of meal, and great store
of ammunition; and after making himself master of Reichenberg, he
returned to Zittau. The van of his troops, consisting of an hundred
and fifty hussars of the regiment of Putkammer, met with a body of six
hundred Croats, sustained by two hundred Austrian dragoons of Bathiania,
at their entering Bohemia; and immediately fell upon them sword in hand,
killed about fifty, took thirty horses, and made ten dragoons prisoners.
The Prussians, it is said, did not lose a single man on this occasion;
and two soldiers only were slightly wounded, the Austrians having made
but a slight resistance.

NEUTRALITY OF THE EMPEROR, AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE DUTCH.

Whatever the conduct of the court of Vienna might have been to the
allies of Great Britain, still, however, proper regard was shown to the
subjects of this crown: for an edict was published at Florence on the
thirteenth of February, wherein his imperial majesty, as grand duke
of Tuscany, declared his intention of observing the most scrupulous
neutrality in the then situation of affairs. All the ports in that duchy
were accordingly enjoined to pay a strict regard to this declaration, in
all cases relating to the French or English ships in the Mediterranean.
The good effects of this injunction soon appeared; for two prizes taken
by the English having put into Porto Ferraro, the captains of two French
privateers addressed themselves to the governor, alleging, that they
were captures of a pirate, and requesting that they might be obliged
to put to sea; but the governor prudently replied, that as they came in
under English colours he would protect them, and forbade the privateers,
at their peril, to commit any violence. They, however, little regarding
the governor's orders, prepared for sailing, and sent their boats to cut
out one of the prizes, The captain, firing at their boats, killed one
of their men, which, alarming the sentinels, notice was sent to the
governor; and he, in consequence, ordered the two privateers immediately
to depart.--The conduct of the Dutch was rather cautious than spirited.
Whilst his Prussian majesty was employed on the side of Bohemia
and Saxony, the French auxiliaries began their march to harass his
defenceless territories in the neighbourhood of the Low Countries.
A free passage was demanded of the states-general through Namur and
Maastricht, for the provisions, ammunition, and artillery belonging to
this new army; and though