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The French account of that affir, publithed at Paris by authority, (which is intitled, Journal of the French army, under the command of the Marshals D'Etrees and Soubife, from the 24th to the 27th of June), is as follows.

"On the 23d of June the enemy's whole army pafled the Dymel; and at night the English advancing on our left towards Zierenberg, from whence they might get to Caffel before us, the Marfhals D'Etrees and Soubife thought proper to quit the camp of Grebenstein, to arrive at Caffel before the enemy. This march was performed in the greatest or der. The Marquis de Caftries, with the corps under his command, which had been detached before our right, to obferve the Allies, rejoined the army, after having successfully charged the enemy feveral times with his cavalry. The regiment of Alface fuftained with the greateft firmness the fhock of the enemy's cavalry, and killed them many men: a confiderable number of prisoners was alfo taken in this part.

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On our left the Count de Stainville, feeing the English advance to feize the heights of Wilhelmftahl, and being fenfible of the importance of that poft, attacked them, notwithstanding their great fuperiority, in the decifive moment for the fafety of our army in its march. He fuc ceeded in two most vigorous charges, and took from them feven pieces of cannon. At the third charge, the grenadiers of France being too far back in the wood, feveral companies of that corps, and part of the regiment of Aquitaine, were furrounded by the enemy's whole right wing, and taken prifoners. This is the only difafter that happened during our march.

On the 24th at night, the army in camped near Caflel, and the corps under the Marquis de Caftries was placed before the right wing. The 25th we pitched our camp at Landwerhagen, on the territory of Hanover, our right wing extend ing towards Munden. The Count de Stainville remained in the intrenched camp under Caflel. The corps under the Count de Luface took poft on the other fide of the Werta.

Yeflerday (the 26th) the Allies fent us back the prifoners they took on the 24th. Their number amounted to 1600, most of them belonging to the grenadiers of France, the Royal grenadiers, and the regiment of Aquitaine. There were alfo among them fome private men of the

regiment of Poitou. This regiment and that of Aquitaine formed the brigade which diftinguifhed itself fo much in Count Stainville's attacks.

From the returns of the regiments that were engaged, it appears, that our le in killed and wounded doth not amount to 900 men. The Chevalier de Narbonne, colonel of the grenadiers of France, is the only officer of diftin&tion that is killed. The Marquis de Peyre. and the Marquis de la Rochelambert, colonels of grenadiers, and the Duke d. Picquigny, are flightly wounded.

The prifoners we made amount to 300. and the killed and wounded of the enc my, to many more. Of the feven piece of cannon taken by M. de Stainville i his repeated attacks, five were taken a the third charge; the two others, whic! are heavy cannon, have been fent to Caffel.

Yesterday the Marthals eftablished their head-quarters at Landwerhagen. The A lies are incamped between Wilhelmfta and Hohenkirchen."

Pr. Ferdinand's head quarters were t Wilhelmstahl for a confiderable time. Th Brunfwick hunters took the moving he spital of the troops commanded by Pr. Xavier of Saxony, confiting of 300 wag gons, escorted by 50 dragoons. On the right of the Allied army, the Marquis of Granby made himself master of Fritzlar, Feltiberg, and Gudelberg, and drove a French corps from Homburg, making 250 prifoners, with the lofs of 80 men killed, wounded, and taken, on his fide. Col Riedefal deftroyed a French magazine at Rothenburg; and Gen. Luckner took the famous partifan Monet, with his whole corps, within 200 paces of Caffel. Te caftle of Waldeck, eleven leagues from Caffel, furrendered to the Allies July 11 after a brisk bombardment for two day; the garrifon, confifting of 4 officers ard 160 men, capitulating not to serve again. the Allies for one year. About the fame time 360 picked French troops furprikd the British bakery and provifion-waggons at Warburg, deftroyed a great number of the latter, carried off about 210 hor fes, and took the British commiffary and 83 other perfons prifoners of war. In the evening of the 15th the French gar rifon in Gottingen evacuated that place after blowing up, as is faid, part of the fortifications; but the next morning they returned again, and incamped close to the town. One letter fays, that they

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Operations of the Allies and the French.

I found the communication with their main army to be cut off. This is the more pro1 bable when it is confidered, that Pr. Ferdinand marched on the 15th from Wilhelmftahl to Hoff; and that the fame day all the French posts along the Fulda were attacked as far as Melfungen. Soon after this, the French Marshals abandoned their camp of Landwerhagen, and marched to Melfungen and its neighbourhood.

P. S. The next news of importance we had from Helle was in the London gazette thus.

"St James's, Aug. 2. Capt. Cunningham, who is juft arrived, being difpatched the 24th paft by Pr. Ferdinand to his Majefty, brings word, That the day before, he had caufed an attack to be made, by a detachment of the Allied army, confifting of fome Hanoverian and Hellian troops, under the command of Gen. Gilfae, upon part of the enemy's right wing, compofed chiefly of the Saxon troops, under Count de Luface, in their intrenched camp of Lutternberg: That the Allied troops marched through the Fulde up to their waifts; and, after having clambered up the mountain, took four palifaded redoubts, one after the other, and drove the enemy from all their intrenchments: That during the action, Maj.-Gen. Walthaufen gained the rear of their right flank, charged their cavalry, routed them, took and deftroyed a whole regiment of Saxon horfe: That the Allies in this attack had taken above 1000 prifoners, 13 pieces of cannon, and 3 standards, with a lofs, on their part, not exceeding 200 men.-Capt. Cunningham likewife gives an account, That during the faid attack, Pr. Frederick of Brunfwick had marched towards the Kratzberg, a very ftrong high ground, which covers Cassel, and cannonaded the French lines, where Count Stainville was incamped with about 10,000 men; who, hearing of the defeat of the Saxons, quitted thofe lines, to go to their affiftance; whereupon Pr. Frederick got pofleflion of them without oppofition."

They write from Cologn, of July 30. that they had received advice, that Gen. Luckner had taken Fulda, and made the garrifon prifoners of war: A lofs the more fenfible to the French, because they had in that town a quantity of baggage and provifions.

On the Lower Rhine, the Allied troops, commanded by the hereditary Prince of Bruntwick, were, for fome time, confi. derably inferior to the French, under the

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Prince of Condé. On the 3d of July, a detachment of the latter made Major Scheiter of the Hanoverians, with 200 men, prifoners in the neighbourhood of Coesfeldt. French parties alfo went along the rivers Ems and Hafe, where they deftroyed a confiderable number of ma gazines which the Allies had established, containing in whole 62,800 facks of rye and meal, 46,880 facks of oats, and 400,000 rations of hay. They likewife carried off 76 waggons, loaded with corn, and after hamftringing about 20 horses, which they could not bring off, came back to Dillenburg with a capture of 310 horfes and 84 men. Soon after the action of June 24. near Caffel, Pr. Ferdinand fent off a confiderable corps to reinforce the hereditary Prince, which put him more upon an equality with his antagonists, and that obliged them to give over their excurfions. Not only fo, but the Marfhals d'Etrées and Soubife found themselves fo ftraitened a confiderable time before what happened the 23d of July, that they fent to the Prince of Condé to march the greatest part of his army, in order that it might join them, and they might then endeavour to open the communication again with Francfort, and their other magazines. That prince, having left fome troops about Wefel and Rees, to cover thofe places, and guard the paffage of the Rhine, put in motion from Coesfeldt. He reached Duffeldorp July 24. and marched again from thence the 27th towards Mar.. burg in Heffe. The hereditary Prince marches along-fide of him, and, according to very late accounts, had haraffed him extremely, and taken a great deal of his baggage. More troops have been fent from France, to reinforce those left on the Lower Rhine.

In Saxony, Pr. Henry of Pruffia has recovered poffeffion of Chemnitz. On the 27th of June, the whole Auftrian army in that electorate advanced against his left wing, in order to attack it; but the column which was to have begun the attack, on the fide where Gen. Hulfen com❤ manded, foon fuffered fo great lofs from the vigorous fire with which they were received, that Marfhal Serbelloni, who commands there, was obliged to retreat. Pr. Henry drove the army of the Empire into the heart of Franconia; and about the fame time puthed a corps, under Col. Kleift, into Bohemia. Acccording to very late advices, divifions of that 3 E 2

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l-quarters of the King of Pruffia at Seidendorff, Fuly 8. On the 30th paft, the Ruffians paffed the Oder, and incamp ed near Liffa. On the ift inftant his Majefty marched from Klein-Tintz, the Ruffians leaving Liffa at the fame time, and incamped on the heights of Sackwitz. This motion obliged M. Daun to retire in the night between the 1ft and 2d inftant, to the hills of Kuntzendorff. As foon as the King got notice of his retreat, he decamped on the 2d, at four in the afternoon, and marching to the heights of Wurben, pitched his tents at three in the morning at Buntzelwitz. The heights of Striegau he caused to be occupied by a body of troops under Gen. Wied. On the 5th, at ten at night, Gen. Wied marched by Hohenfriedberg and Richenau, towards a body of the enemy, which occupied the heights of Aldelfbach and Saltzburn. At the fame hour the King took the fame route, with eleven Pruffian and ten Ruffian battalions, fifteen fquadrons of dragoons, ten of huffars, a regiment of Ruflian cuiraffiers, the Moldau huffars, 500 Bofniacks, and 500 Coffacks."

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This account proceeds further; but in ftead of the remainder, we give the following article from the London gazette. 66 Breflau, July 11. Gen. Ziethen, on the 7th in the morning, perceiving M. Daun had in the night quitted the ftrong camp of Kuntzendorff, immediately took poffeffion of the fame. The Marfhal has inade a movement with his left wing towards the Konisberg, but his right is still posted near Schweidnitz; fo that his communication with that fortrefs is open; and, by his prefent pofition, he covers the county of Glatz, where his principal magazines are. The King of Pruffia is incamped between Gottelberg and Seiferfdorff, having the village of Ditmansdorff between him and the enemy. His headquarter is at Seitendorff. Lt Gen. Neuweidty whom his Pruffian Majefty had detached towards Friedland, fell in, on his march, with the rear of Gen. Brentano's corps, which he attacked, and made about 400 prifoners. We hear that Gen. Neuweidt has purfued his march towards Braunau in Bohemia. A body of light

troops, compofed of Coffacks, Huffars, &c. have penetrated into that kingdom on the fide of Trautenau. Lt-Gen. Neuweidt, on the 5th or 6th instant, made an attack on the Austrian pott of Engelberg, from which he was repulfed, with the lofs of upwards of 500 men. The cannonade lafted from three o'clock till past eight in the morning. His Pruffian Majefty was prefent, and much exposed duing the whole attack."

The Auftrians faid, the number of the Pruffians killed was very high, and that they took from them near 1000 prifoners. Our next accounts worth notice were alfo in the London gazette, thus. "Breflau, July 23. On the 21ft in the morning, the King of Pruffia attacked the right of M. Daun's army, pofted upon the heights near the village of Burckerfdorff, which were carried by the Pruffians. An attack was then ordered to be made upon the villages Ludwigsdorff and Leuthmansdorff, from which the Auftrians were likewife driven; and, by thefe fucceffes, their communication with Schweidnitz was entirely cut off. It was refolved the next day to have attacked the poft of Barf dorff, towards the left of M. Daun's army, near Tanhaufen, where the headquarter was; but, by accounts received laft night, M. Daun was retired, with part of his army, towards Braunau, in Bohemia; and the other part had withdrawn into the county of Glatz. It is not yet known here, with certainty, what lofs may have been sustained on either fide; but the reports are, that the Pruffians took 14 pieces of cannon, and made upwards of 1000 prifoners; that the defertion in the Auftrian army was very great; and that the lofs of the Pruffians did not exceed 300 men.”

We are told, that M. Daun had put a garrifon of 8000 men into Schweidnitz.

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Breflaw, July 23. The Rulian troops, under the command of Gen. Czernichew, are now feparated from the Pruffian army, and actually on their way to Auras, where they are to repafs the Oder, and continue their march to Pofen." Lond. Gaz.

About the middle of June, the Prince of Brunswick Bevern arrived at Breslau with 3000 men, the laft reinforcement of his own troops which the King of Pruffia expected in that country. Soon after that prince was detached for the Upper Silefia, with fifteen battalions of infantry. and one regiment of horfe and huffars, in order to co-operate with the Pruffian ge

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eral Werner, against a corps of Auftrians nder Gen. Beck, reckoned to be about 0,000 ftrong. The commandant of Neifs ucceeded in an enterprise against an Autrian corps commanded by Gen. Drakowitz, near Ottmachtaw, and made hat general, with 17 other officers, and oo private men, prifoners of war. On he Prince of Bevern's approach, Gen. eck abandoned the neighbourhood of Rabor, and retired into the country of Tetfchen. Very late accounts from Up. er Silefia bear, that the Duke of Beern was near Troppau, Gen. Werner at Fulneck on the frontiers of Moravia, nd Gen. Beck at Bohrn in that Marquiate, between Hoff and Sternberg, ftill eeping open his communication with the ounty of Glatz.

The city of Berlin being fome time ago Creed from apprehenfions of danger, the Pruflian royal family, and the miniftry, eturned thither from Magdeburg in June. All differences between bis Prullian Maefty and the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwein have been accommodated.

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the whole number of prames, boats, &c. there, with a great quantity of hemp and old cordage, were entirely confumed. This affair is reduced to a finall compass in converfation here, as it has been strictly ordered not to be divulged to any but the officers of ftate. Orders alfo were immediately dispatched to fet a double guard, and to examine all the artificers, &c. in the place, as the boats are imagined to have been wilfully fet on fire by fome one among them."- -From the fame capital, of June 18. they write thus. "The Toulon fquadron, confifting of ten fhips of the line, two frigates, and three xebeques, put to fea the 7th of this month, with several transports under their convoy. It is fuppofed they are to be joined by the Spanish fquadron from Carthagena." Pofterior ad vices inform us, that this fquadron was returned to Toulon, with 2400 men, which it brought off from Minorca. It afterwards flood out to fea again, to purfue its former deftination; which we are told it would do fo foon as it fhould be joined off the ifles of Hieres, by the men of war intended to reinforce it. In the mean time letters from Gibraltar advise, that twenty-four British men of war of the line, befides frigates, &c. are crui

ders. The British commodore Young, in the Guernley man of war, with the other flips under his command, lately. took two forts at the entrance of the ri ver Caen, on the coaft of Normandy, made fome prifoners, fpiked up the cannon, and retired in good order. There were feveral veffels up the river, which would have been destroyed, if the people who were fent on that fervice had done their duty.

A congrefs was opened at Berlin the 12th of July, under the mediation of his Pruffian Majesty, for fettling differences between the King of Denmark and the Emperor of Ruffia, as Duke of HolsteinGottorp. In the mean time, 60,000 Ruffing in the ftraits, under Adm. Saunians, under the command of Gen. Ro. manzow, who fet out from Colberg the 20th of June, continued their march towards the duchy of Mecklenburg. The Danish troops, reckoned to be about 55,000, actually entered that duchy, and advanced on both fides of Schwerin. An article published in the London gazeite uns thus. "Hamburg, July 27. The Ruffian army, which was expected to enter the duchy of Mecklenburg Schwerin, s now on its march back to Colberg; and we hear that Gen. Pannin has taken the command thereof, in the room of M. Ro. manzow, who is recalled to Petersburg." A letter from PARIS, of June 15. fays, "This morning a courier arrived here from Rochefort, with advice, that early on the 13th a fire was difcovered in the dock yard, at that place, in which were at that time about forty prames or flatbottomed boats, which had been but finished the day before. The man who first discovered it was unhappily fuffocated, in endeavouring to extinguish the flames, by which means they got to fo great a head before further alliftance could be had, that in about half an hour

The affairs of the Jefuits continue to make a great noife, not only in France, but feveral other countries. We fhall here give all the accounts which we think most important concerning them.

"Rome, May 15. The Jefuits appear now to be in bad terms, only with all the world. At Naples the court has for fome time been railing a masked battery against them, by inquiring privately into their circumftances; and they pretend to have found out, that one way or other, in eftates, effects, and merchandise, the poor fathers are poflefled of between thirty and forty millions in the dominions of the King of the Two Sicilies; which is thought a little too much for a fingle

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order. But what is worfe ftill, the court of Vienna has taken umbrage, at least fo it is faid, and is refolved to have no more Jeluits in her territories, than there are in thofe of her neighbours. It can be known only to the infallibility of our Pontiff where these people are to go."

Paris, May 31 Though the Jefuits are no longer retained at court, and about the royal family, as confeffors, it is well known that they had very powerful friends there, and it was with great reluctance that they were dilimilled. The fituation of the nation's affairs was very unfavourable to the fociety, when the ftorm was raised against them, and has continued fo ever fince: a ruinous and expenfive war would not admit of the King's running counter to the general fenfe of the nation, nor to take rough meafures with the whole body of lawyers. Had none but the parliament of Paris ftood up against the Jefuits, their proceedings might have been eafily quafhed by his Majefty's authority; but they were fo fpeedily and refolutely backed by all the other parliaments of the kingdom, that the court has been forced to fwim with the ftream. In this our lawyers have fhewn their judgment at feizing a good opportunity; for in time of peace they could not have carried fuch an important point; exile would have been their lot for acting against the inclination and dictates of the court: but at this conjuncture the fovereign could not venture upon fuch a step; and fo the Jefuits must go down."

Utrecht, June 9. The parliament of Bourdeaux, and that of Rennes, have ordered the Jefuits to quit all places within their jurifdiction by the firft of Auguft." "Paris, June 18. The parliament of Thouloufe has iffued an arret against the Jefuits, and that of Douay has begun to proceed against that fociety; fo that out of the twelve parliaments of France, that of Dijon is the only one that has not done any thing against the Jefuits; but it is not owing to any affection for that body that they have been thus inactive, but to their having been taken up with difputes with the ftates of the province."

Hague, June 11. The critical fituation of the Jefuits imbarraffes the Pope extremely, as it is forefeen, that numbers of them will come to take fhelter in his territories; where, from the inundations from Portugal, they are already become fo numerous, as to render the clergy, and

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the monks of other orders, very uneafy; at the fame time that they are almof univerfally hated by the laity, and are even beheld with a jealous eye by the inquifition."

"Rome, June 9. It is confidently faid, that the dispatches lately brought by an exprefs from Verfailles, turned upon three points. 1. The Moft Chriftian King afks the Pope not to grant any more brief to enable the Jefuits to hold ecclefiaftical benefices in France. 2. His Majefty de mands an account of the fums depofited by French Jefuits in the banks of Rome. 3. His Majefty defires that the Pope will recal all the Jefuits who are fettled at Avignon, agreeably to the request of the principal inhabitants themselves of that city, who have reprefented to his Holi nefs, that, if their children fhould continue to study under thofe fathers, ther would, in confequence of the arrets of the parliament of France, be incapable of holding any place in the law, or any civil office whatever in France."

The only article worthy of notice concerning ITALY, is the following."Leg. horn, May 29. The news from Corfica is unfavourable for the Geneofe. We juft now learn that Gen. Paoli has entirely routed a Genoese corps at Pedicorte, a bout twenty miles from Corti: he at tacked them the 12th instant in the evening. The action was the warmest and the best conducted on the part of the Corficans, of any that have happened in the courfe of thirty-three years, that this infurrection has lafted. The Corficans took the place, and gave no quarter to any Genoefe taken in arms. The two Genoefe officers, Matra and Martinetti, had the good luck to escape under favour of the night. There were found in the place two field-pieces, together with fome ammunition and provifions. conquerors have fet all the country round in flames, to punish the inhabitants of it for having received the Genoefe, whol number amounted to 4000. One Ferdinand, who commanded a company c malecontents, has poffeffed himself & Campoloro, after having killed his col league, and the command of the place has been given to Barbaggi, who has ta ken an oath of fidelity to the rebels, and forfaken the Genoele party. At Macci nagio the befieged have made a fally upon the Corficans, but have been repulfed with lofs. The only event which has happened there to the advantages of Ge

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