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ment of red-hot fhot, 
Heathfield. 
The conqueft of Toulon contributed 
not a little to raife the credit of 
BuONAPARTE; and it proved equal- 
ly advantageous to his friead Bar- 
RAS. That deputy had been alfo bred 
a military man, and was employed 
by his colleagues on all great emer- 
gencies. One of thefe foon occurred ; 
this -was the commotion among the 
feGtions.of Paris, known by the name of 
the Infurreétion of Vendemaire. On this 
occafion, he took care to be furround- 
ed by. able men, among whom was 
General BUuoNAPARTE, whom he had 
invefted with the command of the artil- 
lery, at the fiege of Toulon. It was to 
another Corfican, however, that he con- 
fided the fuperintendance of the army: 
this was GENTILI, who had juft acquired 
under Lord 
a great reputation, by his gallant defence 
of Baftia. On trial, however, it was 
immediately | difcovered, that the deafne/s 
of GENTILI was an eer as -obfiacle 
to fuccefs, as he could neither hear nor 
attend to the multiplied and complicated 
reports of the aides. du camp, who were 
continually bringing him mefiages, or 
addre ling him relative to the fituation of 
the enemy. Luckily for the Convention, 
NAPoLEONE BUONAPARTE was, at this 
critical and decifive moment, appointed 
his fucceffor, and it is to the mafterly 
difpofitions made by him, that the tri- 
umph of the reprefentative body is to be 
principally aferibed. It is but juitice to 
_ add, that the ‘moderation dif Iplayed on 
is occafion is perhaps Hobanalied 1 in the 
hiftory of the civil wars of modern times | 
A nobler field now opened for A eX- 
ertions of BuoNapaRTeE, for he was 
foon after invefied with the one com- 
mand of the French army in Italy, 
which, under his dire€tion, “prepared tO 
open the campaign of 17096. In the 
{pring of that year, we find the Auftro- 
Sardinian army defeated within forty 
miles of “Lurim; 14,0¢c0 were either 
killed or taken prifoners on this occa- 
fion, and the cannon and camp equipage 
feized on_by the victors. ‘The army of 
Lombardy was alfo doomed to experi- 
ence a moft humiliating defeat, although 
led on by a cautious veteran; BEAULIEU, 
in perfon ; this was attrivuted folely to 
the “dkilfui manceuvres of the commander 
in chief, feconded by the aéiive exertions 
of generals LAvARPE, Massena. and 
SExvONA. © The Aufirian general 
Provera was taken prifoner-in- a 
third engagement; in confequence of 
Original Anecdotes—Buonaparte. - 
- the. republic !”’ 
[ May, 
which, forty field-pieces, with the horfes, 
mules, and artillery-waggons, &c. were 
captured by the French; 2500 of the 
allies killed, and 8, ooo made prifoners, 
In fhort, the battles of Millefimo, Dego, 
Mondavi: ivionte oe and Monte- 
notte, were decifive of the fate of Sar- 
dinia; for the ayed and fuperfiitious 
monarch then feated on the threne, 
found himfelf reduced to the humiliat- 
ing fituation of relinguifhing Savoy and 
Nice, and fubfcribing to fuch terms as 
were granted by a generous conqueror, 
who a have driven him from his 
throne, and obliged him to fpend the 
fhort remainder “of a agi? life in 
exile, and perhaps in poverty ! 
The battle of Lodi, fought on oa 
2i1ft Floreal (May roth) nearly com - 
‘pieted the overthrow of the- Auftrian ~ 
power in Italy, and added greatly to the 
reputation of the French arms. On this 
ae a battalion of grenadiers bore 
down al! 1 before them, ard reached the 
bridge of Lodi, fhouting, “ Long live 
but the dreadful fire 
kept up by the enemy having ftopped 
their progrefs, generals BERTHIER, 
Massena, Cervoni, &c. rufhed for- 
ward ; even their pretence would have 
proved ineffetual, had it not been for 
the in‘repidity of BUONAPARTE, whe, 
fnatching a ftandard from. the hand of a 
fubaltemn, like Cetar, on a fimilar occa 
fion, placed himfelf in front, and ani- 
mating his foldiers by his actions and 
gefticulations Gor } his voice was crowned 
in the noife of the cannon and mufketry ) 
victory once more ee herfelt under 
the Gallic banner 
In confequence ioe this fignal defeat, 
or rather feries of vitiorles, BEAULIEU 
_ was obliged to yield the palm toa younger 
rival, for he felt himfeli reduced to the 
neceffiy of retreating among the moun- 
tains of Fyral, on 4 mee the French 
took poffeffion of the greater part of ~ 
Lombardy, and eee aitonifhing re- 
fources, and immenie magazines. 
After crofling the lv:inc’o, in the face 
of the Auftrians, the republican army 
entered Verona, which fo lately had af- 
forded an afvlum to ove of the ilar” 
kings of France, and feized on Pavia. 
ere a a new and amore dreadful enemy 
attempted to. ftop the progrefs of the 
conquerors. It was fuperftition, clothed 
in cowlsand furplices, brandithing:a po- 
niard in one hand, anda crucifix in the 
other; but the {peedy punifhment of the 
priefts and their adherents put en end to 
the infurrection, and thus faved BUON AE 
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