peace is actually concluded, to remit, in no manner, the preparations for defence and fecurity, on which the welfare of the whole monarchy depends, as well as the property and tranquillity of individuals. With refpect to this defence, it is therefore ordered, that such as are to ferve in perfon, fhall appear before the proper officers, and receive their directions under the orders of the general of artillery, the Prince of Wirtemberg. Such as cannot ferve in perfon, but are in poffeffion of arms, fhall deliver up the fame to the arfenal, to be employed in the defence of the city, whence they may receive them again at the peace. People of the Austrian monarchy! you have ever lived under the happieft and mildest government: to this all Europe affents. Auftrians! your fidelity to your religion, your princes, and your country; your morality, your courage, and bravery, in all the wars you have waged, have been ever your inheritance and an example to others, however the fortune of war may be changeable to every ftate and every people. This mutability is in the nature of human events; but the virtues of a people, their courage, fidelity, and loyalty to their monarch, the ftate, and religion, the greatest good and comfort of man, nothing can fo alter or deprefs, that they fhall not be exerted, and calmly repair every lofs. Perfevere, therefore, and peace shall restore every thing. (Signed) COUNT LEHRBACH, The General of Divifion, Chief of the Staff, to the Minifter at War. I Citizen Minifter, Head-quarters, Nuremberg, 12 Nivofe, HAVE the honour to inform you, that, in confequence of the first article of the treaty of armistice concluded by the army of the Rhine, the line-agreed upon between the General in Chief Augereau, and the General Baron Simbfchen, will extend from Bayerfdorff to Lichtench, following the right bank of the Rednitz, and the courfe of the Mein in prolongation of the Rednitz, as far as the line of neutrality: this line will pafs by Forcheim, Bamberg, Bannach, Staffelftein, and Lichtenec. The GalloBatavian army will occupy Nuremberg, as belonging to the line of the Rednitz. Out of respect to his Highness Prince Charles, and upon the demand of Baron Simbfchen, the paffage of the Mein will be granted to Baron Albini, in cafe he fhould wish to join the grand army. [Here [Here follows an enumeration of the quarters of feveral regiments, including Frankfort, Afchaffenbourg, and Wurtzbourg, in which latter place the artillery are posted.] (Signed) ANDREOSSI. Brune, Counsellor of State, General in Chief of the Army of Italy, to the Minifter of War. Head-quarters at Verona, January 6, 1801. THE enemy were intrenched at St. Martin, and in the pofition of Coldero, but have fince been forced, and our troops occupy Vicenza. General Moreau has occupied Roveredo, after having taken a great number of prifoners. General Bellegarde has informed me of the armistice concluded between the army of the Rhine and the Archduke. I anfwered him, that the armistice might extend to Italy, provided that they fhould furrender to me Peschiera, Mantua, Ancona, and Ferrara. I gave him to understand, that if the intention of his Imperial Majesty is to make peace with the French republic, he can feel no inconvenience in evacuating places which do not belong to him, which he could never expect to keep, and more efpecially in the prefent pofition of the armies: that, as to the effufion of blood, it would only be attributed to those who were not defirous of peace, and not to the perfons who only fought to conquer it; and that I fhould continue my operations until I was informed of his intentions. General Murat, with the corps of observation, is in full march for Ancona. (Signed) General Brune to the Minifter of War. BRUNE. Vicenza, 19 Nivofe (January 9). I RECEIVE, Citizen Minifter, your letter of the 11th Nivole (January 1). The intention of the Government fhall be fulfilled; there fhall not be concluded an armiftice without the ceffion of the places of Mantua, Pefchiera, Ferrara, and Ancona. The enemy have been fucceffively driven from Montebello and Tavarnella: in thefe different actions we have made 1500 prifoners. The left wing has paffed the Brenta, and is arrived at Borgo di Val Sugana. (Signed) BRUNE. Letter Letter addreffed by the Emperor to his Royal Highness the Archduke on his new Appointment. Dear Brother, Vienna, 9th January 1801. YOUR tender attachment to me, your zeal, and your efforts for the welfare of the ftate, your known wifdom, and the abilities which you have fhown on fo many different occafions, and of which you have given a fresh proof at a most decifive moment, even by the facrifice of your health, have excited in me the most lively gratitude, and entitled you to the most unlimited confidence. As a mark of this, I appoint you Field-marthal and Prefident of the Aulic Council of War. This place is intrufted to you, with all the branches connected with it: you will be dependant only on me, and every thing will be treated between us. I have the most agreeable conviction that you will, as foon as poffible, take upon you the burden of every thing relative to the place; and that you will fee carefully to the proper management of affairs, and to their being conducted in the manner beft calculated to answer their end. I expect that you will alfo foon tranfmit to me a plan for the regulation of the military fyftem of the monarchy. FRANCIS. PROCLAMATION. BEFORE he left Bologna, General L. Berthier, Chief of the Staff of the army of obfervation, addrelfed to the inhabitants of the Roman states the following Proclamation, dated January 16, 1801. Roman people, the detachment of the French army under the command of Lieutenant-general Murat, is about to occupy the city of Ancona, which was ceded to the French republic by the treaty of Campo-Formio. "The Government has no intention of making any new conqueft. Its object is to re-establish order and tranquillity, and to reftore peace to Europe. Minifters of religion, the general commanding in chief has ordered me to inform you, that he has given allurances to the Holy Father of his pacific intention, and of the good understanding which France is anxious to maintain with him. Diffuade the people from taking any part in the meafures which may be adopted by the enemy. Perfons, property, and religion, fhall be refpected. Reprefent to the inhabitants who may be guilty of any irregularity, that nothing can delay the vengeance of the victorious armies of the republic, if their conduct thould compel us to direct our force against them. "If any foldier fhall be guilty of improper conduct, the inhabitants must addrefs their complaints to the French generals. They They will be attended to, and receive compenfation from the corps to which fuch foldier may belong; and the latter thall be punished in the most exemplary manner. (Signed) LEOPOLD BERTHIER. Sufpenfion of Arms concluded between General Brune, commanding the French Army in Italy, and M. de Bellegarde, Commander in Chief of the Auftrian Army. THE generals in chief of the French, and the Imperial and Royal armies in Italy, wishing to ftop the effufion of human blood at the moment when the two governments are occupied in concluding peace, have appointed and invefted with their full powers the Citizens Marmont, General of Divifion, and Counfellor of State, and Sebaftiani, Chief of Brigade of Dragoons, and the Count Hohenzollern, Lieutenant-general, and the Baron de Zag, Major-general, to treat for an armistice, which has been concluded on the following terms: Art. I. There shall be an armistice between the armies of the French republic and thofe of his Majesty the Emperor and King, in Italy, until the 4th Pluviofe (25th of January), the era of the expiration of that of the armies in Germany. Hoftilities, however, shall not be renewed until after 15 days notice from the refpective commanders in chief, in Italy. II. In this armiftice thall be comprifed all the corps conftituting part of the French armies of Italy and of the Grifons, and thofe of the Imperial armies of the Tyrol. III. The French armies fhall fet out on their march the day after to-morrow, 28th Nivofe (18th Jan., to occupy their new line. This line thall follow the left bank of the Livenza from the fea to its fource near the Gulf of Senigo; thence it fhall afcend to the lofty fummit of the mountains which separate the Piava from the Zeline, pafles the mountains Maure, Cromplt, and Ramplalfpich, thence defcends into the valley of Lukang by the Aigge, then up the mountain, and down again into Drauthac to Metterland, la Drave, and fo on to Lintz, where it meets the line of demarcation fixed by the convention of Germany. IV. The Imperial and Royal army fhall take for the line of demarcation the right bank of the Tagliamento from the fea to its. fource near Mount Maure. This line fhall afcend that point, and thence follow the line marked out in the preceding article, which fhall be common to the two armies. V. The countries comprifed between the two lines of demarcation are declared neutral; no troops fhall be placed there in cantonments; pofts or piquets fhall be placed there to guard the ave nues: nues: these posts shall not keep at a greater diftance than half a mile from the rivers. VI. A line fhall be drawn, which fhall divide the neutral coun-` try into two parts, for the purpose of procuring provisions there. This line thall be marked out by the rivulet Zelina, as far as Barca, fhall pass by Villatta, Porto Gruano, and follow the Liurena to the fea. VII. The places of Peschiera and Sermione, the castles of Verona and Legnago, the city and citadel of Ferrara, and the city and forts of Ancona, fhall be furrendered to the French army on the following conditions: 1. The garrifons fhall have liberty to march out with the honours of war; they fhall carry their arms, equipages, and property, to rejoin the Imperial army. 2. All the pieces of Imperial artillery, with their ammunition, as well as all other Imperial propety, which is not designated on the articles hereinafter mentioned, fhall be at liberty to be taken away, and fix weeks fhall be allowed the Austrian ariny for completing this evacuation. 3. All the other pieces of artillery, not Imperial, fhall be given up with their ammunition to the French army as its property. As to the modes of conveyance, the French army undertakes to furnish boats to carry off the effects from the fortreffes and places of Verona, Legnago, and Ferrara, to the fea. These boats fhall be punctually returned. The French army fhall furnish the neceffary means to carry from Verona the effects of the fortreffes and places of Sermione, which fhall be embarked upon the Adige. The part of the flotilla now upon the lake of Guarda, and which has been taken by the French fince the furrender of Pefchiera, fhall alone be left in their poffeffion, and that which remains in the poffeffion and property of the Auftrian army, thall be brought off by the Mincio and the Po, and by means fupplied by the Auftrian army. In cafe that within the term of fix weeks agreed upon for the total carrying away of all property belonging to the Auftrian army, that part of the flotilla which remains at its difpofal fhall not be brought away, it is to be left entirely in the poffeffion and property of the French army. 4. The provifion of the places fhall be divided into two equal parts; the garrifons fhall have one half, and the other half thall be given to the French army. The cattle fhall belong to the garrifon exclufively. 5. Thefe places fhall be given up in truft until a peace to the French army, which undertakes to preferve them in their present state. VIII. Orders fhall be immediately fent for the evacuation of thefe places, and the commanders thall march out of them with |