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from ourown Gazette, that the event was 
to the full as fevere upon the Auftrians as 
the Frerch official accounts {tate it to have 
been. Mr.Wickham, after afferting that 
the French General Richepanfe pierced 
between the Autftrian left and centre, got 
wpon the great roadbehind this latter divi- 
fion, and fell upon the flank and rear of 
the column juft as it had formed in front, 
and began attacking the enemy’s pofition, 
adds, *¢I have not yet been able to obtain 
any accurate account of what paffled after- 
wards; but it feems that the diforder foon 
became irretrievable, and that the retreat 
towards the heights of Ramfon was made 
with very heavy lofs, particularly in ar- 
fillery.”” . 
Of the army of the Grifons, a letter 
from the head-quarters, dated Chiavenna, 
December 6th, informs us, that, the 
General in Chief, Macdonald, at the head 
of-the 4th column, incurred the. greateft 
danger in pafling the high Alps, and had 
it not been for his intrepid perfeverance 
the, paffage would have been again inter- 
rupted. He led the pioneers of the 
grenadiers to the tracks of the road which 
were-eflaced by fnow and an impetuous 
wind. He himfelf fet the example of 
working to open the path. The moft ter- 
sible weather could not prevent him from 
advancing. He paffed on the 5th of De- 
cember, with his Aid-de-Camp and Staff. 
His efcort opened the march. The path 
was again covered, and his grenadiers 
finking in the fnew began to believe that 
it was impoffible to proceed farther, when 
the General, advancing at their head, 
founded himfelf the road, which was en- 
tirely loft (the fnow had.covered al] thepoles 
that were fet up for marks) and animat- 
ing all who heard-him by his example, he 
fucceeded in conduéting all who followed 
his fteps to the hofpital. 
After the fatal battle of Hohenlinden 
on the 3d of December, Moreau’s army 
continued to advance, and having at length 
paffed the barrier of the Inn, driving. be- 
tore them all the Auftrian corps, on the 
36th fixed the head-quarters at Saltzburg. 
On the fame day Richepanfe, with the 
left divifion of the French army,-purfued 
the Imperialifts along the road to Lintz, 
and entered Neumark, the laft poft of 
Bavaria on the fontiers of the Hereditary 
States. The Archduke John, whole 
head-quarters then removed’ to Braunau 
on the Lower Inn, was by this manceuvre 
cut off from ail communication with the 
Auftrian Commander in the T'yrol, which 
country was now threatened on the north 
fide by. Lecourbe, on the'welt by Molli- 
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State of Public Affairs in Fanuary, yBot. 
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ter, and on the fouth-weft by Macdonald, 
who was mafter of both banks of. the 
Upper Inn, of the Upper Engadine, and 
of the Valley of the Addo in the Valte- 
line, with well-eftablifhed communications 
between al] his divifions. Onthe 17th the 
Auftrians removed their head-quarters to 
Schwanfiadt, and the Archduke Charles, 
joining the army the fame day, endea- 
voured to take a ftrong pofition behind 
the river Traun, with a view to defen- 
five meafures; but this he was not able 
to accomplifh before Moreau’s army, in | 
five divifions, approached feverally, com- 
manded by Legrand, Grandjean, Riche- 
panfe; Decaen, and Grouchy. On the 
18th Richepanfe, with the advanced 
guard, attacked the rear of the Imperi- 
alifts in a ftrong pofition near Vockbruck, 
and defeated them, taking 1000 prifoners 
(6c0 of which were cavalry) with General 
Lopez, their Commander. The Auftriz 
ans, retiring, on the 19th endeavoured 
to make a ftand on the heights of 
Lambach ; but Richépanfe again defeated 
their rear-guard, drove them into the de- 
files of Lambach with great lofs, and 
the Imperial army retreated-to  Lintz, 
within g2 miles of Vienna. The French 
continued to advance, and on the zoth fix. 
ed their head-quarters at Wels. Moreau 
now formed his army in three columns5 
of which the right, under-Lecourbe, made 
for the mountains, fouth of Steyr on the 
Ens ; the centre, commanded by Moreau 
himlelf, fet out for Steyr; and the left, 
under Grenier, which had marched along 
the fouth banks of the Danube, and forced 
the Auftrians to retreat from Lintz, acrofs 
the river, proceeded on the highroad 
from Lintz towards Vienna. On the 
24th Richepanfe, with the advanced= 
guard of the centre column, entered Steyr, 
in which he found 17. pieces of cannon, 
and made 4000 prifoners. On the 25th, 
the French were preceeding onward to 
the next river, the -Erlaph, and the 
Auttrians were retiring behind the Tra- 
fen, the laft river of any note within 50 
miles of Vienna, when, in the evening 
of that day, an officer arrived at the 
head-quarters of Moreau, from the Arch- 
duke Charles, bringing propofals for a 
new armiftice, and announcing that the 
Emperor had fent a courier’ to. Count 
Cebentzel at Luneville, with directions 
to fign.a peace. This new armiftice has 
been purchafed at a very high price in- 
deed; for the French are put in poffefien 
of the forts of Kuffstein, Scharnitz, and_ 
the ether points ef fortification in. the 
Tyrol; the defiles of Fientlermuntz, and 
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