This surprising march was of such importance to the French king, that he wrote with his own hand a letter of thanks to his army; and ordered that it should be read to every particular squadron and battalion.
THE ALLIES REDUCE HUY.
The king of England, though disappointed in his scheme upon Courtray, found means to make some advantage of his superiority in number.

He drafted troops from the garrison of Liege and Maestricht; and on the third day of September reinforced his body with a large detachment from his own camp, conferring the command upon the duke of Holstein-Ploen, with orders to undertake the siege of Huy.

Next day the whole confederate forces passed the Lys, and encamped at Wouterghem.

From thence the king with a part of the army marched to Roselsaer; this diversion obliged the dauphin to make considerable detachments for the security cf Ypres and Menin on the one side, and to cover Furnes and Dunkirk on the other.

At this juncture, a Frenchman, being seized in the very act of setting fire to one of the ammunition waggons in the allied army, confessed he had been employed for this purpose by some of the French generals, and suffered death as a traitor.