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London, England, 1815-05-15 00:00:00

VIENNA, MAT S.

A vurier has brought dispatches from General
1; iron Frirnont, dated the 26th April, of which the
filing/in is the substance s
While Count Neipperg executed in so masterly a
manner the attack upon the Ronco on the 20th. which
!.is Already been spoken of, Major Pirquet advanced
'wards Sesenatus with ?inners Yagers, forced the
Bridge with the Yager; and a deuchment of Tuscan
iragnons, and Captain Hirrrucker penetrated into the
'awn, and by his brisk attack threw the enemy's de-
! ichments, which were much stronger, into confusion,
Intl caused them a great loss In killed and wounded,
.a.l took 300 prisoners, among whom is a Captain of
t!le general Staff. Our loss is one killed and 47
'+ounc;ld.

The enemy having so soddenly absodormi, with.
tut waiting for our attack, his strong position on the
savie, which he occupied on the 221.1 with about
20,000 men, retired to Rimini, and had on the 24th
rear near Sacryttano:

Field.Marthal Lieutenant Bianchi was, with his
resin bxly, attortona on the 25th, and espectod to
be at Feligno on the 28th.
Xing Joachim has again attempted to open s so-

geeiation, but his overtures have been rejected, like
the receding ones.

The following is the Mier sent by General Millet
de Villeneuve, Chief of the Staff of the Neapolitan
Arrriy, to the Austrian Commander in Chief, 'on the
21st of April, to obtain an Armistice:
66 GENERAL !—The King of Napier, in the just
uneasiness respecting the security of his suite's, which
the negotiations :it Vienna excited in him, and after
the unexpected events which seemed likely to rfnew
the coalition of the European Sovereigns against
France, thought that he ought again to occupy, and
that he had a right to occupy, the line which he held
during the last war, in consequence of a formal con-
vention, signed 'by Generals Nugent and Livion,
'which he has not renounced by any later stipulations,
and from which the Neapolitan army retired merely
in consequence of a conventional arrangement. His
Majesty flattered himself that this line would be
given up to him without difficulty, and perhaps no
hostilities would have taken place if your Excellency
had received the communications, which have been
prevented by unforeseen accidents, and have been
too late informed of.

" As the Austrian troops at Ceseno had fired
upon the Neapolitan troops, the King could not but
believe that it was by your orders ; and that your
Excellency had positively received from your Court
instructions to act in a hostile manner towards him
As soon as. his Majesty saw himself engaged in war
against such a great Power, without having intended
it, he thought it necessary to make use of all the re-
sources which had long since been afforded him in
Italy, and the extension of which he did not even
further attempt to realise. The movements of our
army towards Bologna. Ferrara, and Modena, are
known to your Excellency : while they- were exe-
cuting, the King saw by communications with Lord
Bentinck, that the hostilitiei commenced against him
were not the consequence of a settled plan, because
the English General stated that he had reolved no
notification on the subject, bat at the same time his
Majesty saw that England, with which he desired to
remain at peace, might take a part in the war if it
were continued.

66 This double istformit'on excited a wish that a
reconciliation with the Austti in Court might be pos-
sible; his Majesty therefore signified to Lord Ben.
tinck his intention of making a retrograde movement,
and he would have proposed an armistice to your Ex•
cellency, had he not found that such a proposal
might have been considered as a means to check the
activity of the military dispositions against his army,
at the moment when it began its retreat.
" Now that the Icing finds himself with his whole
force in the line, which lie thought fit to choose, now
that he has sufficiently proved that his movements
were not compelled, and that he is fully master of
them ; his M ijesty authorises me to acqtt tint your
Excellency, that he has required at Vienna new De-
clarations, and made overtures to your Court, from
which he expects a happy result:
" Meantime, his Majesty orders me to propose an
armistice to your Excellency, to avoid all unnecessary
bloodshed.

His Majesty wishes, General, that you may'
accede to this proposal.
" Tim King would then name a General, with full
powers to ris, with whomsoever your Excellency
shall appoint, the line which each of the armies shall
occupy. I have the honour, &c.
(Signed) •f MILLET DE VILLENEUVE,
Chief of the Staff and Captain of his Majegtis Guards.
" Head-quarters, April 21."
The CLief of the Staff of the Austrian army re-
turned the following answer :
64 GENERAL !—When his Majesty the King as-
sembled his army in the Marches, as all his prepara-
tions announced the plan of a war, the Imperial
Austrian Court, which was absolutely ignorant of
any cause for the armaments, required an explana-
tion concerning them, and as they seemed to be di-
rected against the Legations which were occupied by
its troops, it added the declaration, that any viola-
tion of this territory would. be considered by it as a
formal act of hostility.

" It is not, therefore, a few single musket-shot at
Cessna, that decided the question of war ; it is the
act of his Majesty the King in advancing with his
whole army into the territory of the Legations, occu-
pied by the Austrian troops ; it is his Proclamations,
published it Rimini on the 30th March.

N The views and the sentiments professed in that
Prticlamation, must serve his Majesty the King
as a standard to judge of the reception that his
new proposals will meet with. At the same time,
that, by order of the Commander in Chief of the
Ausuisn Army in Italy, I have the honour to answer
the letter which you addressed to him on the 21st
April.
64 am also charged to add, that his Excellency
the Commander-in-Chief has received the most posi-
tive orders to continue the operations with vigour,
and therefore is not authorised to check their coarse
by an armistice : that, however, he has not. delayed a
moment to ask orders from superior authority re-
specting the proposals contained in your dispatch.

44 I have the honour, &c.
a Head-Quarters, April 24:
"To General MALI LT De VILLANIVTL"

The accounts from Brussels by the above Papers
are to the 12th. The •icinity of Valenciennes is laid
ander water by the French Generals. The inhabi.