Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

By this Day's Mail.

MILAN, July 21.

The French have advanced to Borgo, within a few miles of Coni, where the Piedmontese have an entrenched camp. If the French should drive them from this important post, they may leave a detachment to mask Coni, the siege of which would be tedious, and march with the rest of their army to the gates of Turin. We are assured that the Republicans are under the walls of Suza, where the Piedmontese are entrenched. As we do not hear that they have taken the fort of La Brunette, which defends the pass of Suza, we suppose that they have made themselves a new road over the mountains.

The situation of Piedmont is most critical. The French seem ready to penetrate by three or four points, into the heart of the country. A considerable number of militia is raising to oppose them, not a description of troops of the line: but we fear the Piedmontese militia will not be found a match for the French musketry. We recollect also, that Savoy, Nice, and part of Piedmont, are already in the hands of the French, so that the King of Sardinia is deprived of a great part of his resources.

From Genoa, we are informed that the French have asked leave to pass into Lombardy, through the territory of the Republic. Although the Genoese appear to be strongly attached to their system of neutrality, it is to be apprehended that the French may take measures to make them comply with their demand. The Genoese Republic is in a great state of defence, but it cannot repel force by force, if the French go to extremities, unless the whole body of the people act in concert with the government. The late victories of the French have diffused such a terror throughout Italy, that the Genoese will hardly venture to expose their country to the chance of war.