Wor.]- 
Naudert, with the fortreffes of Wurtz- 
burgh in - Franconia, and Brannau- on 
the Lower Inn, The armiftice, which is 
for 30 days, with 15 days notice of rup- 
ture, extends to the Gallo-Batavian army 
in Franconia; and by it the Emperor 
bas affigned to the French a triangular 
portion of territory, whofe bafe wall reft 
on Chiaveona and Wirtzburg, and whofe 
point will, be at Leoben and Pachlarn 
on the Danube, within 17 leagues of 
Vienna, 
It appears by a difpatch from General 
Brune, dated the 27th of December, that 
‘the campaign had at laft been ferioufly 
opened in italy; he had not waited to 
turn the line of the Mincio but attacked 
it in front. On the 27th the French 
made a vigorous attack upon the Auftrian 
politions on the-Mincio; the lofs of the 
- Auftrians amounts to twenty-four pieces 
of cannon, and to mere. than 12,000 
men, of whom 80coo are prifoners, 
The paflage, after a deflparate engage- 
ment, was carried at Monzanbano and 
Molino. Thele places are between the 
Lake di Garda and Mantua, lying nearer 
to the former. On the 27th, atone in 
the morning, the head-quarters were at 
Valegio, on the left bank. The French 
army is ftated in the official communi- 
cation to the Legiflative Body, to be 
engaged in the blockade of Mantua. 
It is evident that much lofs muft have 
been fuftained on both fides and a 
great number of {uperior officers are 
faid to have been wounded on the fide 
of the French. From Brune’s difpatch, 
it appears that he intended to renew the 
battle the next day. It has fince ap- 
peared that General Brune was as good 
as his word for that on the 27th ano- 
ther dreadful battle was fought, which 
ended in the. defeat of the Auftrians 
under General Bellegarde, who in thefe 
two days loft 17,000 men, and 28 
pieces of cannon, which, added to 40,000 
men, and 140 field-pieces. loft in Ger- 
many, makes a melancholy total of 
57,000 men (killed, wounded, or taken 
prifeners) and 168 pieces of cannon, 
within littl more than a month; Mo- 
reau having re-commenced hoftilities on 
the 28th of November. | Purfuing their 
advantages, the French on the firft of 
January crofled the Adige at Buce- 
lingo, forced the Aufirians to evacuate 
Corona and Verona, invefted Pefchiera, 
blockaded Mantua, and were preparing 
on the 3d to beliege Porto Legnago, 
on the road to Padua. The Imperi- 
alifts retreated towards Vicenza; but 
when the lat accounts came away, the 
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Republican General Rochambeau, who, 
doubling the upper point of the Lake 
di Garda, had paffed the Adige below 
Roveredo, was preparing to harafs the 
right wing of the Auftrian army in its 
retrograde movements. 
The Chief Conful ftates the principles 
on which he acts, in the following 
words: §* The left bank of the’ Rhine 
fhall be the boundary of the French 
Republic: fhe makes no pretention to 
the right bank. ‘The intereft of Europe 
does not permit the Emperor to pals — 
the Adige. . The independence of the 
Helvetic and Batavian Republic fhall been- 
fured and guarantied. Our victories add no- 
thing to the pretenfions of theFrenchpeople. 
Auftria ought not expect from her defeats 
what fhe would not have obtained from 
her victories. Such are the invariable 
intentions of the Government. The 
welfare of France fhall be to reftore 
tranquillity to Germany and Italy: her 
glory to deliver the Continent from 
the avaricious and deftructive genius of 
England.” 
The Imperial Family were fully pre- 
pared to fet out tor Offen, efcorted by 
a party of the lite-guards. The gal- 
lery of paintings, the Imperial treafurys 
and the city treafury; containing 
12,000,000 in fpecie, were likewite 
about to be removed from the capital, 
when the Archduke Charles arrived at 
Vienna very unexpectedly at ten in the 
morning of the 27th of December, 
bringing the confolatory intelligence of 
his having concluded an. armiftice of 
thirty, days with General Moreau. 
In Paris a new and extraordinary at- 
tempt has been made for the deftruction 
of Bonaparte, in his way to the opcra 
on Chriftmas-eve. A Imall waggon, it 
feems, inclofing a concealed machine, was 
placed in a ftreet through which he was 
to pafs, and was intended to obftruét his 
carriage, fo as to give opportunity for 
the confpirators to effect their purpofe. 
By fome dexterity in the Conful’s coach- 
man, or by the derangement of the ma- 
chine, the latter did not operate till a 
few feconds after the Conful had paffed ; 
it then fuddenly exploded, killed five 
perfons, and dreadfully wounded fifteen 
others, fhivered to pieces all the windows 
of the Thuilleries; and the houfes which 
furround the Great and Little Caroufel, 
and the entire ftreets of St. Nicaife, St. 
Thomas, Echelle, and Chartres, endured 
a concuffion like that of an earthquake. 
Twelve men were arrefted on ftrong fuf- 
picion, fome of whom, indeed, have ac~. 
knowlcdged their connection with the 
plet, 
