Total rank and file, killed; 1 major, 1 captain, 3 fubalterns, 55 rank and file, wounded.

N. B. Major De Ruvynes fince dead of his wounds.

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(Signed)

T. G. DREW, Major of Brigade.

Admiralty-Office, July 26, 1796.

Copy of a Letter from Captain Wolley, of his Majefty's Ship Arethusa, to Mr. Nepean, dated in Kingstown Bay, St. Vincent's, June 23, 1796.

SIR,

HAVING received orders from the Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh C. Chriftian to proceed with Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby in his Majefty's fhip Arethufa, under my command, and co-operate with him in the reduction of the islands of St. Vincent's and Grenada, and not knowing what opportunity the Rear-Admiral may have of communicating the intelligence I have, from time to time, fent him of the progrefs of his Majefty's arms, I think it my duty to take the eccafion that offers by the Rofe Indiaman of acquainting you, for the information of their lordships, that the whole of the French force in this island have laid down their arms by capitulation, after an obstinate refiftance, in which the army loft as little as could be expected from the nature of the pofts they had to attack.

I have alfo the pleafure to inform you, that in Grenada the fuccefs has been nearly equal, there only remaining to be fubdued the rebel Fedon, and a few of his affociates, whofe atrocious murders and crimes have precluded all hopes of pardon. They have retired to a strong poft in the mountains, where they are furrounded by the army under General Nicolls, with little profpect of efcaping the punishment they deferve.

I have done my endeavours, with the fhips under my orders, to co-operate with General Sir Ralph Abercromby; and he has had the goodness to thank the feamen for their exertions.

General Nicolls alfo fpeaks in the highest terms of the judgment and exertions of Captains Scott, Otway, Searl, and Warner, who I ordered, in the Hebe, Mermaid, Pelican, and Beaver, to cover the landing of the troops at Grenada, which was happily effected without lofs to the army Inclofed I fend you a lift of the killed and wounded in his Majesty' fhips under my orders on this occafion, and have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble fervant,
T. WOLLEY.

Since writing the above, an officer has arrived from Grenada with the agreeable intelligence from General Nicolls, that, nearly at the fame hour, he made an attack on the three mountain pofts held by Fedon and his brigands, with fuccefs, and that the whole of Grenada is now in our poffeffion; but that Fedon himself got fafe into the woods, after having murdered all the white people remaining at Morne Quaquo, both friends and foes. About thirty dead bodies were found, but it does not appear that above twelve of them were English, and even fome VOL. V.

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of them, it is fuppofed, were deferters. Every vigilance will be used by the troops and inhabitants to prevent their escape.

Lift of the Killed and Wounded.

Arethufa-1 feaman badly wounded on fhore with the troops at St. Vincent's.

Mermaid-7 feamen killed, and 5 feamen wounded, by the bursting of a maindeck gun, while covering the landing at Grenada.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, July 26.

Downing Street, July 26.

DISPATCHES, of which the following is an extract, has been received from Colonel Graham, by the right hon. Lord Grenville, his Majefty's principal fecretary of ftate for foreign affairs, dated headquarters, Roveredo, June 30, 1796.

In the morning of the 28th inftant, the enemy made several attacks on the line of pofts acrofs Monte Baldo, all the way from the Adige to the Lago di Gerda. They forced one point near the centre, where the refiftance was feeble, but, being repulsed everywhere else, were soon obliged to abandon it. The enemy have detached a number of men into the Milanois, and General Kellerman is preparing to befiege the citadel. They have likewife detached a body (it is faid of eight or 10,000 men) to Ferrara and Bologna. Their force, therefore, at prefent near Mantua, is much reduced, and fince the laft fortie, in which their lofs was very confiderable, they have kept at a greater distance.

'Downing Street, July 26.

A DISPATCH, of which the following is a copy, has been received from Lieutenant-colonel Craufurd, by the right hon. Lord Grenville, his Majesty's principal fecretary of state for foreign affairs, dated head-quarters of his royal highnefs the Archduke Charles of Austria, Rieberg, near Ettlingen, July 6, 1796.

MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to inform your lordship, that his royal highnefs the Archduke affembled near Graben, on the 3d inftant, the troops with which he was marching against General Moreau; on the 4th he. moved to Mulberg, near Carlfruhe, and on the 5th to the Murg, a river that rifes in the Black Foreft, and falls into the Rhine about a league from Raftadt.

On the 4th General De La Tour's advanced posts, which had till then occupied Buhl and Stolhoffen, were obliged to fall back towards the Murg, and on the 5th they recroffed that river, after having refifted for many hours an attack that the enemy made upon them, with a very fuperior force, from Odenan, in the Murg valley, quite to the Rhine. The fame evening intelligence was received, that the Wirtemberg troops, and part of the contingent of the circle of Swabia, had abandoned the pafs of Friedenstadt, in the mountains of the Black Foreft, the poffeffion of which enables the enemy to operate against the Arch

duke's

duke's left, and to cut off his royal highness's communication with the Prince of Conde's army and the corps of Auftrians that was stationed in the Brifgaw, under the command of General Frolich, at the fame time that it lays open to them the Dutchy of Wirtemberg, nd the routs leading to the Auftrian magazines at Villingen and Rothweil.

This circumftance, fo important in its probable confequences, and fo unexpected, from the pofition which covers the pafs of Friedenstadt, being confidered, as in reality it is, almoft inattackable, obliged his royal highness to retire towards Ettlingen on the 6th, and to detach a ftrong corps into the mountains on his left to fecure that flank, and to re-establili a communication with the Prince of Conde and General Frolich, who will probably have been obliged to fall back towards Willingen, as their right, and even their rear, must be endangered if they remained in the Brifgaw after the Swabian troops had retreated.

The enemy's progrefs on the Lower Rhine has alfo been confiderable. According to the laft reports, General Jourdan was marching to the Lahn, with that part of his army which had croffed the Rhine at Neuwied; with the remainder he was manoeuvring against the Auftrian corps that was ftationed at Neukirchen, about four leagues from Dillingbourg; and it is by no means impoffible that he may foon advance to the Mein, as the Auftrian army of the Rhine has been too much weakened by the very large detachments it was obliged to fend to Italy in the beginning of June, to be able now effectually to oppofe the enemy's progrefs on all fides at the fame time.

Parliament-freet, July 26.

A DISPATCH, of which the following is an extract, has been this day received by the right hon. Henry Dundas, one of his Majesty's principal fecretaries of date, from Major-general Gordon Forbes, commanding his Majefty's troops in the island of St. Domingo, dated Mole St. Nicolas, June 20, 1796.

I mentioned fome time fince my intention of taking poffeffion of the parish of Bombarde; accordingly I marched from hence on the 8th inftant, with a confiderable body of troops, against the fort, a distance of fifteen miles. The only road by which cannon could be tranfported was filled with abbatis, the road broke up, stone walls built acrofs, and every posible impediment made ufe of to prevent our approach; added to which, there was not a drop of water to be procured. From all thefe circumstances, and the exceffive heat of the weather, our troops fuffered confiderably, but, by great exertions of both officers and men, all difficulties were removed, and, after we had furrounded the fort, the garrifon, confifting of about three hundred whites, furrendered, on condition of laying down their arms, and retiring to the next republican territory. I have left a fufficient garrifon to protect the place, and have no doubt the parish will be productive of great benefit to the garrifon of the Mole, the air being remarkable wholefome, and it affords a great quantity of vegetables and fresh provifions. I have the honour to inclofe a return of the killed, wounded, and miffing, on the above occafion.

Return of killed, wounded, and miffing, in the Attack against Bombarde, June 8, 1796.

32d Foot-2 officers killed; 1 officer, 6 rank and file, wounded. 39th Foot rank and file miffing.

56th Foot-1 rank and file killed; 3 rank and file miffing.

81ft Foot-3 rank and file killed; 2 rank and file wounded.

General Lewis's Regiment-1 rank and file killed; 3 rank and file wounded.

Royal Artillery-1 officer, 3 rank and file wounded.

Royal Artificers-1 rank and file wounded.

York Huffars-1 ferjeant killed; I rank and file wounded; and 3 horfes killed.

Rohan Huffars-2 horfes killed.

Total-2 officers, 1 ferjeant, 5 rank and file, killed; 2 officers, 16 rank and file, wounded; 4 rank and file miffing: and 5 horses killed. Officers killed.

Lieutenant Nefbitt and Adjutant Ross, of the 32d.

THE letter, of which the following is an extract, was received from Colonel Graham, by the right honourable Lord Grenville, his Majefty's principal fecretary of ftate 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 has remained quict. Marflial Wurmfer arrived here this morning,

Downing-freet, July 30, 1796.

THE letter, of which the following is an extract, was received from Lieutenant-colonel Craufurd, by the right hon. Lord Grenville, his Majefty's principal fecretary of ftate for foreign affairs, dated head quarters of his royal highness the Archduke Charles of Auftria, Eisen. gen, near Pfortzheim, July 11, 1796.

I have the honour to inform your lordship, that, on the 7th and 8th inftant the Archduke remained in the poffeffion of Ettlingen, in order to give time for the arrival at Pfortzheim of the Saxons, who were ad vancing from Graben to reinforce his royal highness's army; and the corps that had been detached into the meuntains, under the command of General Kein, to cover the left, was ordered to take its principal pofition at Frawen Alb.

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The Saxons reached Pfortzheim in the night of the 7th. On the 8th the difpofition was made to attack General Moreau on the 10th, in the pofition of the Murg, at Raftadt, 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 poft, with a part of their army, whilft their principal force attacked General Keim. His royal highnefs immediately fupported his advanced pofts, and was victorious on his right, and along his whole front; but General Keim, after having made the most obftinate refiftance, was obliged to yield to the fuperiority of numbers, and he retired to Pfortzheim. The Saxons, who were in march to cover that Gene ral'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 found himself under the neceffity of marching with his main army to Pfortzheim, on the 10th, where he is now en camped.

The Auftrians loft on this occafion about fixteen hundred men, and four pieces of cannon. The lofs of the French cannot exactly be

afcertained, but it must have been very confiderable.

The Prince of Conde's corps, which has behaved with great bravery, was at Villengen on the 8th, the date of the laft accounts that were received from it. The Anftrian 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 Ehren. breitstein.

Admiralty Office, July 30, 1796.

Extract of a Letter from Captain James Athol Wood, Commander of his Majefty's Sloop Favourite, to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated Fort Royal Bay, Martinique, June 2, 1796.

INCLOSED are fome letters which I had no opportunity to forward to Sir John Laforey before he left this country, therefore transmit them for your perufal.

Favourite, St. George's Bay, Grenada,
February 17, 1796.

Sir, SINCE I did myfelf the honour of writing you on the 5th inftant, his Majesty's floop under my command has captured two French priva teers, and run one on fhore within the Bocas, on the ifland of Trinidada; at the fame time the Alarm and Zebra captured a privateer to leeward of us, and retook two schooners.

The name of the largest privateer captured by the Favourite is the General Rigaud, of eight guns and forty-five men, moftly Italians and Spaniards, a moft defperate fet, without any commiffion; the fmall one was lately the Hind packet, taken off St. Vincent's. The men jumped overboard and got afhore before we could take poffeffion of the Hind. The name of the privateer run afhore is the Banan. I have the honour to be, JAMES ATHOL WOOD.

Admiral Sir John Laforey, Bart,

Ec. &c. Sc. Martinique.

Favour,