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solution of the emperor, to put him- 

 self at the head of his army, was 

 taken, no doubt, with a view to 

 rouze the ancient courage of the 

 Germans ; and to give efficacy to 

 proclamations, which he issued at 

 the same time, for calling forth the 

 force of the country in volunteer 

 associations. But the emperor had 

 no sooner joined the army, vv^hich 

 was under the immediate and sole 

 command of the archduke John, 

 than he made application to the 

 French government for a prolonga- 

 tion of the armistice. The first 

 consul, on conditions presently to be 

 mentioned, agreed to this, declaring 

 at the same time that the renewal 

 of hostilities, or thcimprovcment of 

 a suspension of arms into a perma- 

 nent peace, would wholly depend 

 on the rejection, or the r^ttification 

 of the preliminaries concluded with 

 Mr. de St. Julian. The consul, at 

 tlie same time, declared that he 

 thought it his duty, not to waste the 

 remainder of the autumn in idle 

 conferences, or to expose himself to 

 endless diplomatic discussions, with- 

 out securities for the sincerity of the 

 enemy's intentions. The securities 

 he demanded were Philipsburg, 

 Ulm, and Ingolstadt, with their 

 dependent forts. This condition, 

 though it exposed the hereditary 

 dominions of Austria, in a great 

 measure, at the mercy of the enemy, 

 being agreed to, at Hohenlinden, a 

 suspension of arms was concluded 

 for forty-iive days, commencing 

 from the twenty-first of September. 

 There was not, during this inter- 

 val, any remission of military pre- 

 paration on either side. Recruits 

 were sent from the camp at Dijon 

 to the French armies; and the Aus- 

 trians were reinforced by battalions 

 raised in all parts of the hereditaiy 



states. The French army of the 

 Rhine, seconded on its left by the 

 army of Augereau, and on its right 

 by that of the Giisuns, formed, on 

 the Mayne, as far as the entry into 

 the Tyrol, a line ready to advance 

 on the first signal. It was com- 

 posed of twelve divisions, compris- 

 ing at least a hundred thousand 

 men, and was divided into four 

 corps ; of which, that under gene- 

 ral Lecourbe, consisting of three di- 

 visions, occupied Upper Suabia, Up- 

 per Bavaria, and the entry to the 

 Tyrol. That under the immediate 

 orders of the commander-in-chief in 

 person, consisting of three other di- 

 visions, occupied the two banks of 

 the Iller, as far as Landshut. That 

 of general Grenier, consisting of 

 three more divisions, held all the 

 left banks of the Danube, nearly to 

 Passau, and the right bank of tliat 

 river as far as the mouth of it at 

 Altmuck : and, lastly, that of gene- 

 ral St. Susanne, composed of three 

 other divisions, occupied the country 

 bet ween the Mayne and the Danube, 

 from Bambergas far as Aix-la-Cha- 

 pelle. — While the French were thus 

 formidable in front, there was no- 

 thing to be apprehended on either of 

 their flanks. Italy was reconquer- 

 ed, Switzerland was in their pos- 

 session, and moulding its govern- 

 ment j ust as the French pleased : and 

 a Prussian army maintained the neu- 

 trality of the north of Germany, 



The Austrian armies advanced 

 to the frontiers, and occupied a 

 chain of posts in front of the hostile 

 army, bending their main force to 

 strengthen their line from the fron- 

 tier of Austria to the gulph of Ve- 

 nice. An army of thirty thousand 

 men was stationed in Bohemia, un^ 

 der the command of the archduke 

 Charles. The right banks of the 



