HANOVER AND HESSE-CASSEL.

Immediately after the battle of Hastenbeck, the French sent a detachment
of four thousand men to lay under contribution the countries of Hanover
and Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, as well as the duchies of Bremen and Verden;
and two days after the arrival of this new commander, the duke de
Chevreuse was detached with two thousand men to take possession of
Hanover itself, with the title of governor of that city. He accordingly
marched thither; and upon his arrival the Hanoverian garrison was
disarmed, and left at liberty to retire where they pleased. About the
same time M. de Con-tades, with a detachment from the French army, was
sent to make himself master of the territories of Hesse-Cassel, where
he found no opposition. He was met at Warberg by that prince's master of
the horse, who declared, that they were ready to furnish the French
army with all the succours the country could afford; and accordingly the
magistrates of Cassel presented him with the keys as soon as he entered
their city. Gottingen was ordered by M. d'Armentieres to prepare for him
within a limited time, upon pain of military execution, four thousand
pounds of white bread, two thousand bushels of oats, a greater quantity
than could be found in the whole country, an hundred loads of hay, and
other provisions.

THE FRENCH REDUCE VERDEN and BREMEN.

The duke of Cumberland remained encamped in the neighbourhood of Hoya
till the twenty-fourth of August, when, upon advice that the enemy had
laid two bridges over the Aller in the night, and had passed that river
with a large body of troops, he ordered his army to march, to secure the
important post and passage of Rothenbourg, lest they should attempt
to march round on his left. He encamped that night at Hausen, having
detached lieutenant-general Oberg, with eight battalions and six
squadrons, to Ottersberg, to which place he marched next day, and
encamped behind the Wummer, in a very strong situation, between
Ottersberg and Eothenbourg. The French took possession of Verden on
the twenty-sixth of August, and one of their detachments went on the
twenty-ninth to Bremen, where the gates were immediately opened to them.
The duke of Cumberland, now closely pressed on all sides, and in danger
of having his communication with the Stade cut off, which the enemy was
endeavouring to effect, by seizing upon all the posts round him, found
it necessary to decamp again; to abandon Eothenbourg, o