gland.

In Italy, the French arms did not triumph with equal success, though
the mareschal de Belleisle saw himself at the head of a powerful army
in Provence. In April he passed the Var without opposition, and took
possession of Nice. He met with little or no resistance in reducing
Montalban, Villafranca, and Ventimiglia; while general Brown, with
eight-and-twenty thousand Aus-trians, retired towards Final and Savona.
In the meantime, another large body under count Schuylemberg, Who
had succeeded the marquis de Botta, co-operated with fifteen thousand
Piedmontese in an attempt to recover the city of Genoa. The French
king had sent their supplies, succours, and engineers, with the duke
de Boufflers, as ambassador to the republic, who likewise acted as
commander-in-chief of the forces employed for its defence. The Austrian
general assembled his troops in the Milanese, having forced the passage
of the Bochetta on the thirteenth of January, he advanced into the
territories of Genoa, and the Eiviera was ravaged without mercy. On
the last day of March he appeared before the city at the head of forty
thousand men, and summoned the revolters to lay down their arms. The
answer he received was, that the republic had fifty-four thousand men in
arms, two hundred and sixty cannon, thirty-four mortars, with abundance
of ammunition and provision; that they would defend their liberty with
their last blood, and be buried in the ruins of their capital, rather
than submit to the clemency of the court of Vienna, except by an
honourable capitulation, guaranteed by the kings of Great Britain
and Sardinia, the republic of Venice and the United Provinces. In the
beginning of May, Genoa was invested on all sides; a furious sally was
made by the duke de Boufflers, who drove the besiegers from their posts;
but the Austrians rallying, he was repulsed in his turn, with the loss
of seven hundred men. General Schuylemberg carried on his operations
with such skill, vigour, and intrepidity, that he made himself master of
the suburbs of Bisagno; and in all probability would have reduced the
city, had he not been obliged to desist, in consequence of the repeated
remonstrances made by the king of Sardinia and count Brown, who
represented the necessity of his abandoning his enterprise, and
drawing off his army to cover Piedmont and Lombardy from the efforts of
mareschal de Belleisle. Accordingly he raised the siege on the tenth day
of June, and returned i