Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

From the London Gazette.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 12.

By intelligence received from the Earl of Yarmouth, dated Brumpt, Austrian head-quarters, October 24, it appears, that on the morning of the 27, General Wurmser, having received information that Hagenau had surrendered to the advanced corps, under Gen. Mageröe, he immediately put the bulk of his army into motion, and arrived there that night, a few hours before it had been evacuated by the enemy, who had made so precipitate a retreat, as to neglect breaking down the wooden bridges over which the artillery was to pass. That, on the 18th, the French encamped on the right side of Zorn, a small river that runs through Brumpt—but on perceiving some interval between Gen. Mageröe's advanced corps, consisting of about 6000 men, and the other columns of the army, they crossed the river, and attacked him with their whole force, in the evident expectation of turning his flank, and cutting him off from the rest of the army. The action lasted 7 hours—but upon perceiving the rest of the Austrian army move forward, the French re-crossed the river, and evacuated the heights and town of Brumpt, of which the Austrians took possession. The loss on the part of the French, is estimated to be about 800 men, and that of the Austrians nearly half that number killed and wounded. That the prince of Waldeck had advanced with his corps from Seltz, and marched along the banks of the Rhine—That he had compelled the surrender of Drusenheim, and after having driven the garrison of Fort Louis, with loss, had invested the place. That, in the course of the night, the French had abandoned their position on the Zorn, retreated under the cannon of Strasburg. That Gen. Wurmser was at the distance of nine English miles from that place.

In addition to the accounts already published, of forcing the lines of Weissembourg and Lauterbourg, it appears that the Austrian army had between seven and eight hundred men killed and wounded, and that the loss of the French consisted of between 3 or 4000 killed; from 5 to 6000 prisoners, and 26 pieces of cannon, with their ammunition, waggons and horses. The retreat of the French on this occasion was greatly favored by a thick fog.