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First Cares and Employment of the French Dirc&tory.—Determination to
keep alive the Martial Spirit of the French Nation.-And to Extend their
Victories as far as poffible.-But, at the fame Time to make a shew of
Pacific Inclinations. Preparations for War on the Part of the Allies.—
Attempt towards Negociation between the French and the Allies at Bafie,
in Switzerland.-Rupture threatened between the French and Swifs Can-
tons.-Prevented.-Plan of Directory for Military Operations.—Mani-

fefto of Charette.-Revival of the War in La Vendée.-New Complexion

of this. Total Defeat of the Infurgents.-Capture and Execution of Cha-

rette and Stoflet.-Manifefio of the Directory for Refraining the Cruelties

of their Soldiers.-Lenient Meafures.-Good Effects of the fe

CHAP. VI.

Addrefs of the Directory to the French Armies.-Determination to carry the
War into Italy.-Difficulties to be encountered in carrying this Plan into
Execution.-Buonaparte.-The French Army, under his Command, makes

rapid Progress in Italy.-The Auftrians, under General Beaulieu, cons

flantly repulfed, yet not difpirited.-Various Actions.-Sufpenfion of

Arms agreed on between the French and Piedmonteje Armies.--General

Beaulieu re-croffes the Po, for covering the Countries to the North of that

River.-At Paris, Negociation for Peace between the King of Sardinia

and the French Republic.-Treaty of Peace between France and Sardinia

ratified by the Legislative Bodies of France.-Exultation and Confidence of

the French.-Improved by Buonaparte, for the Purpose of leading on the

Army to farther Exploits.-Address to the Army-General Object and

Tendency of Buonaparte's private Converfation.-Homage paid to the Merit

of Buonaparte and the Army, by the Directory.-Buonaparte puts his

Army in Motion.-Croffes the Po, and leaves General Beaulieu to break

up his Camp.-Armistice between the French Army and the Duke of Parma.

-The French advance toward the Capital of Lombardy.—Batile of Lodi.—

The Auftrians retreat to Mantua.-The French proceed to Milan, where

the French General allows his People fome Days of Repofe

CHA P. VII.

Exultation of the French at the Succeffes of their Armies.-Their Army in

Italy animated by the Praifes of their Countrymen, and the Converfation

as well as the Proclamations of Buonaparte to a high Paffion for Glory.—

Enter the Duchy of Modena.-Spoliation of Moniments of Antiquity and

Art.-Abhorrence of the Italian Nobility and Clergy towards the French

greater than that of the inferior Claffes.-A general Infurrection, ready to

break out, quafhed by the Vigilance and Promptitude of Buonaparte.-The

Auftrians, under General Beaulieu, with the Connivance of the l'ençtians,

take Poffeffion of Pefchiera.-Buonaparte advances against Beaulieu, who

retreats to the Tyrolere.-The Venetians tremble before the French.-Dif-

mifs from their Territories the Brother of the late King and Claimant of the

Crown of France.-Buonaparte takes Poffeffion of Verona.-Blockades

Mantua. Prepares to march into the Tyrolefc.-Detained by Infurre&ions

in the Districts, known under the Name of Imperial Fiefs.-Thefe being

fuppreffed, he carries his Arms to the Southward.--Reduces Tortona, Bo-

logna, and Urbino,-Menaces Rome.-Armiflice between the Pope and

Buonaparte.-Sufpenfion of Hoftilities with Naples.-Buonaparte the Friend

and Patron of Men of Learning and Science,-Ambitious Views of the

French Republic.-Infurrection in Lugo.-Quelled, and the City reduced by

the French.-The Blockade of Mantua converted into a clofe Siege.-Raifed

by Marshal Furmfer.-Actions between the French Army and that of the

Auftrians, reinforced by Detachments from Mantua,-Remarkable Infiance

of Prefence of Mind in Buonaparte.-The Auftrians driven back beyond the

Adige

CHAP. VIII.

Italian Mobs excited araint the French.Suppressed by a Terror of the
victorious French-Marshal Wurmfer, purjued by Buonaparte, retreats

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into the Tyrolefe.-The Siege of Mantua refumed.-Marshal Wurmfer,

powerfully reinforced, makes Head against the French in the Venetian

Territories. But is defeated.-The French take Poffeffion of Trent.-

Continued Succefs of Buonaparte.-Marshal Wurmfer, with the Remains

of his Army, makes good his Retreat, and takes Shelter within the Walls of

Mantua.-Corfica, evacuated by the English, returns under the Govern

ment of France.-Pacification between France and Naples—including the

Batavian Republic.—Religious Zeal of the Romans. Awakened by the Court

of Rome into rage, and avowed Preparations for War against the French.—

A new Republic, compofed of feveral fmall States.-Prevalence of the

Republican Spirit in Italy.-The Aufirians reinforced with Troops from

Germany, advance against the French.-Retake Trent.-But are de-

feated with prodigious Lofs at Arcola.-The Auftrians, though frequently

defeated, return to the Charge.-High Spirit and Courage of the Ty-

rolians.-Devotion of the Army in Italy to the French Republic.-Patience

of the French Soldiers under manifold Privations

CHAP. IX.

109

Campaign in Germany.-Oppofite Designs of the French and Auftrians.-

Succeffes of the French.-They inveft Ehrenbritflein.-Driven back, by the

Archduke Charles, to Duffeldorf.-The Divifion of the French Army under

Moreau takes Poft at Strafburg.-The Plan of Operations propofed by this

General.-Croffes the Rhine.-Reduces the Fortress of Kehl.-Defeats the

Auftrians, under Marshal Wurmfer, near Philipsburg.-And in various

and fucceffive Engagements.-The Auftrians retire, in order to wait for

Reinforcements, into the Interior of Germany.-Junction of the French

Troops under Jourdan and Kleber.-Thefe united reduce Frankfort.-

Succeffes of Moreau in Swabia.-Ceffation of Hoftilities between the French

and the Princes of Wirtemberg and Baden.-Conduct of Pruffia.-A Prujian

Army takes Poffeffion of Nuremberg.-Impolicy of the French in the Mode

of raifing Contributions.-Caufe of this.-Depredations of the French in

Germany.-Operations of the French Armies under Moreau and Jourdan.-

Difafters of the Auftrians.-The Emperor reprefents the Situation of

Germany, and his own Situation, in an Appeal to his Bohemian and Hunga-

rian Subjects.-Diet of the Empire.—Partakes of the general Confternation

of Germany.-Determination to open a Negociation for Peace with France.

-The Tide of Succefs turned against the French by the Germans, under the

Archduke Charles.-Obftinate Engagements.-Mafterly Retreat of the

French Armies.-Particularly of that under Moreau.-Confequences.-

The Auftrians occupied in the Siege of Kehl.-Sally of the Garrison there.

-Various Actions.—Armistice between the French and Auftrians.—

The Diet of the Empire re-animated by the enterprizing Spirit and Succefs

of the Archduke Charles, folicitous to regain the Favour of the Imperial

Court

126

CHAP.

CHAP. X.

State of Parties in France.-A Revival of the Reign of Terror threatened in
the Southern Departments by Freron.-The Directory defert and oppofe

the Jacobin Intereft.-Confpiracy of Jacobins.-Difcovered and defeated.-

Arrangements respecting the Estates of Emigrants.—Influence of the non-

juring or refractory Clergy troublesome to Government. Scandalous

Neglect of the Execution of Justice.-Criminal Trials. Money and Fi-

nance.-The fame Impofitions laid on the People of the Auftrian Nether-

lands as on thofe of France.-New Plots and Infurrections.—Law for re-

conciling the different Factions in France, by the Extinction of Terror.-

Propofal for repealing a Law which appeared to fome to bear too hard

on the Relations of Emigrants.-Rejected.—But an equitable Alteration

made in that fevere Law.-This a Matter of Triumph to the moderate

Party
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СНА Р. XI.

Effects expected in France from a growing Spirit of Moderation-The Chief

Object in the Councils of France, how to Break or to Weaken the Power of

England.-Plan of the French for that End.-Means for Reftoring the

Pecuniary Credit of the French Republic.—A Rupture threatened betwcen

the French Councils and Executive Directory.-Prevented by the neceffity

of their acting in Concert.-The Legislature Invade the Province of the

Directory, by the Appointment of a Committee for judging in Cafes of

Appeals from Emigrants.-Loftinefs of the Directory.-Humbled by the

Wife Economy and Firmness of the United States of America.-Jea-

loufies and Difputes between the French and Americans.—And an open

Rupture

CHAP. XII.

164

The Haughtiness of the Directory towards different Nations.-Particularly

towards the Dutch, whom they confider, not as Confederates, but a conquered

People.-Moderation of the Republic and prepondering Party in the United

Provinces.-Batavian Convention.-Its Proceedings.-Affairs of Geneva.

-Meeting of the National Inftitute of France.-Confidered as an aufpicious

Omen of the Return of Peace and Reign of the Arts. And Liberty of

Thinking and Publishing on all Subjects.-The Alliance between the Church

and Monarchy of France, in the End, ruinous to both. The new, or confti-

tutional, Clergy avow their Afsent to the Separation of the Church from the

State. Yet venture to condemn fome Things fettled, or approved, by the

republican Government.—But which they confidered as adverfe to the Dignity

and Interests of the ecclefiaftical Order.-The Settlement of ecclefiaftical

Affairs confidered by the Generality of the French as a Matter of great

CHAP. XIII.

In France, a General wish for Peace.-But the Popularity of the War with England fill continued.-Overture of Peuce from England to the French Republic.-Negociation for Peace at Paris. Abruptly broken off.→ Affairs, Maritime and Colonial, French and British. Infidelity of the French Government to their Engagements with the Dutch.-French Preparations and Expedition for an Invafion of Ireland.-Defeated.-The Death of Catharine 11-And the Refignation of General Washington

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London Gazette, June

The like, July 2

Articles of Capitulation of the land of St. Lucia, May 25

The like of Colombo, in the Ifland of Ceylon, February 15
The like of St. Vincent's, June 11

The like of Banda, March 8

72 74

ibid.

94 ibid.

Circular Letter to the Lieutenants of Counties on the Sea Coafts, Nov. 5,
Letter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Lord Mayor, Dec. 1,
The like to the Bank

Account of the total nett Preduce of all the Taxes for
the Taxes for one Year, ending Oliober

10, 1796

Account of Wheat fold in the Corn-Market, Mark-Lane, from Christmas, 1795, to Christmas, 1796

Price of the Quartern-loaf for 1796

100

A general Bill of Christenings and Burials for 1796

Substance of the Act for preventing feditious Affemblies

Principal Public Acts paffed in the Sixth Seffion of the Seventeenth Parliament

Petition of Sir Francis Blake to the House of Commons, February 8

115

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