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only thought of making good his retreat to Ostend; which at one time, it 
seemed very doubtful if he would be able to effect. At thatcriticalmoment, 
General Beaulicu flew to theiraid; and upon the 8th attacked the French 
near Lisle, and obtaineda complete victory, asitwas first said, dispersing them 
with a great slaughter, and taking about thirty pieces of cannon. This has 
enabled the Duke of York’s army to recover from the dismay into which they 
had beenthrown. Asecond victory wassaid to be obtained by Beaulieu; butla-: 
ter accounts render this doubtful; and it is now known, that the French ‘have 
obtained pofsefsion of Ypres, the "Dutch having been driven back to Bruges 
‘and Ghent, and thus will indeavour to prevent a junction between Beau- 
lieu and the duke of York’s army, which at the present moment appears to 
be in a situation -extremely perilous. Onthe r1sth, the Duke's army was 
encamped at Thoroute, a small village between Dixmude and Baugesy in 
‘hourly expectation of being attacked. 
During the course of these operations, many attacks have been made up- 
on the French lines near Wifsemburg on the Rhine by the Prufsians, who 
have not yet been able to force them. In the mean while Strafbourgh is 
said to be ina state of i insurrection ; and Quesnoy has been obliged to sur- 
‘render prisoners of war to the victorious arms of the prince of Saxe Cobourg, 
who took pofsefsion of iton the 13th. It is also reported that St Quentin 
surrendered to him without resistance: and that on his way from thence to 
besiege Cambray he also took a valuable convoy going for that place of 
‘200 waggons otf provisions, and 14 of ammunition, besides 700 head of cattle 
and 200 horses. aie 
The French having weakened their forces towards Savoy to oppose the 
. Marseilloise, they now aiso talk of withdrawing their arms from before 
Nice, that they may have the benefit of these troops to forward their ope- 
' rations in Provence. It is scarcely to be doubted that they will try if pofsible 
to recover Toulon from the Englith and the royatists. 
P Naval affairs. 
Tn consequence of the surrender and disarming of seventeen French fhips 
of the line, and seventeen frigates, in the harbour of Toulon; the whole 
‘naval power of the French in the Mediterranean must be, for the present, 
totally annihilated: and their commerce in those seas, unlefs from the ports 
that submit to_the combined powers, entirely cut of. This must prove 
; culiarly distrefsiug tu the inhabitants of the southern provinces of France, 
where the large towns of Marseilles, Aix, Avignon, Lyons, &c, containing 
much people, and the country producing little corn, depend upon foreign 
supplies for about three fourths of their subsistence. 
- Our ficet in the channe! under lord Howe has hitherto done nothing of. 
consequence ; he is still lying at Torbay, and collecting all the force he can 
from every quarter, as if he dreaded the attack of @ superior foe. It is in- 
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