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alluded to, according to which no more than four ships atonce were to be allowed hospitality. The French Am-bassador, Garat, very naturally protested against this in-fringement of such recent treaties, and demonstrations ofmoral hostility to France . The excuse, about the entranceof the fleet was a threatened bombardment by the English in case of opposition. But on the score of the official de-monstrations and rejoicings, nothing was said by way ofeven attempted apology.

Pending the whole of the time in which peace had reignedbetween France and Naples, the latter power had neverceased to labour at the increase of its naval, military, and :financial means, intending to resume aggressions againstFrance on the first favourable opportunity. !

The victory of the Nile was followed by a renovatedalliance against France, of Austria, Russia , Naples and ;the Ottoman Porte. The naval power of the French in theMediterranean had been oppressed. Their armies in Italy diminished, to strengthen those of the Rhine and Egypt .Six thousand Austrians entered Lombardy , supported by :fifty thousand advancing Russians. The British fleet'was |paramount in the Mediterranean and moved about, with ;Russian and Ottoman auxiliary battalions. Naples musteredforty thousand men.

In September, 1798, the Neapolitan government made anew levy of forty-thousand more men, seized after thefashion of the English press-gang law, each commune beingin one day, compelled to furnish eight men out of everythousand souls. All these conscripts taken without order \or system whatever, regarded themselves as so many victims jto despotic power, and only looked forward to the oppor- jtunity of quitting the forced position into which they had jbeen dragged from their occupations, homes and families. ■

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