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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 09, 1799
Page
3
Dispatches describe Allied offensives against Mantua and Alessandria with Kray and Melas advancing, second parallel begun, and heavy artillery bombardment. News recounts Italian port towns, evacuations, desertions, and Spanish and Neapolitan movements amid broader assessful shuffles across Florence Pisa Lucca and Genoa area.
The report notes an intended attack upon Wri ad Mount St Gothard and Austrian advances into Bern territory. It cites French array requisitions, growing provisions shortages, and Count Wallis's sudden death. Austrian forces in Swabia and Swiss operations with 26,000 French troops are detailed, alongside guard deployment at Gefaer’s monument.
Dispatches describe Ruffo's Calabrian forces aided by Russian marines capturing Salerno, routing Jacobins, and pressing terms for surrender. English ships and marines fortified St Elmo while Corsican and Neapolitan units faced heavy fighting, with executions and a naval action near Lisbon and in the East Indies noted among broader hostilities.
On the 17th at 2 AM French forces quietly withdrew. Citizens gathered in streets with imperial cockades, General Lawillette assumed command, and guards armed to maintain order. A courier was sent to summon infantry and cavalry from Arezzo. The people toppled the Liberty Tree, damaged windows in the Jews quarter, and patroles worked to prevent further violence while deterred partisans were detained.
Report from the theatre of operations discusses the French holdouts at Gaeta and Capua under siege by Neapolitan and allied forces. Brigades and marines march toward Capua as the siege is pursued by regular approaches. The French garrison is about 1200, with ongoing danger of starvation or relief.
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