65a _ 
three preceding. days fo-ardently expected ; 
and asthe greater part of the Auftrian 
bageoage had-before the 16th been re- 
moved to the other fide of the Po, a part 
only of the baggage of their fight column 
remained _expoied to this legion. 
The Field Marfhal fent through Geor- 
fio for its proteSion two regiments of 
€oflecks: but the legion, without wait- 
ang their arrival, retreated again towards 
Bobbio. General Betetzky, having i in the 
an time advanced from the river Tre- 
ee towards the mountains of Babbio with 
ene battalion of royal Imperial troops 
and filty dragoons, met this legion at the 
dame place; and although their force 
amounted to more than 3,000 men, at- 
tacked them with fixed bayonets, dilperfed 
the whole, except sco killed, and 103 
taken prifoners. In this affair the column 
experienced only the lofs of 23 killed, and 
216 wounded. = ' 
The army continued the pur 0 to Fio- 
renzolo, where they arrived on the 2uft ; 
Field-Marfhal Ott reached Borgo St. 78a 
nino the fame day, and purfued the enemy 
the next day as far as Parma, where Ge- 
neral Hohenzollern had already arrived 
from. Mantua, and found 220. of the 
French wounded. 
On the 22d, the Auftro- Ruffian ar ay 
refted at Fisveazolo : : but as the news of 
General Moreau advancing with 18,000 
men from: Genoa, by Bochetta, into the | 
plains between Tortona and Ale effandria, 
had reached them, the army breke up on 
the 23d from Fiorenzolo, and arrived by 
forced marches already as far as the river 
Scrivia by the 25th. But Moreau did not 
wait their arrival. In confequence of 
this, the allied forces took. posfcfiion of 
the town of Tortona with four battalions, 
and blockaded thecitade] as befére. 
- Moreau had been engaged en the 2oth 
with General Bellegarde, who had but an 
inconfiderable bocy of men to oppofe to 
his fuperior force, being obliged to keep 
Aleffandria blockaded. ‘He However fuc- 
ceeded, though with the fevere lofs of 
203 killed, 578 wounded, and 1,229 pri- 
foners, in fuch a manner, that the French 
remained full four days inactive, and on 
ehe fifth commenced their retreat through 
Novi, and on the 26th were continuing 
their retreat over Bochetta. 
Thus was acanfiderable partoftheFrench 
army-in the fi {pace of ten days almoit annihi- 
lated; the hege of the citadel of Mantua 
once more fecured, the wholeof the river Po 
liberated, Tortona again blockaded, and 
Moreau driven back to his former pofition. 
- 
State of Public Affairs. | . 
cluded. 
During the-whole of this conteft the 
French are ftated, in the official accounts 
from Vienna,-to have had 65,000 killed, 
$,085 taken prifoners on the field of battle, 
and 7,383 wounded. There were made 
prifoners in Piacenza $,268 men, among 
whom were above soo officers, The 
Allies fiated their own lofs in killed at lef 
than 1,000 men, and lefs than 3,000 
wounded, both Aufrians and Ruffians in- 
Genera! Maffena and the Archduke res 
mained. fer feveral weeks almoft inactive, 
he latter wrote from his head-quarters at 
Lentzburgh on the 24th of july, mform- 
ing the DireCtors, that he had-received an 
atcount from General Thureau, -com- 
manding the divifion in Valais, that at 
éight in the evening of the :6th the Auf- 
trians fent out a firong reconnoiiering 
party aleng both banks of the Rhine; a 
brifk fire of Wa ice | took place; the ' 
Auftrians were repulfed, and the French 
preferved their “pofitions. Next morning 
the Auftrians made a real attack upen the 
fame points. The French troops received 
them with intrepidity, and a@ing them-= 
felves on the offenfive repuifed them, after 
having killed or wounded about 200 of 
their a and taken 150 prifoners. The 
caufe of this ci{proportion General Thu- 
reau fays, was in the nature of this affair, 
as the Auftrians aiways formed themfelves 
in clofe bodies in the lower brows of the 
mountains, and the French kept upon 
them an irregular fire. The Auftrians 
had a great many armed peafants. with 
them, formed into coinpanies. 
The next important intelligence from 
the. armies was an’ accountsof the refto- 
ration of the Aes monarchy. This 
account ftates, that in confequence of the 
exertions of Cardinal Ruffo with 30,000 
Calabrians, afiited by. 5c¢0 Ruffian ma- 
rines from Corfu, Ferdinand the EVth re= 
turned to the.Bay of Naples, about the 
middle of July, on board an Enelifh man 
of war. Immediately after the departuré 
of General Macdonald’s army from the 
Neapolitan ftate, the Cardinal advanced te 
Salerno, twenty-four miks from the capt- 
tal; and having only the French garrifon 
in the caftle of St. Elmo (about 100 men} 
to oppole his progrels, together with a feve . 
patriots who occupied the: poft of Caftel 
Neuvo, he entered the city about the zoth 
of June. Anattion had taken place at 
the Ponte Maddalena, in which the Ruf= 
fians diftinguifhed themfelves by their 
Be and the Calabrians by their cows 
ardice; this handful-of Rufians: royted 
; the 
[Sept 
; 
