god 
mmoned the enemy to furrender ; and that, 
upon an anf{wer in the negative being re- 
turned, he had attacked them with fuch 
impetuofity that they were foon com- 
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peiled'to abandon their ftation, and re-— 
treat. 
It appears from the account of General 
Melas, of the proceedings of the army of 
Italy, dated the 15th of April, that on 
the rath, the whole Auftrian army crof- 
fed the Mincio, and encamped near Cam-— 
pagnola and Monté—Olivetano pufhing 
the advanced pofts as far as Marcaria, on 
the Oglio, and Monté Chizria, on the 
Chiefe. Upon this, the French retreated 
on the right, beyond the Oglio; and on 
the left, beyond the Chiefe, General 
Vickaffouich inftantly occupied Salo, by 
which he eftablifhed his communication 
with the army. On the 18th of April, 
the Aufrian army encamped between Ca- 
priano and Caffelo. Mantua was then 
eft to its own means of defence ; it be- 
game blockaded at. a certain diftance ; 
and the Auttrian patroles advanced to its 
very gates. The Auetrians took from 
the French at Cafel Magiore, a convoy of 
thirty-fix pontoons, difperfed the efcort, 
_ and made near an hundred prifoners. 
One of the Auftrian detachments even’ 
entered Cremona, and the French retreat- 
ed to Lodi. 
‘Fhe town and fortrefs of Brefcia* 
were taken on the 2oth of April, by the 
Aufrians and Ruffians in conjunétion, 
of which the following are the particulars. 
The zoth, at midnight, Field Marfhal 
O:to, by orders from Field Marfhal Kray, 
who was charged with this enterprize, 
quitted his camp, with his divifion in two 
columns.’ The battalion of Nadafty, 
potted in Rerato, advanced upon the high 
road by Euphemia, as far as the entrance 
of the fuburbs of Brefcia. This bat- 
talion being joined by two others, directed 
their attack againft the gate of Torre 
Longo. ‘The battalion commanded by 
Major General Kraus, marched on the 
high road of Cremona, by St. Zeno, 
again the gate of Alexander. This co- 
lumn was augmented by a corps of horfe 
artillery, and all the ret of the cavalry 
puthed forward as far as the high road to 
Cremona, to cover the left wing. This 
enterprize was fupported by five hundred 
coflacks, one thoufand foot chaflcurs, 
and five hundred grenadiers, under the 
erders of the Ruffian general, the Princes 
spit a tn Sole EY 
* Brefcia is the capital of Brefciano, and 
a Bifbop’s fee, fituated on the river Garza, 95 
miles west of Venice. 
‘mountains. 
rJune ¥ 
Gortheiafs and Bagration. After thefe 
difpofitions, Field Marfhal Otto fent a 
fecond fummons to the French comman- 
der, and a refufal having been returned, 
the town was bombarded at fix o’clock in 
the morning, and in the ipace of an hour 
and a half, feveral cannon were difmount- 
ed. This circumftance, together with the 
approach of the battalion of Nadafty to 
the gate of Pefchiera, caufed the French 
to give way, and to retire with precipita - 
tion into the citadel. The pioneers im- 
mediately forced the gate, and by the ex- — 
hortation of Field Marfhal Kray, the inha- 
bitants affembied upon the ramparts, and 
lowered the drawbridge. The battalian 
of Nadafty then entered the town. The 
French kept up a continual fire from the 
citadel, but without doing any mifchief. 
This induced Field Marthal Kray to fum- 
mons the commander of the citadel, who 
at firft wifhed to withdraw his troops un- 
conditionally ; but, perceiving the prepa- 
ration of the imperial and Ruffian troops 
to take the citadel by affault, they re- 
folved to capitulate. By this capitula- 
tion, the garrifon, confifting of ene thou- 
fand men, was made prifoners of way. 
Forty pieces of cannon, eighteen mortars, 
a great quantity ef ammunition and pro- 
vifions of all kinds fell into the hands of 
the Auftrians. . 
_ It appears that General Suwarrow, 
after the taking of Brefcia, proceeded to 
take poffeffion ot Bergamo, Leno, Tuzzo, 
and other places on the right banks of the 
Adda: at Bergamo, however, the French 
defended themicelves with great bravery. 
Thefe fuccefles were following up on the 
part of the combined army with the great- 
eft energy ; and on the 27th of April, a 
general ation took place near Milan be- 
tween the French under General Moresuy 
and theallied army under Generai Suwar- 
row. In this bloody aétion, five thoufand 
re faid to have fallen in the fieid on each 
fide, but the general refult is reported to 
have been favourable to the allies. Fur- 
ther particulars of this important battle 
are deferred till our next. ; 
AMERICA. : 
By the laft accounts from the United 
States, it appears another infurrediton 
had broken out in the weftern part of the 
ftate of Philadelphia, which bore a more 
ferious and formidable afpe& than that of 
Gallatin, and the other infurgents in the 
Colonel Williams, who had 
been in Northampton County, laid before 
the prefident a detail of the recent tranf- 
actions there. He ftated that a very fe- 
rious 
