
and 
, rating. At 
584 
tua, the fege of which the French had 
‘been obliged to raife. He colleéted an 
army of 25,000 men. ‘The fate of Italy 
was not then decided; it was fulpended 
in doubtful fcales. Bueonaparte hafvened. 
zo Lonado, ‘to afcertain the number of 
troops that he could detach from it; but 
was furprifed upon his arrival to receive - 
a deputation, who had come to fummon 
the governor to furrender, 
this meffeuger, “itis completely invefted, 
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pickets of cavalry; the French 
ral concluded, that different columns 
were approaching his principal guard, 
and that the road from Brefcia to. Lo- 
mado was already intercepted at the 
bridge of St. Marco. 
He was then convinced, that the com- 
munication could only be intercepted by 
the wrecks of the yanguithed divifion, 
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who, having -colleéted after the defeat,. 
svere endeavouring to effect a pafiage. 
The conjuncture was extremely embar- 
Lenado, he had not above 
1200 men; he ordered the meflenger to 
be brought to him, and made him take 
the bandage off his eyes. ‘‘1 told him,” 
favs Bueonaparte, * that if his general had 
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the effrontery to take the commander in 
chief of the army of italy, he had only 
to advance ; that he ought to know that 
I was at Lonado, as every one Knew that 
the Republican army was at that place ;— 
that all the general officers belonging to 
the divifion fhould be refponfible for 
the perfonal infult he had been guilty 
of towards me: and I affured him that 
if his divifion did not in the fpace of 
eight minutes lay down their arms, I 
‘would not fhew mercy to one ot them. 
The mefienger appeared contounded at 
finding me there, and in an inftant the 
svhole column laid down ‘their’ arms. 
Zt confifted of 4000 men, two pieces of 
cannon, and fome cavalry. It had come 
from Gavardo, and was endeavouring 
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to find a paffage to effect their efcape.” 
. Onthe 18th, the two armies attacked 
each other with great energy—the French 
avere every where victorious, and their 
faccefles exceeded their _moft fanguine 
expectations ; they took eighteen pieces 
of cannon and about two thoufand pri- 
foners, and. drove the remainder of the 
Auftrians in all directions; but their 
troops haraffled by fatigtie, could not 
purfue them more than three leagues. 
General Wurmier a few days afterwards 
colle&ed his troops tegether, and it 
Public Affai rs it. E rane. 
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Maflena attacked the Auftrians in their 
entrenched camp on the 6th of Auguft 
routed them, took twelve pieces of can 
non and deven hundred -prifoners. 
Thefe events obliged Gemeral Wurmfer 
to abandon the line he had formed along 
the Mincio. On the next day: part of 
the Republican army marched to Ve- 
rona, where they arrived ‘at ten o’ clock 
in the evening; but the rear-guard of 
the Aufrians were ftill at Verona, the 
gates of which were fhut, and the draw-~ 
bridges drawn up. The French mme? 
diately began to force the gates with their 
heavy artillery, and in’ lefs than a quar- 
ter of an hour, they entered the town, 
where they found a quantity of ammu- 
nition and 
hundreds prifoners. 
In confequence of thefe fucceffes, the 
French refumed their former pofitions, 
and. the Auftrians fled to the defiles of 
the Vyrolefe. 
Thus the Aufrian army, which for 
fix weeks before had menaced the inva- 
fion of italy, has (to ufe the- words of 
Bueonaparte) vaniihed like a dream, and 
Italy, which was threatened with the 
greateft difafters, became at once tran- 
guil and compofed. a 
During the temporary retreat of the 
French, the inhabitants of Bologna, 
Ferrara, and particularly thofe of Milan, 
manifefted the moft determined -courage 
and the mof ardent zeal and attachment 
to the caufe of the Republic. 
The executive direétory of France 
have lately replied to a meffage from 
the council of five hundred relative to 
completing the Military Officers of Ma- 
rine, in which the direétory declared 
that nothing had been negleéted by 
them in the great work of the organi- 
zation and regeneration of the Marine 
and arfenals of the Republic. 
Defermond, in the council of fivehun- 
dred, made, inthe courfe of the month, 
an interefting repert on the contribu- 
tions and mandats, wherein he obferves, 
That it was fixed by the laws of the 
28 Wentofe, and the rath, and -15th, 
of laf Germinal, that mandats fhouid 
not be otherwife confidered than as me- 
tallic money; and they were therefore 
received at their nominal value in all 
payments, and in all the offices; that he 
had pointed out, on the 15. of Ventofe, 
in {peaking of affignats, the advantages 
of leaving paper money: to: its relative. 
provifions, and made feveral ~ 
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trenched himfelf behind the river Min-~ value; notwithftanding this, the Repub ~ 
cio near Pefchiera, amd extended his lic adopted other principles in the’ law” 
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left to Mantua. The French General 
