The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-03-04 00:00:00, page 2

FRANCE. I,
NATIONAL CONVENTION, Dec. 4.
Letter from General DumouriE R.
Leige, December 2.
Citizen Representatives,
Since doubtshave been raised refpefting my
moral Character, I request that my Corres
pondence with the Minister be made Publick,
that the whole Nation may judge of it. This
Measure will; be attended with no Inconve
nience.
" Had I been supported, the Austrian Army
would have been annihilated." It is still
• Time, isl am fuffered to ad as I please. I
shall be answerable for the whole Consequen
ces. If any Suspicions are entertained regard
ing me, I beg that the Convention will fend
one to fuceed me.
l enclose in this Letter two Dispatches for
the Minister at War. DUMOURIER.
P. S. I have this Moment received Intel
ligence that the Citadel of Namur is taken,
and that the Garrison has been made Prison
ers. The Siege of the Fortress does Honour
to General Valence, and the Army which
he commands
The General's Advices to the Minister were
then read. He said, Yesterday the Army
would have been in want of Forage, if a Pa
trol had not seized two boats Load of Hay,
which the Aufttians were carrying down the
Meufe.''
The want of Money is still more alarm
ing. There are but three thousand Livers in
the Chest, and the pay is due to the whole
Army.
The Army is without Bread, without For
age, without Money. If this state of things
be not changed within a Week, I do not con-;
ceal that Ifhall fend my Resignation.
He then expresses a Su^prife, that the Min-;
ifter purchases Corn in Brabant for France,andj
fends the Meal of France into Brabant.
A keen Debate followed.
Cambon said he could not conceive how
the Army could be without Provisions after
such immense Quantities had been found at
Mechlin and other Places of Brabant. He'
moved that the Convention order the Minis
ter to give in a Reportduring the fitting, -
I. Os the answers he made to the lallLet
ters ofDuMOVRIER.
2. If it betrue that the Army isin want of
every Provision. And,
3. What is become of the Provision and
Ammunition found at Mechlin.
The Convention were informed that the:
Insurgents which threatened the City of Or- 1
leans, were dispersed. 1I
The Minister for foreign Affairs informed;
the Convention, that the Inhabitants of Po-'
rentrui had thrown off the Yoke of their Bith
op,and constituted themselves a Republick.
Letter ts Lieatenantgeneral Vale^CE to the Min
iJier at War.
, j " Malogne, December s.
“ I have the Honour of informing you, Cit
izen Minister, that the Woods near Fort Ber
nard, called Bois d'Afcbe, were occupied from
the 19th by the Enemy, to the Number of a-.
bout 5000, entrenched with a great deal ofl
Care. This excellent Position induced them
to fall upon the Body of observation which I
bad on the other fide the Meuje, without the
Possibility of my knowing their Motions and
their Forces ; they intecceped, being cover
ed by the Woods, all Communications in this
difficult Country, and could perform their
Operations without my being apprised of
them. I resolved in Consequence of these dif
ferent Motives, to endeavour to compel them
to abandon their Position ; and after the Bat-,
tie, which lasted all the Day, they were repuls
ed Yesterday to Abeffe, and their Entrench
ments carried : 20 Soldiers of the Republick
were killed or wounded ; and the Enemy had
not only a great Number of dead, wounded,
and Deserters, but the French Troops also
took 92 Soldiers and 5 Officers, among whom
is Lieutenantcolonel Lusignan,a celebrated
Officer,& who commanded from Martbeen Fam
ine to the Meuse . Icould with at the fame time
to be able to announce to you the surrender
of the Citadel of Namur ; but that place being
very ftrongl,repaired, Forces me to a regular
Attack. I hope, however, after the steps
which havebeen taken, that I will not be a
long Time without informing you, that it is in
the power of the Troops of the French Repub
lick I departed from ordinary Methods to
get possession of Fort Villote, a Work extreme.
well conduced, mined and counter mined,
The avowed Determination of the French
to open the Navigation of the Scheldt, a Mea
sure which would go materially to injure the
commercial Interests of the United Provinces,
and with it ultimately that of this Country,
justly alarms the English Government, elofely
leagued as it is with Holland and Prussia, by the
most natural Bonds of Alliance. In Conse
quence, we are informed, that unless France
immediately explains fatisfa&orily to our
Court, a Fleet will be inftgntly ordered of 12
Ships of the Line, in Addition to the ten Fri
gates already put into Commission, which
Fleet will be followed up by a more formidable
Force ; and Cdntra&s are already entered into
with Government to supply this Equipment
with all the Necessaries required in aflual Sere
vice.
which had much impeded our Works. Yes
terday, at Midnight, it was scaled by the Gre
nadiers of the 47th Regiment, those of the
Battalions of the Saone and Loire, and of the
Haut Vienne, supported by two Battalions con
du&ed by Lieutenantgeneral Leveneur,
Adjutantgeneral Desbrules, and Captain
Jaubert, an Officer very much distinguished
by his Talents and his Valour. Lieutenant
general Leveneur took the Commandant
Prisoner, at the instant when he was about to
spring the Mines. They were counter mined,
and the French Troops killed about 100 men,
and made 300 Prisoners, who guarded the
Fort, among whom were 5 Officers and an En
gineer. There were in the Works two Pieces of
Cannon, & a great Deal of Ammunition. The
Troops were lodged there under a very warm
Fire from one of the halt Moons and the Body
of the Place ; and we loft many of our brave
Companions in maintaining our Station. The
Attack did not cost one Soldier to the Coun
try. Deserters continually arrive from the
Garrison of the Citadel, especially from the
Regiment of KiniJki ; whose Commander was
killed in the Fort; that of the Hussars was at
the Attack of the Wood. All the Troops of
the advanced Guard, and those which were at
the Trenches, behaved very well in the two
Adions, of which I have given you anAccount
— [Here follows pathetick Eulogiums in Fav
our of many brave Officers, &c.]
(Signed) "VALENCE."
LONDON, December 4.=lt has been the
grand Objed of this Country, consistent with
that equitable System of Politicks which it has
ever profeiTed,.to observe the most ftrid Neu
trality with Refpe& to the Affairs of France,
since the Revolution of that Country ; but
this Neutrality it appears no longer possible
to preserve, and at the fame Time abide by the
Faith of Treaties,
Extraa of a Letter from Paris, Non,. 29.
" The Citadel of Antwerp is taken, and the
opening of the Scheldt now secured."
ExtraH of a Letter from Antwerp, Nov. 27.
" The French have opened their Trenches
within a musket Shot of the Citadel, without
the Austrians having fired a tingle Gun until
Yesterday, when some Cannons were let off.
" General Labourdonnay proclaimed
here Yesterday, that the National Convention'
meant to pass a Decree for a free Navigation
on the River Scheldt."
KNOXVILLE, January 13.
f\N the 17th of December, a Party of the
Cavalry in Service for the Protection of
Maro Diftria, about eight Miles from Nafo
vi lle, were fired on by about twenty Indians,
who put them to flight,killed John An kins,
who was scalped, and his Body much mang
led ; and shot one Horse.
On the 29th of the fame Month, John
Haggard was killed and scalped, about fix
Miles from Nafowille, —Twelve Balls were
foot into him. His Wife was killed last Sum
mer, by the Indians, and he has Jest five small
Children in Poverty and Wretchedness,,
The Indians carry on Horse ftealing,accord
ing to custom, without Cessation in that
Diftri&.
On Monday the 31st of December the In
dians drove off 18 Head of very valuable Hors
es, from Big Pigeon, fefferfan County, near
where Richardson's Family were Murder
ed, and wantonly killed several Cattle and
Hogs. .
DOMESTICK.
KENTUCKY.
ENGLAND^
Lately arrived at Willfoiw, nine Shawa
nefe, who havefpafled on to the Creeks and
Chodaws, for the Purpose of exciting them
to go to War with the United States. They
are to return through the Cherokee Towns,
with an Expedation of meeting that Nation
in full Council at Ejlanaula. They informed
the Cherokees, that the Shawanefe were deter
mined to fall on the Chickasaws and cut them
off, for joining the Army of General Saint
Clair.
"PENNSYLVANIA?
PHILADELPHIA,- February 11.
Extral? of a Letter from a Gentleman in London
to bis Correspondent in this City, dated Decem
ber 3, 1793, per the Packet.
" Our publick Affairs are in a very critical
Situation. God alone can bring good out of
Evil. Government are greatly alarmed, anti
have summoned suddenly tfe Parliament.
Great Sacrifices must be made before the Fer
ment is allayed ; Pensions reduced ; Sinecures
abolished ; Parliament reformed by a far more
equal Representation ; church Preferment
more equalized, and a variety of Objects to be
embraced, highly Proper to have been effected
half a' Century back; but this is an Epoch
big with Events, and we are all alarined and
in Anxiety. All Europe are occupied by the
Affairs of France, and much of it ready to fol
low her."
From another Letter, December §.
" Our Funds have fallen considerably with
in the last Fortnight, from' the Exertions
which our Government have been and are
now making to prevent the Disturbances of
the internal Peace of this Kingdom and
France ; and the Preparations which they
would seem to be making to go against a for
eign Enemy ! What the Result of all this
may be, it is impossible to fay ; but it is to be
hoped, that this Storm may blow over."
Extraa of another Letter from London Dec. 5.
" It is with regret I have to inform you,
that England is in a very critical Situation. It
has become Serious and alarming to a Degree.
Government is taking every Precaution to
suppress it, which God grant they may.
There is a double Number of Soldiers at the
Bank ; the Militia held in readiness ; the
Toweris strongly guarded ; the Cannon fix
ed on thq old Walls, besides new Walls built
'to strengthen it.,-
" No Person is permitted to walk on the
Parapet, as was usual. There are too many
difaffeded People in Manchefler, Sheffield,
great Number in Leeds, and too many rebell
ious in London, both Scotch and Irish 1 It is
supposed the Presbyterians are the Head.
" Parliament will meet next Week. When
they were prorogued, they were not to meet
until January. Lord Semple' and Colonel
Fitzgerald are turned out of the Army,
for wishing to inftil Notions in the Soldiery to
make them difaffeded. The Duty on Malt.
Beer, Soap, and Candles, it is expedled, wii?*
be taken off."
NEWYORK.
NEWYORK, February^ 2. =From Lisbon
Papers to December 21. The French are in Pof
felfen of Oftend. They have declared in Fa
vour of opening the Scheldt. Labourdon
nay resigned on a Misunderstanding with
Dumou RiER, and Lieutenantgen. Miran
da succeeded to his Command. The Ambaf
fadour of France at Naples, has received Orders
to retire from that Capital. Gazettes are for
bidden to be read in Coffeehoufes and other
publick Places in LiJfo.
.Cop, of a Letter from Bremen.
" They write from Minden, that the Land
grave of Hesse Caffel had published in his Do
minions a Proclamation, that whatever Sub
je&s loved him, and were desirous of defending
their Country, should appear by a particular
Day at Caffel, the Place of his Residence, but
not one appeared.
" In Consequence of the above, the follow
ing Letter was addfeffed to the Ladgrave of
Hesse Caffel, dated Headquarters, near Frank
fort, November 28th, 1792,' ift Year of the
Republick:'
:"The Landgrave of Hesse Caffel endeavours
to aflemble in the Centre of his Dominions
numerous Warriours. Does he not remember
that the last Day has appeared for all unjust
Sovereigns, which will be the Day of Delivery
for their blinded and deluded Subjeas ? , 1
"He has placed those around him by whose
Assistance he expels to secure his shaking