carried one of the Enemy's Batteries. Field-Marfhal Lieutenant Klenau mentions his having paffed the Danube, pufhed on as far as Arbach, made feveral Prifoners, and invefted Straubing and Ratifbon. Major-General Mufery took at Landfhut a Company of French Grenadiers and Three Officers. Our Lofs in Wounded is not inconfiderable. I fhall fend a detailed Account of it, as well as of the whole Affair, as foon as Circumftances enable me to do fo. BULLETIN FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF DECEMBER 20th,. 1800. No. XXIII. D Downing-Street, December 20, 1800. ISPATCHES, of which the following are Extract and Copies, have been received from William Wickham, Efq; by the Right Honorable Lord Grenville, His Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for the Foreign Department. Extract of a Letter from William Wickham, Efq; to the Right Honorable Lord Grenville, dated HeadQuarters, Amfing, 30th November 1800. N the 28th, after I had written my Dispatch O from Eggenfenden, the Head-Quarters were removed to Maffing on the Rodt. The Head-Quarters were laft Night at Neumark, and arrived here this Day about Twelve o'clock; the Roads being ftill in a moft dreadful State, a great Part of the Army is ftill behind. On the Archduke's Arrival here, he found the Enemy in Force on the Heights immediately in Front of the Town. The Tête de Pont of Wafferbourg was attacked Yesterday, and the Enemy repulfed with fome Lofs, after having entered the Abbatis in Front of the Work. MY LORD. Head-Quarters, Haag, 2d I HAVE the Honor to fend your Lordship the enclofed Copy of a Report I have this Day received from His Serene Highness the Prince of Condé, containing an Account of the Attack which the Enemy made Yefterday on a Part of His Serene Highnefs's Corps, commanded by the Duke of Enghien, in Front of Rofenheim. I have the Honor to be, &c. WILLIAM WICKHAM. The Right Honorable Lord Grenville, &c. &c. &c. Account of the Adion at Rofenheim, on the ft of December 1800. UR Advanced Posts, on the Left Side of the Right had been abfolutely uncovered for Three Days paft, and the Enemy was already on the Banks on that Side of the River; the Advanced Pofts, commanded by the Duke d'Enghien, were engaged upwards of Four Hours, difputing the Ground Inch by Inch; the whole Corps was not affembled on the Right Side of the Inn before Five o'Clock. A pretty ftrong Column of the Enemy having marched out of the Town, it was allowed to advance till within the proper Distance, when the Prince of Condé ordered all the Batteries to fire upon it at once; this Fire, well directed and well fuftained, compelled the Column to retreat into the Town immediately. Lieutenant-Colonel de Sartige, of the Engineers, protected by the Fire of the Artillery, broke down the Bridge, but in fuch a Manner as that it could promptly be re-established, if, as it is hoped, it fhould be neceffary. Our Lofs is very fmall; that of the Enemy muft have been more confiderable. Anu Artillery Man was was wounded by the Side of the Duke d'Angoulême. No Officers are known as yet to have been wounded, except Mr. De Vaffé, Adjutant to the Duke d'Angoulême, and the Engineer de Caftre. ΤΗ Head Quarters, Haag, 2d MY LORD, 'HE March of General Kienmayer towards the Ifer, and the Direction which the whole Army had first taken towards Landshut, having drawn a confiderable Part of General Moreau's Force towards Aerding, the Heights between Ampfing and Haag had been occupied by one fingle Divifion under General Ney. In the Courfe of laft Night, however, General Moreau had reinforced his Pofition with Two more Divitions, and had taken the Command of the Whole himself. Yesterday at Day-break the Heights were attacked. After an obftinate Refiftance on the Part of the Enemy, they were carried in Succeffion as far as the Hill on the Side of Ramfau, where the Troops were obliged to halt, from exceffive Fatigue, about Six in the Evening. In the Night General Moreau abandoned this Place, and retired to his old Pofition at Hohenlenden and Aerding. The whole Ground from Ampfing to Ramfau was particularly favorable to the Enemy, and confifted in Heights covered with Thick Woods, and interfected by deep marthy Vallies, where the Auftrian Cavalry could not poffibly act, The Auftrians took Eight Hundred Prifoners and Two Pieces of Cannon-the Cannon were taken with Four others, by the Huffars of Vecfey, who diftinguished themselves very much during the whole of the Affair, throwing themselves into the Woods in Places where it was thought impoffible for Ca valry L valry to have penetrated. The other Four Pieces of Cannon were retaken by a Charge of the Enemy's Grenadiers, there not having been Time to fend a fufficient Force to fupport the Huffars. The Lofs of the Auftrians is computed to be near Fifteen Hundred Men in killed, wounded, and Prifoners. General Moreau is said by the Prifoners to have received a Musket Ball through his Cloak." The Archduke was on Horfeback Twelve Hours, and flept in a Hovel on the Heights. I have the Honor to be, &c. Right Honorable Lord Grenville. W. WICKHAM. 1800. |