Thus, _Madame_, have I given you what pass’d most remarkable since the Storm of the Counterscarp. On the 11th, some Motion was made on the part of the Enemy, who even advanc’d almost up to our Trenches; but we were in a Posture to receive them. Their Army lay all Night under Arms, and next Morning at Daybreak drew up in Order of Battle, but contrary to our Expectation nothing came of it; for the Princes of _France_, the Chevalier _de St. George_, the Duke _de Vendosme_, and several General Officers contented themselves with taking a View of our Camp; but as they advanc’d somewhat too near to our Intrenchments, we were oblig’d to be a little rude to such great Princes, and to let fly some Cannon-Ball among them, whereupon they thought fit to retire. My Lord Duke heard the same Day, that M. _de Chamillard_, Secretary at War, was arriv’d from _Versailles_ in the Army of _France_, to be present at a Council which was to be held there. It was therein resolv’d, That we should not be attack’d, and that their only Business should be to cut off our Convoys from _Brussels_. To execute this Project they posted themselves behind the _Scheld_, from whence they indeed did very much incommode us. We had no Passage left now but from _Ostend_, by which General _Webb_ brought us a considerable Convoy. M. _de la Motte_, a Lieutenant-General of the _French_ Army endeavor’d to hinder its Passage; he had also the Advantage of the Ground. Nevertheless he was defeated near _Wynendale_. To this Convoy may be ascrib’d the Conquest of _Lisle_, which was at length oblig’d to surrender on the 28th of _October_, and the Marshal _de Boufflers_ retir’d into the Citadel; yet as brave as the Garison was that march’d into it with him, he could not hold it out long. Thus the Allies gain’d some considerable Advantage or other every day. Never did they make a more glorious Campaign; for besides the taking of _Lisle_ and its Citadel, they had also the Glory in this same Campaign of raising the Siege which the Elector of _Bavaria_ had laid to _Brussels_, and of reducing _Ghent_ and _Bruges_. I forgot to tell you, that during the Siege of _Lisle_, we had like to have lost Prince _Eugene_. This Prince receiv’d a Packet one day by the Post, and having broke it open, he saw a greasy Paper, which gave him a mistrust; but he only threw it upon the Ground, and a Person that gathered it up being taken ill, it induc’d them to make an Experiment upon a Dog, which when they had rubb’d it about his Nose, died that Instant. Thus was God pleas’d to preserve this Hero from the basest of Treasons. I wish’d I could have been at the taking of _Lisle_, but was oblig’d to quit the Army some time before, M. _Dankelman_ my Tutor having receiv’d the King’s Orders to send me to _Berlin_, where his Majesty design’d to give me a Place at Court; and as he had Thoughts of marrying again, he propos’d to prefer me to an Employment under the new Queen.