Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

BRUMDT, (in Alsace) Oct. 2.

The career of our successes is checked. We have been most unexpectedly stopped by an army of 50,000 French, who have advantageously posted themselves near Strasbourg, and entrenched towards the side of the Saverne. Gen. Wurmser, sees himself reduced to the necessity of acting on the defensive, as well as the Prussians on this side of Saverne, who have been obliged to fall back, and to support themselves by the right wing of the Austrian army. We imagine that a general action is now indispensable, as we cannot remain eight days in our present position without the most imminent hazard, and we have no longer any thing to hope from the favorable dispositions of the people of Strasbourg. Our negotiations were discovered; and the Commissioners from the Convention have so effectually intimidated all those who were inclined to open the gates to us so many of them have indeed been seized, and so many more denounced—that we dread the fate of our incursion. This astonishing army of Republicans has been formed in three days, and it swells like a torrent. They are half armed, and want every thing but an enthusiasm for liberty, which perhaps is better than our discipline. Our hope is, that the Swiss Cantons will at length give up their system of neutrality, and declare against these Anarchists.