June 1762. M. d'Etrées and Soubife furprised by Pr. Ferdinand. mer quarters." It is to be remembered, that the Kings of Denmark have long claimed a right of fovereignty over the Hamburgers, and have often extorted large fums of money from them, either by downright payments for the confirmation of their privileges, or by way of loan, without any defign of repaying It is faid, that the city of Lubeck has alfo furnished a loan, in a private man ner. In GERMANY, Pr. Ferdinand of Brunfwick put the Allied troops under his imme diate command in motion the 19th of June, in order to advance toward the French commanded by the Marfhals d'Etrées and Soubife, posted in the neighbourhood of Caffel. On the 24th a confiderable action happened; which occafioned the publication of the following London gazette extraordinary. "St James's, June 30. This afternoon Lt-Col. Boyd, first aid-de-camp to Pr. Ferdinand of Brunswick, arrived here, being dispatched by his Serene Highnels to the King, with the following account of a victory gained by his Majefty's forces under his command, on the 24th inftant, over the French army commanded by the Marshals d'Etrées and Soubife. The French army has been furprised this day in their camp of Graebenstein, by his Majefty's forces. The Marthals d'Etrées and Soubife had incamped their troops between that place and Meinbrex en. The centre of their army was pofted on a very advantageous eminence, their left wing inaccellible by feveral deep ravines, and their right covered by Graebenftein, feveral little rivulets, and by a body of troops under the command of M. de Caftries, pofted at Carlfdorff. Pr. Ferdinand made the following difpofitions for attacking the enemy. Gen. Luckner, who was fituated on the Leine, having Eimbeck in his front, with fix battalions of grenadiers, four fquadrons of dragoons, and eight fquadrons of huffars, to obferve Pr. Xavier's motions, who lay incamped with his corps de referve between the Werra and Gottingen, received orders, in the night between the 22d and 23d, to march to Gotsbubren in the Reinharts-Wald, with the grenadiers, four fquadrons of horfe, and bis own regiment of huffars. The Hellian huffars were ordered to remain near Mohringen, in order to conceal his march, and to obferve Pr. Xavier. M. Luckner began his, march from Hollen 327 ftadt on the 23d at fix in the morning, got to Uflar at noon, pafled the Weser at Bodenfeldt at fix in the evening, and towards night reached Gotfbuhren. He had orders to proceed on the 24th, at three in the morning, to Mariendorff, and to form Letween that place and Uden haufen. M. de Sporcken paffed the Dymel, at Sielem, at four in the morning, with twelve battalions of Hanoverians, and part of the cavalry of the left wing, in order to march by Reinharts-Wald between Hombrexen and Udenhausen. As foon as he had formed, he was to attack the enemy's corps which was posted at Carlidorff in flank, while Luckner charged their rear; and if he fucceeded, was to continue marching in fuch manner, as to take the enemy's camp at Graebenftein both in flank and rear. Pr. Ferdinand paffed the Dymel at four in the morning, with twelve battalions of the English, eleven battalions of Bruniwickers, and eight Heffian regiments, together with the English cavalry, and part of the German cavalry of the left wing, with an intent to draw up behind the ponds of Kalfe. The picquets of the army formed the vanguard on the left, and the chaffeurs of the English and German infantry, commanded by Lord Frederick Cavendish, with Freytagh's Hanoverian chafleurs, that of the right, in order to seize upon the Langenberg. The Marquis of Granby was to país the Dymel at Warburg, between two and three o'clock in the morning, with the referve under his command, to march by Zeiremberg, and Zieberfhaufen, upon the -eminence which is oppofite to Furftenwald, in order to fall upon the left wing of the enemy. This whole plan was put in execution. We were in prefence of the enemy before they had the leaft apprehenfion of being attacked. However, M. de Caftries had time to retreat, and did it with a very small lofs. Pr. Ferdinand came on in the centre, and gained ground. The enemy, feeing themfelves attacked in front, in flank, and in rear, were not long in taking their party: they ftruck their tents, and retreated. Pr. Ferdinand purfued, and preffed upon them as clofe as poflible; and they would, without doubt, have been entire ly routed, if M. de Stainville had not thrown himself, with the grenadiers of France, the royal grenadiers, the regiX X 2 ment 1 ment of Aquitaine, and other corps, being the flower of the French infantry, into the woods of Wilhelmftahl, to cover their retreat. That refolution cost him dear; his whole infantry having been taken, killed, or difperfed, after a very gallant defence, excepting two battalions, which found means to get off. Some of thofe troops had before surrendered to Lord Granby's corps, and, upon the coming up of the army, the remainder, after one fire, furrendered to the 5th regiment of foot. Lord Granby acquitted himself, upon this occafion, with remarkable valour, and had a great fhare in the victory. All the troops behaved extremely well, and fhewed great zeal and willingness; but particularly the first battalion of grenadiers, belonging to Col. Beckwith's brigade, which diftinguished itself ex-. tremely. The enemy's army retreated under the cannon of Caffel; and a great part of it paffed very haftily over the Fulda. We have taken between 2 and 3000 prifoners, feveral standards and colours. M. Reidefel attacked, beat, and totally overthrew the regiment of Fitz-James, took 300 of their horfes, and their two ftandards. Our lofs in men is very inconfiderable, amounting only to between 2 and 300; and we have no officer of diftinction killed, except Col. Townfhend, The French infantry confifted of 100 battalions, and the Allies had no more than 60. was from our camp on the banks of the Dymel, in order to attack two large corps of the enemy pofted between us and Caffel. Gen. Sporcken, with a corps, detached in order to get round their right flank; whilft my Lord Granby with another corps, confifting of the British guards, grenadiers, highlanders, c. marched in order to gain their left flank; and the Duke, with the main body of the army, advanced to attack the enemy in front. The French did not perceive our army advancing till we had got within three miles of them; when they immediately ftruck their tents in order to march; but before they had got their tents ftruck, Gen. Sporcken had got round, and began to cannonade their flank, whilft Lord Granby advanced on their left. About nine o'clock they began to retreat in great confufion, upon which the cavalry of Gen. Sporcken's corps charged that of the enemy, and took 4 or 500 prifoners. Lord Granby was not idle on his fide, where, at the head of the grenadiers and highlanders, he attacked a corps in a wood under the command of Gen. Stainville; and, after a very heavy fire for fome time, took prifoners four or five battalions, mostly of the grenadiers of France; while we, the main body, cannonaded them for fix or eight miles, and took alfo a great number of prisoners. The country hindered our cavalry from acting, except the Blues, who made the nobleft charge that ever was feen or heard of. The brigade of infantry which I was with, with eight pieces of cannon, was ordered into a wood where there was a number of French; and, after fome firing, took most of them prifoners. We had the misfortune to lofe Lieut. Cock, an officer of our regiment, (as pretty an officer as any in the army), by a cannonball, which took off his head. We loft feveral men, and a great number of hor fes. I believe, in the whole, the French lofs, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, may be near 5000 men. They loft five pieces of cannon, and a great many có. lours and standards. Capt. Foy, of ours, after being drove from his battery, ad vanced again, and took two or three French officers, and one fland of colours out of the enfign's hand. We loft two pieces of cannon, and I don't believe that we have loft 500 men. The June1762. Affairs in Saxony, Silefia, &c. The French retreated in great confuefion into their lines by Caffel. They were fairly furprifed, and our troops besthaved with a bravery not to be parallelled in hiftory, especially our grenadiers and highlanders, who fent prifoners (I dare fay) more than their own number out of the wood. The 5th regiment, or Hudfon's, behaved nobly, and took prifoners about twice their number." With respect to the Allies and French in the neighbourhood of the Lower Rhine, we give only one article, from the London gazette, viz. "Duffeldorp, June 25. The Prince of Condé has now affembled his army. The head quarters are at Wefel. The Allied army, under the he reditary Prince of Brunfwick, is alfo in movement; on which orders have been fent to cut the bridges the French have on the Rhine near this city and Cologne, fearing the Allied troops should render themselves mafters of them. It is faid that strong garrifons will be thrown into this place and Cologne, to prevent the Allied army from pafling the river near those two places. The fortifications of Dentz are now finifhed. We have just now received advice, that there have been fome skirmishes between the light troops of the advanced pofts, and that the French have been obliged to retire with some lofs." According to late accounts from Saxony, Pr. Henry of Pruffia had been fill able to maintain the fituation he made himself master of at Freyberg. On the 21st of May, the Auftrians attacked a Pruffian poft at Chemnitz. Gen. Bandemer, who commanded there, hearing of their approach, went out to meet them; but their fuperiority in cavalry forced him to give way. The defiles he had marched through, rendered his retreat very difficult; and in the confufion he was obliged to abandon 7 pieces of cannon, and 15 waggons with ftores. The lofs of the Pruffians in men is variously reckoned, from 400 to above 600. On the 2d of June, the Auftrian army, having been reinforced the day before by feven regiments, attacked all the Pruffian advanced pofts at the fame time. Pr. Henry repulfed them every where, with the fmall lols of 200 men on his fide, as the Lon don gazette tells us. The Auftrians make the loss of their antagonists a good deal more confiderable, and at the fame time quite conceal their own. According to late accounts from Sile 329 fia, the King of Pruffia's army still kept its former fituation near Bettlern, a village five British miles from Breflau. The Auftrian army, under M. Daun, had changed its pofition, and was posted to the north of Schweidnitz, fo as to cover that fortress, and be protected by it in cafe of need. It is faid, that the Auftrian corps in Upper Silefia having been reinforced by a strong detachment from M. Daun's army, the Pruffian general Werner, who had advanced to between Troppau and Ratibor, and carried off 1200 ozen defigned for the Austrian troops, had been obliged to retire back to Cofel.-By late accounts, Gen. Czernicheff was in full march from Posen in Poland, with 16,000 Ruffians, to join his Pruflian Majefty in Silefia, which it was fuppofed he would actually do about the beginning of July. In relation to the operations of the SPANIARDS in PORTUGAL, we have the following detail from the London gazette. "Libon, May 29. The Spanish troops, after having over run the whole territory of Braganza, where there were no regular troops to oppofe them, took poffeflion of the city of that name, which has for many years been quite open, and defenceless. From thence they went forward, and meeting with no oppofition, entered the town of Chaves, which was likewife in former times a place of defence, but has been an open town for many years, from its great extent, and the ruinous state of its old walls. On the 26th inftant, they write from Porto and Braga, that the Spaniards had left Chaves, and had endeavoured to pafs over the mountains of Monte Alegre towards the province of Minho; but finding the pafles of thofe mountains defended by the Maj.-Gens Dom John de Lancafter, and Francifco Jofeph Sarmento, at the head of fome regiments of militia of thofe two provinces, they had retired, in order to come over the mountain of Maran, and Amarante, to the city of Oporto. The fame letters inform us, that the Maj. Gen. John de Almada, governor of Oporto, had fent troops to defend those fteep mountains of Maran, and the paffes from thence to Amarante; which he hoped would be able to maintain their ground until the fuccours of regular troops arrived, of which the first regiment of Chaves, horfe, was to arrive at Oporto the 28th inftant. On On the other fide, from Almeida, Maj. Gen. Jofeph Felix da Cunha advi⚫ fes, by letter of the 25th instant, that a body of the Spaniards, part of the army that remained at Miranda, had attempted to pafs the river Douro between Torre de Moncorvo and Villa Nova de Fofcoa; but had been opposed by the inhabitants of this laft place with fome militia of the neighbourhood, who joined in a body on the fouth fide of the river, and with guns, pikes, flails, and other weapons, fuch as they could collect, obliged the eneiny to retire to Torre de Moncorvo, with fome fmall lofs; the Portuguese on their fide not having received the least hurt from the enemy's fire. Upon this, in order to encourage these brave people, he had ordered a small body of regular troops to allift them in the defence of that poft, and had fent them fome few pieces of ordnance, and field. pieces, with powder and ball." Before thefe advices came, the King had already ordered further fuccours to be sent to those provinces; and the Marquis de Angeja, the Count de Arcos, and Jofeph Leite de Souza, major-generals, were fent with them from Tomar; and the Marquis de Marialva, mafter of the horfe, and lieutenant-general, is just gone from hence to command this detachment, which is to be joined by all the militia of the province, and to act either offenfively or defenfively, as occafion require. may This is all the information we have had to this day, May 29. The officers cannot find terms to exprefs the courage of the militia, and the zeal and eagerne's which the people fhew to be engaged with the enemy." The following articles are taken from the other papers. "Libon, May 18. The English majorgeneral Crawford fet out laft Wedneiday for the camp at Abrantes. Lord TyrawJey will not go thither till after the arrival of all the British troops." "Paris, June 10. The laft letters from Madrid advife, that the Spanish army was marching, in five divifions, to lay fiege to Almeida, the only fortrefs that can ftop their march to Oporto. The thirteen battalions fent by our court to the alliftance of Spain, entered that kingdom the beginning of this month. They are to join, in Galicia, the Spanish troops commanded by the Marquis de Croix, and proceed against Oporto." "London, June 29. By letters fro Lifbon we have advice, that a compa of English light troops had joined Gan Crawford's regiment at Oporto; and t three others, which were just arriv when these letters came away, weth pofted in fuch a manner as to curb, ancus give the most early intelligence of the motions of the enemy towards that quae ter." "London, June 29. By letters fro Oporto, of a fresh date, we are infor ed, that the whole number of the Span ards that had entered Portugal, did n exceed 30,000 men, which were divid into two bodies, of about 15,000 eachche that of the body which was marching that place near 2000 had deserted, mante of whom were come into that city; d the whole Spanish army were in graft want of forage, &c." ENGLAND. Prince Erneft of Mecklemburg-Strelita the Queen's third brother, and the Coun of Lippe-Buckeburg, arrived at Londen from Germany, in the end of May. O the 20th of June the Prince failed from Plymouth, on board the Venus frigate, and the Count from Falmouth, on board the Unicorn, both for Lilbon.-In the end of April, 2000 British land-forces with a train of artillery, failed from Cork for Por tugal; and more British troops, horfe and foot, have gone fince for that kingdom. The poflmafters-general have, during the prefent war with Spain, established two packet-boats at Faro in Portugal, t carry on a regular correfpondence be tween that kingdom and the garrison o Gibraltar; and all letters for Gibraltar are received at the poft-office at London and difpatched thence every Tuesday evening for Lifbon, to be forwarded thence by land to Faro. [Several foreign and English articles deferred.] Report of the committee appointed to provi an entertainment, on laft Lord Mayor's day, for the King and the Royal Family [xxiii. 611.] une 1762. Report concerning the London royal entertainment. For their Majefties at the Guildhall of his city, on the then enfuing Lord May. or's day, beg leave to report, That, duy fenfible of the great honour done us in his appointment, we chearfully devoted, pur time and utmost endeavours to prepare and regulate the said entertainment, fo as peft to answer the intention of this Honourable court. .. In the preparations for the intended Feaft, your committee omitted no expence chat might serve to improve its fplendor, elegance, or accommodation; whilft, on the other hand, they retrenched every charge that was not calculated to that end, however warranted by former precedents. Their Majefties having expreff ed their royal inclinations to fee the proceflion of the Lord Mayor to Guildhall, the committee obtained Mr Barclay's houfe in Cheapfide, for that purpofe, where proper refreshments were provided, and every care taken to accommodate their Majefties with a full view of the whole cavalcade.. The great hall and adjoining apartments were decorated and furnished with as much taste and magnificence as the fhortness of the time for preparation, and the nature of a temporary fervice, would permit: the huftings, where their Majeities dined, and the new council-chamber, to which they retired both before and after dinner, being fpread with Turkey carpets, and the reft of the floors over which their Majefties were to pafs, with blue cloth, and the whole illuminated with near three thousand wax tapers in chandeliers, luftres, girandoles, and fconces. A felect band of mufic, confifting of fifty of the beft hands, placed in a fuperb gallery, erected on purpose at the lower end of the hall, entertained their Majeflies with a concert during the time of dinner, under the direction of a gentleman justly celebrated for his great mufical talents; whilst four other galleries (all covered with crimson, and ornamented with feftoons) exhibited to their Majefties a moft brilliant appearance of five hundred of the principal citizens of both fex, es. Their Majefties table was ferved with a new fet of rich plate, purchased on this occafion, and covered with all the delicacies which the feafon could furnish, or expence procure, and prepared by the best hands. A proportionable care was taken of the feveral other tables provided for the Fo 331 reign Ambaffadors 'and Ministers; the Lords and Gentlemen of his Majesty's Moft Honourable Privy Council; the Lord Chancellor and Judges; the Lords and Ladies in waiting; the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Common Council; and many others, both of the Nobility and Gentry: the whole number of guests within the hall, including the galleries, being upwards of twelve hundred; and that of the Gentlemen Penfioners, Yeomen of the Guard, Horfe and Horfe Grenadier Guards, and fervants attendant upon their Majesties, and the Royal Family, and who were entertained at places provided in the neighbourhood, amounting to seven hundred and twentynine. And that this court may form fome judgment of the manner of the entertainment, your committee have hereunto fubjoined the bill of fare of their Maje tv's table, and the totals of the feveral bills on this occafion, amounting to 6898 1. 5s. 4 d. which your committee have the fatisfaction to acquaint this Honourable court, have been all ordered for payment.. Your committee, likewife, having provided a great variety of the choiceft wines, took care that every gueft fhould be fupplied with plenty and difpatch, and yet the various fervices performed without burry or confusion. For this purpofe your committee iffued no more tickets for admiffion than what (contidering the neceffary number of attendants, amounting to two hundred and forty persons) would fill the hall, without incommoding the Royal Perfonages for whom the feaft was intended. And to prevent as much as poffible the intrufion of ftrangers, (too frequent on fuch occafions), your committee directed a temporary porch to be erected in the front of the hall, where gentlemen of truft were placed at three feveral bars. Upon the whole, your committee omitted no care or pains to render the entertainment as commodious and agreeable as poffible to the Royal Guests, and in fome measure expreflive of the zeal and veneration of this Honourable Court for their auguft Sovereign, his most amiable Confort, and illuftrious Family, and ot their fenfe of his gracious condefcenfion in honouring this city with his Royal Prefence. Happy, if they have, in any degree, anfwered expectation, and are allowed to have done justice to the honour able |