The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-06-03 00:00:00, page 2

' NEWS! '
' France.
French National Convention,
March 7.
The Minister at War Bated tha
Gertruyttabtirg was taken, and that
the losses foftained at Liege woulc
only tend to reanimate the Cour
age of Dumourier, who was bold
ly pursuing the Plan which he had
formed. He added, that Dumou
rier informed him in a Letter, that
the French would toon be Maftefs
of the Banks of the Rhine, but that
a Supply of more Troops would
be necessary.
March B.—A letter from Cam
us, dated Ghent, March 3d, stated,
that the Communes in the neigh
bourhood of that city, desired to be
united with France.
Three deputies from Louvain
brought the with of that city to be
united with France.—Referred to
the diplomatic committee.
The Minister at War announc
ed the jundion of the armies
commanded by Valence and Mi
randa. ,
Lacroix, one of the Commission
ers to Belgium, arrived, and desir
ed that the Committee of general
defence should assemble instantly
to hear his report, and propose
such measures to the Convention,
as it might seem to require.
Barrere. There port ought to be
made openly in the Convention,
and not secretly in a Committee ;
great publicity produces great re
lources.
The Convention adopted, his
opinion ; and Lacroix reported, in
substance.
"The advance guard of the
Belgic army, was encamped at the
distance of seven leagues from Aix
la-Chapelle, in cantonments, with
intervals of four, five and nine
leagues. The enemy forced these
cantonments, and penetrated with
out firing a (hot. Nothing was
more easy ; our troops were unap
prifed ; the [general officers were
absent from their posts ; not one
of them knew whence the enemy
were coming, nor whither they
were going. I succeeded, howe
ver, in rallying 6000 soldiers who
were difyerfed, and making tow
ards Liege. I advised Miranda to
take an advantageous position be
fore that city, which he did. The
enemy were repulsed the firft time ;
but returning to the charge with
additional force, and much artillery,
they repulsed our troops in their
turn, and obliged them to fall back
on St. Tron. -
" The Minister at war announc
es that Miranda has joined Va
lence ; this perhaps is not an ad
vantage, for Miranda could not go
to St. Tron, without abandoning
Liege.
" As to the rest, our magazine#
and camp eqyippage are in fafety.
They are now on the road to Va
lenciennes; I law their march ex
tended to a length of three leagues.
"Two of our colleagues are
now in thedepartment of the North,
where they are calling out the vol
unteers, to march without delay to
the focepr of the Belgic army;
but icicquires a new effort of the
nation to maintain the libertyof the
b 4 6•
^people who have united themselves
to us."
Lacroix added, that the accounts
given by the Minister at War
' were inaccurate.
The Minister immediately pre
sented the letters he had received
from the Generals.
. Letter from General Miranda to the Minister
at War,
" Liege, March 4th, 10 o' clock at night,
andjinijhtd at St. Tron on the 6th.
" The attack of Maeftricht was
continued with the greatest success,
and on the 2d of this month our
batteries of 24 pounders were ready
to begin a heavy fire, which would
doubtless have reduced the city to
the utmost extremity, and produc
ed its surrender, when at 11 o'clock
in the forenoon I received official
intelligence from General Lamare,
confirmed by Gen. Valence, in
forming me, that the enemy had
attacked our advanced posts on the
Roer, forced a passage through the
body of observation commanded
by the former, which covered the
inveftmentof Maeftricht ; and were
rapidly advancing with more than
35,000 men towards Wick, to
throw succor into Maeftricht, and
to save the place by putting an
end to the, investment and the at
tack. Under these circumstances,
I had scarcely time to withdraw
the body of 5000 men under Gen.
Laveneur, who were posted before
the Wick, and who three hours af
ter were attacked by the van guard
of the enemy. Notwithstanding
these movements, I continued the
bombardment of the place in the
usual manner, to conceal my inten
tions, and with so much success,
that the conflagration was never so
considerable since the commence
ment of the siege.
" At midnight I began to re
treat, causing the heavy artillery to
march before, and which happily
arrived at Tongres, covered by a
body of 4000 men, who formed
the rear guard, and whom the en
emy could not difcompofe,notwith
ftanding the forces which they sent
lor that purpose, for. they were ea
sily repulsed by our troops.
A body of 7000 men was
advantageously posted at Tongres,
under the command of Generals
Egalite, Rult, and Blottefier, and
another of the fame force under the
command of General Diethu and
Ider, which were the whole em
ployed in the siege of Maeftricht,
advanced to the heights of Hac
cour, near Vise, to cover Liege,
and to prevent the enemy from pen
etrating by any of the routes which
conduct to that city.
" Our loft in the attack of Mae
ftricht was only 20 men killed and
10 wounded ; which is very little,
considering the heavy fire from the
place ; for it is estimated that the
fire discharged not left than 32000
cannon (hot.
"A great fault committed by
the corps of observation, which
covered the siege behind the Roer,
is the cause of this derangement in
our operations. I hope that we
(hall repair it by our future efforts,
and that the nation, by furnishing
us with the means necessary for the
grand enterprises which it wifhei us
to execute, will fee its intention
fulled,
E" The enemy to day attempted
different attacks on the posts which
we occupy ; twice on Tongres,
from which they were repulsed
with loss on their parts, once on
Haccour, and once on Herve.
This morning I advanced to Hac
cour, wich aconfiderable body of
poops ; and on the fight of this
movement the enemy, who were
advancing boldly to Jupille, fuf
p^pded their march and recreated,
aftera short cannonade, from our
advanced posts on both sides the
Meuse. I think the dispositions
with Gen. Valence, Thouvenot,
and myfelf, made yesterday for ar
ranging our troops, will perhaps be
fufficient to check the enterprises
of the enemy.
" Saint Tron, Mareb 5.
" I learnt yesterday, at ten
o'clock at night, that the enemy,
by a third attack with 12 or
13,000 men had taken Tongres,
and forced our troops to retreat to
Ans and St. Tron. This intelli
gence made Gen. Valence and my
felf resolve to fend for all the troops
from Vile and Herve, &c. to Ans,
near the citadel of Liege, that we
might retreat in force to St. Tron,
where, by taking good military
position, we might be able to rifque
a battle.
"In consequence of this difpofi
ciob we united, this morning, in
fufficient force, and advanced tow
ards St. Tron by the great road of
Liege. When we got half way
wefound a body of troops, amount
ing to 3 or 4000*men, whom the
enemy had posted in the village of
Orray. Our light troops attacked
them, and they fell back on Ton
gres..
'"At 8 in the evening, the ar
ray arrived with all its artillery, at
St. Tron, where we have taken an
advantageous position which cov
ers the retreat of our magazines
and hospital, as well as of some
small bodies of troops, who on ac
coutrt of the impossibility of trans
mitting orders to them in time, or
thro' some negligence of their com
manders, have not yet joined the
army.
66 This day, (the 6th) we have
made new dispositions for covering
their troops and for transmitting
new orders to them, in the course
of the day.
" Our troops are in good spirits,
and we much hope, that if an occa
sion offers, their bravery and pa
triotism will surmount every obsta
cle, and triumph over our nume
rous enemies. °,
"General Valence has doubtless
informed you of what concerns the
attack of the enemy on the Roer.
He writes to you also this day.
" I beg you will excuse my de
lay, on account of the weighty af
fairs which .required my presence
wigh the troops, and which obliged
me to be continually on horseback.
(Signed) " Miranda."
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Holland.
LEYDEN, April I.—No accounts are
published at Paris relative to the armies,
except those of Gen. Biron, the only one
who Continues to obtain any advantages,
which he lias done lately over the Aus
trian and Piedmontefe troops. Dispatch
es, however, have been received at Pari§
from Gen. Dumourier, of a very import
ant nature, relative to the operations of
the French armies. These state that the
Au%mslQ buherto succeeded beyond
alfrxpeaatiq|L that the Belgians had
taken up arms isfyany places against the
French ; that brothers they had thrown
abbatis, and blocked up the roads, to im
pede the French ; and that they received
their enemies with open arms. shofe
who govern the convention did not think
lit proper to communicate these dispatches
to the assembly, or make them publick.
They were therefore immediately sent to
the committee of general defence without
reading them.
Germany.
BAREITH, March 18 —French corps
of Austrian troops file off by Franconia
daily ; With these and the corps of re
serve which the court of Vienna has
ordered to be formed,there will be shortly
underarms in the low countries, ofGerma
ny and Piedmont, a body of 200,000 men^
Kentucky,
THE INDIANS.
LEXINGTON, April 6.—On the 26th
March, a company confiffing ofg men,
2 women and eight children, on their way
to this state, were attacked about five
miles from the Hazle Patch toward Lau
rel river, about an hour before fun set, by
a party of Indians supposed to be about•
thirty. The nine men dismounted and
defended the women and children for
about 15 minutes ; during which time•
they fired four or five rounds, but being
overpowered, and the indians closing on
all sides, the whole were killed or tak- *
en, except four, whoefcaped, one of which
is dangerously wounded.
Names of the killed and miffing.
Joel Carder and his family ; James An
thony and family ; Mathews Fladrnoy ;
Spilman and Thomas Penifton, James
Jones wounded. Robert Hill, James
M'Farland and William Anthony escaped
unhurt.—The above account is given by
one of the men who escaped.
We are just now informed that Penif
ton and one of the children, that was mif
fing, has since come in.
On Monday evening last, Morgan's
station on Slate creek, was taken and
burnt by a party ofgg Indians; two of
the inhabitants were killed and nineteen
taken prisoners ; they were pursued, and
within about 30 miles the whole of the
prisoners were found tomahawked and
scalped, one of which (a woman) was
found alive in her senses, after being tom
ahawked and two scalps taken off.—We
have the above information from the huf
barid of the unfortunate woman.
On Saturday last the Indians killed a
man on the Beech fork of Salt river.
Monday evening they stole about 30
horses from Man's lick. The fame day
a boat was fired on in the Ohio at the 18
mile Island by about 25 Indians, luckily
nobody was hurt. On Tuefday evening
they took a boy from Eaftin's mill in
Jefferfon county, and carried him to the
Ohio then set him at liberty and gave
him a knife and pipe totnahawk. The
fame day took a man coming from the
Saltworks to Steel's Ferry.
The above informations received by
the post rider.
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Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, May 15.— Sunday
last the Ship Morning Star, Captain Ro
ger Kean, arrived from Hrore de Grace,
which Port he left the 28th March, and
brings Paris Papers as late as the 25th.
Letter from the Minister of War to the Pref
dent of the Convention, dated 21st March.
I have received a Letter from General
Dumourier, which I have communi
cated to the Committee of general De
fence, that announces to me a considera
ble Desertion; and the Misfortune is con
firmed by the Commissaries from the
Convention in Belgia. I took immedi
ately all the Measures in my Power to flop
the Evil. The Soldiers commit Pillages
and continue Robberies, which alienate
the Affedions of the Inhabitants, at a
Time when we have the greatest Intersft ;
to use a contrary Spirit. I have given
Orders to the Gens d?Armerie to pursue and*
to bring back the Deserters.
I have caused the military Law and
courts Martial to be put in force ; but
they are not fufficient. I look on it as
one of the most essential Objects of Im
portance, that the National Convention
pass military Laws during the War.
These Measures become more urgent, at
f this Moment, than ever ; for without
r them, there can be no Army.