HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
trians to retire into the country 
behind them. 
These operations’ of the army, 
under Moreau, were designed to 
second those of that under Jourdan, 
who was successfully proceeding in 
every enterprize he formed, and 
driving before him the Imperialists, 
under Wartensleben, a brave and 
experienced officer, but at this pe- 
riod continually unfortunate. After 
a series of ill success, he sustained a 
heavy defeat, on the sixth of August, 
at Hochstadt, in the neighbourhood 
of Bamberg, where his own skill, 
and the valour of his troops, were 
obliged to. yield to the superior 
exertions of the French. 
He now retired to a strong po- 
sition between Sultzbach and Am- 
berg, two towns on the confines of 
the north of Bavaria, but here he 
was again. attacked by general 
Jourdan, on the sixteenth of Au- 
gust, and his troops driven from the 
advantageous post they occupied 
here and at Neumark, a town in 
the vicinity. 
These repeated disasters, in Ger- 
many, rendered more grievous by 
the intelligence daily arriving of the 
viétorious progress of the French in 
Italy, caused an alarm at Vienna, 
almost equal to that, which had been 
experienced in the commencement 
of the reign of the late empress, 
Mary Theresa, when she was com- 
pelled to quit ber capital, to avoid 
the danger of falling into the hands 
of her numerous enemies. 
The emperor Francis seemed on 
the eve of being in the like manner 
forced to abandon Vienna. His 
hereditary dominions, Bohemia par- 
ticularly, were menaced. with a 
speedy invasion by the Frenehy un- 
less an immediate stop were put to 
their career. 
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In this perilous emergency he 
made a solemn appeal to his subjects 
in Bohemia, who lay nearest the 
danger, exhorting them, by every 
motive of loyalty to their sovereign, 
and regard to the safety of their 
possessions and religion, to arm in- 
stantly in the defence of both. ‘Fo 
this purpose he enjoined the estab- 
lishment of a national militia, toe 
which he held out every encou- 
Tagement and remuneration enjoy- 
ed by the regular treops. By the 
plan proposed, the twentieth part 
_of all the able-bodied men in that 
kingdom were to be drafted for the 
protection of its frontiers, from the 
expected irruption of the French. 
The like appeal was made to the 
peop'e of Hungary, and of all his 
other dominions. ‘They were care- 
fully reminded, on this occasion, 
of the immense exactions of the 
Frencb, not only in money, but in 
every article of necessity, or of use, 
‘and with what severe punctuality 
the paymeat of them 
quired. 
It was chiefly the dread of these 
heavy demands that influenced the 
determination of the Germans to 
contribute all in their power. to 
prevent the farther progress of the 
French. ‘Their levies of money, 
and their other requisitions, excited 
universal, alarm. The duke of 
Wirtemburg had been assessed four 
millions ; the circle of Swabia, 
twelve millions, besides to furnish 
eight thousand horses, five !housand 
oxen, one hundred and fifty thous 
sand quintals of corn, one hundred 
thousand sacks of oats, a proportion« 
able quantity of bay, and one huns 
dred thousand pair of shoes. Eight 
millions were demanded from the 
circle of Franconia, with a very 
Jarge supply of horses, Greatsums 
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