The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-06-10 00:00:00, page 1

which had been forcibly taken out
of the Churches, it has not yet
been given back ; and it is even
perceived that it is fending off to
France. This offends the People
very much, and exafp&ates them
against the French ,; in many Piac-
Latest European Intelligence.
[The following HIGHLY INTER.
ESTING INTELLIGENCE was re
ceived by the Brig Orange, arrived at New
york, the 26th ult. from Bristol, which
ihe left the 14th April. It corroborates
the Defe&ion of Gen. DUMOURIER
and communicates Particulars which must
affed every Freeman.}
Dutch Brabant.
BERGEN-OP ZOOM, April 4.
TN TELLIGENCE, has been re
-1 ceived from Prince de Saxe-
Cobourg4 head Quarters at Mons,
that an Armistice had been agreed
upon- between his Serene High
ness and General Dumourier,
the latter having previously con
sented to evacuate the Auflrian
Netherlands and Dutch Brabant :
That General Dumourier set
out on the 3d Inflant, on his march
to Paris: That his serene High
ness had put his Troops into very
close Cantonments, keeping them
in immediate Readiness to aft: —
That the King of Prussia had cross.
ed the Rhine at Bucbera, attacked
the French at Bingen Creutzenach
and Altbeim, took General Neu
winger; 50 Officers, 200 non
commissioned Officers and Privates,
15 Cannon, and a military Chest,
and had formed the Blockade of
Mayence: That General Wurw
ser, with a Prussian Corps, was!
immediately to pass the Rhine at
Manheim and aft on the left of the
King . • That Worms and Oppen
heim were evacuated, and that the
Enemy had retreated from those
Places towards Landau. These
Operations happened between the
17th March and the ift of April.
HAGUE, April 4. —Intelligence
has been received from General
Clairfayt dated at Tournay the
3d Instant, advifiog that General
Dumourier had that Morning sent;
to him, as Prisoners, M. Bournon
ville, M. Camus, and other Com
missioners, who had been authoriz
ed by the National Convention td
apprehend him, and conduct him
to the Bar, and that, in a Letter to
General Clairfayt, he declared his
Intention to march the next Morn
ing to Paris.
April 8. Lord Auckland, the
British Minister, set off Yesterday
Morning for Antwerp, to meet his
Royal Highness the Dukeof York,
and the Prince of Saxe-Cobourgh:
The honourable Terms granted to
the French Garrisons of Breda and
Gertrudenbourg, appear now to have
been ftipufated by Dumourier, in
his Conference with the Prince of
Cobourg.
Auflrian Netherlands.
BRUSSELS, March 21.— Con
trary to the Orders of General Du
mourier to return all the Plate
Volume I.
Holland.
Published by ELIJAH RUSSELL, at his OFFICE, near the Meeting House, in CONCORD, Newhampshire.
Germany.
COLOGNE, April 2.— We are
this Instant informed that Cuftine
having marched from Mentz on
the ift Instant, to retake Oppen
heim, the two Wings of the Pruf
fiao Army cut off his retreat, and
he was entirely surrounded with all
his Army; it was supposed that
he could not escape.
Every thing is ready for the
Bombardment of Mentz and Caffel,
and if the Garrisons do not sur
render, they will be entirely de
stroyed.
at the fame time a Lift of the Pris
oners, and concludes by faying,
that he was that Instant about to
move with the tyufty Part of his
Army, in order to destroy those
who may further oppose them
selves to the publick Good of
France, and to give to that diftrad
ed Kingdom permanent Peace and
Tranquility. I have the Honour
to be, &c. &c.
" ilofe not a Moment in com
municating to your Excellency
what M. Dumourier has just writ
ten to me, when he sent to our
Camp eight or nine Prisoners, this
Morning, four of whom with Gen,
Bournonuille, he fays, were speci
ally commissioned by the National
Convention to arrest and conduft
him a Prisoner to their Bar, and,
on any Refinance on the Part of
Dumourier, to have him affeffin.
ated on the Road : —“ But," adds
the Writer, " 1 have been before
hand with them, in securing those
Commiffiouers and their Deputies as
my Prisoners." " These he has
sent under a strong Escort to the
Prince de Cobourg, after having
put Seals on all their Papers, &c."
If M. Dumourier transmitted me
France. '
PARIS, April 3.— By some Du
mourier it - accused as a Traitor ;
and as having aded all along with
views hostile to his Country : By
other,, his Conduct is justified up
on the Ground of Necessity, and
represented as the only resource
which his present Situation allow
ed. He has been publickly threat
ened with Assassination. In the
Club of Cordeliers, it was refolyed
on the 26th of March, that he and
the other Commanders of the Ar
my should be brought to Paris, in
order to be tried 4"and if," cried
some of those present, "The, es
cape the Tribunal, the) fall not ef
tape us."
Orders of arrest are issued against
Madames Sillery, Egalite, Lady
es they have taken up arms. The
Peasants in the Neighbourhood of
Tirlemont and St. Iron have joined
the Austrians.
march 31.
Letter from bis Excellency General
Clairfayt, at Mpns, to Conte Sta
benberg, Imperial Minister at the
Hague, dated Toutnay, April 3,
'793-
CONCORD, MONDAY, June io, 1793.
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“ CLAIRFAYT."
Danton, in a Speech of some
length, recapitulated his former
Services, in having prevented the
Minift/y, of which he was a Mem
ber, from, leaving Paris in Sep
tember last. He knew Dumou
rier to be unprincipled and ambi
tious ; but he knew his military
Talents, and wished to give his
Country the Benefit of them. But
Dumourier conceived the Project
of conquering the Netherlands and
Holland, and making himfelf their
Protector—All his Actions were
infested by this Idea—and if he
did not annihilate the Pruffisns in
& Camp of La Lune;it was be
cause he wished to reserve himfelf
an Asylum, in.Cafe of Defeat, in
the States of Frederick William.
His retreat from Belgium was ra
ther the Fault of his inferior Offic
ers than his own. Miranda was a
Fool or a Traitor. When Du
mourier returned from Holland to
Belgium, he was quite dejected.
The Failure of his visionary Pro
jeds reduced him almost to a State
of infinity. He retained Nothing
of a Republican but his military
Ardour, and fought' every two
Leagues, " But," continued the!
Speaker, " let us leave this raving
General, and thick only of saving
the Republick. France is far from
having loft her Force. Under
Louis XV. she combated all Fa
rope, with Resources far Inferiour.
But where are those Resources ? It
is fete the Jacobins to find ihem.
It is not enough to have levied an
Army of 300,000 Men ; we must
raise a central Army to defend Pa
rir and fuccour all the rest. 'Let
the Jacobins call upon all good
Citizens, and feleftthofe who are
the most capable of defending their
Country, and we shall soon have a
formidable Army. The fadious,
talk of dissolving the Convention ;
I cannot endure the Idea of Disso
lution.
"Let those who have shewn
themlelves too pusillanimous to
join their Names to those whose
glory will afeend to posterity with
draw from it. Let us engage the
People to (peak, and we shall purge
the Convention of those who are
Marat The Dangers which
threaten our Country are at their
Height, and the Moment has ar
rived when the Courage of Repub
licans ought to be ^played. The
Treacheries of our Generals are no
longer a Mystery. My Predic
tions are accomplished —but we
have opened our Eyes too late—
a Messenger has been dispatched
to Dumourier, and I will warrant
that by this Time he has emigrat
ed._ Bournonville has sent out to
seize all the Papers which may tend
to convift himfelf, and perhaps to
try to march against Paris with
Dumourier.
Sitting of the Jacobins, March 31.
Fitzgerald ; against Valence, Ega
lite the younger, Montjoye, and
other's, who are Officers under the
Command of Dumourier.
Danto%—" I engage to com
ply with that Request."
Marat. f Aft with Energy
and Courage. Behave like a true
Republican. Do as I (hall do. If
the Enemy enter France, I shall
draw my Poignard and fall upon
the Traitors. [Here Marat, draw
ing a Dagger from bis Besom, brand
i(hed it in bis Hand] lam de.
termined to die, rather than bend
the Knee. The despair of Liberty
will give me Death. I propose
that a considerable number of such
Arms shall be manufadured and
given to all Citizens of known
Patriotism, who are not acquainted
with military Evolutions. Let us
set on foot a Subfeription for this
Purpose. I myfelf shall make the
firft Sacrifice to it/' This was
adopted, and the Subfeription
agreed to.
St. Just. —" l denounce Bour
nonville as a Traitor?'-
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
March 30. Camus.—" The
Committee of general Defence has
charged me to propose to you
measures of Safety, resolved upon
this Night, in Presence of a great
Number of Deputies, and after a
long Deliberation.
" Dispatches arrived Yesterday
from the Army informs us, that
the most odious Plots are in Agi
tation for the Deftrudion of the
Republick. We do not know the
Iwhole, but we shall soon be in
Possession of it. I propose,
1. To order General Dumou
rier to the Bar.
°2< That the Minister at War
shall instantly set out to examine
the fae of the army of the North.
.3, fam our Commissioners,
Members of the Convention, shall
repair to the said Army with Pow--
er to suspend and \arreft all Gene,
rals and military Officers whom
they shall fufped, and bring them
to the Bar."
This Decree was passed almost
unanimously.,
After the Convention had de
creed, that General Dumourier
mould be brought to the Bar,
Marat moved, that the Minister at
War should remain at Paris, where
he would be more ufeful than on
the Frontiers infpe&ing the Army
of the North.
Camus said, that the Minister
had: Yesterday made two Object
tions to the Committee, ift. The
[Turn tb the fourth Par'l
incapable of saving the Republick;
Those only who have killed a
King, are worthy of reprefenuag
Republicans."
Marat.—-" Dumourier is the
Creature of a wicked Fadion. He
was at firft their Pupil, and now
he is their Protedcr. I fufped the
Comroiffioners Camus and Treil
lard. Such Men ought not to
give us a Report on our Situation
in Belgium. I muff request chat
Danton will rear aside the Veil be.
lore the Tribune of the Convene
tion."
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