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victory. Two thoufand Auftrians killed ; 
twothoufand, of whom 60 are officers, 
made prifoners; many flags taken ; feve- 
ral important pofts captured, more e!pe- 
cially that of Cairo -and the heighis of 
Carcaro, where the head quarters of our 
army are now eftablithed ;—fuch are the 
confequences of that glorious day. It is 
the Auftrian army of Lombardy, com- 
-manded by general Beaulieu in perfon, 
‘that has been thus defeated. We have 
reafon to hope that the Piedmontefe will 
mot make much refiftance, and that we 
fhall foon have to announce to you new 
victories. The immediate one is due to 
_the fkilful difpofitions of the commander 
in chief Buonaparte, wonderfully fecond- 
ed by generals Laharpe, Maffena, and 
Servona.”’ 
Hereupon the convention decreed that 
the army of italy had not ceafed to de- 
ferve well of its country. 
And on the 24th of April, at the open- 
ing the fitting, the prefident caufed to 
be read the following meflage from the 
directory : 
“ Citizens reprefentatives! The fuc- 
cefsful engagement of Montenotte, of 
which we apprized you by our meflage 
of the 2d initant, was, for the invincible 
army of Italy, merely the prelude of ftill 
greater fucceffes. We have to announce 
to you adecifive and for ever memorable 
victory obtained by this army at Monte. 
Lezino over the Piedmontefe and Auf- 
trians united. 
« The enemy loft ten thoufand five 
hundred men, of whom eight thoufand 
were made prifoners. We took from 
them 40 field-pieces, with the horfes, 
mules, and artillery waggons, 15 flags, 
all their baggage, and feveral magazines. 
** Our generals, officers, and foldiers, 
Were, on this occafion,. all of them 
crowned with glory, and fhowed them- 
{elves worthy of defending the caufe of 
liberty. 
** The commander in chief, Buona- 
parte, alfo direéted this attack. ‘The 
generals who feconded him in the mot 
diftinguifhed manner, are Laharpe, An- 
gereau, Maffena, Cervoni, Caffe, Me- 
nard, and Goubert. The laf was wound- 
ed in leaping into the enemy’s entrench. 
Ments. Two other generals were killed 
at the head of their columns, performing 
prodigies of valour. 
*< General Provera, who commanded 
the Auftro-Sardinian army, was made 
Prifoner, after having made the mott 
¥igorous refiftance, with feveral regiments 
which were taken with him, 
France, » » Germany. 
‘© You will, without doubt, declare 
that the army of Italy has not ceafed ta 
deferve well of the country.” 
This declaration was inftantly made 
by acclamation ; and the council deter- 
mined that at two o’clock the meffage of. 
the dire€tory fhould be again read, and 
that it fhould be printed, pofted, and 
fent toall the adminiftrations, and to the 
armies. 
The war in La Vendée, Is nearly ex- 
tinguifhed; befides Stofilet, whofe execu- 
tion was mentioned in our laft Number, 
Charette, a moft diftinguifhed chief, has 
alfo been taken and fhot. For an ac- 
count of whom, fee our obituary. Another 
event, however, has taken place, appa- 
rently lefs favourable to the interefts of 
France, we mean the refignation of gene- 
ral Pichegru, a commander of fplendid 
military talents, of great humanity, and 
extremely popular. His refignation is un« 
derftood to have been occafioned by his 
having recommended pacific meafures to 
the French Directory, and the ceifion of 
the Netherlands. Much violence, and 
acrimony of debate, has lately been exhi« 
bited im the Legiflative Affembly, occa- 
fioned by the mifcunduét of commiffion- 
ers, of oppofite parties. who have at difte- 
rent periods been fent to the fouthera 
provinces. 
Paris, April.5. Charles Cochon, member of 
the council of ancients, is named minifter of 
general police. —Merlin of Douai is r -appointed, 
to be minifter of juftice, an office which he had 
quitted.—Pichegru is appointed ambaflador to 
Sweden. 
[The Bourbon family.---This family is now 
thus {cattered over the different parts of Eu. 
rope: The daughter of Louis XVI, at Vienna 
monfieur at Verona, his wife at a country feat 
near. Turin; the ci-devant count d’Artois at 
Edinburgh, his wife at Turin, his fecond fon at 
the thead-quarters of the prince of Condé; the 
duchefs of Orleans at a country houfe near 
Paris, her eldeft ion at Hamburg, her two other 
fons at Antibes ; the prince of :Condé, with 
his grandfon, M. D’Enghien, at Ober Buhl, in 
the county of-Baden; the duke of Bourbon in 
London, his daughter-in-law at Marfeilles, his 
daughter, the princefs Louifa, has taken the 
veil at Turin ; the prince of Conti at Auxerie, 
in the fouth of France, and his wife at -Kii- 
burg. | ph he j 
GERMANY. 
The general difpofitions of the emperor 
re{pecting peace and war, are not known 
with precifion; though he is probably 
much more inclined to the fide of peace, 
were it not for the encouragement and 
affiftance which he derives from the cabi-~ 
netand refources of England, Notwith-. 
flanding 
