The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-03-03 00:00:00, page 2

Extra.? from French papers, bro't b, the French
Corvette, the Brutus, from Brefl, and thd^ip
Potemack Planta, Captain Dorfel, from Bor
deaux, arrived at Norfolk.
NATIONAL CONVENTION, NOV. 7.
A DEPUTATION from the Popular So
cieties of Versailles was admitted to the
bar—The Members composing this deputa
tion were dressed in pontifical robes. They
informed the Convention that the Bishop of
—iTe Department of Sein; and Oles, was dead.
" Will you, Legislators fuffer his Bilhopric
to be filled ? Will you, who have destroyed a
throne preserve the canopy—will you cherish
the crozier ?—The Citizen and the Legisla
tor should acknowledge no other worship but
of Liberty —no other Altars, but those of the
Republick—no other Priefis but Magistrates.
Legislators ! imitate the jews—defend from
the mountain, break the golden calf to piec
es, and let the Ark of the Constitution be the
only Idol of the French."— Ordered to be
infected in the Bulletin.
All the news from London agree in their
accounts of a general fermentation in Eng
land :. they can ppblifh nothing but under
reftridions, their manufactories are stopped,
no person pays, nor is paid ; at the fame time
the body of the idle mechanics increase ;
prefling and enlisting is exercised with un
heard of violence and does not appease the
hungry multitude. To calm the minds of
the people, their government ought to boast
of some success ; but they have nothing but
defeats and losses to tell. Gardner repulsed
—the Duke of York beaten—Lord Hood
covered with theodium ofunneceffary cruelty
—Pitt accused of all crimes, denounced by
Justice and the National Convention to the
whole universe—-Granville quite ashamed of
having fuffeted dismemberment of Poland ;
of having alienated the Americans, and loft
forever the trade with France —Dundas, the
'Englifli Levr illere, is tired of signing letters de
Catchet. With what countenance shall this
group of foxes and tygers, when taken by
fnare,< appear before English people ? And
notwithstanding a demand of twelve millions
sterling, is about to be made for thecontinu
ance of this execrable war,if opposition is not
defeended to a phantom, it must arouse the
whole nation to the assistance of its minority :
And that minority must increase the moment
John Bull iliews his teeth. It appears that
these reflexions have struck the ministers
themselves, now many of them, dreading the
tempest that is rising, hope to gain Shelter—
Richmond is retired—Grenville and Dundas
are preparing themselves for Amnesty, by an
appropos difmiffion ; but Pitt, in ading the
Jefiiir, and King G%/in exclaiming What ?
What ? What f &c. &c. are approaching
with an irresistible current, to the last judg
inentof 'he people and to the Revolutionary
Guillotine. ,
Poland.'
WARSAW, oct. 12.—0 n the §th of this
month, the Ruffian Ambassador lent a note
to the Diet, purporting that he had received
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office of the C& of the Superiour
Court, be deposited, and kept in the
several counties to which they refpec
uvely belong.
A bill in addition to and amend
ment of an aft, regulating process and
trials in civil caufet, passed the g:h of
February 1791.
A bill to enlarge the civil jurisdic
tion of justices of the peace, and di
reding constables in certain cases to
serve writs and other legal precepts.
A bill for continuing in force, an
a& entitled an ad tor altering the
places for holding the courts of law,
in the county of Strafford, passed June
21, 1792, were feverall, read, and
passed to a second reading.
The House then proceeded to con
fider the alterations made by the Sen
ate, on the votes of the house upon
inventories, and went through with
the fame.
The Committee on Printers' ac
counts, reported that there was due to
John Melcher £ls. 3s. 7d. 3-4. for
printing, which was granted him.
feb. 13. —It was voted that the
Gen. court, which by the constitution,
is to meet on the firft Wednesday in
June next, meet at Amherst—The
yeas and nays having been called on
the foregoing vote, and were 81 yeas,
18 nays. 1
test Foreign Intelligence.
France.
gociation relative to a treaty of Alliance and
Commerce, and would enter into a confer
, ence whenever the Diet should appoint a day.
He further Rated, that he was charged by the
Empress, his mistress, to accelerate, by his
medition, the treaty of commerce between
Poland and Prussia.
Italy.
Florence, oct. 18.—Letters from Ma
drid, informs us, that a decree has been pub
lished there, ordering a new levy of 60,000
men to reinforce the Spanish army at present
fighting against France.
orders frcm his Court to commence the ne-
vienna, oct. 19. —The free offerings of
the Hungarians to defray the expenses of the
war, and support the free corps of volunteers
which the Count de Giulay has railed,
has increased so nobly, that the Emperour, to
reward their generosity, has ordered that
corps to be called for the future the Free
Corps of Giulay. We are assured that the
Hungarians have given a frefh proof of their
loyalty, by offering to raise a corps of 50,000.
Ninety two thousand men will set off for our
armies at the end of the winter.
deux-ponts, NOV. 17. —For some days
past a movement has been remarked among
the Pruflians, which made us fufpe& some
secret expedition. A great number of scal
ing-ladders, ropes, iron levers, hatchets and
axes, &c. were brought to this city and its
environs. Last night the secret was unrav
elled ; we were awakened by a dreadful can
nonade, which lasted from one o'clock till
near fix in the morning. About nineit was
reported that the Prufhans had carried Bitfche
by afl'ault. The cannonade commenced tow
ards noon, increased constantly, and seemed
to draw nearer. We then began to doubt
the truth of the report ; especially when we
saw a great number of the people arrive at the
fame time, who had fled from the environs of
she river Blies. At last we were informed,
that the Prussians had certainly attempted to
take Bitfche by storm, but that they had not
succeeded. This roofed the courage of the
French, who immediately attacked the corps
of Pruflians near Bliefcaftle ; but by a move
ment of the Duke of Brunswick, they are in
danger of being entirely cut off.
England,
LONDON, Nov. 7. —Letters from Genoa,
of the 4th of Nov. mention, that Admiral
Gell's division were to refit at Gibralter,
and proceed to the Weftindies.
NOV. II. —By every account received yes
terday from the Continent, the progress of
the allies towards Stralbourgh, has been con
fidcrably checked by the various defiles in
possession of the French, most of which have
been very obstinately disputed.
All the foreign papers brought by the
mails of yesterday, confirm the late report of
the evacuation of the Duchy of Savoy, by the
Piedmontefe and Sardinian trocps.
The Madrid Gazette mentions, that intel
ligence has been received at Madrid from the
Spanish Governour of St. Domingo, of the
troops of bis Catholic Majesty having taken
possession of the French fort of Juanna Men
dex ; the garrison of which Surrendered pris
oners of war. The Spaniards found there a
considerable quantity of cannon.
The Dutch were {training every nerve at
the Cape of Good-Hope, in July, in fortify
ing the place and preparing for defence, par
ticularly at False Bay, where the following
vessels lay the 15th of July ; four Dutch com
pany's Ships ; two packets ; one Dane ; an
American brig ; and the Amazon frigate.
General Ricardos, the commander in chief
of the Spanish forces on the French frontiers,
has been suspended by a council of war, up
on a charge of having neglected an oppor
tunity of taking Mont Louis and Perpignan.
On the 7th inst the regiments of British
troops serving under the Duke of York, went
into winter quartersat Tournay. The Prince
de Cobourgh is encamped with the princi
pal part of his army between Cambray and
Landreci.,
The States of Brabant are said to have
determined upon railing; 40,000 men for the
service of theenfuing year. Each of the reg
iments are to bear the name of the provinces
in which they are raised. The Staff officers
are already nominated by the Emperour.—
The Stateshad a Special meeting on the 4th
instant, to pursue their deliberations upon
file pecuniary and martial fuccour reclaimed
bythe Emperour.
Nov. if. —The Elefter of Mentz has libe
rated all the German Jacobins in Ehrenbreif,
ten, and banned them to France.
The French have lately purchased 9000
horses in the Swiss Cantons.,
Whites all, dec 3. A letter; of which
the following is an extract, was yesterday re
ceived from Sir Jimes Murray, Adjutant
General, of the forces under the command of
his Royal Highness the Duke of York, dated
Tournay, Nov. 29, >793> by the Right Hon.
Germany.
Maffaebufetts.
Boston, FEB- 20.—The National Con
vention, Nov. 17, on the report of the Com
mittee of Safety, decreed as follows :—•
" The National Convention declares it to
be their constant refolurion to shew them
selves terrible to theirsnemics, generous to their
allies, and fay? to all people."
" The treaties now subsisting with the
United S.tates of America, and with the
Swiss, shall be scrupulously executed"
The French Minister, Mr. Genet, has at
last called upon the Executive of the United
Spates to fulfil the article of the treaty in
which the United. States have guaranteed to
France her possessions in the Weftindies.—
This requisition is accompanied with some
dispatches from the government of Gauda
loupe, representing the danger to which that
Henry Dundas, his Majesty's Principal Sec
retary of State for the Home Department.
The army remained in a Rate of tranquil
ity until yesterday, about two o'clock in the
afternoon, when the enemy attacked Nechin
and Leers, two advanced posts, occupied
each by about 100 men. They advanced in
considerable force, particularly against Ne
chin, and made their attack with great ra
pidity. The detachment polled there, which
was a picquet from the grenadier battalion
of the troops of Hesse Darmftadt, and halfa
company of the imperial free corps of O'Don
nell, defended the post for some time with
great gallantry, but being obliged to yield to
the superiority of numbers, they retreated
towards Bailleul,whiift the detachment which
occupied Leers, to avoid being surrounded,
fell back to Eftainbourg. Major General
During, however, who had repaired upon the
firft alarm, to the point of attack, having
brought up the light infantry of the battal
ion of Hesse barmftadt, from Eftainbourg
and Peck, and a party of the Hanoverian cav
alry, under the command of Colonel Lin
fingnen, having advanced from Templenve,
the enemy were driven back in their-turn,
and the posts re-occupied.
The Darmftadt troops had two men kill
ed ; Capt. Von Shonberg, and seven men
wounded ; Capt. Von Becker, who was like
wise wounded, and four men taken. The
corps cf O'Donnell had fix men wounded
and two taken. The Hanoverian cavalry
one man wounded. The loss of the enemy
was greater ; several were found dead about
the village of Nechin, and 7 or 8 taken.
The following important article is copied from a
London paper of Nov. 25.
Yesterday Mr. Wiffin, the King's messen
ger, arrived at the Secretary of State's Office,
with dispatches from Joseph Brame, Esq. his
Majesty's Minister at Genoa.
By these dispatches it appears that the
Republick determined not to give up their
connexion with France, had rather chosen
to risk hostilities with this country, and in
consequence had determined on a war with
Greatbritain, Mr. Wiffin, the Messenger,
was allowed 12 hours to pass through thejr
territories, a'nd all foreigners, the French ex
cepted, had been ordered to quit the territo
ries of the Repuplick within a certain time.
In consequence of which, Sir Gilbert Elliot,
who was there on his way to Toulon, and his
Britannic Majesty's Minister at Genoa, with
all the British then at that place, had embark
ed on board his Majesty's Ship the Bedford,
of 74 guns, Captain Mann, and failed for
Toulon.
newyork, feb. 13. —A letter from Sa
vannah, Jan. 20th mentions, " No doubt
you have heard of the attempt made- by the
Negroes in some part of this State to rife ; it
was in Augusta, and its vicinity ; on the 25th
Dec. there was not a Negro to be found in
the town, they having all assembled privately
at some houses in the suburbs, all armed ;
but Something of it being fufpeded, Gov.
Mathews ordered out the militia, and he at
their head dispersed the Negroes, and patrol
ed the town a whole night ; by which pre
caution nothing alarming was affected.
" The death of our Federal Marshal you
likewise have heard of—A man that was
more universally beloved could not be found
in Georgia; he was Ihot through the head
while in the execution of his office, (serving a
writ) by a Beverly Allen, a Methodist preach
er, whose chara&er is as vile as is possible ;
he has seduced two unfortunate girls, and he
is now about to receive his earthly punilh
ment. Major Forfyth has left a large family
to mourn his unhappy fate."
WINCHESTER, FEB. 3. It was lately rep
resented, in a letter from Cincinnati, territory of
the United States, N. W. of the river Ohio, and
which was publfbed in the Maryland Journal,
that Gen. Clarke, who had received a French
commffim, was raising a body of tr&s in Ken
tucky, togoon an expedition down tbt&ifffypi—
That Gen. Clarke has a cemmiffion, is true ; but
that he bad began raising troops, when our infor
mant (lately) left Kentucky, is falfe.
Virginian
Newyork.
Occupies the public attention. On the
reports of its recapture which'have been re
peatedly foread, no dependence can be plac
ed. A vessel is said to have arrived at a
southern port in a short passage from Gibrak
ter, and brings accounts or its recapture.
Capt. Lewis, arrived here from Spain, in
forms, that in December last, the French
troops had captured all the surrounding forts,
except one, and the communication of that
is cut off: These however are but the repe
tition of accounts which for 4 months have
been in circulation. That the city will even
tually be retaken cannot be doubted ; but
whoever confiders its immense ftren^ih, and
recolleas the fuccefsful resistance it made
again# the numerous army under Prince
island is exposed, from the British force.
This demafad seems to be the finishing ad of a
preconcerted plan, which has been Readily
pursued by that Minister, for dragging A
merica into a war with Greatbritain & Spain.
Those who know the insidious proceedings
of that man, would not be furprized to dis
cover hereafter, that he lent to Gaudaloupe
for the purpose of procuring such reprefcma
tions of the danger of that colony, as might
be necessary to enforce and juftify this last
requisition On this asen every other occa
sion we place great confidence in the integri
ty, prudence, impartiality and firmnefs of our
rulers. At the lame time, circumstances of
this kind make .Ms regret every cormcaion
with foreign nations, that can expose us to
the calamity of sharing in their quarrels.
Every day gives us new reason to abhor the
system of treaties, cffejifive and defective ; a
system perhaps ,ue«S,„ in Europe, but one
that would prove a perpeiual scourge to this
Extras of a Letter from Muntferat, dates: fax
uary 21, 1794.
To William Gray, Esq.
I have the mortification to acquaint you of
my being takenby the Experiment Ship of
War, commanded by Daniel Morgan,
and brought into this port, on the night of
the 17th inst. sixteen hours after my leaving
the Point. Here I find thirteen of my coun
trymen in my fixation, five of which are
actually condemned, both vessels and car
goes ; and that is the fate we all must inev
itably exped, although the greatest part can
prove the property to be bona fide their own
and the merchants. This day I have been
interrogated, together with Mr. Burn, but
have not answered half the questions they
have put us. I should wish to have your ad
vice in this great matter, but am advised to
protest and not Band trial ; therefore I have
protested against the Privateer, Captain,
Owners, Agents, and all other petfons en
gaged in or have any concern in the said Pri
vateer. If I had had the least idea of being
trepanned in such djnanner, I should have
stood a better chance, by beating up round
Point Chattau, and getting to windward of
Antigua, but was advised to the contrary.
The seas are covered with Privateers, and
Frigates. It is almost impossible to go clear.
I expeded to be libelled the day after to mor
row, and twenty one days from that comes
on my trial of condemnation. —There are
preffwarrants issued out here by the Com
mander of the Boyne Frigate, to impress ev
ery one that fpeaKS English, in consequence
of which, the Americans are obliged to hide
on ihore among rocks and bushes, and there,
in danger of being knocked on the head by
the negroes.
THE FATE OF TOULON
country.
Extra^tf a letter frem tWCa,tain of a ^gi at
Amfierdum to bis ou&r in ibis town, gated
O&. 23.
" In my outward bound paff.tge, about
two hours after the pilot left us, 1 was un
der the necessity of hoilting out my boat to
go on board the Democrat privateer, with
my papers, when we were in the greatest
confufion ; after detaining me about three
hours, ordered me to proceed. In lac. 49,
long. 20, 25, I was boarded by a Liverpool
flhip of 20 guns—the Captain of which behav
ed like a gentleman. In lat. 491, long. 8,
14, was brought too by the Mary privateer,
of Liverpool, mounting 16 guns—who or
dered us to hoist out our boat, at a time ve
ry unfit on account of the weather—l how
ever went on board —fredetaind me, and 4
of my people on board his ship, sent his
mate and eight hands to fetich fcr French
people and papers. The mate executed his
business to perfeaion. There was not a
trunk they did not overbawl they cut
many bags of coffee open, and filled their
bosoms full, and left the rest to run about
the ship—They defircyed many of my pa
pers and bocks, and carried some on board
the (hip,—They attempted to plunder the
the passengers of their money and watches.
I was on board about 7 hours ; after mak
ing every attempt to bribe me and my people
to swear that the cargo was French— he
Captain offered to give me £7OO. to fay the
cargo was French—He offered each of the
people 60 guineas to fay the fame, but they
had tco much honesty to accept the propo
sal; the boy's answer was, <hat he did net
want money, nor any thing they had, he
had rather stay on beard lis or^ R .h 1
go on board any English ship whatevc ."