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hundred caissons, ten thousand pri- 

 soners, and a great number of offi- 

 cers, among whom were three ge- 

 nerals. The general does not state 

 the loss of the French to be more 

 than one thousand in killed, wound- 

 ed, and missing. But, according to 

 the Austrian accounts, and on which 

 all the world placed more depend- 

 dence, the report of Moreau ex- 

 ceeded the truth by at least one half. 

 The victorious republicans, after a 

 long and unremitted pursuit of the 

 flying Austrians, took possession of 

 the city of Saltzburgh. 



In the mean time, the three other 

 French armies, the Gallo-Batavian, 

 and that of Italy, were not idle. 

 On the day distinguished by the 

 battle of Hohenlinden, general Au- 

 gereau gained an important advan- 

 tage near Bamberg. General Mac- 

 donald, defying the obstacles of an 

 Alpine winter, passed from the 

 country of the Grisonsintothe Val- 

 telline, drove the enemy before 

 him, and opened a communication 

 with the army of Italy. — A division 

 of his army, after a series of actions 

 with the Austrians, crossed the Min- 

 cio, on the twenty-sixth of Decem- 

 ber. — Vienna was struck with ter- 

 ror. The archduke repaired to the 

 camp, to animate the troops to fresh 

 exertions. But this prince, on a 

 comparative view of his own with 

 the enemy's strength, proposed an 

 armistice, which was readily agreed 

 to, and concluded, at Steyer, on the 

 twenty-fifth of December, though 

 the French, breaking their faith, 

 had dismantled the three towns 

 which had been delivered to them 

 merely as pledges. The emperor 

 now consented to the surrender of 

 many other posts, relying on the 

 promise of restitution. He was 

 now constrained, by a succession of 



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heavy losses, to declare his readiness- 

 to detach himself from his allies, 

 and recede from his former determi- 

 nation to agree to no other than a 

 general peace. And the British 

 court, duly sensible of the alarming' 

 situation in which they themselves 

 had so much contributed to involve- 

 him, released him from his engage-- 

 raents. 



On a general retrospect of this 

 combined campaign, in Italy and- 

 Germany, it is impossible not 

 to perceive and acknowledge • 

 that the courage, the genius, and. 

 the magnanimity loo, of the leaders 

 of the French armies, particularly 

 the renowned Buonaparte, shone 

 forth with most resplendent lustre. 

 It was, on the whole, a war, as it 

 were, of wit on the minds of the 

 brave and simple Germans. The 

 French were not inferior to the 

 Austrians in bravery, but it was art, 

 contrivance, and stratagem, that de- 

 cided the contest in their favour. 

 The happy choice of a position for 

 the army of reserve, at Dijon, from 

 whence troops might be sent, as 

 occasion should demand, either to 

 Germany or Italy, the secrecy and 

 celerity with whichBuonaparte dart- 

 ed across the Alps into Lombardy, 

 and assembled so great an army from 

 so many points, the feints by which 

 he amused general Melas, the con- 

 cert formed with Moreau, the feints 

 too by which Moreau deceived and 

 overcame his opponents on the Da- 

 nube; — all thesecircumstancesform 

 indeed a very striking contrast with 

 that supineness and want of intelli- 

 gence which disgraced the conduct 

 of general Melas : who was yet an 

 excellent officer, and might have 

 been successful, if he had been 

 opposed to a less inventive and 

 towering genius than Buonaparte. 



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