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paffed the Lahn, and pufhed forward to 
Selrers. Alarmed at thefe fucceffes, the 
Archduke Charles retired from the 
Hundfruck, and defiled by Mentz, in 
order to cosoperate with Gen. Wurmfer, 
and reinforce the Auftrians on the right 
fide of the Rhine. Informed of the 
defigns of the Archduke, general Jour- 
dan paffed the Rhine himfelf in great 
force, and fixed his head-quarters at 
Neuwied, in order to prevent the intend- 
ed junction, in which manceuvre, how- 
ever, we learn from fubfequent accounts, 
he was not fuccefsful. 
Whilft general Kleber was driving 
the Auftrians before him on the right 
bank, general Championet and general 
Bernadotte on the left bank, attacked 
the Auftrians at different points, and 
forced them, after feveral fevere con- 
fliéts, to retire from the Nahe, and to 
fall back upon Bingen. 
‘The accounts of thefe fucceffes on the 
Rhine, have produced very ftrong fen- 
fations at Paris, and a current report pre- 
vailed, that Auftrian commiffioners had 
arrived to fue for peace. But it muft 
be obferved, that no meffage had then 
been fent to the legiflature by the direc- 
tory, relative to the operations upon the 
Rhine. 
General Buonaparte informed the exe- 
cutive directory, by a letter dated head- 
quarters, Verona, June 3, that he arriv- 
ed there on that day, and fhould leave 
it the next ; that he informed the inha- 
bitants, that if the king of France had 
net evacuated their town before he peff- 
ed the Po, he certainly fhould have fet 
fire to that city, which had the audacity 
to ftyle itfelf the capital of the French 
empire. That the emigrants were 
leaving Italy daily, and efcaping into 
Germany with remorfe and mifery, as 
their woeful attendants. 
General Hoche, about the fame time, 
informed the minifter of general police, 
in a letter from his: head-quarters at 
Rennes, that the Chouans, in the canton 
of Craon, had given up their arms, and 
he prediéted that their cxample would 
be followed by all who oppofed him in 
the department of Mayenne, which 
would no longer: be infefted by thefe 
nocturnal affailants. 
The minifter of the marine of the 
French republic, iffued, on the sth of 
February, an order to all cfficers of fhips 
and crews, not to binder, moleft, or de- 
tain, the. celebrated Englifh traveller, 
SPILLARD, who has traverfed, on foot, 
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France... Germany... Holland... Sweden, &e. [June 
more than 23,0c0 leagues, in various 
parts of the world. The order farther 
prohibits any Frenchman from detaining 
any of his papers or colleétions what- 
ever. 
GERMANY. 
The Emperor in his orders for notice 
to be given for recommencing hoftilities on 
the Rhine, appeared to regret that the 
ambitious demands of his enemies, the 
French, compelled him to have recourfe 
again to arms ; he was filent, however, upon 
the fubjeét of his own ambitious views at 
the period when Valenciennes was taken 
in his name, and upon the objeéts and 
principles of the grand confederacy. Itis 
reported in Paris, that fince the late fuc- 
ceffes of the French, this monarch has 
pubitcly difavowed the intention or the 
wifh to break the armiftice, and that he 
attributes the whole to a manceuvre of the 
Britith minifter. 
HoLLanpD. 
On the 17th of May, the military com- 
mittee having communicated the meflage 
of General Bournonville, requefting that 
a chief be immediately nominated for the 
army, the national affembly appointed him 
commander of the Dutch army, with ade- 
quate powers, and in the ufual forms. 
About the middle of the fame month, the 
prefident informed the national affembly, 
that the minifter of the king of Den- 
mark had promifed, that his court 
would prefer fome ferious complaints to 
the Britifh minifter, concerning the out- 
rages committed in Norway by certain 
Englith fhips of war; and that in the 
mean time a Danith fquadron fhould be 
fitted out to proteét the neutrality of their 
cdaft. 
SWEDEN. 
Intelligence was received from Stock- 
holm, in May, that general Baron de 
Budberg, who had refided there fome 
vears, without any public charaéter, was 
about to fet off for Ruffia. This cir- 
cumftance, with that of the laft dif- 
patches from Peteriburg being of a lefs 
pacific nature than ufual, has excited 
frefh apprehenfions, that a war between 
the two powers is near at hand. 
TURKEY. 
M. Verniac’s ‘audience of the Grand 
Signor, was fixed, it is reported, for the 
26th of April, and it was expected to be — 
an exhibition of confiderable magnificence 
Tt is faid farther, that a veffel from 
Marfeilles had arrived with 100000 
firelocks, 
