iSoo. Letter from Germany in the year i']42' 399 



to the conductors of the farmer's magazine. 



Gentlemen, 



Though the greateft part of the folio whig letter, from a 

 fervant of the Earl of Stair, written a fhort time after the 

 battle of Dettingen, to his friend in Ayrfhire, may appear ra- 

 ther incongruous with the general defign of your publication j 

 yet, as it was written by a farmer's fon to a farmer, and 

 contains fome information relative to the flate of huibandry 

 in Germany, I hope it will procure a place in your next 

 Number. I am, 



Your's, &c. 



N. . 



HanaUj July '20. N. S. 1 743. . 

 Dear Sir, 



I HAD the favour of your letter of the 5th April, a few days 

 before the battle of Dettingen. I thought to have written to 

 you by the meflenger that carried the news to England ; but 

 I had neither time nor conveniency till it was too late. As 

 you will have, long before this time, got the true relation of 

 that affair in the newfpapers, I fliall not take up your time 

 w'ith any accounts of it, farther than adding the abftracl of 

 the whole killed and wounded on our fide, which, I believe, 

 you will fcarce have got till this comes to hand. 



Britifh men, killed and wounded, 821 Horfes, 482 



Hanoverians, ditto, - - 553 -- 71 



Auftrians, _ _ _ 9-7-7 _ _ ^o 



2351 603 



The day after the battle, we marched to this place, where 

 jve continue. It belongs to the Prince of Hefie, and lies on 

 the river Mayne. The army is encamped between this and 

 Frankfort. The French encamped for a fortnight on the other 

 fide of the river. About a week ago, they marched oiF, and 

 left us this part of the country to ourfelves. We hear, they 

 have crofTed the Rhine at Worms. The Marflial Broglio 

 has likewife left Bavaria with his army, and is crofling the 

 Rhine about the fame place : fome fay, they are going back 

 to their own frontiers. ' Pdnce Charles is following Broglio 

 at the heels with his army ; and, if your old mafter had 



L 1 3 ' got 



