ns and penalties.

RETREAT OF PRINCE FERDINAND.

While great part of the allied army remained in cantonments about
Munster, the French armies on the Upper and Lower Rhine, being put in
motion, joined on the third day of June near Marburgh, under the command
of the mareschal de Contades, who advanced to the northward, and fixed
his head-quarters at Corbach, from whence he detached a body of light
troops to take possession of Cassel, which, at his approach, was
abandoned by general Imhoff. The French army being encamped at
Stadtberg, the duke de Broglio, who commanded the right wing, advanced
from Cassel into the territories of Hanover, where he occupied
Gottin-gen without opposition; while the allied army assembled in the
neighbourhood of Lipstadt, and encamped about Soest and Werle. Prince
Ferdinand, finding himself inferior to the united forces of the enemy,
was obliged to retire as they advanced, after having left strong
garrisons in Lipstadt, Retberg, Munster, and Minden. These precautions,
however, seemed to produce little effect in his favour. Retberg was
surprised by the duke de Broglio, who likewise took Minden by assault,
and made general Zastrow, with his garrison of fifteen hundred men,
prisoners of war, a misfortune considerably aggravated by the loss of
an immense magazine of hay and corn, which fell into the hands of
the enemy. They likewise made themselves masters of Munster, invested
Lipstadt, and all their operations were hitherto crowned with success.
The regency of Hanover, alarmed at their progress, resolved to provide
for the worst, by sending their chancery and most valuable effects to
Stade, from whence, in case of necessity, they might be conveyed by sea
to England.

In the meantime they exerted all their industry in pressing men for
recruiting and reinforcing the army under prince Ferdinand, who still
continued to retire; and on the eleventh day of July removed his
headquarters from Osnabruck to Bompte, near the Weser. Here having
received advice that Minden was taken by the French, he sent forward a
detachment to secure the post of Soltznau on that river, where on the
fifteenth he encamped.

ANIMOSITY BETWEEN PRINCE FERDINAND AND THE BRITISH COMMANDER.

The general of the allied army had for some time exhibited marks of
animosity towards lord George Sackville, the second in command, whose
extensive understanding, penetrating eye, and inquisitive spirit, could
neither be deceive