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decided in tlieir faTour, and the French v/ere repulfed 
■with great (laughter. On the fame day an attack was 
made on an Aufcrian pod near Rofenheim ; but the 
French were driven back with conliderable lofs, and the 
prince of Conde’s corps acquired great reputation by 
tiicir cool finnnefs and intrepid conduct:. 
Encouraged by thefe fucceltes, the archduke John 
refolved to aHault the French pofl: at Hohehlinden, and 
on the 3d of December put liis troops in motion tor 
that purpofe ; but his marc-h was fo much retarded by 
a heavy fall of fnow, that only the central column ar¬ 
rived at the pl.ice of delfinalion ;it the time when all 
tile divilions ought to iiave been ready for adfion. The 
French perceived this misfortune, and refolved to con¬ 
vert it to their advantage. Accordingly a divifion ot 
their army, under K.iche;ipanfe, pierced between the 
left wing of tlie Aullrians and the centre, and alfaulted 
their left flank and rear at the moment when they had 
lonned in front, and commenced an attack. The Auf- 
trians fuftaitied the conflidf, for feveral hours, with 
their accultomed bravery ; but their centre being re¬ 
pelled by tlie impetuofity of the French, tliey were 
tlirown into confufion, and driven to the heights ot 
Ramfam. In order to improve this advantage, general 
Moreau pulhed on to Sallzburgh, which he took after 
an obflinate conflict : the fublequent reduction of New- 
mark cut ofi' all communication between the archduke 
John and general Mollitor ; and the Tyrol was threat¬ 
ened, on three fides, with invalion. 
During thefe tranfaCtions, the Gallo-Batavian army 
under Augereau gained fome confiderablc advantages 
over the imperialilts in Fi'anconia. On the rupture of 
tlie armidice, the baron d’Albini, who commanded tlie 
troops of Mayence, attacked the Batavian infantry 
near the bridge of Afcliaft'enburg ; but, after three vi¬ 
gorous afl’au I ts, he was repulfed. ft lie Gallo-Batavian 
army then quitted its cantonments ; and general Du- 
monceau undertook the liege of Wurtzburg, while Au¬ 
gereau repaired to Bamberg in order to give battle to 
the Auflrians and drive them beyond the Rednitz. 
Tlidy occupied two advantageous heiglits that com- 
mard Bui g-Eberach, and difputed every inch of ground 
with furprifing gallantry ; but they were ultimately 
forced to retreat before tlie enthufiaftic fury of their 
enemies. After this occurrence, the Aullrians made 
feveral attempts to cut off the communication between 
Augereau and Moreau, and, if poffible, to turn the 
left of Moreau’s army: but they found it impoflible to 
acquire any advantage. For about fourteen days, fe¬ 
veral fkirmilhes took place between the out-polls ; and 
on the 18th of December a molt fangninary battle was 
fouglit between Lauff and Nuremberg. This aCfion 
was fullained with equal firmnefs and bravery from 
nine o’clock in the morning till the clofe of the day, 
and the lofs on both lldes was faid to be nearly equal. 
Meanwhile the Aultrian army of tlie Danube removed 
its head-quarters from Strafwalden to Skvvanfladt, where 
the archduke Charles re-alfumed the chief command. 
That prince immediately ordered his troops to remain 
on the defenfive ; but before he could make the requi- 
fite difpolitions, the French army of the Rliine advanced 
in five divifions, and a general engagement eiifued, in 
whicli the imperialills were defeated with prodigious 
lofs. Next morning* they endeavoured to make a (land 
on the .lieiglits of Lambach ; but, after an obflinate 
conflidl, they were again overpowered, and compelled 
to retire to Lintz, within ninety.two miles of Vienna. 
General Moreau now formed his army into three co- 
lumiTs ; of which tlie righ.t, under Lecourbe, advanced 
toward the mountains fonth of Steyer on the Ens; tlie 
centre, commanded by Moreau himlelf, marched to 
Steyer; and the left, under Grenier, proceeded on the 
higii road from Lintz towards Vienna. That great city 
was now overwhelmed with conlleniation, and the dif- 
trefs of the loyalifls was greatly augmented by the be- 
liaviour and exprellions of many dlfaffeiJed perfops, 
v.'ho feemed to exult at the approach of the enemy t 
fiich was the general deteflation of the war, and fuels 
the progrefs of Frencli intrigues and principles. A 
party of life-guards was ordered to efcort tlie imperial 
family to Often; tile gallery of paintings, the imperial 
treafury, and otlier valuable articles, were placed in 
v.aggons ready for removal ; and the Auftrian capital 
was preparing to fuftain a fiege ; when the archduke 
Charles brougiiv intelligence that he liad concluded qn 
armiftice of tliirty days witli general Moreau. 
'I'his armiftice afllgned to the French army of 
Riiine a trianguhir portion ot territory, whole bafef 
refted on Wurtzburg and Chiavenna, and whofe poivit 
refled between Leoben and Facklarn on the Danube. 
It was not to be for a iefs duration than thirty days, at 
the expiration of wliich time hoflilities were not to be 
refiimed until a fartlier notice of fifteen days, to be 
dated from the liour when the notification of the rup¬ 
ture lliould be made public; and the armiftice wds to 
be indefinitely prolonged till tlie notice of a rupture. 
No corps or detachment, either of the Frencli army of 
the Rhine or of the imperialills in Germany, were to 
be lent to the ref'peclive armies in Italy, fo iosg as no 
armiftice fliould take place in that country. "I he gene¬ 
ral in chief of the army of the Rliine engaged to tranf- 
mit the prefent convention to the generals of the Gallo- 
Batavian army, that of the Grifoiis, and that of Italy, 
with a prefling exhortation to conclude a fufpenfion of 
hortilities. 
As focn as general .Augereau was informed of the 
new armiftice, he lent to the Auftrian generals Simb- 
fehen and Kleiiau, to confer on the fettlemeiit of a line 
of demarkation between the Gallo-Batavian army and 
the imperial troops in the Upper Palatinate and Fran¬ 
conia. Accordingly it was agreed that the Maine and 
the Rednitz fliouid feparate the two armies as far as 
Lichtenfells, on the line of neutrality. This line was 
to comprehend Forkheim, Bamberg, Bannach, Kaffal- 
ftein, and I.ichtenfells; the Gallo-Batavians were to 
occujiy the city and diftriCt of Nuremberg; and the ge¬ 
neral in chief was to eftablifli his head-quarters and his 
park of artillery at Wurtzburg. While thefe iiegocia- 
tions were carrying on in Germany, Italy ftill groaned 
beneath the fcourge of war. But in order to give a 
clear idea of its prefent fituation, we muft take a retro- 
Ipedlive view of fome events, which have been hitherto 
omitted, in order to avoid an interruption of the more 
connected parts of our liiftory. 
By the armiftice concluded after the battle of Ma¬ 
rengo, the French army was to occupy all the counti y 
between the Cliiela, the Oglio, and Po ; and the Auf- 
trians were to retain Tufeany, with the city and citadel 
of f'errara. But tlie Auflrians infifted on keeping pof- 
feflion of an extenfive territory, called the Polefiiio of 
Ferrara; and during the dif'pute which refulted from 
their prelenfions, a general infurrection of tiie people 
was concerted and encouraged in Tufeany. Hoftilities 
were on the point of being renewed, when general 
Bniiie, hearing that preliminaries had been figned by 
count St. J ulian, expreffed iiis intention of fulpending 
tlie motions of his troops until he fliould receive farther 
orders from Ills governinent. A new convention was 
fooii afterward agreed to at Caftiglioni, by which gene¬ 
ral Brune confented to wait for an aiil'wer from Vienna 
rel'pedting the evacuation of the Ferrarefe by the impe- 
rjalifts. No mention was made in this treaty of difarm¬ 
ing the levy-en.mafle : but this was not in a Hate of 
great forwardnel's; nor, if it had been completely 
railed, could Inch a rabble of enervated Italians have 
been formidable to tlie veteran troops of France. 
The French, however, evidently fought a pretext for 
an irruption into Tufeany, that they might be enabled, 
in cafe of a renewal of the war, to prevent the landing 
of Britilh forces in that quarter. A general officer was 
fent 
