The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-10-31 00:00:00, page 2

^tricing fop/CHiNEs: Poverty.
CHINA has been long one of the richest,
and is one of the most fertile, best cul
tivated countries in the world. It seems,
however, to have been long stationary. M.
Po|o, who visited it more than five hundred
years ago, describes its cultivation, industry
arid populousness, alm'oft in the fame terms
in which they are described by travellers in
the present time t It had perhaps even long
before this time, acquired that full comple
ment of riches, which the nature of its laws
and institutions permit it to acquire.—The
accounts of all travellers, inconsistent in ma
ny other refpeas, agree in the low wages of
labour, and in the difficulty which a labourer
finds in bringing up a family in China. If,
by digging the ground a whole day, he can
get what will purchase a small quantity of
rice in the evening, he is contented. The
condition of artificers, is if pcffible still
worse. Instead of waiting indolently in
their wo/k houses, for the customers, as in
Europe, they are continually running about
the streets with the tools of their refpedive
trades, offering their service, and as it were,
begging employment. The poverty of the
lower ranks of people in China, far surpasses
that of the most beggarly nations in Europe.
In the neighbourhood of Canton, many
hundred, it is commonly said many thousand
families, have no habitation on the land, but
live constantly in little fifhing boats upen the
rivers and canals.
Th^fubfiftence which they find there is
so scanty that they are eager to fifh up the
- naftieftgarbage thrown overboard from any
European (hip. Any carrion, the carcase of
a dead dog or cat, for example, though half
putrid and stinking, is as welcome to them as
the most wholelome food is to the people of
other countries.—Marriage is encouraged in
China not by the profitablenefs of children,
but by the liberty of destroying them.— In
all great towns, several are every night expos
ed in the streets, or drowned like pupies in
the water. ' The performance of this horrid
office is even said to be the avowed business
by which some people earn their subsistence.
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Latest Foreign Intelligence.;
> England.<
LONDON, AUG. j 6
THE people of Bruffeli, now
drink deep in the cup of despair.
The exadions of the French commif
fioneri are at their height. They
have leized from the warehoufet of
the merchants, every article for the
army service, such as clothes, linen,
leather, and hats, and even withheld
the wretched payment of affignats.
IThe city of Bruffeli, with itsprocla
matioo, not having been able to pay
the Five Millions of contribution im
posed—Two hundred of the most con
siderable inhabitants have been arrett
ed as hostages, and sent into France.
'Thefe vexations, robberies, and the
ravage of their fine park, of which a
part has been railed to the ground, for
the encampment of the troops, has
caused a moment of fury to succeed
the general consternation. The peo
ple have dared to murmur, but the
cannon every where mounted, and
commanding the public streets to fuf
rain the threat of burning the City to
alhes, have quitted the indignation,
which will only return augmented by
this check.
:Antwerp is not better treated, al
, though within the four-and-twenty
hours they paid the Ten Millions im
posed upon them. Their fine pictures
are carried off, the only testimony of
their, former opulence, the obje&s
tfyhich attraded the admiration of ge
nius, and the curiosity of the travel
ler.
The condua of the French in Bra
bant, seems to announce, that they
harefodefign to fix there their win
ter quarters ; arid that they will evac
. Date the place, as toon as the harvest
shall be completed^ ,{^..
§ it remains to be feeri, whether the
Emperor will design to re-enter the
province, and re-eftaDliHi a govern
ment, which their ingratitude or folly
. neglectedro fapport. '± cannot but
far Bruffeli is forever ptofcribed by a
Sovereign it has so traitorously forgot
ten. Already his anger has manifeft
ed kfe!! @nft its tre^chewu! State;
The government, fitting at Aix-ia-
Chapelle, has them as traitors to their
Sovereign and their country.
The Prince de Cobourg, in his proc
lamation to the German people, de
nounces them thus to all Europe.—
These are his expressions:
“ The inactivity of a people, blind
to the approaches of danger, and deaf
to the paternal voice of a good Prince.
—The insidious conduct, for which 1
can scarcely find a name, of.many of
its Ambitious Representatives, men,,
who, too late, that the people fees and
abhors as the authors of amifery, with
out end, without bounds."
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Ruffian Fleet.
From our Correspondent at Edin
burgh, we yesterday received a letter,
acquainting us, that a Ruffian Fleet of
ib fail of the line, and 4 frigates, had
arrived in the mouth of the Frith of
Forth, on the 14th instant.
An officer was sent on shore, who
on Friday landed at Leith, for the pur
pose of taking in frelh provisions.
The coast of Scotland, wasthe place
of their destination. There they were
to wait till they received further or
ders from the Court of Peterfburgh.
- Various (peculations have been made
on the ultimate object of this fleet :
and one of the following objeds seems
to be the real one—The Empress ei
ther is aware of a rupture with the
Porte, and intends this fleet for the
Mediterranean, or (he thinks it neces
sary to add strength to her naval force
in-the Baltic.—On the eve of her lift
war 'with Sweden, she found means to
bring five line of battle fhipi into the
Baltic, for which the Court of Stock
holm was very much blamed. \
The present fleet consists wholly of
flew fhipi, built at Archangel, and, it
is supposed, the Danish and Swedish
fleets have been fitted out to oppose
their entrance,
if this foppefition be well founded,
the Empress will be obliged to fend
her whole strength into the Baltic, to
conduct them through the Sound, io
defiance of the combined fleets of
Sweden and Denmark.
If they do not enter the Baltic, thee
it is put beyond a doubt, that the Em
press either is aware of a certain rup
ture with the Turks, or intends at last
to come forward with vigour against
the French.>
This last seems very unlikely, as the
Emprefi's assistance would be much
more ufeful by land than by sea.
By our Hull Correspondent, we re
ceived the following intelligence in
corroboration of the proceeding :
" Captain Watson, of the Good In
tent, of Hull, from Archangel at Hull,
reported on change there, that he and
Jamfon, of Phmbus, fell in with, off
the Cape, 8 fail of Ruffian ihips of the
line and 5 frigates, who brought them
to, and informed them they were for
England, and were to receive orders
either at the Forth or Humbert They
soon left the Ruffian fquadroo, and
arrived here lately without feeing any
enemy whatever,
" But they add, that before they
reached England, they fell in with a
Ruffian frigate, which enquired forthe
above squadron, and which they fop
pole carried further orders."
From a late London Paper.
BRITISH ARMY.
Exiraa of a letter from an officer ofthe Duke of
York's army. ,
Camp, near Breda, Aug. 10.
WE were preparing to march co
the vicinity of Bois-le-duc, w here the
heavy baggage, efcorced by one squad
ron of the Bluet, had nearly arrived,
when countermanding orders were re
ceived, and we remain on our old
ground. This circumstance is some
what favourable to many of the rest
ments of infantry, to whom thqmarch
es from the great depth of sand in the
road, are become harraffing and fa
tiguing in the highest degree. The
want of tents, which some of them
still labour under, and the badness of
the weather (for fame time part very
rainy) form, upon the whole, no small
accumulation of thole evils, to which
the life of a soldier is peculiary fub
jeft.
The day before yeflerday, arrived
the order so long wanted, and which
earlier issued, might probably have
rescued many a brave and gallant fel
low from a premature grave ; in con
sequence of it, the remaining sick, to
the number of near two thousand men,
were conveyed to their native coun
try, instead of remaining as before in
unwholesome Bilanders, the air of
which, by their long abode, was ren
dered nearly as bad as that of a peft
houfe. To this infolubriety, many
are the vidimi chat have recently fal
len. ,
Our present situation very much re
sembles that of several of our late en
campments ; that is co fay, tn exten
sive common surrounded on all hands
by wildness and sterility, instead of
fertility and plenty we met with here
tofore, the latter of which being di
minHhed in a dire& ratio with the in
crease of the army, the price of every
thing is become extravagantly high.
Breda lies about three miles distant
from our camp. The town is ren
dered very ftroog by its formidable
works, which they are preparing io
great haste for the event of an attack.
—Gertruydenberg being only two
leagues from thence, I cook a ride
thither. The fmillnefs of this im
portant place, and the water and low
grounds that surround it, were what
accrued my notice. A simple ram
part with baftons,and a wet ditch, are
all that is necessary to render is almost
inaccessible. It is like Breda liberally
“ herrieffe de cannons," of which there
is likewise no trifling deposit in the
former town.
Here the cavalry are obliged to go
each to fetch his share of corn. This
I imagine is owing to the impossibility
of the commissary ' sApplying it ; the
heavineft of the roads destroying such
numbers of draft horses, which are to
be found dead and dying on every
hand.
Two days ago an entire Dutch pi-,
quet at one of the advanced pofts.was
surprised while asleep, and the officer
and 16 hussars carried off by a patrole
of the enemy. From some few de.
fetters lately come in, we learn that
they are in considerable force. They
are, however, bih little advanced on
this fide of Antwerp, and except the
distant report of some very heavy
metal, seemingly on rhe water, partic
ularly last night, and the whole of this
day, we hear not the least of them. 4
The natives of this country do not
bear us the greatest good will, as ap
peared on our marching from our late
camp at Rofendael, where they pil
laged many of the waggons in the
rear, beating and very ill treating
those who accompanied them. It is
even said, that several of the escort
were killed and wounded by the pea
santry. Some futers fared the f&^e—
and the cents and camp equippage of
the 28th regt, were, by these means,
totally loft.
Captur&tf„
We 4re sorry to learn, Treves has been
taken by storm. A letter from Coblentz,
the rzth inst. gives the following accounts
of this affair. • /
" General Michaud having received or
ders from the Convention to take Treves,
whatever it might c6ft him, marched thither
in confequehce on the Bth inst. A French
column forced one of the intrenchments situ
ated before that city, in spite ofthe most vig
orous resistance. The Prtiffian corps in the
neighbourhood advanced with haste, but not
in time to save the city, which the French en
tered on the 10th.
The Austrian troops retired in good order
Cowards Mayence. General Kalkreuth is
arrived at Moselle, with i 5,000 men, but we
are assured that the number ofthe enemy ex
ceeds 50,000. It was not till the fourth as
sault and after a great lots that the French
carried the entrenchments which covered
Treves. By the capture of Treves, the city
of Coblents is much exposed to the enemy.
, Domestic Articles.
Virginia.
NORFOLK, CCT. 10,.
FIOM St. Croix, 24 d<% we learn
that on the 7 h Sept, an engage
ment commenced between the French
and English at Gaudaloupe.' The
Eoglifh were totally defeated, and all
those who could not reach the boats
were put to the sword. They left the
island to the French, who had 400
whites and 10,000 freed negroes in
arms. The Brirdh had 4000 troops
engaged. Said to be a fa&.
OCT, 1L 03 Tuefday last arriv
ed the Ihip Ann, Capt. Bullard, in
70 days from London. Capt. Bullard
informs, that a few days before he
failed, he saw 4000 troops, with 100
pieces of artillery, embarked for the
continent. On the 2d of Sept, in lat.
44, 23, N. long. 30, W. spoke five
French-frigates, a Goop of war, and a
schooner, 22 days from Brest, on a
cruise. They had captured 4 English.
flhips and two Americans ; the Eng
lilh fhipi they had burnt; lof which
was then on fire in fight ; the Ameri
can vessels they had sent to France,
after raking the men out, 13 in num
ber, all of whom they obliged Captain
Bullard to take on board, giving with
them 2 puncheons of wqi&r, 2501b!.}
of bread, but no beef, At half after
one o'clock they bore away after a
fleet of Newfoundland fifhermen,
whom they intended to burn. The
Capt. of one of the frigates informed
Capt. Bullard they bad positive orders
from the National Convention to burn
all English veffelsthey captured.
Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 16.
The following is the copy of a me
morandum g Captain Fitzpatrick, of
the ship Adriana, and contains all the
intelligence in circulation at the time
of his failing from Arnfterdam.
' " The Prince of Cobourg, with
his army, lay between Liege & Treves,
with an intention to retake the latter,
or oppose the progress of the French
army. The Duke of York, with the
British army, lay between Antwerp
and Breda, and the Dutch army were
moving io different bodies to Bois le
Dpc, Breda, & Bergenopzoom. The
French were be figging Sluys, and'id
taken the forts of Philips and Elille,
near Sluys, by which they have ren
dered the inundating the country use
less. - A Dutch officer who arrived at
the Hague, brought an account that
the garrison of Sluys were provided
with all forts of supplies in plenty,
but that the number , of men was in
efficient to make a very great de
fence, This officer came to demand
a reinforcement of men, which if not
granted, the Dutch General, Vander
Duyn, would be obliged to give up
'the place. The French, with the afi
fiftance Os some of the inhabitants ofr
Liege, had taken the suburbs of that
city, but Gen. Eatour eteded a bat
tery on the hill of Chrareufe, which
obliged them to withdraw, after which
there was an engagement between the
I French and the Austrian Gen, Krag,^