to be twenty-three or twenty-four thou Difpatches from Toulon received at the the ridge terminating with a rapid defcent at the western extremity, which com mands a complete view of the whole extent of the enemy's pofition to the west. ward of Toulon. It was determined to take poft on the loweft and eafternmoft knoll, which is about five hundred yards from the landing place. Having diftributed the troops into the beft pofition the poft would almit of. Admiral Gravina returned with me before noon te Toulon, to order the neceffary fupplies for the troops, and fome guns for the defence of the poft. Colonel Don Rafael Chavuru remaining with the command of the poft, and Capt. Brereton with the command of the British troops, under him. At about five o'clock in the afternoon the enemy advanced along the upper knolls of the Hauteur de Graffe, to the number, as we have fince learnt, of about seven hundred men; and, having driven in the picquets, began an attack under cover of the woods, forming themfelves upon a fteep afcent, in front of the poft, in three lines, fo as to have the advantage of a triple fire; from which our troops were, in fome degree, protected by trunks of trees, which had been felled, and placed to ferve as a breaft-work. The firing continued for an hour, when the enemy were repulfed, with the lofs on the part of the British, of one rank and file killed; one captain and three rank and file wounded, (I am happy to fay none of them danger oufly) and of the Spaniards one rank and file killed, and feven wounded. The enemy, by accounts we have fince received from deferters, loft twelve killed, and one Colonel and twentythree wounded. This attempt of the enemy served to convince the Spanish and French officers of the neceflity of occupying the advanced pofition at the weftern extremity of La Hauteur de Graff; a Spanish Colonel was fent, at day-break, to take poffeffion of it. It became neceffary to collect a force to occupy La Graffe; I took therefore fifty men from fort De la Malgue, the ftrongeft and leaft expofed of our pofts, and, by leaving but one relief for the duties of Toulon, we were enabled to collect 350 Spaniards and 150 British, exclufive of officers and non-commiffion. ed officers, the Spanish under the command of Colonel Don Rafoel Echavuru, and the British troops under the command of Capt. Brereton of the 30th regt. The detachment embarked from Toulon on the 20th, at twelve o'clock at night, Ad- I went with Lord Hood and Admiral miral Gravina and myself, with all the Gravina to trace out the line of enSpanish Colonels of the garrifon, and fome trenchments, and to place a battery of French engineers, attending to place the three twenty-four pounders on a spot troops in the poft they were to occupy. which commands every point within the We proceeded across the harbour, and range. This poft compleatly covers the landed, at about two o'clock in the morn- outward roadflead; the two knolls in the ing of the atft, at Fort Balaguier, and rear of it being occupied by fmall demarched immediately forward to recon- tachments, to communicate with the noitre the heights De la Graffe, which landing-place at Fort Balliguier. A reinconfift of a ridge, divided at the top by forcement of one hundred Spaniards three diftinct knolls, covered with wood, from the fhips, and of eighty British mawith fmall dips or vallies between each, rines, (who had been posted at Les Sathe whole rifing very confiderably inland_ blettes to cover the naval hospital, which 3 F is protected now by the occupation of the Hauteur de Graffe) render that poft fufficiently frong to refift any future attempts the enemy can make on that fide. For the more regular and convenient conduct of the fervice, I found it neceffary to divide the fmall detachments of different British corps under my command, into two battalions. I have put the first battalion under the orders of Captain Moncrief of the 11th regiment, the fecond under Captain Brereton of the 30th regiment, the two eldeft captains on the fervice. I cannot do fufficient juftice to the zeal, intelligence, and activity of thofe officers, from whofe exertions I have found the greatest affiance. Any mark of his Majefty's favour fhewn to thofe two old and deferving officers, I can venture to affure you, will not be bestowed on perfons deficient, either in zeal or ability. The conftant fire kept up by the enemy for the last four days, has wounded one lieutenant of the navy, one feaman, and four rank and file. I have to regret that Licutenant Newnham, of the navy, who com manded in fort Pomet, and whofe vigilance, activity, and refources, fupplied almost every local defect of his pofts, is neceffarily removed for a time from the command, on account of the wound which he yesterday received in the thigh. Lieutenant Tupper, of his Majefty's fhip Windfor Caitle, is fent to take the command. Return of BRITISH, killed and wounded, on Sept. 2r 1793. 30th regiment, I rank and file killed; I rank and file wounded,-25th regiment, I captain wounded.-69th regiment, 2 rank and file wounded. In Fort Pomet. Royal Navy, lieutenan, I feaman, wounded.69th regiment, 2 rank and file wounded. ---Marines, 2 rank and file wounded.--Total, I rank and file killed; 2 officers, I feaman, 7 rank and file wounded.--Captain Smith of the 25th regiment, and Lieutenant Newnham of the Royal Navy, wounded. SIR. MULGRAVE, Acting Brigadier-General. Toulon, Sept. 27, 1793. Since I clofed my dispatch to you this day, the first divifion of Neapolitan troops came into the harbour, confifling of 2000 men, al in perfect health, conveyed by two fps of 74 guns each, two frigates, and two fps. They have been eleven days on then pallage. Two thoufand more troops were to fail in three days after that of their departure, and a third divifion alfo of 2000 men were to fail in twenty days from the day on which the first divifion failed. I have the honour to be, &c. MULGRAVE. SIR, The fquadron under Admiral Gell having been delayed by contrary winds, I have the opportunity of informing you, in addition to my last dispatches, that, on the 28th inftant, the first divifion of the Neapolitan troops disembarked under the command of Brigadier General Pignatelli. The troops are in perfect health, and are a very fine body of men, and well appointed. Toulon, Sept. 30, 1793. The detachment of the King of Sardinia's troops confils entirely of grenadiers and chaffeurs, and are of the beft of his Sardinian Majefty's troops. I have great confidence in the zeal and willingness exprefsed, both by the officers and foldiers of this corps. I have to inform you of the death of Lieutenant Newnham, of the navy; to whofe private and profeffional merits the fincere and marked regret of the Spanish as well as Englith officers, who were witneffes of his able and active conduct, bears the most honourable teftimony. I have the honour to be, &c. WHITEHALL, 087..22. Laft night, the Right Hon. Lord George Conway arrived with a difpatch from the Earl of Yarmouth, of which the following is an extract: Weiffembourg, O&. 14, 1793. Auftrian Head-Quarters. Yefterday morning, at three o'clock, General Wurmfer made his projected attack upon the lines of the Lautre, on various points at the fame time. I have the fatisfaction to fay, that he is in poffeffion of every part of them. Lautrebourg furrendered without any conditions, between three and four in the evening, after being evacuated by the enemy, who, from the prodigious number of redoubts of which they were in. poffeffion, and the natural ftrength of the pofition, might have held out a firge of se-. veral days. This town refifted fome time longer. It is furrounded by a large ditch, and was defended by redoubts, from which the French, cannonaded the Auftrians for feveral hours. It is alfo connected with the Geilberg, a mountain which fo entirely commands the place, that if the French had determined on deriving every advantage from their fitua tion, the Auftrians could not have entered into poffeffion of it, without further fucceffes in the mountains. A part of the town was burnt in the courfe of the ftruggle; and the French, before they retreated, fet fire to their magazines, both here and at Alftadt. In other parts of this very complicated operation, in which fix different columns had distinct plans to execute, great fuccefs attend ed: ed the Auftrians. They fucceffively carried by affauit all the different redoubts which had been conftructed in the front of the French camps, of which the principal one fell into their hands, with all their tents ftanding, feveral caissons, nine standards, and twenty-fix cannons of very great calibre. As these different actions are but just over, and the Auftrian corps are very remote from each other, it is impoffible for me to tranfmit to your Lord!hip any account of the killed, wounded, or taken on either fide. The army has been fourteen hours under arms, almost continually engaged in a very active purfuit, and often exposed to a moft tremendous fire. Right Hon. Lord Grenville. MAUBEUGE. WHITEHALL, OF. 22. Letter from Sir JAMES MURRAY, Adjutant General to the forces under the command of his Royal Highnefs the Duke of YORK, to the Right Hon. HENRY DUNDAS. SIR, Engel Fontaine, Oct. 18, 1793. I had the honour of informing you, in my laft difpatch, that his Royal Highness, at the earneft requeft of the Prince of Cobourg, had marched, with a part of the troops under his command, for this place. They arrived here upon the 16th. The Prince, being acquainted with his Royal Highnafs's intention, had been enabled to draw from thence four battalions, to strengthen his other pofts; a fifth battalion followed those upon his Royal Highness's arrival. The enemy, having collected in extraordinary numbers, attacked the corps under the command of General Clairfayt, which was poited with its right near Birlemont, and its left near the village of Wattigwies, upon the 15th and 16th. Upon the former day the left wing of the enemy was entirely defeated: Having advanced into the plain which lay upon that fide between the two armies, they were charged by the Imperial cavalry, and driven back with great flaugh ter and the lofs of twelve pieces of cannon. The attack which they made upon the left of the Auftrians was more obftinately fupported; they were, however, finally repulfed. Upon the 16th the enemy having drawn the greatest part of their force to the right, again attacked the left of General Clairfayt's corps, and the village of Wattigwies. They could upon this fide approach within cannon fhot of the Auftrians, under cover of an immenfe wood called the Haye d'Avefnes; which, when they were repulfed, fecured their retreat. They brought a great quantity of heavy artillery to the edge of this wood, under the protection of which they attacked the village. The utmoft firmness and bravery were displayed by the Austrian troops upon this occafion. The enemy were feveral times repulfed with great lofs: they were repeatedly driven from the village after they had carried it; but being enabled, by great fuperiority of numbers, to bring continually fresh troops to the point of attack, they at laft fucceeded in maintaining the poffeffion of that poft. The communication between General Clairfayt's corps and that of General La Tour, which obferved the entrenched camp hear Maubeuge, being by this means cut off, it was judged neceflary by the Prince of, Cobourg to abandon the pofition which had Been taken for the purpofe of invefting Maubeuge; the army repaffed the Sambre in the night without the fmallest lofs. Licutenant-General Benzowiky, who commanded a detached corps upon the left of the army, defeated a corps which was oppofed to him, killed a great number of the enemy, took four hundred prifoners, and eleven picces of cannon. Count Haddick, who was detached by General La Tour, likewife gained a confiderable advantage, penetrated to Sorbe Chateau, and took three pieces of cannon. In the two engagements, the Auftrians took twenty-four pieces of cannon and two howitzers, without the lofs of one upon their part. They have had about two thoufand men killed and wounded. There can be no doubt that the lofs of the enemy has been much more confiderable. The Auftrians now occupy the left bank of the Sambre. No certain accounts have been yet received of the further motions of the enemy. I am, &c. (Signed) JAMES MURRAY. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Nov. 2. WHITEHALL, Nov. 2. By intelligence received from the Earl of Yarmouth, dated Brumpt, Auftrian Head Quarters, October 20, it appears, that on the morning of the 17th, General Wurmfer, having received information that Haguenau had furrendered to the advanced corps under General Mezaroes, he immediately put the bulk of his army into motion, and arrived there that night, a few hours after it had been evacuated by the enemy, who had made fo precipitate a retreat, as to neglet breaking down the wooden bridges 0. ver which the artillery was to pals. That, on the 18th, the French encamped on the right bank of the Zorn, a small river which runs through Brumpt, but on perceiving fome interval between General Mezaroes advanced corps, confifting of about 6000 men, and the other columns of the army, they croffed the river, and attacked him with their whole forec, in the evident ex pectation pectation of turning his flank, and cutting him off from the rest of the army. The action lafted feven hours; but upon perceiving the rest of the Auftrian army move forward, the French re-croffed the river, and evacuated the heights and town of Brumpt, of which the Auftrians took poffeffion. The lofs on the part of the French is eftimated at about 800 men, and that of the Auftrians nearly half that number, in killed and wounded. That the Prince of Waldeck had advanced with his corps from Seltz, and marched along the banks of the Rhine. That he had compelled the furrender of Druzenheim, and, after having driven in the garrifon of Fort Louis, with fome lofs, had invefted the place. That, in the courfe of the night, the French had abandoned their former pofition on the Zorn, and retreated under the cannon of Strafbourg. That General Wurmfer was at the diftance of nine English miles from that place. In addition to the accounts already publifhed of the forcing the lines of Weiffembourg and Lauterbourg, it appears, that the Auftrian army had between feven and eight hundred men killed and wounded; and that the lofs of the French amounted to between three and four thousand men killed, from five to fix hundred prifoners, and 26 pieces of cannon, with their ammunition, waggons and horfes. The retreat of the French, on this occafion, was greatly favoured by a thick fog. WHITEHALL, Nov. 2. Extract of a letter from Sir JAMES MURRAY, Bart. to Mr Secretary DUNDAS, dated TOURNAY. Oct. 24, 1793. I have the honour to inform you, that the enemy made, upon the 21ft inftant, an attack upon the advanced pofts of the camp at Menin, particularly thofe of Werwick and Hallouin: They were every where repulfed; but the day following they re newed the attack with great violence, and at laft fucceeded in gaining poffeflion of Werwick. Menin, being by this means expofed, Lieutenant-General Erbach, who command ed there, found it neceffary to evacuate the town, and to retire with his corps upon Courtray. This corps was composed of Auftrian and Hanoverian troops. The particulars of their lofs are not yet come to my knowledge, but I understand that it amounts, in killed and wounded, to near three hundred men. The enemy likewife attacked the troops pofted at the camp at Cifoing upon the 21ft, 22d, and 23d, but they were repulfed each day with lofs, having had, upon the 22d, near 400 men killed and taken. The Inaif killing's and the 16th regiment of light dragoons behaved with great fpirit upon this occafion. The attacks of the enemy were chiefly directed against the posts of Nomain upon the left, and Willem upon the right, of both of which they at different times gained poffeffion, but were again driven from them by reinforcements fent from the camp. This day, the enemy attacked the post of Major General Kray, at Orchies. No farther particulars are at prefent known, than that they have been repulfed with the loss of five pieces of cannon. Extrad of a Letter from Sir JAMES MURRAY, dated TOURNAY, OЯ. 25, 1793. Accounts have been received, that the enemy advanced, upon the 22d, upon Furnes, which was abandoned at their approach. They then proceeded against Nieuport; but recourfe having been had to the inundations, of which the country near that place is fufceptible, they were obliged to retreat. Lieutenant General Wurmb, upon the lofs of Menin, left his pofition by Dixmude and Fort Knocke, and is now posted at Thouroute, where he covers Bruges, and communicates with the corps near Cour tray. It is his Royal Highness's intention to attack the enemy at Menin upon Monday next. General Walmoden will command the troops employed upon this fervice, which will be thofe under Lieutenant General Wurmb, now at Thouroute, and the corps which lately occupied the camp at Menin, WHITEHALL, Nev. 2. A difpatch was last night received from Sir JAMES MURRAY, by the Right Honourable HENRY DUNDAS, of which the following is a copy: SIR, CAMPHIN, O. 29, 1793. I had the honour of informing you in my laft difpatch, of his Royal Highness's inten tion to make every poffible effort for the protection of Auftrian Flanders. Confiftent with this intention, his Royal Highnefs determined to attack the enemy at Menin, upon the 28th inftant. General Walmoden, to whom the execution of this defign was to be intrusted, went, upon the 26th, to Courtray, to take the command of the corps which had formerly occupied the camp at Menin. Lieutenant-General Busche took the command of that which had been posted at Moufcron, but which had fallen back to Warcoing. The attack was to be made upon different points by these corps, in conjunction with that of Lieutenant-Ge neral Wurmb, which lay at that time in the neighbourhood of Thoroute. Upon Upon the morning of the 27th, his Royal Highness marched with the troops which were encamped before Tournay, to take up the polition he had formerly Occupied between Baifieux and Cyfoing, and which had been left fome days before. Different pofts, which the enemy had established upon the Marque, were driven back. A piquet of fix officers and 150 men, which had been pofted at the village of Saingain, retreated across the plain towards Lezennes; they had nearly reached the laft mentioned village when a fquadron of the 2d dragoon guards, led on by Major Crawford, aid de camp to his Royal Highnefs, advancing with rapidity, gained their right flank, and charged them with fo much vigour and fuccefs, that not a fingle man efcaped; 104 prifoners were taken, and the reft killed upon the spot. The fqua dron of the ad dragroon guards had only two men killed, and one man wounded. The other fquadron of the Queen's dragoon guards, two fquadrons of the Royals, and a division of Austrian light dragoons, came up in the pursuit. In the mean time, the enemy had made progrefs in another part of the country. They had attacked Nieuport, and paffed, though only with a fmall body, the canal of Ypres at Shooreback. In confequence of this Lieut General Wurmb had fallen back upon Ghiftel, in order to cover Bruges and Oftend. This change of General Wurmb's pofition rendered abortive the plan which had been formed for the attack of Menin upon the 28th. His Royal Highness, therefore, ftill keeping that important object in view, fent a reinforcement of 3 battalions to Lieut.-General Bufche, who had by this time advanced again with his corps to Moufcron, and difledged the enemy from that poft, of which they had taken poffeffion; and it was determined, that the attack of Menin fhould be made on the 29th, by the corps of General Walmoden and Gene ral Bufche; the former advancing directly upon the town of Menin, the latter upon the right bank of the Leys, against the village and heights of Hallouin. In order to favour this enterprize, by drawing the attention of the enemy to another quarter, his Royal Highness fent, upon the evening of the 28th, two battalions of Auftrian infantry, and fome companies of light troops, with two twelve pounders and two howitzers, under the command of Major-General Werneck, and two battalions of British infantry (the flank battalion and that of the 3d regiment of Guards) with one fquadron of the 7th and one of the 15th light dragoons, with two twelve pounders and two howitzers, likewife to attack Lannoy, which the enemy had entrenched, and occupied with 1500 men. com Major General Abercrombie manded this detachment; and he had orders to expofe the troops as little as poffible, but to confine the attack to a cannonade, until the enemy fhould be driven from their poft. This plan had the defired fuccefs. After refifting fome time the heavy and well-directed fire of the British and Auftrian artillery which was gradual y advanced to within a very fma'l diftance of the town, the French gave way, retiring in great diforder, part of them towards Lifle, and part towards Roubay. They were pursued with great fpirit by Lieutenant Colonel Churchill, at the head of the two fquadrons of light dragoons, who killed and wounded near Ico of them, and took 59 prifoners. Several others were killed and taken by a party of Austrian infantry, who entered the town. There were taken in all about 150 prifoners, and five pieces of cannon, besides feveral tumbrils and baggage waggons. The killed are fuppofed to have amounted to between two and three hundred. In point of numbers the lofs upon our fide has been very inconfiderable; but unfortunately Captain Sutherland, of the Royal Engineers, an officer of acknow. ledged merit, was killed upon this occafion. Though not called upon to be prefent at the attack, he had been induced by his zeal to accompany the detachment. I am forry to add, that Lieutenant Thornton, of the artillery, has loft his arm. The Auftrians had eight or ten men killed and wounded. About the conclufion of this affair, accounts were received from General Walmoden, that the enemy had evacuated Menin the preceding night, and that they had the appearance of intending to give up their attack upon Ypres. The march of his Royal Highness from Englefontaine, and the fubfequent movements of the troops under his command, feem to have induced the enemy to aban don the enterprize in which they had en gaged upon this fide of Auftrian Flanders, and in which they had been, to a cer tain degree, fuccefsful. By accounts from Nieuport of the 28th, the |