1796] 
that not only no prejudice may refult to the 
auxiliary power, but ev.n that the treaty may 
turn, as much as p flible, to its direét advantage. 
For this purpoie the auxiliary power thall have 
knowledge of the manner and time agreed up- 
on for opening and carrying on the negoti- 
ation. 
KY. A treaty of commerce fhall be con-' 
cluded, upon a footing the moft equitabie and 
mutually advantag-ou, which fhall enfure to 
each, with its ally, a marked preference for 
the produce of its foil and manui.¢tures, or at 
Jeaft advantages equal to thote which the moft 
favoured nations enjoy. ‘Lhe two powers en- 
gage, from this time, ta make common cafe 
in orcer to repteis and annihilate the maxims 
{adapted by whatever other country) inimical 
to thcir principles, to the fecurity of the neutral 
flag, and to th. refp-é& which is due to it, as 
well to reftabliin the colonial fyftem of Spain 
upon the footing on which it exifted, or ought 
to have exifted, according-to former treatics, 
AVI. The capacity and jurifdi&t'on of con- 
fuls fhall be {cttled -ndregulated by a particular 
agrecment, till which time they fhail remain 
upon their prefent footing, 
AWVIT. To avoidall duputes between the two 
powers, they thall occupy themfe!ves, without 
delay, with the explanation and afcertaining the 
7th article of the treaty of Bafle, conce ning the 
frontiers, acc rding to the in ructions, plans, 
and memorials, which thall be communicate 
through the mecium of the (ame plenipotenti- 
aries who negotiate this treaty, 
XVII. England being the only power a- 
gainft which Spain has dire complaints, the 
prefent ailance ihall take ef-a only againgt 
her during the pretent war, and Spain ihall re- 
main neuter with refpect to other powers armed 
_ againil the repudlic. 
AIK. The ratifications of the prefent treaty 
fhall be exchanged im one month from its fig- 
fature. 
Done at Iidephonfo, 2 Fru@idor (Aug. 
19) 4th year of the Republic, one and 
indivinbls (Signed) Prricnon. 
PRINCE DE LA Paix. 
In our Jaf account of the military 
affairs of France, we left the forces under 
general Moreau, puriuing the archduke 
on his-retreat along the great roads: of 
Gmund and Goeppingen. On the 8th 
of aAuguft, the French attacked the 
Auftrian out-pofts of general Hotze and 
Riefe, and-drove them in. On the gth 
of Auguft, the prince of Condé was 
defeated, and the emigrants under his 
command fuffered feverely; he was 
obliged to retire to Mindenheim, on the 
Mindel, and general Wolf into the de- 
file of Bergentz. General. Wartenflcben 
at this timre reported, that his pofition 
was fo bad; asto render it highly impru- 
dent for him to wait the attack which 
general Jourdan, from his late move- 
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ments, feemed to. be meditating: and 
the fame day, general Moreau arrived 
in great force, opponte the centre of the 
archduke s exten..ve line. 
On the 10th of Aug ft, the French 
marched a ftrong part or their firlt ine 
Into the woods im their front, -woere 
they eitablifhed themfclves frail’, and 
the fame evening about fix o'clock, ate 
tacked yeneral Hutze s left, at Egiinpen, 
and Amerdingen,with great :mpecucity ; 
they defeated and drove back his advanc- 
ed potts, but they did not incerrupt tae 
attack which the archduke intended 
making upon them the neat morning, 
-Ail the difpofitions tor this premeditated 
attack of tne Auftrians upon the French, 
were 1egularly made, and the columns 
Were ordered to advance juft beco e day- 
break. A moft violent ftorm, however, 
which lafted feveral hours, rendered the 
night fo extremely dark, and the roads 
fo bad, that the roops and artillery were 
above double the time they would other~ 
wife have been in periorming their 
movements, and the att.ck was neceffa- 
rily deferred till feven o'clock.” {his 
enabled the French te di cover the whole 
plan, and to prepare for their defence. 
Vhough this circumftance deprived 
the arcnduke of the advantage of fur- 
prife, he yet perfevered in his refolucion 
to attack, ihe three columns of the 
entre made fome impretion upon the 
French, but the column that marched 
towards Umenheim, finding itfelf taken 
in flank by generai Moreau’s referve, 
which advanced for that purpofe as 
foon as the affair commenced, was obliged 
to retire. This laid general Hotze’s 
right flank open, and forced him allo to 
fail back to the pofition of Forcheim, 
whence he had marched in the morn ng, 
At the time the archduke was making 
his difpofitions for tirenythening and 
bringing f rward his right again, he 
received a report from general Warten- 
fleben, purporting, that he was obliged 
to retire to Amberg; and that a columa 
of general Jourdan’s army had already 
arrived at Nuremberg, tor the purpote 
of co-operating immediately with gene. 
ral Moreau. Upon this information, 
the archduke fufpended his atrack— i he 
lofs was confiderable on both fides; but 
the archduke had the additional mortifj- 
cation of feeing his projected plan com- 
. pletely fruftrated. 
General Moreau profited by the large 
detachment, which had béen drawn from 
the Aufirian army, oppo'ed to him; he 
immediately detertained to make a di- 
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