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A37139 The history of the campagne in Flanders, for the year, 1695 with an account of the seige of Namur / by Edward D'auvergne ... D'Auvergne, Edward, 1660-1737. 1692 (1692) Wing D296; ESTC R224871 132,710 198

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flank'd of both sides with Ipres upon the Right and Menin and Courtray upon the Left and the Enemies Line in our Front yet we lost but very few Horses there being still good Guards upon the Woods to cover our grazing which was still done by order The 14th the King was informed that the Enemies had a design upon our Bread-Waggons coming from Bruges and that they were to fall upon them at Rouselar for which reason my Lord Essex was detached with Five Hundred Dragoons to joyn our Convoy at Rouselar and my Lord Portland went with Five Hundred Dragoons more Commanded under his Lordship by Brigadier Wynne sustained by some Horse to endeavour to meet with the Enemies upon their way being advised that they were to pass that Evening by Moorsleede accordingly my Lord Portland overtook them in this place and the Dragoons had orders to dismount and attack them which they did with a great deal of Courage The Enemies were Commanded by a Lieutenant-Colonel about Four Hundred strong they had made some Barricades of Waggons which they defended no longer than to gain time to make their escape but notwithstanding a Captain with about Thirty Men remained Prisoners and they had several killed and wounded The fire was very hot for above half an hour and the Count de Soissons who was here as Voluntier very much incouraged our Men and was very well pleased with their way of falling on Count de Soissons is Brother to the Prince Eugene of Savoy Velt-Mareschal General of the Emperours Forces in Piemont and a near Kinsman to the Duke of Savoy The French King would oblige him to serve in Piemont with his Regiment against the Duke of Savoy which he refused and quitted and retired with the French Kings leave out of the Country But the French King hearing he was gone into England he was so netled at it that he ordered the Countess de Soissons his Wife immediately to leave the Kingdom He served in our Army this whole Campagne as Voluntier being waited upon by the Kings own Servants and he was still with the King upon all occasions He is a Person of a very fine Education very civil and obliging and very brave which has gained him the esteem and affections of all Persons of Quality in our Army But to return to the business of Moorsleede Lieutenant Webb was killed in this occasion Brother to Lieutenant-Colonel Webb of the Guards Brigadier Wynne was wounded in the Knee which though it was not esteemed very dangerous at first yet he dyed afterwards of this Wound at Ghent being generally regretted The King has since given his Regiment of Dragoons to Colonel Rosse Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment who has been one of the Kings Aide de Camps the three last Campagnes Captains Collins and Holdgate were likewise wounded both Officers of Dragoons The next day our Convoy of Bread-Waggons came safe to the Camp and with them my Lord Rivers Major-General of Horse Monsieur de Zuylenstein Lieutenant-General created by His Majesty Earl of Rochsord and my Lord Cutts Brigadier being lately come over from England Besides the miscarriage of the Enemies upon the coming of our Bread-Waggons to the Camp they had received the same misfortune before upon their going to Bruges above Fifty of them having been carried Prisoners into this place by our Detachment The 15th at Night a Party of the French fell upon an Outpost of Bannieres Brigade at Sonnebeck where they made several Prisoners most of them Swissers of T●har●ers Regiment The 17th the Duke of Wirtemberg had Orders to withdraw his Forces from before Kenoque and to march back to Dixmuyde Nothing extraordinary happened in the attack of this place from the 9th of which we have given an account to the time of raising the pretended Siege save that the 10th Montal passed the Canal of Loo with a good Detachment of his best Troops with a design to have surprized out Out guards but the Duke of Wirtemberg had notice of it and the Guards were so ordered that upon some fire of both sides which allarme● the Camp the French retreated fearing an Ambuscade which was ready for them The 17th in the Afternoon the Artillery and Baggage had orders to march from our Camp at Becelar to Rouselar Escorted by Bannieres Brigade from Sonnebeck and St. Pauls from the Kings Quarter They marched all Night meeting now and then with French Parties which would have broken in upon the Line of Baggage but the Brigades were so disposed upon the Front Flanks and Rear that they were still repulsed Orders were given for the Army to march the next Day The 18th the Army marched the first Line upon the Right by Sonnebeck Passendal and Roosebeck to Rouselar the same way that we had come to this Camp the second Line marched upon the Left gaining by Moorsleede the high way from Menin to Rouselar Packmoe●'s Brigade had the Rear-guard with seven pieces of Cannon to make good our retreat out of the Enemies Country The King remained with the Rear-guard to see all safely march off Villeroy had a great mind to have fallen upon our Rear in this March having upon notice of it ordered a Detachment of many Squadrons of his best Horse and Dragoons with which he marched very early out of the Line to observe our motion directing his way from Ipres towards the Windmill of Gel●velt to have come into our Camp by Becelar But such was the order of our March that he was obliged to see us march quietly off That day we came to Rousela with our Camp as before between Hooghleed and Rombeck Bannieres Brigade incamped upon the Right before the Village of Hooghleed where Prince Vaudemont had his Quarter The Army halted the next day but matters being ready for the great and glorious undertaking of this Campagne the King left the Camp at Rouselar very early the 19th in the Morning to go towards the Meuse with the Troops of Life-Guards of Ormond and Auverquerque the Horse Granadiers my Lord Portlands Regiment of Horse and Dopfs Dragoons Commanded by Brigadier L'Etang The main of which Body kept with the Kings Domesticks and Baggage but His Majesty had a sufficient Escorte to hasten on before We had made great preparations at Maestricht of Artillery Mortars Bombs and all manner of Ammunitions and all the Boats of the Meuse at Liege Maestricht and Huy were detained for the States Service And tho' all this threatned Namur yet the French had brought all their Forces within their Lines without keeping any Body to guard the passages of the Sambre Whether it was that they thought Villeroys Bouflers and Montals Forces were but sufficient to defend their Lines against the King and the Elector of Bavaria's or that they depended upon the strength of Namur and the goodness of the Garrison in it and the difficulty of a Siege They left the Sambre unfurnished of Troops But His Majesty expected only the junction of the Brandenburg and Liege Forces
Reason that his Majesty has sent me an Order to come and bombard Brussels and at the same time to declare that 't is with Reluctancy that the King has put himself upon it and that as soon as he shall be assur'd that the Sea-Ports of France shall be no more Bombarded the King likewise will not bombard any Places belonging to the Princes against whom he is at War reserving nevertheless the liberty on both sides to do it in such Places as shall be besieg'd His Majesty has resolv'd upon the Bombarding of Brussels with so much the more Pain that the Elect'ress of Bavaria is there If you will let me know in what part of the Town she is the King has commanded me to forbid to fire there I shall stay for your Answer till Five of the Clock in the Evening after that I shall obey the Orders the King has given me without delay The Prince of Bergu●s having receiv'd this Letter communicated it to the Elector and immediately after sent the following ANSWER dated at Brussels the 13th of August New Style 1695. SIR THE Declaration you have sent me of the Orders you have from the King your Master to Bombard the Town of Brussels and the Reason which his said Majesty does alledge upon which you demand an Answer it cannot be given by his Electoral Highness who is just now arriv'd since it regards the King of Great-Britain who is before the Castle of Namur but his Electoral Highness will acquaint him with it to have an Answer in 24 Hours if you agree to it As for the Consisideration his most Christian Majesty has for the Elect'ress she is ●●t the King's Palace A Manifesto of the same Nature was publish'd in the Paris-Gazette only with this difference That it magnifies more the French King's Reluctancy to such Undertakings and his Abhorrence of such Executions as if he knew nothing of the Matter before till the Inhumane Allies taught it him at Dieppe Havre-de-Grace St. Malo's Granville and Calais Besides That the Allies had hitherto made it their principal Glory to bombard Places which had no other share in the War but their Sighs Wishes and Prayers to see an end of it Alas poor People they have had no other share in the War but their Wishes for Peace they have not done the least Prejudice to the English and Dutch Commerce and Navigation their Privateers have not infested our Coasts and enrich'd themselves by the Spoils of our best Merchant-Ships No these poor innocent harmless People have had no share in the Mischiefs of this War they have remain'd quiet at home praying for Peace The Gentleman adds That it has been in the King's Power to bombard the Towns belonging to the Allies but that he had hitherto avoided it expecting that the Allies themselves would put a stop to such Proceedings but now that he was forc'd to it by way of Reprisal witness Liege 't is true that he could have bombarded Ghendt and Bruges this Campaign but the bombarding of Brussels would make more noise of the invincible Monarch's Power and then the Castle of Namur was press'd and the French were resolv'd to attempt the Relief of it so that we need not thank the French King's Goodness if Ghendt and Bruges escap'd At last the Manifesto concludes with magnifying the Greatness of the Action that it was done in the Face of Prince Vaudemont's Army who did not dare to prevent the Bombarding of this Place by hazarding of a Battel whereas Villeroy's Army only look'd for an occasion of fighting And here he tells a Truth which he all along seem'd to conceal Before the Bombarding of Brussels was for a Reprisal to return the Mischiefs upon this Town which the English and Dutch did to the Sea-Ports of France but now at last it is to bring the Allies to a Battel that they attempt the bombarding of Brussels They thought the Allies would have hazarded any thing rather than suffer the burning of this Town but they have been mistaken and Namur taken their coming before Brussels has not reliev'd it as they expected As for Villeroy's Letter it is more a Wonder that such Reasons should be alledged for the bombarding of it than that the French King should bombard it at all For the ways of the French are so well known that without pretending to alledge any thing to justifie their Proceeding I dare say no body wou●d have been surpriz'd at it But to pretend to bombard Brussels with Pain and Reluctancy as if they were forc'd to it by way of Reprisal and as if his Most Christian Majstey abhorr'd such Proceedings is such incoherent Stuff that the whole World knows the contrary If a Man red this Letter that knew nothing of the Actions of the fore-going Years he would believe the French to be the most merciful People in the World and that they did not know what Bombarding was till we had taught it them Whereas this barbarous Treatment of Towns is wholly due to them and 't is they themselves that have first practis'd it in the World They began first with Argiers and 't is 12 Years since they began to treat Christians in the same manner as they had chastis'd this Nest of miscreant Pyrates Genoua Audenarde and Luxembourg above all Places should not read the Maréchal de Villeroy's Letter But in this War the French have more openly practis'd their incendiary Trade they have not only bombarded Liege the last Campaign was Four Years but at the beginning of this War they have more cruelly and barbarously destroy'd Towns that were in their own Possession and that rely'd upon the publick Faith of their own Capitulations Some Reason may be alledg'd to justifie the bombarding of an Enemy's Town We have bombarded their Sea Ports because they doe us all the Mischief they can But what Reason can be given for the burning of so many Towns in the Palatinate that had deliver'd themselves up to the Dauphin's Army as Worms Spire Openheim and Frankendal Manheim and afterwards Heidelberg In short if the Enemies publish'd these Reasons to fling Dust in the Eyes of the Allies they have been mightily mistaken and whereas they would have thrown the original Cause of the bombarding of Brussels upon the King of England to animate the People of this Country against him their Mine has sprung backwards and has rather serv'd to encrease their Hatred against the French They know that we have bombarded those Nests of Privateers that interrupt and spoil our Trade to the utmost of their Power but they expected better Treatment to a Town that had never done the French the least harm but had rather in a manner a free Trade with them so far the bombarding of Brussels has done a great deal of Mischief to the French King 's own Subjects who had vast Effects in this Town and several have been ruin'd by it but Mischief must be done to magnifie an invincible Monarch's Power in ' spite of the Siege