The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-11-18 00:00:00, page 2

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'' The number of primary assem
blies in the department of the
North amounts to 184 The ma
~jority has taken place. The for
eign powers who. invade that terri
tory have prevented the convoca
tion of the rest, especially in the
diftrid of Valenciennes, Lisle, Ba
vay, Marchienne; and O;chies.
" The inhabitants of your vast
frontiers, in general, have been ve
ry eager to accept unanimously the
Constitution. Although the ene
- my were at their gates, they an
nounced their acceptance by a dis
charge from the ramparts, and
found means to fend their instru
ments of acceptance to the Con
vention. The armies in the camp,
or in the face of the enemy, did
the fame.
" All the popular societies, the
majority of the constituted bodies,
sent to the Convention, addresses
which will prove to futureages how
much Republicanism swayed, in its
cradle as it were, the minds of
French freemen." —Applause.
The Convention ordered this re
port to be printed, and delivered to
the Envoys of the Primary Assem
blies.
England,
LONDON, SEPT. 2—J. THE f aft
di(patches' from Lord Edwd. Fitz
gereld, to government, announce,
that the Swiss Cantons have voted
100,000 men for the ferviceof the
current year; It is expected from
their having voted so large a body
of men, that, the Swiss will break
their neutrality with the French
Republic!:, as soon as this force is
properly organized.
In the spirited attack upon the
post of Lincelies by the guards,
the French colours were taken by
Col. Glynn's company; and so at
tentive is his Royal Highness the
Duke of York, to every soldier
who distinguishes himfelf, that he
ordered ten guineas to be paid to
the soldier who (hot the French
Enfigo.
The French in this, as in former
wars, jfre low ; and it is therefore,
that thewQunded in all encounters
, with them, so far out number the
dead. Their doarine, that a
wounded enemy is as little to be
feared as a dead one, has been too
well exemplified of late; for grear
numbers of our men have been
foot in the legs, so al to render
amputation immediately necessary,
sept. 4—5. This morning ad
vice was received at the Admiralty
office that the fleet under the com
mand of Lord Howe, after con
voying the Jamaica, Oporto and
Lisbon fleets fate into the Channel,
foiled again immediately on a secret
expedition.
By intelligence which we can re
ly upon, we can inform the public,
that a very considerable ihfurrec
tion has taken place in the city of
[ Lisle. The inhabitants with to
Ithrow office Authority of the Con
, vension, and to open their gates to
/ the combined army. The decla-
Iration of the garrison that marched
I from Lisle to the attack at Lincel
ies, with difficulty got again into
the town, to such a height had the
SORTIE FROM DUNKIRK.
In addition to the official Letter
from Sir James Murry, [vide last
Mirrout] the following particu
lars are given in a London, paper
of September 12. After mention
ing some particulars, as Rated in said
official letter—the account con
cludes thus :
" In the beginning of the attack
the Austrian advanced posts were
driven in. The 14th regiment
however under Major Ross, by a
firm resistance, and supported by
the flank companies of the 37th
and 53d, afforded time to the Aus
trians to rally and return to the
charge. A most severe contest
now took place, and continued a
bove three hours. The daughter
on both sides was very great —par-
ticularly in the Austrian regiments
which were Rationed on the beach,
& exposed to the fire of the French
gun-boats. ^
The British unfortunately, from
the want of naval force, were not
able to oppose these gun-boats.
Ac length the enemy thought
proper to retire within the town.
The" British loft, according to the
Gazette, 22 killed, and 15 wound
ed. The Austrians 200
Among the killed, was the cele
brated engineer, Col. Moncritff—
a grape shot struck the upper part
of his head which it fradlurad in a
dreadful manner, and carried away
part of his skull: His death, was
not instantaneous.
Col. Moncreiff had been in the
army from his infancy ; he had
served in America, and was one of
the most experienced officers of the
British corps of Engineers. The
batteries, which he directed against
Valenciennes, were found, after the
surrender of the place, to have
done the most damage of any that
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both Royalists and Republicans.
The Court of Naples, upon the arrival
of a courier from Madrid, gave orders on
the 24th ult. for the equipment of 5 ships
of the line, 11 frigates, 6 galliots, and 60
gun boats, which are to take 6000 troops
on board. A loan of one million and a
half of ducats at 3 per cent, interest has
been opened to defray the expenses of this
armament. The capitals to be repaid in
20 years time. The fleet of Naples is to
join the British fleet.
lesson ! The man, at whom once
all Europe trembled, now wanders
over the earth without a friend on
whom he can rely : The fancied
Sovereign of Brabant, needs a (hel
ter from the accumulated hate of
It is said, that the town of Nan
cy, in Lorraine, has declared itfelf
in a state of counter revolution, &
is determined to acknowledge no
longer the ads of the Convention.
The horrible design which the
French have formed to mafficre all
foreigners, muff strike confterna
rion throughout Europe, and fill
many individuals with a'arm for
their friends and acquaintance, that
may be in that country of devils.
Os all the enormities that ever dit
graced our globe, this without
doubt is pre-eminently Chocking.
. Os Dumourie.
He is gone to feck a refuge in
Denmark. What an important
difeontent of the inhabitants then
risen.
played upon :r. He was nearly in
bis fiftieth year.
Ensign Macdonald, of the 37th,
was killed by a musket-ball, which
penetrated his left breast, and pta
forated his heart.
Maj, Gen. Fabri, who was kill
ed in the attack on Arnecke on the
sth, had distinguished himfelf
lately by taking a large body
of the French p iloners, together
with several pieces of connon.
James Murry contains the most in-j
tereftiog particulars. An attention;
however to the range of the corJ
don of the combined Armies, which
ex 'ends above an hundred and
Shy miles, will (hew, that the Di
vision under the command of Field!
Marshal Freytag, confided of but!
about ten thousand men, Attached
to the army which is commanded
by the Dake of York. It is this
division that has been defeated.
The loss is fevere —150.0 men kil
led, wounded and miffing, and the
consequence has been, that the Duke
of York, in order to remedy the dis
aster, has been obliged to abandon
his pofition'before Dunkirk, and to
take post about ten miles there
from, leaving thirty odd pieces of
cannon, and considerable stores.
This must retard the operations of
the siege, but will not fruftrate it.
Notwirhftanding the accounts
from Dunkirk are difafterous, and
ate likely to be attended with in
conveniences, they cannot tarnish
the success of the combined forces,
in all directions—At Valenciennes,
Conde, and Mayence, near one thou
sand pieces of cannon were taken.
The gartifons of the places a
mounted to 24,000 men—and the
stores taken therein are immense.
The late loss is, therefore, compar
ative Iy but a triße.
To (often io some degree the
late, disaster it is certain, that be
tween two and three hundred of
the French were taken prifooers,
and three pieces of cannon, by the
allies, who attacked Rexplede, un
der General Walmoden.
An army of 50,000 Germans
linker command of General Beau
fry, is assembled betwen Cbarleroy,
Pbilipiille, and Maubeuge. Their
deflintiion is thought to be against
the towns of Lengwy, Sadan, and
Mcntmed.
NEWYORK, Oft. 27,1793.
/zd Year of the French Republick.
Citizen GENET, Minifler Pleni
potentiary of the French Republic,
to Mr. JEFFERSON, Secretary
of State.
SIR,
I HAVE just received, together
with ,oui letter of the 3d inst.
thedifmiffion of Citizen Duplaine,
. 'Ard
&:< L h;al^.-;j^ty'^i ^ i:W.^^» tn
It is some consolation, however,
to learn, that the British, under his
Royal Highness, though they have
been obliged to abandon 32 pieces
of cannon, and part of the fores
provided for the siege, made good
their retreat to Adintoque, where
they are now encamped, without
any loss of men —the loss fell upon
the Germans.
LONDON, SEPT. 12
The official Letter from Sir
Mfce-Ccpft/at Befton, and I haf
to derffre to yen, that I do not
acknowledge its validity ; because
th^Gondiiotion of the United
Stated has not given the President
^he^hc which he now appears de
sirous to exercife —it has empower
ed him, as firft Minister of the A
meritan people, to admit and to^
deceive the Ministers of foreign nt- ]
tions, sent to the great American
confederation, and their corJu!ary
agents, diftribured to the particular
States ; but, in confiding to him.
this official function, it has not
given him the power of difetyg
ing them, to fend them away, or to
suspend them when once they have
been admitted. Such an authority
cannot be exerted, fir, but by the
foveieign of the agent, or by the
one to which he is sent. On the 4
part of their own sovereign, their
ceca# can only be the cbjedt of his
particular will, or in consequence of
negotiations began with him for
that objed ; On the part of the
sovereign to whom he is sent, a
difm^ffinn cm be the result only of
an ad of regular justice, or of an
arbitrary ad, —ls it is a national aft
of justice, the foveteign (hould be
furnifhed with every peffible light
upon so important an objed, that
he may be enabled to prove tothe
foreign sovereign, that hW mioifter
was unworthy of hi sconfidence,
and that the difmiffion or fufpen- ,
fion was indifpenfabfe.—lf it is an
ad merely arbitrary, it is among
the class of acis of eggre ffion, and
becomes a catffe of war ; and you
- fir, that in this iefpe& the
con ftnotion of the United States
has reserved to the representatives
of the people, the right of declar-t"
ing it. Ido not recoiled what the
wormeaten writings of Grotius,
Puffendorf, and Vettel, fay on this
fubjed- —I thank God I have for- #
got what these hired jurifprudifts
have written upon the rights of
nations, at a period when they were;
all enchained. But the fundamen-'
tal points of your Liberty, and out ^
own, are engraven in my memory
in charaders not to be effaced, and
the Rights of Man are inclofed in
my breast with the source of life.
I have incessantly before my eyes
your conftiturion, and our own 4
and it is because Tfully feel the just, _
and wife intentions of rhofe who
founded them, that I demand of^
you, fir, to ask the President of the
United States to procure an ex
amination, by the Legislature re^
presenting the sovereign people of^
Massachusetts, of the conduct of
Citizen Duplaine, in the fame man
ner as I have demanded an exam
ination of my own in the enfuin^
Congress."
In governments like ours, polit
ical affairs can only be judged by
political bodies, and if the Vice-
Consul Duplaine has infringed the
particular Jaws of Maffachufettfyor
the general laws of the union,which
that government unbound to fup*
port, to that state the cognizance
of a crime against the mrfrfty of/
the nation belongs; in the firfrinU
stance, and it is for her officers to
announce it to the federal governs
ment, in order 3bst the foreign
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