1800.) 
wards Ormia; and Major General Belle- 
garde was fent with a confiderable corps 
in his purfuit. The Auftrian army w.s 
to march on the 14th to Beinette, and the 
next day to take up the neceflary pofitions 
to cover the fiege. His Lordthip fays, 
“‘he had never feen inveteracy and detef- 
tation of the French fo general, and car- 
ried to fuch lengths, as it was here; the 
whole people were armed: ard, headed by 
a prieft, performed the molt wonderful ex- 
ploits. Inthe beginning of the campaign 
they took both Ceva and Mondovi from 
the French; and in the action of the 13th, 
a body of 15,000 prevented a very ftrong 
column of the enemy from marching by a 
particular road,” 
It appears from the French account, 
that after thefe checks a great part of the 
divifion of Grenier was polted at the Col 
di Tenda, and was under the command of 
General Watrin. The divifions of the 
centre, after having abandoned Mondovi, 
retired towards Pietra and Finale, and 
guarded the famous line of St. James. 
The right wing retreated towards the Bo- 
chetta, without being checked by the Au- 
firians, and covered Genoa. They had 
fufficient force to maintain their line, but 
Were in want of ammunition and provi- 
fions, ad it was of importance to pre- 
vent the fall of Coni. 
The operations on the Rhine have been 
on the whole, favourable to the French. 
On the 16th of November, the Republican 
forces under General Lecourbe, attacked 
the whole. line of the Imperial:fts, from 
Neckargemund as far as Langenbrucken. 
General Ney made only a feint attack; 
but that on the pofition of the Auftrians 
near Bretten, behiad Bruchfal, was more 
ferious. The French furrounded a whole 
battalion of Imperialifts, part of whom 
they made prifoners., The pofts cf Phi- 
lipfburg were either driven into the for- 
trefs, or made prifoners. That place was 
immediately blockaded, and the French 
army advanced at all points, and on the 
17th of November extended to Sinzheim 
and Bruchfal. : 
The French evacuated the Grifon Coun. 
try about the 12th of November, of their 
own accord, upon which the Auftriahs re- 
pofiefied themfelves of the whole diftrict 
on this fide the Rhine, as far as Ilan z, 
which they had quitted on the 31ft of Oc- 
tober. The movements made by General 
Dedowich, near Bellinzona, againft Mount 
St. Gotthard, and a want of. provifions, 
are faid to have induced the French to quit 
the Grifgn country. 
State of Pybhe Afaims. 
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SWITZERLAND. 
Wt appears from Zurich that the Hel. 
vetic DireStory, finding itlf embarrafied 
by its refusal to contribure to the loan de- 
manded by Gencral Maffena, fent Citizen 
Jenner to him, to propofe, the fum of 
two millions of Francs, for which the 
French Government fhould find boys in 
payment of the duties impofed on the in- 
portation of the Helvetic merchandizes.”’ 
General, Maflena agreed to tranfmit the 
propofition with his recommendation to 
the Government of France. 
RUSSfA. 
To the difcord and diffenfions of the 
coalefced powers, ancther inftance may he 
now added :——the feceffion of the Ruffian 
treops from the theatre of war. Official 
fiatements concerning tlie operations of 
Suwarrow’s army, after it had quitted 
Ttaly, and attempted to penetrate through 
Swi zerland, have been publifhed at Peter! 
burgh, of which the following extract will 
perhaps throw fome light on the circum- 
{tance we have jult no‘iced. 
, ‘¢ Feldkirch, Oftober 5, Old Style. 
“6 When we fe parated from the Auftrians 
on the 31ft of Auguit, near Tortona, I 
demanded of the Auftrian General of Ca- 
valry, Melas, a fuficient quantity of 
mules; but he only fupplied me with a 
few, affuring me that at Bellinzona, which 
leads to Mount St. Gotthard, I thould 
find every thing neceflary for the march of 
the army.” 
The general further ftates, that when 
they arrived there, they found not a fingle 
mule; that the Auftiian General Teller, 
and his Commiffaries, deceived him by 
their fhameful equivocal promifes; and 
that the Ruffians loft the fitth day at Ta- 
verne, without being able to doany thing: 
—that this ftate of inactivity gave the 
French time to coile& their forces, and to 
take the neceffiry fteps to endanger the 
fituation of the Rufhans. A ter encoun- 
tering innumerable difficulties, the Ruf- 
fians had to climb Mount Winter, the 
fummit of which was covered with ever- 
lafting frow, and whole naked rocks fur- 
pafsevery other inflerpne{s. ‘It is,’*fays 
the General, ‘cut of the power ct language 
ta paint this awful fpectacle of nature with 
allits horrors.”’? Here follow circumitan- 
tial details of all the different aGions in 
Switzerland, already known. 
CHINA. 
Intelligence from Chin», dated the sth 
of March, mentions the death of the Em- 
peror Kien Long; in confequence of 
which a general mourning had b-en or- 
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