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towards Ferrara; and, it being confidered by the Auftrian 
generals as of effential conlequence to defend this point, 
baron Frimont ordered thelieutenant-field-marffial Mohr 
to advance from the tete-du-pont of Occhio Bello, and 
make an attack upon the enemy. This was effected on 
the 12th by Mohr, whilft count Neipperg threatened the 
flank of the Neapolitans; and its fuccefs was fuch, that 
they were driven from all their works, and Ferrara was 
delivered. The retreating Neapolitans were purfued to¬ 
wards Bologna. General Bianchi had at this time driven 
the invaders from Carpi, and had recovered Modena ; 
fo that the vicinity of the Po was entirely freed from the 
Neapolitans. The latter continued their retreat at all 
points. On the 16th the van of the Auftrian army en¬ 
tered Bologna, which had been haftily abandoned by 
Joachim. 
It was now manifeft, that, whatever were the willies 
of the Italians for independence, no co-operation could 
be expedited on their parts; and that the grand fcheme of 
uniting Lombardy againft the Auftrian dominion, and 
forming a powerful diverfion in favour of Bonaparte in 
that quarter, was beyond the talents of Murat with a Nea¬ 
politan army. From Bologna the purfuit was continued 
by the Auftrian divifion under count Neipperg, which 
fucceflively occupied Imola, Faenza, and Forii. A large 
corps of Neapolitans being entrenched at Cefena, the 
count made an attack upon it on the 21ft, and a brifk 
adlion enfued ; after which the polition was abandoned, 
and the troops haftily retreated. 
The Neapolitan army, under Murat, continued to re¬ 
treat ; and, on the 27th of April, it had fallen back as 
far as Pefaro. The Auftrian general, Bianchi, was now 
marching with celerity from Bologna through Florence 
and Foligno, in order to occupy the direft road from 
Ancona to Naples, and thereby to turn the politions of 
the Neapolian army. On the 2d of May he took a poli¬ 
tion in front of Tolentino, which rendered it neceffary 
for Murat to venture a battle for the purpofe of fecuring 
a retreat to the Neapolitan frontier. Advancing from 
Macerata with a much fuperior force, on the fame day 
he attacked the politions of Bianchi, and the conteft con¬ 
tinued till the approach of night. On the following 
morning, the attacks were renewed with great vigour, 
and were refilled with equal obftinacy, till night again 
put an end to the combat. The arrival of count Niep- 
perg at Jeli now obliged the Neapolitans to commence 
a precipitate retreat in the direction of Ferino, in order 
to gain the road along the fea-coaft to Pefcara. General 
Nugent, who had entered Rome, marched from that ca¬ 
pital in the beginning of May, towards the Neapolitan 
frontier on that fide, the enemy retiring before him. 
They were at length driven beyond the Garigliano to San 
Germano, to which they were .followed by the Auftrian 
advanced-guard. On the 14th, Murat arrived at San 
Germano ; and, his troops being confiderably reinforced, 
he drove back the advanced-guard, and afterwards at¬ 
tacked all the Auftrian out-pofts. On the 15th, he began 
again to.retire; and, returning with a fmall efcort to San 
Germano, he foon left that place. Nugent, refuming 
the offenlive, advanced againft the enemy, who were 
polled on the banks of the Melfa, which they quitted on 
his approach. They afterwards left San Germano to 
their purfuers, and fell back to Mignano, where they drew 
up in force. In that pofition they were attacked and put 
to the'rout; and thus the Neapolitan army, named that of 
the interior, was entirely broken up. On the 18th, a 
junction was formed at the Auftrian camp, near Calvi, of 
Bianchi’s army with that of Nugent, who had now no 
opponents in the field, the wretched remains of the Nea¬ 
politan army being reduced, chiefly by defertion, to a 
difpirited band of about 16,000 effective foldiers of all 
kinds. 
Meanwhile, in confequence of arrangements made be¬ 
tween lord Burgherlh, the Engliflx minifter at Florence, 
and captain Campbell, of the Tremendous man-of-war, 
the latter, in the beginning of May, failed with his fhip, 
accompanied by a frigate and a lloop-of-war, to the Bay 
of Naples. On his arrival he declared to the Neapolitan 
government, that, unlefs the Ihips of war were furren- 
dered to him, he would bombard the town. Madame 
Murat immediately fent prince Carrati to negociate for 
the furrender. The terms dictated by captain Campbell 
were, that the Ihips of the line in the bay fliould be given 
up; that the arfenal of Naples Ihould be delivered over, 
and an inventory taken of its aftual ftate ; and that thefe 
captures fhould be at the joint dilpolal of the Englilh go¬ 
vernment and of Ferdinand IV. of Naples. The Ihips 
were then taken poffeflion of, and fent oft' to Sicily. 
The war was now near to a conclufion, the final clofe 
of which is thus related by lord Burgherlh to lord Caftle- 
reagh, in a difpatch, dated Teano, May ai : “After 
the fucceffes obtained by general Nugent, and Hated in 
my Lift difpatch, general Bianchi received, on the 18th, a 
meffage from the duke de Gallo, requefting an interview, 
to communicate to him propofitions he was charged with 
from Mar/hal Murat. A meeting for the next day was 
appointed: general Bianchi requelled me to attend it on 
the part of England; and, in the abfence of the Britifli 
commanders-in-chief both by fea and land, I confented. 
I met therefore the duke de Gallo with general Bianchi, 
on the morning of the 19th. The converfation which 
enfued with that minifter led to no other refult than in 
having given the allies an opportunity of Hating to him 
the grounds on which alone they would engage to arreft 
their military movements. Having Hated that he had 
no authority to treat on any balls of the nature fo an¬ 
nounced to him, the duke de Gallo returned to Naples, 
having received, however, an affurance, that any propo¬ 
fitions general Carrafcofa might wilh to make Ihould, in 
the courfe of the following day, be received. The meet¬ 
ing with general Carrafcofa took place this morning. 
General Niepperg on the part of Auftria, general Col- 
letta on that of Naples, and rnyfelf in the ablence of the 
Britilh commander-in-chief, negociated the military con¬ 
vention. On the part of Naples, propofitions were at firft 
made totally inadmiflible ; on our part, the abdication of 
Marllial Murat was infilled upon. General Colletta wilhed 
to fecure for that perfon a fafe retreat to France; but, 
finding that fuch was totally impoflible, and having de¬ 
clared that he had no authority from Murat to treat with 
regard to him, the convention, fuch as your lordlhip will 
receive it, was agreed to. It is impoflible to conclude 
this difpatch without calling your lordlhip’s attention to 
the manner in which the campaign, now terminated, has 
been carried on by general Bianchi. The activity with 
which he has pulhed his operations is almoft without ex¬ 
ample. The conftant fucceffes which have attended his 
arms are crowned in the fatisfadtion of his being able to 
re-ellablifn the authority of the legitimate fovereign, with¬ 
out thole misfortunes to the country attendant on pro¬ 
tracted military operations.” 
Military Convention. 
Art. 1. From the day in which the prefent military 
convention lhall have been figned, there lhail be an ar- 
miftice between the allied troops and the Neapolitan 
troops, in all parts of the kingdom of Naples. 
2. All fortified places, citadels, and forts, of the king¬ 
dom of Naples, lhall be given up in their adlual ftate, as 
well as the fea-ports and arfenals of all kinds, to the 
armies of the allied powers, at the periods fixed upon in 
the following article, for the purpofe of being made over 
to his majelly king Ferdinand IV. excepting fuch of them 
as may before that period have already been furrendered. 
The places of Gaeta, Pefcara, and Ancona, which are 
already blockaded by the land and fea forces of the allied 
powers, not being in the line of operations of the army 
under the general-in-chief Carrafcola, he declares him- 
felf unable to decide upon their fate, as the officers com¬ 
manding them are independent, and not under his orders. 
3. The 
