1799) 
moft bloody aétion, the generals Delmas 
and Gernier beat the enemy from all their 
pofitions, purfued them inceffantly, and 
obtained poffeffion of the two bridges 
on the Adige; twelve pieces of cannon, 
two {tandards, and about 4,00 prifoners, 
were the refult of this day. The Auf- 
trians (according to the French account) 
left 3000 dead on the field of battle, 
Since thefe tranfactions, it appears that 
a general aétion had taken place near 
Verona on the 5th April, in which gene- 
ral Scherer affiited by general Moreau 
commanded the French. Scherer ftates 
that in the beginning of the engagement 
he tock 2000 Auftrians prifoners, and 7 
pieces of cannon, but admits that he was 
obliged eventually to retreat with the 
lofs of three thoufand men and four pieces 
of artillery. The battle was moft obtti- 
nate, and lafted trom eleven till five 
o'clock. General Moreau had been fent 
from Paris to aflift general Scherer in 
his operation. 
Oficial difpatches from general Buona- 
parte, have lately been publithed by the 
directory ; they are dated head quarters at 
Cairo, OStober 17th, and contain the 
details of feveral actions which had taken 
place at different times and places with 
the Mamelukes, fome tribes of Arabs, 
and the inhabitants of fome difiriéts in 
revolt. The firft of thefe fkirmithes, was 
on the 6th of Auguft, between a battalion 
of French troops under general Fugieres, 
and the natives and Arabs at the village 
of Reinerie, which refufed him a paflage 
to Mehalleel-Kehin the capital of Gar- 
bia, the refult was, that the French drove 
their opponents into the village, killed 
200 of them and then took pofleffion of 
the place. Another fkirmith took place 
on the 28th of September, between the 
republicans and fome Arabs who had 
intetted the Nile with their piratical expe- 
ditions at Mit-Kamar, when about 200 
of thefe miferable creatures were killed or 
drowned. But the principal engagement 
happened at Sediman on the 7th of Sep- 
tember, between the French and the army 
of Mourad-Bey conlifting of near 6000 
cavalry, chiefly Arabs, and a corps of 
infantry, which guarded the works of 
Sediman, on which four pieces of cannon 
were mounted. ‘The Mamelukes charged 
with horrible cries, and fought with great 
bravery, byt were foon repulled; the 
French then marched towards Sediman, 
and notwithttanding the fire of the cannon, 
the Pas de charge was like lightning, and 
the entrenclment, the cannon and the 
baggage were ina moment their pofici- 
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fion. Mourad-Bey had three beys killed, 
two wounded, and 400 of the flower of 
his troops killed an the ‘pot: the French 
had 36 men killed and as many wounded. 
‘«¢ Here, fays the general, as well as at the 
hattle of the Pyramids, the foldiers made 
a caniiderable booty. ‘There was not a 
Mameluke on whom there was net found 
4or 509 louis.” In a fubfequent action 
Monrad-Bey himfclf appears to have been 
killed. a 
The Primary Affemblies throughout 
the French Republic have finifhed their 
elections, and the returns for the legifla- 
tive councils, have been in favour of 
Republican principles in general ; but, in 
many places, contrary to the moderate 
or reigning party. At Perigueues, the 
municipal ofhcersdepofed by the Dire&tory 
were reinftated. Throughout the whole 
department of Dordogne, the eleftors re- 
turned fome of thofe perfons to the legi'~ 
lative body whom the Directory had re- 
jected laft year. At Bourdeaux, the 
members of the central bureau, lately dif- 
placed by the Direétory, were nominated 
electors. At Touloufe, the anarchifts, 
as they were called, met with no refiftance ; 
and in feveral Cantons of the Lower Seine 
they were equally triumphant. They 
failed, however, in moft parts of the de- 
partments of the Mofelle and Lower 
Loire. During the elections there were 
tumults in feveral of the primary af- 
femblies. 
The united Ruffian and Turkith forces 
made an attack on the rift of March, on 
the ifland in the port of Corfu, called La 
Scoglio di Vido; after a very brifk fire of 
about two hours and a half from the fhips 
of war, the troops were landed, and the 
ifland was captured. Qn the next morn- 
ing a flag of truce was fent off by the 
French commander of the garrifon of 
Corfu, to the Ruffian vice admiral, of- 
fering to capitulate. The capitulation 
was foon agreed to, and the town and 
forts of Corfu were given up to the Turk- 
ifh and Ruffian commiffaries. The Le- 
ander, a fhip taken from the Englifh, by 
the French, was in the port, and included 
in the furrender. 
GERMANY. 
It appears from Raftadt, that M. Von 
Hugel, the Aufrian commiflary at the 
diet at Ratifbon, on the 10th ef March, 
went to Citizen Bacher, charge d’affaires 
from tbe French Republic to the diet, and 
communicated to him an order from the 
Archduke Charles, importing that an 
officer was ready to efcort the charge 
d@afaires te the French pofts. To this, 
citizen 

