£796.) | 
Mr: DuxpAs. next rofe to open the 
Eaft india budget, which he performed. 
in a long and detailed account of the ftate’ 
of the company’s finances. 3 
On the zoth of December, the com- 
mittee of the houfe of commons upon the 
Southwark election, decided upon the 
petition of Mr. TrerNey againft Mr. 
‘THELLussoN’s eligibility to become a 
reprefentative in parliament for that bo- 
rough, after he had been found guilty of 
corruption by a former committee ; and 
the chairman declared, that GEORGE 
Wooprorp. THELLUSSON, efg, was 
not edigible at the. laft eleétion to ferve 
in parliament for the Borough of South- 
wark, 
Thus the committee has afcertained 
and eftablifhed this great conftitutional 
point, “ That any member having been 
convicted of treating after the tefte of 
| the writ, is. 7zesrgiblce.” 
FRANCE. 
Tn our account of the public affairs of 
France, im October laft, we left the 
French general Moreau furrounded with. 
dangers and difficulties ; he has, how- 
ever, fince effected a retreat, which, in 
the judgment of military men, is con- 
fidered as one of the moft {plendid ex-. 
ploits of the prefewt war. 
The Auftrians, by feveral movements, 
the 27th, 28th, and 29th of September, 
made themfelves mafters of the highetft 
parts of the mountains of the Black 
Foreft where the Danuie takes its. rife, 
as well as thofe rivulets which, running 
weftward to the Rhine, form the only 
paffes whereby an army can def{cend from 
thefe mountains tothe Brifgau. Gcneral 
Moreau had now no other alternative 
than either to. attack the Aufirians in 
order to gain the Val-d’Enfers, which 
defcends into the Brifgau by the town. of 
Fribourg, or to make his retreat by the 
foreft towns and. the territory of Swifler- 
land; and finding himfelf at the fame 
time clofely purfued by general. La Tour, 
he determined, by a vigorous attack, to 
endeavour to give the latter.a check, and,. 
by this. means, gain time fufficient to 
effect his retreat, without any very con- 
fiderable lofs. On.the 30th of Septem- 
ber, therefore, he attacked the. forces 
under general La Tour, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Steinhavfen ;. an obftinate 
engagement enfued, in which the French 
were repulfed, not, however, without 
much lofs on the other, fide ;,.in. par» 
sigular, a detachment of. the prince of 
Condé’s corps fuffcxed greatly. >. 4. 
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The Auftrian general;. Petrafch, kad 
taken poft. between the fources of the 
Necker and the Danube, by which he 
more effectually covered the paffes of the 
Black Foreft, and his parties inceffantly 
harrafied the rear of the French. Preffed 
in this manner, general. Moreau per- 
ceived the extrerae danger to which his- 
farther retreat was expofed, and he re- 
folved to rifk a general a¢tion. 
Early on the ad of O€gtober, the left 
wing of his army croffed the Danube at 
Reidlingen, and repafiing it at Mur- 
durkingen, turned and defeated the corps 
which La ‘Pour had pofted betwixt the 
Feder See and the river. As foon as he 
was affured.of the fucce{s of his left wing,. 
he advanced) to attack genéral La Tour 
in frent, and the aétion was maitained 
during fix hours with the utmoft obe 
ftinacy. At length géneral La Tour, 
perceiving that his left flank was totally 
uncovered, and that his rear was menaced 
by the progrefs of the French, was 
obliged to abandon his ground, and re - 
tire behind the Rothambach. His res 
treat was covered-by the cosps of Condé, 
‘Ehe fuccefs of the French on this oc 
cafion was very brilliant; though a re- 
treating army, they took more than fiye: 
thoufand of their purfuers, and twenty 
pieces of cannon. General. Moreau hay 
ing thus far fucceeded in his defign, reo 
commenced his march on the 4th of 
October, by the route of Stockach: On: 
the 6th, two divifions of his army paffed 
the Danube, and on the 8th, he §xeg 
his head quarters at Stockach. 
After fecuring the paflaves over the 
Rhine, the general himfeif arrived at 
Strafburg on the 16th of Oétober; but 
he {oon after rejoined his army at Fri- 
burg, and on the 18th, he had his head’ 
quarters at Furg. 
Brilliant as this retreat was, the ace 
tivity of the Auftrians was not lefs con= 
fpicuous. As the French. generakevinced 
fome diipofitions to retain his pofition on. 
the right fide of the Rhine, he was at- 
tacked by the forces under the archduke 
on the 24th of O€tober, in the formidable 
pofition of Schlingen, and fuftained con~ 
fiderable lofs. He retired after this ac- 
tion towards the Téte-de-pont near Hu- 
. hingen, and on the 26th, retreated acrofs. 
the Rhine at that place. 
After general Moreau had effected 
this famous. retreat, the Auftrians laid 
_fiege tothe fort of Kehl. 
ing of the 22d of November, the French: 
gateifon made a vigorous fortie, to re- 
On the morn- 
connoitre: 
