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Late European Intelligence,
Received by a vcffcl On m Hamburgh,
arrived at Cbarlcfton,
CONST AN TIVOPLE,
Feh r 'ia r \ 2 1.
Tlv Reis Effendi has received
accounts thu the Britifh fquad
ron Rationed before Alexandria,
h »s raptured nine French fhipi
of war viz two of the line,
th frigates, and four (mailer
vc nr is.
The Soanifh ambaflador has
li!m f elf to obtain the
en a gement of the French
rh ru<* des affiirs, but was am
fw'*red by an order to quit Con
flantinople.
FLOR Merck 10.
Fivi i Vccrhi\ is r ot yet taken
by the French. A part of Fa
labria is already d.
In *li * city of Naples all is quiet,
bur in 'he neighboring rou try
tio’ihles flill prevail. The N ca
po hm, or Pa*thempran Repub- i
lie, is divided into eleven de-,
putments. The number of
Jb'iifh troops that arrived at
Palermo in Sicily from Gibral
tar is eflinated at 7000 men.
Some Ruffian and Tuikilh (hips
hgm to blockade Ancona.’
b»o n Venice a great many of
n
/uiiiian troops have fuddcnly
maiched to jo»n the army of
I>goona and Verona, The
F.ngh h fake a number ofveffels
Tom before Genoa, where trade
i- now totally flopped The
B »ririi p ivateer, the lord Nel-'
lo , has brought up at once
th ■ce prizes at Leghorn.
he colors of the former
Piedinontefe t oops, who are
n uv in French fet vice, bear the
fII >wing iufrripdon : liberty ,
fubordi nation, obedience.
MILAN. March 12.
There is a report, that general
Bunn rpaite,with 16 000 French,
and a f r flronger corps of Arabs,
h-«s ntered jerufalern andplant
ed ihe tree of liberty there,
LUC RvR, March 18.
1 he I 1 icnch h ive gained new
advantages in the country of the
Onions, (GiaiTuindten) near
*he borders of Tyrol. Our
dir tb>ry has yefterday publifh
e r the f blowing letter of genc
r I Malf na, to the dire&ory of |
the H dvetic Kepuhli ', dated
head-qu irtcrs. at Chur (Choire)
23d Ventofe. or 13th March,
“ Citiz ns D re Hors,
“ I I 1 ve flic honor to inform
you th it the Auflrians were
ti-it more fo'tunate in the vallies
<■( Lnga »in, than in thofe of the
1 lime, grp ably to the re
po - s, uhi h I have jufl now
r-r iv d the e were on the cven
jn r of the Vcntofe. 3,600
d u*Li ms of different regiments
rn ! * prifoners in the valley of
B » den, (imong whom a lieute
r nt-ro ! onel, two majors, and
ten odicers were found. Gen,
Laudua efcaped through the
woods, but is purfued. There*
were alfo in this vicinity two I
cannon taken, befidcs a greatj
deal of warlike ammunition and;
provifions. The refult of the
capture of Bunden, as far as itj
is known, is a lofs on the Auf
trian fide of 10,000 men in kil
led, wounded and prifoners,
and their magazines of ammu
nition and provifions. We have 1
already taken 36 pieces of can-'
non, and above twenty (land
ards, part of which belonged to
the troops of Bunden. I haften, ;
citizens diredlors, to acquaint
you with thefe new events.
M ASSEN A.”
The foregoing account was
publifhed by the French mini!
ters at Rafladt, In a letter of
citizen Laudier, gen. MafTena's
adjutant, dated 28th Ventofc,
(14'h March) at Choire head
quarters, is the following ac
count :
“ You have doubtlefs, my
dear friend, received the letter
| which I wrote you a few days
ago, and wherein I informed
you of our fiifi vidluiics in the
Grifon country. Cur vi£toiics
arc now complete; the whole
country is our's. Of all the
Auflrians who had been there,
very few efcapcd. We have
made 11 or 12,000 prifoneis,
and taken feveral imperial fland
ards, befides ten ot the milita
of the Grifons; more of them
would have been taken, had
they not been thrown away in
precipices.’*
I No more /ufliians are now
feen in the country of the Gri
fons, excepting thofe who fled
into the mountains; but they
will ba obliged to (urrender,
thiough want of fubfiftence.
General Calla Bianca having
advanced from (he Valteline,
took pollefiTion of the Engadin
and the heights, which feparate
the country of the Grilons from
I Tyrol. By the capture of the
1 G i(on country, the theatre of
war has been removed from
Switzerland and the republican
rench and Italian armies, on
the ( bine and the Danube, will
thus elfed a jun6fcion,
VIE N N 2O.
1 he i\ulfi m army, under the
command of general Rofenberg,
has broke up its encampments,
1 near St. Potten, in order to join
the Aullrian army in Italy.
They marched in eight columns
of 1000 men each. The Em
pero-, and a great concourfe of
people, went to Schoenbrun, to
1 lee them pafs,
Yefierday a courier arrived
from the Ruffian general Cuch
akolF, at Corfu, with the news,
that the combined fleet of Ruf
fians and I urks had bombarded
the iHand of Vide, and deftioy
ed the place, after which they
landed a number of troops, and
attacked Salvador, and Icvcial
other fortified places, which
they took by fto m. On the
iScii of February they fummon
ed the French commander to
furender the whole ifland of
j Corfu. The articles of capitu
lation were figned the firfl of
j March, The French were to
jdeliver up all the artillery and
.ammunition, and have liberty
to return to Toulon, on condi
tion of not ferving againll the
combined powers during 18
: months. The lofs of the Ruf
-1 bans and Turks was very incon
fiderable. On the ift inftant,
the French garrifon laid down
; their arms. When they went
away from tile foit, the Ruffian
commandant had great trouble
to reftrain the Turks fiom giv
ing way to their fury. Alter
the capture of Corfu, the com
bined Ruffian and Tuikiffi fleet,
with the land troops on board,
arc to aft in Italy. Their ope
rations there are now greatly
facilitated by the capture of;
Corfu ; fcvcral divifions have :
already landed at Serigaglia.
r i he French made an attempt
to take Civiti Vecchia by ftorm,
but were repulfed.
All the Ruffian auxiliary
troops are dellined for Italy,,
whither feveral French Auflrian
regiments are marching in great
hade. The Pmffian general
Suwarrow is expefted here hour
ly ; his equippage has already
■ arrived. It is now laid, that
PafTawan Oglou his received
orders from the Porte, to march
| with a ftrong body of troops
againfl the French in Italy,
1
'SWITZERLAND, March 20.
| General Auffenberg paffed on
the 14th infl. through Enrich to
j Fiance. The war council of
! Hunden was, on the 15th, car
ried through ihe city to the caflle
1 of Afburg. At Choire, a pro
| vifory municipality has been ap
pointed, and on the 12th, the
tree of liberty was planted.
! Meafures are already taken to
form primary affemblies, and
and proceed to eleftions of civil
officers, and of deputies to the
Helvetic legiflature, which now
meets at Lucerne, On hearing
the French viftories in Grau
bundten, the city of Herne was
idum nated ; fome difeontented
people, however, threw Hones
at the windows of thole houfes,
, which were chie y didinguiffied ;
hy their illumination. The
Swifs direftory has given to the!
i entire difpofition of the French
government, their own guard,
and that of the legiflative body
making above 15,000 men. 1 he j
Swifs direftory decreed that gen. 1
M ilFena, and the French army
undei him, had, by their vifto
ries in the Grifon country, de
rived well of the Helvetic Re
-1 public.
I UPPER RHINE, March 23.
A tavern-keeper at Orenburg
gave occafion to a great alarm
at Strafburg. He affined the
chief of a French battalion,
whole head-quarters were at
Oifenburg, that the AuftrLns
were advancing in full force,
and that Auftian patroles had
been ften at half an hour's dif
tanre irom OfFenburg As it
was a di hcult matter to enquire
immediately into the truth of
this alleriion, expiefles were i n ,
ftantly difpatched from Off cn
burg to Strafburg, and other
places; and while it was believed
that the Andrians were ap,
preaching, a report was fpread.
that the centre of Jourdan’s
army was on the 14th, 15th and
16th, beaten by the archduke
Charles, and this news was like
wife communicated by expreffes
Gen. Chateauneuf Randon then
publifbed a proclamation at
Strasburg, wherein he faid, “ it
is reported that the enemy ; 8
approaching to attack Straf
burg." The national guards of
the Upper and Lower Rhino
departments were put in requi,
1 dtion, and flocked in heaps t 0
Strasburg. Other conjeftures
were alfo entertained relpefting
the above falfe alarm, How
|Cvcr, accoiding to the lateft ac
counts as far as the 20th inftanf,
no battle has yet taken place
between gen. jourdan Sc Prince
| Chailes, although fuch an event
is daily looked for.
FRANKFORT, March 23.
The Pruflian cabinet is ftill
difpoled for peace, and deter
mined to maintain its peaceable
attitudes, unlefs it fhould be
compelled by the violation of
treaties to take hoftile meafures.
The king of Pruflia is expetfed
at Calfei towards the latter end
of May.
HAMBURGH , April u
The tateft letters received by ik
loft pofi from Strut gar d, and Rap
tadt , of the 24 th, and from Brand
fort oj the 26/ h March , mention,
that there had been a general en
gagement between the archduke
Chailes, and gen. Jourdan on the
2 ty? oj March , in which general
Lt/cbvre , with 6000 men, were
made pr Ijoners ; the following an
the letters which contain the news:
u March 24th,—
The late falje report of a general
abiion having been fought between
the archduke and general Jourdan ,
is probably the cau/e why the new
which arrivedytflerday , of Prince
j Charles having defeated general
i Jourdan on the 21//, at P/ullen
j dorf and made general Lfehvre,
a prif ner , with 6000 men , is net
generally believed , tko* it is entiled
to credit/*
Frankfort, 26th March.—i*'
have juft now received accounts fron
the armies , which f peak of a hatlt
having actually taken place hetwett
the archduke and general Jourdan,
but it is impojftble at prefent teg v '
any detailed accounts thereof. 0 n
the 2oi h inflant , there were
at Um, a brijk cannonade m * r,:
neighbourhood of Wald fee
Pfudlendorf A report from Sir v
burgh f of the French having buf
the city of Bergcnz , and pf (j
them fives at Liddan . deferves M
credit , bccauje , by lettersfrom B- '