public fpirit of his faithful Commons to enable him to make good thefe engagements; and his Majefty, being defirous of continuing to afford the neceffary fuccours to his Ally the Queen of Portugal, as well as to give timely and effectual affiftance at this important conjuncture to the Swifs Cantons for the recovery of their ancient liberty and independence, and to make every other exertion for improving to the utmoft the fignal advantages which, by the bleffing of God, have attended the operations of the Combined Arms on the Continent fince the commencement of the prefent campaign; recommends it alfo to the Houfe of Commons to enable his Majefty to enter into fuch further engage ments, and to take fuch measures as may be beft adapted to the exigency of affairs, and oft likely, by continued perfeverance and vigour, to complete the general deliverance of Europe from the infupportable tyranny of the French Repub lic."

Mr Dundas then moved, that the fame be referred to a Committee of Supply.Ordered.

In pursuance of notice given yesterday, Mr Dundas ftated that the prefent military establishment was fully adequate to the fecurity of Great Britain; but it muft be admitted, that it was necessary to exhibit our vigour elsewhere to very beneficial purposes. Offenfive operations were most advantageous to Great Britain. The number of men employed therein

were

not less than 200,000 without calculating on the Volunteer Corps, which confifted of 150,000 men. It was not his intention of altering the fituation of the Militia without their free confent: his plan was to reduce them to the number of one-fourth, whereby the Regulars would have an additional force of 20,00Q men. He then moved for leave to bring in a Bill to reduce the Militia, and augment the Regulars.

Mr M. A. Taylor objected to this plan; but leave was given to bring in the Bill. 7. The Houfe in a Committee of Supply, his Majefty's Meffage was read, and, after fome debate, the Subfidy to the Emperor of Ruffia was voted.

The Budget.

The Houfe having refolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means,

Mr Pitt remarked, that from what already occurred, little, he trufted, would remain now to offer. He had to rejoice that the internal ftate of the country af

Total of Supply £30,947,000 whichconftitutedanincrease of £1,600,000 beyond that of last year.

In the matters of Ways and Means to meet this exigency, the firft was-the Land and Malt he took at 2,750,000l,

the Lottery 200,000l.-growing produce of the Confolidated Fund 521,000!.

Convoy Tax 1,500,000l-Vote of Credit 3,000,000!. He was not yet enabled to afcertain the amount of the produce of the Tax on Income; he had eftimated the amount of the Commercial Commiffioners at 4,000,000l..but he now apprehended that it would not amount to half that fum; therefore he would not take credit for more than 7,5c0,000l. at prefent.-To these were to be added 15,500,000l. by way of Loan, which, he obferved, making allowance for errors and fums which may have efcaped his memory, would make 31,000,000l.

He next adverted to the terms on which he made the Loan, and congratulated the Houfe on the very eligible terms on which it was concluded for the interefts of the country. It was the best and most favourable, he said, ever concluded, and he hoped it would not be lefs advan-' tageous to the Gentlemen concerned than to the public. The permanent taxes for the present year, he obferved, were but Small, compared to thofe of former years. He next adverted to the fyftem of railing the fupplies within the year. The Sinking Fund, he faid, liquidated the fum of 4,500,000l. of the national debt, so that there was no increase of permanent taxes, in fact, of more than eleven mil lions.

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fide, and of Pavia, whether the headquarters were to be transferred that evening, and the caftle of Placentia, on the other; that Vercelli is abandoned; that on the 7th he proposed to batter Pinighetone; that a detachment had been at Modena, which they found evacuated by the enemy; that 4ca Croats and a numerous body of pealants clofely block aded Ferrara; that preparations were making for forming and pushing with vigour the fiege of Mantua; that great quantities of cannon, ammunition, and other ftores had been taken at different places, particularly at Pefchiera, where the booty far exceeded all expectation; that the inhabitants of the different countries fhewed the utmost gratitude for their deliverance; that the Piedmontefe Officers who have been taken, are, under the auspices of the Marthal, drawing up a Proclamation, inviting their brother Officers and foldiers to rife and join them, for the purpose of affifting in the re-establishment of their Sovereign on the Throne.

Extract of a Difpatch from Lieut. Col. Craufurd to Lord Grenville, dated Lindau, the cth inftant.

Part of Gen. Bellegarde's army has advanced from the Upper Engadine, in the direction towards Coire, and has paffed the Albula. The French, who were in the Upper Engadine, have retired towards the Splugen. It is report ed that there has been a confiderable infurrection of the inhabitants of the Upper Valais and Uri; the particulars not known.

From the London Gazette Extraordinary.

Downing-Street, May 30. Difpatches, of which the following are copies and extracts, have been received from the Right Hon. 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 E

den, K. B. dated Vienna, May 11. It is with the greateft fatisfaction that I inform your Lordship of the furrender of the fortress of Pefchiera by Capitula tion, on the 6th inft, to Gen. Kray, an event which will greatly facilitate the further operations in Italy. I have the honour of inclofing the Extraordinary Gazette published on the occafion; and alfo the Extraordinary Gazette contain

ing an account of the operations of the army under Gen. Bellegarde, of the lofs fuftained by the Army of Italy in the different engagements on the Adda, and of the great joy with which the army was received at Milan.

Accounts from Brindifi ftate, that on the 15th the French troops, in confequence of orders brought to them over land, evacuated the place, and with fuch precipitation as to leave both their magazines and booty.

Vienna, May 11. The General of Artillery Baron Kray, who remained behind, in obedience to the orders of Field Marshal Suwarrow, to undertake the fiege of Pefchiera, after having made every difpofition for the opening of the trenches and for the bombardment of the citadel, offered to the enemy's garrifon, confifting of 1,500 men, a Capitulation, by which it should be allowed to come out upon condition not to serve for fix months against us or our allies.

Our preparations and difpofitions for attack made the enemy accept our capi tulation, and deliver up the fortress, with all the artillery, ammunition, and provifions. The first account of General of Artillery Kray is, that Ninety Cannons and Mortars were found in the place; befides fixteen gun-boats equipped, and a great quantity of ammunition and provifions.

The Grand Duke Conftantine arrived at the moment that the garrifon was forced to capitulate. That Prince, after the evacuation of the place, continued his journey to the head quarters of FieldMarthal Count Suwarrow.

CAPITULATION OF PESCHIERA, Concluded between the Imperial General Count St. Julien, and the French Adjutant General Coutheau, May 6, 1799.

Article I. The Garrifon and all be

longing to the French Army, fhali march

out with the honours of war.-Anfwer

Granted: but fuch of the troops as are not Frenchmen fhall freely return home. Art. II. The Garrifon will evacuate the place as foon as poffible atter figning the Capitulation; it will march out with arms and baggage, mufic playing, matches lighted, colours flying, and four pieces of cannon, to go under proper efcort to the next poft of the French army-Anfwer-Granted the Garrison fhall march out at eight o'clock to morrow morning by the Brefcia Gate, lav down their arms, and take the shorteft road to the first posts of the French army

(Accepted)

Count St. Julien.
Cout beau.
Baron Kray.

Vienna, May 8. Field-Marfhal Count Bellegarde has forwarded, by Lieut. Dietrich, the preliminary details of the offenfive operations of the army under his orders, from the 30th April till the 3d May.

The weather having become a little more favourable towards the last days of April, and the paffes more practicable, Field Marthal Count Bellegarde deter mined to execute without delay the plan of attack which he had prepared. It was made on the 30th of April in two columns and feveral detachments.- -The firft, being the principal one, was commanded by the Field Marthal Count Bellegarde, and the fecond by the Field-Marshal Haddick. Each of thefe columns was fupported in its operations by detachments, which fometimes attacked and at other times only made demonftrations.

The firft column penetrated from Nauders into the Engadine. It was neceffary to pafs the Inn at feveral fords, which the troops, notwithstanding the extreme cold, performed with the greatest willingness; feveral were loft by the rapidity of the current.

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As foon as the fignal for attack was given, all the advanced pofts of the enemy were attacked at the fame time by the first column, and by the detachments which had taken the roads leading to the Lower and Upper Lovellen; the greatest part of them were killed and the reft put to flight. The referved pofts of the enemy, however, availing themselves of the advantage of the ground, difputed every inch. From Strada to Ramifs the firft column and the detachments were obliged to climb the moft impracticable mountains, fighting at the fame time in order to drive the enemy from several advantageous pofitions.

Towards twelve o'clock this column arrived before Ramifs; the enemy was driven from the heights which commanded the valley of Ramifs, from the village itself, as far as the entrenched pofition behind Ramifs.

This pofition, naturally very advantageous, was rendered fill more fo by the works which the enemy had raised on the front and right flank.

The most decifive attack against this entrenched pofition was made upon its left wing, on the fide of Manas.

Field Marshal Lieutenant Bellegarde had ordered a particular column to pene trate from Ifyl and Spile by the mountains as far as Schleims and Manas, and afterwards to pass the rivulet of Ramifs. above Manas. This column had, from the place at which it was formed, already made fome extremely painful marches over the fleepest mountains; so that in advancing from Manas by the valley, full of ravines, the foldiers had almoft exhausted their strength.

On that fide the enemy had fecured themselves by three entrenchments placed one before the other, which could only be reached by a very narrow path That column however, in fpite of the exhaufted ftate of the foldiers, carried two of thofe entrenchments; but by the obftinate refiftance of the enemy and their own extreme fatigue, they could not reach the third.

It was the intention of Field-Marshal Bellegarde, that an attack should be made upon the entrenchments on the enemy's right flank as foon is this column had reached his left.

The troops defined for this affault ad vanced to the entrenchment thick fet with palifadoes, and in fpite of a very brik fire of artillery and mufquetry, climbed up the fteep height upon which the entrenchment was made. They forced the palifadoes, but their fatigue did not fuffer them to penetrate as far as the en trenchment. In the conflant hope of being able to drive the enemy out of this entrenchment, who had already several times given way, but who with forces repeatedly renewed, defended themselves › behind their parapet with obstinacy, the attacking division fuftained itself for a long time at a few paces of the ditch, without either fide lofing an inch of ground.

Night came on, and Field-Marshal Bellegarde was obliged to defer till the next day the affault of the camp.

During that time, Field-Marshal Had

dick had fucceeded in penetrating with his column over the top of the Scharl, and into the valley as far as the bridge near Schlus. Count Bellegarde had relied upon this fuccefs. The enemy could no longer maintain themselves in their pofition behind the rivulet of Ramils, and the lefs fo, as the column of Field-Marshal Bellegarde had got beyond, their right wing.

The column of Count Haddick, from its point of formation until that of the attack, had to make a very difficult ftage of ten hours over the steepeft mountains covered with fnow; he made his troops take fome hours repofe upon the fummit of one of them, but only being able to allow a few fires, they neceffarily fuffered from the extreme cold.

About four o'clock in the morning the advanced guard, commanded by Col. Rouffeaux, attacked the advanced pofts of the enemy. They were immediately driven away. The troop of referve of the enemy maintained themselves in their poft near the village Scharl; they did not yield till after an obftinate battle of an hour, during which we took feveral prifoners..

The column pushed before them the defeated divifions of the enemy under a continual fire till half paft one o'clock. But the advanced guard found themfelves unexpectedly before a pofition which was trongly fortified both by nature and art, the front of which could only be reached by a narrow path; and all the attempts of Col. Rouffeaux to penetrate to it were rendered fruitless by the vigorous refiftance of the ene

may.

A length the Colonel detached fome companies under the command of the First Lieut. Giwchak, which by taking a very long bye-road through an abatis got beyond the entrenchments of the left flank of the enemy, and as they could from the top of a hill diftrefs the right flank, more energy could be employed in attacking the front; in this manner the enemy was foon forced to abandon this polition with a confiderable lofs. The column pushed forward, but met with an almoft infurmountable obftacle. The only way by which it could pafs was a narrow hollow path on the declivity of a rock, which was entirely expofed to the fire from the enemy's entrench

ments.

Field-Marshal Lieut. Haddick, finding it impoffible to approach the enemy in front, determined to attack their en

trenchments in the rear from a height which appeared almoft inacceffible, and to diflodge them from their pofition by an attempt which they by no means expected. The chief chaffeur Mathieu, of the Corps of Le Loup, with fome other chaffeurs, and Capt. Enyeter with a company and a half of the regiment of Antoine Efterhazi, were charged with this enterprize, who by means of cramp irons scaled the higheft summit of the mountain undiscovered by the enemy; and while their attention was engaged by our cannonade from the mountains in their front, the whole detachment, headed by Capt. Enyeter, gained their entrenchments by defcending a frozen ravine in their rear.

This bold attempt totally difconcerted the enemy, and gave our advanced guard time and opportunity to penetrate by the narrow path in their front. The entrenchments being carried by affault, the enemy took a new position further back; but they were attacked and diflodged from it with great lofs. To cover their retreat, they destroyed a wooden bridge, which could not be repaired in lefs than an hour and an half.

The Field-Marshal Lieut. Haddick pushed on by a forced march as far as Schlus, but he was forced to halt upon. the heights of the right bank of the Inn near Schlos, as his troops, exhausted by a 24 hours march, were unable to make another attack, the bridge over the Inn near Schlus being deftroyed, and the only fordable paffage being commanded by the enemies batteries.

The remaining detachment on the left, commanded by Lieut. Col. Count Veiffenwolf of the regiment of Michael Wallis, was defined to alarm the enemy in the valley of Tefchirffer, and to keep them at Czernitz. This division was alio compelled to make a very long and difficult inarch to arrive at the point of attack. His advanced guard foon drove in all the enemy's out-posts to their reserve, which was pofted behind an abatis, and for fome time there was only a partial dif charge of mufquetry. The enemy, however, being reinforced attacked our advanced guard, but were repulfed. About noon the enemy made a fortie from their abatis in greater force, and renewed the attack; our advanced guard was driven back upon the referve, and were obliged to retire by the narrow path already de fcribed, as they could not advance against the enemy on account of the fnow being no longer ftrong enough to bear them.

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