The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-10-31 00:00:00, page 3

thetoaner loft a co finable number
of men. This action was fought be
tween Liege, Maeftricht & Tongres,
and the French were forced back to
Tongrei, ; The French, after feme
attempts on Mvz ; g, obliged the Aus
trian army to leave that post, & then
advanced to Treves, which they cook
without resistance the ,th Aitg. The
loss of this place obliged the Prince
of Cobourg, and the Prussian General
Molleodorff, to fend a large body of
their troops to defend the neighboring
country of Julian and Berg. The
French army, it is laid, are under
good difcigfine. The different towns
they have taken were obliged to pay
large sums as contributions— Antwerp
paid five millions of guilders in spe
cie—No engagement lately, as the
combined armies were not in (efficient
force to meet the French. Six French
frigates were cruizing in the North
sea, which obliged the Dutch to or
der three frigates to moor in the nar
rowest entrance to the Texel, to pro
tedthe piffage,"
From the Weftindies.
By the ship Fame, arrived at the
fort, from St. Mirk, which place she
left the 25th Sept, we learn, that af
ter continual flormifhes for 15 days,
the Republicans attacked that town
on the 4th, and succeeded in burning
half of it. The English laid an em
bargo on all (hipping from the 4th to
the 22d«— —The British were still in
possession of the town on the 25th.
Extras of a letter, dated CarltJl', Oa, 9.
" Give me leave to communicate
to our friedns in Philadelphia, the un
exampled state of our army, with re
gard to the health of the citizen-sol
diers, now embodied, and in the field
at this place. The number of Pepn
-I,lranians, now tented round the bor
ouge of Carlifle, amounts, I am confi
dent, to gopo or upwards. Out of
this number, three men only are in the
military hospital established by the
Surgeon General for the troops of the
ftrifylvafria line. There exists a
few more cases of. flight indisposition,
but we are fully able to manage them
in the field. Such a state of health,
among veteran troops, inured to a
military life, and accuflomed to mili
tary duties, would doubtless be fuffi
ciently Diking : but among citizens,
recently drawn from their comforta
ble habitation, many of them just e
merged from the inactivity of seden
tary employments, and not a few
from the case of affluence, and the
plenitude of luxury,fit is truly afton
iffiing. Perhaps an observer, more
anxious than myfelf to make a dis
play of his piety and reliance on the
prop of superior powers, might ailedge,
that the health of our troops is a
weighty evidence of the justness of
our cause, and perhaps his allegation
might not be irrational.
With regard to the military condi
tion pf the infurgeots, it appears to
be as unpromising and wretched as
^ theif greatest enemies can desire. Our
r victory over them will doubtless be
extremely cheap. I hope and be
lieve, that our laurels will not be ting
ed with the blood of a fiogle friend
(border,
ts, A letter from the army at Carlisle,
dated the 9th inftanr, informs, that
Governor Lee is appointed Com
mander in Chief, Governor Miffitn
second in Command, and Governor
Howell third. The army were to
move forward for Bedford on the
K>th/ The President had proceded
on his route tQ the Head Quarters of
the Virginia quota, fort Cumberland.
The body of militia atCarlifle amounts
to 5000 men, well equipped and dis
ciplined, and all in good fpinrs, 1
Newark.
ALBANY, OCT. Ig, l^l,
Extraa of a letter from Htrkermer ccuM,, Oa. j.
" By a gentleman from Niagara,
we have received particulars of the glo
rious viftory which the American
army obtained over the Indians and
their Savage allies,/the Upper Cana
da militia,) in & general engagement,
the 20th drud of August lift. But,
as you have no doubt had the offi
cial account, before this, I shall troub
le you with but one particular— and
this l think enough to convince the
Indians that their British ally is not
to be relied on in the hour of distress.
—When the bayonets of the brave
Americans forced the Indians to gT@e
way, they flew for protection to the
British fort (which you have heard
was ereaed by Gov. Simcoe, and
which is on the ground where the
adion was fought) but (alas! alas !,
Britons, bjufh for such fr/e ingrati
tude to your great and good allies)
they were refufed admittance, and re
duced to the oeceffity of finding shel
ter and protedion in the (wiftoefs of
their heels— more than 200 of them
were made to bite the ground."
NEWYORK, OCT. 13.
The Prussian Mtnifter has formerly
declared to the Diet of Ratifb rn, that
his Sovereign will not execute his trea
ty with the maritime powers, for a
Supply of 60,000 auxiliary troops.
^This declaration announces a faft of
the utmost confequeoce in the p;efent^
state of Europe.
A report prevails in Vienna, that
Spain is on the p6inc of making peace
with France.:
} Many of the merchants of Amfler
dam are determined not toquit that
city ; but to pursue their occupations,
and rifle their lives and properties
with the French, io case they should
be compelled to submit to their pow
er. The French were making
preparations the beginning of Auguß,
to commence the siege of Turin.
The plan of Mr. Pict was to starve
France. Yet inftcad of this the French
privateers have taken probably from
the British merchants more provisoes
than the British privateers have taken
in neutral vessels bound to France ;
and her armies are now feeding upon
the rich harvests of the Palatinate and
the Aufttian low countries
oct. 17. The French, to show
their contempt for the Sardinians, exa
change those they take prifonets, for
'beep - c ,
A London paper, on the 14th of
August, states, that the Earl Spencer
has completely succeeded in his mis
sion: That the Emperor had agreed
to continue the war, on condition of
receiving a subsidy from Greatbruain.
Prince Cobourg is to be displaced, &
succeeded in the command of the ar
my by Gen. Clairfayt, with General
Beaulieu and Colonel Mack for quar
ter-matters.
It is reported at Aix la Chapelle,
that the Commons of Brussels assem
bled on the 28th of July, and voted
for an incorporation with the French
Republic.
There have been great tumults at
Barcelona io Spain, and blood has been
shed by the populace.
.Os Mr. JAY.
Extraß of a letter from an American gentleman,
^^; daud London, 2Otb August.
" Ic is imooffible to fay what is do
ing by Mr. Jay, but from what I can
judge, the country is perfectly inclin
ed to be friendly, and to do ample
justice to America ; as such, no doubt
every thing will go right. From
what ! have seen, both in France and
Germany,,nd here, lam of opinion
the prefeot unhappy war is by no
means likely to be put an end to. All
parties appear so determined, that I
shall not be surprised if it continues
(even years, or eyen much longer."
Mgaebufats.
''y; BOSTON, OCT. 27,
CAPTURE of SLUTS —authentic.
By a gentleman of undoubted ve
racity, who arrived in this town hft
Friday evening from Newyork, which
place he left after the Mail, and came
via Providence—we have the follow
ing agreeable Intelligence i
That Shivs, which war said in the
last Englith papers to have been a
bandoned by the French forces who
besieged it, had aduall, ftirrendered
to the arms of the Republic. This
important news was brought to New
rfork in a veffe| from Hamburgh,
which left that place the toth of Sep
tember lad ; a very Ihoit passage at
this season, as she came through the
North Seas.
The gentleman, our informant, fur
ther fays, that he is well acquainted
with the Captain of the verfel, and
has converted with him fully on the
febjed ; and has no doubt of its au
thenticity.
m also informs us, that Rotter
dam a principal sea port in Holland,
was besieged by the French Troops ;
who had burnt the Gun Boats, under
the command of the celebrated Sir
Sydbey Smith, which were dispatch
ed f<om England to the assistance of
the Ouch.
The vessel from Hamburgh, was
under the command of Capt. Cham
plin, and belongs to the house of
Meritorfe and Champlin, of New
yotk..
The gentleman had with him at
Newport and Providence, the Even
ing papers of Newyork, containing
this intereftiog account, but in un
packing his chest he laid them on the
table in his lodgings and unfortunate
ly left them, very much to his morti
fication.
He further reports that Gen. Piche
grue hadjbeen at Paris, and had re
turned to his command with orders
from the Convention to pursue his
operations with redoubled vigour.
It wai reported 00 Saurday, on
change, that the dares destroyed the
credibility of the information, but the
piefent account may be depended up
on in all its particulars, as we have
given them not without repeated en
quiries and the fulleft fatisfadion.-
Extrema of a letter from a gentlemen in London,
to bis friend in tbistown, Aug. 2s, 1794°
" The success of France will, 1 be
lieve, pfeferve your peace : But in
Europe, War will yet rage, and per
haps with redoubled violence, as all
crowned heads are uneasy, and the ag
itation produces a kind of phrenzy,
that will not be restrained by any rea
fonable cenfiderations. Europe is in
convullions throughout, and no man
tan even conjecture what will ^ the
result. It appears to me to be one of
those great Aira's in which the wisdom
of man is to be confounded, and
/ which that wisdom that rules all in
tends should introduce a new order of
government, and perhaps of morals—
when all old things are done a
way—ALL WILL BECOME NEW
and a very old and good book fays,
that before this, multitudes should fall
in the valley of deceptions. Every
event in France tends to cement'the
Republic; and tocreafe its' triumphs.
Perhaps a new century may hear man
kind exulting in peace on earth, and
I good will amongst men—and this lit
tle period of fix years, if Revolutions
are as rapid as in the last fix, may in-
troduce it ft w^outlive the whir
wind and the temp-ft, we fh^ be'a
mongft those who will &u@n ty
happy a Revolution?' .
salgm, oct.zfi
ALLIEN, °
New Leader ofthe Brrech etrciYrmfa
Is about u years of age, full ci-fire and
energy. His bead is lofty ^^fomm^tfi^g.
He is a GironJin, or,to fppk drifter.,.a MuT
cadio, in all the extent of that term, pe is %
fond of women, of <h^ table; ple^, ind all
amusements. Particularly careful cf hi^
person, he spends much time at his toilet.
Helives publickly with Madame De Fonte-^
nai, daughter of the famous Cabyrus, of
Spain, She is his Egeria;and as much as
possible fattens the rigour of his Republican
character. When he was deputy tomtndia^
ty at Bourdeaux, she engaged him to con
du& himfelf with humanity, and feved man,
fiom the fury of his affociateL Tallied,
however, voted for the death of the King.
The London prints brought by the late
arrivals contain two state papers of consider
able interest. They pi&ure very ftronfly
indeed, the alarm, of the allies, the rapid
progress, of the French, and difylay the des
perate means to which they think of having
rOccurfe for the defence of the country, now
the feat of war. One is a manifefto address
ed by the Prince Cobourg to the Germanic
nation, in which; after taking a retrofpeft of
his unfuccefsful efforts in defending Flan
ders, he calls on that portion of Germany,
between the Maele and Rhine, for their 111-
ver vases and utensils of the churhes, for the
service of the Emperor, and concludes by
declaring that if they are as ntegHg'ent in their
own defence as the Belgians, he will deso
late their country, and retire beyond the
Rhine, The other is a propefition from the
Stadtholder to the States, for a general levy
of men to retrieve the desperate circumstan
ces of the Republic.
Capt. Woodberry arrived Jefterday, 31
days from Trinity Martinique. He informs
us, That the British troops have died there
in amazing numbers, that there are but very
few remaining; and that most of the French
merchants are leaving the idand for the
Southern States of America. Part of Ad,
miral Jervis's squadron remain at Fort Roy
al, not having men enough on board to na
vigate them odt of port, they having defert
ed'
OCT. 28. Capt. E. Defaro put Id
here on Saturday evening, in 63 day,
from Liverpool, bound for Button ;
15 leagues weft of Cape Clear, he was
boarded by a French 20 gun ship, the
officers of which treated him very po
litely, but the dipofition of the sea
men seemed to be to plunder. She
had taken 18 prizes, and bad fix of
them in company—They also saw £
other frigates in company—and un
derstood from the* vessel who boarded
them, that there were several others
cruising there—Six days after, and
from that about three days, they saw
scattering relfels, that they supposed
were part of the Weftindia fleet.
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CONCORD,_OC7OBER „, 1794.
By an arrival at Philadelphia, it is
said, that the whole I(land of Gauda^
Loupe is io peffeffion of the French,
the British having been beat off with
great daughter and loft of oorct.
On Monday next, the Coogrefs of
the United States meets at Philadel
phia,
t+l i
ORDAINED, at North- Yarmouth, on
the zzd of Oftober, Mr. Rufus Anderson,
to the Pastoral care of the Second Church
of Christ in that place. The Council were
unanimous; The God of Grace was addres
sed ina pertinent introductory prayer, by
the Rev. Mr. Wood, of Bofcawen—Sermon
by Rev. Mr. Keen—Ordaining prayer by
Rev. Mr. Clark—Charge by Rev. Mr. Em
erson— Right Hand of Fellowship; by Rev.
Mr. Johnson—Concluding prayer by Rev.
Mr. Emerfon.^
DIED, at Bow, on the evening of the 27th
instant, in a fit of Apoplexy, Mr. Reuses
Currier, aged 6fcf
A London paper makes merry with the
English for their alarm about Jac^inifm, by
stating that an eminent Dentist has lately
been examined by the Ptivy Council, on a
charge of procurihg the teeth of French fens
culottes, and transplanting them into the
jaws of his Majesty's liege fubjea-planting
thus the trees of Liberty in their very jaws—
This, if true, seems to be a practice ot cram
ing Jacobinifo down their throats in spite
of their Teeth.