; as also that
of M. d'Armentieres, which arrived at eleven, and that of M. Souvre,
which arrived at noon. The mareschal having examined the course of the
river, caused the bridges of pontoons to be laid within gunshot of the
abbey, where the viscount de Turenne passed that river in the year one
thousand six hundred and seventy-three, and where the divisions under
Broglio and Chevert now passed, it on the twelfth and thirteenth. These
two generals being informed of what was to be done upon the Upper Weser,
attacked Minden, and carried it, whilst a detachment of the French
entered the country of East Friesland, under the command of the marquis
d'Auvel; and, after taking possession of Lier, inarched on the right
side of the Ems to Embden, the only sea-port the king of Prussia had,
which at first seemed determined to make a defence; but the inhabitants
were not agreed upon the methods to be taken for that purpose. They
therefore met to deliberate, but in the meantime, their gates being
shut, M. d'Auvel caused some cannon to be brought to beat them down;
and the garrison, composed of four hundred Prussians, not being strong
enough to defend the town, the soldiers mutinied against their officers,
whereupon a capitulation was agreed on, and the gates were opened to the
French commander, who made his troops enter with a great deal of order,
assured the magistrates that care should be taken to make them observe
a good discipline, and published two ordinances, one for the security of
the religion and commerce of the city, and the other for prohibiting the
exportation of corn and forage out of that principality. The inhabitants
were; however, obliged to take an oath of allegiance to the French king.

BATTLE OF HASTENBECK.

On Sunday, the twenty-fourth of July, the French, after having laid
part of the electorate of Hanover under contribution, marched in three
columns, with their artillery, towards the village of Latford, when
major-general Furstenburgh, who commanded the out-ports in the village,
sent an officer to inform the duke of Cumberland of their approach. His
royal highness immediately reinforced those posts with a body of
troops, under the command of lieutenant-general Sporcken; but finding
it impossible to support the village, as it was commanded by the heights
opposite to it, which were possessed by the enemy, and being sensible
that it would be always in his power to retake it, from its situation
in a bottom be