A RELATION Of the Most Remarkable Transactions Of the Last CAMPAIGNE, IN THE Confederate Army, Under the Command of His Majesty of GREAT BRITAIN; AND AFTER, Of the Elector of BAVARIA, IN THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS, Anno Dom. 1692.  
LONDON: Printed for Dorman Newman, at the King's-Arms, in the Poultry. 1693.   

To the Right Honourable John Earl of bath.  
Viscount LANS DOWNE, Baron Granville of Kilkhampton, and Biddiford, Lord-Lieutenant of the Counties of Devon and Cornwall, Governor of Their Majesty's Royal Citadel of Plymouth, Colonel of one of the English Regiments of Foot in the Low-Countries, and one of Their Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council, etc.  
My LORD,  
THE desire I have to do something as may express that Respect I owe to your Lordship, is the chief reason that I have undertaken the Relation of the last Campaigne; for since those Years which your Lordship has so signally spent in the Service of the Crown, and those important Governments you have in this Kingdom, at this Juncture of time, do not only dispense, but even oblige your Lordship not to be present with your Regiment in the Low Countries; I hope this Relation may be acceptable to your Lordship, in which your Regiment has not had a small share, in the most remarkable Occurrences of the Campaigne.  
There may be some Solaecisms in Soldiery in this Relation; but I hope your Lordship will be pleased to Pardon them, since they proceed from a Clergyman, who may be allowed such Mistakes, and who ventures upon so Foreign an Undertaking to his Function, (which ought to have been performed by abler Pens, to express the Honour of Englishmen) to assure your Lordship, that I am,  
My LORD, Your Lordship's most humble and obedient Servant and Chaplain, ED. D'AUVERGNE.   

TO THE READER.  
WHEN I drew up this Relation, I was far from designing to publish it: What I did was for the particular Satisfaction of some. Persons to whom I am obliged. But since I have finished it, a great many Friends have desired Copies of it, which I found both tedious and chargeable to get written over. This is the particular Reason as makes me comply with their Desires to have it Printed. For I declare, that 'tis with some Reluctancy that I appear in public in this case. However, since 'tis done, I must needs let the Reader know, that as I had no Design of having this Relation public, so first, this is the Reason that it has been so late coming out, when the French by their early and active Motions do already enter upon the following Campaign: And besides, this is the reason that I have expressed myself with more Freedom in the following Relation, which, though 'tis an Argument of its being so much the more impartial, yet it may be the less taking for it.  
As I am a Clergyman, I think that there is a greater. Obligation upon me to speak Truth, and nothing but what is Truth: And therefore, if there is any thing in this Account that is not so, or if I have said any thing that may detract from the Reputation of any Man or Country; or if I have done them any Injustice in not publishing their Merits, I shall be very ready to give both them and Truth Satisfaction as publicly as I do them wrong. However, I think myself obliged to declare, that I have endeavoured to know the Truth; and what I do not know of myself to be so, I have in that made use of creditable Informations from Parties concerned.  
If I say little of Foreign Nations concerned in the Alliance, and which made by far the greater Number of our Army, 'tis not out of any Principle of Partiality to my own Countrymen, but 'tis because I cannot be so well informed of their Actions as of our own, they being Strangers to me.  
What I say of Grandval concerning his having killed the Mareschal de Humieres Nephew, and his Adventures in Savoy; as also what I speak concerning the Prince of Brabancon, and of the Elector's Design to take him into the Field the last Campaigne, to withdraw him by this piece of Policy from the Government of Namur, I would have no more stress laid upon the Truth of it, but as a common Report.  
If the Public does kindly accept these my Endeavours, it will oblige me to be more exact and curious the next Campaign, if God grants me Life and Health; and I shall be more early in satisfying my Country with it. And I pray God so to unite the Hearts, Counsels and Powers of our Allies, under the Conduct of our glorious Monarch, as may answer his Endeavours and our Expectations, that we may see the French Power reduced to such Limits as may procure a lasting Peace to Christendom.   

A RELATION Of the Most Remarkable Transactions Of the Last CAMPAIGNE.  
HIS Majesty endeavouring to be beforehand with the French this Campaigne, came very early over from England to the Hague, about the beginning of April, where having spent some time in Conferences with the Ministers of the Allies, His Majesty afterwards went to Loo, to take some Divertisement, before he entered upon the Fatigues of the ensuing Campaigne, expecting till matters were in a readiness to take the Field; which proved not so early as (may be) was designed, both by reason of the foul Wether that happened the latter end of April, and the beginning of May, and of the great remoteness, as well as slow motion of some of our Confederate Forces.  
The French King, who owes his great Success, chiefly, to that quickness and activity wherewith he can execute his Undertake, and which is proper to the Nature of his Government, began very early to move with his Forces, threatening both Flanders with some considerable Siege, and England with an Invasion, to restore the late King to his pretended Dominions. To this end he causes most of his Forces to march towards Flanders, and to rendezvous about Mons, leaving the Rhine entirely destitute of Troops, to render the Army in Flanders the more powerful and formidable, being pretty secure both by the slowness of the Germans to take the Field, and that Interest he had among some of the Princes of the Empire, that nothing could be undertaken upon the Rhine by the Confederates, before the execution of his Designs in Flanders; to compass these vast Undertake, the French King not only drew off his Forces from the Rhine, but likewise most of those he had in Savoy and Piedmont, leaving Monsieur Catinat so weak, that he hath not been able to attempt any thing this Campaigne, but even to suffer the Duke of Savoy to enter into Dauphiné, and to leave it exposed to the Fury of the Germans, who have plundered burnt and destroyed, wherever they have been in it.  
By this means the French King has not only been able to bring a very numerous and powerful Army in Flanders, to undertake so considerable an Attempt as the Siege of Namur, but also to think of restoring the late King to the Throne of England; to this end he causes an Army to march towards the Coasts of Normandy, pretending at first, that it was to secure his Coasts from a Descent, of which they spoke very much in England, and for which they made some Preparations. This Army consisted of between 16 and 20000 Men, both French and Irish, which encamped at the Hogue, a little Village by the Seaside, between the Cape of Barfleur, and the Bay of Caen.  
The French King to cover this Invasion, as well as to help the transport of his Troops, made all possible diligence to set out his Fleet, to execute this great Design, before ours and the Dutch Fleet could be in a readiness to join; which probably might have been, if a contrary Wind had not kept Vice-Admiral Count D' Estrees in the Mediterranean twenty one days together, with the Toulon Fleet. The French King therefore seeing that Tourville had already stayed so long for the Toulon Fleet, that the English and Dutch were ready to join, ordered Admiral Count De Tourville, to sail with what Fleet he had ready, and to enter the Channel, the Troops being embarked in Normandy, and he only expected to transport them over to England; with this Order Tourville came into the Channel with Fifty four Men of War, making straight to Normandy, to join the Transport-ships.  
In the mean while, every body wondered to see the King so unconcerned at Loo, and his Kingdoms so nearly threatened with an Invasion; every body thought, that His Majesty would not be so solicitous for the Safety of the Low Countries, but that he would at least go over for England, and look after the preservation of his own; which (may be) was the very thing the French King would have, and which he more designed in this Project, than the Restauration of King James: for 'tis very plain, that His Majesty's Presence, and his English Troops in the Spanish Netherlands, put a great stop to his Proceedings; whereas in the other War, when the English were not in the Alliance, Cambray, Valenciennes▪ and St. Omer, would be the work but of a Month's Campaigne, but now his Conquests cannot go on so fast, in a Country which he pretends of Right to belong to the Dauphiné.  
However, tho' His Majesty was at Loo, yet his Cares were not from England in this dangerous Conjuncture, but he sent my Lord Portland (who in this Voyage was accompanied by his Son-in-Law, the Earl of Essex) over to England, with some Instructions to the Queen, to prevent this intended Invasion, about which Her Majesty had already taken very effectual Cares, in setting out our Fleet with all speed, in raising the Militia of the Country, and seizing such Persons as were most liable to suspicion in this matter: His Majesty on this side of the Water took the same care of the Dutch Fleet, and ordered Colonel Selwyn's, Beveridge's and Lloyd's Regiments to be sent back to England, to reinforce our Army there; and likewise countermanded several Regiments of Horse, which His Majesty had ordered over for Flanders. Thus by the Cares of Their Majesties in England and Holland, the two Fleets joined time enough to oppose the execution of the French King's Designs upon England, and sooner than His Most Christian Majesty expected; for not thinking that the English and Dutch could be so soon joined, he ordered Monsieur Tourville to fight, and engage with our Fleet wherever he met it, if they offered to oppose his Undertaking in England, with that Number of Men of War he had then along with him; which he afterwards did accordingly; and I think pretty well to the French King's Cost. Things began now to look with a little better aspect in England, and to promise the French King but little success in his Invasion, the English and Dutch Fleets being joined, and being in a better Condition than ever to do business, considering the number and bigness of our Men of War, and the Seamen they had on Beard; whereas Tourville was in our Channel with about Fifty Four Men of War, which could give us but little reason to fear his Undertaking.  
This was the Posture of Affairs about the opening of the Campaign, the King having left Loo, and passed by Breda, came to Duffel, where his Majesty tarried two or three Days, and the Elector of Bavaria went there to wait upon the King, and to Compliment him upon his Arrival in the Spanish Netherlands, as well as to confer upon the present State of Affairs: But the French Army growing daily in Number about Mons, and the French King being come to head his Army in Person, obliged the King to hasten to Brussels to forward the Rendezvous of our Forces, which gathered part between Anderleck and Dilbeck, having Anderleck upon the Left; and the other part between Dendermonde and Ghendt, under the Command of Major General Zuylesteyn; and after a March or two, they were joined by Lieutenant General Mackay, who took the Command of them.  
The King coming to Brussels, 
May  lay one Night at his own House, (l'autel d'Orange) a Palace belonging of old to the Counts of Nassaw, and Princes of Orange, not far from the Court, and which his Majesty has of late bestowed upon Prince Vaudemont: The next Day the King took his Quarters at Coukelbergh, a little Chateau or Castle without Flanders Port, where his Majesty remained till the marching of the Army from Brussels. The French at this time gave us by their Motions equal Reasons to suspect Charleroy and Namur, as the Place before which they would set to form a Siege; wherefore the Elector of Bavaria ordered the Counts of Thian and Brovay, the first to Namur to assist the Prince of Brabançon the Governor, and the other to do the same thing at Charleroy with the Governor of that Place,  
The Army having left Anderleck, 
May 17./ 27.  marched this day through Brussels to Deegham towards Louvain, whilst Lieutenant General Mackay, with about 16000 English and Dutch which had rendezvoused about Dendermonde and Ghendt, came up very near the Army in order to join it the next March; the French at this time leaving us but little reason to doubt, but that Namur was the place they intended to attack.  
This Day the Army marched, 
18./ 28.  and came pretty near Louvain, the King taking his Quarters at Bethlehem-Abbey. This Day we were likewise Joined with the Forces under the Command of Lieutenant General Mackay, they encamping in the Line with the rest of the Army. His Majesty was informed in this place of a Design against his Life, which tho' it had miscarried the Year before, was again set on foot by the same Persons, viz. one Grandval, Levendael, and Du Mont, of which we shall give an Account, when we come to speak of the Execution of Grandval at Hall-Camp, he being the only one of the Three that suffered the Punishment due to so villainous an Attempt. The Second merited the King's Pardon, by his discovering of the Plot to one of his Relations in Holland, who immediately gave an Account of it to my Lord of Athlone. Du Mont gave an Account of this Design much at the same time to the Duke of Zell, who likewise gave Notice of it to the King, which, as it was an Argument of his Sincerity in discovering of it, and likewise upon the Duke of Zell's Intercession, he was also pardoned. The said Du Mont came up afterwards to the Army, to give his Evidence, upon the Assurance his Highness of Zell gave him, of a safe Conduct. This Duke Mont having given Grandval the meeting at Endhoven, not far from Boisleduc; upon Levendael's Discovery, my Lord Athlone sent a Detachment of 110 Horse thither, who seized both the Prisoners, I mean, Levendael that discovered it, and Grandval, and carried them to Boisleduc to the Prince of Nassaw Sarbruck Governor of the Place. Grandval at first made as if he were very ignorant of the matter, and altogether innocent; but when the Prince of Nassaw Sarbruck asked him if he knew one Du Mont at the Court of Zell, the other owned the matter, and replied, That his Life was in his Majesty's Power.  
The French King having at last invested Namur, 
May 22./ June 1.  opened the Trenches before the Town, attacking of it with all the Vigour imaginable, and the Besieged on the other side making a stout Resistance. This Town is situated upon the Brabant-side of the Sambre: The Castle is very strongly seated upon the Ascent of a Hill, which makes a Nook of Land, caused by the meeting of the Sambre and the Meuse; looking towards the Town, and opposite to the Castle on the other side of the Meuse, as you go up to Dinant, is a small Suburb of Old Houses. This Garrison was composed of Ten Dutch and Brandenburg Battalions, which had been there all Winter in Quarters, besides some Spanish Regiments, between which there happened, during the Siege, some Discord, which forwarded very much (as 'tis said) to the yielding of the Place. 'Tis very probable that the French King designed this Siege very early in the Spring, if the foul dirty Wether that followed the Rigour of the last Winter had not prevented it; or even in the Winter itself, if it had not been so severe; for he had gained in his Interest the Baron de Bersé Lietenant, Governor of the Place, a Gentleman (if I may call a Traitor so) born in the Franche-Conté, and who had been (as is reported) Forty Five Years in the King of Spain's Service. The Inhabitants of Namur relied very much upon him; and indeed, more than the Prince of Brabançon their Governor, whom they suspected, because a great part of his Estate lay in the French Conquests between the Sambre and the Meuse. This Lieutenant Governor was so much trusted, that he took care of all the Magazines, Provisions and Ammunitions that were in the place, and such Care, that he left them almost unprovided. Whether it was, that things were ripe for the Design, if a kind Season had seconded it, or that he saw that he had gone so far, that he could stay no longer in the place for fear of being discovered, he took occasion one day to go and visit some Out-posts, and by this Pretext got himself intercepted by a Party of the Garrison of Dinant, where he was carried Prisoner, to cover the Plot; but his being so easily persuaded to take the French Service, does very plainly prove, that his being taken Prisoner was but a Sham. It is said▪ he did very great Service in this Siege, in directing the Attacks where he thought they would be must convenient, who knew so well the State of the Fortification. Upon this Treacherous governor's deserting of the Place, which gave reason to suspect some Design, the Magazines were immediately visited, and found in a very had Condition; upon which Orders were sent to the Governor of Maestricht, to send forthwith a Convoy of all sorts of Ammunition, as Powder, Ball, Match, etc. and Seven Pieces of Canon, which was sent under the Escorte of a very strong Detachment of the Garrisons of Maestricht, Liege, and Hue, and Quarters thereabouts, being commanded by Count Cerclaes' of Tilly, who safely got the Convoy into Namur, about the latter end of February, or the beginning of March last.  
But to return to our Army: Whilst we were encamped at Bethlehem, the Elector of Bavaria, with the King of Spain's Troops, lay encamped within two Miles of us, on the way, between Louvain and Brussels, which afterwards, with his Bavarian Curiassers, made our Right Wing of Horse, that being still the Elector's Post of Command.  
The King, 
May 23./ June 2.  early in the Morning, had by an Express the happy News of our Victory at Sea, by Admiral Russel, over the Count de Tourville, the French Admiral, which tho' it gave but a confused Relation as yet, of the French loss, and our advantage over them, the Express being sent immediately after the French Fleet began to make off; yet it was a Victory of such consequence, that in the Evening the King caused all the English Artillery (which had joined us but little before, if not that very day) to be drawn upon the top of a Hill, upon the Right of our Army, looking towards Namur; the Dutch Artillery was likewise placed on the same Hill, upon the Left of ours; and Orders were given for the drawing out of the whole Army in the Evening, to express our Joy for the Victory, by the triple Discharge of our Artillery and Smallshot, and at the same time to give Notice of it to the French, who were very busy in prosecuting the Siege of Namur, the Wind standing very fair for that purpose. The whole Army in expressing their Joy for this Victory, showed such an alacrity and eagerness to be with the Enemy, to second this great Success of our Fleet, and not to be behindhand with our Maritime Forces, that we had all the reason in the World to expect great Matters, if they had been set on the Enemy.  
This day we were likewise joined by the Danish Troops, commanded by Prince Wirtemberg, consisting of Eight Battalions of Foot, and a proportionable number of Horse; Col. Earl's Regiment came in likewise the same Day, and Orders were given out this Night, for our marching the next Morning.  
We marched from Bethlehem to Park, 
24./ June 3.  another Abbey on the other side of Louvain, as you go to Namur; in this March the Second Line moved through the First, because we marched upon the Right, and fronting another way at Park, towards the Enemy. The Second Line by this motion remained in the Rear, when we came to our ground; where we halted the next Day, in which we were joined by the Bavarian Curiassiers, about 1400 strong, who took their Post in the Right Wing of Horse, immediately upon the Right of the English Foot-Guards. The King resolving to use his utmost endeavour to raise the Siege of Namur, gave Orders this Day for all the heavy Baggage of the Army, as Carts, Wagons, and Coaches, to be sent away to Arschot, a Captain of every Brigade in the Army, with a proportionable number of Men, being commanded to guard it, and Orders were likewise given this Evening, for the Army's marching the next day.  
The Army marched to Meldert, 
26./ June 5.  making our way towards the Mehaigne, as well in order to join the Elector of Brandenburgh's Forces, and those of the Bishop of Liege, under the Command of Baron Fleming, Velt-Mareschal General to his Electoral Highness, and of Count Cerclaes' of Tilly, the Bishop of Liege's General; which Junction the French Army could otherwise have hindered, if we had marched the direct Road to Namur, these Forces coming from the Paiis de Juliers, and that of Liege, so that the French would have remained between them and us: As also because the French Army had destroyed all the first Forage about Gemblours, where they encamped for a considerable time. This Day His Majesty by a Second Express, which came to him upon the March, received the Particulars of our Sea-Engagement, together with the Account of Admiral Russel's, having burnt Thirteen Men of War at the Hogue, and Sir Ralph Delaval the Royal Sun, and his Two Seconds, at Cape Wyke; which good News His Majesty was pleased to order those about the Court, to disperse about the Army that Day: which was likewise confirmed to Prince Vaudemont, in several Letters from France, to the Princess his Wife, Daughter to the late Duke of Elboeuf, of the House of Lorraine.  
The Army having decamped from Meldert, 
27./ June 6.  marched to Lissam, where the King first formed the Corpse de Reserve, ordering in the March Twelve Squadrons, and Six Battalions to encamp in the Rear of the Line, which at that time covered His Majesty's Quarters at Lissam; this Corpse de Reserve, as I have now said, consisted of Twelve Squadrons of Horse and Dragoons, and Six Battalions, viz. Churchil, Bath, Saxe Gotha Two Battalions, Friesem, and Anhalt; this Body was then put under the Command of Count de Lip, the Landtgrave of Hesse's General, who before the opening of the Campaigne upon the Rhine, had come to offer his Service to His Majesty, as a Volunteer, who had Baron Wartensteben for his Lieutenant-General, and for Brigadier the Prince of Anhalt.  
This Day we were joined by the Brandenburg and Liege Forces, 
May 28./ June 7.  about 14000 strong, under the Command of Baron Fleming, and Count Cerclaes' of Tilly; for which reason the Army made a motion, to bring them within the Line, as also the Spanish Forces, under his Electoral Highness of Bavaria, which hitherto had made a Camp apart, marching still as we did, and encamping at a small distance upon our Right; the Army therefore to bring these Forces within the Line, moved towards the Left. In this motion we could perceive, that the French Army, under the Command of Marshal de Luxemburg, was marching towards the Mehaigne as well as we, by the great Dust it raised in the Air, it being now dry and hot Wether; thus by the joining of these Forces, our Line of Battle was formed, we being computed about Fourscore thousand strong, the King commanding the Main Body, the Elector of Bavaria the Right Wing, and Prince Waldeck the Left; and Orders were given for our marching the next Day, without Quarter-Masters, to go before and mark out our Camp, we being then too near the Enemy.  
We marched on towards the Enemy, 
29./ June 8.  and about Two of the Clock in the Afternoon, we came in sight of one another, the Mehaigne remaining between us; our Left Wing, which in this March had the Van, being something more forward than the Right of the French Army; upon our coming near the Mehaigne, we immediately possessed ourselves of all the Posts upon the River, so far as our Lines reached, in order to pass it over, as soon as the Bridges could be made. But the French on the other side, were possessed of two Villages, about a quarter of a Mile from the River, which were surrounded with strong Hedges and Thickets, between which Villages was a small Plain, not half a Mile broad, where several French Squadrons had advanced themselves, coming very close to the Riverside; but we having raised a Battery of Cannon on our side, we soon dispersed them, and obliged them to retreat to their Body, which kept out of Canonshot: at the same time we planted Batteries of Cannon at all those Posts upon the River, as we had possessed ourselves of, placing an Officer and a proportionable Guard at every Post, by which means we were so far Masters of the River, that the French Soldiers could not come for a drop of Water.  
The King, during this Camp, took his Quarter at Villeer, otherwise Ville, an old rotten Village not far from Hannuy, a decayed Market-Town, surrounded with ruinated Ramparts; in the Evening His Majesty gave Orders for the building of Bridges over the Mehaigne, in order to pass it the next Day, to attack the Enemy; the Picquet-Guard of the Army being drawn out to cut down Trees and Timber, and such other Materials as they could find in the Woods, Barns, or Houses fit for that purpose; every Regiment as they stood, first and second in the two Lines, being to build a Bridge for to go over, that thus the whole Army might pass the River in a Front, and at the same time.  
Tho' things were so well disposed to attack the Enemy the next Day, 
29./ June 8.  yet this glorious Undertaking was soon hindered by the great Rains that begun that very Evening; this being St. Medard's Day, it being an observation among the People of this Country, that when it Rains upon this Day, it holds more or less for the Forty Days following; which proved not altogether false this Year: for whilst we were encamped in this place, for eight Days together, it reigned almost continually, the Wind blowing at the same time very boisterously, which quickly swelled this little River, so that though it be very deep, and pretty high Banks, yet it soon overflowed the neighbouring Meadows, so that as we could not keep our Bridges over the River; so at the same time, the ways by the excessive Rains, became impracticable for our Cannon.  
This River Mehaigne has its Spring about Gemblours, a Mile or so W. N. W. and is there but a little Brook, as a Man may very easily leap over; but by the help of several other little Brooks which fall into it, particularly from that side of the River which lies towards Namur, after a course of four or five Miles, it makes a very deep, tho' narrow River, and at length falls into the Meuse, about a League higher than Hue. The Left of our Line in this Camp, reached as far as Latin, within five Miles of Hue, which being flanked by the Corpse de Reserve, the General Count de Lip had his Quarter in this Village. From this Village, as far as the Meuse, the Mehaigne runs between very steep Hills, which renders it impassable below this place, as the Meuse lies between Namur and Liege. The Line of our Army extended itself from this Village very near six Miles upon the Right, having left a Bottom empty behind a rising Ground, where our Troops could not have been seen from the Enemy's Camp; therefore to make our Line appear the longer to the Enemy, we left in this place an Interval in the Second Line, which proved almost between the Body of the Army, and the Left Wing of Horse; by this Method, the Left of our Line outwinged considerably the Right of the French.  
Whilst the two Armies were thus facing one another, the Mehaigne lying between us, abundance of Deserters came daily from the Enemy's Camp, sometimes Two or Three hundred a Day, not only Foreigners, as Suissers, Germans, and Montferrins, but a great many of their own Native Troops, all complaining of a general want of Forage and Provisions in the French Camp: for they had laid so long already about Namur, that they had consumed most of the first Forage; and their Provisions coming to them from Mons, Maubeuge, and Philipville and Dinant, they were daily molested by Parties from the Garrison of Charleroy, so that they could not come but very seldom, and that under the Escorte of very strong Convoys. We were likewise told, That the Marshal de Luxemburg to make his Army the greater, and in a condition to oppose ours, drew out all the Troops that were in the Lines at Namur, relieving the Lines of Circumvallation and Trenches from his own Army from time to time, the Left being not far from Namur; so that tho' our Army was so strong and numerous, yet Luxemburg outdid us in number. As for our side, very few Deserters went over to the Enemy: whether it was, that we so mastered and commanded the River, that they could not pass, or their own inclinations that kept them in their Duty; for deserting is a very common thing on both sides, when Armies are near one another.  
Whether it was true or not, that Provisions were so scarce in the French Army, however they soon had plenty, by the surrender of the Town of Namur, which was yielded to the French during this Storm of Rain and windy Wether, which had hindered us from doing any thing for its Relief, and before they were obliged to it by any stress of their Condition; but the commanding Officers thinking that they could make a longer Defence in the Castle, if they did not harrass their Forces in the defence of the Town, were induced by this Consideration to deliver it to the French, and to withdraw all the Garrison in the Castle for its defence: the Condition upon which the Town was surrendered to the French, was, that a kind of Neutrality should be observed between the Town and the Castle, whilst the French attacked the letter place; that is, that the French should not annoy the Castle from the Town, nor the Besieged to do any prejudice to the Town from the Castle. The yielding of this place proved at last the loss of the Castle; for tho' the Besieged might be in a better condition to make a vigorous defence in the Castle, by yielding the Town, yet that deprived us even of a possibility of doing any thing, in which we could expect success, to relieve the Castle; whereas the relieving the Town was not a Work so difficult, but might have been done by our Troops, who all showed a very great eagerness to be with the Enemy: for whilst the French besieged the Town, they had very large Lines of Circumvallation to keep, which were likewise commanded by several Eminencies about the Town, which they must either yield to us, if we had attempted to raise the Siege, or defend with their own Troops; which would have lessened the Number of the Enemy's Army we should have had to engage, and if we had beaten, the Siege must have been raised of course; so that by yielding of the Town, Luxemburg had all those Troops which were employed in the Lines at Namur, to reinforce his Army, which now covered the Siege of the Castle, where the French King was in Person to Command, taking his Quarter at the Abbey of Salsen, upon the Sambre. The Castle of Namur (being built upon that Nook of Land which is made by the meeting of the Sambre and the Meuse) is a Fortification consisting of three parts within one another, going up from the meeting of the Rivers, till you come to the Descent of the Hill on the other side, which makes almost the Figure of Three Hornworks within one another. Towards the Sambre lies an Eminency or little Hill, which because it was so near the Castle, that it could be very prejudicial to it in case of a Siege, Colonel Coehorne commanding a Dutch Regiment in this Garrison fortified it lately with a Horn-work, 
An. 1691.  which was called William's Fort, or the Coehorne, and brought it within the Communication of the Castle by a covered way; beyond all this, towards the Boys de Marlagne lay a kind of Redoubt or Block-house, called the Devil's House; that side of the Castle which lies upon the Mues being a mere Precipice, is liable to no Attempt upon that side, either for taking or relieving of it.  
Much about the same time Count de Lip, the Landtgrave of Hesse's General, and Lieutenant General Baron Wartensteben left the Command of the Corpse de Reserve, to go to their proper Command upon the Rhine, the Confederates beginning now to take the Field there, and making two separate Bodies, the one commanded by the Landtgrave of Hesse, and the other by the Marquis of Brandenburg Barieth. Count de Lip having left the Corpse de Reserve, Brigadier Iselsthein had the Command of it. 
June 6./ 16.  Prince Waldeck being indisposed, went from this Camp to Maestricht, whereof he is Governor, being but six Leagues from this place.  
The Army marched this day upon the Right as far as Perteys, 
June 7./ 17.  the King taking his Quarters at Ramely, otherwise Ramey, and our Left extending itself to the Pass of Brancon upon the Mehaigne, the French marching at the same time on the other side of the River, halted with us, to form their Camp on that side of the River. When we came both to our respective Grounds, the Left of our Army, and more particularly the Corpse de Reserve (which was just upon the Pass of Brancon, which it had upon the Right, slanking the Left of our Line) was almost within Masquet-Shot of the Enemy's Right; but when they came to pitch their Camp, they retreated considerably towards a Wood that was in their Rear. His Majesty coming this Evening to view the Lines, found the Infantry of the Corpse de Reserve too much exposed to the Enemy's Canon, particularly Brigadier Churchill and the Earl of Bath's Regiments, which were encamped just upon the very River side, ordered them to decamp in the Night, and to march on the other side of the Grand Causey, which they had just upon their Left; this being a Causey-way that goes, as 'tis said, from Cologne, by Maestritcht, to Mons and Cambray, and so to Paris: This Causey-way being very high in this place, covered then very well the Corpse de Reserve.  
The French having their Camp in this place upon a rising Ground, 
June 9/ 19  making a Descent from their Front towards a River, and in their Rear towards the Wood, made a Motion one Afternoon, which made us believe they had a Design to March, upon which Orders were immediately given for the drawing out of the Piquett Guard of our Army, and the whole Army to be in readiness to march; but we found quickly that it was but a Faint, their Design being only to retreat on the other side of the Rising Ground towards the Wood, to remove their Camp out of our sight, that thus they might march when they pleased, without our Knowledge. They left in this Motion Five or Six Squadrons upon their Right, facing towards our Camp, as if it had been their Rearguard upon this March: Whereupon my Lord of Athlone was commanded with 10 Squadrons to pass the River at Brancon, and to observe them, being accompanied by the Dukes of Ormond and Richmond, my Lords Portland, Overkirk, Essex, Hide, Dalkeith, etc. as Volunteers. Ours and the French Squadrons faced one another a quarter of an hour, wheeling sometimes one way, and sometimes another: But the Earl of Atholne finding that the French Army was encamped just on the other side of the Rising Ground, did not think it fit to charge the French Squadrons; and thus commanded back his Ten Squadrons to our Camp; no Act on happening in this business, except the firing of a Carabine or two.  
At the same time as Luxembourg made this Motion, we observed that the French were very silent about the Castle of Namur, their Fire having ceased this day, which inspired us with very different Passions of Hope and Fear of the Sieges being raised, or the Castle surrendered; but we heard afterwards, that the reason was, because they had changed their Attacks upon the Coehorne or William's Fort, (as it afterwards proved) in a more successful place.  
The Garrison of Charleroy hearing that a great Convoy of Bread, Meal, Oxon and Sutler's, went from Mons and Maubeuge to the Enemy's Army, made a very strong Detachment, which fell so successfully upon the Convoy, that they took most of the Wagons, loaden with Wine, Meal, and other. Provisions, and about 150 fat Oxen, making a very considerable Booty.  
The French Army having marched upon the Left towards Gemblours, 
Juns 10./ 20.  their Right, which is made up of their best Troops, being than not far from the Right of our Army; and the Mehaigne being here very narrow and inconsiderable, the King ordered the Infantry of the Corpse de Reserve to interline in the Right Wing of Horse, under the Duke of Bavaria's Command, to reinforce it. A day or two after we heard a very terrible Blow at Namur, like a Clap of Thunder, and a great Smoak rising afterwards, gave us reason to fear the blowing up of some of the Besieged's Magazines.  
This day the Army marched to Sombref, 
June 12./ 22.  going through the Right of that Ground, in which the French had encamped the Day before, and leaving in this March Gemblours upon the Left Flank of our Columns, where a Brandenbourg Trooper shot a French Safeguard that Luxembourg had given to the Abbey of this place, which, as it was an Infraction of the Rules of War, it was reported, that his Majesty would send the Trooper to the Marshal of Luxembourg to punish him as he pleased. In this March we heard that the French had made themselves Masters of the little Fort, called the Devil's House. We rested at Sombref the next day, nothing happening extraordinary.  
This Day the Army marched from Sombref to Mellé, 
14./ 24.  having Fleury upon our Right, where the Elector of Bavaria took his Quarter. About this time the Coeborne or William's Fort was yielded to the French, 
12./ 22.  by a special Capitulation, the like, may be, having been hardly heard of before, that an Outwork should make a particular Capitulation for itself, which indeed was not very honourable, the Troops that were in it being to go too Ghendt; but making a long turn through most of the Frontier Garrisons, as Dinant, Philipville, Maubuge and Mons, as so many Triumphs to proclaim the French Kings Glory. Colonel Coehorne being very much indisposed by his continual Fatigues in the Defence of his own Work, refused to Sign this Capitulation. The Besieged say for themselves in this business, That the French having cut off the Communication between this Fort and the Castle, they were obliged to make this separate Capitulation: For the French finding all their Attacks unsuccessful upon this Horn-work, changed them upon the covered way, that made the Communication between the Castle and the Fort; and at length, after many Assaults, they lodged themselves between the Fort and the Castle, and forced by this means the Coehorne to surrender.  
We made a considerable Detachment from our Army to cover our Foragers, 
June 20./. 30.  who went about Tresigny on the Sambre; and we made this Detachment so much the stronger, that the next, in which we had some other Designs than to cover our Foragers, should give no suspicion to the Enemy. Captain Luke of Brigadier Churchill's Regiment, being in this Detachment, had the Misfortune to be taken Prisoner; he was posted with a Guard upon the Wood, in which (it seems) there was a French Party, who beat both the English and Scotch March, as if they had been some of our own Detachments: One of their Soldiers came, and when he was challenged by the Sentry, he desired in English to speak with the Officer. Whereupon Captain Luke coming to him, he was thus drawn in an Ambuscade, that made him Prisoner just by his Guard, and was afterwards carried to Namur.  
This Evening we heard a great Firing in Luxembourg's Army, 
20./ 30.  the meaning whereof we soon suspected, that it was for the Surrender of the Castle of Namur, which capitulated this day very early in the Morning.  

Capitulation of the Castle of NAMUR, June 20/30, 1692.  
Articles proposed by the Prince of Brabançon, in behalf of the Garrison and Inhabitants.  
I. THat His Most Christian Majesty shall maintain the Burghers and Inhabitants in all their Privileges.  
II. That the Prince of Brabançon shall have twenty four hours time, to let the Elector of Bavaria know the State of the place; after which time, if he is not relieved, he shall deliver one of the principal Ports to the King's Troops.  
III. That he shall have two days time to put the Garrison in a readiness to evacuate the place.  
IV. That the Garrison composed of Walloons, Spaniards, and Brandenburgers, shall leave the place, the Infantry to march out of the Breach, Drums beating, etc. and to be conducted the nearest way to Louvain, under a sufficient Escorte, to secure them from all Insultations and Hostilities.  
V. That the Garrison shall have granted them a sufficient Number of Wagons, of six Horses each, for the carrying away their Baggage, Effects, and all other Equipage.  
VI That those Effects shall not be visited, particularly three covered Wagons, in which the Governor shall send out what he thinks convenient, with all security.  
VII. That the Intendant, Treasurer, and the rest of the King's Officers, shall be comprised in this Captialation.  
VIII. That the Officers and Soldiers of the Garrison, shall have the liberty to retake what they left in the Town, when they surrendered it, to retire in the Castle.  
IX. That the Garrison going, shall not be obliged to the Payment of any Debts, and that they shall have leave to buy in the Town what they shall want.  
X. That the sick and wounded as shall not be able to go to Louvain, shall remain in the Hospitals of the Town, and shall be nourished and looked after, at His Most Christian Majesty's Expenses, and after they are recovered, they shall have Passes granted them to retire where they shall think fit.  
XI. That the Garrison shall march out with Six Pieces of Cannon, and Four Mortars, with all things necessary to carry them to Louvain, besides powder and Ball for Six Shots.  
XII. That all Persons whatever, without any exception or distinction of the Dependencies of Namur, as shall be willing to leave the place, that they shall have liberty to go where they please, with their Goods and Effects.  
XIII. That the Prisoners made on both sides during the Siege, shall be released without any Ransom.  
And as for Major-General Wymberg, commanding the Dutch Troops, as made part of the Garrison.  
XIV. That His Most Christian Majesty shall allow thrity Barks, or other Vessels, with a good Convoy, to conduct safely the Officers and Soldiers in the State's Service, with all their Effects, by the Maes to Liege.  
XV. That he shall have Four Pieces of Canon, and as many Mortars, etc. as in the 11th Article.   

ARTICLES granted by the French King.  
I. GRanted.  
II. That the Governor shall have but Six Hours time to regulate his Capitulation: and that for this effect, he shall deliver to His Majesty's Troops, one of the Stairs of the Dungeon, and the right of the Court, the rest remaining for the Garrison.  
III. That the Governor shall be obliged to evacuate the place the first of July, at Three in the Afternoon, and that then the Castle shall be delivered in His Majesty's Hands.  
IV. That the Garrison, made up of Spaniards, etc. shall march out of the Breach, Drums beating, etc. the Horse to go through the Town, and that they shall be conducted in four Days to Louvain; upon Condition, that they shall not serve in the Allies Army in three week's time; that they shall have Ammunitions, and other Necessaries for their Subsistence given them by the King, till they come to His Catholic Majesty's Territories.  
V. Granted: And because His Majesty has not Wagons enough at present, they shall have them in a Fortnight's time, viz. three Wagons with four Horses per Battalion, and one for the Field Officers.  
VI Allowed; and since these Wagons are not yet ready, the Effects of the Garrison shall be put in such places of the Hospitals, or Monasteries, as His Catholic Majesty's Intendant shall find convenient, there to be kept, and till then, with all safety, and that His Most Christian Majesty's Troops shall not touch them.  
VII. That the said Officers shall remain Hostages, till the Inhabitants of Namur, and Dependencies, shall be reimbursed of all those Sums, as they have advanced for his Catholic Majesty's Use.  
VIII. Tho' His Majesty had declared all such Effects forfeited, as the Officers and Soldiers who withdrew into the Castle had left in the Town, nevertheless he is willing they should have them again without impediment, upon condition, that neither they nor their Wives or Children shall have liberty to remain in the Town.  
IX. Granted: That they shall have leave to buy in the Town, etc. but that six Officers per Battalion shall remain Hostages for the payment of their Soldiers Debts.  
X. Granted: And that His Majesty's Officers shall not force them (after they are recovered) to quit the Service of the Allies.  
XI. That they shall have but four Pieces of Cannon with the King of Spain's Arms, and two Mortars, etc. in ten days, to be conducted to Louvain, and Powder and Ball for six Shots.  
XII. That for fifteen days time, every Body, without distinction, shall have leave to withdraw themselves with their Effects: and what they shall not be able to sell within that time, to be forfeited to the King; the other Inhabitants that are absent shall be recalled.  
XIII. Granted: Except those who are the King's Subjects, who shall be retained.  
XIV. Refused: And 'tis His Majesty's Pleasure, That the said Wymberg, with the Dutch Infantry under his Command, shall march out of the Breach, Drums beating, etc. with the rest of the Garrison, to Louvain, that their Effects shall likewise be kept safely in such place as they shall desire till Wagons can be provided.  
XV. That they shall have but Two Pieces of Canon with the States Arms, if such can be found, to be carried to Louvain. Other Demands to be regulated according to these Articles.  
Given at the King's Camp before Namur, the 30th of June, about Noon.  
Thus the French King became the quiet Possessor of Namur, covering by this means his Conquests with the Meuse and the Sambre, and securing all that he hath between them from the Incursions of the Enemy, which before were very much molested by the Garrison of Namur. By this Conquest Brussels is left open to the Enemy, and Charleroy as good as blocked up between Namur and Mons, and the Winter Quarters the French have settled at Fleury and Gemblours, which cuts all Communication between it and Brussels. This indeed seems to be one of the greatest Actions that the French King hath ever done, to take this, which was reckoned the strongest place in the Spanish Netherlands, and a Man may say, the very Key of it; a place which had been never taken before, 
Vide du Maurier in the Life of William I.  unless we reckon it taken when surprised by Don John of Austria, who pretending to visit the Queen of Navarre as she passed through this place, going to the Baths of Aix la Chapelle, 
Prince of Orange.  wrested this place by surprise out of the Hands of the States of the Seventeen Provinces, contrary to the Pacification of Ghendt, and the perpetual Edict, which renewed the Wars of Flanders; and not only that the French King should take this Strong Place, but in the Presence of the best and finest Army that the Confederates have ever had in the Field, which, as the French devise upon the Medals stamped for this occasion, served only as a Witness of the French King's Victories.  
But if we consider the Complication of Misfortunes that prevented our Attempts to raise this Siege, the Action will not appear so great; as, the Deluge of Rains that overflowed the River Mehaigne, just when we came to it; the Surrender of the Town during those Storms, which made us absolutely uncapable of relieving the Castle, without defeating Luxembourg first, who, though he was more numerous before, yet his Army increased now to a far more considerable Number, by the Junction of those Troops, which were employed in the Siege of the Town; and without Besieging and taking the Town afterwards, or hazarding our Army, the other side of the Sambre, in the Defilés of the Bois de Marlagne, between the French King and Luxembourg's Armies; in which case we must have beaten both, or been ruined ourselves: So that the Surrender of the Town may be reckoned the Fundamental Misfortune, which occasioned the Loss of the Castle, which was then in a manner invested by its own Situation between the Sambre and the Meuse, leaving but very short Lines of Circumvallation for the French King to keep. Let us likewise consider the weak Defence of the Castle, after the Loss of William's Fort and the Devil's House, yielding when there was scarce a Breach in the first Envelope of it; and therefore in almost as good Condition as it was in the beginning of this War, before the building of William's Fort.  
It is certainly a very surprising and wonderful thing, that a place of such Importance, in which, as several Walloon Officers say, there was to be a constant Magazine of Ammunitions and Provisions for Ten Months for 8 or 9000 Men, should now be forced to yield, after a Fortnight or three Weeks Siege, for want of it; and particularly, when before the surrendering of the Town, 'twas in their power to command as much Provisions from the Town, for the subsistence of the Castle, as they thought fit themselves. This is too plain an Argument of a wilful Negligence; for though there was no probability of relieving the Castle, after they had surrendered the Town, yet we could expect, that they would make the more vigorous Defence for it in the Castle, as 'twas pretended, when they yielded the Town to the Enemy: And nevertheless we find it surrendered, when the Body of the place remained entire, hardly a Breach being made in the outermost Work of the Three. The Besieged say, that their greatest Want was Water, which the Enemy spoiled by the Directions of the Baron de Berse to levelly their Bombs to the Well. It is likewise reported, that the Dissensions between the Spanish and Auxiliary Troops did not a little contribute to forward the Surrender of the place.  
Whatever the Prince of Brabançon the Governor might have to justify his Conduct in this Siege, yet since he lies under Confiement in the Citadel of Antwerp, till the Court of Spain be informed of the matter. Yet 'tis thought, that though he were guilty, yet being of the House of Aremberg, one of the most considerable of the Low Countries, and Allied with most of the Grandees of Spain; and besides, being Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, which exempts him from all other Judicatures in Criminal Cases, but that of his Knights Companions of the Order, with whom he hath very much Interest, by reason of his great Alliances: (I say) that for these Reasons 'tis thought he will very soon be restored to his Liberty.  
It hath been reported by some, who pretend to understand the Affairs of the Court of Brussels, that the King had desired the Elector of Bavaria to withdraw this Prince of Brabançon from his Government of Namur, acquainting the Elector at the same time with the Reasons his Majesty had to suspect his Conduct; and that this might be done without disobliging the Prince, who is so considerable both in this Country and Spain, by reason of the great Alliances of his Family, it was agreed, That the Prince should be desired to make the Campaign with the Elector. And this went on so far, that the Prince was at Brussels in order to accompany the Elector in the Field; but the French threatening to set down before Namur before the opening of the Campaign on our side, the Elector could not refuse his going to his Government when the Prince desired it, lest he should discover the Mistrust he had of him. However, at the same time the Duke of Bavaria ordered the Count de Thian, Major-General of the Spanish Forces, to accompany him in this Siege, giving him some particular Instructions.  
We made a very strong Detachment, 
June 22./ July 2.  which consisted of Captain, Lieutenant and Ensign, and Sixty Men of every Battalion in the Army, which were then about a Hundred, and a proportionable Number of Horse, their pretended business being to cover our Foragers the next day; but the real, to endeavour to surprise Mons, of which we had some Hopes, by the Intelligence we had amongst many of the considerable Inhabitants, who being still Spaniards in their Hearts, longed to be delivered from the French Yoke, and who informed, that the Garrison was weak, and most of them Swissers, who would be as willing as they to join in the business. Therefore as soon as our Foragers were returned the next Day, Scaling-Ladders, Provisions, and other necessary Materials were sent, with a Re-inforcement, to Prince Wirtemberg, who commanded this Detachment: A Sergeant of Fagel's Regiment, who had been in Mons when it was besieged, being to show the way, and the Attempt to be made upon a Breach, as the French had not repaired since they took Mons. According to these Directions Prince Wirtemberg marched the 23 d all Night, and came about One of the Clock in the Morning, the 24 th', within an Hour of Mons, where having made an Halt, he sent for Sir Robert Douglas and Colonel Farrel, who commanded the English, to come and speak with him; but as they went back, it being very dark, they went a little too much upon the Right, and fell amongst a Party of Horse of the Garrison of Mons, who made them Prisoners, and carried them away with all speed to their Garrison; for they confessed themselves as much surprised as the Prisoners themselves, to be even within our Outguards. Captain Francis Sterling, who accompanied Sir Robert Douglas as a Volunteer in this Action, was of the number of the Prisoners. The Count de Vortillac Governor of Mons, being informed of our Design the Overnight, had sent out but an hour before this Detachment of Horse, under the Command of a Captain, to hear News of us, he himself sitting up all Night to be ready, in case of an Attack. But Prince Wirtemberg hearing that the Marquis de la Vallette was hard by the Town, with a strong Detachment of Fifty two Squadrons of Horse, returned back the Twenty Fourth to the Army.  
The French upon our March to Mellé, in case we should have a Design upon Mons, had ordered this Detachment to go towards it, and to receive Orders from the Count de Vertillac Governor of Mons, when he should have occasion for them; who accordingly, upon the first Notice of our Design, sent an Express to the Marquis de la Vallette, to require him to come to his Assistance; who made no delay, but came immediately, and arrived at Mons as soon as Sir Robert Douglas himself; and the Party that made him Prisoner and they came to Town between Three and Four in the Morning.  
Sir Robert Douglas and the other two Prisoners being come to Mons, were treated with a great deal of Civility, the Governor coming himself to give them a Visit, and took them afterwards with him in his Coach to Dinner, after he had given them the Liberty both of their Swords and the Town; but they could not make much use of the latter, by reason they were so much taken up in the Civilities of the Governor, Intendant and Major, that they had scarce time to see it; but yet they saw enough to find, that the Garrison was not in that case as had been represented; that there was but two Swiss Companies in the place, and five or six French Regiments; that it was true, that whilst we were upon the Mehaigne, the Garrison had been weak, but reinforced upon our March to Mellé.  
Whilst we were in this Camp, six or seven days before we left it, our heavy Baggage which we had sent to Arschot, from the Camp at Park, came to us under the Convoy of a Detachment of Horse and Dragoons, that had been sent for that purpose.  
The Corpse de Reserve was ordered to march to Genap, 
June 2●./ July 5.  to guard the Train of Artillery, which was sent before, because the ill Wether which continued hitherto, had made the ways so bad, that 'twas impossible for the Army and Artillery to march in the same day. The whole Army followed the next day, and encamped in the little Plains of Genap, 
26./ 6.  a very difficult, and therefore strong Ground, by reason of the Woods that are upon the Right and Left, and the Bois de Sogne in our Rear, and the Ground itself very unequal, by reason of the many little Hills that are in some places very steep; as we had in this Camp the Bois de Sognes' in our Rear, so we had the little River Dyle in our Front, which rising something higher than this place, goes through Genap, and so to Louvain, and Macklen, and at length falls into the Scheld. The King had his Head-Quarter at Genap, our Right reaching to the Castle of Bromel, where the Elector had his Quarter, and was flanked by the Corpse de Reserve, which faced thus to the Duke of Bavaria's Quarter; the Left of the Army reaching to Boutauneuf.  
At the same time as the Army marched from Mellé to Genap, Baron Fleming with the Brandenburg Forces, and Count Cerclaes' of Tilly, with those of Liege, were sent back to pass the Meuse, to cover the Paiis de Liege, which now lies quite open to the Enemy, since the taking of Namur; however, by the Junction of the Newbourg Troops, and those of the Elector of Cologne, which were sent to join Fleming, the Bishop of Liege's Country hath been so far secured, that the French have not been able to undertake any thing in it, and that we have possessed ourselves of all the Winter-Quarters there, by which means we shall be able to put Hue, the next Garrison upon the Meuse, in a good posture of defence, against the next Campaign.  
This day His Majesty took a Review of the Fifteen English Battalions of the Army, 
June 29./ July 9  in the Elector of Bavaria's Presence; with which his Electoral Highness, as well as His Majesty, seemed to be very well satisfied: The English Battalions were, Two of the First Regiment of Guards, One of the Second, Two of the Dutch Guards, Churchil's, Trelawney's, Fufileers, Bath's, Hodges', Fitz-patricks', Castleton's, Earl's, Cutts, and the Prince of Hesse's; Sir Robert Douglas came likewise to the Camp this day, having his Liberty by paying his Ransom, as likewise Col. O Farrel, and Captain Sterling, having been but three days Prisoners, if Gentlemen can be called so, when they were treated with so much Civility by the Governor of Mons, and the Intendant of the place. The next day His Majesty reviewed the Danes, and other Foreign Forces, upon the English Establishment.  
This day a Detachment was ordered of ten Regiments, 
July 3./ 13.  and a proportionable number of Horse, under the Command of Count Horn, General of the Dutch Artillery, who marched to Brussels, and from thence to the Pais d' Alost, and so to Ghendt, where he encamped for some time, just out of the Town, towards the Canal of Bruges, till we came to the Scheld; this motion was made, as is supposed, to secure the Forage of this Country for the latter end of the Campaigne. This day, likewise in the afternoon, His Majesty, in the Elector's Presence, reviewed the Scotch Infantry, which consisted of ten Battalions, viz. Two of the Guards, two of Sir Robert Douglass', Lieutenant-General Mackay's, Sir Charles Graham's, Col. O Farrel's, Earl of Angus', Earl of Leven's, and Col. Lawder's, most of them appearing very strong and full.  
After that the French King had made himself Master of the Castle of Namur, Luxemburg, who with the Army under his Command, had observed us, to hinder our doing any thing for its Relief, passed the Sambre, not only to consume the Forage there, but also because we lay between him and Mons, and therefore it was necessary that he should pass the Sambre, to get between Mons and us; where after he had encamped some time at St. Gerard, and some other place, he repassed the Sambre above Charleroy, at Bussiere, and came to Soignes, not far from Mons.  
We being to forage this day, 
July 10./ 20.  the French made a Detachment from their Army to molest our Foragers, though others say, that it was Boufflers, who with his Camp volant, was going back to repass the Sambre, to observe Fleming; whatever it was, an advanced Detachment of theirs, of about forty Men, falling unawares amongst part of our Detachment that covered the Foragers, who thereupon were all taken Prisoners; their Design was discovered, and the Foragers were all immediately ordered to return home empty, most of them not having yet foraged; and those that had, had Orders to fling down their Trusses, to remove the quicker out of the Enemy's way: Notice being given of this to His Majesty, he immediately got on Horseback, and ordered the Pickquet of the whole Army to be drawn out under Arms, and to Rendezvous at the Hermitage, on the other side of the River Dyle, to be ready to second our Detachment that guarded our Foragers, in case they had met with the Enemy; but nothing else happening, they returned home. The French Parties were indeed very busy this Camp, because of the Woods that lay particularly upon our Right, where they could come and shelter themselves, so that very often we had Horses taken by them, grazing just by our very Camp; but once we having Notice, that one of their Parties lay in a Wood, just by our Right, not far from the Elector of Bavaria's Quarters, a Detachment was made from the Corpse de Reserve, to go and clear the Wood of them; 'tis very probable, that they had all been taken Prisoners; for when we had discovered them, and that we came near them, they all cried Quarter, but the Germans firing immediately upon them, that dispersed them so up and down the Wood and Thickets, that they made their escape.  
The Elector of Brandenburg having removed his Court this Summer to Cleves, 
July 16./ 26.  to be nearer his Forces, te give them such Orders as he thought convenient, passed the Meuse at Roermoade, and came as far as Vrecklen, not far from Louvain, to conser with His Majesty upon the present State of Affairs; where His Majesty went to meet him, about the middle of this Month, being guarded by a strong Escorte of Horse and Dragoons, After the Conference, the King returned to the Camp at Genap; and the Elector went to view his Forces that were now encamped on the other side of the Meuse, near the River Outre, not far from Liege; and afterwards his Electoral Highness having passed by Maestricht, returned to Cleves.  
Much about the same time, the Elector of Bavaria went to Brussels, 
17./ 27.  having a very strong Escorte all along the way, that goes through the Bois de Sogne to Brssuels, this Wood being generally very full of French Parties, and more particularly at this time that they expected the Duke of Bavaria's going to Brussels, to the Procession of the Bloody Host, where the Governors of the Spanish Netherlands are still used to assist. This bloody Host is kept in the great Church of Brussels, it was stabbed by a Jew (as they say) in contempt of our Saviour, and immediately there fell from it some Drops of Blood, which remain upon the Host to this day. The Elector returned the same day in the Evening, after the Procession, to Brussels, having (as is said) escaped many dangerous Ambuscades in this Bois de Sognes', by his quick and speedy Riding.  
This day the Army decamped from Genap, and made a great March, 
July 21./ 31.  as far as Notre dame de Hall, having passed by Nivelle, the Abbey of Bois Seignerer Isaac, and a very bad Defile at Brain le Chateau, it reigned also most part of this day, which made the ways very difficult and deep, particularly for the Rear of the Army: by this long March, which lasted from Morning till Night, we assured ourselves of the Camp at Halle, where otherwise the French might have been beforehand with us, and thus have hindered (by possessing themselves of this Pass) the Subsistence of our Army in this unforraged Country, and afterwards in Flanders. We encamped this day our Right upon the Senne, our Corpse de Reserve flanking it, and fronting towards Halle, and our Left extended itself as far as Brain le Chateau; we passed this day through the Ground that was marked for the Hanover Troops to encamp that day, they marching up in all haste to join us.  
The next day the Army passed the Senne in several Columns, 
22./ Aug. 1.  one with the Corpse de Reserve going through the Town, the others upon several Bridges of Boats, that were laid above it; the King took his Quarters at the Castle of alembic, and the Elector in the Town of Halle; a place famous for the Devotions made to an Image of our Lady, given about Four hundred Years since by Elizabeth Queen of Hungary, and a Daughter of the House of Flanders; which, as the Legend of it pretends, hath wrought abundance of Miracles, Pictures being hung all about the Church that represent them, but none of later date than the Fifteenth Century. I don't know whether 'tis because it has not that Faculty at present, or whether the Reformation has not put a stop to several of their pious Cheats. This Church is of late given and impropriated to the Jesuits, that have a very pretty little College by it. The Town of Halle, when we had passed the Senne, and pitched our Camp, remained in the Rear of our Right Wing of Horse, where the Hanover Troops afterwards took their Post. In this Camp likewise the Infantry of the Corpse de Reserve was commanded in the Body of the Army, Brigadier Churchill's and the Earl of Bath's Regiments taking their former Posts amongst the English  
We were likewise joined this Day in the Afternoon by the Hanover Troops, computed to be between 7 and 8000 strong, Horse and Foot, and all very fine and gallant Troops, particularly the Horse of his Highness' Guard, of which there was two Troops, the one upon Grey, and the other upon Bay Geldings, which being very well accoutered, and incomparably well mounted, made a very fine and martial show. His Troop of Dragoons du Corpse did almost equal his Lifeguard in fineness and goodness of Equipage, and in their Horses. The next day we were also joined by two English Regiments of Horse, namely, Colonel Langston's and the Marquis de Ruvigny, now Lord Gallaway; the first of the two was afterwards (some few days after the Engagement at Steenkirk) broke into our other Regiments to augment their Compliment, the Officers being removed according to their Posts, into those Vacancies as were in other Regiments, and what remained being allowed Subsistence, till they are provided for, the same way.  
in the Evening Orders were given out for Six Battalions to be ready to march an hour before day, 
July 23./ Aug. 2.  and to parade at the Head of Prince Waldeck's Regiment. The Battalions were, the Second of the first Regiment of Guards, the first of Sir Robert Douglas', Col. Fitz-Patrick, Col. O Farrels, a Battalion of the Danish Guards, and the Queens. Orders were likewise given for Seventeen Men of each Battalion in Churchill's Brigade to be ready at the same time and place, and to be commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Manwayring, their business being to make the ways through the Defilés; they were all to receive a Ducat a Head for their Labour; and as they were to join with the Vanguard in time of business, they carried their Arms with them as well as Hatchets and Spades. All this Detachment was to be commanded by the Duke of Wirtemberg as the Vanguard of our Army. Orders were likewise given for the whole Army to march very early in the morning, the General to beat at break of Day, and the Army to be ready to march at Sun rising. All these Preparations were in order to attack the French the next day in their own Camp at Enghein, who the same Day as we marched from Gennap to Hall, decamped from Soignes, and made all haste to Enghein, lest we should get that Ground from them, and thus oblige them to get farther to their own Conquests; Luxembourg's Right being at Steenkirk, and his Left at Enghien, he took his Quarters at Hove.  
According to Orders, 
July 24./ Aug. 3,  the Six Battalions paraded at the Head of Prince Waldeck's Regiment, and the Detachment of 17 Men per Battalion of Churchill's Brigade, and received the Commandment of Prince Wirtemberg; and very early in the Morning the whole Army followed them, making their way to the Enemy's Camp through nothing but Defilés, being close Ground all the way, and no other way but such as was made by our Detachment for that purpose; the Baggage being left behind by order, at the Camp at Hall. About Nine or Ten in the Morning our Vanguard came to the Advanced Posts of the Enemy, the Marshal of Luxembourg, (as the Paris Account gives it) having been informed of our Design by Monsieur de Tracey, (who commanded a Detachment of Horse that Night between the Enemy's Camp and ours) had taken care to possess himself of the most considerable Posts in the Defilés; but notwithstanding our Vanguard obliged the Enemy to retreat from them all, till they came to a little Wood, just upon the Right of the Enemy's Camp, except a small Guard in a Village upon the Left of our Columns, almost a League from the Enemy's Camp, who upon the March of our Army were all made Prisoners of War; their number about Thirty Men and an Officer.  
Between Ten and Eleven of the Clock in the Morning our Advanced Guards under the Command of Prince of Wirtemberg lodged themselves in the Wood that fronted the Right of the Enemy's Army; the Danes and the Battalion of Guards taking their Post upon the Left in the Wood; and Sir Robert Douglas; Fitzpatrick's and O Farrel's upon the Right of them; on the other side of the Wood was the Enemy's Camp, a little Valley remaining between, and a great many Hedges, which the Enemy resolved to maintain with all Vigour possible, though they yielded so easily their Advanced Posts. Prince Wirtemberg planted upon a little Rising on the Left of the Wood a Battery of Canon, which began to play about Eleven of the Clock; and another upon the Right, by Sir Robert Douglas his Battalion. Captain Macrackan of the same Regiment, who afterwards was killed, pointed a Canon from this Battery so successfully, that it put a whole Battalion of the Enemies in disorder, sweeping almost an entire Rank before it.  
Whilst Prince Wirtemburg was playing upon the Enemy with these Batteries of Cannon, the Army marched up to the Head of the Defile (about half an English Mile from the Wood) where it opened in a little Plain upon our Right, not above half a League over, which terminated upon the Right of the Wood, where our Vanguard was, and at the Right of our Army, upon several Rows of high Trees, which seemed planted in great order, as if 'twas the Avenue of some Person of Quality's House, which being towards Enghien, makes me suppose, that they may belong to the Duke of Arschot's House, where these famous Gardens be, as are said to be the Pattern of Versailles: through these, straight before us, on the other side of the Plain, we could see the French Infantry drawn up in two Lines, and making towards their Right to defend the Post upon the Wood Upon the Right of this Plain, not far from these Groves and Rows of Trees, there was a pretty considerable Farm, which soon after the Engagement was set on fire by the Enemy, to cover (as 'tis said) several of their Battalions by the Smoke, who were ordered this way, and was afterwards engaged with Fagel's Brigade, between this House and the Wood, where our Advanced Guard was posted. From the Head of our Defile, upon the Left of the Plain, there went for almost half a Mile in length, a deep hollow way with high Trees and Hedges upon the Banks of it, which reached as far as the Wood, where the Vanguard was posted, and where it branched itself in three other deep ways, one going through the Wood upon the Left to the Danes Attack, and to that of the Guards; one almost straight forwards; and the other upon the Right, going along the outside of the Wood; between these two last was the place, where Sir Robert Douglass, Col. Fitz-Patrick's, and O Farrel's Regiments were posted. On the other side of the deep way as went from the Head of our Defile to the Post, where was our Vanguard, went several narrow Fields, which lay between it all along, and a part of the Wood which reached as far as from our Advanced Guards to our Defiles.  
When the Army was come up to the Head of these Defiles, and just entering into the small Plains, they were ordered to halt, except the English Life-Guards, and Horse and Dragoons, which were commanded upon the right skirts of the Wood, where was our Vanguard, and my Lord Cutts', Lieutenant-General Mackay's, Sir Charles Graham's, and Earl of Angus' Regiments, which being interlined with the English Horse, were commanded at the same time to the outside of the Wood, on this side of that way as branched upon the Right, which made the Figure of the Arch of a Circle, as the skirts of the Wood did here before us; these four Regiments were posted here, to be ready to second the Attack of our Vanguard. Prince of Hesse's, Col. Lauder's, and Earl of Leven's Regiments, who were also interlined with the Left Wing of Horse, were likewise posted upon the side of the Wood  
Things being thus disposed, and our Army continuing on the halt, Prince Wirtemberg, after he had Cannonaded for above two Hours, begun the Attack with the Danes upon the Right, which was immediately followed by the other four English Regiments as composed our Vanguard, and seconded by Cutts, Mackay, Angus, Graham, Lauder, the Prince of Hesse, and Leven's Regiments. Certainly never was a more dreadful, and at the same time bolder firing heard, which for the space of two Hours seemed to be a continued Thunder, and equalled the Noise even of the loudest Claps; our Vanguard behaved in this Engagement to such wonder and admiration, that tho' they received the Charge of several Battalions of the Enemies, one after another, yet they made them retreat almost into their very Camp, so far, that the Second Battalion of the First Regiment of Guards, possessed themselves of a Battery of the Enemy's Cannon, which the Enemy were obliged to quit by the vigour of our Charge; and Colonel Wacup who commanded the Battalion, and who behaved himself extremely well in this occasion, placed a Sergeant and Guard upon it; but the French having cut off the Traces, and taken away the Horses, we could not bring them off, but were obliged afterwards to leave them: Sir Robert Douglass, with his first Battalion, charged several of the Enemies, and beat them from three several Hedges, and had made himself Master of the fourth, where going through a Gap to get on the other side, he was unfortunately killed upon the spot; all the other Regiments performing equal wonder, and behaving with the same Bravery, and beating the Enemies from their Hedges so far, that in this Hedge-fighting their fire was generally Muzzle to Muzzle, we on the one side, and the Enemy on the other.  
But to return to our Army; As soon as we were come to the Head of the Defile, it was ordered to halt, particularly our Left Wing of Horse, that the Foot that were interlined with them, which were most English and Scotch, and which I have before mentioned, might march up through the Horse; we were obliged to this halt, tho' it was the loss of the day; because the Ground was so straight, and the Enemy had such Hedges, Copses, and little Woods to cover them, that there was nothing to do for the Horse; so that when the Vanguard began to engage, they had none but part of the Infantry interlined with the Left Wing of Horse, to second them, the Body of the Infantry being almost a Mile in the Rear; however, as soon as the Action began, the King made all diligence possible to get the Infantry up, ordering a Brigade to march up to the Wood, and forming a Line of Battle in the Plain, with that Infantry as could come up; the Soldiers showed such eagerness to come to the Enemy, that they ran to the Relief of those as were engaged, even so fast, that they put themselves into some disorder, which was the reason that they took more time to form their Battalions, than was at that time convenient: this was the case of those Battalions as were sent to the Wood, to the Relief of our Vanguard; so that when they came up, our Vanguard and Infantry of the Left Wing being overpowered by the vast many Battalions of the Enemy, as charged them successively one after another; and lastly, by the survening of Boufflers' fresh Troops, they were forced to retreat in great disorder, and to leave the Wood in which they had lodged themselves, entirely to the Enemy's possession. The Baron of Pibrack's Regiment of Lunenburgers being in great disorder in the skirt of the Wood, and the Baron their Colonel lying dangerously wounded upon the place, (which he got in rallying of his Regiment) the Earl of Bath's (one of the Regiments that was commanded towards the Wood) the other English being Brigadier Churchil's) was ordered by Prince Casimir of Nassaw to their Relief; two Sergeants of this Regiment rescued the Colonel, who lay wounded almost in the Enemy's hand, and brought him off in spite of their fire; upon these Orders of Prince Casimir of Nassaw, Sir Bevil Granville, who commanded the Earl of Bath's Regiment, marched up to the Relief of this Lunenburg Regiment, bearing the Enemy's fire, before he suffered any Platton of his Battalion to discharge once; by which method the Regiment lodged itself in the Trench, or deep way, that lay upon the skirt of the Wood, which it maintained, till it was commanded off again by the same Prince of Nassaw.  
The King having formed a Line of as many Battalions as could come up in this little Plain, the Enemy upon their Right, and our Left of the Wood as wefaced, planted a Battery of about ten Pieces of Cannon, to put them in disorder by their fire; we at the same time brought another against it, and thus continued firing one upon another for a considerable time. What mischief we did to the Enemy by our Cannon then, I cannot tell, but theirs killed several of our Soldiers, some in the Regiment of Fuzileers, and some in the Battalion of the Second Regiment of Guards, but the most considerable loss we sustained by it, was Col. Hodges, who was shot with a Cannon-ball at the Head of his Regiment, of which he soon after died. There was likewise a Skirmish between some of the French, and some of our Battalions, between the Wood and that Farm which was fired by the Enemy, but it did not last long; what Regiments they were I cannot tell; but I suppose they were some of the Dutch interlined in the Left Wing of Horse, commanded by Brigadier Fagel.  
The Van Guard being thus disordered for want of a timely Relief, which was occasioned by the narrowness of the Ground, and consequently beaten out of their Post in the Wood, Luxemburg being likewise joined by the Marquis of Boufflers' fresh Troops, who came time enough to complete the Defeat of our Vanguard with his Dragoons; and besides, the Night drawing on, the King ordered the Army to retreat, which was done with admirable Order; for tho' the French did follow us for some time, yet they did not fire a shot, such was the order of our Retreat, that they did not dare venture upon it; the English Grenadiers brought up the Rear, and whenever the French moved towards us, they faced to the Right about, and presented themselves to the Enemy; then the Enemy would halt, and so our Rearguard then marched on; this halting and facing, and then marching, continued for some time, till the Night put an end to the Enemies farther motion: And thus the Army came back to Halle, on Monday Morning about Three of the Clock.  
We lost in this Action several Pieces of Cannon, some taken by the Enemy, and some we could not bring off, the Horses being tired, we likewise blew up some of our Powder-Waggons in the Retreat, which we could not bring off, some having their Carriages broken, and others their Horses tired. The English lost two Colours and the Dutch likewise some; we had about Two thousand Men killed, and about Three thousand wounded, in which number we comprehend the Prisoners taken by the French, disabled by their Wounds to come off, being about 8 or 900. Of the English and Scotch twelve Battalions engaged, viz. The Second Battalion of the First Regiment of Guards, the First Battalion of Sir Robert Douglass', Col. Fitz-patricks', and Col. O Farrel's in the Vanguard; Cutts, Hesse, Mackay, Graham, Angus, Leven, and Lauder, interlined in the Left-Wing of Horse. Of the Body of the Infantry, the Earl of Bath's. Of the Danes, Battalion of Guards, the Queen's Battalion, Prince Christians and the Finland Battalion. Of the Dutch, Waldeck, Fagel, Noyelles, Torsey, L'Fcluse, Nassaw, commanded by Colonel Goz. Lunenburgers in the State's Service, Boisdavid and Pibrac; besides Epingers and Fitzhardings Dragoons, and the Horse Granadiers, who charged on Foot. Officers killed of Note were, Lieutenant General Mackay, Sir John Lanier Lieutenant General of Horse mortally wounded, who died few days after at Brussels, Sir Robert Douglas Earl of Angus, Colonel Hodges, my Lord Mountjoy, who had been two or three years in Prison in France, and came upon his Liberty to serve the King as a Volunteer; he was killed with a Canon Ball at the Head of Colonel Godfrey's Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Fullerton, Foxon, Hawley, Wacup and Hamilton, Major Car of Angus' Regiment, wounded mortally, and died soon after. Chief Officers wounded, my Lord Cutts, Colonel Mackay, Lieutenant Colonel Eton, Courthop, Major Fox of Fitzpatrick's. Prisoners of Note, Colonel Lauder, Lieutenant Colonel Eton, Bristol and Courthop. Several Officers of the Danes, killed, wounded, and some Prisoners, whose Names I cannot Insert. As likewise of the Dutch, Lietenant General Tetteau wounded, Colonel Goz, Commandant of Prince Casimir of Nassaws Guards, and Colonel Moor Commandant of Torsey's Regiment, both killed.  
This is an Impartial Account of the Business of that Day, of which the French, notwithstanding their Te-Deum, have no great reason to brag. All as Impartial Men can say of their Advantage, is, that we attacked them in their own Camp, and that they repulsed us, though with the greater Loss both of Soldiers and considerable Officers on their side. If it had pleased God to have given us the Victory, we must have been Masters of their Camp, and great part of their Baggage; whereas the Consequence of the Disadvantage on our side, was not, nor could not be so: And therefore what ever Honour the French may assume to themselves in the Repulse, yet it can't be denied us in the Attack. And indeed the French Officers (whatever the Paris Gazette may romance) are just in this respect, and are not unwilling to give the Honour due to the English, and the rest of the King's Forces who engaged in this Attempt. What Loss the French sustained, or what Forces engaged, we cannot so just tell; the Pavis Gazette says, That the whole Body of our Infantry engaged, and insinuates, That the French Infantry did the same, since it says, that it gave that day very good Proofs of Courage, though they were not before valued by their Enemies. Whether our whole Infantry engaged, as the Account published at Paris as sent to the French King, I leave the Reader to judge. I am sure none of the Body of Foot engaged, but three of the Four English and Scotch Regiments, detached upon the Vanguard, and the Earl of Bath's Regiment, all the rest being interlined with the Left Wing of Horse, except the Four Danish Battalions. But by all the Informations that I could get, from Officers who were taken Prisoners, and who have been some time in their Hands both at Mons and Valenciennes, who relate nothing but what they have had from French Officers, above Fifty of their Battalions charged that day besides Seven or Eight Regiments of Dragoons. Nay, their Infantry was so harassed by our Fire, that they seemed unwilling at last to come to the Charge; so far, that the most considerable Princes in the Army of the Blood, and others, were obliged to head them, and to lead them on by their Examples and Exhortations; in which Action the Duke of Chartres received a Contusion in the Shoulder, the Prince of Conti had two Horses shot under him, and the Prince of Turenne received a Mortal Wound, of which he died afterwards at Enghien. But the coming of Boufflers renewed their Efforts, and his fresh Troops soon put our Vanguard in Disorder, who had been sufficiently harassed for want of Relief. The French lost on their side a Standard belonging to the Dauphin's Dragoons, taken by those of Epinger; and we made some Captains, a Cornet, and some other Officers Prisoners. They have owned themselves to our English Officers that have been Prisoners amongst them, that they have had 9000 Men killed and wounded: Of the wounded a vast many died afterwards, because our Arms are stronger, and carry better Balls than theirs. I can't give an Account of their considerable Officers that they lost, since I have not seen a List: What I can remember of the Paris Gazette, are, the Prince of Turenne, the Marquis Tilladet, both Lieutenant Generals killed, and likewise the Marquis de Bellfords, and Colonel Polier. There are great many others both killed and wounded, whose Names I can't remember.  
But before I quit this Relation of the Engagement, I can't omit the generous Charity of the Princess of Vaudemont at Brussels I wish that all those of her Communion, as the Popes have Canonised, had as good a Title to be Saints: For the number of our wounded being greater than could be contained in the Hospital which the King had at Brussels, a great many on the Monday in the Evening were lying with their Wounds up and down the Streets; whereupon this excellent Princess, moved with a Christian Principle of Charity, went in her Coach attended with a great many Flambeaux, up and down the Streets, to find them out, and had them conducted to the great Hall of her Palace, where she saw them dressed of their Wounds herself by her Surgeons, she and the Ladies of her Attendance giving Linen and other Necessaries for that purpose: And here she maintained them till they could either be removed to the other Hospitals, or till they were in a condition to go abroad themselves.  
The Day following the Marshal de Luxembourg sent a Trumpet in our Camp, 
July 25./ Aug. 4.  to give leave to Officers Servants to go to the place of Battle, to take care of their Master's Bodies as were killed upon the place, and likewise to assure, that care would be taken of all such wounded Prisoners as they had. But Orders were given out in our Army only for Field-Officers Servants to go, and bring off the Bodies of their Masters, as lay dead upon the place; by which means the Bodies of Sir Robert Douglas and Lieutenant Colonel Fullerton were brought off, and buried in our Camp at Halle. As for my Lord of Angus, his Governor went, but could not find his Body amongst the Dead, nor hear of him amongst all the Prisoners. He had a Pass on purpose to go to the French Army to inquire for his Lord.  
Our Army Foraged towards Haute Croix, and a Detachment of Horse under the Command of Lieutenant General Sgravenmoor, 
26./ Aug. 5.  sent to cover our Foragers, met with a considerable Detachment of French Horse, and was obliged to retreat. The Alarm came quickly to our Army, and it appeared immediately under Arms; but there was no considerable harm done of either side in the two Detachments.  
This day one Chevalier de Millevoix (so called for his Excellency in Singing, 
July 27./ Aug. 6.  and a great Master in Music, who by it had got himself to be one of the Elector of Bavaria's Domestics, and was very much considered of him, insomuch that he had a very good Pension, and made a very great Figure) was hanged upon a Tree in the Front of our Right Wing of Horse for a Spy, and for having given, and endeavoured to give Intelligence to the Marshal of Luxembourg, which was intercepted by the Elector. The Boor he employed bringing two of his Letters, one after another, to his Electoral Highness; and pretending to Millevoix; that he had fallen amongst some of our Detachments, and had been obliged to fling them away. His true Name was Jaquet, born at Lisle in the French Conquests in Flanders.  
The King being advertised that the French Army marched from Enghien to Gislenhem, 
Aug. 1./ 11.  the King marched with all the Army, (except those had been harassed at Steenkirk) to charge them in the Rear; but the Advertisement having been given too late, his Majesty could not overtake them. The French decamped in great Secrecy, without any general Beating before, or any Beat of Drum upon their March, and their Pikes trailed; which sufficiently shows, they did not care (notwithstanding their Victory) for a Second Brush. They left all our wounded Prisoners behind them at Enghien, who were sent the next day in Carts to Brussels. His Majesty this day went as far as Enghien, and had full view of the place of Battle, of the Enemy's Camp as it was before they marched off, and before we engaged. Our Army not being able to overtake the Enemy's Rear, returned the same day to Halle.  
We Foraged this day, 
Aug. 2./ 12.  and the Detachment was put under the Command of my Lord of Athlene, who being informed that several of the Enemy lay in Ambuscade in a Wood to steal our Horses, he ordered a Party to beat the Wood, where Captain Rowland Maikenzy, of that Regiment as was Sir Robert Dowglas', now my Lord George Hamilton's, made Twenty Prisoners, who begged very eernestly for Quarter, though Orders had been to give none.  
This day the Chevalier de Grandval Knight of Malta, 
3./ 13.  Bartholomew Lanier by Name, born at Liniere in Picardy, was Hanged, Drawn and Quartered, (according to the English Punishment for Traitors) in the midst of our Camp, for having conspired to assassinate the King, with Du Mont and Levendael, the first having discovered the business (as we have said before) to the Duke of Zell, and the second to his Brother in Holland: They were confronted as Witnesses of the Fact, which Grandval himself confessed and owned. This Grandval had before killed the Marshal de Humiere's Nephew in a Duel; and as there is no mercy in France for such Men, he was obliged to fly to the Duke of Savoy's Country for shelter, where in the beginning of the War he took Service. But Monsieur de Catenat finding this Grandval Serviceable to the Duke of Savoy, represented it to the French King, and desired him to give him his Pardon; being assured underhand, that he would quit the Duke's Service if he had it. Accordingly upon Catinat's Request, Grandval had the Kings Pardon, and thus left the Duke of Savoy, and came to Catinat's Army, where he was immediately preferred to be Major of Dragoons and Adjutant General. Du Mont having been formerly an Officer in the State's Service, and disobliged (I think cashiered) by our King, he was resolved to attempt a Revenge by the assassinate of his Sacred Person; accordingly he made the Motion to the then Marquis de Louvois; and this was designed to be executed in 91. when the King was in the Field, either upon the March of our Army, or at some other time when the King rid abroad to view some Posts. The Marquis de Louvous pitched upon this Grandval to bring the Assassin off, who was to command a Detachment of some stout desperate Fellows for that purpose: For Louvois thought this Man fit for the purpose, since he had been so desperate as to fight a Duel, contrary to the strictest Orders of the French King, and in which there was no hopes of Mercy, and also because he had been so much obliged by the French King in having his Pardon, in a case in which the French King had never pardoned before; and therefore he lay under some Obligation to undertake this honourable Employment. But Du Mont and Grandval missing of their Design that Campaign, and the Marquis de Louvois dying some time after, it was laid by, and Du Mont retired to Hanover. Barbesieux however finding this Project in his Father's Papers, would not let it fall, but sent for Grandval, who accordingly entered into a new Negotiation with Du Mont by Letters at Hanover, and took with him a third Associate, Levendael, at Paris, and appointed their meeting to execute their Enterprise at Endhoven near Boisleduc. I need not say any more Particulars, I refer myself to the Factum printed in several Languages by Authority, to let the World know so horrible a Villainy, and what the French Court will not attempt, though it be never so base and unworthy, to rid themselves of a powerful Enemy; and far more base and horrible than those Designs laid against the Life of William I. Prince of Orange, his Sacred Majesty's Glorious Ancestor, as this was carried with a Hellish Secrecy; whereas the King of Spain had by a public Proscription laid a Price upon the Prince's Life. These Traitors were invited to this more than Hellish Conspiracy, by the Prospect of vast Rewards promised them both by the late King and Barbesieux, as has appeared by their own Confession, and Grandval's own Letter to Mademoiselle Juré, wherein he desired her to wait upon the Archbishop of Rheins, to acquaint him, that he had obeyed the Marquis de Barbesieuxes Orders at the Expense of his Life.  
My Lord of Athlone, General of the Dutch Horse, was Precedent at the Council of War, where he was Tried, assisted by Sgravenmoor, Sir John Lanier, and Talmash, and Mackay; Lieutenant Generals La Forest de weed, Noyelles, Zobell, Major Generals. Churchill and Ramsey Brigadiers. But the business of Steenkirk cut off two of the General Officers present at the Council of War, before the passing of Sentence, so that their Names are not Signed in it, viz. Lanier and Mackay. The Sentence was passed and read Monday the 11 th' of August, at the Camp at alembic, and Executed the Wednesday following.  
This day the Army decamped from Notre dame de Halle and marched to St. Quinten Lenneck, 
Aug. 9/ 19  a place remarkable only for the Retrenchments which remain there, which Prince Waldeck caused to be made sometime before the Army's breaking up in 1690. and the next day we came to Ninove, the first Town in Flanders, situated upon the River Dender, which passing by Alost, falls into the Scheld at Dendermond. The French were at the same time encamped between Grammont in Dutch Geersberg, and Lessines, both upon the same River, about two Leagues higher. The King took his Quarter in the Abbey of the Town, of the Order of Premonstre or St. Norbet, and the Elector at a Gentleman's House not far from the Town: The King's Quarter lying something too open in this Camp in the Front of our Army, all the English and Scotch Granadiers were ordered to encamp about the King's Quarters to cover it.  
The day before this last March, (viz. the ●th) the Second Battalion of the first Regiment of Guards, my Lord Cutts' and the Prince of Hesse's Regiments were sent to Mecklen, having suffered very much in the late Engagement. Three Dutch Regiments who suffered at the same time, were commanded towards Maestricht.  
All the heavy Baggage of the Army was commanded towards Ghendt, 
Aug. 14./ 24.  under the Convoy of Four Danish Battalions who had suffered at Steenkirk, and were ordered there to quarter: They were the Battalion of Danish Guards, the Queens, Prince Christians, and the Finland Battalions. This was in order to the Armies marching the next day towards the Scheld. The Ways being difficult, and the Defilés many, the heavy Baggage was ordered to Ghendt. The next day being St. Lewis' day, 
15./ 25.  the Army marched from Ninove. The French at the same time decamped from Grammont and Lessines to pass the Scheld as soon as we; this being their Patron Saint, and reckoned amongst them as a Fortunate day: Our Left Flank laid very open all this day's March, if they had pleased to attack it; but they thought it not convenient, and so we came and encamped in very close Grounds at St. Levinus Haltheim, a pretty large Village, and considerable chiefly for the Burying-place of St. Levinus, a Scotch Man, and sometimes Bishop of Ghendt, a Martyr beheaded there, as the Legend will have it, and buried in this Church; as we came up to our Ground in this Camp, it being all high Trees and Enclosures, a Party of about 100 French were surprised Prisoners between our two Lines, the Defiles being such here that one Line could not see the other.  
The next day the Army marched and passed the Scheld at Gaure, 
Aug. 16./ 26.  a little Town belonging to the Count d' Egmont, where he has an old ruinous Palace, which gives him the Title of Prince of Gaure; the other side of the Scheld, between this River and the Lys, is all close Ground, full of Trees, belonging to the Count d' Egmont, which made such difficult Defiles, that the Army could march but very slowly; this made the French beforehand with us in their passage of the Scheld, between Audenarde and Tournay; in this March before we came upon the Scheld, we had a very fine prospect of the whole Province of Flanders, which on the other side of the Scheld is all a perfect Level, not as much as a Hill to be seen, so that the Hills on the Brabant-side give a full view and prospect of it; we had the Town of Audenarde, and the Hills and Plains of Tournay, upon our Left, Ghendt upon our Right, and before us all the Low Flanders, which gave us such a Prospect, that we could see as far as Bruges and Antwerp; this Night we encamped amongst the Woods, between the Scheld and the Lys, the King taking his Head-Quarter at Nassaret.  
The Army marched towards the Lys, 
17./ 27.  being now joined by that Detachment as was made at Genap, under the Command of Count Horn, Master of the Dutch Artillery; we had a very difficult March through the Defiles, till we passed the Lys at Deynse, which was very late in the Evening, tho' but a short March, by reason of the narrowness of the ways: the Army encamped late at Night on the other side of the River; the King took his Quarter at Grammen, and the Elector of Bavaria in the Town of Deynse, situated upon the Lys, about three Leagues higher than Ghendt, and gives the Title to the Marquis Deynse, Colonel of a Walloon Regiment, as we relieved at Dam. The Saturday following we were joined by three Regiments of Horse lately come from England, viz. that as was Sir John Lanier's, now Col. Lumley's, my Lord of Athlone, and Col. Schack's, who then took their Post in the Line.  
The Marshal of Luxemburg marching as we did, to observe our motions, came about the same time with his Army to Harlebec, where he encamped between that place and Courtray, along the Lys; Luxemburg made the more haste to cover Courtray, a place which lies open all the Summer, and which the French have hitherto pallisadoed and fortified every Winter for a Garrison, and of which we might have otherwise possessed ourselves, and made it a Winter-Quarter for our Troops; here Luxemburg lay ready likewise to cover Ipres or Dunkirk, in case the Army had marched that way.  
The King ordered this day a Detachment of Six Regiments towards the Canal of Bruges, 
21./ 31.  five being English and Scotch, viz. Bath, Castleton, Mackay, Graham, and Leven, and the Sixth Major-General Wey's Regiment of Dutch, commanded by Count d' Ohna; this Detachment marched accordingly towards the Canal of Bruges, and passed it about half way, between Bruges and Ghendt, upon a Bridge of Boats, and encamped the other side of the Canal, under the Command of Brigadier Ramsey; the next day the said Detachment continued their March towards Bruges, and encamped within a quarter of a mile of that place, about Katarina Port, where they halted the next day to expect Lieutenant General Talmash, who was detached the 22d of August, O. S. Sept. 1. N. S. from the Army, with five Battalions, most English and Scotch, viz. his own of Guards, Second Battalion of Scotch Guards, Col. Trelawney, English Fuziliers, commanded by Col. Fitz-Patrick, and that Regiment as was Col. Hodges, 
Aug. 23./ Sept. 2.  now Col. Stanley's, who came up to Bruges by the same Road as Brigadier Ramsey's Detachment had marched, and encamped just under the Walls. The same day the Dutch Regiment commanded by Count d' Ohna, marched through Bruges, and joined four Dutch Regiments of the Garrison of Bruges and Sluys, who were put under the Command of Major-General Count de Noyelles, who marched the same day towards Newport.  
This Day the aforesaid Detachment of ten English and Scotch Battalions, 
24./ Sept. 3.  under the Command of Lieutenant-General Talmash. marched through the Town of Bruges, and so kept along the Canal of Ostend, till they came to Placendael, where we turned to the Left upon the Canal of Newport, and so encamped at Oudembourg, an old ruinous Town about half a League from Placendael, where the Canal of Newport falls into that of Ostend, and so goes on to Bruges: there are still some ruinated Ramparts about the Abbey of St. Pierre in this old Town, of the Order of St. Benoist, where Lieutenant General Talmash took his Quarters for that Night.  
This Detachment of ten Battalions from the King's Army, under the Command of Lieutenant-General Talmash, was sent to join the Duke of Leinster, who on the 22d Aug. O. S. Sept. 1. N. S. came with the Transport-Ships, under the Convoy of a Squadron of our Men of War, into Ostend Harbour, having on board fifteen Regiments, (viz.) Selwyn, Beaumond, Hastings, Sir David Collier, Tiffeny, Westmeath, Brewer, Venner, Sir John Morgan, Lloyd, Beveridge, Earl of Argyle, La Meloniere, Belcastel, and Cambon; these Troops as they landed marched to Mariekirk, about a League from Ostend, towards Newport, where they encamped some days to refresh themselves; the Duke of Leinster at his landing, ordered a Detachment of Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Officers, and Men proportionable, out of his Transport-Troops, to keep Guard at all the Passes along the Canal, from Placendael to Newport.  
The Detachment under the Command of Lieutenant-General Talmash, 
Aug. 25./ Sept. 4.  marched from Oudenbourg, along the Canal of Newport, and so came to Newendam, a square Fort within half a League of Newport, where there is a Spanish Governor, and a small Garrison detached from time to time from the Garrison of Newport. Majer-General Count de Noyelles, who was since Bruges still a days march before us, entered this day into Furnes without any opposition, with the five Dutch Regiments under his Command, and took possession of the place. This Town lies upon a Canal, between Newport, and Berg St Winnox, within two Leagues of Newport, three of Berg St. Winnox, and about five from Dunkirk; and in all the Wars between the two Crowns, since Dunkirk and Berg have been in the French hands, this Town has still served for a Winter-Quarter to the French, which in the Spring they still abandoned, to have their Garrison in the Field, and returned their Pallisades to Berg or Dunkirk, and in the Winter they took care to fortify it, so as to hold a Garrison for Winter-Quarters. It is about the bigness of Ostend, and has in it a Parish-Church, a Collegiate Church of Secular Priests, the Dean whereof is a Frenchman, two Cloisters of Nuns, one of Capucins, and an Abbey of White Monks of Premonstré, or the Order of St. Norbert, and is in the Diocese of Ipres.  
Lieutenant-General Talmash, 
Aug. 26./ Sept. 5.  with the Detachment under his Command, marched from Newendam, and came to Furnes, in Dutch called Vuernes, and encamped close by it; and a day or two after the Boars (that had been summoned about Ghendt and Bruges, with their Spades and Shoovels, and other Instruments, to remove the Earth, and had been commanded hither) began to work about the Fortifications, being about 2 or 3000, Col. Cambon being Engineer; nothing new was added to the Fortifications, but only we renewed those Works as the French had ruined, when they left it the beginning of this Campaigne. The Duke of Leinster came likewise with the Transport-Troops, and encamped at host Dunkirk, about a Mile from Talmash's Detachment, and at the same time he was joined by a Detachment from the great Army, of about thirty Squadrons of Horse, under the Command of Brigadier Boncourt; so that now we made a Body of about Sixteen thousand Men, besides the Garrison of Furnes. We made Detachments and Parties almost every Night towards Dunkirk, but without meeting any of the Enemy's; and assoon as we had put the Body of that place in a condition to hold an Assault, pallisadoed it, and cleansed the Ditch, we left the Boars to repair the rest of the Works, under the cover of the Garrison; we likewise left some Artillery to put upon the Ramparts, 
Sept. 7./ 17.  and so marched to Dixmuyde, the Battalion of Guards, Selwyns, and the Fuziliers, and some other Regiments having been sent over Night to possess themselves of the place; which was put per Interim under the Command of Brigadier Ramsey. Upon our March, the Fort of Knock fired three Pieces of Cannon, supposed to give Notice to the French of our march that way: This is a little square Fort situated upon the River that comes to Dixmuyde about a League and a half, and is very advantageously posted upon a considerable Pass between Ipres, Dixmuyde, Furnes, Berg and Dunkirk, the Canals between Ipres and those places meeting all here; so that the taking of this Fort would have cut off the Communication between Ipres, Berg and Dunkirk, and would have covered very much our Garrison of Dixmuyde, which did lie now very open by the Neighbourhood of this Fort.  
'Twas supposed we had a Design to attack it, since our Train of Artillery, Mortar-pieces, and other things necessary for an Attack were brought by Water from Newport to Dixmuyde, and that my Lords Portland and Auverquerque were sent from the King to the Duke of Leinster here, which looked like a Consultation about some considerable Enterprise: Besides, Col. Cambon our Engenier was sent to view the place under the Escorte of a good Detachment of Horse. The Fort fired upon them with their Canon, but without any loss on our side: But the French upon our March this way, soon made a considerable Detachment from their Army to cover this place, who encamped close under the Fort.  
When we came to Dixmuyde we encamped just by it, in two Lines, having our Right at Caeskirk, where the Duke of Leinster had his Quarter, our Left upon the Town, and our Rear covered by the River Tser, upon which this Town is situated, and which falls into the Sea at Newport. This Town, since the growing Power of France, has suffered many Revolutions; it was first taken for the French (as I have been told by some ancient People of the Town) by the Marshal de Rantzaw, before the Siege of Dunkirk, and surrendered afterwards by Treaty to the Spaniards: It was then of a far larger Extent than 'tis now: For in the Wars of 1672. the Count de Monterey, than Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, caused the Out Parts of the Town to be pulled down to bring it in a more convenient Compass for a Fortification, and for a place of Defence, and so fortified it after the manner as we find it now. But sometime after the Spanish Garrison finding themselves very weak, and the Enemy not far from them, they quitted the Place. I was told by the Inhabitants, that it was about that time as Luxembourg was besieged. All this War the French have had it in their Hands, making a Garrison of it every Winter, which with Furnes pressed Newport very much, the Garrison making their Incursions upon the Canals, and sometimes to the very Gates of Bruges. Every Summer as they took the Field, they pulled down their Pallisadoes, and sent them by Water to Ipres. This Town has in it a Parish Church, in which there is a Dean, and some Secular Canons, a Cloister of Recollects, and two Nunneries, and is in the Diocese of Ipres. Just out of Ipres Port was formerly a Nunnery of the Order of St. Bernard, which the Count de Monterey caused to be pulled down, when he brought the Town in the Precinct of that Fortification it has now, and gave the Nuns another Cloister in exchange for it in Bruges.  
We felt an Earthquake which lasted about two Minutes, 
Sept. 8./ 18.  and shook the Earth very violently; it was felt at the same time all over Flanders, in many parts of England and France, and in other places of Europe: We had it about Two of the Clock; it caused a great Consternation in our new Garrison of Dixmuyde, some thinking at first that the French had undermined several parts of the Town, and were in Ambuscade going to blow them up.  
The same day the Duke of Leinster caused the Army to entrench, which was marked out by Col. Cambon, our Left and Rear being covered by the Town and the River. Our Retrenchments were drawn from the Bridge upon the River along the Front of the Army, and round our Right Wing, till they came to join the River again. (Boufflers marching towards the Knock) this Precaution was taken, in case he would have endeavoured to interrupt our Fortification of Dixmuyde.  
About as many Boors were (immediately upon our coming) employed to repair the Works of this place as we left at Furnes: We did not find the Fortification of this Town so far ruined as at Furnes, and followed in it (as there) those Works as the Ruins prescribed, without altering or making any new: We only made the Ditch next the Body of the place larger, to make our Bastions of a better height. This Town has five Bastions on that part as is exposed to an Attack that is from the Windmill between Ipres port and though River, to the Gate as leads to Bruges. The West side of the Town is covered by the River, to which it joins by a Causey-way that leads to it, where it has a Bridge covered on the outside by a good Bastion, and the inside with a square Sconce, both ditched and pallisadoed. The Canal of Newport goes through the South part of the Town, and joins the River a little below; and being a perfect Morass on this side, it does not require much Fortification. The Town is environed with a double Ditch and covered way, and the Faces of each Bastion are covered with a Half-Moon, besides good spacious Ravelins upon the Curtains. This is what we had to repair; and to go on with the more Speed, a Detachment of a hundred Men per Battalion (except the Guards) were commanded to work, under the Inspection of a Captain, Lieutenant and Ensign, each; so that we had, 
Sept. 10./ 20  Soldiers and Boors, very near 5000 Men on work every day. The six Regiments that were in Town came out and encamped, and six others were ordered in their places, (viz.) Princess Ann's, the Earl of Bathe's, Lord Castleton's, Col. Venner's, Col. Mackay's, and Earl of Leven's, and encamped within the Ramparts of the Town, where, besides the ordinary Guard, a Re-inforcement of the Bewarke mounted every Night at each Port towards the Enemy.  
This day the ordinary Detachments of the Earl of Bathe's Regiment and Fusiliers, 
12./ 22.  being at work at the Bastion by Ipres part in enlarging the Ditch, found an old hidden Treasure, which quickly stopped the Soldiers working, who fell all a scrambling in a heap one upon another, some bringing off a very good Booty, some Gold and some Silver, several Jacobus' and Sovereins' being found by the Soldiers, and a great many old Pieces of Silver of Henry the Second, Charles' the Ninth, Henry the Third, Henry the Fourth's Coin, which are now hardly to be found in France. The People of the Town suppose that this Money belonged to one Elfort a Gentleman, dead many years ago, who buried his Treasure (when the Marshal de Rantzau took the Town) in the Bernardine Nuns Garden, (this Ground where the Money was found having been formerly in that Garden) which Count de Monterey caused to be demolished; and they think that there might have been about 900 Pound Groot, which makes the value of Four Hundred and Fifty Guineas English. This Elfort left it by Will to his Children, and the Marks where to find it, but his Children could never discover it. 'Tis a wonder that it has not been found till now, since the French have worked every Winter this War, and several times before, in repairing the Works of this Fortification; 'tis very likely that we should have gone without it too, if we had not enlarged the Ditch at this time.  
Count Horn, 
Sept. 21./ Octob. 1.  Master of the Dutch Artillery, who has had the Command both of Furnes and Dixmuyde given him, came to this place with Five Dutch Regiments, and Colonel Lauders, to Garrison there this Winter; and the other six Regiments that were there marched out and encamped with the Army: But the Works being now pretty well repaired, these six Regiments were ordered to march towards Newport under the Command of Major General Sir Henry Bellassis, 
23./ Octob. 3.  who encamped at a Village called St. George, about half a League from Newport, and on the Mondny following the Duke of Leiuster came to the same place with the rest of the Forces under his Command. The Train of Artillery was ordered back to Newport, 
Sept. 26./ Octob. 6.  under the Escarte of Sir Henry Bellassis' Detachment, where it was put on board our Transport Ships. The Horse likewise marched away to join each Detachment their proper Body in the great Army.  
All the English and Scotch Battalions as were to Winter in the Country, 
29./ Octob. 9  marched towards their Winter-Quarters, under the Command of Lietenant General Talmash towards Bruges, and were Cantoned that night upon Oudenbourg, and the next day they Cantoned in the Villages about Bruges, Lieutenant General Talmash having his Quarter at the Abbey of St. Andrew where the rest of the English and Scotch that were to have their Winter Quarters at Bruges were detached from the great Army to join him, (viz.) First Battalion of Scotch Guards, Lord George Hamilton's two Battalions, Col. O Farrel's and Col. Monro's; the other Troops under Lieutenant General Talmash's Command, as were to go to Winter Quarters to Ghendt and Mecklen, marched on through Bruges, and Cantoned some days upon the Canal, (viz.) Lieutenant General Talmash's. Battalion of Guards, Col. Trelawny and the Fusiliers. But upon the Enemy's Motion about Charleroy, 
Octob. 2./ 12.  they joined the great Army again at Drongen. The Earl of Bathe's Regiment was ordered to Dam for Winter Quarters, a strong little Garrison between Bruges and Sluys, situated upon a Canal that goes to Bruges (having such Sluices under its Command, that it can overflow all the Country about) where the Regiment came the 4/14th of October. The rest of the Troops Cantoned about Bruges, came to Garrison one after another as fast as Quarters could be made ready for them. Col. Beveredge's and Stanley's Regiments remained behind at Dixmuyde for some time to reinforce the Garrison, till others came to relieve them, and then they were ordered to Ostend for their Winter Quarters.  
As for the most remarkable Transactions in the great Army since we had left it, they continued encamped at dainty and Grammen, whilst his Majesty remained in the Field; and some days after we had been detached from thence, the King was informed that a Party of French was made of about 500 Men to come and surprise one of our Out Quarters, and ordered thereupon a suitable Detachment to lie in Ambuscade to receive them; but upon the Approach of the Enemy, some of ours spoilt the Design by firing too soon; and so the French retired only with the Loss of Two Men.  
His Majesty left the Field on Friday the 16th of September, O. S. and went to Breda, and afterwards to Loo, where His Majesty remained between a Fortnight and three Weeks, whereby the Command of the Army remained in the Elector of Bavaria's hands; who sometimes after marched nearer to Ghendt, part encamping about Drongen on the Lys, and part at Gaureon, the Scheld making a Line of Communication between them, the distance being but small; the Elector took his Quarters at Drongen, a very fine and noble Abbey of White Monks of the Order of St. Norbert, and about a League from Ghendt; afterwards his Electoral Highness removed towards Alost, where 'twas designed to separate into Winter Quarters; but the Count de Montal having joined the Marquis de Boufflers on the other side of the Sambre, and both making a considerable Body, marched towards Charleroy, with a Train of Artillery, Bombs, and Mortar-pieces, with a design to attack it; this obliged the Elector to march with his Army towards Brussels, and afterwards to advance as far as Waterloo and Genap, to be ready to relieve it, in case of an attack. Baron Fleming with the Brandenburg and Liege Troops, having repassed the Meuse at Hue, marched up to Fleury to join his Electoral Highness.  
The Marquis de Boufflers finding Affairs in so good a posture, contented himself to bombard the Lower Town of Charleroy, which lies on the other side of the Sambre, whereabouts Boufflers lay encamped, he began this Work on Sunday the 9th of October, O. S. and continued till the Tuesday following; where his Bombarding cost infinitely more to his Master, than the Mischief he caused could amount to, this being the most inconsiderable part of Charleroy, and the Fortifications of it altogether neglected, that lying open to the Enemy. Upon these motions of the French towards Charleroy, the King who was lately come from Loo to the Hague, 
Octob. 9/ 19  went Post to Brussels, where his Majesty arrived Octob. 9 and lay that night at his own Palace, and returned the next day to the Hague, after having held a Council of War with the Elector of Bavaria, and other great Officers of the Army; my Lord of Athlone was thereupon detached from the Army, with Ammunitions, Provisions, and other Necessaries for the Relief of Charleroy, with an Escorte of 4000 Horse and Dragoons, which his Lordship got safely into the Town.  
Boufflers having left Charleroy, the Armies on both sides began to separate towards their Winter-Quarters. Great Garrisons have been put in Brussels, Mecklen, Ghent, Vilvord, and Dendermond, and along the Canal; so that in Four and twenty hours' time, upon any motion of the French, we can have a considerable Army about Brussels.  
His Majesty being come back to the Hague, sailed some days after for England, where he arrived at Tarmouth the 18th day of October, and thence went to London; where His Majesty was received with universal Joy and Acclamation, for his happy and safe return. And thus I have brought the relation of the most remarkable Transactions of this Campaign in the King's Army to a conclusion, whereby it appears, that if other things did second the unwearied Pains, the indefatigable Toils and Labours His Majesty takes, and the continued Dangers he exposeth himself to, the French Arms would not flourish so much as they have done hitherto; and whatever Advantages the French have really had, or to which they pretend in this Campaigne, yet the King's Subjects have not in the least disgraced the Renown and Glory of their Ancestors in it; but have acquired to themselves such Reputation, as has forced even a Commendation, and I may safely say, Fear from their Enemies. We have a sort of People, who in magnifying the French Greatness, and how useless our Efforts have been in Flanders to suppress it, would insinuate, that because he is Great, that it is best to yield to what we can't resist; and since we have had no more success in Flanders, 'tis best let it go, and stand for the rest upon our own Defence, which indeed is the only way to break the Alliance, and have this very Power (which they so much magnify) wholly upon our Arms, so that a Man has reason to suspect, that such Insinuations do underhand tend to introduce a French Power amongst us. If the French King is so Great, all as a rational Man can infer is, that therefore our Efforts ought to be so much the greater; and that we are to make use of the utmost of our Powers, not only to resist, but to endeavour to humble this formidable Power, to which the way seems already open by our Signal Victory at Sea; 'tis very plain, that if a stop can be put to the French King's Proceedings, it must be by an English Power, and that 'tis only by the Vigour and Greatness of our Efforts as he can be humbled; which I am sure is a thing to be wished by all true Englishmen, and to which every one that is such will contribute, according to his Condition and Capacity, to the utmost of his Power.  
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