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nard was covered with {now, and the afcent 
extremely fteep ; General Marmont, com- 
manding the artillery, employed two me- 
thods: The firf was a fimple tree, holiow- 
ed in form of aa augre, in which were 
placed the eight pounders and mortars. One 
hundred men yoked themfelves to a cable, 
and dragged along the piece; and it took 
two days to bring it acrofs St. Bernard! 
The fecond was by means of fledges upon 
caftors, which the chief of brigade Gaffen- 
di had contracted at Auxonne. The car- 
wiages were difmounted, and carried piece- 
meal, except the carriages of the five-poun- 
ders, ‘which 19 men carried upon hurdies ! 
On the 22d’ of May the Commander in 
Chief, Berthier, having fent on the di- 
vifion of Boudet to fupport the advanced 
guard, gave orders for them to take Ivrea. 
‘The enemy had a garrifon in the citadel, 
and feemed determined to defend the town; 
they were too tew to relift. General Lafnes 
marched thither on the 23d of May, 
mounted by {caling, and carried the town 
and citadel ; the French found ten pieces 
of cannon. He purfued the enemy towards 
‘Turin ; and made 400 prifoners. 
Theadvanced guatd of the Army of Re- 
ferve, after having taken Ivrea, proceeded 
with rapid ftrides to the Chiulella and the 
Po. On the 26th of May the troops pafled 
the Chiufella, and drove the Autirians from 
the banks of that river, towards Chivaflo. 
'To Chivaffo the French advanced, and the 
Auftrians retreated acrofs the Po, taking 
up a pofition on the right bank of that ri- 
ver. Whilethe attention of the Auftrians 
was occupied by the movements and march 
of the advanced guard under General 
Lafnes, the corps under General Murat 
entered Vercelli on the 27th of May, and 
proceeded towards the Tefino ; the Italian 
Legion, under General Lechi, directed its 
courle down the Sefia, which it pafied on 
the 27th. General. Turreau’s divifion 
advanced and took poffeflion of Suza and 
the Brunette. A column of troops pene- 
trated from the Simplon,and marching to- 
wards Damo d’Offola, turned the Auttrian 
pofition on the 28th of May ; and General 
Moncey’s divifion of 25,000 men,marching 
“by Altorf, paffed Mount St. Gothard on the 
2sth,and the26th pufhed itsadvanced guard 
to Airolo, and drove the Auftrian General, 
Dedovich’s, corps to the Lago Maggiore. 
Whilf thefe movements were executing, 
General Lafnies’s corps continued its maren 
to the Po, and the Auftrians conceived that 
its intention was to:cro{s that river, and 
take up a pofition near Atti, for the pur- 
pole of cutting off the troops on their pal: 
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} beaten, and had feveral killed, St. Ber- 
593 
fage to Turin from Nice. They were 
completely deceived. After refting the 
whole of the 29th of May at Chivafco, 
General Lafnes turned faddenly off on the 
night of the 30th, paficd the Dorea, and, 
marching along the Po, proceeded to Ver- 
celli and the Tefino to join General Murat, 
who, on the fame day, had entered No- 
vara, where, however, he did not remaing 
but immediately advanced to the Tefinoy 
which he pafled,and puhhed onto Corbetta, 
and afterwards entered Milan. — Thus 
has the Chief Conful developed his» plan. 
I¢ was not to Turin, nor to the borders of 
the Genoefe to raife the blockade of Genoa, 
that he meant to march; but to Milan. 
There would be colleéted. on the 4th or 5th » 
of June the whole army of referve, confilt- 
ing of General Leafnes’s, Murat’s, and Mon- 
cey’s divifions, and the Italian Legion un- 
der General Lechi. ~ 
By intelligence, received from France, 
dated the 16th of June, we learn that the 
Chief Conful, at the head of the army 
of referve, had alfo taken Pavia, Lodi, 
Cremona, Brefcia, Placentia, Stradella, 
4nd was compleatly mafter of the courfe of 
the Po. He has proclaimed the reftora- 
tion of the Cifalpine Republic, and las ap- 
pointed a provifional government at Milan, 
Melas was therefore obliged to concentrate 
his forces, and the Auftrians having eva- 
cuated Nice, were warmly purfued by Su- 
chet, who.took great number of prifoners, 
and recaptured the Col di ‘Tenda. 
The right wing of the army of the 
Rhine has eftablifhed itfelf along~ the 
Lech, and entered Augfburg. The cen- 
tre‘of the army is oppofite Gunfburg, 
and the left near Ulm. . On the 5th the 
Autrians attacked the French, near Ulm ; 
but were defeated with the lofts of 2000 
men and cight pieces of cannon. 
General Maffena informed the Confuls 
of the French Republic; by a difpatch, 
dated at Genoa the sth of June, of a con- 
vention, ‘which he had juft made, for the 
evacuation of the city of Genoa. He fays, 
<< Since the 5th of April we have received 
no fuccours, either from France or Cor- 
fica. Since the 21ft of May, the people of 
Genoa have been without bread, and the 
army have received only fix ounces per 
diem, compofed of a mixture half bran and 
half maize; during the laft ten days the 
maize has been replaced by cocoa, and the 
rations reduced to three ounces! all the 
horfes have been eaten, and numbers, of 
the inhabitants have died through famine.” 
On the 16th thegarrifon began their march, 
with their arms, baggage, colours, and ar- 
tillery, to rejoin the centre of thearmy un- 
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