baggage is saved.

The negotiations which the French had been carrying on at Rastadt
relative to the German boundaries, were broken off in consequence of the
Emperor having permitted the Russian troops to enter his dominions; and
on the 1st of March, the Directory having declared war against him,
Jourdan, at the head of forty thousand men, crossed the Rhine at Kehl
and Basle. Austria was now fairly committed to the war, and,
strengthened by the Russians, who entered into it with enthusiasm,
achieved a succession of important movements. On the 5th of March, the
Arch-Duke Charles crossed the Leck; and on the 25th, defeated Jourdan at
the battle of Stockach, and, leaving ten thousand men dead or expiring
on the field, compelled the French to retire towards the Rhine. This
triumph was followed up vigorously by the battle of Magnan, on the 5th
of April, in which the Austrians, under Kray, joined by the vanguard of
the Russians, effected so signal a victory, that Scherer, beaten for the
third time in the course of the campaign, fled in precipitation across
the Nincio. The effect of these encouraging successes was utterly lost
on the Court of Prussia, where the policy, or no-policy, of doing
nothing still prevailed over the counsels of friends, and the menaces of
enemies. The picture Mr. Grenville gives of the weakness and incapacity
of the Government suggests the only intelligible explanation of the
conduct they pursued at this juncture.

MR. T. GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Berlin, April 17th, 1799.

If I am behind-hand, my dearest brother, in thanking you for your
two letters of the 11th and 24th of March, I am less so than those
dates would lead you to imagine, for the messengers did not bring
me the first of them till a week ago, and the last arrived here
only the day before yesterday. The amities of the 'Proserpine' are
out of date with me, and would long ago have been forgotten, if
they were not daily recalled to me by new and continued proofs of
the affectionate interest which has been taken in them. To know
what you would feel in a state of anxiety and suspense which I
could not relieve, was a distress greater to me than the fatigue
and danger which accompanied my escape. It has ended well, and I
trust it will not be long before we shall laugh over it together.

I presume that you will have heard from William how exactly the