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‘their rear guard. 
or words to that effet; and feveral in- 
ftances occurred in the papers which 
were feized, of allufions to the expected | 
arrival of thefe friends. 
in a few days after this report cf the 
fecret: committee was read to the houfe, 
Mr. Powson sy introduced his promifed 
- motion, refpecting a parliamentary re- 
form. The minifterial fide of the houfe 
recurred, on this occafion, to their old 
fubterfuge “ of this, not being a proper 
time, &c.’” 
The motion was negatived, by 117 
to 30. 
The whig members of the lrifh aisle: 
ment, wearied with fruitlefs attempts, bave 
at length feceded from that 7, and left 
minifiers and their adberents to their fate. 
FRANCE. 
In our laft retrofpeét of public affairs» 
we left General BUONAPARTE at hiS 
head quarters, in Clagenfurt, the capi- 
ral of are, and Prince CHARLES, 
at the head of the Aufirian army, flying 
before him. The republicans followed 
up the advantages they had recently ac- 
guired with their ufval celerity. Gene- 
‘¥al JouBERT, on the z9th of March, 
attacked the defile of Infpruck; the 
Auftrian battalions, newly arrived from 
the Rhine, endeavoured to defend it, but 
after a few moments’ cannonade, ihe 
fruftrians were obliged to retreat, leaving 
roo dead, $00 prifoners, 2 pieces of can- 
non, and all their’equipage. 
General BUONAPARTE marched, at 
the head of the French army, on the 
and of April, and General MasseEn a’s 
divifion, forming the advanced guard, 
came up with the Au‘trians, in the defiles 
between Freifach and Newmark. The 
battle raged with great fury ; it was the 
feleé&t part of the Auftrian army contend- 
ing againft the veteran conquc¢rors of 
Italy. The Imperialiits had a Bane (po- 
dition, defended with cannon ; but it only 
retarded, for a fhert time, the defeat of 
Their grenadiers were 
completely routed, leaving the tekl cf 
battle covered wich dead, and about pee 
ar 600 prifoners. TVhe Auftrians filed 
off in the night; at day- break the French 
entered Neaimarics they foun) at Frei- 
fach 4000 quintals of wheat, and a 
a great quantity of brandy and oats; 
they : found as much at Newmark though 
the Auftrianshad defiroyed a great quan- 
tity by fire.’ 
The head quarters O8 the republicans 
were at Schertling, onthe ath of April. 
The advanced guard, on the point of 
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‘the ath 
397, 
reaching Hunfmark, came up with the 
_ rear cuard of the Imperialifis, who withed 
to difpute the ground, but were ina 
fhort time defeated, lea aving 600" pri fon= 
ers, and 3co dead on the field of bartle. 
It was “at this period that. Pri 
Craxnies fenta reply to the letter fent 
to him by General BUONAPARTE, afew 
days before (Jee our lafi, pose SO im- 
ploring hi im, forthe fake of humanity, 
to ufe his utmoft efforts fo procure a 
peace. The prince, in this repiy, afured 
the republican general, ** that though 
his duty called him to make war, he Ace 
fired peace, for the happinets of the peo- 
ple ; he had no full powers to treat upon’ 
fo important a fubject, but muft wait for 
fuperior orders.’ According to Gene- 
ral BUONAPARTE,- the prince, two 
hours after he had fent that reply, de- 
manded, by one of his aid-de-camns, a 
fufpenfion of arms, for four hours, a 
propofal wholly inadmiffible. ‘ He 
wifhed,”’ faid the French general, ‘‘ by 
getting four hours, to gain the day, and 
thereby have time to effect his junétion 
with General SpPoRK ; this was precifely 
the reafon that made me march day and 
nicht. Almoft immediately after this 
correipondence between the two generals, 
a fufpenfion cf arms was a greed upon, 
between the French and Imperial armies, 
to commence on the 7th of April, and to 
capitis on the 13th as night. 
his fufpenfion of . arms happily pre- 
pared the way to preliminaries of peace 
between the Eas and: the Frenca 
republic, which were figned in the courie 
of a few days. 
Previous to this happy event, the 
French generals Joubert, De elmas, and 
Baraguely d’Hilliers trav erfed the Tyrol, 
made in the different battles 8000 prifon- 
ers, and joined the,grand army: in the 
Valley of Drave. By ‘this means, the 
whole French army Wes united ; ae on 
of April, tts line extended trom 
the \ a alley of Drave, on the fide of Spital 
to Rollmanny along the Muhr, Bruck, 
Gratz, and to Fiume nearly. 
About the fame time, the Ee feet 
arniies, under the command of generals 
Hoche and Moreau, crofied the Rhine. 
“The army of the Rhine and the Mofelle, 
under general Moreau, paifed that river 
on the 27it of April, and took pofiefiion, 
of the fort of Keh!, by 2 covp-de-main, 
which our readers will remember, the 
Auftrians with great difficulty, gained at 
the latter end of the laf campaign, after 
bef fieging it for almoft three monibs. This 
patlage was accomplithed in broad day, by 
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