Five days later the British Cabinet at last decided to withdraw its troops from the Continent, ◆March 11.◆ and on the 11th Harcourt, to his infinite relief, received intimation that transports for twenty-three thousand men were on their way to him. The Hanoverians were in consternation over the danger to which Hanover was exposed by this measure, but there was no help for it. ◆March 16.◆ A few days later Prussian troops arrived to hold the line of the Ems, and on the 22nd the British began their march to Bremen for embarkation. The Prussians did their utmost by obstruction, discourtesy, and insolence to disoblige them on their passage through the country; but this was natural, for they had always professed contempt for the British as a nation of traders, and a tradesman is never so despicable to a dishonest customer as when he refuses to grant him further credit. ◆April 14.◆ Finally, on the 14th of April, the infantry and part of the artillery took ship for England, leaving the remainder of the artillery and the whole of the cavalry behind them under Lord Cathcart and David Dundas. The number embarked was nearly fifteen thousand, some proportion of the sick having been recovered; so that the losses after the retreat from the Leck must have amounted to about six thousand men, of which not a tithe were killed or wounded in action. Thus disgracefully ended the first expedition of Pitt and Dundas to the Low Countries. AUTHORITIES.—The British despatches relating to the expeditions to Flanders will be found in _W.O. Orig. Corresp._ 46–48, and in Entry Book No. 11. The number of private letters included in this collection makes it of unusual value. For the campaigns at large the best accounts known to me are in Ditfurth’s _Die Hessen in den Feldzügen, 1793, 1794, und 1795_ (Kassel, 1839), and in Witzleben’s _Prinz Friedrich Josias von Coburg-Saalfeld_ (Berlin, 1859), which is not a little built upon Ditfurth, but contains much that is valuable of its own and a superb atlas of maps. On the French side the short memoir of David and the life of Pichegru are of little worth compared with the narrative of Jomini. Marshal Macdonald’s _Mémoires_ are disappointing at this period. Of English printed accounts the most important is Jones’s _Historical Journal of the British Campaign in 1794_. The _Journal_ of Corporal James Brown of the Coldstream Guards supplies a few interesting details. Sir H. Calvert’s _Journal and Correspondence_ is often of value; and there is a great deal of most useful information in the foot-notes to the miserable doggerel called the _Narrative of an Officer of the Guards_. Unfortunately the author, like Brown and Calvert, was a Coldstreamer, for which reason all three confine themselves chiefly to the doings of the brigade of Guards. The regimental histories of the 14th Foot and 15th Hussars have occasionally interesting material, but, taken altogether, the regimental records are disappointing.