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Meanwhile, general Guieux drove an 
Auftrian column, which he had defeated, 
to Pufero, as far as the Auftrian Chine, 
a poft extremely well entrenched, but 
which was carried by affault, after a very 
obftinate engagement. The Auftrians, 
then perceiving the Chine in the power 
of the Frenchy precipitated their march, 
and fell into the middle of the divifion of 
general Maffena, who, after a flight 
combat, made the whole of the divifion 
prifoners : - thirty pieces of cannon, four 
hundred waggons, carrying the Aufirian 
baggage, feve “thovfand men, and four gene- 
rails, thus fell into toe bands of the French. 
The French general of divinon, Dogna, 
took poficffion of Triefte on the 23d of 
March. 
The followmg is a fummary account 
. of the loffes fuftained by the Auftrians in 
the above-mentioned engagements : 
Taken prifoners, 9 generals, 1 colo- 
nel, 13,630 officers of inferior rank and 
privates (befides the prifoners taken at 
Tarvis) 30,000 rations of bread, _ 48 
pieces of cannon, 400 baggage wagcons; 
at La Chine, 8 ftandards, all the ftores and 
provifions at Goritz; the mines of d’Y dria. 
Yhe next viétories gained by the re- 
es army over the Auftrians, were 
in the Fyrol. Several divifions ‘of the 
French troops left their cantonments on 
the Adige, the Lavis, and the Brenta, 
and arrived at Brixen on the 24th of 
March, under the command of general 
D’Hillier: after having driven the Auf- 
trians beyond the high mountains which 
feparate Infprack from Carinthia, their 
€quipage, magazines, and between fevea 
and eight thoufand prifoners, fell into 
the hands of the French in ten or twelve 
aétions. The intent of thefe movements 
“Was to form a junction with the grand 
key aéting in the Frioul, and ftretching 
“its.arm by the valley of La Drave. On 
” the 2gth of March, general Maftena put 
himielf in motion welt hiediaion: At 
the diftance of 2 league from Clagenfurt, 
he fell in with the Auftrian army, and an 
engagement enfued, in which the Impe- 
rialifts loft two pieces of cannon, and two 
hundred prifoners. The fame evening the 
French entered Clagenfurt, the capital 
of Carinthia; and prince Charles, with 
the wreck of his army, fled before the 
Republicans... On the 1ft of April, the 
divifion of general Bernadotte was at 
Laubach, the capital of ‘Carniola. Upon 
the 2d of April, general Joubert pro- 
ceeded to Salurne; at the fame time the 
French cavalry, under general Dumas, 
togok- the village of Tramip, made fix 
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hundred prifoners, and then entered the 
city of Botzen. ‘The light infantry, un- 
_der general Joubert, clambered up high 
rocks, attacked the Auftrians, put them 
to a general rout, and made fifteen hun- 
dred “prifoners. 
The French purfued the Auftrians, 
and entered Brixen, where, and,at other 
places, they found thirty thoufand quin- 
tals of flour. In thefe feveral fuccefsfuk 
attacks, the Republicans took an almoft 
lmmenfe quantity of corn, hay, and pro- 
The Auftrians are thus driven 
from the Venetian territories. The 
Higher and Lower Carniola, a te 
the diftri€t of Triefte, and the whole of 
the Tyrolefe, are fubje€tedto the arms 
of the French Republic. 
Amidft thefe brilliant Hagioe the 
Republican general Buonaparte fent from 
his head quarters at Clagenfurt a letter, 
the 31ft of March, to prince 
Charles: “ Imploring him, for the fake | 
of fuffering humanity, to uife his exer- 
; 
-tions for peace, to fave the lives of fo 
many thoufand gallant foldiers, which 
would inevitably fall in a’ farther profe- 
cuticn of the bloody conteft. Is it effen- 
tial,’ fays the conqueror of Italy, ‘ to 
the interefts, or gratifying to the paffions, 
of Englishmen, a nation far removed from 
the theatre of war, that we fhould con- 
tinue to murder each other ?~ With re- 
fpeé to myfelf, gallant general, if the | 
overture which I have now the honour to 
make to you, could be the means of fpar- 
ing the life of a fingle man, I fhould 
think myfelf prouder of the civic crown 
to which my imterference would entitle 
me, than cf the melanchely glory which 
could refult from the moft brilliant mili- 
tary exploits.” : 
Whatever may have been the effects 
of the humane endeavours of this truly 
great man, we rejoice’ in the bane that 
a negociation for peace has aétually taken 
place. 
On the 11th of April, the Prefident of 
the Council of Five Hundred announced 
a mefiage from the Directory, ftating, 
«That it was with the moft profound 
concern, that the Executive Direétory 
inforined the council of the affaffination 
attempted on Sieyes, reprefentative of 
the people. That the affailin was appre- 
hended, and dire€tions were giyen for 
bringing him immediately to trial.” 
VILLERS rofe, and obferved to the 
council, that Sieyes was the man who 
firft propofed the union of the different 
orders; who deputed members to the 
conftituent aflembly, and that h¢ coatri- 
buted 
