The London Gazetre Extraordinary, November 13. Downing-feet, Nov. 13, 1796. Difpatches, of which the following are copies, have been received from copt. Anftruther and Robert Craufurd, efq. by the sight hon. lord Grenville, his majesty's principal lecretary of ftate for foreign affairs. Head quarters of his royal High nefs the Archduke Charles of Auftria, Herboltzheim, Oct. 17. My Lord, In my dispatch of the 13th, I had the honour of giving your lordship an account of the movements of the corps under the command of generals Latour, Nanendorff, and Petrarich, down to the 9th init. On the 10th, general Latour followed the enemy toward Stokach and Engen; but finding that their retreat through the Val d'Enfer could no longer be prevented, he discontinued the purfuit, and marched by his right toward the valley of the Kinzig, in order to form a junction with his royal highnefs. The archduke arrived with his main body in the neighbourhood of Hornberg. On the 15th, generals Nauendorff and Petrarfch preceded him nearly in the fame direction. The former took poft at -Eltzach on the 14th, and the latter at Kintzingen. On the 15th, the corps of the prince of Condé and gen. Frolich alone continued to follow the enemy through the defiles of the Black Foreft. In the mean time, gen. Moreau lost no time in profiting of the advantages which his van guard had gained on the 9th and 10th inft. He paffed with his whole army, through the Val d'Enfer, and arrived at Fribourg on the 13th. Next day he occupied Waldkirch, and his pofts extended along the heights on the right bank of the Eltz. This menacing movement of the enemy, and the extreme difficulty of making an immediate attempt on Kehl, determined his royal highness to defer the execution of that enterprize. Leaving therefore a fufficient corps to oblerve the place, he marched on the 16th to Malborgen, and affumed the immediate command of the army of Latour. I have the honour to be, &c. ROBERT ANSTRUTHER, Head quarters of his Royal High- highness the archduke attacked the enemyy and, after an obftinate combat, made himfelf mafter of all the pofitions on the right bank of the Eltz.. The troops deftined for this operation marched from the camp at Kentzingen before day-break; but fuch were the difficulties of the ground and the badness of the roads, that it was near eleven o'clock before they reached the different points at which they were to affemble; they were then diftributed into three different columns, of which the right, under general la Tour, was deftined to attack the village of Kindringen; the centre, commanded by general Wartenfl ben, was to carry the heights behind Maltertingen; the left, under general Petrarfch, was to proceed along the road from Heimbarch, toward Emendingen; while major-general Merfeld, with one brigade, attacked the woods on his left, and prince Frederic of Orange, with another, endeavoured to pafs over the highest parts of the mountains, fo as to turn the right of the enemy. General Nauendorf, from Elkach, had orders to attack at the fame time the patt of Waldkirch. About noon the action began: the column of the right met with a mott obftinate refiftance; it was repeatedly re pulfed in its attack upon Kentfingen, and the fuccefs remained for fome time doubtful, until his royal highness, putting himfelf at the head of the grenadiers, they returned with fury to the charge, and drove the enemy with great lofs from the village. Major general Merfeld had no less difficulty in making himself matter of the wood above Keimbach; the ground was extremely favourable to the enemy, and he defended it inch by inch; nor was he completely driven from it, until the prince of Orange, after a molt laborious march through a country which feemed impenetrable for troops, appeared in the open ground above Emendingen, and be gan to attack his right flank. From that moment the victory became decifive. The enemy repaffed the Eltz at Emendingen and Deningen, deftroying the bridges order to cover his retreat. General Nauendorf, mean time, had been no lefs fuccefsful toward Waldkirchen; at the moment his column were affembled he found himself attacked by a large body of the enemy, commanded by general Moreau in perfon, whom he not only repulfed, but drove beyond Waldkirchen, and made himself master of that poft, and of the paffage of the river. On this occafion three battalions of the enemy were furrounded, one of which laid down its arms, and the other two were difperfed in the woods. Early on the 20th the van guard of the army paffed the Eltz at Emendingen, and found that the enemy had taken a pofition immediately behind the village of Dentalingen, with his right to the mountains and his left to the marshy ground beyond the village of Verttelten. His royal highness determined immediately to attack him; and for that purpofe ordered general la Tour, with the right wing, to crofs the Eltz at Deningen, while he himfelf, with the left, and the corps of Nau endorf, advanced along the plain toward Fribourg. The advanced guard of the archduke's column flodged the enemy from. Dentzlingen without difficulty; but as general la Tour met with confiderable oppofition, and was obliged to reeftablish the bridge of Deningen, under the fire of the enemy's artillery, it was evening before he was able to force the paffage of the river; fo that his royal highness did not judge it expedient to bring on a gene. ral affair, in which only one part of the arny could have been engaged. The prince of Furstenburg, however, who commanded the right of general la Tour's column, found means to diflodge the enemy from Riegel, from whence he menaced the great road to Brifach. The whole army paffed the night within half cannon fhot of the enemy's advanced pofts, and every thing was prepared for renewing the action early this morning. The enemy, however, did not wait the attack; his main body retired during the night, and the rear guard followed at day-break. A fmall corps only took the route of Brifach, where it paffed the Rhine, and deftroyed the bridge. The reft of the army directed its march upon Huningen, where a large tete-de-pont is faid to be eftablished. During the operations of the main army, the corps of the prince of Condé and general Frolich were extremely active in the mountains. On the 18th the prince of Condé drove the enemy, with very confiderable lofs, from the frong pofts of St. Megers and St. Peter, in the valley of that nate, and general Frolich forced fome of the most important paffes of the Val d'Enfer. On the 19th and 20th they continued to drive the enemy before them, pad this morning appeared defcending from the mountains above Fribourg at the moment that the archduke's van-guard entered the town, and contributed much toward preffing the rear of the enemy. I am not at this moment able to flate to your lordship with any degree of accuracy, the lofs of the Auftrians in the dif ferent actions fince the 17th, but am confident that it does not exceed a thousand men killed and wounded. Among the latter is general count Wartenfleben, who. received a grape fhot in the arm, while leading his column to the attack on the 19th. There is, however, reason to hope that the wound will not prove dangerous. The lofs of the enemy has been very confiderable. Several pieces of artillery, and upward of 2000 prifoners, have fallen into the hands of the Auftrians. The number of killed and wounded is certainly not fmaller. I have the honour to be, &c. Head quarters of his Royal High nefs the Archduke Charles of Auftria, Schlingen, O&, 25. My lord, I HAVE the honour to inform your lordship, that his royal highnefs the archduke yetlerday attacked general Moreau's army, in the formidable pofition of Schlingen, with fo much fuccefs, that the ene my quitted it laft night, and is now in full retreat toward his tete-de-pont near Huningen. Notwithstanding the victory gained by the archduke on the 19th, and the confequent operations of the 20th and 21st, general Moreau, contrary to what was expec ed, detamined to make another effort to maintain himself on the right bank of the Rhine, or at least to defer, as long as poffible, the paffage of the river; and for this purpofe he took a pofition near Schlingen, the uncommon ftrength of which could alone have enabled him to adopt fuch a refolution without expofing his army to deftruction. This pofition, which general Morean had chofen, is fo uncommonly trong, that I will attempt to defcribe it to your lordfhip, in hope of conveying fome faint idea of the difficulties of the operation which has been performed. The flat country, which, extending from the Meyn to within two German miles of Bafle, feparates the mountains of Franconia and Suabia from the Rhine, becomes to the fouthward of Mulheim, almost a regular oblong, about an English mile and a half in breadth, at the fouth eaft angle of which is the village of Schlingen. This plain is bounded on the fouth by a rivulet, which, riding at the foot of a high mountain, called the Hoher Blanen, war the village of Sitzen Kirchen, runs to Ober Eckenheim, and from thence, in a weitern direction, through Nieder Eckenheim, Liel, and Schlingen, to Steinftadt, where it falls into the Rhine. At Schlingen the hills on the right of the rivulet, which are fteep, and covered with vineyards, turn fuddenly to the northward, and running in that direction toward Mulheim, form the eastern boundary of the plain; but those on the left bank of the rivulet, which are very high and commanding, continue quite to the Rhine, when they turn abruptly. Not far from the fource of the abovementioned rivulet, there arifes another, which, taking an oppofite, that is, fouth easterly direction, paffes through Sitzenkirchen, and, at the village of Candern, falls into the rivulet of that name; which, running fouth and fouth weft through a very deep, and, for a confiderable dittance, almoft unpaffable ravine, difcharges itself into the Rhine fix or feven English miles above Steinftadt. A third rivulet, rifing about an English mile to the weftward of Cantern, runs in a nearly parallel direction to the latter, through Feuerbach, Riedlingen and Badenmuhle, and falls into the Rhine a little below the mouth of Cantern. Between the heads of the above-mentioned ravines is a chain of high rugged hills, covered with extenfive and very thick wood. In this almoft unattackable fituation was placed the right wing of the enemy's army. The corps which covered the extremity of it occupied Cantern, Sitzenkirchen, and the furrounding heights; from whence the line proceeded along the hills above Ober and Nieder Eckenheim, Liel, Schlingen and Steinftadt, all of which places were strongly occupied; and the left flank of the line, came quite to the Rhine, which runs clofe under the heights of Steinftadt. Advanced before the centre of his army, the enemy had a very frong corps of infantry, on the heights and in the vineyards between Schlingen and Feldberg. About an English mile in the rear of the centre of the pofition, that is, to the fouthward of Liel, is the village of Tannenkirch; between it and Liel is the higheft bill of the whole pofition; and from Tannenkirch the ground falls toward the ravine in which Riedlingen is fituate: fo that, in cafe of the right wing being dri ven from the extremely ftrong ground on which it was pofted, it had, (by falling back to the heights of Tannenkuch,) another good pofition, rather en potence, indeed, to that of the left wing between Schlingen and Steinftadt, but the falient part is fecured by the high and almost unate tackable hill between Tannenkirch and Liel. An attempt to oblige Moreau to quit his pofition, by marching a very strong columa through the mountains of the left bank of the Cander, and through the Wifenthal, fo as to threaten his communication with his tete-de-pont at Huninghen, would have been too tedious an operation in the prefent fituation of affairs, and attended with the utmolt difficulty, now that the rains have rendered the roads fo bad. The Archduke, therefore, determined to attack the right wing of the enemy's army, and, if poffible, to diflodge it from the hills above Cantern, Feuerbach, Sitzenkirchen, and Ober and Nieder Eckenheim; after gaining poffeffion of which ground, his royal highnels, if the enemy had perfeve ed in maintaining his pofition, could the next day have proceeded to the attack of the heights behind the ravine of Redlingen. The attempt was arduous; but every thing was to be expected from the exertions of the army; for the gallant examples invariably fhown the troops, in the most trying fituations, by the brother of their emperor, and the great ability with which he bas commanded them, has infpired the whole army with a degree of confidence in, and attachment to, his royal highness, which is carried to enthusiasm. The attack was performed in the following manner. The army was divided into four principal columns: the firft, or right column, confifted of the prince de Condé's corps, commanded by his ferene highness, its advanced guard being led by the duke d'Enghein: the fecond column confifted of nine battalions and 26 squadrons, commanded by the prince of Furftenberg; the third column of eleven battalions and a brigade of cavalry, under general La Tour; and the fourth column confifted of the whole advanced guard of the army, under majorgeneral Nauendorff. The two first columns were deftined to employ the enemy fo as to prevent his detaching confiderably from his left wing, but not to attempt any real attack on the main pofition of that wing, the ground from Schlingen to the Rhine being too strong to admit of it. The third and fourth columns were to make the real attack, on the enemy's right wing, and to endeavour to get round his flank. The prince of Conaé's column assembled at Neuburg, and advanced to Steinftadt, which village they attacked and carried, and maintained with great firmness during the whole day, though entirely commanded by the left of the enemy's pofition. The prince of Furstenberg's column affembled at Mulheim, and advanced toward Schlingen. It took poffeffion of the heights oppofite the enemy's pofition behind Schlingen, and maintained them under a fevere cannonade. General La Tour's column marched · from Vegeheim through Feldberg. The right wing of it attacked the enemy in the vineyards, between Feldberg and Schlingen, while the left drove them out of Eckenheim, then paffed the ravine, and attacked the woody hills behind it. The nature of the ground was fuch, that both thefe attacks met with the most obtinate riftance; the right, however, at length, fucceeded in forcing the enemy to quit, the vineyards, and retire behind Liel; and the left, after driving them out of a great part of the wood, took a position with its right Bank to Eieder Eckenheim, and its left extending toward. Feuerbach. General Nauendorff's column had preceded gen. La Tour's as far as Feldberg, from whence it took to the left along the foot of the mountain, on which stands the cattle of Burgleim. It then divided into feveral columns; one of thefe attacked the village of Sitzenkirchen, and after carrying it, defcended by the ravine I have defcribed toward Cantern. Another column, of much more confiderable force, to the left of the former, was commanded by gen. Nauendorff himself. He attacked the ftrong height fituate between the ravine of Sitzenkirchen and that of the Candern, and having gained poffeffion of them after much oppofition, he arrived immediately above the town of Cantern. A third column of light-infantry and huffars, commanded by majorgenerai Merfeld, drove the enemy from the ftrong woody heights to the right of Sitzenkerchen, and got poffeffion of all the high ground between Candern and Feuerbach, which forms a part of the chain that runs between the heads of the ravines, and is connected with the high hill between Tannenkirch and Liel. By this means gen. Merfeld was enabled to establish a communication, near Feuerbach, with general La Tour's left. The enemy was now alfo driven from the village of Candern. General Nauendorff's corps had been in march all night; and, owing to the extreme badnels of the roads in the mountains, (rendered almost impaffable,) had not been able to commence its real attack till two o'clock; fo that it was late in the afternoon before it fucceeded as far as I have mentioned. An extreme thick milt, followed by a violent ftorm, which lafted till dark, put an end to the action. The enemy, finding that the operations of the day had completely prepared the way for an attack upon the heights of Tannenkirchen, (which was to have taken place this morning,) did not choose to await it, but retreated in the night. His rear-guard quitted the heights behind Schlingen, about four o'clock this morning, and he ap pears to be retiring toward his tete-de-pont at Huninghen. I have the honour, &c. ROBERT CRAUFURD. Head Quarters of the Archduke Charles, Mappach, Oct. 27, 1796. MY LORD, I have the honour to inform your lord hip, that in the courfe of last night gen. Moreau's army retreated across the Rhine at Huninghen. The laft of his rear guard was this morning fill on the heights of Weiller, on which he had conftructed a large and folid the huffars, they evacuated the height and work; but, after a little fkirmishing with redoubt before any infantry could come up; and nothing now remains on this fide the river but a few troops in a fmall tete-depont, behind which is a kind of horn-work, lately conftructed on the island called Shue ter Infel. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) ROBERT CRAUFURD. PROCEEDINGS of the First SESSION of the Eighteenth Parliament of Great Britain: Continued from Page 284. of payment at the different offices.After a long debate, in which Mr. Huffey and Mr. Fox entered into a variety of financial calculations, the refolution was put and carried; as was another, for funding 2,500,000l. of exchequer bills. On Monday, Oct. 31, Mr. Hobart brought up the report of the committee on the militia augmentation bill. It was op. pofed by Mr. Curwen and Mr. Fox, on the ground, that there was no evidence whatever of the existence of the danger for which this ftrong meafure was brought forward. To this it was urged by Mr. Pitt, that the danger was, in the utmoft degree, certain, imminent, and prefling; but that a communication of the particulars of the information which adminiftration had received, would be improper and impolitic in the extreme. The bill, in the fequel, was recommitted, and, having undergone fome amendments, was finally paffed, and carried to the lords by Mr. Pitt. On Tuesday, Nov. 1, Mr. Pitt brought in a bill for raising a body of cavalry. He T On Wednesday, Nov. 2, the report on the cavalry bill was brought up. It was oppofed by general Tarleton and Mr. Fox, as unconftitutional in its principle and nugatory in its operation, as well as impracticable from the intricacy and difficulty of the measure. On a divifion, the numbers for receiving the report were 1403 against it 30. Accordingly, the report being received, the bill was ordered to be read a third time the enfuing day. The bill for the enrolling of the game. keepers was brought in, and ordered to be read a fecond time after the recess. On Saturday, Nov. 12, the royal affent was given to the bill, for funding certain navy and exchequer bills. The militia augmentation bill, and the provisional cavalry bill, have fince received likewife the royal affent. [To be continued. ] Paris, October 18. HE treaty of peace with the pope experiences the greateft difficulties. A congress had been established at Florence, but the pope is afraid of comprising his infallibility, and will not repeal the briefs relative to France. The cardinal Goleppi carried to Rome the conditions impofed by the directory, which the pope rejected. Paftoret prefented, the day before yefterday, the report on the peace with Naples. The principal conditions are, that neither of the contracting powers fhall furnish to the enemies of the other, men, ammunition, arms, cr fhips. The fequeftration of effects is taken off. The citizens of the two states are admitted to the legal exercise of the rights belonging to them. Prifoners are to be given up. Entrance into the Neapolitan ports is forbidden to more than four ships of war of each of the belligerent powers.-After fome excellent obfervations by Paftoret on the treaty, he propofed that it fhould be ratified; which was agreed to by the council. SARDINIA. Turin, Oct. 16. On the night of Thursday, the 13th inftant, his Sardinian majefty was feized with an apoplectic fit, which for fome time deprived him of fpeech. The immediate application of bitters and bleeding brought his majesty to his fenfes the next morning, and his fpeech, though imperfectly, was recovered. During this interval the facraments were administered. Toward the evening alarming symptoms returned, and recourie was had to a third bleeding in the foot; which not proving efficacious, the extreme unction was adminiftered. His majefty lay fpeechless, and with one fide wholly palfied, during the night. At five yesterday morning he was pronounced to be à l'agonie, and it was not imagined he could outlive the day. His majesty, however, lingered till near noon this day, when he expired, as fincerely lamented by all his fubjects, as he had constantly lived beloved and refpected by them, during a reign of twenty-three years. This melancholy event has plunged the whole royal family into the deepest afflic Mon.-Lond. Gaz |