PARIS. 
The prince-royal of Wirtemberg, however, experienced 
more ferious oppofition. On the 26th, he forced the 
French to abandon a pofition they had taken up between 
Setz and Sarrbourg, and to retire through the foreft of 
Haguenau. Continuing to prefs the corps under general 
Rapp, an obftinate engagement took place on the 29th, 
in which Rapp was defeated with confiderable lofs, and 
purfued under the guns of Strafburgh, into which place 
he entered, and the blockade of which was quickly begun. 
Here Rapp was flint up, with a force of at lead: 35,000 
men ; and, according to the accounts in the German 
journals, watched by a force of about 50,000. The 
French lod many prifoners, and five pieces of cannon. 
Here, as foon as his corps was relieved by the Aultrians, 
the prince-royal commenced his march upon Luneville 
and Nancy ; and, continuing his advance, came in contact 
with the army under prince Ferdinand of Aultria j their 
united forces forming a inafs of 200,000 men. 
It is almod impoflible to detail, or to bring into any 
conneffed form, the numerous fkirmifhes which took place 
between the advance of the allied armies and the retreat¬ 
ing enemy (as the French defending their country were 
now called), and the different engagements which took 
place between them and the garrifons of the fortified 
towns, in which the allies were generally fuccefsful, and 
in' which a very confiderable lofs of men was fuftained on 
both fides. Croffing the Rhine in vaft force, and blocka¬ 
ding the fortrefs of Pfalzbourg, the main body of the 
allied army puflied on through the defile of the Vofges 
mountains, on the great road from Stralburgh to Paris ; 
but for fome time advanced with great difficulty. To 
avoid the fortrefs, a road was made in the courfe of a few 
hours, and the guns and carriages were dragged by par¬ 
ties of foldiers up rocky fteeps that appeared almoft inac- 
ceffible ; after which the army continued its march to 
Paris, without meeting with any ferious obltacle to op- 
pofe its movements. 
On the morning of the 26th, the archduke Ferdinand, 
with the force under his command, amounting, according 
to accounts from Bafle, to 160,000 men, paffed the Rhine 
at Bafle j pufhing on through the defiles of Porentrui, 
he fucceeded in feparating the force under Lecourbe from 
that under Rapp; and, after numerous engagements, in 
which the French loft a great number of men, Lecourbe was 
finally obliged to Ihut himfelf up in Befort. Betwixt 
Ferdinand’s army and Lecourbe’s the fevered fighting 
took place. On the 28th of June, count Colloredo at¬ 
tacked the French rear-guard, and drove it before him 
with much lofs, and took many prifoners. The Auftrian 
lofs was 300 killed and wounded. On the 2d of July, 
Colloredo took the town and citadel of Montbeillard by 
affault; feven guns and a great number of prifoners fell 
into his hands. A French force of 8000 infantry and 
300 cavalry were driven through Chavennes at the point 
of the bayonet. C'nevremont and Befencourt were car¬ 
ried by affault; and 4.000 men, with a detachment from 
the garrifon of Befort under Lecourbe, were driven from 
the heights of Beaumont. All the fortified towns were 
immediately invefted ; and the archduke, with the difpo- 
fable part of the troops remaining from thofe duties, con¬ 
tinued his march upon Langres. 
All the armies continued their march towards Paris, 
and on the 14th, prince Sch wartzenberg had his head quar¬ 
ters at Fontainebleau ; the allied fovereigns, viz. the em¬ 
peror of Ruffia, the king of Pruffia, and the emperor of 
Auftria, having, fome days previous to that period, left 
the army, as foon as they heard of the capture of Paris, 
and the entry of Louis XVIII. into his capital, and pro¬ 
ceeded to that place, where they arrived on the 10th. 
Some idea may be formed of the vaft force of the allies, 
which entered France in this direction, when it is known 
that the Auftrian force difpofable on the Upper Loire, 
sxclufive of the armies from Italy, amounted to 100,000 
men. The advance of the main armies gave the nume¬ 
rous free corps, affembled in Alface and the Vofges moim T 
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tains, opportunities to attack the line of the allied com¬ 
munication, and carry off the baggage But the conti¬ 
nued advance of freffi troops, gave the allies an opportunity 
of organizing a fufficient force in moveable columns, 
which foon cleared the country of thefe-corps. 
The difpofition of a great part of the people was, and 
had always been, moft hoftile and rancorous againft the 
allies; and this hatred now fliowed itfelf in numerous 
inftances, which brought down deftruftion on their heads. 
The villages of Hogentheim and Mulhaufen gave the 
firft example of the moft fhocking exceffes. In the former, 
a German foldier, after having his eyes put out, was hung 
up alive : the moft dreadful punifhment followed upon 
the inftant: the aged, the women, and the children, fuf- 
fered with the wicked perpetrators. At Mulhaufen two 
foldiers were fhot by a clergyman: his houfe was fur- 
rounded, and he was deftroyed with it. Wherever the 
allied troops met with refiftance from the country people, 
every thing was deftroyed. “ For fix days,” faid accounts 
from that quarter, “ the Iky has been red every day with 
the flames of burning villages. Where a Angle ffiot is 
fired from them upon the allies, all is levelled to the 
ground. A dreadful judgment hangs over France; the 
crimes of preceding times are vifited upon their defeen- 
dants, who rival them in the commiffion of enormities.” 
On the fide of Italy, hoftilities had commenced between 
marffial Suchet and the Auftrians in that quarter. On 
the 14th of June, Suchet attacked and carried the town 
of Montmelian, fituated upon the Ifere. According to 
his account, the allies loft 300 killed and wounded, and 
600 prifoners. The French immediately penetrated into 
Savoy, and overran nearly all that country, where as yet 
there was but an inadequate force to oppofe them. Suchet 
advanced with part of his army to Geneva, upon the lake of 
that name, and gained poffeffion of the whole valley of the 
Arve ; but his career was foon flopped by the arrival of the 
Auftrian general Frimont, with the Italian army above 
60,000 ftrong. Paffing Mount St. Bernard, he defeended 
the Rhone to St. Maurice ; and, pufhing forward, foon 
cleared all the fouth bank of the Lake of Geneva. Bubna 
followed with a further force over Mount Cenis, and took 
the direftion of Grenoble; while an army of Auftrians,. 
Piedmontefe, and fome Englifn troops, were preparing to 
enter France by Nice, upon the fliores of the Mediterra¬ 
nean. This completely tied up the hands of marlhal 
Brune, ftationed in that quarter, and prevented him from 
fending any affiftance to Suchet. It was at this moment 
that Suchet communicated to the Auftrian general the 
unexpedled news of the abdication of Bonaparte, and foli- 
cited an armiftice, which was granted for twenty-four 
hours, upon condition that he (hould evacuate the whole 
valley of the Arve. On the lame day Geneva was occu¬ 
pied, and the French were driven from the heights of Sa- 
vonen with confiderable lofs. At the fame time, general 
Bubna advanced from Mount Cenis, and, on the 29th, 
attacked the tete-du-pont of Arly, near Conflans, which 
the French held with 3000 men : it was carried by affault, 
but the Auftrians loft 1000 men. Continuing his advance, 
the pofitions of Conflans and l’Hopital were forced, and 
the French driven out of them. At the latter place, the 
defence was very obftinate ; the allies three times took it 
by affault, and were three times driven back, but finally 
fucceeded. The pofition of Aguibella was turned ; and, 
without fuftaining any lofs, the allied army forced the 
French to abandon it. Suchet now renewed, with greater 
earneftnefs, his defire for an armiftice, which general 
Frimont at laft granted for three days, upon condition 
that the French fliould give up the pofition of the Bogej, 
the paffage of the Rhone at Seiffel, and abandon every 
poll on that fide, and retire upon Lyons with his army. 
Severe and humiliating as thefe conditions were, Suchet 
was forced to accept them. The armiftice was not re¬ 
newed, and the Auftrian forces immediately advanced 
upon Lyons, which was furrendered to them on the 17th 
of July. From Lyons they puflted their advanced divi-> 
fionsj 
