Gazette Of The United States

From Charleston Papers.

HAMBURGH, November 20.

Since the action of the 10th and 11th instant, in which the field was bravely disputed on both sides, but in which the Austrians only gathered fresh laurels, field marshal Clairfayt having successfully directed his operations against that wing of general Pichegru's army, which was protected by Mannheim—immediately dispatched major, now col. Williams, to the head quarter of general Wurmser, with orders to treat the beautiful city of Mannheim with the utmost severity. The field marshal therefore began the most terrible bombardment upon that city, which commenced between five and six o'clock in the evening of the 11th, and lasted till four o'clock next morning. It was repeated on the night of the 12th, and so terrible was its effect, persons who were at that time in Frankfort, say, that the flames illuminated the whole horizon, so that the conflagration could even be discovered in that city.

On the 13th, Mannheim had not surrendered—but in the morning of that day, two Austrian trumpeters were let into the town, from which it was consequently inferred, that the capitulation was going forward. The French garrison, indeed, will find it difficult to hold out any longer, as the destruction of the Rhine bridge, and the capture of the Fort of the Rhine, has cut off all communication between them and the opposite side of the Rhine.