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points at the Tame time: one column paffed at Panneren, 
and another at Ghent, but were repulfed ; a third crofted 
near Nirneguen, and, in conjunction with two columns 
which had palled between Tiel and Dodewaert, attacked 
the whole Britilh line on that Gde. The Andrians had 
abandoned Heufden, and palled the Lech ; and the Ha¬ 
noverians, with general Coates’s brigade, confiding of the 
40th, 59th, and 79th, regiments, were obliged to fall back 
on Lent: the French had all their troops on the oppofite 
tide of the river, and, on a fignal given, they eroded at 
once in great numbers, and attacked general Coates’s bri¬ 
gade ; the 40th and 79th. regiments were placed about 
half a mile in the rear, clofe to a wood, and the 59th was 
left to engage, and try to draw them into the ambufeade, 
but a ftrong column of the enemy forced their way be¬ 
tween the 59th and the main body : on their falling back 
on Lent, they fpund it in poffeffion of the enemy, and, 
in confequence, retired acrofs the Lingen, where they 
maintained theinfelves behind the river, near Eld. The 
French, by this movement, obtained poffeffion of Buren 
and Culembourg, and prepared to befiege Gorcum, which, 
from the flrength of its works, and the facility of inunda¬ 
tion, had been confiaered as the key and bulwark of Hol¬ 
land ; it was the head-quarters of the ftadtholder, but the 
froft rendering reliftance impoffible, he quitted the unten¬ 
able fortrefs ; and with his family and fuite fought an afy- 
lum in England. The ftadtholder efcaped from Scheve- 
ling in an open boat, on the 15th of January, 1795. 
At the time the French troops crofted the Waal, gene¬ 
ral Bonneau left the environs of Breda, and attacked 
Gertruydenburg : the Britifh, finding themfelves unable 
to maintain their pofition in Utrecht, retreated towards 
Weftphalia, after fuftaining a fevere attack all along, their 
line from Arnheim to Amerongen. The province of 
Utrecht now entered into a feparate capitulation for it- 
felf, receiving the French with eager welcome, while 
the retreating army of the Britifh was treated with every 
indignity. The intenfity of the winter increafed the mi- 
feries of the retreating army, and produced feenes of dif- 
trefs, which can never be refle6!ed upon without anguilh 
and commiferation. A minute detail of the fubfequent 
proceedings of the French, would be little more than 
a geograpliical defeription of their paffage through the 
United Provinces, and a repetition of uniform a6Ts of the 
mod: abjedt fubmiffion on the part of the Dutch. Ger- 
truydenberg having furrendered, the noble province of 
Holland followed the example of Utrecht, and the French 
were received in Amfterdam, on the 20th of January. 
Bonneau’s divilion, palling the lake of Biefboch, took 
poffeffion of Dordrecht, Rotterdam, the Hague, and Hel- 
voetfluys; and general Macdonald entered Naerden. The 
province of Zealand having alfo capitulated, the light 
troops marched into North Holland, and added to the 
wonders of the campaign the unprecedented circumftance 
of taking a fleet at the entrance of the Zuyderzee, by 
land-forces, and artillery planted on the ice. The freez¬ 
ing over of the Zuyderzee was an event which had not 
happened for more than an hundred years before! 
Overyffel, Groningen, and Frizeland, werd ftill in pof- 
feftion of the Britifh ; but, diminilhed as they were in 
numbers, hoftile as were the Dutch towards them, and 
irrimenfely fuperior in force as were the French, their 
iituation could not be long tenable. A thaw having com¬ 
menced in February, the depth of water rendered the 
palfage by the ufttal route impracticable; and the French 
under Macdonald having takena pofition between Campon, 
Zwoll, and-Deventer, while Moreau occupied Zntcher, 
general Abercrombie became apprehenfive that, in cafe 
of an attack, his retreat would be cut off, and therefore 
withdrew his troops from the advanced polls, and marched 
to Bentheim by way of Enchede and Velthuyfen : the 
Britifh head-quarters were moved firft to Ofnaburgh, and 
afterwards to Diepholt; the republicans being every where 
received by the United States as friends. The province 
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of Weftphalia was occupied by forty thoufand Pruflians, 
to protedl their frontier along the Ems, while the Britifh 
forces marched to Bremerleehe, where they embarked for 
England. But before this retreat was effedted, a great 
alteration had taken place in the alliance again!! France. 
The king of PrulTia had the integrity to receive 1,200,0001. 
in fterling gold from Great Britain, to proceed in the war, 
at the very moment that he negociated a feparate peace 
with France! 1 !—Thus the liberal-minded and magnani¬ 
mous Frederic-William king of PrulTia, the mod ardent 
and zealous promoter of the war, was the firft who feceded 
from the grand alliance. 
Thel'e (ignal fucceffes of the French in Europe, were 
rendered additionally important by the prqgrefs of the re¬ 
publican arms in the Weft Indies. The Englifti, while 
relying with confident fecurity on the certainty of their 
conquefts, were fiirprifed by the arrival at Guadaloupe 
of two frigates, two fifty-fours, and two tranfports, with 
about fourteen hundred troops. The command was given 
to a military officer under the fuperintendance of Victor 
Hugues, a deputy on million ; but the general dying foon 
afterwards, the foie command devolved on fanguinary 
Vidtor Hugues. At the period of his arrival, June 3, 
1794, general Thomas Dundas was expiring in the yellow- 
fever, whiclmliad alfo made dreadful ravages among his 
troops ; and the people of Guadaloupe were generally 
difaffedled towards the Englifti. The French effedted a 
landing at Grande-terre ; and, being joined by great num¬ 
bers of tire people of colour, while many royalifts aban¬ 
doned the Englifti ftar.dard, they carried, fort Fleurd’Epee, 
after being twice repulfed by lieutenant-colonel Drum¬ 
mond : Point a Pitre, being confidered'untenable after this 
event, was evacuated by the Englifli. Sir Charles Grey 
and fir John Jervis were at St. Chriftopher’s, preparing to 
fail for England, when intelligence of thefe difafters ar¬ 
rived. They immediately repaired to Guadaloupe, and a 
detachment under brigadier-general Dundas, major Rofs, 
and major Magaji, attacking the French with great fpirit 
at their poll at Berville, put them totally to the rout, 
driving them into the water, where many perilled, while 
a few faved themfelves by fwimming acrofs the barbc-ur 
to Point a Pitre. Sir Charles Grey, however, finding it 
impoffible to effedt any thing further at that feafon, re¬ 
embarked his artillery, and (Lengthened his polls at Baffi.» 
terre, intending, if fuitable reinforcements arrived, to re¬ 
new his efforts after the hurricane feafon ; in the mean 
time he retired to Martinique, where a banditti, unchecked 
by a fufficient force, had commenced terrible depredations. 
The French, in the mean while, taking advantage of a 
dark night, embarked a ftrong detachment of troops at 
Point a Pitre and Fort Louis, and, eluding the Britifh 
(hipping, effedted two feparate landings on Balle-terre. 
Every exertion was made to fortify the camp at Berville; 
but the numbers and refolution of the French enabled 
them to feize Bay Mahault and Petit Bourg, while the 
Englifti took poll at a battery called Point Bacchus. The 
republicans, at length, after l’everal fevere engagements, 
drove, by means of gun-boats, the Englifti (hipping from 
the harbour of Petit Bourg, flopped the communication 
between the camp and fleet, and finally ( 061 . 4.) com¬ 
pelled general Graham, who commanded at Berville, to 
accept terms of capitulation. The Britilh general vainly 
effayed to include the French royalifts in the articles; his 
humanity could onlyfave twenty-five, whom he fent in a 
covered boat on-board the Boyne, while three hundred, 
who fell into the hands of their countrymen, were devoted 
to deftru 61 ion, and facrificed without remorfe. Fifty fell 
by the guillotine; the remainder were'tied together, by 
the order of Vidlor Hugues, and placed on the brink of 
the trenches they had fo valiantly defended, in order to 
be fired upon by the raweft recruits in the French fervice ; 
by way, as it was faid, of enuring them to blood and car¬ 
nage. The weight of the killed and wounded drew thoft 
who were unhurt into the trench, which was, by throw- 
