Part of the rear guard fell into the enemy's hands. The firit column has made several Of fice as (among whom are a Chef de Brigade) and fome foldiers prifoners; one Cannon and feveral waggis loaded with powder fell into our hands. The column of Field Marthal Lieutenant Haddick has alfo made fome prifoners, bro On theft of May at day-break, the van-guard advanced as far as Fottan, and the first column joined the fecond be tween Schlus and Fotran. The polts of the enemy were between Guarda and Lavin. On account of the great fatigues of the preceding day, the troops were not able to proceed further than to the lofty and fleep heights of Fortan. On the fecond of May the re united columns marched from Fottan towards Lavin, and took poft on the high road. A imall column, under the orders of CoJonel Zeegradt of the regiment of Beaulieu, marched towards the right bank of the Inn in the fame direction as the firft column. The enemy having deftroyed the Bridge near the Lower Guarda, and it being indifpenfably neceffary to have a bridge of communication, a fmall bridge was conftructed there, which could not be completed in less than four hours. In the meanwhile the pofition of the enemy was reconnoitred, and the difpofitions for attack made. While they were doing this, Field-Marshall Lieut. Bellegarde placed the van guard before Guarda, and the main dy behind the village. The van-guard, as well as the column where Field Marshal- Lieut. Bellegarde was in perfon, advanced under the orders of Field-Mirthal Lieutenant Haddick upon the high road which leads to Cus. The divifion of Colonel Zeegradt, re-inforced by two battalions, made a column apart under the orders of General Count Robili, who was to march upon the right bank of the Inn in the fame direction as the principal column. The two columas marched directly to Lavin, and forced the enemy's advanced guards to retire as faft as poffible. The village of Lavin was carried by the advanced guard but the enemy having reaffembled behind the village, another obftinate engagement took place, which however ended to our advantage, by means of the divifions fent to the mountains to take the enemy in flank. As the ground behind Lavin was pro Our army was obliged to open a way among impracticable mountains, and ob fructed by continual attacks, finding every where the moft obftinate refiftance: bur as the enemy, whatever position they took, found themfelves threatened on both their flanks, they did not ftay either in the village of Cus, or in the valley of Floda. The village was taken by the advan ced guard of Field-Ma fhal-Lieut. Haddick, and at the same time the heights which command it were taken poffeffion of, where the enemy had rallied with its Corps de Referve. A very brisk fire was kept up on both fides, and on a fudden the enemy fell rapidly on the village, but was repulfed by the Gorfchen regiment of grenadiers and the third regi ment of Antoine Efterhazi. Field Marshal Bellegarde, at the moment the grenadiers made their attack with the bayonet, advanced his columns to the two banks of the Inn, where they fell upon the enemy with fo much brav ery as to oblige them to fly in the utmoft diforder to Czernetz. The General of Divifion of the enemy Le Courbe was wounded in the arm in his retreat. The rear-guard of the French did not immediately abandon Czernetz, but retired during the night; and their laft poft retreated in the morning of the 3 of May towards the Upper Engadine. They fe: fire to the bridges near Czernetz, but only the lower bridge was deftroyed, Our lofs in the two engagements of the 30 h April and 2d May is confiderable, of which Lieut. Gen. Bellegarde intends foon to tranfmit an account. Supplement to the account of Field-MarJhall Suwarrow, relative to the forcing of the paffage of the Adda, and the tak ing of Milan. The General of Cavalry Melas, in a particular account, defcribes the general fatisfaction expreffed at the arrival of our troops in that city. The Archbishop and his fuite, with all the nobility, met the army at Creffenzago, and delivered the keys of the city; but could not find language fufficiently expreffive of their refpect and affection for his Majesty, and of their joy at the recovery of their Reli gion and their Ancient Conflitution.— From that place as far as the town, which is at three miles diftance, the army was accompanied by the people. The continued cries of "Long live cur Religion and Francis the Second!" were fo powerful, that even the Turkish mufic, which is heard in the midft" of battle, could not be diftinguished. In the evening a general illumination took place. It was almoft impoffible to pafs through the ftreets; yet, notwith ftanding the general confufion, the military force was not employed, nor was there a fingle excefs committed, fo pure and fo fincere was the joy of the people, Our lofs in the different engagements in which we were concerned on the Adda, amounts to 240 men and rog horfes killed; 368 men and 150 horfes wounded; 307 men and 18 horfes miffing; in the whole, 1,321 men and 283 horfes. Vienna. May 13. The Firft Lieut. Eck brought yesterday to his Majefty, from Field-Mahal Suwarrow the intelligence of fourteen ftandards having been taken from the enemy in the late engagements. The Field Marthal had moved with his army from Milan to Pavia, leaving four thousand men under the command of General Latterman to blockade the citadel of Milan and to support other operations. On the departure of the courier he had advanced beyond Pavia. The enemy had left in Pavia twelve pieces of cannon of different fizes, eighteen cafes full of mufquets for infantry, and a great many barrels of powder, with ammunition for the infantry and cavalry. Gen. Bukaffowich found at Novara fixteen pieces of cannon, four mortars, two hundred and fifty cafks of cartridges, fifteen barrels of cafe fhot, and several other military effects. The enemy had also been repulsed as far as the little town of Livorno. Field-Marshal Lieut. Kaim being employed to take poffeffion of Pizzighetone, had regulated his difpofitions in fuch a manner as to ensure an attack upon the place at feven o'clock in the morning. In confequence of which, three fixteen pounders taken from the enemy, twelve twelve pounders, ten howitzers, and a part of the Ruffian artillery, were fent to bim. Field Marshal Kray, availing himself of the pallage of the courier, forwarded the further particulars of the furrender of Peschiera, by which he informs us, that owing to the capitulation the garri Ed. Mag. Auguft 1799. fon, of fifteen hundred men, had quitted the town in the morning of the 6th; that the number of cannon and mortars, ac cording to the inventory, amounted to One Hundred; that, inftead of Sixteen floops of war, there were found Nineteen completely equipped. Gen. Kray of the artillery advanced on the 6th towards Mantua, in order to befiege that town, and poffefs himself of the Po, fo that the provifions deftined for our army, which moves on but flowly, should not in any way be intercepted. Gen. Major Kinau makes very confi derable incurfions beyond the Po, and in the neighbourhood of Regio, Modena, and Cento; befides which, Capt. Buday, who is in front of Modena, announced that on the 4th in the afternoon he had fent a detachment forward, in order to difarm those people whom the enemy had armed in order to defend the town; that having entered the town, he imme diately detached 30 Huffars from Fort Orbano, as far as the river Panaro, within three miles of Modena. The same day, at 8 o'clock in the morning, 150 Cifalpines were gone from thence, and their retreat was so hafty, that they left behind them a confiderable quantity of provifions; 50 barrels of powder were left in the citadel. The above mentioned Captain, having learnt that there were at Svilambesto (which is about 9 miles from Modena) 90 quintals of powder, a quantity of faltpetre, and other ar ticles of ammunition, had them all conveyed to a place of fafety during the night by a patrole that he had difpatched thither. A Cifalpine Captain, who could not efcape the day before, was made prisoner at 5 o'clock in the morning by Capt. Buday, who has sent him to Sachetta. Our troops were received by the inhabitants with the most lively joy, and their eagerness to fee us was fo great, that the army could fcarcely advance; the enthusiasm of fome carried them fo ar as even to kifs our horfes. Captain Buday alfo fays, that from the reports of feveral of the peasants that came there, he learnt that the Tulcan territories had been moft fhamefully pillaged; that the contributions which had been exacted from them were unfupportable; and that even deputies from Florence had arrived at Modena to implore affiftance against the exactions of the enemy. His Royal Highness the Archduke Charles informs us, that fince the late events nothing of confequence had hap pened pened, but that the enemy moft probably was endeavouring to engage our attention by manœuvres and continual changes in the line of his advanced pofts. In return, the patrole fent forward by Generals Gorger, Merveld, and Guilay to make incurfions, haraffes the enemy continually, do him great injury, and are perpetually making prifoners. There have also been two battles at Odenwald, in which the peafants take a part, It was near the village of Birkenau, and above and below Steinau, with the aid of the divifion commanded by the firft lieutenant Goringer and the huffars of Szeekler, that the enemy was repulfed with confiderable loss. The huffars took twenty borfes from the enemy. Upon the Bergftraffe another party of the fame huffars took upon the Rhine, in the neighbourhood of Raftadt, a tranfport with one hundred and eighty barrels of flour, which they conveyed to Gerfbach. Vienna, May 16. An officer arrived in the night from Italy, with the news of the furrender of Pizzighetone on the roth by capitulation to General Kaim. The intelligence brought by this officer further ftates, that a part of the Ruffian troops was already in poffeffion of the town of Tortona. Head quarters of Lieut. Gen. Hotze MY LORD, I have the honour to inform your Lordship, that this day Gen. Hotze made a general and completely fuccefstul attack on the French corps in the Grifons country, diflodged them from all their pofitions, from Saint Lucius Steig, (which is on the northern boundary) to Coire inclufive, and took Sixteen: Pieces of Cannon, and Two Thousand Prifoners. I have the honour to be, &c. Robt. Craufurd. Palermo, May 1. By accounts from the Continent, it appears, that Salerno has been taken by Capt. Hood of his Majefty's fhip Zealous, who had placed there a garrison, composed of a detachment of marines, and of loyal inhabitants. The King's colours were alfo flying at Caftel del Mare. On the 25th of April, Gen. Macdonald left Naples for Capua with all his troops, except 500, who were left in the Caftle of St. Elmo. 2 From the London Gazette, June 4. Extract of a letter from Sir Morton Eden, to Lord Grenville, dated May 18, 1799. My LORD, I have the honour of inclofing an Extraordinary Gazette published on Thurfday laft, containing intelligence from the army of Italy. Vienna, May 16, 1799. Field. Marshal Lieutenant Kaim, charged by FieldMarshal Suwarrow, with the fiege of Pizzighitone, has fent his firft Lieutenant Runcle with the particulars of the capture of that place on the roth. General Baron Sekendorff and Count Hohenzollern had previously surrounded the fortrefs with a small body of troops, and with the affiftance of the inhabitants of the environs had begun to conftruct batteries. On the 5th, Field-Marfhal Lieut. Kaim received orders to attack the place with his divifion, and to push forward the fiege vigorously. In the night of the 5th, and during the whole day of the 6th, they worked with such dispatch to conftruct batteries, that, in the night of the 6th, some cannon were mounted. On the 7th, before day-break, they began to attack the fortrefs, and to throw in fome howitzers, the fourth, of which fet fire to a confiderable magazine of hay, ftraw, and wood, which continued burning all the day.. Two hours afterwards Field- MarthalLieut. Kaim fummoned the fortress to furrender. The Governor replied, that he had orders from his Government to defend himself, and that he could not enter into negociation. The fire was therefore continued by our brave cannoneers with fuch fuccefs, that in the evening a fmall powder magazine blew up, feveral batteries difmounted, and even the embrafures demolished. In the night of the 7th, and in the morning till 9 o'clock we continued our works in fuch a manner that our batteries were not farther than mufket shot from the fortress. The fire in the town, the apprehenfion that a quantity of powder in the cafemates might catch fire, and the proximity of our batteries connected by trenches, induced the enemy's Commandant to send proposals of negociation in writing to Field Marthal Kaim, by one of his Artillery Officers. The Field-Marshal Lieutenant fent the Quarter Mafter Generai's Firft Lieutenant into the fortress with the following capitulation; adding, that no change whatever could be made in it. The enemy Commandant, after holding a Council of War, required liberty to return with his garrifon to France, and perfifted in this point till ten at night. But FieldMarthal Lieutenant Kaim having then informed him that he could wait no longer, the capitulation was agreed upon, and was ratified and exchanged on the morning of the roth. The garrifon, although confifting of fix hundred men and thirty officers, of whom two were on the Staff, was commanded by a Captain. Ninety-five pieces of cannon, ammunition fufficient for a fiege of fix months, provifions to fupply a garrifon of five thousand men for fourteen months, and a great quantity of powder were found in the place. This fiege coft us only one man killed and two wounded! [Then follows the Capitulation, which ftipulates, that all the Magazines, Stores, fhail be delivered up, and the troops furrendered prifoners of war.] Field-Marhai Lieutenant Kaim had orders to follow the army immediately after the furrender of Pizzighetone. On the 11th be marched towards Toghera, where our army was pofted when the Courier departed, and from whence General Gottefcheim, who commanded the advanced guard, fent' our patroles to the environs of Turin. The Ruffian troops, with Karaczay's regiment of dragoons under the orders of General Dollen, have entered Tortona. The enemy, after having been driven from the town by the Ruffians, threw themselves into the Caftle, which is at fome diftance; but it is blockaded, as well as that of Milan. The General of Artillery Kray writes on the 9th inft. that the garrison of Mantua, reported to be twelve thoufand ftrong, having learnt that the greater part of the force that blockaded it had marched towards Pefchiera, made a general fortie; but that on the 7th he had recalled eight battalions in consequence of the complete evacuation of that fortress. This corps was advantageously employed at Roverbella under General Elf nitz, who defeated the enemy on every fide with confiderable lofs, and took prifoners a Captain, Aid-de-Camp to Geeral Monet, a Lieutenant, and forty men. Our army diftinguished itself very much in refifting this fally, particularly in the commencement, when the enemy, infinitely fuperior in ftrength, had confi-derably advanced, and discharged a brifk fire of artillery. -M A Secretary of General Monet and trumper were taken prifoners. The Field Marthal Lieutenant Kray, fent them both to Mantua, after delivering to them a copy of the capitulation of Pefchiera. At the fame time he fignified to the garrison, that the cannonade which they had conceived to be a fignal from the French army, and which had induced them to make this fally, was in reality the bom bardment of Pizzighetone, of which the garrifon might convince themselves by fending one of their officers to the very 'fpot. At Pefchiera, befides what has been already mentioned, eighteen pontoons of tin and feveral waggons have been found. duke Charles, the enemy attacked on the According to a report from the Arch9th curt. the advanced pofs of General Merveli, between Biberach and Gegenbach, and had taken fome hostages from the latter place on his return. On the following day the enemy renewed his attack with more energy, and made our front pofts rather give way, but retired to his former pofition. All the reft of the enemy's line re mained perfectly quiet. Extract of a Letter from Sir Morten A Courier arrived this morning from Marshal Suwarrow with accounts of the further progrefs of the army under his command.-The head-quarters were, on the 13th inft. at Tortona, the citadel of which had only an inconfiderable garri fon. Gen.. Moreau had collected all the French troops which had been scattered through Piedmont, and was encamped near to Alexandria, with about 17,000 men. The Imperial troops occupied Vercilli on the Seffia; Arona on the fouthern extremity of_the_Lago_Maggiore, and Jurea on the Dora Baltea. The advanced pofts were at Chillaffo, near Turin; and the inhabitants of that part of the country had taken arms for the purpofe of aiding the Auftrians. The Canton of Uri had rifen, and driven out the French; the Valais were alfo in arms, and Gen. Kaim had been fent with a confiderable detachment to fupport them; U a General Kray of the artillery, not being able to give an exact ftatement of his lofs on account of the extent of his pofts, has deferred making any return for the prefent. and and furnish them with arms, ammunition, &c. The greatest part of the Valteline was likewife in the poffeffion of the Auftrians. The Breft Fleet. that Admiralty-Office, June 3. By advices which have been received it appears the Childers brig and Succefs frigate had joined the British fquadron under the orders of Vice Admira! Lord Keith, in the Bay of Cadiz, on Friday the 3d of May, with information of the failing of the French fl-et from Breft, and the Spanish fquadron from Ferrol; that the morning of the following day the Brest fleet, confifting of 33 fhips of war, had appeared off Cadiz, and that his Lordfhip, wifhing rather to meet the enemy under fail, than receive him at anchor with the Spanish fleet of 22 fhips of the line in view, at anchor to leeward, and at no greater diftance than 7 or 8 miles, had got under fail with his fquadron confifting of 15 fail of the line to give battle to the enemy, and flood off and on from the port of Cadiz; that during the course of that day the French fleet, though fhips fent to reconnoitre had nearly approached the British fquadron, had made no attempt to attack it, or to form a junction with the Span fh fleet; and that on the morning of the 5th the wind, which had blown fresh all the afternoon of the preceding day, with cloudy weather, increafing to a perfect ftorm, and blowing right on the fhore, he had loft fight of the enemy, excepting four fhips of the line which had separated, and which he had endeavoured ineffectually to cut off. That his Lordship had continued on his ftation until the 9th, when he proceeded with his fquadron off Cape Spartel, and heaving reafon to believe that the enemy had paffed the Straits, proceeded on the 10th into Gibraltar Bay, where he is fuppofed to have anchored on the fame day. It also appears by advices from Gib. raltar of the 9th of May, that the Childers brig had joined Lord St. Vincent on the 4th; that his Lordship had in confequence taken the neceffary means for apprifing the Commander of his Majef ty's fhips of the enemy's approach, and had made his arrangements with a view to collecting his force and pursuing the enemy, which had paffed the Straits, and proceeded up the Mediterranean in the afternoon of the 5th. An account has alfo been received, that the squadron under Rear-Admiral Whit shed, confifting of five ships of the line, was off the Tagus on the 16th, and from the state of the winds would be likely to reach the Bay of Gibraltar on the 18th. From the London Gazette Extraordinary. Downing Street, June 5. Dispatches, of which the following are extracts, have been received from Sir Morton Eden, K. B. and Lieut. Col. Robert Craufurd, by the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, his Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for the Foreign Department: Extract of a Letter from Sir Morton Eden, K. B. dated Vienna, May 23. I have the honour of inclofing three Extraordinary Gazettes of this place, with the tranflations, together with the tranflation of an article in the Ordinary Gazette of yesterday, and fincerely, congratulate your Lordfhip on the happy turn of affairs in the Grifons and the Little Cantons, which must contribute fo effentially to the further fuccefs of the campaign in Italy, and fo greatly facili tate the operations of the Ruffian Army, which entered this country on the 15th inft. and of that under the command of the Archduke Charles. Vienna, May 18. Capt. Vimmer arrived here yesterday from Field-Marshal Suwarrow, with the following account of his farther operations, As every account agreed that the ene my had only a fmall garrifon in Tortona, Field-Marshal Suwarrow ordered Prince Pangrazion, who was at Pavia, to cross the Po without delay with the advanced guard, confifting of a regiment of chaf feurs, two battalions of grenadiers, two battalions of infantry, and two regiments of coffaks, under the command of Col. Grekow. They paffed the river near Corvefino in barges and flat-bottomed boats, and pushed forward to Voghera. On reconnoitring, it was difcovered that the ene my had ftrengthened the garrison of Tortona. In confequence of which General Karaiczay received orders to join the Prince, who croffed the river with two battalions of the regiment of Frolich, two fquadrons of Lobkowitz' dragoons, and two of Karaiczay's, which paffed the Scrivia near Caftel Nuovo, and formed near Torre di Garrofole, hetween Tortona and Alexandria. But the following day having learnt that Moreau was pofted near Alexandria, on the Banks of the river, with the two |