nry's front. Eight battalions of grenadiers advanced for this purpofe, with equal order and impetuofity, regardless of the fwarms of tirailleurs, who harraffed them; they gained the wood without firing a fhot, and in a few minutes drove the enemy not only from thence, but from the heights beyond it. This advantage, and the appearance of gen. Kray's column on the right, decided the fortune of the day. Jourdan made no attempt to recover the ground he had loft, but began to retreat on every point; this he for fome time conducted with much regularity; his cavalry preferving confiderable countenance, and forming repeatedly, under protection of their light artillery, to check the pursuit of the Auftrians. At length, however, continually harraffed by the huffars, and overpowered by a prodigious fire of artillery from the heights, the confufion became general; the exceffive fatigue of the Autrians, and the coming on of night, alone faved them from total deftruction.

The loss of the Auftrians on this occafion amounts, at moft, to 800 men, among whom are no officers of diftinction; that of the enemy is by far more confiderable. Two thousand prifoners are already brought in, and the number of killed and wounded cannot be fmaller. One colour, fix pieces of cannon, and a great number of ammunition and baggage-waggons have fallen into the hands of the conqueror.

The fuccefs which on this occafion has attended the Auftrian arms is to be afcribed chiefly to the perfonal conduct of his royal highnels the archduke. Prefent every where, where the danger was the most preffing, he animated his troops by his example, and preferved them in order by the coolnefs and quickness of his manceuvres; and, at length, feifed, with infinite judgment, the true point of attack which decided the victory.

The army paffed the night on the field of battle, and the next day, croffing the Meyn, at different points, encamped near this place.

I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) ROBERT ARSTRUTHER, Captain 3d Guards. Head Quarters of his Royal Highnefs the Archduke Charles; Zell, near Wurtzburg; Sept. 5.

My Lord,

Yesterday the citadel of Wurtzburg-capitulated; the garrison, to the number of 700 men, furrendered themselves prifoners

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of war. General Belmont, chief of the French artillery, is among the number,

A prodigious quantity of ftores, of ammunition, and provifions, has been found in the town and citadel; partly left there by the Auftrians, partly collected by requifition from the neighbouring country.

Intelligence is received that the enemy has abandoned in Schweinfurt 70 pieces of artillery, which he was unable to trans port.

From the reports of the corps in front, there is every reason to believe that the enemy has decidedly quitted the Meyn, and directed his retreat to Fulda. The light troops which have been fent in purfuit, continually bring in prifoners and baggage and the peafantry, exafperated at the unheard of outrages of the enemy, has rifen in many parts, and deliver up, or deftroy, all the ftragglers who fall into their hands.

His royal highness, determined to perfevere in the fame line of operation, this day detaches colonel count Meerfeldt, with ten fquadrons of light cavalry, to form a junction with the garrifons of Manheim and of Mayence; by which means a corps of 12 or 15,000 men will be enabled to act in the rear of the enemy. From the diftinguished abilities of the officer to whom this enterprife is entrusted, the greatest hopes are entertained of its success.

The army moves this day toward Wer theim; and the head quarters will be tomorrow at Renlingen.

By the latest accounts received from the other fide of the Danube, it appears that general La Tour ftill maintained himself in front of Munich; but the fucceffes on this fide had not then produced the expected effect, of forcing general Moreau to a retreat. It hardly feems poffible, that he should now venture to delay it,

I have the honour to be, &c.
ROBERT ANSTRUTHER,
Captain 3d Guards,

Weihelmsbad, near Hanau. Sept. 3, 1796. In confequence of the late actions, the army of Jourdan is retreating, in the most diforderly manner poffible, in different direc tions. About 3000 men paffed this place fince yesterday morning; almoft all of them without arms, and dragoons and huffars on foot, having loft their horses. The peasants have almost every where rifen upon them, and, when in small numbers, either killed or difarmed, and plun

foldiers, Fire; I do not fear death. The fignal being given, they all fell except Cailleux, who was but lightly wounded. He was proftrated by a fecond difcharge. All the advices from Paris appear to give ample confirmation to the accounts in the London Gazette, of the difafters which have befallen the army of the Sanibre and Meufe, under general Jourdan. The directory have, indeed, oblerved such an extraordinary filence with regard to this general, as to give a realonable ground of belief, that he is in the most diftreffed ftate. In the Gazettes from the 18th to the 23d, there is only one short letter from Jourdan, another from Mole u, and a thud from Hauffman, from the last of which it appears, that fo far from retreating, Moreau is fill advancing into Bavaria. The conduct of the directory is far different with refpect to the affairs of Italy. There is an abundance of correfpo.dence from Buonaparte, whofe accounts we muft believe to be grofsly exaggerated, for the purpose of rallying the public mind from the gloom that hangs over it in regard to the difafters on the Rhine. If we are to judge from his letters, the present fituation of the Imperial army in Italy and Tyrol is highly critical, as the Re blicans have not only fucceeded in deftroying a great part of the remains of general Wuimler's army, and

made themfelves mafters of the defiles of the Brenta, but have alfo fruftrated his plan of a diverfion towards Vicenza and Veróna, conceived with a view of forcing the enemy to fall back from the bishopric of Trent. The field-marshal himself is stated by Buonaparte, in his laft letter, after the failure of his plan, to have made an attempt to gain Mantua, at the head of 1500 horfe and 5000 foot; which circumftance, if true, would render Buonaparte mafter of the Tyrolefe and Friuli countries, unprotected as they are by any force fufficient to check his bold and enterprizing fpirit. However exaggerated the laft reports from Buonaparte may be, the fuccefs he has obtained is, no doubt, very important, and the pofition of field-marshal Wurmfer extremely critical and alarming. The former has with great skill and judgment improved all the advantages which the activity of youth grants him over the flow and formal proceedings of a general on the verge of eighty. It is very fortunate, indeed, that the defeat and total diforginization of Jourdan's army, which muft, at laft, force Moreau to fall back to the Rhine, fruftrates the vaft plan which the French had conceived; and renders the brilliant advantages gained by the army of Italy lefs important.

SEPTEMBER I..

Thomas Macdonald, efq. counsellor at law, has been appointed one of the two commiffioners to go to America, on the part of his majesty, purfuant to the late treaty with the United States. By that treaty it was provided, that two commiffioners fhould be appointed by his majelly; two by the prefident of the United States; and a fifth by the unanimous voice of the other four, or, if not unanimous, by lot, in the manner prefcribed by the treaty. That thefe five, or any three of them, fhould conftitute a board, to fit firit at Philadelphia, but with power to adjourn from place to place as they fhould fee caufe, and to determine finally and without appeal, according to equity and juftice, all claims by British fubjects against the inhabitants of the United States, as at the time of the peace, and award intereft and a full compenfation for Foffes and damages as they fhould fee caufe, provided it appear to the said commillioners that fatisfaction could not have been obtained in the ordinary courfe of judicial proceedings, and that fush loffes

immediate confideration the present high price of bread.-He observed, although the flock of wheat in hand was very confiderable, that great quantities were til importing; that the harvest had been attended with uncommon fine weather, and from univerfal report, with abundant crops, yet the price of flour was ftil very high, and he conceived difproportioned to the price of wheat. He obferved that the mills in the fouthern part of the kingdom, which formerly fupplied the London markets with flour, now, through the medium of canals, tent their produce to the country markets; again, the deftruction by, fire of the Albion mills, which supplied the markets with flour, and which challenged a fair competition with other venders of flour, now ceafed to operate-in fhort the capital now depended on its fupply of flour from a confined body of men, whole motives might be perfectly fair and honourable; but he could not reconcile the comparative statement of the price of wheat and flour at different periods with the prefent. In the year 1778, the price of wheat for 52 Mondays was 40s. 91dflour was fold at 36s. 6d.—again in 1787, wheat was fold at 41s. 1d-four at 328. 11d. but on the 15th of Auguft 1796, when wheat fold at 40s. 33d. flour was returned at 50s. ; he therefore appealed to the honourable court, whether fome enquiry ought not to be immediately made, or fome method adopted to render every confumer of bread a fair opportunity of purchafing that neceffary commodity at the most moderate price. It had been fuggefted in another place, and from refpectable authority, that the erection of mills might benefit the public, and that the baker or private confumer might purchafe his own corn, and have it ground on his own account. No doubt every fociety was bound to affift its members, and promote the general benefit; and he conceived that the corporate body of the capital would be highly praife-worthy in promoting the happiness of their industrious poor, and adopting fuch means as may beft conduce to so desirable an end. He did not charge or criminate any fet of men, his duty led him to confider the general intereft of this great city, and while he thought it fail and honourable that the man of business should reap the profits of his labour, yet he alfo conceived it was an act of juftice, as well as mercy, that the confumer fhould enjoy his commodity at a reasonable price.

Deputy Merry perfectly agreed with

the lord mayor, and moved, That it be referred to a committee to take into com fideration the causes of the prefent high price of flour, and to make an immediate report;' which was feconded by Mr. Powel.

Alderman Pickett complimenting the lord mayor for his public exertions, hoped that the motion would convey to the public that it originated from the information fo properly conveyed by the lord-mayor; but it was conceived by the court, more proper, that the fentiments of the court thould be made in a feparate motion, and again Mr. deputy Meiry moved, That the thanks of the court be given to the right hon. the lord mayor, for his extenfive information refpecting the high price of flour, which operates fo much to the prejudice of the public,' which was im mediately feconded by alderman Pickett..

Deputy Merry then moved for A committee to be appointed, to confift of the lord-mayor, court of aldermen, and one commoner from each ward, to take into confideration the caufes of the high price of flour, while grain is cheap, and to make a fpeedy return of the belt means of removing fo oppreffive an evil,'

SEPTEMBER 20.

Liverpool, Sept. 17. This morning, a little before one o'clock, a most dreadful fire broke out in a large warehouse, belonging to Mr. Hervey, in Cheapfide; which, notwithstanding every poffible exertion, could not be got under till the whole warehouse, with all its valuable contents, were confumed. The top part was occupied by Mr. Middleton, as a cotton manufactory, where the fire broke out; occafioned, as is fuppofed, by the friction of one of the wheels employed in the works. In the lower part were eleven thousand measures of wheat, belonging to meffrs. Corrie, Gladstone, and co. which, with a large quantity of hides, rum, brandy, and other fpirits, were entirely deftroyed.

About three o'clock, the front part of the warehouse fell into the street, directly upon one of the fire-engines that was then working, which occafioned a scene of horror impoffible to be defcribed; three inen were crufhed to pieces on the ipot; tog more were carried to the infirmary in a dreadful, fituation, two of whom died immediately: two of the deceafed were foldiers belonging to the Tay Fencibles; the others are a butcher, and two of the people belonging to the engine.