Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

MENTZ, March 16.

Extrait of a private Letter.

"General Count Clairfayt has received positive orders to exert his utmost effort to throw provision and ammunition into Luxembourg, and his army is already on its march thither with a large train of carts and waggons, laden with ammunition and provisions. The General is fully sensible of the great difficulties attending this enterprise, but his distinguished military talents, and great experience, allow us to hope that he will be able to surmount them, and that the expedition will be crowned with success.

"Although the city of Luxembourg is not large, yet the lines of circumvallation, on account of the advanced works stretching every where, to half a leagues distance from the town, are of an immense extent. This distance of the body of the place, together with the difficulty of approaching it, arising from the works being cut in a solid rock of stupendous height and bigness on which neither mines or the best directed artillery can have any effect, render it impossible to reduce Luxembourg by any other means than a long and vigorous blockade. Several Newspapers have long since announced that the Republicans had began to bombard that fortress, but you may be sure that on the 4th inst. not a bomb had yet been thrown, or a cannon shot fired against it.

"The Austrian Army is perfectly recovered from the fatigues of the last campaign. The removal of some suspicious Officers has restored the former harmony and mutual confidence in the army; and the impression which the success of the Republicans at the end of last campaign had made on the minds of the private men, is completely worn away. Mr. Froissard is succeeded in the important post of Adjutant-General by Mr. Grimm, an officer universally respected and beloved. The whole army ardently desires the return of Major-General Mack, but it is much to be feared, that the influence of his enemies will prevent his being again employed."