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of Brunfwick^ afiera mojl extraordinary journey of 

 fatigue and danger. — Without Jloppng proceeds to 

 the Hague y and gives a defcription of the battle to 

 the Stadtholder. 



JL/uRiNG my abfence from that city, the 

 French had inverted Williamjladt. Breda had 

 furrendcred to them without a blow, and the 

 Duke Frederic of Brunfwick, at the head of a 

 fmall Prufiian army, had already reached Bois 

 le Due. The approach of this Prince, induced 

 the French to be fomewhat more circumfpeft, 

 and to make a retrograde movement ; by this 

 change of affairs, my plan neceffarily fell to the 

 ground. Neverthelefs, I had no fooner ex- 

 plained xvi'jitii, with the illuftrious Prullian, 

 General, whom I found in the houfe of the Prince 

 of HefTe Phillipfthall, than he difpatched me at 

 the head of a detatchment of huzzars, to pene- 

 trate as far into the country as I could, and to 

 prevent, ifpoflible, the tranfport offome forage, 

 which the French had collated near Alphen, 

 into Breda. 



I left Bois le Due,' with my detatchment, on 

 the night of the 13th of March 1793, diredling 

 myfelf upon Tilbourgh, a Dutch village, 

 where, though only three leagues from the gar- 

 rifon I had left, I found the tri-coloured 

 cockade difplayed, I collected the magiftrates, 



and 



