Downing Street, May 19. 1800.

DISPATCHES, of which the following are Copies, have been this Day received from William Wickham, Efq; His Majefty's Minifter Plenipotentiary and Commiffary at the Imperial Royal and Allied Armies, by the Right Honorable Lord Grenville, His Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

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Riedlingen, on the Danube, Tuesday MY LORD, 6th May 1800. HE Army marched from Donaueschingen the 2d Inftant, and arrived at Engen in the Courfe of the Afternoon, before the Enemy had reached that Place. Notwithstanding the great Importance which was attached to the gaining the Pofition of Stockach, yet it was not thought poffible to proceed fo far that Day without expofing to imminent Danger the feveral Corps of the Archduke Ferdinand (which covered the March on the Side of Zollhaus,) and thofe of Generals Ginlay and Kienmayer which had received Orders to retire from Fribourg and Of fenbourg, and join the Main Army.

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On the fame Day the Enemy withdrew the Army which had till then occupied the North-Eaft Part of Switzerland, and was oppofed to the Auftrians on the Side of the Grifons and the Voralberg, and brought the Whole of it towards Conftance and Schaffhaufen in the Course of the following Night, leaving the Eastern Frontier of Switzerland entirely

open.

On the 3d in the Morning, this Force, united to that which had paffed the Rhine at Schaffhaufen on the ft Initant, attacked and carried the Austrian Pofition at Stockach, occupied by Prince Jofeph of Lorraine with a Force under his Command quite inadequate to meet that which the Enemy had brought against him. On this Occafion the Auftrians fuftained a very confiderable Lofs both in Men, Cannon, and Stores; though fortunately a Part of the Magazines which had been formed at Stockach had been carried away in the Course of the Two preceding Days.

The Prince having been obliged to fall back on Pfullendorf and Möfkirch, the left Flank of General Kray's Army was uncovered.

In this Situation of Things, and before the Archduke Ferdinand had effected his Junction, General Kray was attacked at Engen about Two o'Clock in the Afternoon by the Main French Army, commanded by General Moreau in Perfon. This Army had been reinforced by a Detachment from the Camp at Dijon, and confifted of Five entire Divifions. feparate Force fell at the fame Time upon the Archduke, and obliged him to fall back on Dut lingen.

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The French attacked every where with the utmost Impetuofity, bringing up fresh Columns in Succeffion, and facrificing immenfe Numbers of Men on every Part of the Auftrian Line where they had hoped to penetrate. They were, however, unable to

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make any Impreffion on any one Point, and at Nine in the Evening they gave up the Attempt; at which

Time the Auftrians remained Mafters of the whole Pofition which they had occupied in the Morning, and the Archduke had joined the Main Army, after having defeated the Corps opposed to him, and taken feveral Prifoners and Three Pieces of Cannon.

His Royal Highnefs, to whofe perfonal Exertions this Succefs was chiefly owing, has on this Occafion merited and gained the Efteem and Admiration of the whole Army.

At this Moment the Spirit and Confidence of the Army was fuch, that General Kray would in his Turn have attacked the Enemy, but for the Lofs of Stockach, which rendered his Retreat abfolutely neceffary. He remained, however, in the Field of Battle all Night, and only began his March at Daybreak.

The Army arrived at Leiptingen at Nine in the Morning of the 4th, where it halted till Three in the Afternoon, and then marched forward to Möfkirch, where a Junction was effected with Prince Jofeph of Lorraine at Nine in the Evening.

The Archduke covered the March, in the Course of which His Royal Highnefs was joined by General Ginlay with the Corps from Fribourg, and by the First Divifion of the Bavarian Subfidiary Army from Baylingen

The whole of this March was made, and the Junction with General Ginlay, Prince Jofeph of Lorrain, and the Bavarians, effected without any material Interruption from the Enemy.

In the Afternoon of Yesterday the different Corps of the Enemy being concentrated in One great Army, whilft General Kray had ftill between Thirty and Forty Thousand Men detached on different Points, General Moreau attacked the Auftrian Pofition at Möfkirch with his whole Force, but owing

to the fteady Bravery of the Auftrian Troops, and particularly to the decided Superiority of their Artillery, he was unable to make any material Impreffion, and at Sun-fet cach Army retired to its refpective Quarters. The Lofs was very confiderable on both Sides: but there is every Keafon to believe that the Enemy has fuffered much more confiderably than the Auftrians. This Opinion, which is confirmed by the unanimous Report of the Prifoners made at the Clofe of the Day, is founded not only on the Circumftance of his not renewing his Attack in the Night or this Morning, notwithftanding his very great Superiority of Numbers, but on the Nature of the Action itself, which consisted in a Succeffion of impetuous but unfuccefsful Attacks made by the French Infantry under the Fire of the Auftrian Artillery, and expofed to frequent Charges of Cavalry.

Unlefs General Kray fhould be again attacked in the Course of to-day, he will, probably, take a Pofition this Afternoon or To-morrow behind the Danube, his Left at this Place, and his Right at Sigmaringen.

Your Lordship will probably have been much alarmed at the firft Reports of this Affair that will have reached England through France, nor indeed can it be fuppofed that the Expectation of the Enemy fhould not have been extreme during the whole Day of the 3d, or that the French Officers -fhould not have holden out to their Government the moft flattering Hopes of ultimate and complete Succefs; but the steady Valour of the Auftrian Troops, the Order that reigns through every Department of the Army, and the Skill and unshaken Courage and Coolness of the Generals has, I truft, under the Bleffing of God, fruftrated the great Designs of the Enemy.

I have the Honor to be, &c.
W. WICKHAM.

MY LORD,

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Ulm, May 8, 18:0.

N the 6th Inftant the Auftrians took a Pofition behind the Danube without any material Oppofition from the Enemy, whofe Lofs in the Battle of the 5th appears to have been greater than was at firft fuppofed. On the fame Day the Junction was effected with Lieutenant-General Kienmayer.

The fecond Divifion of the Bavarians paffed through this Place Yesterday, and marched about a League further, where they will halt to Day, and their Junction with General Kray will be effected either To-morrow or the Day after, according to the Neceffity that may exift for haftening their March.

The firft Divifion confifting of Six Thousand Men had joined the Main Army in Time to render very effential Services, and was clofely engaged with the Enemy in the Battle of the 5th."

The Swifs Regiment of Roverea in His Majefty's Service, under the Command of Colonel de Watteville, has formed a Part of the Archduke's Corps from the Beginning, and has been particularly diftinguished by its Bravery and good Conduct; I am forry to add, that it has fuffered in Proportion, and that a Number of excellent Officers have been either killed or feverely wounded.

It is impoffible at prefent to obtain any exact Return of the Auftrians' Lofs in Killed and Wounded.

Though the General Officers expofed themselves on every Occafion, yet I believe not one of them has been killed or made Prifoner, and one only (Major-General Karaizai) wounded.

Few Prifoners have been made on either Side; but the Auftrians were obliged to leave.fome of their wounded at Engen, for want of Carriages to carry them away.

No One Corps of the Auftrians has been broken or difperfed by the Enemy, nor have they loft a