agen, advanced to check their progress.
He came up with their rear in the neighbourhood of Munden, and attacked
them in passing the river Orck with such vigour, that Forsen, with some
of his cavalry, was taken, and Bulow obliged to abandon some pieces of
cannon. The action was just determined, when this last was reinforced by
the hereditary prince of Brunswick, who had made a forced march of five
German miles, which had fatigued the troops to such a degree, that
he deferred his attack till next morning; but, in the meantime, M.
de Stainville retired towards Franckenberg. The Hanoverian general
Wangenheim, at the head of four battalions and six squadrons, had driven
the enemy from the defiles of Soheite, and encamped at Lawenthagen; but,
being attacked by a superior number, he was obliged in his turn to give
way, and his retreat was not effected without the loss of two hundred
men, and some pieces of artillery. When the enemy retired, general
Wangenheim repassed the Weser, and occupied his former situation at
Ussar. Meanwhile, general Luckner gained an advantage over a detachment
of French cavalry near Norten. Prince Ferdinand, when mareschal Broglio
quitted his camp at Immenhausen, made a motion of his troops, and
established his head-quarters at Geismer-wells, the residence of the
landgrave of Hesse-Cassel; from thence, however, he transferred them,
about the latter end of September, to Ovilgune, on the Westphalian side
of the Dymel.

THE HEREDITARY PRINCE MARCHES TO THE LOWER RHINE.

Such was the position of the two opposite grand armies, when the
world was surprised by an expedition to the Lower Rhine, made by the
hereditary prince of Brunswick. Whether this excursion was intended
to hinder the French from reinforcing their army in Westphalia--or to
co-operate in the Low Countries with the armament now ready equipped
in the ports of England; or to gratify the ambition of a young prince,
overboiling with courage and glowing with the desire of conquest--we
cannot explain to the satisfaction of the reader; certain it is, that
the Austrian Netherlands were at this juncture entirely destitute of
troops, except the French garrisons of Ostend and Nieuport, which were
weak and inconsiderable. Had ten thousand English troops been landed on
the coast of Blankenburg, they might have taken possession of Bruges,
Ghent, Brussels, and Antwerp, without resistance, and joined the
hereditary prince in the heart of the country;