General Hotze is pushed on to Alten kirchen and Weyerbufch. A confiderable corps, drawn from the garrifons of Manheim and. Philipfburg, and reinforced by the derachment of cavalry under Count Meerfeldt, has advanced into the Margraviate of Baden, and has met with much fuccefs. They have furprifed and difperfed the corps which the enemy had left in that country, have made a number of prifoners, and taken or deftroved a quantity of baggage and ammunition. Accounts are received of the operations of General La Tour down to the 14th inft. by which it appears, that General Moreau quitted his pofition on the left bank of the Yfer on the 10th and 11th inft. General La Tour followed him clofely, and was ou the 12th at Pfaffenhoven. As General Moreau feemed to direct his march towards Neuburg, where it was fuppofed he would repafs the Danube, General Nau. endorff creffed the river below that place, in order to watch his motions; and on the 14th engaged a serious affair with his rear guard, in which the Auftrians took one piece of cannon, and upwards of a thoufand prifoners.. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) ROBERT ANSTRUTHER, Captain 3d Guards. Head Quarters of his Royal Highnes the Archduke Charles, Weinbeim, Sept. 28, 1796. MY LORD, In my dispatch of the zoth inft. I had the honour of men jouing to your Lordship the idea which prevailed, that the enemy intended making a stand in the polition of Ukerath. On the zift, however, pofitive information was received, that only a rear guard remained on the Seg, the main Body having taken the direction of Duffel dorf, whilth two divifions of the right wing had actually croffed the Rhine at Bonn. The Archduke now faw himself at liberty to undertake the projected operation towards the Upper Rhine, and he lost not a moment in making the neceffary arrangements for that purpose. Lieutenant-General Wefnech, who com. mands the army deftined for the detence of the Lahn, received or fers to advance on the 22d to Ukeath and the Sieg, and at the fame time his Royal Highnels began his march towards the Meyn. He croffed that river on the 25th init. and, leaving a confiderable eferve cantuned berwikt Mayentz and Frankfort, proceeds to the Upper Rhine. The lateft reports from Lieutenant General Petrafch, after mentioning a number of fuccefsful expeditions, in which the lofs of the enemy had been very con fiderable, ftate the unfortunate iffue of an attempt made on Kell on the 17th inft. The attack took place in two columns, and was at fift compleatly fuccefsful. The French were driven from the town and fort with great lofs, and forced to take refuge on the other fide of the Rhine. Unluckily, the commanding Officer of one of the Austrian columns was killed, and that of the other taken prifoner dur ing the affair, and the troops, deprived of their leaders, fell into the greatest confution; whilft the French, having received a reinforcement from Strafburgh, passed the bridge, which the Auftrians had ne glected to destroy, and, falling on them before they could be brought into any degree of order, drove them in their turn from the pott which they had fo gallantly carried. Lieutenant-General Petrafch, after an unfuccesful effort to dislodge the enemy, retired to his pofition at Bifchofffheim; and, leaving a detachment to obferve Kell, and guard the pafs of the Kniebis and the valley of the Kentzig, he marched with the rest of his corps towards Stut gard, where his van guard would arrive on the 24th inftant. By reports from General La Tour, it appears that General Morean, who, as I had the honour of mentioning to your Lordship, had retreated from the Yfer, behind the Leck, made a forward movement on the 17th init. drove in the Au ftrian out polts, and extended himself as far as Landsberg on the Leck. General Frolig, defcending the Iller, occupied on the 17th Immenftatt and Kempen, and on the 19th advanced to Ifhy," where he compleatly defeated the enemy, made 500 prifoners, and difperfed the reft of the corps in the woods; and thus the right of Moreau was compleatly uncovered. General Nauendorff, in the mean time, had advanced with a confiderable corps to Nordingen, from whence he took poffeffion, on the 25th, of Donauwert and the Schellenberg. His parties extend to Dillingen, Ulm, and Gemund, fropa whence he had put himfelt in connection with the light troops of General Petraich, at Conftat, Under thes cicumftances, Moreau felt the the neceffity of a retreat. In the night of ROBERT ANSTRUTHER, HeadQuarters of the Archduke Charles of MY LORD, I HAVE the honour to inform your Lordthip, that General Moreau, after abandoning his pofitions on the Leck, directed his retreat, with a very confiderable part of the army, towards Ulm. Six Commiffaries, and at the people belonging to the bread department, were taken, on the 22d inft. upon the roads leading from Ulm towards Conftadt and Stutgard. They had been fent forward to prepare bread, at the two latter places, for four divifions of General Moreau's army; from which circumstances, as well as from other intelligence, it was evident, that his intention was to cross the Danube at Ulm, and retreat by Stutgard and Contadt towards Kell. But Major-General Nauendorff, advancing from the neigh bourhood of Nordlingen, arrived before Uit time enough to frustrate General Moreau's defign; so that when, on the 23d, a strong column of the enemy denied out of the town, they found the heights, commanding the road towards Stutgard, already occupied, and did not attempt to force them. The next day General Nauendorff made his advanced guard (under Major General O'Reilly) attack this corps, and drove it back to the gates of Ulm. The enemy, finding himself thus prevented from executing his intended march to Conftadt and Stutgard, abandoned Ulm on the 26th inft. leaving in it a large magazine and a confiderable number of his pontoons, and proceeded along the left bank of the Danube as far as Erbach, where he again croffed the river, and directed his retreat (as it is fuppofed) to wards the Forest Towns. Lieutenant-General Petrasch, after be ing informed of the enemy's having been fruftrated in his attempt to retreat by Stutgard, directed his march by Horb towards Villingen; a detachment from his corps, under Colonel d'Aipre, occupying the Knieby and the valley of Kinfig, the Bench, and the Murg. A corps that had been detached by General Moreau to reifa force the poft of Kehi had attempted to force the Kinfig valley, but was repulfed, and obliged to retreat by Freyburg. Generals Petrafèh, Meerfeldt, and Nat. endorff, in immediate and close co-operation with each other, will endeavour to fall upon the left flank of General Moreau's retreat, whilft General La Tour purfues him in front, and General Frolich presses on his right. General Neu has lately driven back the enemy's pofts near Mayence, and taken a confiderable number of prifoners. General Beurnonville is arrived as Commander in Chief of the French army of the Sambre and Meuse, in place of Gea neral Jourdan; but he has not yet at tempted to advance. I have the honour to be, &c. ROBERT CRAUFURD. Wilhelmbad, Sept. 21. A report of Gen.Moreau's directing his retreat through Franconia in order to form a junction with Jourdan by Fulda, proves to have been in duttrioufly tpread with a defign to create alarm, but was, nevertheless, founded on the circumstance of the enemy's having pufhed a corps of cavalry as far as Aichitadr. The acts of licentious barbarity that have lately been committed by the enemy, even exceed every thing we have heard of their cruelty Before. Numbers of villages Have been burnt, not in the way of punithment, or to retard the pursuit of the con. querors, but merely from the delight they feem to take in wickedness, as they frequently went out of their road in order to fet fire to them. Leipfig, Sept. 23. The fituation of the enemy's army, commanded by General Morean, is now fuch as to give no farther apprehenfion whatever as to the fecurity of the whole Circle of Franconia, and alla of a great part of that of Suabia, General Nauendorff having, by his different movements, obtained in thofe parts a decided fuperiority of polition over that of the ene my. General Moreau's army, in the envi rons of Donnawert, Augsbourg, and Ulm, is in fuch confufion and terror, that they have nothing left but to feek how to effect their retreat over the Rhine. The Imperial troops have taken poffeffion of Stutgardt and Conftadt, and extend themselves all along the Upper Rhine to Stallhoffen, and even fo far as to Kehl.. All accounts re ceived from thofe parts are filled with particulars relative to the capture of different French Commiffaries, together, with their plunder and booty in money and other ob jects of value, by the advanced Auftrian troops. In this they are moft eagerly fupported by the peatants of thofe countries, who vie one with another in difcovering every thing concealed by the enemy, and allo in leading the Imperial toops through all difficult paffages; by all which means a great number of the French fall daily in to the hands of their purfuers. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, OCT. 25. Copy of a Letter from Sir Thomas Williams, Knt. Captain of bis Majefty's Ship Unicorn, to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated at Sea, Twelve Leagues North of the Lizard, the 21st of October 1796. SIR, I AM to acquaint you, that his Ma. jefty's Ship Unicorn, under my command, has juft captured L' Enterprize French privateer, of fix guns and forty pien, from Breft twenty-eight days, and bas taken a Portuguefe fhip, two English brigs, and a floop. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. COPENHAGEN, OCT, 11. HER Majefty the Queen Dowager of Denmark died yesterday at her Palace near this city after a fhort illness. [HERE END THE GAZETTES.] [FROM OTHER PAPERS.] Stockholm, Nov. 1. Yefterday was a day of high ceremony here. After a folemn proceffion of the States, at the conclufion of which his Majefty feated himself on the Throne, the Duke Regent declared that the King, having now attained the age prefcribed by his father's will, would take upon himself the functions of Government. The Duke then gave his Majefty a written account of his administration, which was read by the Secretary of State, Roteland, who afterwards received from the King, and delivered to the Duke his letters of quittance, figned by the King himself. The King then took the Coronation oath, and figned the act, after which the Duke delivered to him the Royal Regalia. An article from Hamburgh fays, that the young King of Sweden was folemnly betrothed at Petersburgh to the daughter of the Grand Duke on the 4th inftant, when the ufual ceremony of exchanging rings took place. A Treaty of Peace with Naples was figned in Paris on the 13th of O&tober; it contains 13 articies, enjoining a strict neutrality on the part of Naples, who fhall not fuffer more than four veffels of war belonging to any one of the belligerent Powers to be at one time in any of her harbours: the other articles ftipuiste a refloration of prifoners, &c. an indemnity for confifcated property, and the bafis of a treaty of commerce. An The French papers of the 28th Oft. mention the evacuation of Corfica by the British forces. It appears that in that ifland primary affemblies are about to be held, for the purpofe of adopting the new Conftitution of France. extraordinary courier has been difpatched from the Republican General Gentili, at Leghorn, to General Buona parte, ftating, that a Deputation had arrived in that city from Baftia, and other parts of Corfica, renewing the oaths of fidelity to the French Republic. Baftia, and the forts dependant on it, were in favour of the patriots; and General Buonaparte has ordered thither regular troops, to be commanded by General Gentili. larly fo many quarrels and diffenfions, of restoring and confolidating the public tranquillity; refolved for this purpose to chufe a man capable of a negotiation of this importance, and to invest him with full authority to complete fo great a work; be it known, that the fidelity, talents, genius, perfpicuity, and experience of our faithful and dear Counfellor JAMES BARON MALMESBURY, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, infpiring us with full confidence, we have named him, and he is appointed and conftituted our true, certain, and accredited Commiffioner and Plenipotentiary, giving and conceding him, in all refpects, FULL AND ENTIRE power, faculty, and authority; charging him befides with our general and special orders to confer on our part, and in our name, with the Minifter or Minifters, Commiffioners, and Pieni. potentiaries of the FRENCH REPUB LIC, fufficiently invefted with equal authority, as well as with the Minifters, Commiffioners, or Plenipotentiaries of the other Princes and States who may take part in the prefent Negotiation, alfo invefted with the fame authority; to treat either feparately or together; to confer upon the means of eftablishing a folid and durable Peace, Amity, and fincere Concord; and to adopt all refolutions and conclufions; to fign for us, and in our name, all the faid conventions or conclusions; to make, in confequence, every treaty or treaties, and all other acts, as he ihall judge neceffary; to deliver and receive mutually, all other objects relative to the fortunate execution of the above-mentioned work; to tranfact with the fame force and the fame effe it as we fhould be able to do if we affifted in perfon: guaranteeing, and on our Royal word promifing, that all and each of the tranfactions and conclufions which thall be made and determined by our faid Plenipotentiary hall be made and agreed upon, ratified, accepted, and adopted with the beft faith; that we fhall never fuffer any one, esther in whole or in part, to in fringe and act contrary to them: and in order to give to every thing more fecu rity and force, we have figned the prefent with our Royal hand, and affixed to it the Great Seal of Great Britain. Groen our Palace at St. James's, 13ch October, Year of Grace 1796, and of our Reign the 37th." CORRESPONDENCE between Lord MALMESBURY and Ch. DELACROIX, the FRENCH MINISTER for FOREIGN AFFAIRS. (Continued from Page 378.) NOTE tranfmitted to the Minifter for Fo reign Affairs by Lord MALMESBURY, Envoy from the British Cabinet. THE under figned has not neglected to tranfmit to his Court the answer of the Executive Directory to the propofitions which he was charged to make as the basis of a negotiation for peace. As to the offenfive and injurions in finuations which were made in that anfwer, and which are only calculated to raise new obftacles to the negociation which the French Government profeffed fo much to defire, the King has judged it far beneath his dignity to give them any fort of reply. The progrefs and the refult of the ne gociation will fufficiently prove the principles upon which it fhall have been con ducted by either party. It is not by re volting accufations deftitute of all foundation, nor by reciprocal reproaches, that the work of peace can be fincerely forwarded. The undersigned proceeds then to the object placed first in difcuffion by the ExDirectory, viz. a feparate negociation; to which it has, without any foundation, been fuppofed, that the undersigned was autho rife to accede. His full powers, expedited in the usual form, gave him every neceffary authority for negociating and concluding a peace, but thefe powers did not prescribe the form, the nature, nor the conditions of any future treaty. On thefe tubjects he was to conform himself according to the customs established and acknowledged long fince in Europe, and to the inftructions which he fhould receive from his Court; and, therefore, he did not fail to inform the Minifter for Foreign Affairs, upon his first conference, that the King, his mafter, had expressly enjoined him not to listen to any propofitions tend ing to feparate the interelts of his Majesty from thofe of his allies. There has only then been propofed a negotiation which fhall comprehend the interefts and the claims of all the Powers who make a common caufe with the King in the present war. In the progrets of fuch a negotiation, the intervention, or at leath the participation, of these Powers will doubtless become abfolutely neceffary; and his Majesty hopes to find at all times the Lame difpofitions for treating on a jast and equitable basis, of which his Majefty, the Em Emperor and King gave fo illuftrious a proof to the French Government, even at the opening of the prefent campaign. But it appeared to be a very unneceffary delay to wait for formal and definitive powers, from the allies of the King, before that Great Britain and France fhould commence the provisional difcuffion of the mere principles of the negociation. A conduct altogether different has been followed by thefe two Powers, upon almost all fimilar occafions; and his Majesty thought that the best proof they could, at this moment, give to all Europe, of their mutual defire to terminate, as foon as pollible, the calamities of war, was to agree, without delay, to the basis of a comprehentive negociation, by inviting their allies to concur thereto in the manner the most proper for accelerating a general pacification. It was in this view that the undersigned was charged to propose, at the commencement of the negociation, a principle which the generolity and the good faith of his Majcity could alone dictate, which was to compenfate France by proportional reftitutions, for the arrangements to which the fhould confent in fatisfying the claims of the allies of the King, and prefe ving the balance of Europe. The Ex-Directory have not explained themfelves with precifion, neither as to the admiflion of this principle, nor the changes or modifications which they defire to introduce into it. Neither have they propofed any other principle whatfoever for the attainment of the Lime object. The underfigned is therefore ordered to recur to this fubject, and to demand a frank and precife explication, for the purpofe of abridging the delays which will neceffarily refult from the difficulty, with regard to form, at first itarted by the Executive Directory, · He is defired to add to this demand the express declaration, that his Majesty, in informing his august allies of all his furcceffive proceedings relative to the object of the prefent negociation, and in fulfilling towards thefe fovereigns, in the molt efficacious manner, all the duties of a good and faithful ally, will omit nothing on his part, as well for difpoling them to concur in this negociation, by every means the molt proper for facilitating its progrefs, and afuring its fuccets as for maintaining with them tentiments always agree. able to the wishes which they have expreffed for the restoration of a general peace, upon juft, honourable, and perma nent conditions. (Signed) Paris, Nov. 12. MALMESBURY. rope. Before this principle is formally ap proved of, or another propofed on the part of the Executive Directory, which may equally well ferve as a basis of the negociation for a General Peace, the undersigned cann t be authorised to point out the ol je&s of reciprocal restitution, As to the proof of the pacific difpofations which his Majefty the Emperor and King teftified towards the French Government at the opening of the Campaign, the undersigned confines himself to repeat the following paffage from the Note of Baton Degelmann, of the 4th of laft June: The warlike operations fhall by no means prevent his Imperial Majesty from being conftantly difpofed to concur, according to any form of negocia tion which may be adopted by the Belligerent Powers, in the difcuffion of fuch means as may be proper to put a Dida period |
