MENTZ being Attack'd on the Sixth Instant by Four a Clock in the Morning, the Saxon and Hessian Troops mastered the Counterscarp two Hours sooner than, the Imperialists; but with the loss of a considerable Number of Men; the French springing a Mine in the midst of the Action, where­by several of the Hessians were blown up: But, nevertheless, after a very sharp Dispute, the Confederates made themselves Masters of all the Outworks, saving one small Fortress, which being Attack'd and Won by some Sutlers, the Fifty French that were in it were all put to the Sword: And indeed, in the whole Action the Germans gave no Quarter. After this, the Confederates Entrench'd, and maintained themselves in their Acquisitions. As to the Number of the Common Soldiers Killed and Wounded in this Action, we cannot as yet give an Account; But have the following List of the Officers: Collonel Geriz shot through the Body: General Souches wounded; Gene­ral Wallis Dead; General Staremberg Wounded; both the Legs of Count Lomb [...]g shot off; Collonel Schench twice Wound­ed; Collonel Butler twice Wounded; Major Lowestein Wound­ed through the Foot; Cap [...]ain Mey Wounded in the Calf of the Leg; Captain Busch Wounded in the Body; Captain Schinck Wounded in the Arm; The Captains Valentyne, Mohn, and Cramer Dead; Lieutenant Freyberg and Heyxmar Wounded, [Page 2] and more other Officers. The Confederates being thus Masters of all the Outworks, fell to Batter the Walls incessantly, with between Twenty and Thirty Pieces of Cannon, in order to en­large the Breach, tho it was already so wide, that they could see plainly into the Streets. The 7th was employ'd by them in filling up the Ditches with Bavins, Wool-packs, and the like; and having on the Eighth made all the other necessary Prepara­tions for a General Assault; the Confederates being recruited with Eight Thousand fresh Men under the Duke of Ha­nover, and General Chauvet; and the French, in Defence of their Outworks, having lost Fifteen Hundred of their Best Men, though the Garison at first consisted of between Nine and Ten Thousand Men, The French Governor, the Marquis d' Ʋxelles despairing of being able to withstand a General As­sault, hung out the White Flag on the Ninth, capitulated, and was surrendring; But as yet we are Strangers to the Condi­tions, though they write, the Germans are so embittered a­gainst the French, that the General Officers will find it a hard matter to with-hold them from cutting them to pieces. This City has been compleatly besieged no longer than Thirteen Days, and which is since the time that the Saxon Battery was ready.

They write us, That just upon the coming away of the Post from Hol­land, they had advice, that the Governour General of the Spanish Low-Countries had entred the French General Calvo's Retrench­ments which the French had abandoned in such Disorder, that they had even left their Pots boiling; and a vast Quantity of Provi­sions. That another Spanish General, the Prince of Vaudemont, was out with a great Body of Men upon some considerable Design; and that the Mareschal d'Humiers retreated before the Prince of Waldeck.