ctive until
he could have the benefit of green forage in his march. The same
inconveniences operated more powerfully on the side of prince Ferdinand,
who, being in an exhausted country, was obliged to fall back as far as
Paderborn, and draw his supplies from Hamburg and Bremen on the Elbe
and the Weser. By this time, however, he had received a reinforcement
of British troops from Embden, under the direction of major-general
Griffin; and before the end of the campaign, the forces of that nation
in Germany were augmented to five-and-twenty thousand; a greater number
than had served at one time upon the continent for two centuries. The
allied army marched from their cantonments on the fifth day of May, and
proceeded by the way of Paderborn to Fritzlar, where, on the twentieth,
they encamped: but part of the troops left in the bishopric of Munster,
under general Sporcken, were ordered to form a camp at Dulmen, to make
head against the French corps commanded by the count de St. Germain.

EXPLOIT OF COLONEL LUCKNER.

General Imhoff was sent with a detachment to Kirchaven on the Orme:
and general Gilsoe, with another corps, advanced to the neighbourhood
of Hirchfeldt on the Fulda. The former of these having ordered colonel
Luckner to scour the country with a body of hussars, that officer, on
the twenty-fourth of May, fell in with a French patrole, which gave the
alarm at Butzbach; when the garrison of that place, amounting to five
hundred piquets, under general Waldemar, fled with great precipitation.
Being, however, pursued, and overtaken near a wood, they were routed
and dispersed. Colonel Luckner, entering Butzbach, found a considerable
quantity of forage, flour, wine, and equipage, belonging to the
fugitives. What he could not carry off he distributed among the poor
inhabitants, and returned to general Imhoff's camp at Ameneberg, with
about an hundred prisoners. This excursion alarmed the enemy to such a
degree, that their whole army was put in motion; and the duke de Broglio
in person advanced with a large body of troops as far as Friedberg:
but undemanding the allies had not quitted their camp at Fritzlar, he
returned to Franckfort, after having cantoned that part of his army in
the Wetteraw. This alarm was not so mortifying as the secession of the
Wirtemberg troops, amounting to ten thousand men, commanded by their
duke in person, who left the French army in disgust, and returned to his
own country. The imperial