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Concord, April 17, 1795.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
BY LAST EVENING'sMAIL.
French Accounts,
Oftbe TAKING of AMS TERDAM, %
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 4.
/THIS morning arrived here, tbeJhip America,
Capt. Ending, from Havre, which place be left
on tbe 20tb of February The Captain commu
nicates the following \'^fy
Important Intelligence.
THE RepublicanThkd taken Amster
dam, with 1000 merchantmen, 12
(hips of the line, and 36 frigates. The
Dutch troops offered no resistance, a
greeably to a proclamation from the
States-General. The combined forces
had retreated also without attempting
to oppose the progress of the French.
The British troops retired to a corner
of Zealand.
The Stadtholder resigned his autho
rity, in a letter to the Stated-General,
in which he declares he must depart,
as he canpot longer be of service to
his countrk ; and for the fame rea
sons he had accepted the refigoation
of his two font.
A Convention had been called in
Amsterdam, to frame a Constitution,
which was expected to be published
on the sth of February. The Dutch
Admiral had hoisted the tri-coloured
flag in the port of Amsterdam. The
Stadtholder's arms had been taken
down every where. These particulars
are contained in papers brought by
Captain Ewig.
RESPECTING SPAIN.
The Captain fays, generally, That
the French on the fide of Spain con
tinued to be victorious ; and intelli
gence of the fall of Bilboa, was daily
looked for.
Tallten's party itHhe Convention
fill prevailed. Barrere, Billaud and
Collot were under arrest ; bufthe ge
neral opinion was that they would not
fuffer death.
It does not appear that freedom of
trade has been restored yet, agreeably ;
to the projected decree, of which we
htely gavean account. ^ ^tA
Just before Captain Ewing failed,
all reftriatons, however, on theex
portation of articles of luxury were
taken off
'The Grand puke of tycefe
. and obtained CT%
PARIS, JAN. 27. Every moment we
are favored with new detath of the
immenie ricnes wnicn victory
limed to the Republicans in Holland
TOv alli
es we entertained, iney jo^, • 11 J
>oerb founder, of arms at the Hague ;
the city of Delft offered the most coo
ft^kfo inA Km# hirm/hed arsenal
Thp f4tv of Doftrecht con-1
tainted 622 brass canbons, 40 000|
fhndi it arms an immense quantity 1
^ of warlike floret of all ktodi, and pro
of',ooo tiro du^( whole ^
;tagtf .m« faft # ore oh
Kotierasm. livery wnere mwaz'nc#
Dutch. Guided D7 a nrudentf^onomy,
double advantage i&cuiamfo^
Gold is not the most prec% arti
cle the provinces of Ho!bind offer ft
Provisions of alLkinhs, and an abund
ance of those merchandizes which be
gin to become farce if France, are of
much more importance to the Reputo.
lie, and if we know ha^ to take all
the advantages of this conquest, the
former abundance wiH soon return to
France. The maintaining of our ar
mies will cost the Republic not a far.
thing, and our enemies disgraced, con
founded, defeated and routed on all
sides, will be glad to accept kneeling,
to the conditions we (hall please to
grant them.
From Perpignan, Jan. 11.
The bad weather delays, it is true, the prog
ress of our victorious army ; but it does not
Stiffer alone ; it has been a greater injury to
the enemy. Thelr fleet fuffered much ; one
of their large vessels has loft ever, mast or
spar, and was towed in ; 12 or 15 transports
were cast ashore between the mouth of the
Mougato Roses. Several vessels betides were
difmafted, among others, the vice admiral's.
The Rotebud has been evacuated ; and as
we are in possession of the bud, we ihail soon
be in poffeflion of the Roses.
FEB. 8.
Extra# of a letter, dated Brest, Jan. 29.
" The division of rear admiral Vanftable,
composed of eight (hips of the line and some
frigates, which formed the light squadron of
the grand fleet, entered the road last evening
and this morning, It was separated from the
grand fleet by the foggy weather, nine days
after its departure from Brest road, No news
isarrived from the grand fleet, which will no
doubt soon return, because of the W. and S,
W. winds.
ftp. S, A courier is just arrived, & brings
the disagreeable intelligence of the loss of the
Neptune, a 74 gun Ihip : the made nine inch
es water in an h^ur, all hands were employed
at the pumps, except the captain ; the can
nons were thrown over board; and the ship
was at last run ashore near Poros, in a bay
between Brehat arid Morlyix, 36 miles from
Brest. The Neptune was one of the otdeft
Blips, and never much depended on—the loss
is, therefore, of little consequence to the na
val force of the republic?'
NiMFGUEN, FRn.2. The Representatives
of the People with the armies of the North,
of Sambre and Meuse, wrote to the Conven
tion from Hague, on the izth Jari. " The
Strongholds, Williamftadt, Breda, Gorcum,
and Bergenopzoom; the Dutch fleet detain
ed in the Texel by, the ice ; the portsot Tri
el and Helleborn, are all in the hands of the
Republicans. We owe the capture of the
lift mentioned port to General Bonneau.—
t^^^%¥^
the commander of that fort of his intention|
to get potion of it. He itf^fequence
armed our brothers, who drorewut the Engj
'' We fend off to Paris as prisoners of war
W^hce&a^Wfooe; (not the greet
Hohtoloe who wet in the Auftrien service)
who were ftopt with maidde c wrt,fc
favt. , They had offered a conquerable turn
to two captains, one Daniffi the other Amer.
_ report them to England. These
brave ,en answered that not being, war
with, he French, they would do nothing a.
gainft their interests, that they ihould observe
a ftna neutrality. We mall write to the min
ister of Denmark, and the United sos, to
teftify to them the gratitude ot me French
Republic,".
inSn#'^!^^r^mh'' s i:^w r '^ "''"''
infcor this interesting intelligence. %
NAT IONAL CONVENTION, van, a
etAUSEL, in ihe Q^ Committee
Rebrefentatives i%tith the arniies of the
F^^^l
!account ofrhe fi&uauciu arfenalsraud ma^a-
I zines of the Republic, of which the following t
was part:
In the month*Frimaire, only, so
aeries defined to fufiply the armies, fu,^-,
ed 5 00 cannon; the im,enfe quantity of
pieces of artillery we possess, permit us to
employ the copper of our bells to copper
bottom our flups.
4 Thirty founderies are employed day and
flight for the service of the navy ; and in phe
'year they have produced 1,000 great guns.
The manufactures of arms, of all kinds,
furnifhed in one year 12,090,000 bullets, in
feveh months, 7,600 artillery waggons ; and
10,000 gun carriages, and each decade 3000
fibres and 4000 bayonets.
The mandatories of Paris, in thirteen
mohths, have fabricated 157,000 muskets.
After the reading the report, it was de
creed, that the jury of arms and invention of
war, cease its functions on the toth inst.
On motion, it was decreed, that mo par
ticular religious worship should be publicly
supported—and the churches ordered to be
fold.—lt was also, decreed, That women and
children, under twelve years old, prisoners,
mould be fa at liberty
feb. 4. Pelet, in the name of the Com
mittee of Public Safety, submits to difeufflon
the reported decree relative to the fencing of
Representatives to the Weftindies, and three
to the Eaftindies.
Gonly. " Our possessions in Asia, have
become a prey to the English. The empire
of the Mediterranean, and of the Ocean, be
longs to them ; we triumph upon land, have
hitherto encreafed our glory more than our
riches. The Englilh have done the contrary,
they have added to their treasures from the
immense wealth of the Indies. The people
of the Indoftan, have always been the wealth
left upon earth. It is therefore in India, that
we Ihould strike England. It is there only
that you will dry up the source of tharriver
of gold which flows among th^m, and which
gives them means of corrupting their parlia
ment, of buying their allies, of paying im
mense armies, and of saning in our bosom
the coals of civil difeord.
"India is not loft to us as long as uphold
the Isles of France and Reunion. The En-'
gliffi know it, and they *itt strain every nerve
to possess them; we, therefore ought to ne
gled no measure tending to preserve to us the
two keys of those seas. It is impotable for
you at the present time, to fend there fuffici
ent naval force ; but you can increase the
power of the inhabitants of those two islands,
by fending Representatives there. The loss
of the ffle of France, would occasion the loss
of Madagascar, and with the letter, we should
loose cotton, coffee, sugar, silks, timber, and
it would thenceforth be impossible for us to
recover our pofieffions in India, lam in
favour of the decree offered by the commit
tee." ,:, & :
Dubouchetoppofes the decree proposed by
the committee. Which of us will undertake
so difficult, so distant a mission ? what a croud
of denunciations will fall on the head of him
who shall undertake it ! ~
No, No ; it is not in the colonies but in
England we muftcarry our arms. Toßome,
Hanibal went for the protection of Carthage,
and but for the luxuries of Capua, that mis
tress of the world had been destroyed. To
Carthage, Scipio in his turn for tbeprotft
tion of Rome, besieged by Hanibal, it is then
to London we (houtmarch. Referred.
feb 12. Marec, organ of the Commit
tee Os Public Safety, reported that the Brest
fleet had experienced, during its, ife,which
hbtiwif, had been saved; three others had
been damaged, but not very considerably ;
two of them have been since repaired.
; The fame member reported that since the
arrival of the last meflenger, 28 prizes had
beenrtak^.7^^fy\^fr
& 1 -.? .i&,^«!^^ -
ffTreaty witb ^fe%^^^^
Richard, in the name qf,,he Comnuttee
the French Republic. . e ^fy,Q
:O^^T^&^^
Draft ^^fy^ 2 fr, m^
Hfytoktlere 120 brap &mb?rt%< Gorcum
62o,ecss of artillery, anffawe^ 47 ^ 59,000
firs ^: H, did not receive„t the ncc^ of the
warlike fores fandin tbe n^fogfo.-
Tbtreanton of Holland loofa@tw^c maga
zini d, forage and fetcroifas. •'' ,
Tbe Republicans tool peftfon of 18 gwi boat,,
each carrying an 18 or Q ,61mhr, t^c. Tbe,
took betides two Englifo frigates a^d two brigs
re/lrt^ armed and equipped.
(Signed) ROSSEUW. #
^3. S. An artillro officer fajuft arrived, ran
Seboontoea and Ntexport ; & i^ajl g"°"‘'^¥'4(
ammunition wasfound in both,laces. rttS&on
bovee §3, re arms, 175 tons of powder, 3Z
braß cannon, 4 mortars, 2 howitzers, and 5 iron
caret-At Niteport 15 brajs cannon, 2 mortars,
4 b&vitzris, §4i%^#„a, %, Much of the
money ^ubicb the menps of fa Netherlands bale
f&dat Qs>r<>bas already leen found ^^
, (Signed), BRIER,
' Reprefe rfatiwe 0/ tbe People.
res. 13. The Hollanders have eftabfiih
ed a Convention/ Their constitution is to be^
published the sth of Feb. The arms of the
Stadtholder are every where taken down.—
The States-General of the United Provinces
have decreedfhe following proclamation;; it
has just been published:
PROCLAMATION
'' The Representative, of the French peo
ple who are at present in this country , having
communicated to us that it would be necei
fary to make immediate provision for the
pressing wants of the French army,and hav
ing consequently demended the following ar
ticles:
200,000 quintals of wheat,
5,000,000 bundles of hay of i§lbs.
200, qoo buddies of straw each of tolbs.
5,000,000 measures of oats of lolbs.
150,000 pairs of shoes,
20,000 pairs of boots,
20,000 coats and waistcoats,
40,000 pairs of breeches,
150,000 overalls,
200,000 Ihirts,
50,000 hats.;
The whole to be delivered at three faveral.
periods, within one month, at Bcis le-duc,
Thiel, and Nimeguen.
And further— 12,000 oxen, in the space
of two months.
Decreed to be furnlfhed accordingly."
Boston, APRIL I§. It was reported,
at the time Capt. Ewing left Havre, that
Mr. Fox had been solicited to accept the ap
pointment of Minister in Greatbritain, but
that upright, inflexible statesman, we hear,
had declined the appointment.
It is given as an article of intelligence by
the America, that the new government of
'Holland has sent to England to demand seve
ral Dutch men of war, which were tfere.<
The officers and seamen of the Dutch na
vy have declared in favor of the French ; and
the navy is to be employed as auxiliaries to
the French. , ;/I4
In a St. Croix paper, it is mentioned , that
St. Lucid and Grenada, are in the hands of
the French.
, The French Convention bavedireaed a elation
in tbe mamufaßories of warlike apparatus.—May
they fen turn their swords into pruning tohg
NEWBURYPORT, APRIL?. A gentle
man who came passenger teith Capt. Fletch
er, from Dublin, informs that the people are
quite fired of the war there, manufaaorie,
flopped, and the inhabitants wished for an
infurredion—The militia had been ordered !
out, but peremptorilly ,efefed any assistance
in quellipg a riot, which occasioned a Ikir
milh with the city-guard. A new Lordlieu
tenant had arrived from England a ihort
time.before he failed, named Fitzwilliam-
ApyL io. Captain Elkins, in 70 days
from Brest, informs, that that harbour con
;tfo 2000 Prizes, taken by the French, arid
FORTY THOUSANDBrit^
WILL COVER,
The Noted BLI ND HORSE. z
rCALLED THE Q<4^v'r^Wj \
M'FARI AND HORSE
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