The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-07-31

AT in the morning, floating bridge wa
already thrown over the canal. Workmen ar
now employed at that of the Viftula.
Marihal Lefebvre bellows high commenda
ton on the courage of thofe employed in thi
expedition; amoneR many others who diitin
gu'thed themielves, was a light horieman o
the 18th regiment, who having out. ltretche,
his comrades, fuddenly found himfelf amidh
column of Rufiiaus, who cried out, I" Do o
fire, we are Frenchmen :" on being thresteue,
that he ihould be killed if he fpnke, he cried
Fire, fire, captain, they are RuGians!"
| Ntg6t offbe 7tb May. Attack of Hakeiberg
The lap being within fathoms of the palilade
1t was refolved TO crown the covert way. Col
Lacote, of the engineers, took the neceiiarJ
meafures.
! The chief of battalion, Bertrand, of the l9,t
regiment eft the infantry of the line, cauiet. two
| companies of the 9th to advance, in order to
drive out the enemy from the two branches OF
| the road covered by the half moon. Some OF
our HARP fhooters penetrated even into the
pLasfJ H0rAneI rentrantrI, fired behind the pail.
| ladies' and made tome prifonsrs.
.Dur'Hg this time, the iappers and worlsmen
OF the 18th, crowned the crete of the covert
way on the faIiant of the half moon, whilft O.
thsr iappers cut off feveral pali(ades, and fer
)eant with four miners went down into the co.
vert way in order to find out the mines which
might have been made.
sergeant Chapot difcovered the well of gal.
lery OF mines, from which he took 80 miners.
lheY declared that this mine was the only one
on winch they had worked that they had be-
gun 1t about week before; that the well was
"a feet deep that from thence it was intended
10 direct two galleries to a diftance of so feet,
opt that they had not yet got further than e5
feet.
| The troops difplayed great vigour in this c.
peraton, which rendered us matters of the enc
ny's galleries, dilodged him from the covert
way OF the half moon, and furnifhed us fcite
ior throwing up two important batteries. The
enemy kept up very heavy fire of mu&etry
and grape ihot.
In the courfe of the day, the enemy evacna-
ted the covert way, and kept no f,arp- lhooters
but in the Blockhoufes.
Lower Vifula and Peninfu!a. The Lunette
OF kale kfchantz was opened, and the redoubts
OF the Hand fet in compleat order to act againft
the place. 1.Fa- '-
Artillery. The enemy fired very little in the
courie OF the day, on the front OF the attack,
and appeared TO direct his attention towards
the Vitula.
Embrafures have been pierced to fire from,
@' me Cavalier of the place, at which tn. enc
my is at work.
The a4-pounders which have been directed
'"S D'NShHCu!tS, = alnOU CetsrOy6G
ore, and much damaged ." others The bat
terles have begun to break the paIifades of the
fones.
GERMANY
Munich, May lstb.-The papers have alrea-
ny PuhlIihed the principal circumstances of a
Pefional affair, the consequences of which ap-
peared inevitable between Count Won Duhen,
the Swediih minifer, at the Court of Vienna,
and Baron Won Wrede, a Bavarian General.
me correspondence that has taken place be-
tween them on this fnbjetf, has iuft been bro't
TO light, as well as two letters which have been
written them by their reflective Soyereiyns.
Inc k'ng of Sweden, by Count Won Duben,
ahd which was pubiiihed after having been in
tercepted by the French army.-The four fol-
lowing documents will fuffice to make known
the nature of this affair, and the fate il is now
in.
Inc iait letters have been received here be-
lie, as was expected, the Victories faid to have
been obtained by the Servians over the Turks.
and of which the Prefburg Gazetteer had pub
Iiihed tuch brilliant details. The impudence
OF this Jonrna!iA SAT alone nc equaiied by the
c'umilnefs and ignorance which ever accompa-
ny his fafehoods.
Ham5Wg, May lsib.--If any credit be due
TO letters from Copenhagen, the fudden remov.
al of Generals Cathcart and Stuart, who were
to command the Eng0, expedition, befpesks
an intention on the part of the Eneliih Govern
ment OF yielding to the wiihes Of Sweden, By
giving him the command of this expedition,
which is reported to be already at fea, though
this Teens improbable. At all events his excel
lency Martial Bruno is to fet off tomorrow for
Schewrin, where he will for the preicnt efab-
I'm his Head Quarters.-Two thoufand pea.
iantry are working at the Notifications of RoG
took, ard the army of obisrvation il preparing
a warm reception for the Engliih. A part OF
the Dutch troops forming our garrilon aud a
very ftrong detachment of GenGamerjs, Cet out
yeiterday, it is believed, on their way 10 the en-
virons of Stralfund. 4, is a(Tcrted that the ref
OF their comrades will foon follow them, and
will IN their turn, be replaced by other troops
from Hamburg. The commune alton with
Swed'ih Pomerania is at prefent fufpended.
The Taft Courier from Strallund is not yet ar
rived.
NETWORK, July 81.
Blythe hip PhpGburg, Lefingwell, arrived yef-
tsrday from Bordeaux, we have rerPitod y ,ris ~,