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ANNUAL REGISTER, 
For the YEAR 1797. 
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Comparative View of the Confederacy and the French Republic, at the 
Close of 1796.—Spain, drawn into an Alliance with France, declares 
War against England.-— Conjoined Efforts of the French, Spanish, and 
Dutch Fleets, for overthrowihg the naval Domination of England.— 
War in Italy.—Capture of Mantua.—Political Conduct and military 
Preparations of the Court of Rome.—Letters from Buonaparte to the 
Cardinal Mattzi.—The Cardinal's Answer.—The Court of Madrid re- 
fuses its Mediation, in Behalf of the Pope, with the French Republic.— 
Republican Party in Rome, and other Parts of the Ecclesiastical States. 
—Buonaparte declares War against the Pope.—A French Army enters 
the Papal Dominions.—The Papal Troops completely routed.— Buona- 
parte, by Promises and Threats, induces the Romans to subm't to the 
| French, without the Effusion of Blood—Takes Possession of several 
Provinces in the Ecclesiastical. States.—Advances towards Rome.— 
Treaty of Peace with the Pope. 
the year, was completely turned, 
[HE rapid progress of the 
On the termination of the armis- 
French arms, in 1796, pro- 
~ struck with terror. 
duced different sensations’ on the 
opposite sides of the mountains. 
The Italian states and princes were 
But a spirit 
of indignation aid exertion was 
‘rouzed in Germany; where the 
tide of fortune, tawards the end of 
Vor. XXXIX, 
tice, between the Austrians and 
the French, in the month of May, 
in that year, the army of the Sam- 
bre and Meuse, under Jourdan, 
penetrated into Franconia; tbat of 
the Rhine and Moselle. under Moe 
reau, into the heart of Germany, 
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