DEATHS, ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

• See before, p. 435.

1762.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

5thly. To defift from a war with Denmark. And,

6thly. Not to undertake any thing against the empress, who, they fay, was in danger of being put into a monaftery. At this fhe burit out into tears of gratitude, and declared, fhe muft either be a monfter, or bear to the king of Pruffia as much affection as he had hatred to him before. Hereupon all the furious orders were countermanded, Pruffia and Pomerania are ours again, and Frederick's wifdom, magnanimity, and other qualities, which cannot be expreffed, have faved him and us from greater calamities than thofe we have already fuffered.

The Auftrian garrifon of Schweidnitz offered on the 22d ult. to furrender, upon condition of their marching out with the honours of war &c; but his Pruffian majefty refused to grant any terms but that of their being prifoners; fo that the place ftill holds out, according to the accounts published in our Gazette, dated Sept. 25 which were as follow:

Breflaw. S pt. 5. On the night between the 1st and 2d inftant, the mine, or Globe de Compreffion, as it is called, was played off, but not with the fuccefs that was expected; owing, in part, to its being placed at too great a distance, and partly to the vigorous refiftance made by the befieged, who fallied out in the night between the 29th and 30th of Auguft, and destroyed part of the gallery of the mine, by rolling of bombs, and other combustibles into it, to which they fet fire. This damage was, however, repaired the next day; and the night between the 31ft of Auguit and the 1ft inftant, the garrifon made three different forties, but without fuccols. The Pruffians have begun to work upon another mine, which, it is expected, will be finifhed in a few days. We do not hear that the commandant of Schweidnitz has made any new propofals of capitulation, fince the rejection of thofe which he offered before to his Pruffian majefty.

Breflaw, Sept. 8. Count Daun continues quiet with his army in the county of Glatz, and keeps poffeffion of the Eul-Gebury, and fome other heights on the frontiers of Silefia.

The king of Pruffia remains at Peterswalda; and no alteration of any moment has been made in the polition of his army fince the 18th of last month.

The troops that form the ficge, fuffer much by the enemies fire. We hear that they have been reinforced by fome battal ons, as the gar ifon is reckoned to confift of full nine thoufand men. The miners are preparing with all expedition. the fecond mine; which it is faid will be finished by the 11th or 12th inftant.

Nothing of importance has happened fince our lift between the Auftrian and Pruffian ar mies in Saxony; but there has been a brifk fkirmish in Hefle between the French army under the prince of Conde and that of the allies

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under the hereditary prince of Brunswick, of which our Gazette gave us the following

account:

Hague Sept. 7. The prince of Conde, having retired fucceffively as far back as Friedberg, in order to make a junction with the marshals Soubife and d'Eftrees, abandoned even the heights near that town, and marched to Rodheim on the 29th past, on which day the hereditary prince arrived at Wolfersheim. His highness thought it neceffary to put general Luckner forward on the goth to thofe high grounds, whilft he marched with his main body to Affenheim. On his march, he was informed that a large body of the French were returning towards Friedberg; and being defirous to get before them, he altered his plan and inftead of continuing his march to Affenheim determined to fupport general Luckner. He had then no rea fon to imagine that the prince of Conde had been reinforced, though it afterwards appeared that the grand army of France was at hand to fupport him.

The hereditary prince's infantry attacked with the greatest bravery, and, in a fhort time, drove the French, who were pofted upon the steep mountain called Johann.berg, into the plain below. Having there been confiderably re nforced, the French renewed the attack with advantage, and obliged the allies to repais the Wetter. In the retreat, the hereditary prince, who was rallying the troops, was wounded in the hip, but the wound is declared by the furgeons not to be dangerous. Prince Ferdinand, upon the first report of the hereditary prince's being engaged, marched with a confiderable part of his army from his camp at Nidda, to fupport him, and arrived time enough to prevent the French from purfuing their advantage, which confits in the lofs of 7 or 800 men on the part of the allies, who were made prifoners, and feven fmall field pieces. The number of killed and wounded on either fide is not yet known; but we hear that the count de Guiche was taken by the allies. The reft of the confedarate army came up the next morning, and prince Ferdinand's head quarters were on the 1ft inftant at Bingenheim, upon the river Horlot, at a small diftance from the French. The only British troops engaged in this action, were, according to the accounts received here, major general Elliot's dragoons, and the picquets under lord Frederick Cavendish,

Brunswick, Sept. 7. The accounts which we have received from the furgeons, who attend the hereditary prince, reprefent his ferene highnels to be in a fair way of doing well. He had a fever for two days which was pretty violent; but as the fuppuration came on, both the fever and the pain abated. ball entered on the right fide, a little above the hip-bone, which it grazed; and came out in the back part of his body, about four inches below.

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And by our Gazette of the 25th we have the following accounts from the French and allied armies in Heffe:

Hague, Sept. 17. We hear from the army, that in order to prevent the French from difturbing the fiege of Caffel, if it should be determined to undertake it, his ferene highnefs prince Ferdinand had marched from Staden to Grunberg, and from thence to Kirchayn upon the Olime, where his head quarters were on the 14th inftant, the army extending from that place to Ernefthaufen, lieutenant general Luckner occupies Frankenberg upon the Upper Eder. In confequence of prince Ferdinand's motions, the French armies have continned to march by their left, and having paffed the Lahne in the neighbourhood of Gieffen, arrived on the 13th near Marbourgh. The prince of Conde encamped at Gosfeln, and general de Levis at Wetter.

The hereditary prince, who had been removed to Homburg near Fritzlar, continued in a fair way of recovery.

The French armies unHague, Sept. 21. der the marshals d'Etrees, de Soubize, and the prince of Conde, having in vain attempted to difturb the march of the confederates from the Horloff to the Ohme, have been obliged to stop fhort in the neighbourhood of Marbourgh. In their different attempts upon the rear guard, which prince Ferdinand conducted in perfon, they were always repulfed with lofs; and, notwithstanding the exceffive badnefs of the roads, occafioned by violent rains, every thing arrived in order in the camp of Kirchayn, except a few pontoon carriages, and fome waggons, which broke down, and were ordered to be burnt.

The defign of the French appeared to be to get round the right of prince Ferdinand, through the country of Waldeck; for which purpose the prince of Conde had been employed to open march routes towards Frankberg upon the Eder, which ferved for the march of the confederate army instead of theirs, prince Ferdinand having marched to Wetter, on the 16th, by thofe routes where the French had a garrifon, which was driven out, and the prince of Conde obliged to repafs the Lahne. His ferene highness encamped at Wetter the fame day, and his head quarters were ftill there on the 17th. A large detachment which the enemy had pufhed forward from their right, between Ziegenhayn and Neuftad, had been likewife repulfed

And the fame Gazettee gives us the following accounts of the war in Portugal:

Lisbon, Aug. 31. The garrison of Almeida furrendered to the Spaniards the 25th, having capitulated upon condition of not ferving against Spain for fix months. They made a much better defence than was expected, confidering the bad state of the place. Windfor Caftle, Sept. 22. This day Capt. Singleton arrived here from Portugal, with the following letter from the marshal count

AFFAIRS.

de la Lippe, to the earl of Egremont.
"My Lord,

Sept.

I have the honour to acquaint your Lordfhip, that having detached brigadier general Burgoyne with his regiment, and 17 companies of grenadiers, to make an attack upon Valencia d'Alcantara, (where according to information, that in all probability was to be depended upon, the enemy had formed large magazines of flour and forage) This officer executed his operation with fo much conduct and valour, that having entered the place first at the head of his own regiment, gallantly conducted by Colonel Somerville, fword in hand, and afterwards diflodged the enemy's infantry, after an obftinate refiftance, out of the houfes, by the valourous behaviour of the British grenadiers under Lord Pulteney's command, the Spanish regiment of Seville was entirely deftroyed: a major general, one colonel, one captain, five lieutenants, three ftand of colours, and all the private men were taken that escaped the fword. The information about the magazine proved groundless; but the general officer was to have entered Alentego in a few days, with a confiderable corps d'armee, and was then employed in reconnoitring the entrances into that province.

The lofs of the British troops, who had the principal fhare in the affair, is luckily but inconfiderable, and confifts in lieutenant Burk of Colonel Frederick's, one ferjeant, and three private, killed; two ferjeants, one drummer, eighteen private, wounded; ten horfes killed, and two wounded.

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The British troops behaved upon this occafion with as much generosity, as courage it deferves admiration, that in an affair of this kind, the town and the inhabitants fuffered very little; which is owing to the good order brigadier Burgoyne kept up even in the heat of the action.

This fuccefs would probably have been attended with more, if circumftances that could not well be expected, had not retarded the march of 16 Portuguese battalions, and three regiments of cavalry.

The bearer of this is captain Singleton, who diftinguifhed himself very much in the affair: and I take the liberty to recommend him to your Lordship's protection. am, with great refpect,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient,
And most humble Servant
The Reigning Count de Schaumbourg Lippe.
Nifa, August 30, 1762.

In the mean time our negotiations for a peace feem to be far advanced, otherwife we would not have allowed the elector of Cologn to be chofen bishop of Munster, which he unanimoufly was on the 16th inftant; and in the laft advices from Frankfort on the Main, dated Sept. 8, it is faid: we have just heard, that an armiftice is about to be read at the head of the two armies.

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