1799. | 
£905. J . 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
A ae 1799. 
-- PRANCE. 
NHE vittories achieved by the French 
arms in Switzerland, were. too re- 
mote to afford protection to their forces in 
Rome and Civita Vecchia, and they have 
confequently both faHen into the hands of 
the Neapolitans and Enelith. 
In our laft, we left General Maffena in 
polleition of Zurich, from whence he wrote 
to the Dire&tory, on the 9th of October, 
recapitulating his late fuccefles. He ftates, 
that, finding it impoffible to aét to advan- 
tage in the ae about Glarus, he deter- 
mined to leave Suwarrow at liberty to en- 
“ter Switzerland by Einfiedlen, hoping, that 
opprefled by the bloody combats which he 
had forced him to in the Valley of Mutten, 
and fatigued with the refiltance he had os 
pofed to him in the defile of Glarus, he 
would efcape from the moitfe-trap he had 
got into upon the point of Einfiedlen, upon 
whl he had only a battalion of eer va- 
tion ; and that he fhould have been able to 
have fought him at his eafe in an open 
country: but willing to avoid a decifive 
action, the Ruffian General threw himfelf 
into the Grifons country, by the valley of 
Flems (upon the Upper Rhine) continually 
haraffed in flank and in rear, by the body 
deftined to have attacked him, had he re- 
mained, and retired by the moft difficult 
roads, leaving in the power of the French 
2000 wounded, part of his artillery, and 
almoft all his Ba odace. 
eneral Korfakoff, informed’ of the 
danger of Suwarrow, had joined in hatte 
with a body eompoled of the remains of 
his 7 army, that of Hotze, the Bavarian con- 
tingent, the corps de Gander and all the 
Aultrian corp, who defended the Valley 
of the Grifons, near Coire, and he endea- 
voured to proceed towards the Thur, eaft 
of the Lake of Zurich; but Maffena 
marched azainft him, while General Soult 
- proceeded againit Reineck. He found him 
between the Thur and the Rhine, on an 
ifland formed by the Rhine, the Thur, and 
the Lake of Conftance. He beat and 
drove kim beyond that-river, forcing him 
to cut away the bridges of Conttance and 
Dieffenhofen, of which he took poffeffion. 
Matfiena ftates the refult of the different 
battles he had lately won, at about 18,000 
prifoners, 3,000 of whom were wounded, 
and could not be taken away by the Au- 
firians and Ruffians ; more than roo pieces 
of cannon, 13 ftandards, 4 generals. pri- 
foners, 5 generals killed, including General 
Hivize ; the retaking of Gothard, Glarus, 
and all the vallies which defile PW alas E 
fhort,”” fays he, “< the total lofs of the ene- 
my in thee different aftions amounts to 
more than 30,000 men.”’ 
The next fuccets of the republican arms 
was the defeat 6f the army of the Prince of 
Condé, and the Rufians at Conftance, the 
details of which are given by the Britith 
agent, ina letter from Stockach, dated Oc- 
tober rgth. He fates, that the Ruffian 
army, after its retreat from Zurich, took 
up a pofition near Conftance.: On the 
morning of the 9th of O&tober, General 
Korfakoff refolved to pats the Rhine for 
the purpofe of driving the enemy from their 
pofition. ‘The army advanced for about 
‘a league, without difcovering the enemy ; 
but, at length, they found Ain near the: 
Vi ills of Schiatten, when the Ruflians be- 
gan the attack with great intrepidity, and 
obliged the French to retreat~into the 
woods. They were ci the point of fur- 
rendering, when General Maflena, in per- 
fon, came with reinforcements, and obli« 
ged the Rufiians to retreat with ereat lofs, 
by the fame way in which they had ad— 
vanced, 
Tt appears, by an official difpatch from 
Colonel Clinton, dated Coire, October gth,- 
that -the French, having - received rein= 
forcement from Zug, renewed their ate 
tack, near the village of Mutten. On the 
firft of O&ober, a ftrong column of them 
advanced by the road in the centre of the 
valley, while two others, {kirting the foot 
_of the mountains, endeavoured to get into © 
the rear of the Ruffians: General Rofen- 
berg, difcovering their intentions, pro- , 
ceeded with three battalions, fupported by 
two regiments’ of Coilacks, and attacked 
the centre of the enemy ; their heavy guns, 
fer a moment, gave an advantage: bur 
nothing could withftand the fteadinefs of 
the Ruffian attack ; the Frenchn’retreated, 
and three pieces of cannon fell into the 
hands of the conquerors. General Rofen- 
berg profited of the confufion of the enemy, 
and purfwed them beyond Schwitz. In 
killed and wounded they loft above 500 
men and is officers, and above 1,000 were 
taken prifoners. The Ruffians had about 
300 killed and wounded. On the sth, the 
allied army marched by the Valley of 
Semit and Elm; the French followed the 
rear guard, and gained fome advantages 
during the firft 3 or 4 miles of the march; 
upon a well-timed attack, however, of the 
Roffians,, they defifted, according to this 
authority, from any further attempt. ne 
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