therefore, would not give merely to a fense of excellence any obvious predilection. This hint will, I know, powerfully operate upon your difinterested spirit.

Never from perfonal experience may you gather, how far from foothing, how wide from honourable, is the fpecies of compaffion ordinarily diffused by the discovery of an unreturned female regard. That it fhould be felt unfought may be confidered as a mark of difcerning fenfibility; but that it should be betrayed uncalled for, is commonly, however ungenerously, imagined rather to indicate ungoverned paffions, than refined felection. This is often both cruel and unjuft; yet, let me afk-Is the world a proper confident for fuch a fecret? Can the woman who has permitted it to go abroad, reasonably demand that confideration and respect from the community, in which she has been wanting to herself? To me it would be unneceffary to obferve, that her indif-. cretion have been the effect of an inadvertence which owes its origin to artleffness, not to forwardness: the is judged by thofe, who, hardened in the ways of men, accuftom themselves to trace in evil every motive to action; or by thofe, who, preferring ridicule to humanity, feek rather to amufe themselves wittily with her fufceptibility, than to feel for its innocence and fimplicity,

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In a state of utter conftraint, to appear natural is, however, an effort too difficult to be long sustained; and neither precept, example, nor difpofition, have enured my poor child to the performance of any ftudied part. Discriminate, nevertheless, between hypocrify and difcretion. The first is a vice; the fecond a conciliation to virtue. It is the bond that keeps fociety from difunion; the veil that fhades our weakness from exposure, giving time for that interior correction, which the publication of our infirmities would elfe, with refpect to mankind, make of no avail.

It were better no doubt, worthier, nobler, to meet the fcrutiny of our fellow-creatures by confent, as we encounter, per force, the all-viewing eye of our creator: but fince for this we are not fufficiently without blemish, we muft allow to our unftable virtues all the encouragement that can prop them. The event of difcovered faults is more frequently calloufnefs than amendment; and propriety of example is as much a duty to our fellow-creatures, as purity of intention is a debt to ourselves.

To delicacy, in fine, your prefent exertions will owe their future recompence, be your ultimate lot in life what it may. Should you, in the course of time, belong to another, you will be fhielded from the regret that a former attachment had been published; or fhould you continue mistress of yourself, from a blush that the world is acquainted it was not by your choice.

I fhall now conclude this little difcourse by calling upon you to annex to whatever I have offered you of precept, the conftant remembrance of your mother for example.

In our joint names, therefore, I adjure you, my dearest Camilla, not to embitter the prefent innocence of your fuffering by imprudence that may attach to it cenfure, nor by indulgence that may make it faften upon your vitals! Imprudence cannot but end in the demolition of that dignified equanimity, and modeft propriety, which we wish to be uniformly remarked as the attributes of your character: and indulgence, by fixing, may envenom a dart that as yet may be gently withdrawn, from a wound which kindness may heal, and time may clofe; but which, if neglected, may wear away, in corroding dif turbance, all your life's comfort to yourself, and all its focial purposes to your friends and to the world.

AUGUSTUS TYROLD.

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Head Quarters of Field Marsha Wurmfer's Army, Valleggio, Auguft 1. My Lord, HAVE the honour to inform your lordfhip, the fiege of Mantua is raifed, the French having retreated last night with the utmoft precipitation.

I can now fend only a very hafty account of the operations of the Imperial army, which have been attended with fuch fignal fuccefs. The great exertions the enemy were making against Mantua, determined his excellency field-marthal count Wurmfer to make difpofitions for attacking the enemy, without waiting for the

arrival of further re-enforcements. Ac

cordingly, on the 28th ult. the different corps were affembled at their respective destinations, the army forming four divifions, which were to advance by the different paffes from the mountains of the Tyrol. The first column on the right of the Lago de Garda, under the orders of lieutenant-general Quafdanowich, was to march on Salo and Brescia; the fecond, commanded by lieutenant-general Melas, between the Lake and the Adige, was to force all the enemy's ftrong posts on Monte-Baldo; the third was ordered to march, under the command of lieutenantgeneral Davidowich, by the great road from Alla; and, being separated only by the Adige from a part of the third divifion, was to fupport it, and join it as foon as a bridge could be placed between Dolci and Rivoli; the fourth column, under the command of lieutenant-general Mezaros, was defigned to turn the enemy's right flank, by marching from Baffano on Legnago.

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Early on the 29th, the enemy was attacked on their whole line of pofts, and were every where driven. Lieutenantgeneral Quafdanowich took 1000 prifoners, at Salo, and marched on Brefcia. General Melas attacked the poft of Ferrara, on the fummit of Monte-Baldo, covered by an immenfe ravine; his troops croffed it with the greatest intrepidity, and

drove the enemy from their entrenchments, batteries, and redoubts: a part of his di vifion attacked, with equal courage and fuccefs, the narrow pafs of Brentino, between the mountain and the Adige. The artillery of the third divifion fupported this attack from the left bank of the river; and the fame corps, which acted under the command of lieutenant-general Sepotendorff, pufhed on along the right bank, and forced the important poft of Rivoli, where the enemy's batteries commanded the paffage of the river. In these attacks nine pieces of cannon and 1500 men were taken. The other divifions advanced with little refiftance. On the 30th, the two centre divifions, being united, continued their march in different columns on Caftel

Nuovo and Pefchiera; at the defiles of Campora and Cavaggione the enemy were again driven, with lofs, from strong pofitions; and in the night they retreated by Pefchiera.

which the enemy abandoned. On the 31st, Major-general Spiegel entered Vetona, major-general Pittoni occupied Villahere without oppofition; a corps of obFranca, and the head-quarters were fixed fervation being left near Peschiera, under the command of major-general Bajolitz. Thefe well-concerted and rapid movements determined general Buonaparte to

an immediate retreat across the Po and the Mincio. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) THOMAS GRAHAM.

Head Quarters, Guidizolo, Aug. 2.

My Lord,

SINCE I had the honour of writing to your lordship yesterday, the field marshal has received accounts from general Canto D'Irlas commandant of Mantua, which ftate, that the enemy, having masked their retreat, by continuing to fire, as usual, on the place during the night, he could only fend his cavalry in pursuit of them yesterday morning, and that they had already brought in about 600 prifoners, among them a great number of artillerymen; that he was in poffeffion of all their mortars and cannon, amounting to about 140, with 190,000 fhells and balls, and great quantities of other ftores of all kinds.

The head-quarters were removed here to-day, and the army will continue the purfuit of the enemy; but the exceffive fatigue the troops have undergone, the

difficulty of fupplying them at firft where no magazines could be previously formed, and the exceffive heat of the weather, retard the progrefs of the army. No further report is yet received from lieutenantgeneral Quafdanowich.

I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) THOMAS GRAHAM.

P. S. No reports having been as yet received from the different divifions, I cannot mention the lofs of the Imperial army; but I am happy to be able to ftate, from general information, that it is inconfiderable, in comparison of what might have been expected, from the difficulties that were furmounted.

Head Quarters, Guidizolo, Aug. 4. My Lord,

Field-marshal Wurmfer, with a view of affifting the operations of lieutenantgeneral Quafdanowich, having fent general Liptaye with an advanced guard, on the 2d, to Caftiglione dellé Steviere, marched a body of troops early yesterday morning from Goito to fupport him.

General Liptaye had been forced to retire from Caftiglione, and was nearly furrounded on the heights between it and Solforino. The cavalry difengaged him, and the regiments forming as they came up, the affair became general; the Imperial troops maintaining their ground, notwithstanding the great fuperiority of numbers of the enemy, till night put an end to the combat. Too much praise cannot be given to thofe regiments which were firft engaged, and which fuftained, alone, the attack of three divifions of the French army; nor to the cavalry, which repeatedly repulfed the French cavalry, confifting of 3000 horse. The whole Auftrian force engaged confifted of about 13,000 infantry and 1500 cavalry. All is quiet hitherto to-day, both armies remaining oppofite to one another, in the fame pofition as yesterday.

I have the honour to be, &c.

(Signed)
Head Quarters, Valeggio, Aug. 5.
My Lord,

THOMAS GRAHAM.

THE French army having yesterday received very confiderable re-enforcements from the Milanois, and a ftrong column from Bozolo and Marcaria having advanced this morning, by St. Marrino toward Medoli, threatening the rear of the left wing of the Imperial army, which extended into the Plain, the field-marshal

ordered that its front fhould be changed, by being thrown back toward the high ground on which the right wing was pofted. During this movement, the enemy attacked, in great force, on the high ground; and fome of the battalions of the right wing having given way, fell in with thofe of the left wing not yet posted. This unfortunately created confufion, and obliged the field-marshal to retreat to this place.

Lieutenant-general Mezaros, who was on his way from Burgo-forteé to join the army, arrived to-day at Goito. There are no accounts yet of lieutenant-general Quafdanowich, fo that it is probable he is ftill among the mountains; and the enemy being collected in fuch force near the .fouth end of the Lago de Garda, it will be very difficult for him now to form a junction that way.

I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) THOMAS GRAHAM.

The corps which had been posted at Nerfheim, under general Hotze, had already fallen back to Forfheim and Auftion with that on the left bank of the Da haufen, to keep up the direct communica❤ nube, commanded by general Riefe, who was now encamped near Dillingen. General Wartenfleben had moved, in the mean time, to Forckheim, on the river Rednitz, and from thence to Lauf on the Pegnitz. General Frolich, the prince of Condé, and general Wolt remained nearly in the fame pofition as mentioned in my dispatch of the 4th.

The enemy attacked the Auftrian guards of generals Hotze and Riefe on the 8th; but, by a difplay of much skill and firmnefs, the first of those generals managed to lofe fo little ground, that the change of pofition, which was ordered for the next day, took place without interruption; and the latter, from his fituation being more advantageous, completely repulfed the attack that was made upon him.

On the 9th, at night, information was received that the prince of Condé had been obliged to retire to Mindenheim, on the Mindel, and general Wolf into the defile of Bregenta; where, however, he had pofted himself in fuch a manner as to check the enemy's manœuvre in that quarter. General Wartenfleben alfo reported, that his pofition was so bad as to make it highly imprudent for him to await the attack which general Jourdan, from his late movements, feemed to be meditating; and the fame day general Moreau arrived in great, force oppofite the centre of his royal highness' extenfive line, forming with his left on the heights of Umenheim, his centre in point of Catzenftein, and his right on the heights of Dunftelkingen and Defchingen, with a corps to cover his flank near Laningen, on the Danube. His referve was between Nerfheim and Kouigbron.

On the 10th, the enemy advanced a ftrong part of their firft line into the woods in their front, where they eftablished themselves firmly; and the fame evening, about fix o'clock, they attacked general Hotze's left, at Eglingen and Amerdingen, with great impetuofity. They fucceeded in driving back his advanced pofts, but they made no impreffion on his left pofition, nor did they interrupt the attack that his royal highnefs intended to make upon them the next morning, of which the following was the difpofition.

An advanced guard, commanded by prince John of Lichtenstein, fupported by a fmall corps under general Staray, was to march from the camp of Mettingen along the road that leads from Nordlingen to Nertheim, and endeavour, by maneu vring to the enemy's left flank, to diflodge them from the heights of Umenheim. The rest of the main army was to affemble at Foreheim, Aufhaufen, and Amerdingen, from whence it was to march in three columns; that of the right under general Hotze; that of the centre under the prince of Funftenberg; and the left under general de la Tour, and attack the enemy's centre and right; while general

Riefe, ftrengthened by part of general Froltch's corps, drove them from the neighbourhood of Laningen, and marched toward Giengen and Haydenheim, in order to come into the rear of general Moreau's pofition. This latter movement was to be covered on its right by a small intermediate corps under general Mercantin, who was to preferve the communication between general Riefe and the main army.

As the enemy had a great fuperiority of numbers, it was refolved to attack by furprife, and for this purpose the marches were fo arranged, that the columns were to be formed on the different points, from whence they were to advance, just before day break, and proceed immediately. However, a most violent storm, which lasted several hours, made the night fo extremely dark, and the roads fo bad, that the troops and artillery were above double the time they otherwife would have been in performing their movements; and therefore the attack was neceffarily deferred till feven o'clock. This enabled the enemy to discover the whole plan, and prepare for their defence.

Notwithstanding fo unfortunate a circumftance, which deprived the archduke of the great advantage of surprise, his royal highnefs perfevered in his refolution. The three columns of the centre were fuccefsful in diflodging the enemy's advanced guard from the woods, and they drove it back to the heights of the principal pofition; but the column that marched toward Umenheim; finding itself taken in flank by general Moreau's referve, which had advanced for that purpose as soon as the affair commenced, was obliged to retire. This laid general Hotze's right flank. open, and forced him alfo to fall back to the pofition of Foreheim, from whence he had marched in the morning; but the prince of Furstenberg and general La Tour maintained their advantages.

Juft as the archduke was making his difpofitions for ftrengthening and bringing forward his right again, he received a report from general Wartenfleben, purporting that he was obliged to retire to Amberg; and that a column of general Jourdan's army had already arrived at Nuremberg, for the purpose of co-operating immediately with general Moreau. His royal highness now judged, that even if victorious on this point he would probably ftill be obliged to retreat to Donawert, by the movements that the enemy were making on his right; and, should