mmediately recovered themselves. This was in the beginning of
the night. At break of day the enemy's reinforcements returned to the
charge, but were again repulsed, nor could they once break through
lieutenant-colonel Al-feldt's Hanoverian guards, which closed the army's
march with a detachment of regular troops and a new raised corps of
hunters.

DUKE OF CUMBERLAND PASSES THE WESER.

The allies encamped at Cofeldt on the fourteenth, and remained there
all the next day, when the enemy's detachments advanced to the gates
of Hervorden, and made a feint as if they would attack the town, after
having summoned it to surrender; but they retired without attempting
any thing further; and, in the meantime, the troops that were posted at
Hervorden, and formed the rear guard, passed the Weser on the side of
Remen, without any molestation, and encamped at Holtzuysen. A body of
troops which had been left at Bielefeldt, to cover the duke's retreat,
after some skirmishes with the French, rejoined the army in the
neighbourhood of Herfort; and a few days after, his royal highness drew
near his bridges on the Weser, and sent over his artillery, baggage, and
ammunition. At the same time some detachments passed the river on
the right, between Minden and Oldendorp, and marked out a new camp
advantageously situated, having the Weser in front, and the right and
left covered with eminences and marshes. There the army under his royal
highness re-assembled, and the French fixed their head-quarters at
Bielefeldt, which the Hanoverians had quitted, leaving in it only a part
of a magazine, which had been set on fire. By this time the French were
in such want of forage, that M. d'Etrees himself, the princes of the
blood, and all the officers without exception, were obliged to send back
part of their horses. However, on the tenth of June, their whole army,
consisting of seventy battalions and forty squadrons, with fifty-two
pieces of cannon, besides a body of cavalry left at Ruremonde for the
conveniency of forage, was put in motion. In spite of almost impassable
forests, famine, and every other obstacle that could be thrown in their
way by a vigilant and experienced general, they at length surmounted
all difficulties, and advanced into a country abounding with plenty, and
unused to the ravages of war. It was imagined that the passage of the
Weser, which defends Hanover from foreign attacks, would have been
vigorously opposed by the army of th