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nudable power , the Neapolitan General Mack had taken possession of Rome , and several places circumjacent . The French Government , who foresaw this storm , had given orders , for some time back , to discipline considerable levies of troops in the Italian Republics , to be commanded by experienced officers . Intelligence had no sooner arrived of the first act of hostility , than from dif . fcrent districts these troops marched with their usual celerity , in large columns towards the scene of carnage . General Championet was appointed Com .
mander in Chief of the French army , to repel this act of aggression made on the Roman Republic . The cause of it is explained in the two official letters given in our last and the preceding French Manifesto in the present Number . * The preparations ofthe King of Naples , says a French writer , ' were for
some tunc known at Rome , and trom the small torce which was there , it was made no secret that incase of attack the French would be forced to retire . On the 24 th of November , in the night , the Commander in Chief , Championet , received official intelligence that the Neapolitans had invaded the territory of the Roman Republic . At six in the morning the artillery were on their march , followed by the few French and Polish troops who composed the garrison . They immediately cut away the bridge of Tivoli , 011 the Teverone , because they understood that a column of the enemy had
been able to penetrate on that side . The minds of those at Rome were in the mean time in the greatest state of uncertainty , while the Commander in Chief was without taking means for defence , anel Kellerman , the General of Brigade , was taking position at Tivoli . At eight in the evening a proclamation appeared from the General , which ordered , among- other things ,
that the priests wdio should not go forth in person to appease the insurrections in their respective districts , should within an hour be shot . In an hour afterwards another proclamation was issued from the . Commander of the National Guard , in consequence of which the guard was doubled , and the communication between the posts was arranged . Proclamations from '' all the authorities were next issued , calculated to keep the best dispositions alive among the people . The following night all was peaceable . On the next
day the Consuls opened a register for all those who were desirous of defending their country . A very large number of these presented themselves , and an army was immediately organized . But what can a few brave men do against numerous troops , who surround them on all sides ? Rome is by no means a good military station . The French were fearful of haying their retreat cut off , and prudence dictated to them to evacuate it . After having left a chosen garrison in the Chateau de St . Ange , the French army turned
towards Civita Castellana , a military situation , where they mi g ht withstand a superior force while they waited for a reinforcement . The French Commissioners , the Consuls , the Senate , the Roman Tribunes , the Constituted Authorities , and a part of the National Guard , followed the head-quarters ; and the French who did not follow the army , and who took , the road- to Tuscany , were very ill treated at Viterbo and Aqua Pendente , the inhabitants of which p laces rose in a state of insurrection on receiving intelligence that the King . oi Naples was marching against Rome . Some of the fugitives were plundered ; ' and the accounts brought by those who arrived last lead to entertain apprehensions for the safety of those whom they left behind them . '
The Neapolitans marched into the Roman teiritory in two bodies absolutely distinct , and separated by the chain of the Apenines . The principal , commanded by Genera ] Mack , under the King in person , advanced towards Rome by St . Angelo and Tivoli , where he drove back the French troops , and entered Rome on the 26 th in the afternoon , the French , with all the constituted authorities , having quitted that capital on the morningof the same day , on theirretreat towards Civita Castellana , situated at the entrance
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nudable power , the Neapolitan General Mack had taken possession of Rome , and several places circumjacent . The French Government , who foresaw this storm , had given orders , for some time back , to discipline considerable levies of troops in the Italian Republics , to be commanded by experienced officers . Intelligence had no sooner arrived of the first act of hostility , than from dif . fcrent districts these troops marched with their usual celerity , in large columns towards the scene of carnage . General Championet was appointed Com .
mander in Chief of the French army , to repel this act of aggression made on the Roman Republic . The cause of it is explained in the two official letters given in our last and the preceding French Manifesto in the present Number . * The preparations ofthe King of Naples , says a French writer , ' were for
some tunc known at Rome , and trom the small torce which was there , it was made no secret that incase of attack the French would be forced to retire . On the 24 th of November , in the night , the Commander in Chief , Championet , received official intelligence that the Neapolitans had invaded the territory of the Roman Republic . At six in the morning the artillery were on their march , followed by the few French and Polish troops who composed the garrison . They immediately cut away the bridge of Tivoli , 011 the Teverone , because they understood that a column of the enemy had
been able to penetrate on that side . The minds of those at Rome were in the mean time in the greatest state of uncertainty , while the Commander in Chief was without taking means for defence , anel Kellerman , the General of Brigade , was taking position at Tivoli . At eight in the evening a proclamation appeared from the General , which ordered , among- other things ,
that the priests wdio should not go forth in person to appease the insurrections in their respective districts , should within an hour be shot . In an hour afterwards another proclamation was issued from the . Commander of the National Guard , in consequence of which the guard was doubled , and the communication between the posts was arranged . Proclamations from '' all the authorities were next issued , calculated to keep the best dispositions alive among the people . The following night all was peaceable . On the next
day the Consuls opened a register for all those who were desirous of defending their country . A very large number of these presented themselves , and an army was immediately organized . But what can a few brave men do against numerous troops , who surround them on all sides ? Rome is by no means a good military station . The French were fearful of haying their retreat cut off , and prudence dictated to them to evacuate it . After having left a chosen garrison in the Chateau de St . Ange , the French army turned
towards Civita Castellana , a military situation , where they mi g ht withstand a superior force while they waited for a reinforcement . The French Commissioners , the Consuls , the Senate , the Roman Tribunes , the Constituted Authorities , and a part of the National Guard , followed the head-quarters ; and the French who did not follow the army , and who took , the road- to Tuscany , were very ill treated at Viterbo and Aqua Pendente , the inhabitants of which p laces rose in a state of insurrection on receiving intelligence that the King . oi Naples was marching against Rome . Some of the fugitives were plundered ; ' and the accounts brought by those who arrived last lead to entertain apprehensions for the safety of those whom they left behind them . '
The Neapolitans marched into the Roman teiritory in two bodies absolutely distinct , and separated by the chain of the Apenines . The principal , commanded by Genera ] Mack , under the King in person , advanced towards Rome by St . Angelo and Tivoli , where he drove back the French troops , and entered Rome on the 26 th in the afternoon , the French , with all the constituted authorities , having quitted that capital on the morningof the same day , on theirretreat towards Civita Castellana , situated at the entrance