The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-04-21 00:00:00, page 1

Fumes. It does not appear that the
French have relinquished their design
of penetrating into Weft Flanders—a
province which owing to its fertility,
will fornUh them with abundance of
provisions. All our frontiers from
Menin as far as Furnes, are ravaged,
and laid waste for ten years to come.
As soon as our Generals perceived the
enemy's designs, they gave orders to
several corps to march, for the pur
pose of reinforcing the garrisons of
Menin, Ypres and Furnes, as likewise
the cantonments before these places.
, However competent these measures
for defending those parts of our fron
tiers appear to be, yet the terrified in
habitants deem them inefficient, and
quit their abodes with their effects, to
repair to the diftrift of the Interior.
On the 26 h, the Cordon of Gen.
Wurmfer was also obliged to retreat,
after an immense quantity of blood
fed bn both sides. All the inhabit
ahts of Haguenauand Weiffembourg,
apprehensive left they should experi
ence the fate of the Lyonefe, took
flight at the approach of the patriots;
who pursued them under the cannon
& Fort Louis.
Many of the unfortunate fugitives
were killed by the cannon of the for
trefs, and were obliged to pass the
whole night under the bare heavens,
beforethey could be admitted.
The French were before Spires on
the 29th, and the military hospital of
Prussians has been removed thence.
From Haguenauto Spires, all the
inhabitants fled, & those of the Duchy
Os Deux Ponts, have had recourse to
the fame meafur^
The head quartern,of Gen Wurm
fer were on the gift ult. it Schwet
zingen, two leagues from Heidelberg.
•The head quarters of the Duke of
Brunswick were at Oppenheim.'
^ Letters from Meniz of the gift oft.
state, that the Republican are masters
ff Germerfheitp, Neuftadt and Spires.
* Manheim is putting into a refpeda
' On the 25% the Prince of Hohen
iohe was (lightly wounded.
On the 26th, the Duke of Brunf
&ick attempted to make, an attack,
but the French got the start of him,
and after a most bloody conßia, the
Prussians and the Austrians were both
Obliged to retreat.
z England.
London, Jan. io. The Flanders
mail which arrived this day, brings
the information of the railing of the
blockade of Landau, and the re-pas
sage of the Rhine by the Austrian and
Prussian armies, who, after so many
victories gained, and the greareft hard-
hftiips tyfc^ed, with the utmost pa-
RfncJHheroifm, we^hGgd^
yield at lift to the fopctyrcibm of
the Sani Colot tes, who^v^,nce the
tad ult. with a force reckoned at
180,000 men, and a numerous and
formidable artillery, made the most
desperate attacks upon Gen. Wurmfer
and rhe Duke of Brunswick.
Brussels,) QREAT movements
Jan. 3. ) " are now observed in
the Republican army under General
Jourdan. The, receive considerable
reinforcements from the environs of
Lisle, as like wife from the environs of
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
[Vol. ll.— Num. 78.]
^uflrian Netherlands.
CONCORD.
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vessel, state —that two American (hips
and three brigs were carried in there
on the preceding Sunday ; four of
them prizes, the British frigate Har
moine, and one to the Magicientie
loaded with sugar, coffee, cotton and
provisions ; that the Spaniffi men of
war are at fort Dauphin— That (it was
reported) near ONE HUNDRED
American seamen had been taken by
the British men of war since Admiral
Jervis's arrival at Barbadoes I That
the Spaniards (who have invested
Port-au-Prince by land in coofidera
ble force) had offered the French un
til February to arrange terms of c±
peculation; after which, if nothing
was agreed to, they would storm the
place and put the inhabitants to the
sword—that on the igth the town of
Port-au-Prince was attacked, and the
firing heard the whole day at Leogane.
That it was understood in England,
previous to the failing of the packet,
that government contemplated open,
ing all the Weftindia inlands to Ame
rican bottoms, and to permit the im
portation of every species of provisions,
lumber I &c.
Grenada and St. Euftatia papers, to
March 7, bv late arrivals, state that
% Pierre,(Mart,) was taken by storm,
Feb. 16, with the loss of 153 British
troops ; that she patriots had 560
days from Jamaica, we learn, that
Martinique was still in pcffffion of
the French, and there was little prob
ability of their losing it.
Jamaica papers to March 1, by this
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL I. The
House took into consideration rhe res
olutions with the amendments of the
Committee of the whole, for placing
the force of the United States in a
more efficient state, and agreed to the
fame, after firming out rhe proviso in
the last, viz. " Provided, That no
such mofares be taken by the Execu-
TTveThii war mail be actually com
menced between the United States
and some foreign European power."
NEWYORK, APRIL 2. By the sloop
Newyork and Philadelphia packet
Fitzpatrick, arrived on Sunday in 22
Late Domeflic Intelligence:
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Maryland.
BALTIMORErfMARCti 31. ^eft^-
day arrived here, the brig Dolphin
Captain Oliver Webb, in 36 days
from Leogane § five days after Capt.
Webb left Leogane, he was boarded
by a pirate (loop, fitted out at Liver
pool, (G. B.) called the Charlotte, one
Hall commander, who took out Capt.
Webb's mate and hands (except two,
one of which was too sick to remove,)
putting a pirate's prize matter and 7
men in their stead, ordered her for
Bermuda ; the jyth of March, in the
latitude of Bermuda, Captain Webb
with the assistance of hit paffeogers,
retook his brig and brought her fafe
into this port, accompanied by eight
pirates, who it is hoped, will meet their
deserts—-the wheelbarrow for
LIFE.
ble state of defence, and has an Aus
trian garrison.
The elector of Mentz has left his
capital with a part of bis retinue, and
is gone to Afchaffenburgh.
MONDAY, April 21, 1794.
BY E. RUSSELL.
BOSTON, APRIL 10.
MURDER AND PIRACY!
[The following are the particulars of the
murder and piracy, mentioned in the last
Mirrour, under Boston head—communicat
ed by Capt. Saunders, viz.]
That on the 3d November, he fail
ed from Bilboa (Spain) for Boston ;
but having met with severe weather
and heavy gales which fhifted his bal
lad ; on the 15th December, bore a
' way lor the Weftindies ; and on the
19b of that month, between 3 and
4 o'clock in the morning, the above
mentioned sailors came into his cab
in, where he, his mate, and a passen
ger were asleep in bed, and laying vi
olent hands on them all, most barba
rously murdered the passenger, and
endeavoured to do the fame to him
felf and mate ; but, such was the will
of God, they did not execute their
designs. Captain Saunders re
ceived five wounds a stab in hi,
right breast, two stabs in his left
(boulder, and two in the right hand.
The Mate, besides a number of flight
cuts received four wounds—two stabs
io the breast, one in the right thigh,
besides being so ftraogled by the
throat as that the blood run out at
his ears. After the pirate left the
stare-room, Capt. S. in his woeful
condition went on deck, and called
for sffiftance, but knew not from
whom it was to come : That in
stant be heard the mate call for help,
that he was ftabbcd, and had rcceiv-
E^rad of a letter from i^ Norton, of the
r ]/&enbr '^irroCTo+j o-w^tr i&Nmyo+k,
dated Cape Nicola Male, March 12.
" I was captured by the British frig
ate Aligator. They have taken from
me 5962 dollars and 180 crowns. I
had not fix-pence worth of French
property when taken, but am ordered
to Jamaica, with four other American
schooners."
APRIL 5. The Baltimore Intelli
gencer of Monday lift, fays, " It is
with much pleasure we learn, that thd
Executive of the United States, de.
termined to submit no longer to the
Cruel persecution of our Citizens now
detained in the British lOanda, have
forwarded by express, to the Gover
nour of J miica, a Spirited demand of
Capt. Barrey and others, and that a
pilot boat failed from this port very
early vefterday morning for that our
pofe."
How bravely the British can fight,
fays a correfpondeiit, agaioft the few
distressed remains of the almost depop
ulated ifhnds of France—the fulfome
gasconade of the lions of Britain.where
their force is foperiour, is truly con
temp:ib!e.
Upwards of 50 French and Ameri
can vessels, have failed from Philadel
phia to join the convoy now waiting
at Annapolis and Norfolk, under
whole proteaion they are Ihortly to
fail for different ports in France.
Captain Daugad M'Lachlan, from
Gibraltar, informs, that between the
ift and 14'h of February last, 19 Al
gerine cruisers passed the Straits into
the Atlantic ocean.
men put to the bayonet ; that 2000
people of colour, were embarked for
Africa, and 700 whites for St. Maloes,
and that the Marseilles privateer of 28
guns, and 80 fail of Americans were
captured there.
On the 20th, the passenger, Mr.'
Enoch Wood, was committed to the
watery grave. The second day after
the pirates had the brig in pofleffion,
they (poke to Capt. S. in the cabin,
and told him, that if be did not give
them provisions and water, they would
kill the two Americans, eat them and
scuttle the brig, so that they should
all go to h. I together. Captain
Saunders told the mate to tell them
they might complete their design §
but hearing one of the Americans cry
out, Capt. Saunders told the mate to
tell them to stop their hands, and he
would confider on that matter. Af
ter confuting the mate, some provis
ions were given them through the
furnace hole. In this situation Capt.
S. continued 90 hours ; when the
pirates saw a fail to leeward, on which
they hauled their wind to S. by W.
(which Capt. S. knew by his cobill
compass) thereby trying to escape the
fail until dark, when the pirates bore
away N. E. luppofing the (hip might
heave round at dark, Capt. S. out
lights at his windows, which the (hi,
feeing, bore away for them, and at
half past eight o'clock, at night,
proved to be the (hip A!enfon of
Liverpool, James Byrne, commander^
who relieved Capt. S. and hit crew
from the bloody pirates. As soon aa
the (hip's boat came on board, the
pirates acquainted the Lieutenant that
they were Frenchmen in the cabin,
who would not surrender themselves;
and after the hatches and cabin-door
were unlafhed,feeing Capt. S. in a pof
tore of defence, arid supposing what
the pirates had told him to be true, j
[C<mtinMi tathfoM/wJ
ed his death wound : On which Capt.
S. went into the cabin to his assist
ance ; there he found that the mace
had got the pirate, who meant to take
his life, into the middle steerage ;
When Capt. S. endeavouring to as
sist him in that doleful fituition, and
turning his head up the companion,
saw another of the pirates coming
down on him with a broad-ax over
his head ; with which the pirate had
ft ruck the bo, on deck in the fhcul
det, and had wounded him. , On fet
ing the pirate with the ax, Cape. S.
let go the pirate he had in his clutch
es, and went in between decks where
he tainted and loft his fenfet. He
remained sometime infenfible,and was
visited by the mate and one ofthe sai
lors, who fuppoltd him dead, the
mate then went into the cabin : By
this time the pirates had got on deck,
where they had two Americans, on
which they faflened the companion,
the after hatch and fore scuttle with
ropes and (pars. Capt. S. having re
covered from his fwo®n, proceeded
to the cabin, where the mate had got
polled in a posture of defence, who
supposing the Captain dead, and fee
ing or hearing fame one coming into
the cabin, whom be took to be the
pirates, cocked his pistol and was on
the point of firing on him : He how
ever, soon knew him, and gladly re
ceived him into the cabin, where he
wiHuffed the murder and outrage of
the pirates. The C\p p . and mate
immediately set abou dieffing their
wounds, and putting themtelvei in
a date ^defence fy^fl the pitura
who had possession onhe vessel. The
pirates then bore away E. S. E.
[Price 75. per ann.)
NEWHAM.