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thoufand prifoners, and thirty-fix pieces 
ef cannon. General Hotze, on the 22d 
ef May, had his head quarters at May- 
enfeldt. 
The objet of refcuing the Grifons 
from the French power being accom- 
plithed, General Bellegarde proceeded 
with the troops under his command, to 
fi'pport the operations of the army of 
Italy ; and the army under the command 
of the Archduke entered Switzerland. 
In Piedmont, the peafants took arms 
againft the French, 10,000 of whom, 
atter a blockade of nine days, took the 
Piedmontefe fortrefs of Ceva, the French 
garrifon of which, contifting of 325 men, 
they partly affaffinated and partly made 
prifoners of war, and conveyed to Mon- 
dovi, to be there confined in the citadel ; 
the Aufrians immediately fent a regular 
detachment to o¢cupy theabove mentioned 
fortrels. General Count Klenan took 
Ferrara by capitulation. 
The advanced guard of the Archduke’s 
army, paffed the Rhine without op- 
pofition on the 21ft of May, between 
Diffenchofen and Schaffhaufen, and moved 
forward to Audefingen on the Thur. 
‘The army pafied in the following days, 
and encamped near Paradies On the 
22d, the maim body of General Hotz’s 
corps alfo croffed the Rhine at different 
points between Balzers and the lake of 
Conttance, and on the following day the 
General fixed his head quarters at St. 
Gallen. In the courfe of the 25th of 
May, the Fiench attacked all the corps 
that had paffed the Thur. They drove 
back Genera! Nauendorff’s advanced potts 
from Nefelback, and obliged them to re- 
pafs the river at Audelfingen. Lieutenant 
General Petrafch’s corps was attacked by 
the French juft as it arrived on the heights 
ot Frauenteld, the affair lafted the whole 
day, and inthe evening, the French fuc- 
ceeded in obliging General Petrafch to re- 
treat, and to take a pofition about half 
way between Frauenfeld and Wyll. 
During this engagement, the French had 
puthed forward acolumn to the bridge of 
Pfin, with a view of covering the left 
flank of the corps that was engaged with 
General Petrafch. ‘The advanced guard 
of General Hotze was alfo attacked, but 
it repulfed their opponents and drove them 
back as far as Elge ; in confequence how- 
ever of the retreat of General Petrafch’s 
corps, it was allo compelled by the French 
to fall back. Early in the morning of the 
26th of May, a column of the Ar chduke’s 
army arrived at Pfin, and in the courfe or 
the day, encamped near Frouenfeld, where 
it was joined in the evening by the retreat- 
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ing corps under General Petrafch. Soon 
after day light on the 27th, the Auftrians 
attacked the French in their polition near 
Winterthur, who retreated in goed order 
and took poft near the Trefs. The banks 
of that river are fo fteep that it affords an 
excellent pofition, but General Maffena, 
the French commander, did not think pro- 
per todefend it, but tock poit behind the 
Glar, to which? he was induced not only: 
by the affair of Winterthur; but perhaps 
alfo by the march ofa column of Auftrians 
towards his left flank. 
On the 31/t of May the advanced pofts 
ofthe. two armies ware feparated by the 
Glat. The French had an entrenched 
camp about a league from Zurich. Ad- 
Vice was reeeived by the Auftrians about 
this time, that Gencral Bellegarde’s corps 
had paffled St. Gothard. The Archduke 
Charles pafled the Glat on the 4th of 
Junc, and drove back the French to their 
camp before Zurich, after a fart a€tion, 
in which neither gained much advantage. 
In the night of the 5th, Maflena aban- 
doned that pofition, leaving 36 pieces of 
artillery, and 75 ammunition _waggons 
behind him, and the next day at noon he 
evacuated Zurich, erofling the Limufat 
at that place. But inftead of retreating, 
as he informed the Directory to the moun- 
tains of Albis, the Archduke {ays he 
took the direCtton of Baden. 
In Italy alfo, the aifair of the allies have 
lately been profperous. Turin, the capi~ 
tal of the Sardinian dominions, has fur- 
rendered to their army, and the ftrong 
citidal remains blockaded.  Alefandria 
is alfo mafked by a body of the allied ar- 
my. The citadel of Ferrara has capitu- 
lated and the Auftro- Rufhian forces have 
taken the city of Ravenna. It is a fingu- 
lar {peétacle, and truly characteriftic of 
the Gallic legiflature, to fee that aflembly, 
while their troops ace flying in all direc- 
tions before a victorious enemy, and 
when the very exiftence of their republic 
is threatened, engaged in {peculative dif- 
cuffions, aud thofe comparatively of little 
importance. 
The attention of the Council of Five - 
Hundred was eccupied in the beginning 
of this month for two or three days upon 
a long difcuflion on the Lberty of the prefs, 
Bertlier ftated that the 353d article of the 
conftitution enacts that no perion fhall be 
prevented from printing and publifhing, 
provided the author was refpontible in 
the cafes laid down by the law. This 
liberty is general, it admits of no di- 
ftinction between ordinary publications 
and periodical. . He contended that 
circumitances rendered it expedient to 
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