The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1792-11-19 00:00:00, page 2

This very curious faftfeems to prove, that
the invading powers have altered their system.
Instead of the devastation and carnage threat
ened in their Manifefto, they now pradife the
most conciliatory Methods, and hold out the
Establishment of the Constitution, as accepted
,by the King, in September 1791. If the Na
tion had the most perfect Confidence in this
Offer, so much are they infatuated, and so en
tirely under the Deletion of a Republick, for
which they neither Have Knowledge nor Mo
rals, they would r^eft this greatest Good that
could betal them.',
September 17.—Extrad of a Letter from France,
brought by the Mail of Yesterday.
;*'.Things in the Capital remain much as
they were^aft Post , the flo, Approach of the
combined Armies, gives Rife to many and va
' rious Conjectures ; their Friends attribute the
Slowness of their Advance to prudent well di
gested Caution, while their Enemies attribute
it to Fear of being surrounded, defeated, and
cut to Pieces ; but we have some Reason to
believe that it will turn out that the wisest
Councils direst their Operations, and that it
will appear that Measures of Consequence are
concerting that will occasion an important
Change in the Affairs of France ; in Fast, the
sensible Part of the Nation, those who neither
with to fee Despotism reestablished, nor the
Reign of Anarchy prevail, But who anxiously
desire to fee a liberal Government effablifhed,
such as will do Honour to Human Nature, are,
seconded by.a strong Party, busily employed
in Negociation with the Court of Greatbritain,
and that of Prussia, in endeavouring id bring
about a Proposal from those two Court,, to
acknowledge the Constitution as accepted and
FRANCE.
LYON S, September if
,In imitation of the example set by the pa
rifians, the prisons in this city were forced
open, and the prisoners, though defended by
the municipal officers, were all slaughtered in
discriminately ; nothing could exceed the fu
ry of the populace, and the effe&s it produced
are too shocking- to relate ; several heads were
carried through the streets. One of the pris
oners had rfcaped from his murderers, and
came to the hall of the Magistrates, to implore
protedion; but even the Judges could not
save him from the monsters who were in pur
suit of him, and who cut him in pieces, with
several more unfortunate citizens and prison
ers, in the very presence of the officers of Jus
tice.
At night the bloody feenes increased—every
moment the prisons were opened—a great
number of priests were murdered —one of them
Was disguised in woman's cloaths ; the daugh
ter did not cease until the streets were crowd
ed with dead bodies.
An infurreaion has also taken place at St.
-Martin, near Lyons; seven persons, among
whom were four priests, were saved from being
massacred by a party of national guards.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, September 14.
By a letter from Paris, we have the following
singular account : The pruffian General or
dered the Receiver General of the department
of Moselle, to come before him, and render an
account of his receipts. This the Receiver
did—and the whole being audited, and the
sum in his hands paid, the pruflian General
gave him an acquittance in the following
terms —" Received for, and in the name of the
french people, and of Louis xvi. King of the
french, such a sum, being the amount of the
taxes received from such a time to such a time,
according to the decrees of the National As
sembly, and for this sum I grant a complete
acquittance in the name of the french nation
and the King." A notarial copy of this re
ceipt he direded to be sent up to the general
Bureau at Paris. l
IT has been notified by a circular letter
to the provinces, that whoever has to present
a petition to the King, ihall not kneel down,
as this fubjedion belongs to the Supreme Be
ing, and when observed towards men, is quite
unworthy the dignity of a Free Nation, and
of Human Nature.
SWEDEN.
STOCKHOLM, August 3 .
FOREIGN.
Dumourier's Army, instead of having
obtained any thing of a Victory over the
Duke's Forces, is retreating before them ; and
with such a Panick were the French struck,
upon a Report of M. Dillon's advanced
Guard being cut to Pieces, that Dumourier
broke up his Camp, anet seven Regiments, on,
the Appearance of a Body of Prussians, most
difgracefully fled. The following Letter from
the General to the Minister of War, shows
what the combined Forces might have done,
had the, taken Advantage of tnis uncommon
Panick:, $
t" Be under no Uneasiness. The Enemy
contented themselves with colle&ing the Fruits
of the Blunder of our Army. -This Blunder
is at present known. The Army have teftified
to me the happiest Confidence. The Soldiers
are in good Order, and display great Courage.
What happened was not a Retreat. It was
the Flight of ten thousand men before yffteen hun
dred. Had these 1500 pushed their Point,
they would have routed the whole Army. This
will not happen again. Bernonvil le has
joined me with 10,000 Men. I can Bill an
swer for the Safety of my Country. lam go
ing to inflict severe Punishment ; I Ihall fend
you back the Batallions who abandoned their
Guns. I would rather have 10,000 Men less,
and have no Cowards with me. I have alrea
dy disarmed and drove from the Camp, 14
Fugitives. I shall do the fame with Regard
to certain Officers. This Army must. be clear
ed of bad Soldiers before it can be made wor
thy to'fupport the Cause of Liberty^ Signed,
“ DUMOURIER."
Kellerman has joined Du mourier, and
they at present cover Chalons; but the Enemy
is pressing close upon them. Tbionville still
holds out. Luckner writes, that of three
Batallions whom he ordered to join M. Du
mouri fr, only one obeyed. - 4
'The Barriers of Paris are guarded, but not
shut. Th^f who pass are searched, to fee if
they have jewels with them.
From Paris, September TO.
" This Country continues to be drenched
in Blood ; and the Genius of this once pol
ished People, seems to luffer A gradual Deteri
oration; their Cruelty exceeds Belief, and
they every Day give new and Blocking Proofs
(worn to by Lovis the xvi. and upon tha^
Ground to reinstate that Monarch again upon
the Throne of France^ and to enter into an|
Alliance with the French Nation, for the For-'
mation of a Government upon the above
Principles. Tt is thought, that should such a
Proposal be made to the National Assembly,
they wou Id not refufe it, as it would be ground
ed upon such fair Principles, that the Nation
would not fuffer so glorious an Opportunity
of eftablilhing a rational Government, to pass
by."
^September 20. —The Dutch Mail confirms
the Report of the fuccefsful Sortie made by
the French from Thionville, It fays, '' The
Besieged display not merely Firmness, but,;
thinking themselves out of. all Danger of be
ing taken, they insult the Besiegers, and ap
proach even so near, as particularly to direst
their Mufquetry agfinfhthe Camp of the emi
grant French, which is in the Centre of the
Allies. The Son of the Count D'Artois
was very near being killed by a Cannon Shot ;
a Person was killed by his Side. The Artillery
is played with great Effed. The Austrians
have chiefly exerted themselves to lay the
Town in Ashes, instead of attacking it by a
regular Siege."
A Ruffian Lieutenantgeneral is, at this Mo
ment, at the Head of a Body of Polish Troops,
in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ; the Am
baffadour of that Nation regulates every Thing
in the Capital ; the King and his Ministers
have been obliged to sign all the Declarations
presented to them ; and Poland is now to all
intents and Purposes a Ruffian Province.
Letters from Barcelona stare, that five Sail of
French Ships of the Line were at Anchor off
Nice, the 24th of last Month, for the avowed
Purpose of bombarding that Place, on the firlt
Movement of the Sardinian Troops to join
the confederate Army.
September 22 —Advices received Yesterday
from France mention, that it was reported
that the Duke of Brunswick had- encountered
the French Army under the Command of
Dumourier in a general Adion near Cha
lons, and obtained a decisive Victory ; near
10,000 of the French being said to be cut to
Pieces. War was declared by Spain against
France on the 2d of this Month.
FRENCH ^RMY-late Fayette',.
Arriving at Pittfburgb, and putting up at the
Sign ofthe Indian Queen (Andrew Wat
son's) wearing a slouched hat so as to pass for
In ordinary Person. The next morning by
times, went to Head Quarters, at the Quater
maftergeneral's, and staid till Evening, when
returning to the Tavern, accompanied by the
Commander in Chief protest him with his Pre
sence, some Officers being in the House after
Night, contrary to General Orders, and it be
ing whispered that General Wayne was
coming, a Hurlyburly, overturning* Chairs,
&c. ensued, which the Supervisor mistaking
for a Banditti about to faHy out upon him, re
treated to Head Quarters. The next Night he
sent his Horses and changed his lodgings to the
Bearb,ut transpiring that he was an Excise Of
ficer, the Landlord not thinking it fafe to en^
tertain him, was obliged to give him a Hint,
and again be went to Head Quarters, until a
secret lodging was provided for him at Major
Kirkpatrick's, the' Brother-in-law /o the
Deputy Excise Officer for this Diftrid.
When Outrage on the Dignity of the Unit
ed States is come to such a Head as this, that a
Gentleman in the Execution of his Trust is
reduced to such humiliating Circumstances, it
is High time to look about and ask, who
governs, the Rabble or the Lha^^
• Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA oa<>ber 27.
Extrad of a Letter from a very rejpeflable House
in Nantz, in France, dated 1 81 bof Jug*,. <
1792, to a re^eßable commercial Houje in this
City.
" The late Difturban„ces in Paris will likely
be much exaggerated on your fide of the Wa^
of their ingenious Barbarity. In my last I had
Occasion to mention an Order of the National
Assembly for transfering the State Prisoners
from Orleans to Saumur : The Banditti of Mar
seilles, whom the sanguinary Chiefs of the Cap
ital sent to effort them, received and disobeyed
the legislative and municipal Mandate, march
ed on to Verfailhs, where they arrived Yester
day, with their devoted Vidims—they led
them in great Pomp through the principal
Streets, until they came exactly opposite the
Waroffice, where, dreadful to tell! they put
every Soul of them to Death, without even
the Formality of a mock Trial ! The Prison
ers, fifty three in Number, were all either Of
ficers in the Army, Bishops, or Dignitaries
of the Church."
VIRGINIA.
WINCHESTER, Cdober I§.
BY a person of veracity, arrived here, and
who left new river territory fouth of the
Ohio, on the 24th ult. we are informed, that
the indians with the noted John Watts at
their head, mentioned in our last to .have
marched against the frontier settlements, had
returned to their towns. It seems Governour
Blount, being arprifed of their intentions,
detached 300 militia-men of the territory to
meet them, and the indians, in consequence
thereof, precipitately retreated.
PITTSBURGH, OCtober 13.
A correspondent thinks it no small disgrace
to the police of fhjs country that a superior of
ficer of government is obliged to come into it
in disguise, as Was the case lately with Mr.
George Clymer, of Philadelphia, the Su
perviforgeneral of excise forthe state of Pennfyl
<vama. Until he came to Bedford, to prevent
any rumour of his approach, he passed for Ge
neral Knox, about to pay a visit to the weftern
Posts ; which by the bye, might not be amiss
forthe Minister of War, that he might the
better understand the Geography of the Coun
try, if possible ; from Bedford, Mr. Clymer
took the Name of Mr. Smith, until he came
to M'Dermett's iri the Glades, There&
leaving his horse for his servant to bring on at
his leisure, he himfelf mounted the fervant's 1
horse, and rode behind with the Portmanteau,
as the waiter of M'Der mett, who accompa
nied him to PittJburgh, understanding him to
be a Paymaster, coming in disguise with money
to pay off the Troops. On /hejourney,nothing
material happened, save at Caveat's, where
anting as a servant and rubbing down M'Der
mett's Horse and his own, he was illtreated
by the hostler. who called him an ill-looking
Fellow, and said he did not know how to rub
down a Horse./
DOMESTICK.
KENTUCKY.