The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

Extract of a letter from the royalist army, dated Angers, July 29.

At length I have the pleasure of communicating to you the most pleasing events. We have fought several days successively; and the action of the 18th completed our joy and gratitude towards the supreme being. The Christian and loyal army has entirely destroyed that of the Atheists. They have had 6000 killed, nearly the same number wounded, and 3000 made prisoners. The remainder are so dispersed, that they will not appear again. All their artillery, ammunition waggons, baggage and provisions, are in our possession.

God has blessed us with a complete victory. His aid almost manifested itself towards us on the 24th inst. We had heard that the bridge of Ce was guarded by 3000 men: we in consequence approached within a league of it on the 23d: and the next day, at three in the morning, we ranged our small army in order of battle, to attack it at day-break.

The enemy suffered us to approach within cannon shot, and then discharged twelve pieces at us. We immediately cried out, The Sword of God, and Louis his follower, and rushed like lions on the 3000 men, put them almost all to the sword, and took all their artillery. There, on the bridge, dyed with the blood of the enemies of God, we made the air resound with the praises of the Lord, whose exterminating angel undoubtedly marched before us.

After this last victory we entered Angers, where the white flag was on all sides as well as in almost all the provinces of Anjou. We have just dispatched a courier to order the column of the royal army, stationed beyond the bridges of Nantes, to approach that city on the 4th of August, in order to give the alarm on that side, but to undertake nothing until we shall be ready ourselves, to make the attack on the other side.