HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
to another ; at the same time calling 
on Kellerman to form a junction, 
and to co-operate with him in carry- 
ing the war into Germany. He 
was now in possession of Mayence, 
which he was strongly fortifying, 
and in which he possessed a key to 
the Rhine and the mouth of the 
Maine. Elated with the idea of 
having it in his power to enter the 
states of the empire by this pass, 
he acquainted the minister of war 
that he had made all his conquests 
with 16,000 men ; that it required 
only an army of 45,000 men to re- 
volutionize all Germany; and that, 
with the force under General Kell- 
erman, added to his own, not an 
Austrian should be seen on the left 
bank of the Rhine, and not a Ger- 
man on the right. 
It was the evident object of Cus- 
tine to have prevented the Hessians 
from rendezvousing at Coblentz ; 
whither also the Prussians had di- 
rected their march. The plans of 
the enemy, on the other hand, were 
to oblige the French General to 
abandon Frankfort, and to shut 
himself up in Mavence, where he 
could be blockaded for the winter, 
and be eventually obliged to sur- 
render. The Prussian army, by a 
movement from Coblentz, occupied 
the right and left banks of the Lhan, 
from Nassau to Wetzlaar. Custine 
determined to attack them in their 
position before they could form an 
idea of his intentions. By some 
means the Prussians were apprized 
of his march, and prepared for him; 
but such was the impetuosity of the 
French, that they forced the Hes- 
sians beyond Marbourg, and drove 
the Prussians from all their posts on 
the Lhan, This action happened 
on the 9th of November; and was 
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attended with little loss to the 
French, the Prussians, it is said, 
having fired too high. 
On the 12th of October Generaf 
Dumouriez arrived in Paris, to con- 
sult on the future operations of the 
war. This General, in an address 
to the Assembly some time before, 
had declared that he would estab- 
lish that winter his head-quarters. 
at Brussels; and as the Prussians 
were by this time almost entirely 
out of the French territory, follow-~ 
ed by Kellerman with an army of 
40,000 men, the opportunity now 
presented itself of putting his. in- 
tentions into execution. 
This plan of the invasion of Bel- 
gium had been fcr some time a fa- 
vourite idea of Dumouriez’s, though 
not approved by the Executive 
Council, nor by the Committee of 
War; but the last successes of Du- 
mouriez, and the great influence 
that he acquired by them, were ir- 
resistible powers, and carried his: 
plans into execution. 
The executive power and lead-- 
ing members of the Convention, 
had formed a design of attacking 
and revolutionizing Spain. For 
this purpose, Condorcet had writ- 
ten a pamphlet, entitled “* An Ad- 
dress to the’ people of Madrid.” 
They sent, by an express, an order. 
to General Miranda, recalling hing 
to Paris. This General quitted 
Valenciennes for this purpose, at 
the moment that the French army 
was marching towards Mons. On 
his arrival in Paris, he was inform- 
ed that an army was collected to- 
wards the frontiers of Catalonia, for: 
the purpose of introducing liberty 
into Spain; and that he was ap-- 
pointed to the chief command, & 
council was calldd, in which the 
Cat Generat 
