. kirchen, and, at the village of Candern, falls into the rivulet of that name; which, running south and fouth-weft through a very deep, and, for a confiderable distance, almoft unpaffable ravine, difcharges itself into the Rhine fix or feven English miles above Steinstadt. A third rivulet, rifing about an English mile to the weftward of Candern, runs in a nearly parallel direction to the latter, through Feuerbach, Riedlingen and Badenmuhle, and falls in to the Rhine a little below the mouth of the Candern.

Between the heads of the above-mentioned ravines is a chain of high rugged hills, covered with extenfive and very thick woods.

In this almost inattackable fituation was placed the right wing of the enemy's army. The corps which covered the extre mity of it occupied Candern, Sitzenkirchen, and the surrounding heights, from whence the line proceeded along the hills above Ober and Nieder Eckenheim, Liel, Schlingen and Steinstadt, all of which places were ftrongly occupied; and the jeft flank of the line came quite to the Rhine, which runs clofe under the heights of Steinftadt. Advanced before the centre of his army, the enemy had a very Brong corps of infantry on the heights and in the vineyards between Schlingen and Feldberg.

About an English mile in the rear of the centre of the pofition, that is, to the fouthward of Liel, is the village of Tannenkirch; between it and Liel is the higheft hill of the whole pofition; and from Tannenkirch the ground falls towards the ravine in which Riedlingen is fituated: fo that, in cafe of the right wing being driven from the extremely frong ground on which it was posted, it had (by failing ~ back to the heights of Tannenkrch), anointher good pofition, rather en potence, -deed, to that of the left wing between Schlingen and Steinftadt, but the falient part is fecured by the high and almost inattackable hill between Tannenkirch and Liet.

An attempt to oblige Moreau to quit his pofition, by marching a very strong column through the mountains on the left bank of the Candern, and through the

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Wifenthal, fo as to threaten his communication with his Tete-de Pont at Hunins gen, would have been too tedious an ope ration in the prefent fituation of affairs, and attended with the utmost difficulty now that the rains have rendered the roads fo bad. The Archduke therefore determined to attack the right wing of the ene my's army, and, if poffible, to diflodge it from the hills above Candern, Feuer bach, Sitzenkirchen, and Ober and Nieder Eckenheim; after gaining poffeffion of which ground, his Royal Highness, if the enemy had perfevered in maintaining his pofition, could the next day have proceeded to the attack of the heights behind the ravine of Redlingen. The attempt was arduous; but every thing was to be ex pected from the exertions of the army; for the gallant examples invariably fhewn the troops, in the most trying situations, by the BROTHER of their EMPEROR, and the grea ability with which he has com manded them, has infpired the whole army with a degree of confidence in and attachment to his Royal Highness, which is car-" ried to enthusiasm.

The attack was performed in the fol lowing manner. The ariny was divided into four principal columns: the firft, or right column confifted of the Prince of Condé's corps, commanded by his Serene Highness, its advanced guard being ied by the Duke d'Enghien: the fecond column confifted of nine battalions and twenty-fix fquadrons, commanded by the Prince of Furitenberg: the third column of eleven battalions and a brigade of cavalry, under General La Tour; and the fourth column confifted of the whole advanced guard of the army, under Major-General Nauendorf,

The two first columns were destined to employ the enemy fo as to prevent his detaching considerably from his left wing, but not to attempt any real attack on the main position of that wing, the ground from Schlingen to the Rhine being too frong to admit of it,

The third and fourth columns were, to make the real attack on the enemy's right wing, and to endeavour to get round his flank.

The Prince of Condé's column affembled at Neuburg, and advanced, to Steinftadt, which village they attacked and carried, and maintained with great, firmone's during the whole day, though entirely commanded by the left of the enemy's position. The Prince of Furstenberg's column af fembled at Mulheim, and advanced, to

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wards Schlingen. It took poffeffion of the heights oppofite the enemy's pofition behind Schlingen, and maintained them under a fevere cannonade.

General La Tour's column marched from Vegelheim through Feldberg. The right wing of it attacked the enemy in the vineyards between Feldberg and Schlingen, whilft the left drove them out of Eckenheim, then passed the ravine, and attacked the woody hills behind it. The nature of the ground was fuch, that both thefe attacks met with the most obftinate refittance, the right, however, at length fucceeded in forcing the enemy to quit the vineyards, and retire behind Liel, and the left, after driving them out of a great part of the wood, took a position with its right flank to Nieder Eckenheim, and its left extending towards Feuerbach.

General Nauendorf's column had pre. eded General La Tour's as far as Feldberg, from whence it took to the left along the foot of the mountain, on which ftands the cattle of Burgleim. It then divided into feveral columns; one of these attacked the village of Sitzenkirchen, and after carrying it, defcended by the ravine I have defcribed towards Candern. Ano. ther column of much more confiderable force, to the left of the former, was commanded by General Nauendorf himself. He attacked the ftrong height fituated between the ravine of Sitzenkirchen and that of the Candern, and having gained poffeffion of them after much oppofition, he arrived immediately above the town of Candern. A third column of Light Infantry and Huffars, commanded by Major-General Merfeld, drove the enemy from the ftrong woody heights to the right of Sitzenkirchen, and got poffeffion of all the high ground between Candern and Feuerbach, which forms a part of the chain that runs between the heads of the ravines, and is connected with the high hill between Tannenkirk and Liel. By this means General- Merfeld was enabled to establish a communication near Feuer. bach with General La Tour's left. The enemy was now alfo driven from the village of Candern.

General Nauendorf's corps had been in march all night, and, owing to the extreme badnels of the roads in the mountains (rendered almost impaffable), had not been able to commence its real attack till two o'clock, fo that it was late in the afternoon before it fucceeded as far as I have mentioned. An extreme thick mift, followed by a viofent form, which lafted till dark, put an end to the action.

The enemy, finding that the operations of the day had completely prepared the way for an attack upon the heights of Tannenkirchen (which was to have taken place this morning), did not chafe to await it, but retreated in the night. His rear-guard quitted the heights behind Schlingen about four o'clock this morning, and he appears to be retiring towards his Tete-de-Pont at Huningen.

I have the honour to be, &c.

ROBERT CRAUFURD. Head-Quarters of his Royal Highnefs the Archduke Charles of Auftria, Mappach, O&. 27, 1796.

MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to inform your Lordship, that in the courfe of last night General Moreau's army retreated across the Rhine at Huningen.

The laft of his rear-guard was this morning till on the heights of Weiller, on which he had conftructed a large and folid work; but, after a little skirmishing with the huffars, they evacuated the height and redoubt before any infantry could come up; and nothing now remains on this fide the river but a few troops in a fmall Tete-de-Punt, behind which is a kind of horn-work, lately constructed on the island called Shueter Infel.

I have the honour to be, &c.

ROBERT CRAUFURD.

ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, NOV. 19, 1796. Extract of a Letter from Captain Mont, 'Commander of bis Majefly's Ship Me lampus, to Evan Nepean, Efq, dated off the Ile of Wight, Nov. 14, 1796. I HAVE to acquaint you, for the information of their Lordships, that yefterday morning at day-light his Majefty's fhips Minerva and Melampus drove a French National Corvette on thore in the entrance of Barfleur Harbour. The wind being directly on fhore, and the tide falling, it was impoffible for his Majefty's fhips to get near enough to deftroy her, but I have no doubt the must be totally loft, it being near half ebb when the ftruck,

Captain Peyton having ordered me to work up towards Havre, with the Melampus and Childers, we parted from the Minerva in the evening, and at eight A. M. this morning, the Childers being in company, we difcovered a fhip, to which we gave chafe: at four P. M. we began to fire our bow guns at her, which he returned with what guns the could bring

to bear at half paft five, being within half musket fhot, and going to give her a broadfide, the difcharged her guns in the air, and truck her colours. She proves to be L'Etna, of 18 twelve pounders and 137 men, commanded by Citizen Joseph La Coudrais, a national corvette, from Havre bound to Breft, laden for the Republic with naval and military ftores, and various other articles. The prifoners inform me, that the other corvette afhore at Barfleur had failed the night before L'Etna did from the bafon of Havre, is called L'Etonnant, mounting 18 eighteen poun. ders, bound for Breft, and laden with naval and military ftores. They are both quite new, very compleat ships, and their firft cruize.

Extract of a Letter from Captain Bowa

ter, Commander of his Majefty's Ship Trent, to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated Yarmouth Roads, O&. 16, 1796.

You will be pleafed to inform their Lordships, that, in confequence of the reprefentation of the Mayor of Yarmouth, informing me that two hips paffing he tween Oufley-Bay and this place, were at tacked by a fmall cutter privateer off Southwold, on Monday eve, about nine o'clock; I yesterday morning dispatched the Phoenix hired cutter in queft of her, and to give information to the Efpeigle brig,, on that ftation.

Thurfday Morning, Nov. 17. The wind blowing very hard all day yesterday from the westward, prevented my fending this to the Poft, and fince that time the Phoenix has returned to this place, bringing in with her the privateer cutter The was fent after. The privateer had been four days from Dunkirk, and had taken a light collier brig the day before the was captured.

-Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Wil. liam Sharp, commanding bis Majefty's bired armed Cutter the Dover, to Evan Nepean, Efq, dated Swanfea, Nov. 16, 3796.

ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, NOV. 18, 1796. Copy of a Letter from Commodore Sir J. B. Warren to Vice-Admiral Colpoys, dated on board his Majefty's Ship La Pomone, at Sea, 2d inft.

Sir, I beg leave to inform you, that this morning, Ufhant bearing N. E. by E. eight leagues, I difcovered his Majef ty's hip Thalia in chafe of a strange fail; and the Artois being pretty well to wind ward, I made her fignal to join the purfuit alfo, and have the fatisfaction to fay, that Sir Edmund Nagel brought her to at eleven A. M. Ufhant then bearing N. E. by E. 11 leagues: the proves to be Le Frank lin, mounting 12 fix pounders, and a complement of 100 men.

Sir, I am to acquaint you, for the in"formation of their Lordships, that on the 12th init. I captured, in his Majesty's hired armed cutter Dover, under my command, feven leagues fouth of the Land's End, the Providence lugger privateer, a new faft-failing vetfel, carrying four threepounders, pierced for eight, with 29 men, out four days from St. Maloe's, and had not taken any thing.

I am, Sir, &c.

WILLIAM SHARP. VOL. XXX. DEC, 1796,

I have the honour to he, &c.

JOHN WARREN. Vice-Admiral Colpoys, &c.,

FROM OTHER PAPERS

Paris papers down to the ad infta contain a boafting account from the

French Generals Buonaparte and Berthier, of their late victory over the Au ftrians, on the 15th and 16th Nov.

The following is Berthier's Letter:
Head Quarters at Verona, 29th Brum,

"After the moft difficult manœuvres,

the moft obftinate battles, eight days without putting off our boots, we have beat General Alvinzy, and pursued his corps as far as Vicenza. Five thousand prifoners, three thoufand killed and wounded, four ftand of colours, twelve pieces of cannon, are the fruits of this victory. D'Alvinzy has rallied behind the Bretna. Davidovich, ignorant of what has happened to Alvinzy, is on the right bank of the Adige, after having forced the divifion of Vaubois, and has advanced on the other fide from Rivoli: we doubt not but he will retire if he preferves his pofition, he will foon be in our power, with the 6000 men that he commands.

"Long live the army of Italy !—Pre. fently Mantua will be in our power.

"Never was a battle more bloody. We had two generals mortally wound. ed, and five who it is hoped, may re cover-two aid-de-camps of the General in Chief and an adjutant-general killed.

"I have not time to fay more; we have again to fight; no repofe till the enemy is destroyed.

(Signed) "ALEX. BERTHIER."

General

General Moreau writes to the Directory as follows, dated 2d Frimaire (Nov. 22.).

The garrifon at Kehl made this morning a vigorous fortie, to reconnoitre the line of the circumvallation of the enemy.

"General Defaix was charged with the attack of the right-General Decaen was in the centre, and General Sice on the left.

"The whole line of the enemy was forced, without a fhot being fired: the enemy abandoned all their artillery, which was inftantly fpiked. Could we have anticipated a fuccefs fo complete, and had artillery horfes ready, we might have taken twenty pieces of cannon. With the horses which we could fpare from our own, we could only bring off ten pieces. We made from 600 to 700 prifoners, amongst whom were twenty officers, including a colonel and a major. Such was the refult of this fally. (Signed)

"MOREAU."

DOMESTIC

DEC. 5.

Private letters announce, that Gete. ral Moreau was flightly wounded in the head by a ball, and that one of his Aidde-camps had the lower part of his leg hot away.

The Deputies of Modena, Ferrara, Reggio, &c. have feparated, after de creeing the abolition of the privileges of the nobles and clergy, and publishing two manifeftoes to the people of Italy, affuring them it was the wish of the new Republic to live in peace with all their neighbours. A fpecial deputation was fent to Milan to notify the new conftitution. This affembly is to meet again at Reggio on the 24th of Decem. ber. In the mean while a Military Commiffion is appointed to organize the National Guard, and raise five cohorts, one of which may be formed out of foreigners. It is added, that it did not appear, that the province of Romagna would join the confederation, or that the French were in earneft in feizing the Pope's provinces.

INTELLIGENCE.

THE following mode of railing the Loan of 18 millions was propofed and recommended by the Bank Directors on Wednefday laft. One million was fubfcribed by the Bank in their corporate capacity, and four hundred thousand pounds by the Directors individually; and before the clofe of the books the first day, five millions were fubfcribed by different merchants and

others.

At ten o'clock this morning the parlour doors at the Bank were opened, before which time the lobby was crowded. Numbers could not get near the books at all; while others, to teftify their zeal, called to the perfons at the books then figning, to put down their names for them, as they were fearful of being fhut out. At about twenty minutes past eleven the Subfcription was declared to be completely full, and hundreds in the room were reluctantly obliged to go away. By the pott innumerable orders came from the country for fubfcriptions to be put down, scarcely one of which could be executed. And long after the Subfcription was clofed, perfons continued coming, and were bliged to depart difappointed.

It is a curious fact, and well worth ftating, that the Subfcription Completely filled in fifteen hours and twenty

minutes :

Two hours on
Six ditto on

Thursday,
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tendered a draft at fight on his Banker, The Duke of Bridgewater actually for the 100,000l. which he fubfcribed

to the New Loan! which of courfe

could not be accepted, as the Act is not yet paffed.

9. Francis Dunn was indicted for the wilful murder of David Brewer, by giving him feveral wounds on the head, and in the fide, with a clafp knife, on Thurfday the roth of November, and William Arnold and William Ryan, for aiding and abetting him in the faid mur der.

On the night of Wednesday the 9th of November, the patroles obferved two Cow Crofs, and, following them up, men go up Pipe-maker's-alley, near obferved one of them, which proved to be Dunn, with a knife in his hand. They interrogated him as to what he was doing with it; but he refusing to fatisfy them, they took him to the watch-house, of which the deceased Mr. they had no charge against them, and a Brewer was the keeper; however, as publican appearing in their behalf, they were difcharged.

The next night there was a club held at the Sun, Cow Crofs, at which, among others,

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