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WEDNESDAY NovEMBER 6, 
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Warlike operations. 
tnce ourlast the military operations in France-haye been vigorous tho’ 
“nothing decisive on the frontiers of France has yet happened. On the 
one hand the French having used’ every effort to augment their army near 
Lisle, attacked the allied army under the Prince de Cobourg on the 16th 
and r7th last, withso much vigour asto compel him to raise the siege of 
Maubeuge, and to retreat beyond the Sambre. The lofs on either side du- 
ring this severe conflict is not yet known; but it must have been conside- 
rable. Prince Cobourg’s army is not broken. The retreat was effected- 
in good order, and none of the artillery lost. He now occupies a strong 
position it is said in the neighbourhood of Mons. This gives a check at 
least to the progrefs of the allies there in the mean while. 
The French have at the same time made another vigorous effort to enter 
Austrian Flanders on the west ; Furnes, a small defencelefs place near Dun- 
kirk has been taken, Newport has been summoned to surrender to a body 
of troops said to be ten thousand strong, and has been saved for the present 
merely by the effect of the inundations made on the surrounding country ; 
Ostend and Bruges are both threatened by the same body of forces, and 
such preparations as are capable of being made for defending such defence- 
Jeis places are going forward with alacrity, though it seems pretty evident 
that if the enemy are able to keep the field, and no superior force can be 
brought against them there, these towns could not make great resistence. 
Several bomb veisels, gun boats, and frigates are brought before Ostend to 
afsist in the defence, fhould it be necefsgrv. 
On the other hand while the army on the Rhine was weakened to forward 
these undertakings, General Wurmser attacked the formidable lines of 
Wefsenburgh, which he completely carried, and thus got an entrance into 
the territories of France on that quarter; an object which, for many months 
past, the Prufsians have in vain attempted to effect, and which might pro- 
bably have baffled their utmost efforts during the campaign, but for the 
circumstance above stated. Landau is said to have already surrendered ; 
and by the last accounts Strafburgh was said to be upon the point of surren- 
dering 3 but this wants confirmation. Whether the French have acted wise- 
ly in thus admitting the enemy into their comparatively defenceiefs frontier 
on the east,in order to give a check to the progrefs of the enemy upon the 
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