The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-12-09 00:00:00, page 2

of it the French had the advantage,
but at length the fuperiour disci
pline of the Pruffunsprevailed ;
near 30 pieces of cannol are' re
ported to be taken;
, Avefne le S'ec, Sept. 12 Forenoon.
From the Corps of the Army of Ohfavathri,
commanded by Gen. Q^nt de Clairfait.
The French having preferred;
themselves, to the number of 3000'
men, in the environs of Landrec,,!
were kept in check by fix fqoad-1
rons of Kiefki light horse. Thei
latter having been reinforced by 4,
squadrons of the Cuirafliers of Roy
al Ailemand, rushed upon the en
emy ; the confufion was to great,
that the French horse even rode
over the bodies of their foot, and
our troops had nothing to do but
to cut them up by peacemeal.-
—Fifteen hundred of the French
were killed, and 1000 at least prif
oners. The enemy also loft 12
pieces of cannon, two howitzers, a
great number of ammunition wag
gons, and many artillery horses.
[This Story is well told!!}
France..
avignon, SEPT. 15. Gen. Car
teaux is in exudation of receiving
mortars to operate against Toulon,
Our troops are posted upon the
hills of Ollioules—thofe next to
Valette are in a fuperiour situation.
They are so high spirits, and seve
ral detachments are arrived from
the city.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Sspt.2%. Reverfhon, commissioner to
the camp of Linonay, announced that the
Lyonefe had been beaten several times,
with loss. In one part the republican ar
my took 500 mufkets;and one 4 pounder,
LYONS.
Camp of la Pape, September 18th.—
The Representatives of the people fay that
all the Advanced parts of the Lyonefe
have been taken, and the rebels so closely
confined, that not a horse can escape
therefrom : That the city was in want of
fubfiftenct, the sick only being furnished
with provisions.
It has been observed, that the cartridge
e$ of the Lyonefe are made of Berne gun
pbwderj and their mufquets Spaniffi.—
Their ready- money is fuppoied to be
gone, as they have put in circulation a
paper-medium ; but the representatives
of the people have pronounced the pain
/of death against any one who receives it.
marsaillbs, sept- 16.—The army
before Toulon, is 25000 strong, and pofr
ed upon the hills which command the
town.
NEW BATTALION.
The privateer Ajax of Bourdeaux; has
taken a merchant man with 350 negroes.
We presume these men will be enfranchif
ed by the Convention, and from gratitude
will fight with zeal for the Republick, a
gainst the combined despots.
- MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.
England. -
LONDON, sept. 16.— The disasters at
Dunkirk, are wholly to be attributed to
'the impetuofi^y of the Duke of Ybrk, and
. tothe want of g^Qffife i , .
Accounts from Germany state, that the
) French in Weilfemberg and Landau, are
invulnerable.",
^^piufo;' if ^y '^^
Forces gone, and going abroad.
• On the Continent. —Four troops of horse
guards, 5 regiments of dragoon grafy;
9 regiments of dragoons, and 11 battal
ions of foot. *
In and for the Wtf indies.==Twentyg<)ur
battalions of foot. V
1, America.—Ten battlions of foot.
In Guernsey and ~rfey. —Two regiments]
of foot.
In &findies.=-One regiment dragoons,
and 9 battalions of foot.
. An immense force ; principally in ser
vice on account of the war—which is pur
suing with vigour.
The French have experienced*a severe
check in Palaochc and Cluje. On the
24th ult. a column of Piedmontefe and;
Austrian troops attacked them, put the
IRepublican forces to the rout, killed 600 1
of them, drove many into the river Ance,
'and pursued the fugitives many miles.
I sept. 18. —The attacks of the French |
-were continual during the whole of thel
;14th and 15th inst. their numbers increase;
,hourly— and they very little regard either<
fiefs or repulse.
SEPT. 23. —The French are marching
from every quarter against Toulon ; and 1
ifmultitudes can carry it, this important
post may be again in their possession be 1
lore the year ends.
The forces which the French have now 1
collected on the frontiers of Alsace and 1
Loraine, are said to exceed 250,000 men.
When Lord Hood, entered the harbour 1
of Toulon, the following was the number 4
and strength of the French fleet anchored 1
there :— Two of 120 guns, four of 80,
fifteen of 74, and four frigates.
Lord Howe's fleet is still at Torbay ;
where it is daily augmenting. In all the<
Dock-Yards the workmen work double:
tides—the most a&ive preparations are 1
making. The Portuguese squadron has l
joined this fleet. 1
We are credibly informed that the Ruf- 1
fian fleet, which appeared on the Danish 1
coasts, had 12,000 land troops on board,
for the purpose of making a descent in
Lower Brittanny : But none of the com
bined powers choosing to furnidi the 1
money necessary to pay this corps, the
two divisions of the fleet have set fail for
the Baltic, and, it is said, have taken the
way to Revel.
There are certainly two Commissioners
now in London, from Bourdeaux, sent to
treat with Qur Government, for the sur
render of that city.
In a letter from Oftend, dated Sept,
the 14th, we are informed that the trans
ports, with the 19th and 57th regiments,
and three companies of the 42d Highland
regiment, landed that morning in good
health, and immediately marched to join
the army. #
Four French prizes are carried into
Lifoon.
The Elector cf Mentz pays Pfuffia a
million florins, for regaining his capital.
ErammtffißCTCTi 11111110 iitttmni
Maryland.,
BALTIMORE, NOV. 19.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman in Wil
mington, Delaware, to hi;friend here.
" THE captain of a vessel,, arrived from
Oftend, informs us of the DEATH of the
PRINCE DE COBOURG—that he saw
his Euneral—and that 15,000 of his men
were slain—and his army completely de
feated !"• —— - —['Tis pity this gentleman
does not inform ufofa or b&ib those ter
rible events took place.']
Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 16.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.
The inhabitants of Philadelphia, who are
now in the country, may returnpnto the
city with perfed fafety ; although there
ail a few cases of teYejlpw Fever in the
toffi Should any, of our fellow citizens
intend to spend the winter in thh country,
let them, if they value the lives of their
brethren, have their infeded houses in the
city opened and ventilated ; for although
the contagion edn no more operate at this
,season, than a fire can spread in a heavy
I fliower of rain;y£tvwe;know ito
' might be the mortality, if cases of the dis
! case should occur in the spring, and be
, nursed up until the summer. 'Onething
• we know for certain, should it Steak out
: again, or the contagioro be imported in
the summer, the mortality could not be
so great, as it has been these three months
> —for we have had a Weftindia season,&
^ by it the constitutions of our citizens were
Ldifpofed to break out with the disease, upi
- on the application of an exciting cause —
The Contagion was this exciting cause, &
IT no more than a spark, which lighted op
the fire of disease, previously lurking in
the system. Had not the contagious ma
flignant fever prevailed, we fliould^^e,
had a very fichly season, as has bc::£]fr
case at Carli Ire, Harrilburgh, and Jher
parts of the country, fubjeft to bito>
remittents, in all their forms and appear
ances.l
Had there not been contagion, spirit-l
uous liquors, fatigue, cold, exposure to
night air, &c. would have brought on a,
yellow fever, differing in the degree of
virulency and not contagious, as these
causes possess no assimilating power.
The contagion is not of a fpecific na
turc, but a violent stimulus, which would
produce the plague in Turky, if carried
there at a proper season, and the conta
gion of the plague if brought into this
country, at fwch a season as we have had,
would probably produce a yellow fever.
Marsh Miasma, we know, produces it ev
ery year.
The reason so many people took the
disease, in the city ol Philadelphia is, that
the contagion is of a putrid nature, and a
ferment, which constantly multiplies it
felf ; hence, when one person became in
feded, his whole body was a mafsof con
tagiop, from which the body of air was
contaminated—this air was breathed by
others, and the disease spread. Had the
inhabitants of C'arlifle, Harrilburgh, or
Dover, had the fame kind of a season as
we have had, fatigued themselves, been
exposed tocold night air, or drank fpir
rtuous liquors to excess they would have
bad a yellow fever, but the mortality
not have been great, as these exciting
causes would have brought on a disease
more mild than the yellow fever from the
violent stimulating ferment of contagion.
Newyork.
NEWYORK Nov. 16.—Yesterday came
on at the Circuit Court now fitting in
this City, the a&ion of Gov. Clinton,
versus Judge Cooper for Slander-, —" The
Jury, after having been out one hour and
an half, brought in the verdict for the
plaintiff,with one thousand Dollars damages.
Saturday morning last arrived in this
port a prize to the French Citizen of
Bourdeaux, of 36 guns. The firft gun
the frigate fired, burst and killed 14 of
her own men. The prize is afhip of 500
' -ns called the Canada of London, and
bound to that place from the Bay of Hon*
duras, deeply laden with Logwood.
Letters from Maryland, informs us,
that the " English are beat off from Jeri:
me and other places in St. Domingo.
The British commander's Proclamation
gave great disgust to the inhabitants ; it
had the fame effeft there as the Duke of
Brunswick's had in France: It united
the people to defend their Liberties.—
The Commissioners collected an army of
Blanks and People of Colour, who have
beaten the English."
. We learn that a negroe man, the pro
perty of Mr. Green, in the state of North
Carolina, was tried a fortnight ago for
witchcraft ! before two magistrates and
several freeholders, who condemned him
tp be hanged ;< and he was accordingly
executed jn a very short time afterwards.
He was appraised at seventy pounds.
A'^ [Chdrlfflon Greette.].
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Maffacbufetts. : ;
B O ST O N,, November ?;.
Os the French Weftindies^
Captain Smith from Martinique, id,
forms, that the property of the emigrant
planters, &c. had been fequderated, and
the plantations rented out ^ but 4hat it
was difficult to makefile negroes work ;
owing to which ffie plantations did not
produce one quarter of their former pro
duff : That perfect equality qf all colours
exifted—the second officer of the island
being a Negro, named ; Belgarde ; be
tween wlibmhnd Genrßochambeau, the
Commander-in-chief, a good onderftand
ingdid not fpbfift : And that zqoo men
of colour had enlisted themselves as^
corps of defence, _and wore on their left
breasts, a medal, with the inscription “ to
6onfuer or die?'-
A very a&ive warjn the Weftin^ies is
expected early the ensuing SDring.—The
government bf Greatbrifain finds pledge
ed'to the colomftsof Mattinfeo, Guada
loupe and St. Domingo, to make every
possible effort to establish therein the for
mer government and Subordination— and
twenty regiments of foot, with 14 fail of
the line, under the command of Sir Akx-
,inder Hood, were under orders to fail^
therefor, at the date of the last European
accounts. To oppose these, the republi
can commanders in those islands were
making active preparations ; and Capt.
[Carver, from Capefrancois informs, that
ho,oob negroes were in arms there, de
termined to resist every enemy.
* The House of Delegates of the state of
Virginia^op the Ift inst. Relived, "That
the Proclamation of the President of the
United States, enjoining a frid adher
ence to exiting treaties, and the princi
ples of neutrality subsisting under them,
was a politic and constitutional meas
ure, wifely adopted at a critical jun&ure,
and happily calculated to preserve to
this country the inestimable blessings of
peace."
The Governour of Pennsylvania, has by
Proclamation, ordered a day of Thanks
giving and Praise, for the return of
health to the city of Philadelphia.
SALEM, November 26.
From FRANCE.
Captain John Burchmore arrived here
on Sunday from Dieppe, in France,which
place he left the Bth of October ; but
brings no important intelligence. It was,
there said (as we have heard) that the
Fieuch Republicans had regained the pof
feiioM of the commanding posts about
Toulon, so that their fleet was fubje& to
their guns. The people at Dieppe were
fired with the spirit of liberty—not a de
fponding idea was entertained by any one
—every man there is a soldier, and the
militia is continually exercised in arms—-
those between the ages ot 16 and 22 years
were under marching orders, and eager
to add force to the grand, blow which the
uplifted arm of the nation was about to
strike. The influence of the women, ir
resistible in France, was employed to keep
alive the flame of patriotism ; atid ow ev
ery lady's cap was displayed the republi
can cockade. The ruin of the Duke of
York's army, with other concurring suc
cesses, which were told with all their pleas
ing exaggerations, had given them frefh ,
spirits, and already they beheld, in imag
ination, their Republick firmly establish
ed, and triumphant over all their enemies.
This pidure of the people of Dieppe willJ
doubtless represent the great majority of
Frenchmen.—Capt. Buchmore adds,that
provisions of every kind were plenty and
cheap, and the police well regulated.—
The French, thus infeiredby beauty and ^
patriotism, and abundantly Supplied by a
bounteous Providence, what human pow- 1
er can arrest their arm ?
The MIRROUR.
1 I IIJM _— ; —
CONCORD, DECEMBER 9.
ON the evening of the 17th ult.
a dreadful fire&cke out in the city
of Alban,-^fie account fays, " It
is impossible at present to ascertain
the amount of the losses occasioned
by thted^adfuF'aikmity ; many
foppofe in the aggregate it will
exceed 100,000^' q
.•:mar Rii^—^At Canterbury, tfe
Rev. Mr. Parker, to the amia
bly actornfflhed Mils Foster
daugbterlof Deacon Foster.
I^r In thirutown, Mh Efeazer
Emerfonflo Mils Tabitha Cleafby.
At Pownalborough, Mr. Abiel
Wood, jun. mtirchaor; to MiG H.
Hodge. At Sanditfield, (Maffa.)
l Ethan Store, Efy attorney at law,
to Mil# &osfe^ the
Rev. Mr. Lynn, of Machiar, co the
widow Shillings. M& Daniel Lin
coln to MifeAbigail Howard. .
:.died—At Chester, Mrs. — —
Blanchard, thefamiable conform
pf Joseph Blanchard, Esq. -
At Newyoik, Leonard M. Cut- (
ting, Esq. Coupfellor at Law, and
one of the Judges of the county of
Ontario. At Springfield, Mri.
Merriam Blifa £i.„ At Boston, I
•Mm Sarah Kennedy. At Portf
meuth, Mr. A. Treadwell, fl, 88.