act, who had given repeated proofs of uncommon
valour and capacity. He was on this occasion assisted by vice-admiral
Medley, who commanded the British squadron in the Mediterranean. The
French forces had fortified the passes of the Var, under the conduct of
the mareschal de Belleisle, who thought proper to abandon his posts
at the approach of count Brown; and this general, at the head of fifty
thousand men, passed the river without opposition, on the ninth day
of November. While he advanced as far as Draguignan, laying the open
country under contribution, baron Both, with four-and-twenty battalions,
invested Antibes, which was at the same time bombarded on the side
of the sea by the British squadron. The trenches were opened on the
twentieth day of September; but Belleisle having assembled a numerous
army, superior to that of the confederates, and the Genoese having
expelled their Austrian guests, count Brown abandoned the enterprise,
and repassed the Var, not without some damage from the enemy.

THE GENOESE EXPEL THE AUSTRIANS.

The court of Vienna, which has always patronised oppression, exacted
such heavy contribution from the Genoese, and its directions were so
rigorously put in execution, that the people were reduced to despair;
and resolved to make a last effort for the recovery of their liberty
and independence. Accordingly, they took arms in secret, seized several
important posts of the city; surprised some battalions of the Austrians;
surrounded others, and cut them in pieces; and, in a word, drove them
out with great slaughter. The marquis de Botta acted with caution
and spirit; but being overpowered by numbers, and apprehensive of the
peasants in the country, who were in arms, he retreated to the pass of
the Brochetta on the side of Lombardy, where he secured himself in an
advantageous situation, until he could receive reinforcements. The loss
he had sustained at Genoa did not hinder him from reducing Savona, a
sea-port town belonging to that republic; and he afterwards made himself
master of Gavi. The Genoese, on the contrary, exerted themselves with
wonderful industry in fortifying their city, raising troops, and in
taking other measures for a vigorous defence, in case they should again
be insulted.

MADRAS TAKEN BY THE FRENCH.

The naval transactions of this year reflected very little honour on the
British nation. Commodore Peyton, who commanded six ships of war in the
East Indies, shameful