GENERAL HISTORY. 



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this sovereign of his own creation, 

 his favourite fellow-soldier, con- 

 nected with him by ties of kindred, 

 should think it necessary for his 

 own security to join the general 

 confederacy against him. In the 

 beginning of the year a treaty of 

 alliance was concluded between 

 the Emperor of Austria and the 

 King of Naples, by the terms of 

 which the Emperor engaged to 

 keep at least 50,000 men in Italy, 

 and the King 20,000, till the end 

 of the war, to act in concert, and 

 to be augmented in rase of neces- 

 sity ; and the former guaranteed to 

 the latter and his heirs the pos- 

 session of the dominions actually 

 held by him in Italy, and promised 

 his mediation to induce the allies 

 to accede to this guarantee. The 

 King of Naples in consequence 

 ttrrived at Bologna, whither Count 



Bellegarde, on Jan. 6, went to pay 

 his compliments to him. 



The French on the 4th quitted 

 Verona, leaving a garrison in the 

 old castle, and the Austrians on the 

 same day entered the town. The 

 Viceroy "of Italy, Eugene Beau- 

 harnois, marched on the 7th with 

 the flower of his troops on the 

 side of Bozzolo on the Mincio, to 

 oppose the passage of that river 

 by the Austrians. A division and 

 some battalions had already passed, 

 when they were attacked by supe- 

 rior numbers. The whole of that 

 day and the next passed in severe 

 actions, in which the Austrians 

 underwent considerable loss, but 

 are represented as maintaining 

 their ground. Their main army 

 did not come up till the 9th, when 

 it 'was established to the number of 

 between 40 and 50,000 men on 

 both banks of the Mincio. 



