HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
The French, on leaving the right 
side of the Rhine, had provided the 
fortress of Kehl with a garrison, 
composed of seleét officers and sol- 
diers. Moreau’s intention was to 
nd the Austrians such employment, 
the siege of this important place, 
at they should not have leisure to 
turn their attention to any other ob- 
je&t in that quarter. His projeét 
succeeded so well, that, till the 
commencement of the ensuing year, 
their whole time and strength were 
spent in efforts to reduce this for- 
tress. Herein they lost numbers of 
their best men. A Very serious 
aétion took place on the twenty-se- 
cond of November. The garrison 
made a general sally, and, driving 
the besiegers from their line of cir- 
cumyallation, spiked all their can- 
non, and, after making a great 
slaughter, carried off a large number 
of prisoners. 
In order to balance this check, 
the Austrians attacked, on the thir- 
tieth of November, the fortification 
that covered the head of the bridge 
of Huninguen, on their side. The 
attempt was made in the middle of 
the night, and the French were 
driven from their works. Recover- 
ing, however, from their disorder, 
they fell upon the assailants, retook 
their works, and defeated them so 
completely, that they were obliged 
to retire, with the utmost speed, to 
a great distance, furiously pursued 
by the French, who slew and took 
vast numbers, though not without a 
severe loss on their side, at the first 
onset, which was very unfavour- 
able, and had nearly put the enemy 
in possession of the head of the 
bridge, whereby the communication 
with Kehl would have been cut off, 
and its reddition accelerated. 
Vor. XXXVIII. 
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This action, forthe time it lasted, 
and from the mutual animosity of 
the combatants, was reputed the 
most destruétive of any that had yet 
happened during this war. Such 
was the fury of both the French and 
Austrians, that they were wholly 
intent upon slaughter. Few pri- 
soners were made; and the killed 
and wounded, on both sides, was 
computed at four geeaty the loss 
being nearly equal. 
The month of December was con- 
sumed in operations of this kind, 
which occasioned the loss of num- 
bers, and served only to exercise 
the skill and bravery of both pare 
ties. It was not till the opening of 
the next year, that, after a valiant 
defence of two months, the fortress 
of Kehl surrendered to the Austri- 
ans, who thereby became possessed 
ofa heap of rubbish and ruins. The 
garrison carried away the very palli- , 
sadoes, and left nothing worth the 
taking. The works at the head of 
the bridge were in like manner eva- 
cuated some time after, and a final 
termination put to the operations of 
the campaign in this quarter. 
The French and Austrian armies, 
on the lower Rhine, harrassed by 
the incessant fatigues they had un- 
dergone, came also to the determi. 
nation of concluding hostilities dur- 
ing the winter. An armistice took 
place between them, about the mid- 
dle of December, by which they 
mutually agreed to retire into can- 
tonments, and to remain there peace- 
ably, till the suspension should be 
formally declared at an end. 
The termination of a campaign 
so unfortunate in its commence- 
ment, and so favourable in its ter- 
mination, to the Austrian interest 
in Germany, totally revived its in- 
cL fluence 
