Retrofped of French Literature,—Mifcellanies. 
of April to that of September inclufively, 
there were but few fick, on account of 
the finenefs of the feafon, the abundance 
as well as excellent quality. of the provi- 
fions, theardor, the fteadinefs, together 
with the {mali portion of fatigue to which 
the troops were, as yet, incident. 
dition to thefe confiderations, nearly all 
the volunteers were drawn from the fouth- 
ern departments, or thofe adjoining to 
them ; feveral battalions were formed on 
the fpot, and the troops of the line were 
feafoned to the climate. 
_ According to the reports of the phyii- 
cians, the months of April, May, and 
June, only pretented the appearance of :a 
few intermittent fevers’ ~ To thefe- mala- 
dies were fuperadded, in July, Augu#, 
and September, the diarrhéa, which had 
not as yet aflumed the effential charaGters 
of the dyfentery.. The fick were recived 
intothe old military hofpital at Antibes ; 
the two others formed at Grafle, and a 
fourth at Vence. 
Between the night of the 30th of Sep- 
tember and firtt of O&ober, the autumnal 
rains Commenced, and flooded the Var to 
fuch a degree, that it forfook its bed, 
and prevented the march of a portion of 
the army deftined for Nice. Contrary 
winds, at the fame time, forced the fqua- 
dron to retreat, which was intended to 
cruife off the Hyeres Ifles, and the Gulf: 
of St. fuan’s. 
At this crifis commenced a feries of 
campaigns, at once active and laborious. 
On the 17th of O&tober, a body of 6000 
men was embarked on board nine veffels 
ef the line, three frigates, and fix cor- 
vettes, or floopsof war. Rear Admiral 
Troguet, after a paflage which occupied 
feveral days, at length arvived in the !ati- 
tude of QOneille. A boat, carrying a 
flag of truce, was attacked with mufket 
fhot, juft asit had reached the beach, and 
nearly all on beard were either killed or 
wounded. On this, the fquadron imme- 
crately cannonaded the town, and, at the 
fame time, covered the debarkation of a 
body of troops. After this, « pillage 
was allowed,’ on rhe termination of 
which ‘* the town was delivered over to 
the flames; and only efcaped from total 
deftruétion by the precipitation of a too 
juft vengeance, which did not calculate 
that all the ground floors were arched.” 
On the 22d, the enemy was chaied from 
Berra, while the French advanced guard, 
atter being repulfed from Sofpello, evacu- 
ated Efcarenna. Affairs were in this 
fituation, when the National Conven- 
tion, on the z7th of December, fafpended 
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In ad- 
mye 
General Anfelme, and replaced him, pro- 
vifionally, by Brunet; a fhort. time after, 
Genéral Biron affumed the command of 
the army of the Var, henceforth known 
only by the name of the Army of Italy ; 
while the advanced guard, which had 
been exceedingly harraffed, was relieved 
-by the garvifon of Antibes, an operation 
that prevented a multitude of maladies. 
It was alfo in December, that Rear 
Admiral Latouche, having been invefted 
with the command of ten fhips of the line, 
belonging to the Mediterranean-fleet, ar- 
rived before Naples, on the 16th, and ob- 
tained, from the King of the ‘Two Sicilies, 
«¢ the mot folemn reparation for his palt, 
and the moft fatisfactory affurances rela- 
tive to his future céndust, which ought 
to have been the pledge of a more durable 
peace.” 5; 
On the 8th of January, 1793, feveral 
battalions of volunteers untied under the 
name of the Phalanx of Marfeilies, and, 
commanded by General Hilaire-Chanvert, 
embarked at Villefranche, on board the 
tranfports, under convoy of the fhips of 
war, sid failed for Corfica; there, being 
joined to the troops of the line, they 
formed an army of about 6000 men, def-- 
tined, under the orders of General Cafa- 
bianca, to make a defcent on Sardinia, in 
conjunétion with a fquadron commanded 
by Rear Admiral Truguet. This union | 
having been effeSted in the Gulf of Cag- 
liari, after fome delay, occafioned by bad 
weather, at the beginning of February, 
a landing was effected on the 14th, under 
the protection of three frigates. 
“« Tt is a fact well known io every one 
at this period, that fuch a diforder tcok 
place ameng our columns, that they rect- 
procally fired on each other, in the dark, 
while the fea having become tempeituous 
after the debarkation, prevented any pro- 
vifions or other neceffaries from being 
procured from the {quadron; food only 
had been landed fufficient for three days 
confumption; the troops were deftitute cf 
tents, and all theneceflary implements for. 
an encampment; in addition to this,-a 
divifion, intended to co-operate with the 
main body, was entirely infulated, and 
incapable of either giving or receiving 
fuccour. 
“© The tempeft increafed to fuch a de- 
gree, that ten of the fixteen tranfports 
were in the utmof danger of perifhing, 
while three frigates were either difmafted 
or completely difabled. The thip of war 
called the Leopard ran aground; the 
greater part of the fhallops, boats, and 
yawls, belonging to the fquadron were 
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