B FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. The London Gazette, January 6. Horfe Guards, January 6. Y dispatches received from general Walmoden and lieutenant-general Harcourt, dated Arnheim, Dec. 19, 1794, it appears, that on the 27th the enemy, confitting of about 16,000 men, male a fuccessful attack on the Bommel Waert, and the Fort St. Andre, from which the Dutch forces were obliged to retreat to the fines between Gorcum and Cuylenberg, which they now occupy; and that the enemy on the fame evening croffed the Waal, and took pofition at Thuil, Wetleren and Wartenberg. Admiralty-office, Jantry 7. A letter was this day received from captain New. come, of his majesty's fhip the Orpheus, to Mr. Stephens, fecretary of the admiratty, dated in Madras road, the 25th of July 1794, of which the following is an extract: On the 5th of May, captain Ofborne, of the Centurion, made the fignal for a fail, and captain Pakenham, of the Refiftance, for leeing two; Round Island bearing fouth-wett by weft, fix or feven leagues. Ilay-to till the strange fails ran down fo near to us that we could lay up for them; I then made the fignal to chace: at fortyfive minutes past eleven, I got near enough to fire a fhot at the fhip; at fifty-five miButes paft eleven I brought him to action, and by a little after twelve I got close upon his ftarboard quarter, where we kept, till five minutes past one, fo very clofe, that at times I expected to be on board; and at that time the enemy truck, the Centurion and Refistance about three miles altern, under a great prefs of fail, coming ap. She proves to be a French frigate, called La Dugnaytronin, of thirty-four guns, and formerly the Prince's Royal Eatt Indiaman, fitted out at the ifle of France, with twenty-fix eighteen-pound. ers, two nine pounders, and fix four pounders, having four hundred and three men on board. I cannot fay too much in praife of the fteady, cool, and brave conduct of the officers, feamen, and marines of his majefty's fhip Orpheus. Our lofs is very inconfiderable, considering the fuperior force of the enemy: Mr. Singleton, midshipman, killed; Mr. Staines, mate, badly wounded in his kft hand; and eight feamen flightly. The enemy's lofs was twenty-one killed and fixty wounded. I must beg leave to recommend to their lordships notice lieutenants Broughton and Goate, allo Mr. Staines, who commanded the guns in the abfence of lieutenant Hodgkin, who was unfortunately on board the Danish fhip, with one mate, one midshipman, and twenty feamen. At the time the fhip ftruck we were about two leagues from the paffage between Flat Iland and Coin au Mire, and one league from the fhore; the other fail, a small brig, made her efcape through the channel, and got fafe into Port Louis. Finding the bowfprit fhot through and through, and three of the knees of the head intirely cut away, the diftreffed state of the Dugnaytrouin, from fick ntfs and want of water, obliged me to feek the first port; and on the 16th of May, I anchored with his majesty's fhips at Mabe, one of the Sechelle lands. Finding the French had formed a fettlement, and no refreshments to be procured, I fummoned the place to furrender, and fent lieutenant Goate, with lieutenant Matthews, and a party of marines, and took poffeffion of it the next day for his Britannic majesty. Not thinking it of fufficient confequence to leave any force, I quitted the place, having taken the republican flag and all the mili tary and naval ftores, alfo the brig Le Olivere, leaving the implements of agri culture, for building houfes, &c. for the ufe of the poor inhabitants. From the very sickly state of many of the French prifoners, and almoft a certainty of their dying if embarked to proceed to Madras, I was induced, from motives of humanity, to leave behind feveral officers and men, having written to Mr. Malartie, governor of the isle of France, to request he would release the fame number of our prifoners, and of the fame rank as thofe that I had left at Mahe ; about 140 more deferted and got into the woods. The 28th, I made the Refiftance's fignal to chace, and the brought in the Deux Andres, from Melambique, loaded with 408 faves. The 1st of June, I failed with his majesty's (hips and prizes, and on the 18th anchored at Madras. A London Gazette Extraordinary, pubJifhed January 16, announced the arrival of dispatches from general Walmoden and lieutenant-general Harcourt, communicating the particulars of the military operations in Holland from Dec. 30 to Jan. 8, which are detailed in the following re- ment, which was fupported with two ports and letter: Copy of a Report from Major General David Dundas to General Count Walmoden, dated Tuyl, Dec. 31. Agreeable to orders I received on the 27th, about ten in the morning I communicated with general Wurmb, and all the troops were put in motion immediately, viz. four battalions and four squadrons of Heffans, under general Wurmb; ten British battalions, La Chatre's Emigres, Lix fquadrons British light cavalry, and 150 huffars of Rohan, divided in brigades, under major general fir. Robert Lawrie, major-general lord Cathcart, major-gene ral Gordon, and lieutenant-colonel Mac Kenzie. At Geldermalsen, lord Cathcart, with four battalions and Rohan's huffars, truck off from the British column to march upon Rumpt and Haafden, fo as to get behind Tuyl. The rest of the British column proceeded by Metteren; and exactly at day-light meeting the Hessian column near Waardenbourg, attacked the enemy in their pot of Tuyl, with fuch refolution and gallantry of the troops, that it was very foon carried, notwithstanding its natural ftrength, the abbatis that were made, the batteries of the town of Bommel, which flanked the approach, and the confiderable number of men who defended it, who were driven across the river (every where paffable on the ice) with lofs of men and cannon. I inclofe the return of the killed and wounded of the British. Return of the killed and wounded. Total. 1 field officer, 5 rank and file, killed; officer, 1 drummer, 18 rank and file, wounded; 1 ferjeant, missing. Names of the Officers killed and wounded. Brevet major Murray, 78th regiment, killed; lieutenant Lindsay, ditto; wounded. Copy of a Report fent by Major-general David Dundas, dated Buren, Jan. 6. Sir, I have hitherto been unable to acquaint you, that about two in the afternoon of the 4th, the enemy attacked our poft at Meteren, about a mile in front, where half of the 3d regiment, with a picquet of eighty cavalry, and two curricle guns, were pofted: their number and difpofition to furround the poft foon made it neceffary to fall back on the other part of the regi3. howitzers. In this movement they were hard preffed by a large body of the enemy's huffars, that gallopped along the road with great vivacity. The troops having beforehand been in an alert fituation, the village of Geldermalsen was foon covered by the 42d and 78th; the 33d took its place in the line of defence, and the other of the Linguen, the river being comtroops were in referve on the oppofite dyke pletely frozen, and paffable every where, tack, advanced on the village both in The enemy till perfevering in their atfront and in flank; but after a great deal of mufquetry firing for above an hour, nets of the troops, and retired upon were every where repulfed by the feadiMetteren, through woody and enclosed ground. Every praife is due to the infantry that and cool behaviour of the advanced comwas engaged, and by the particular firm panies of the 78th, the progrefs of the enemy's cavalry was first checked. I have the honour to enclose a lift of the killed and wounded on this occasion, and remain, fir, &c. (Signed) DAVID DUNDAS. Lieutenant-general Harcourt, Total of the killed, wounded, and missing. of the troops under the command of major general Dundas, at Geldermalfen, the 5th of January 1795 neral officer, z captains, fubaltern, 54 3 rank and file, 1 horse, killed; 1 gerank and file, horfe, wounded; r ferjeant, 6 rank and file, 9 horfes, miffing. Officers wounded. Major-general fir R. Lawrie. 33d foot. Captain W. Elliot.. 42d foot. Lieutenant Colin Lamont, 78th foot. Captain Duncan Munro, Extract of a Letter from the Honourable Lieutenant General Harcourt, to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, dated Head-quarters, Doorn, Jan. 10. I lofe no time in acquainting your royal highness that the enemy this day, having crolled the Waal in confiderable force, attacked our line at feveral points of it: one column passed at Pannerden, and was immediately repulfed; another paffed near Gent, and, after maintaining itself for a fhort time, was likewife checked; a third paffed near Nimeguen, and, in conjunction with two or three columns who croffed between Thiel and Fedewaart, attacked the whole of our line on that fide. They forced the Auftrians to abandon Heusden, and retreat across the Leck, and obliged the Hanoverians, with general Coats' brigade, and fome Auftrians, to fall back upon Lent, which upon the arrival, they found occupied by the enemy, and, in confequence, retreated across the Lingen, where they maintained their ground behind that river near Elft; which position they ftill occupied at the clofe of the day. Lieutenant-general Abercromby, who was marching upon Echield to diflodge the enemy from that pott, upon their making thefe attacks upon his left and rear, immediately halted, and finding both the Hanoverians and Auftrians forced on the flanks and rear, retreated across the Leck, and now occupies the heights near Rhenen. I have the honour to inclofe the reports which I have received from generals David Dundas and lord Cathcart, of the affair on the 8th, together with the return of the killed and wounded. Sir, I have the honour to acquaint you that, in confequence of a direction from lieutenant-general Abercromby; and as a part of the general intended forward movement indicated to me, I ordered the 27th and 4th regiments to march from Aulenberg early in the morning of the 8th, and endeavour to repoflefs Thiel, which was then in the hands of the enemy. On the arrival of these two regiments at Bueren, lieutenant-colonel Buller found all our advanced posts fallen back, and the enemy in a confiderable body marching on to Bueren. He immediately took poffelfion of the town and cattle, and waited the arrival of the head of the troops under my command, who had repaffed the Rhine, and were on their march to arrive at the rendezvous of Bueren. Our out pots, which were on the road to Geldermalfen, were neceffarily fupported, and majorgeneral lord Cathcart, with the 14th, 27th, and 28th regiments, after an attack of feveral hours, drove the enemy opposed to him (800 infantry, two squadrons, and a piece of cannon) beyond the village of Geldermalfen, and there took the piece of cannon. For the particulars I beg leave 10 refer to lord Cathcart's report, to whofe able conduct, and to the steadiness and gallantry of the troops, fo confpicuous on this occafion, we are much indebted. Our lofs has been confiderable, a lift of which I inclofe. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) D. DUNDAS, M. Gen. The hon. lieutenant-gen. Harcourt, &c. SIR, Bueren, Jan. 9.. On receiving your commands to reconnoitre the enemy, by whom the picquets toward Geldernalfen had been driven in, and to replace a post opposite to that place, I took a detachment of thirty hulans, with the light companies, and a detachment of the 27th regiment, and advanced on the dyke: the hulans charged the advanced guard of the enemy, and purfued them to Buremalfen, where they killed some men, and from whence they allo brought back prifoners, under cover of the infantry which flanked the road. Finding that the enemy at that time near me did not amount to more than 800 men, with fome huffars, and one piece of cannon, I determined immediately to dislodge him, and accordingly brought up the remainder of the 27th regiment, the 14th regiment, and two field pieces. The 14th regiment formed on the ice on the left of the dyke, and the 27th across the inclofures on the right, fupported by the picquets, by the detachment of hulans, and afterward by a fquadron of light dragoons. The field pieces were on the dyke, and were with great gallantry and judgment protected from the enemy's tirailleurs by lieutenant Elrington of the 14th, who advanced before them with the grenadiers of that regiment. The troops marched in this order as expeditiously as poffible, driving the enemy before them. By the time they arrived at Buremalfen the enemy had paffed the river, and were collected at Eldermalfeu, from whence they kept an inceflant fire of mufquetry and grape fhot. The British line advanced without arty halt, and the 27th regiment, gradually changing its direction to the left, as it approached the mill, at once charged the village across the ice beyond the burned bridge, and feized the cannon, while the 14th regiment entered it on the right. The enemy retired with great precipita tion, but foon returned in much greater numbers, and, notwitlutanding the fire of the field pieces from the oppofite thore, made repeated attacks upon the village an which the regiments were pofted. The fteady countenance of the troops in the village, however, reduced there attacks to a diftant firing. The gun taken, which was a very fine long brafs eight pounder, French, was funk in the river by the ice breaking under it. On the arrival of the 28th, that regiment immediately formed on each fide of the windmill, with their field pieces, and the regiments in the village were ordered to repafs the Lingen,' and form behind the dyke; this movement was executed with the greatest regularity, and they paffed through the interval of the 28th in good order, and without Leaving a man, though followed to the end of the bridge by great numbers. The 18th could not be placed so as to cover this paffage effectually, without being Wounded. Lieutenant-colonels Buller, (fince dead) Gillman, 27th regiment; lieutenant-co lonel Hope, 14th ditto; brigalier major Wilfon, 27th ditto; lieutenant Raitt, 42d · ditto. Sunday, January 18. expofed to a heavy fire, which they pre- The London Gazette Extraordinary, fented themselves to, and returned in the molt foldier-like manner. Their fire, and that of their guns, again cleared the village, and about fun fet all firing ceafed, and the brigade remained in the pofition until eleven o'clock, when I received our orders to march. Thefe regiments have all been diftinguifhed for their gallant fervices, one of them on very recent occafions; but I imagine they never can have shown more cheerfulness, more difcipline, or better behaviour, than on this affair. I am forry to add, our lofs has been confidcráble.-No officer flightly wounded quitted' his poft; but I join with every officer and foldier in lamenting the fevere wounds which lieutenant-colonel Buller and lieutenant-colonel Alexander Hope have received. I am particularly indebted to thefe officers, as well as to colonels Gillman and Paget, for the manner in which the directions given to them were execus ted; and I have to acknowledge the most active affittance given to me by my aid de-camp, captain Kirkman, and the o ther officers attached to me. I add a return of the killed, wounded, and miffing, and have the honour to be, with the greatest refpect, &c. (Signed) Horfe Guards, Jan. 18, 1795. By a letter from lieutenant-general Harcourt, to his royal highnefs the duke of York, dated head quarters, Doorn, January 13, which has been communicated by his royal highnefs to Mr. fecretary Dundas, it appears, that a thaw had fet in on the Sunday preceding; and fo late as Monday evening afforded reasonable grounds to hope, that in a few hours the paffage of the Rhine would become fufficiently difficult to enable the army to maintain its pofition; but that unfortunately the froft had again returned with great feverity, and that preparations were making in confequence for putting the army in motion, with a view of croffing the Yffel. The London Gazette Extraordinary. Hotfe Guards, Jan; 19. DISPATCHES, of which the following is an extract and copy, have been received from general count Walmoden and lieu tenant general Harcourt, by his royal highness the duke of York, and tranfmitted by his royal highness to the right hon CATHCART, M. G., Henry Dandas, one of his majetty's principal fecretaries of state. To major gen. D. Dundas. Total of killed, wounded, and miffing, of the troops under the command of major general lord Cathcart, on the 8th of January lieutenants, 1 enfign, 11 rank and file, killed; 3 lieutenant-colonels, major, 1 captain, lieutenant, 3 ferjeants, 111 rank and file, wounded; 7 rank and file, mifling 3 hores killed. GEO. DON, Dep. Adj. Gen. Names of officers killed and wounded. Killed. Lieutenant O'Connor, and lieutenant Norbury, and enfign Kelly, 27th regiment** Extract of a letter from general Walmoden to his royal highnefs the duke of York, dated Voorthuifen, Jan.. 16. Since my last dispatch the enemy have made feveral movements, indicating a de: fign of a general attack on our poffs, ren-a dered more eafy by the unfortunate lofs of Heusden. On the 14th inftant, they attacked all the points of our line, from Arnheim to Amerongen. The most ferious attempt appears to have been directed against Rhenen, on which the advanced poits had fal len back from the other fide of the river." Thefe pofts were, however, immediately recovered and proferved by the brave and fpirited conduct of the British guards, and K of Salm's infantry; of the former, in particular, I cannot exprefs myfelf in terms of fufficient commendation; each of thefe corps had two officers flightly wounded, The intentions of the enemy againit our pofition between Cuylenberg and Rhenen being now manifeft, the right wing of the army effected its retreat on the night of the 14th to Amersfort and its environs; the remainder of our position, including the Grep, is ftill occupied by general Hammertein, who will remain there till tomorrow, or the day after if poffible. This day we shall march to Appeldoren, where the army will reft one day, and on the following we fhall crofs the Yffel. SIR, Head-quarters, Voorthuifen, I have the honour to inform your royal highness, that on the 14th the enemy attacked all our out-posts between the Leck and the Waal in force. They were, however, repulfed on every point, efpecially by the picquets oppofite Rhenen, upon which they advanced in very fuperior numbers. The conduct of the guards and other corps, whole picquets were engaged, was as fteady as it was fpirited and I am happy to add their lofs was trifling. Colonel Leflie and captain Wheatly were lightly wounded, and about 20 men wounded and miffing; none killed. The pofts of Eck and Maurik, in front of Amerongen, were afterward drawn in, but without lofs. The enemy likewife inade a flight attack toward Arnheim, but without further effect than obliging the post of Elden to fall back nearer the river. In confequence of the arrangements which were taken, the army began their march on the night of the 14th, and have continued it without the leaft interruption from the enemy. We have fucceeded in getting off the fick, all but about 300, whofe cafes will not admit of removal, and with whom I have left proper officers and attendants, with recommendatory letters to the Frenchi general, and a fufficient fum of money to ed officers have all been got off, and, I' fupply their wants at prefent. The woundtruft, a very fmall proportion of stores and ammunition will be left. I have the honour to be, with the greateft refpect, &c. WM. HARCOURT. P. S. As the meffenger goes through Holland, and I do not know how far he may do it with fafety, in a public character, I have judged it neceffary that he fhould take only fuch letters as he can put in his pocket, and have therefore deferred fending the army letters. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. JANUARY 1. Efterday, at 12 o'clock, the powdermills at Dartford, blew up, belonging to meff. Payne and Andrews. The explofion fhook most of the houses in that town. JANUARY 6. This day, the letters by the Sugar Cane were received at the India Houfe. This fhip left Madras, July 27, and brings the following advices: captain Doveton, with the two hoftage princes, fet of from Ma dras, on the 27th of February, and arrived in Tippoo's camp at Devanelle, on the 29th of March, with a falute of 21 guns. The next day he had an audience with Tippoo, who made ufe of the strongest expreffions of friendship for the English government; and while captain Doveton remained in his camp, he received every ,mark of attention and refpect; and when he left Devanelle, a perfon of very high confequence accompanied him back to Madras. Captain Doveton has given the follow, ing account of the reception of the young pinces by their father; on their arrival at the camp, with their numerous fuite, accompanied by captain Doveton, they proceeded on their vifit to the fultan, who received them in a very fuperb pavilion, inclofed within a wall of a very extraordinary extent. He was feated at one extremity, and on each fide, at fuitable diftances, were placed, according to their feveral ranks, about forty or fifty of his principal attendants. * | On their entrance into the pavilion, the young princes fprung forward to the throne where their royal father fat, and proftrated themselves before it. And here the etiquette of Afiatic courts put nature completely to flight; for the father, instead of advancing to embrace his darling children, contented himself with coldly plac ing a hand on the neck of each; and on the inftant the princes arofe, and respect. fully retired. It is a remarkable fact, that not a syllable was exchanged at this extraordinary interview. Captain Doveton was next prefented, and placed on the right hand of the fove reign, who converfed with him on Euro |