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lof ; two large veflels, alfo, were forced 
on thore, and immediately burnt by the 
Sardinians, whoeither drowned or maffa- 
ered the crews, without fhewing them 
any mercy whatfoever.”’ In fhort, ‘ thefe 
adverfe and unfortunate events forced us 
ta renounce an expedition, again{t the 
fucce!s of which all the elements appear 
to have conipired; and, on the rgth and 
zoth, the troops were, atlength, re-im- 
barked, after having loft three ie ndred 
min by fatigues cold, hunger, fire, and 
{word.”’ 
While the Pench were thus forced to 
abardon the conqueft of Sardinia, a body 
of Autyro-Sardinians, which had me- 
naced Nice, was attacked at Sofpello, 
and driven back, after an obfiinate de- 
fence. On the 18th, the Republican Ge- 
neral attacked all the forts of the enemy, 
with an intention to drive them from the 
county of ‘Nice. On the fame day the 
heights of Col de Negro, Tourette, Re- 
vel, Teudon, Luceran, and Villao, were 
taken peffefiion of ; and the army having 
continued its. march, chafed the enemy 
from fort to fort, until it had arrived on 
the banks of the Vefubia; forcing them, 
at the fame time, to evacuate Lantouteca. 
On the 2d of March the fort of Belve- 
dera furrendered, in addition to which, 
the Sardinians were driven from Notre 
Dame des Miracles, and Utel. 
A prociamation from the commiffioners 
of the National Convention, dated March 
7, 793, announced the decree which 
pronounced the re-union of the county of 
Nice, and the principality of Monaco, 
under the name of the department of the 
Maritime Alps. This latter ftate, fitu- 
ate to the eaft, and at four leagues (one 
myriametre 78 centimetres) from Nice, 
is about two leagues i in length, and about 
three quarters of a league in breadth (89 
centiemes demyriametres fur 33 centie- 
ves). It includés two towns, Monaco, 
Menton, and the village of Roquebrune. 
Its population amounts to about 7000 
inhabitants. Monaco, defignated among 
the ancients by the name of Portus Her- 
culis Monezci, is a little, agreeable for- 
tified town, the population of which 
2moun's to r200 Inhabitants. It is built 
upon a rock, which advances into, and is 
almoft furrounded by, the fea. Expofed 
fo all the winds which difpute the empire 
of the ocean, it1s, neverthele’s, thelrer- 
ed, towards tie north, by the mountain 
and rillage of Turbia, where are till to 
be feen the suins of a triamphal arch, 
ereéted in honour of Aucuitus. 
<¢ Requebrune is a village, feareely re- 
markable for any thing, fi:uate between 
3 
Retrofpet of French Literature.— Mifcellanies. 
‘ 
Monaco and Menton. The Iaft of thefe, 
the walls of which are bathed by the 
waves, is placed in a very agreeable pof- 
tion. At alittle diftance, towards the 
ealt, and along the coaft, we find impofing 
mafies of rocks, exhibiting thofe fine 
warm tints, which are fometimes beheld 
in the piftures of the beit landicape-paint- 
ers. On the welt, arethe vaft aad delict- 
cus gardens of Carnolet, aad ahansfome 
pleafure-houfe appErrnn to the Prince 
of Monaco. 
<< The vegetation is exa€tly the fame as 
in the neighbourhood of Nice ; tue orange. 
trees, cedars, aid citrons, are to be found 
in a ftull greater proportien at Menton. 
The population of this place confilts of 
from 4500 to §000 inhabitants. The 
women there are remarkeble on account 
of their beauty, end we ftill difcover, in. 
their ornaments and apparel, a remnant 
of that ancient fimplicity, fo favourable . 
to the development of the graces.” 
_€ Noaveaux Mémoires Hiftori iques fur 
la Guerre de Sept Ans.”’—New Hifterical 
Memoirs relative to the Seven Years’ War. 
By M. De RETzON, formerly Captain 
in the Service of the King of Pruffia. ° 
z vols. 8vo. Paris, 
The Seven Years? War, fo called be- 
caufe it continued from 1756 to 1763, is 
one of the moft remarkable, as well as 
mo difaitrous, epochs that Europe had 
witneffed during the fermer par. of the 
eighteenth century. The peace of Aix- 
la-Chapelle, in 1748, termimated the war 
of 1741. Previoufly to this, England 
and Spain had entered into a naval war, 
in 1732, while, in :740, the new King 
of Praffia (Frederick IT.) had faatched 
Silefia from the Houfe cf Auftria; in fine, 
nearly ali Europe was in arms, until the 
epoch above alludéd te. 
Even after the fignature of this cele- 
brated treaty, a fecret diftru& and ani- 
mofity prevailed, ae there were no le{S 
illi men retained under 
arms; a (onde number at that pe- 
riod, but nothing compaiable tothe ettab- 
ifiments that, to the misfortune of hue 
manity, have fince been kept up. 
To itreagthen their ov-p interetts, 
avenge theirreal cr fuppofed wrongs, - 
number of new alliances were formed we 
V2rious great powers, and Evrope became 
divided into two grand faéiions. On one 
fide was ranged England, Avftria, Sax- 
ony, Rufia,. and Ho'land; on the other 
France, Spain, Praia, “ied Sweden. “ 
Tie Emprelfs Maria Therela could not 
ee ye the King of. Pruffia, on account 
Silefia, the poff<ffion of which was ve- 
Bee by himat the peace of Aix-la-Cha- 
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