The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-02-17 00:00:00, page 2

JAN. Z 2 —After reading and referring
several petitions, the house took into confid
cration the amendments agreed to by the
Committee of the whole to the military ef
tabljfhment bill.
The amendment by striking out the sec
tion which provides for granting years
^%' pay to the officers and soldiers, being |
read, occasioned some debate.'
Mr. Smith of Maryland said, that he hop
ed this clause would not be struck out. He
had little to fay, but what he had already re
marked. The officers were leaving the Ser
vice very faft ; and if fome;hing was not done
for the army, we shall soon fee an end of it.
No refpea whatever was Shewed by the oth
er citizens to the American uniform.
Mr. Clark said that certain members of
that Hdufe, on every question, were fond of
pempofity. Officers who could not live up
on their pay, could live no where The back
woods were not the place to spend much
money. It was well known that there was
another cause of complaint, which dispersed
the officers.
Mr. Forest thought it necessary to keep in
she clause. He bad been informed by fev
feral officers, that want of adequate pay was
a very great objection to flaying in the army.
Mr. Wadsworth said that he was glad to
hear gentlemen speak out, and acknowledge •
that there were other causes of diffatisfaftion.
None of his correspondents in the army had
bold him so. But he believed that there were
such other causes. As to spending money,
the back woods were an excellent place for
that, as the officers had frequently to pay
four times the common price of articles there.
He -did not believe that next summer, we
fliould have three effedive companies in the
arm. He had given up all hopes of that
army long ago, and the rejection of this
clause would just finish it.
-The question was determined for striking
out the clause, by yeas and nays—Yeas 64 ;
Nays 24..- .'
Mr. Irvine moved an amendment to the ;
feaion which provides for a donation of 200
acres of land, to the non cemmiffioned offic
ers, musicians and privates. _ This amend
ment provides that a Mgor General shall
be entitled to 1500— a Brigadier General
izoo—a Lieutenant Colonel Commandant,
loco—a Major 750 —a Captain 50c—^cres
each. This land to be granted at the end
of three years, in the neighbourhood of the<
:military poftfy provided a settlement be be
gun within one year ^fier the date of the'
grant—the settlement to cdritihue^ne year
thereaf er. . *^ ^^^ ;
Mr. Smith of Maryland observed, that it
valid be ufeletao fay that the mode pf dis-:
tributing lands would be fertled by a future :
Congress The soldiers knew. that Con
-press had once cheated them. They would.
not diftinguilh between line Congress and;
another, but would naturally ^xfote be ;
JAN. zf.—The Committee appointed for
the pnrpofe, brought in a report, stating the
fevers! faffs relative to the. memorial of the
Captains of sundry French vessels, which put
into the ports of the United States last sum
mer, with passengers from the Illand of St.
Domingo; the Captains prayed for an ex
emption of the usual duties, as they wer?al
together compelled by unavoidable circum
stances to take refuge in these ports. The
Committee recommended Legislative inter
position in their favour.
The amendments proposed by. the Com
mittee of the whole house he 2oth instant,
to the bill, for compleating and better sup
porting the military establishment, of the U.
States, were taken up, orradopting which, a
desultory debate rook place, and continued
nearly to the hour of adjournment, when it
was ordered to be engrossed for a third read
ing to morrow.
Mr. Giles reported the bill for eftablilhing
an uniform system of bankruptcy, through
out the United States.
JAN. 20. — the Speaker laid b%
fore the House a memorial from the
yearly meeting of the people called
Quakers, for N. England, held in the
state of Rhodeifland, from the 15th
to the ißth of June, 1793. This
memorial was laid for consideration;
the prayer of it was against the Afri
can (lave trade, and concluding with
this emphatic declaration, that it is
" righteousness which exalted a na
tion."
The House, agreeably to the order
of the day, resolved itfelf into a om
mittee of the whole h'oufe, Mr. Trum
bull in the chair, on the bill for com
pleating and better supporting the
military establishment of the United'
States—and after some time (pent in
the business, the committee rose and
reported the bill with sundry amend
ments, which were taken up in the
house, read, and laid for consideration.
" —OHE French army under command
of Gen. Jourdan, amounting to
upwaids 70,000, having marched to the as
sistance of Maubeuge, compelled the Aus
trian troops, who occupied several entrench
ed posts, covered with abbatis, in the sorest
of Mormal, to retire, on the 13th and 14th
instant. On the 15th they attacked all the
outposts of the Austrian army, which they
drove in, and by a terrible cannonade forced
the left wing to give way a little. Neverthe
less, the troops who compassed this wing suc
ceeded in recovering their former position,
by the greatest efforts of bravery, and a con
fidetablc loss ; after which the enemy retir
ed into the woods, in good order. This af
fair already very bloody, and which cost the
lives of many brave officers of our army,
was only the prelude to an engagement
(whiehjook place next day, the 16th) one of
the most bloody, of this campaign, and with
out contradiction,' that which cost us most
men. On the 16th the French advanced
under favours of a thick fog, of which they
to?k advantage to form their dispositions of
a tack. When the fog haddiffipated, the
enemy were seen ranged in the most excel
lent order of battle, having according to cus
tom, an immense train of artillery, and what
was more astonishing, provided with a nu
mtrousDcayalfy, which they were supposed
to be absolutely in want of. The French
army having advanced, the engagement
commenced with such a dreadful fire on
both tides, that the oldest officers who had
been in the seven years and Turkilh wars,
agreed that they never saw any similar; the
fire of the musketry was also equally terrible.
The centre arid right wing of the Austrian
army maintained their position, notwith
standing the efforts of the enemy. It wa's
not so with bur left wing, commanded by
Gen. Teray, who were broken through, and
apprehensive of being feperated from the
centre of the army.and finally furronded by
the enemy, were compelled to repafs the
Sambre, All the G 9% pf pbfervgtion like-;
wife repaffed that river; and theft General
Cbllofedo gave the ntedeffary'orders for rail-!
ing thrfiegeof MaabeQ which w^effeQ.;
ed in th© best order possible, on the night,
[THE LEYDEN GAZETTE,
Edited by Profeflor Luzac of the University of
that city, has the credit in Europe and America,
of intire impartiality. The public bat seen al
ready the French and Englijb accounts of the bat
tles on the Cambre, near Maubeuge ; perhaps from
the following they may collefl better information,
than they baTOe heretofore been able to obtain ;] —
JAN. 27. —After reading and referring
sundry petitions, the house again went into
committee, on Mr Madison's commercial
resolutions. Messrs. Hillhoufe, Gilbert,and
S. Smith, spoke in opposition to them ; and
Messrs. Clark and Findley, in fapport of the
principle. The debate continued the whole
fitting, when the committee rose and report
ed progress.
Jan. 25. —The fame important fubjed
which engrossed the attention of the House
yesterday, occupied this day. We have not
learnt who were the speakers this day. In
deed the reports of the speeches made, except
those furnished by the speakers themselves,
are, if pom ble, lefts than a shadow's shade of
the original ; and some of them totally con
trary to the sentiments of the members.
JAN, 24. —After the consideration of lo
cal business, the house in committee of the
whole, passed to the order of the day,
On the report of the Secretary of State,
and Mr.- Madison's propofcions grounded
thereon. The debate was continued as in,
terefting as before. —Messrs. Hartley, Tracy
and Boudinot, delivered their sentiments at
large, against the resolutions ; and were an
swered, by Mr. Nicholas. The committee
again reported progress.
The House went into committee of the
whole, Mr- Trumbull in the chair, on the re
port of the Secretary of State, relative to the
privileges and reftriaions-of the commerce
of the United States, in foreign countries ;
which produced an animated and ingenious
debate, after which the committee rose, re
ported progress, and had leave to fit again.
Jan. 23.—Read a third time, and passed,
" The Military EftabliJbment Bill."
Mr. Goodhue presented a petition of Gen.
Jonathan Titcomb, praying reimbursement
of money expended in the late war, &c. Re
ferred to she Secretary at War. The fame
gentleman also moved, that the communica
tions received from the Executive, the 22d,
Ihould be printed. 'Agreed to.
cheated by Congress again. But tell the
army that the President, that Gen. Wash
ington is to give them lands, and then they
will believe it. In that way, the clause would
be of no service.
This motion received a finall amendment,
and after considerable debate, was agreed on.
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Laurens Joseph Andrew Dunand, Priest,
Deputy from the Department of Mayonne,
deposits on the altars of Philosophy and E
-quality, his quality of priest : Persuaded,
that the God of Nature and Liberty com
municates with his children without an in
termediary. " May the religion offlaves,"
said he, " be soon appreciated to its true val
ue by all the Sans Culottes. As to me, I fee
in the Roman and Constitutional. church,
nothing else but aKing, Nobility, Slaves. I
will have nothing lek that belongs to that
church, not even my name given me at my
baptism, by which it was endeavoured to
make either a fool or a rogue of me. My
name shall in future be Tell Dunand."
The Council, applauding the principles
laid down by Tell Dunand, decrees, " That
his letter of preifthood shall be burned by two
children, which was executed instantly ; and
that the letters of Dunand containing his re
ligious principles shall be printed and posted
up in the streets." ' '
— : ; z- ■ ; !- 1.
Richmond, 7 ✓'CT Thursday morning
Jan. 21. J last arrived at Norfolk
a sloop of war belonging to the French Re
public, from Brest, in §3 days, charged with
dispatches for the minister from that nation.
She brings very agreeable intelligence,
the particulars of which we cannot this day
give to the publick. o The general informa
tion is, that the nation is now united ; that
Lyons had capitulated; that Toulon was
invested by 200,000 men, and though, it had
not fur rendered, it was, daily expeded. And
the commander fays, that he spoke an A
merican vessel, which left France after him,
the captain o^ which informed him that
Toulon had a&ually surrendered. ~
A treaty is on foot between France and
the king of Prussia, General Erfkjne has„
been defeated before Dunkirk with very
great loss ; in several other aaions with the
combined armies, the forces of the Republic
have been fuccefsfol; and that the Queen
and the Duke of Orleans were guillotined.
DUMPftKiES, Jan. 23
Extr^a of a letter from a gq,ntlemaß tf.rfoaa-
L^U in ^ ^Pern Territory, to feit friend,
irilbis County dated DecSi^^^
^ «TArevohitioriifrpn foottih LouMlana;th*e
French inhabitants' the weft fide of the
river Miffifippi, fyhfe gtorious cause of 1
cologne, Nov. s.—At the moment I
am closing my letter, news has been received
from Worms, dated the ift of November, of
great importance. On the 30th ult the gar
rison of Landau sent five flags of truce to the
besieging army. The bomoardments ceased
on the morning of the 31st, on account of
offers having been made to capitulate. In
the afternoon the garrison surrendered pris
oners of war.
" On the fide of the Province of Luxem
burg. the French continue to make irrup
tionsin the villages, where they pillage and
carry off every thing they meet with. They
have lately drove off a large number of cat
tle, in their incursions. From the environs of
St. Aubert we learn that the enemy are re
aflembling in considerable numbers, and
menace an approaching invasion of that part
of our frontier."
of the 16th. It is difficult to form an idea
of the obstinacy with which each party
fought on these two bloody days, where only
the infantry fought,the nature of the ground
not permitting the cavalry to ad. Our
troops displayed prodigies of valour; the
French also fought with the greatest intre
pidity, and with the enthusiasm which po
litical as well as religious fanaticifm inspires!
They sung revolutionary airs in the midst of
the carnage and death with which they were
surrounded, According to the intelligence
we have received, our loss in the engage
ment of the 14th, 15th, and 16th, amounts
to 4000 men killed and wounded ; that of
the enemy it is presumed, is much greater.
Notwithstanding this disadvantage, and the
retreat, the Austrian army has taken 35 piec
es of cannon and several covered waggons
from the French. It would be needless to
dissemble that raising the siege of Dunkirk
and Maubeuge, which unfortunate events
have so soon lucceeded each other, are be
yond calculation advantageous to the ene
my, who became daily better disciplined, and
to whom the last successes give a confidence
they had loft. The troops under the Duke
of York effeded a jundion with the Austrian
army on the evening of the 16th. Part of
the baggage which was sent byway of pre
caution to Mons, has returned to the army :
We even learn that our troops have again
passed the Sambre, and we daily expe& to
bear that the armies have again come to ac
tion. All the hospitals and convents are
filled with wounded men, brought after
the adions of the 15th and 16th. Yes
terday and the day before, upwards of 1000
have been sent here.
France.
MUNICIPALITY of PARIS, oct. 19.
Germany.
captain, mate, and four paffeagers
were killed early in the adion, the
boatswain fought the packer. Ac
the end of ihe idion the Antelope
had only ten men who were able to
keep the deck; The Atlanta had
35 killed and wounded.
Capt. Stevenson was boarded by
ten different britifh cruiferi, who
treated him with the greatest civility.
Capt. Barney, of the Ihip Sampson,
was taken by the Penelope, and car
ried into Jeremie ; and ah armed
schooner in company, Captain Cane.
Newyork. 4
NEWYORKi Jan, 25.—The prom
ised recal of the French minifies to
gether -with appearances in Europe
has already had an effect upon credit
in the United States. It the French
ministry disapprove of the tranfadions
of Mr. Gendin, this counts, &e
is no danger of their declaring war
against the Qmfal States land ft the
French dp not, tferh is little 'danger
dm any Q^q nation will, @4
° L
" The new fhtp Hariot, Captain
Norman, arrived here yesterday from
Havredegrace, which place he left
the 7th Nov. the Captain, whom I
convet fed with, contradicts the ac
count of the Duke of York's being
a prisoner, and the re-captureof Tou
lon. - He gives a favourable account
of French affairs generally —fays they
are building 8 or 10 large frigates at
Havre, , and a number of flat bottom
ed boats fcr the purpose of making a
defeent on the Eoglifh coast—that
while he lay there, they built and
completed a frigate of 44. guns ready
for tea, in 42 days— What cannot
'chofe people do?
Captain Stevenson, of the sloop
Friendship arrived at Newyork, from
Jeremie, brings an account of the
capture of the French schooner priva
teer Atalanta, mounting 12 guns, 10
fwivela, and 55 men, by the Ante-
lope, British Packet, mounting 8 guns
and 35 men, including paflangers,
and carried into Jamaica after an ac
tion of three hours and an half.. The
their brethren in Europe, are determined to
fhakeoff the dele 0 " 1 y°' e °' Spain ' they ,
have accordingly declared their inventions,
and dismissed a number of Spanilh officers,
to whom administration of government had
been entrusted. By the best accounts the
French and American fettle,ments on the
Miffifippi, can bring into the field an army
of 6000 men, all excellent marksmen. Sit
uated as they are — fighting for their liber
ty, and the most delightful country in the
weftern world ; they cannot but be fucceis
ful, if determined and united.
"A contemplating windmill cafil; conceive the
great advantages that mill accrue tv the world
in general, and the United States in particular,
Jbould fucb an event take place. It mould open
for millions of the human race, to emigrate to this
favoured ipot, on which nature bus lavifoed its
gifts : And which, from its firft difeover,, until
now, has been loft to mankind, owing to the Jelfilb ,
views of a nation wboft ignorance and juperfiition
prevented its rye and progress. The road once open
ed, would be the means of civilizing, not only the
natives of the foil, but (tfl my be Allowed the ex
prefan) the Spaniards sbtmfelves over the Gufb
of Mexico, whom priefterrift and ignorance fat
made ufelfs sojociety. Sueba revolution would pro
duce more ;it would put Americans in thefull pof-
Jeffion of the navigation of the mos noble river in
the territory, the right of which, contrary to na
ture's laws, bat been arbitrarily withheld, and by
them Jbamef ully given up to a people whom they
neither ought to love or fear.
" May the Jpirit of liberty make its way good
to the delightful plains, of Louisiana, where Gal
lia's fens once faltered ihemjAves from persecution
and oppression ; united rally round the ft andard of
liberty, and " WILL to be FREE."
Baltimore, Jan. 2, —Letters just re
ceived from St Marks, mention the arrival
of 1200 French troops at Port-de-Paix, in
Hispaniola—that Port-au-Prince was taken
by the white inhabitants — that the comrnif
fioner Santhonax had fled to the mountains,
with the Negroes, and that Polverei is im
prisoned at Les Cayes.
Pennjyhania.
PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 22.
Extract of a letter from Baltimore, fan. 19.
Maryland.