The Virginia Gazette

PARIS, August 10.

The King, who went on the 5th in the Morning to Choisi, received next Day the disagreeable News, that his Army on the lower Rhine had been entirely defeated by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick: His Majesty was so much affected with this Blow, that, being just mounted on his Horse to go on a grand Hunting-Party in the Forest of Senlis, he sent away all his Horses and Dogs, and shut himself up in his Closet. Though we have no Detail of this Action, it is reported that there are 500 Officers and 12 or 13,000 private Men killed, wounded, or taken Prisoners; that the Cavalry suffered most, especially the Gendarmerie, most of whom are cut off; that the Infantry, being intercepted, could not engage; and that the Fury of the Hanoverians was stopped only by the Cannon of Minden. Among the Officers slain in the Field are reckoned several Princes, and Noblemen of the highest Rank.
Hague, August 23. The Defeat of the French by Prince Ferdinand is, perhaps, all Circumstances considered, as great an Event as has happened in our Time. This Victory was gained against a great Superiority of Numbers; in Truth, a much greater Superiority than is imagined. Yet, it was not gained by Chance or Accident, or by the Enemy's being struck with a panic Terror; but by great military Skill and Prudence, deriving every possible Advantage from Situation; improving even the smallest Circumstance in Time of Action, and by the Vigor, Firmness, and excellent Discipline of the Troops; which, taken together, administer as much Matter for future Hope, as Joy for the present Success. It is a Victory! that has in a great Measure already delivered the Electorate of Hanover from the Horrors, if not from the Oppressions, of War, and will speedily oblige the barbarous Invaders to quit the Territories of her Allies, whose Forces shared the Honor of that glorious Day, and who have the justest Title to Share likewise the Benefits that spring from it. A Victory! that saves Hanover, and Brunswick, from being treated, we hope, in this Century, as the Palatinate was in the last, and which Treatment she has not recovered at this Day, though one of the finest Countries in Germany.

But the Influence of this great Action extends much farther. It has not only prevented those Countries from being turned into one wide howling Wilderness, but deferred, at least, if not defeated, the grand Design which has been concerted to subvert the civil and religious Constitution of the Empire, the real End for which the two Royal Electors were to be sacrificed. This has totally spoiled the Scheme of investing his Prussian Majesty in his own Territory; crushing his whole Power at once; and burying, as they boasted they would, the Monarch and the Monarchy under the Ruins of its Capital.