118] ANNUAL REGISTER, | 1792. 
On hearing the cannonade at 
Anderlicht, and receiving an ex- 
ress from Dumouriez, Miranda 
immediately moved on to sup- 
port the advanced guard; and he 
would doubtless 
Brussels as soon as Dumouriez, 
had he not. been prevented by 
subsequent orders from that Gene- 
ral, ‘The merit of General Miran- 
da had been in many instances con- 
spicuous ; and his bravery and ser- 
vices are on this occasion very 
handsomely and justly acknow- 
ledged by General Dumouriez to 
the minister at war. 
An army under the command of 
General Valence, from the district 
of Maubeuge, was penetrating by 
the Sambre towards Namur. In his 
march he occupied the town of 
Charleroy, belonging to the Aus- 
trians, where the people planted the 
tree of liberty; and where it was 
reported that the inhabitants of 
Namur anxiously expected his arri- 
val. It is a curious and an extraor- 
dinary fact, that notwithstand- 
ing the French were everywhere 
throughout the Belgic provinces 
received with acclamation and eve- 
ry demonstration of joy, the inha- 
bitants were nevertheless extreme- 
ly sparing of their supplies to the 
army. Of this circumstance Du- 
mouriez very pointedly complains, 
in his letter to the war-minister, 
and informs him that his men had 
not tasted food for thirty-six hours. 
General Labourdonnaye now de- 
tached his advanced guard, by the 
have been at. 
route of Sermonde, towards Ante 
werp, and some battalions to take 
the towns of Bruges. and Ostend. 
The expedition to maritime Flan- 
ders was assisted by another, fitted 
out from. the port of Dunkirk. 
The Eveille sloop sailed on the 
morning of the 16th for Ostend : 
the convoy intended to accompa- 
ny her, could not, by reason of 
contrary winds, get out of the har- 
bour; but the sloop arrived in the 
afternoon of the same day at Os- 
tend ;—where the commander was. 
received by a deputation of the 
magistrates and citizens, who gave 
immediate possession of the place. 
On the 18th the Duke of Saxe Tes- 
chen proposed, that both armies 
should, on aceount of the lateness 
of the season, go into winter quar- 
ters, taking the Meuse as a barrier 
between both armies. This request 
was negatived by Dumouriez, who 
verbally replied, that he should 
transmit the proposition to the 
heads of his government; and that, 
in the mean time, he should.con- 
tinue the operations of the cam- 
paign. It is to be observed, that 
the French armies were in a much 
better condition to prosecute the 
war than the Austrians. The latter 
had Jost the magazines* of which 
the French were in possession; and 
the recent capture of Malines, or 
Mechlin, had very considerably ad- 
ded to their resources. 
General Clairfayt and the Duke 
of Saxe Teschen had concentered 
themselves at Louvain, and in its 
command of the right of Dumouriez’s army, till ils arrival at Tirlemont, in Bel- 
gium ; when he was appointed commander in chief of the army of the north: and 
succeeded Labourdonnaye, then encamped near Antwerp, on the 25th November. 
* In these magazines they left not much; having carried with them many arti- 
cles. 
It is remarkable. that Dumouriez should ‘have committed the same faults, in 
the pursuit of the Austrians from Jemappe to Cologne, that Kellerman did befere 
withthe Prussians, in-their retreat from. France, 
neighbourhood. 
