Such was the campaign in the Netherlands, which in all probability would have produced events of greater importance, had not the duke of Marlborough been restricted by the deputies of the states-general, who began to be influenced by the intrigues of the Louvestein faction, ever averse to a single dictator.
PRINCE OF HESSE DEFEATED BY THE FRENCH.
The French king redoubled his efforts in Germany.

The duke de Vendome was ordered to march from the Milanese to Tyrol, and there join the elector of Bwaria, who had already made himself master of Inspruck.

But the boors rising in arms, drove him out of the country before he could be joined by the French general, who was therefore obliged to return to the Milanese.

The Imperialists in Italy were so ill supplied by the court of Vienna, that they could not pretend to act offensively.

The French invested Ostiglia, which, however, they could not reduce; but the fortress of Barsillo, in the duchy of Beggio, capitulating after a long blockade, they took possession of the duke of Modena's country.