The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-07-22 00:00:00, page 2

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Latest Foreign Intelligence.
The following is extruded from a Liverpool
Paper of May 23.
Spain.
BARCELONA, April 13.
OUR Army on this Side Catalonia is
taking every Disposition fdr invad
ing France ; a great many battering Can;
non are carried from this' Place to the
Frontiers. Our Army will be composed
ofabout 70,000 Men ; 40,000 are vete
ran Troops, and the Remainder are all
Catalans, who serve as Volunteers.
Austrian Flanders.
OSTEND, May iß.—The French, who
are in great Force at Dunkirk, are again
threatening us. Last Night there was a
long fkirmithing between our advanced
Poffs, and them near Furnes ; but as we
have not heard any Thing since Morn
ing, we fuppofe'they have retreated again.
Germany.
FRANKFORT, April 27. The French
army on Moselle conftfting of 40,000
men, has,made a movement in front, and
again.taken possession of Deux-Ponts and
Hamburg, it is supposed, however, that
they will soon be driven thence again, as
the reigning Duke of Brunswick, at the
head ofa body of 20,000 Prussians, Auf
trians, and Hessians, is marching to the
relief of this Dutchy.
With regard to the position of the
French army on the Rhine, it is advanta
geous, as the troops are Sheltered from
any fuddeo attacks by batteries and ab
bath, as well as by the neighbouring
bridges being broke down. The garrison
of Mentz, however, are so closely sur
rounded, that nothing can be conveyed
to or from the city. Famine begins there
already to exercise its ravages ; and for
want of other provisions, and on account
also, perhaps, of the scarcity of forage,
the horses are killed and eaten. The
trenches have not yet been opened, but
the artillery of the Allies is every day
augmented, by the arrival of new Con
voys. The French make frequent for
ties, in which they sometimes fucteed,
but for the most part they are repulsed
with lets. Having lately surprised a guard
posted at La Briqueterie, they killed one
man and brought an officer and the rest
of the troops along with them to the town.
The Imperialists have just given a very
fatal blow to the garrison, by taking pof
session of the redoubt situated near La
Charareufe, a most important post, which
commands part of the town, half defect
ed, if it be true, that of the inhabitants,
amounting in all to 30,000 individuals,
ipen, women, and children, 15,000 have
emigrated, in order to avoid the oath
prescribed to them by the French.'
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GERMERSHEIM, May 6.—The Prince
ofCWe has announced to theßretons who
are under his command, that he has re
ceived intelligence that all Britaany,ex
cept Brest, has submitted to the Royal
ists, and that he wishes they would use all
the means in their power to go thither,
where they may be of more service than
with him. '.
QUIEVRAIN, May 12.—The French
to the number of 1200, at five this morn -
ing made a Jortie from Coride and pushed
forward to attack our advance posts,
which, to draw them the nearer, made a
feint to retreat# In the interim, the ene
my set fire, at old CiWe, to 2 farm houses
by which our Chaffeurs were covered.
It was then that a battalion of infantry
took them in flank, repulsed them vigor
ously, and killed a great number of them
—As they gave no quarter, they did not
bring in a single prisoner. On our fide,
we had fix men killed, and two horses
wounded. % : /
The army under the command of his
Serene High nefs the Prince of Saxe Co
bourg has at this time a free communi
cation, with that of General Ql a Irfait
Wefarn by thefrench deserters, that
their Commander in chief,DAMPiERRE,
wa£ interred 6nihe right wing of the 1
camp of Famars, <
Private letters from Worms, state, that i
the French General, Custina, has been
made prisoner, with a part of the troops
under his command. r/ ^
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flufirian Netherlands.
BRUSSELS, May 15.— The French 1
troops, disappointed in theirefforts tofuc- <
cour Conde, have in great part retired to
the camp at Famars, and the remainder to
garrison the different frontier Towns.—
Preparations are making for opening bat
cries to besiege Conde with the greatest
vigour, as it appears our Generals have
been deceived in the information of its not
being well supplied with stores and pro
ifions; The Prince of Wurtemburgh has
he diredion of the siege.
The English, Hanoverians, and Dutch,
ire in conjundion to attack Dunkirk, from
vhence great numbers of the women have
etired, fearing a siege, as the English
fleet which blocks it up, daily increases.
England.
PORTSMOUTH, May , 9 .-The fol
lowing is an accurate state of the line of
battle ships to aft under the command of
Vice Admiral Lord Hood, in the Mediter
ranean Victory and Britannia, of 100
guns ; St. George, Windsor Castle, Prim
cefs Royal, of 98 guns ; Egmont, Illus
trious, Alcide, Terrible, Agamemnon,
Fortitude, Coldffus, Courageaux, Cap
tain, Leviathan, Robust, Berwick, Bed
ford, and Montague, 0(74 guns; and the
St. Albans, and Ardent, of 64 guns; with
another ship of the line, not yet ordered,
15 frigates, fire ships, (loops, cutters, &c~
in all 60 pendants; and are to be joined
with 35 fhipsot different rates, belong
ing to S,aml
As this immerife forte cannot be intend
ed to a& only against the French fleet in.
that sea, not above one third of its ntm
ber or strength, and as the ships carry but
a number of flat bottomed boats, there
can be no doubt whatever, but that both
Toulon and Marseilles will be attacked, and
probably at the fame time.
[We might proceed in extracting vari
ous accounts of the state of foreign war,
till our Columns extended to the length of
•he Petitions presented fora reform of the
British Parliament, {SO yards]-=to give
every minutia of a petty fkirmilh, will of
ten occupy nearly a page—and perhaps
the result be—nothing material——-We
therefore think it most serviceable to ex,
trad only the most important, and sketch
the heads of trifling affairs—But after all,
we arc in the dark, as to the REAL fix
ation of the European belligerent Powers/
—yet from the Complexion of all the at-;
counts, flying reports, official informa
tions) &c. &c. it is the opinion of many,
that the French will finally conquer all
their combined Enemies, and eftablilh
themselves a FREE Peopfe—which God
grant—AMEN ———Russell's Co
lumbian CeNTINEL, Os July 10%
(which is generally esteemed an authen
tick channel of Intelligence) fays, we have
received a Liverpool Paper of the 23d of
May, about 16 Days later than before re
ceived :—But from that we are not ena
bled to affect any thing positive—a Chasm
from the 13th to the 23d inveloping ma^
ny Circumstances in Uncertainty—We
have a Detail of the loss of the British
Guards in the Battle of the 18th of May ;
but we have no Account where or how
that Battle was fought—General Dam
piere is also mentioned as being buried,
but how, or where he died, we know not.
One Letter too mentions, that the French
at Dunkirk, meditate a second Attack on
Ofend — others mention, that Dunkirk was
to be invested by the Allies, by Sea and
Land.]
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France.
NATIONAL CONVENTION,May 11
Letter from the Commissioners with the army
in the North, dated Valeneciennes, Ma, 8.
" General Dampierre this morning
made an attack in the wood of Rheme and
Vicogen to difloge the enemy. It was
very vigorous, and the firing continued
the whole day. The soldiers of the Re
jublick (hewed an ardour worthy of the
ligheft praise, & carried several intrench
ments with the bayonet. We had about
§0 men killed, and several wounded, but
we are certain that we occasioned very
>reat loss to the enemy. 'We still possess
ome of the intrenchments which we
lave taken from them, but nothing con
soles us for the melancholy accident
which befel General Dampierre, our
commander in chief. His bravery hav.
ing induced him to advance too far, his
thigh was carried away by a ball. We
lave conferred the provisional command
in chief on Lieutenant General La
marsh, who commanded the army of the
Ardennes, but it is of importance that
the Executive Council should, without
delay, appoint a commander in chief to
the two armies. Four of us were present
at this affairs-the two otherswere detain
ed at Valenciennes, partly by indisposi
tion and partly by the necessity of forwar
ding these dispatches. - i
'• We have taken several prisoners.
The 17th battalion of infantry, com
manded by Lieutenant Colonel Belclair,
and the 10th battalion of la Mayenne
comAianded by Lieutenant Colonel Mal
herbe, having at their head Generals
Heleire and Deroque, effected, with un
exampled intrepidity, a flow and well or
dered retreat, under the fire of several
formidable batteries,which were unmask
ed upon them in the woods. Nothing
could have been expected but that they
should have been cut to pieces. They
however, -loft only fix men killed and
wounded. A soldier who had his arm
carried away, cried out, when he return
ed to the town, "I have still one left to
serve the Nation !" Our brave General;
while surrounded by perlons who were
lamenting his disaster, cried out," This
is nothing ! Vive la Nation ! Vive la Re
publique !"
Another letter from the fame Commissioners,
, dated Valenciennes, Ma, 9.
" General Dampierre, who had his
thigh carried away yesterday by a ball,
died this morning. The whole army re
gret in him a brave soldier, an able Ge
neral, and a sincere friend of the Repub
lick—The confidence which he inspired
in she troops by his noble Proclamation
at the time when the, treachery of Du
mourier was difeovered ; his military life,
alwavs glorious and unsullied § and his
death ought to be recalled to the remem
brance or those who may endeavour to
tarnish the fylendor of his justly acquired
reputation. Tomorrow we fliall go with
all the good citizens to moisten with our
tears the laurels* and cypress which will
cover his grave." Signed,&c &c.
The National Convention deeply af
fe&ed by the death of this brave General,
charged the President to teftify to his
widow their regret for this unfortunate
event..?,
May 30.= Bread, in the name of the
Committe of Commerce, and of the Ma
rine, gave a very favourable report of the
flourishing state of the commerce of
France, and that adequate convoys were
appointed.-
Letter frem Gen. Biroft, dated Nice, April 23.
"Citizen Minster, I have the honour
of informing you, that we have gained a
new advantage over the enemy. On the
17th we dislodged them from the camp of
Peru. On the 19th they appeared there
again with superior forces, but the, were
received with that firmnefs which ought
to be expeded from Republican soldiers.
" We entirely repulsed the enemy.
On the road to Turin, towards Sofpello,
the action became general. It com
menced at two o'clock, and did not end
till night. Nothing could resist the im
petuosity of the French. To such troops
as I command, nothing is impossible.
We killed of the enemy a hundred, and
took twenty prifoners."\
The Mihifter of Justice wrote to the
Convention, that the Criminal Tribunal
of the Department of Ardeche were in
pcffellion of several papers which clearly
prove the existence of a new plot against
the publick liberty.•
Letter from General Cuftine, dated Strasbourg,
ft April 28.'
" I am informed by a sure communi
cation that in the forrie which took place
on the nth, the Hessians and Saxons sus
tained a considerable loss near Mentz,
but they endeavoured, according to their
custom, to conceal it from us by carrying
away their dead. Our army occupies an
advantageous position at Weffemann,
near Fort St. Alban. —It is impossible
to dislodge them from it.
" This position prevents the enemy
from opening their trenches before
Mentz. On the 14th and 16th they at
tempted new attacks, but without success.
By their own confeffion they loft 2000
men. They have burnt a village.
''On the 18th there wasa brisk can
nonade on both, sides; and another has
just now taken place while I am writing.
I do not know the issue of it, but the suc
cess of the troops of the Republickjufti
fies the idea I have always had of this
poll, and I hope that Mentz will be the
grave of the German armies."
Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, Jul, 6.
Extract of a Letter from Paris, April 3,
" You will judge, m, dear friend, to nubat
bright publkk Spirit has risen in this Cit,. —
About 2000, ourg People of 14# 15 Years of
Age, but tubo have not completed their 18/6
Year, and therefore not liable to enter into the
National Guards, came out of what is called
the Battalion of Children, and have been at
the Convention to present on their Knees a Pe
tition to go to the Frontiers at the Expense rs
their Families, (wearing at the fame Time
the, would not rife until the, fhould' dojufice
to their demand; The members of the conven
tion could not rtfrain from tears, at the inter
efl™g fight of youth so courageously offering
itjelf. The, rajhed forward to embrace theje
generous children, who,-without changing at
titude, intreated the legifature immediate!, to
pronounce their concurrence, but jeeing the cf
fem'bl, undeettmtned, the leader and orator
of this aftaing deputation, turning bimfelf
towards bis brethren, addressed them in the
words following, which were frequent!, inter
rupted b, bis tears.
'' M, companions let us go, and return dis
honoured to our families, for the father's oj our
couhtr,.judge us incapable of dying for the re
publick.'' A majeflic Culm Jucceeded all at
once to this publick jeene, and the Convention,
after a fart debate, decreed in the greatest fi
ience that the legion, called the children of the
ripublick Should bold itjelf in readings to de
part in 8 days for the frontiers. Inftantl,
(bouts ylong live the republick were heard
from every corner of the ball, and more than
20,000 voices repliedfrom without. I was
there, m, dearfriend; and 1 was there, my
dear friend, and 1 cannot recall the ravijbing
fight, without jbedding tears of joy. The
mothers of the inconceivable children attended
them at the p<f)age, and, weeping congratu
lated them on having dejerved the confidence of
the Republick.=The executive council bath
given orders that this legion be conduced by
Short' marches to the frontiers, and that the
national volunteers of Paris should go in mo
months to relieve from their posts these young'
pupils of the country, little accuAomed to the
fatigues cf a tamp. What an example for
every town through which they will pajs,
and what entbtfajm they misf Jprtad on their'
return !"
OFFICIAL.
From the Confal of the French Republick at
Baltimore, to Citizen Genet at Phi
ladelphia.
' Baltimore, June 28.
The Friend of the Law, a Vessel belong
ing to Havre, commanded by Captain
Henin, mounting fix Guns and three
Swivels, the Crew consisting of 15 Men,
and having 3 Parfengers on board, on her
Paffagc from Cayenne with a Cargo of
Cotton, Coffee, &c. fellin with an En
glish Privateer of 14 Cannon, and sustain
ed a Combat .which lasted three Hours ;
when having exhausted her Ammunition
the was manoeuvring to board the Pri
vateer. Thisintrepid Condud so struck
the Privateer, that she took to flight.—
The French Captain did not lose a single
Man ; his Sails are torn to pieces, his
Masts and Yards a little damaged : but
he assures, the Privateer has fuffered
much more, many of his (hot having tak
en in the Hull, so that the must enter
Port to refit.
Baltimore, July 2.
On Saturla, last arrived here the Bermu
dian Sloop Betjy, and last Evening the brig
Prince Wiliam Henery, both Prizes of the
Schooner Citizen Genet..
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in
Yorktown (Virginia,) to his friend in
this to^n.
" We havejuft received intelligence from
Norfolk, that the English have taken the IJl
and of St. Lucia—and the General Dampierre,
has defeated the Austrians under Saxe Cohourg,
& Clairfait, near Valenciennes—killed 4000
and took 1700 prijoners."
,Pitrfburgh, June 29.
From reports now in circulation it ap
pears that a peace with the Indians at
present is very doubtful, and is' supposed
the treaty will not take place.—ln a few
weeks we hope to be able to give a true ac
count of this bufinels.
It was reported yesterday, that Peace
had taken ,ace between France, Eng
land and Holland.—This wants confirm
ation.
b The prize flhip William is delivered
to the captors, but the President has net
decided it a legal prize, as we aflerted on
mifinformation. [See the last page of the
MiR ROPr this day.]
HORRID NEWS!
BOSTON, July 15.—Captain Fan
ning of the Brig Union, arrived at New
york the 7th Instant, in 14 Days from
Capefrancois, gives the following melan-