ted and taken; while
the duke himself, with the rest of his forces, filed off on the other
side of the Fulda. Two pieces of cannon, two pair of colours, and all
their baggage, fell into the hands of the victors; and the hereditary
prince advanced as far as Rupertenrade, a place situated on the right
flank of the French army. Perhaps this motion hastened the resolution
of the duke de Broglio to abandon Giessen, and fall back to Friedberg,
where he established his head-quarters. The allied army immediately took
possession of his camp at Kleinlinnes and Heuchelam, and seemed to make
preparations for the siege of Giessen.

A BODY OF PRUSSIANS MAKE AN INCURSION INTO POLAND.

While both armies remained in this position, the duke de Broglio
received the staff as mareschal of France, and made an attempt to beat
up the quarters of the allies. Having called in all his detachments, he
marched up to them on the twenty-fifth day of December; but found them
so well disposed to give him a warm reception, that he thought proper to
lay aside his design, and nothing but a mutual cannonade ensued; then
he returned to his former quarters. From. Kleinlinnes the allied army
removed to Corsdoff, where they were cantoned till the beginning of
January, when they fell back as far as Marburg, where prince Ferdinand
established his head-quarters. The enemy had by this time retrieved
their superiority, in consequence of the hereditary prince being
detached with fifteen thousand men to join the king of Prussia at
Fribourge, in Saxony. Thus, by the victory at Minden, the dominions of
Hanover and Brunswick were preserved, and the enemy obliged to evacuate
that part of Westphalia. Perhaps they might have been driven to the
other side of the Ehine, had not the general of the allies been obliged
to weaken his army for the support of the Prussian monarch, who had met
with divers disasters in the course of this campaign. It was not to any
relaxation or abatement of his usual vigilance and activity, that this
warlike prince owed the several checks he received. Even in the middle
of winter, his troops under general Manteuffel acted with great spirit
against the Swedes in Pomerania. They made themselves masters of
Damgarten, and several other places which the Swedes had garrisoned; and
the frost setting in, those who were quartered in the isle of Useclom
passed over the ice to Wolgast, which they reduced without much
difficulty. They undertook the sieg