The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-09-15 00:00:00, page 3

an additional allowance of pay, and of feints,
which were that day allowed to them.
Health and Fraternity, PICHEGRU;
England.
LONDON, JULY i. The black board at
• Lloyd's yesterday, contained the accounts of
more than 20 ships of different nations being
carried in as prizes to Brest.
Resolutions have been entered into by sev
eral of the parities of Dublin, "not to illu
minate but for a peace." ;
JULY 4. It is now confidently said, that
for more than fix weeks past, the Austrians,
, convinced of what must be the issue of the
campaign, have been transporting their ma
gazines and military ftdres from the Nether
' lands back to Germany. About a month a
go, Barrere, in one of his reports from the
committee'of Public Safety, said the cam
paign Would close sooner than was expeded.
There are strong presumptions that the Em
peror and the Commit,ee of Public Safety
understood one another; and we should not
be forprifed to hear that the Austrian garri
sons in Conde, Valenciennes, Quefnoy, and
Landrecies agree to evacuate these places, on
condition of being allowed to march out with
arms, artillery and baggage.
BURLINGTON_HOUSE.
In consequence of the late dis
agreeable intelligence from the
continent, his Majesty's Mi.sif
ters have condefeended to con
sult and ask the advice, as to the
further prosecution of the war,
of those whole opinions they
formerly treated with derision.
_On Tuefday there was a large
meeting at the Duke of Portland's
houfe,compofed of the confiden
tial friends of the Minister, and
the principal leaders from the
oppofirion. At this meeting, we
underhand, that the fubjedt of
the war was difeuffed, when ma
ny of the most distinguished a,
larmifts gave their vote for Peace. J
Therefult of die meettogwas,
we believe, through the inter
ferance of Mr. Jay, the Ameri
can Envoy, to fee how far the
Convention arc disposed to make
peace with'the present Miniftrv.
Should they decline to treat with
the leading men of the Cabinet,
the next fubjea for considera
tion will be, what arrangements
shall take place to ensure the
tranquility of the country?
The persons, to whom the
nation look up, .are —Mr. Fox,
Mr. Sheridan, the Duke ^f Graf
ton, and the Marquis of Lanf
downe. With the three former,
the,Portland party have no ob
jection to aft ; but Ministers
prefer a coalition with the Mar
quis, whose friends are less nu
merous, and from whose con
ne&ions adminift ration have 40
:apprebenfion, as they are not
fufficiently strong to prevent Mr
Pitt and his fattelites coming a
gain into power, should they
conceive it necessary to resign,
forthe desirable end of procur
ing peace to the kingdom.
Domestic Articles.
Norfolk, aug. 18.
ExtraA of a letter from a gentleman in Brf, to
^ bis brother in tbit town, dated sane 25.
"1 fhajl not at this moment
dwell on politics ; I shall only
tell you that a convoy from N.
America isjuft arrived at fyeft ;
I flhailalfo inform you that the
Dutch troops refufe to fight, and
the Spaniards are diftra&ed—l
cannot perfectly acquaint you as
to the last, but 1 can assure you
that Catalonia is taken, and that
we advance daily, bet cannot tell
you in what part of Spain our
troops are. A great many for
eign troops come to join us every
day, from every quarter, even
whole regiments." # ,
Arrived ifrH>mpton toad the ship
PalleyCapt. Dehoo, in 8 days from
Boftonj was brought to and boarded
off the Caper, by the E^glifh frigate
Th:fb\ who the day before had cap
tured the ship Martha, of Newbury
port, Capt. Thomas, cleared for and
bound to Falmouth, Czpr. Dehoa
brought up two of Capt. Thoma/i
men, who informed him that the fri
gate was then waiting for a black
brig, now loading in this port wi,th
wheat, when they intended to fend
her with the ship March?, fb Halifax.
. BRITISH INSULTS.
FOUNDED on PLAIN FACTS.
On Monday lad the ship Martha,
Capt. Thomas Thomas, of Newbu
ryport, failed from Hampton roxlf,
with Hour, bound to Falmouth, load
ed by and for account of a citizen of
the United Seated The Bricifh fri
gate Th fb? lying in Hampton roads
at the fame rime got under way, fol
lowed the Martha, and in fight of our
shores captured her, and feot her to
Halifax—part of the Martha's crew
has returned—To what a situation we
are finally reduced —our ports are
blockaded, and our vtflfelt .made priz
es in fight of the fta coast, and yet
we are at peace. The government
of the United States, has adopted a
pacific sy stem, we arte then bound to
commit no aft of hostility let us
then unite,and refufe them all kinds
of fuppliet; for this purpose the citi
zens Should meet and come into reso
lutions, and appoint committees to fee
those resolutions executed —To these
ends, the citizens of Norfolk, Ports
mouth, and their vicimtiei, are re
queued to meet at the County Court
House on Saturday next, at 11 A, M.
where proptfiuons will be submitted
to their confider^ion,,
Extrail of a letter from a gentleman in
Fhtladeipbia, dated Sept. 1.
" I am forty that the date of our
coast, makes it dangerous to lend pro
perty to sea ; the British frigates are
determined not to fuffer any vessels
loaded with flour, to proceed. The
Martha, with a cargo of flour, from
Norfolk, to Falmouth, (Maffa.) failed
out of the capes of the Chr^peLke,
where lay an English frigate, which
followed her out, made a prize of her,
and (ent her to Halifax. These fri
gates receive information from people
in the different ports, and from pilots,
and they take every vessel they so get
advice of, without further ceremony.
As this is the case, 1 do not think it
prudent to ship #ny more, till I can
do it with more fafety." _
newyork, aug. go. After the
execution of Hebert and Danton,
with their accomplices, it was remark
ed, that all the factions appeared to
be crushed, and Paris enjoyed pro
found peace. This was mete appear
ance. The late European papers
mention, chat a new division is like to
take place, as Robeifpierre is opposed
by a party, headed by Bourdon d'Oife
arid Tallin., The parties had not
come to an open rupture ; but the
contentions in the Con vention prelude
more work for the guillotine. This
our democrats will, as usual, ascribe
to treachery ; while men of more his
torical information, fee no more in
all this business, than the operation of
party spirit, ambition, and malignant
paffijns.'.
'^', BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 6./
Latest European News.,
Yesterday arrived a schooner from Halifax,
12 days. English pipers to the sth July
received by the July Packet there, have been
received by the Editor :—They contain but
few particulars not before received :—Thefe
few follow :—
toNboN, JULY 5. Yesterday a servant
of Mr. Trevor's arrived at the Secretay of
State's office, with dlfpatches from Turin.
We undferftand he bro't an account of Lord
Hood's having, blockaded up the French
fquadren from Toulon, confining of seven
ships of the line and some frigates, in Giencs
Bay, to the Eastward of Toulon.
The Marquis Cornwallis is on his return
to England, and our readers will hear per
haps with surprise, the cause ofhis so fpeedi'
ly retracing his steps. The King of Pruffid
has officially fignified to the Noble Marquis,
that in consequence of the unforefeen burst
of Jacobine principles in Poland, and that^
they infamoufly refufe tofobmit to the hap.
py servitude so anxiously, kindly, and honor
ably provided for them, be finds it inconve
nient to fulfil his treaty with the English
Court. He acknowledges havhig received
from Britain fix hundred thousand pounds
Reeling in advance, and this sum, as k is in
'convenient to him to repay at this time, ne
will carry it to account; but he would be
happy to fee the Noble Marquis at Berlin,
# to explain to him now perteaiy be enters,
in sentiment, into the views of his confin
with regard to France, and how earnest he is
to yekrve the good underftaading which fo'
happily subsists between the two countries.
Lord Cornwallis did not accept of the royal
invitation, but returns forthwith,and his dif
patche has just been in time to prevent a
third installment of three hundred thousand
pounds from failing to Hamburg.
CAPTURE OF OSTEND.
The following letter was yesterday morn
ing received by the matter of Lloyd's Coffee
houfe.
" Margate, July 3, at half past eleven
>o'clock,?. M.
" Oftend is now indeed taken ! The Tri
al Cutter is just arrived, and the dispatches
are forwarded from hence. The French
marched in on Thursday ; our troops are all
fafe!y embarked, and all gone to Holland.
Aimoft, if not all the whipping got out.
One large one run on shore in coming out, to
which they set fire ; and as the French had
only onefmall boat ,0 cress with, one of our
frigates annoyed them very much in passing.
They were not permitted to fire into the
town, or they could have gone much mif
chiefto it." N
Foreign Summary
It is next to impossible to colled the whole
Truth from the confuted mass of European
information ; affectation and contradidion
following each other there, with the fame
celerity they do in the United States. Not
witlnhnding, the following events may be
relied on:—»
Ift; That Ypres has capitulated to the
French—the garrison obtaining, in confer
quence of their gallant defence, the honours
of war—They were to remain prisoners of
war, and they amounted to near 6000 men
(not 600 as was mentioned in a Philadelphia
paper.) The Hanoverians and Britilh were
not put to the fwbrd as has been reported ;
but the French emigrants all fuffered.
2d. That Chaleroi, [a strong town of
Austrian Netherlands, on the river Sambre,j
has been evacuated by the combined forces ;
and taken possession of by the Republicans.
3d. That Bruges and Ghent had been
taken by the French.
<4th. That Oftend was evacuated the Ift
July, and taken possession ot by the French
the fame day.—-But no accounts are received
that either Antwerpt or Brussels had fallen
into their hands, or thatValenciennes, Quef
noy, or Mons, had been evacuated. It is in
point, however, to observe that these last
mentioned fortieses are in the rear of Char
leroi.
sth. That the French Northern army had
been increased to upwards of 100,00© men ;
and that the combined armies to oppose these
were about 40,00 b strong; but were in ex
pectation of receiving reinforcement from
England particularly by those landed at Of
tend, the latter part of June, under'Earl
Moira, (formerly Lord Rawdon) by a de
tachment from Namur, and by the Prussian
subsidy from the Rhine.—These together
may make them 65;,000 strong.
6th. That Mr. Jay had received assuranc
es from the King ana Ministry of Greatbrit
ain that restitution should b, fully made for
the losses sustained by the citizens of the
United States, in the Weftindies. His hav.
"4 proposed himfelf as a Mediator between
the contending powers, is not so authentic.
7th. That both the Engliffi and French
fleets wdre fitting for sea with the utmost ex
pedition : And that the firft account pub
iifhed in th^Centinel from Rotterdam of the
lo@ fuftaincu in the late naval action has
proved accurate—The French looting fix
ships taken, and one funk.
Bth. Thafthe only symptom of Peace
which appears,was an expelled change in the
British Ministry, to make room for the Duke
of Portland, Earl Fitzwilliam, Mr. Wind
ham, and others late of the oppofifion.
In our Domeflic Summary,
The fitnation of the weftern part of Penn
sylvania, commands primary notice. No
accounts of any frefh devastation were receiv
ed by the last mail ; but measures are taken
and taking to suppress this La Vendee of the
United States.—The term prescribed in the
President's proclamation for the return ot
these insurgents to their allegiance to the
laws, expired (he ift instant, and we learn,-
that part of the troops defined to ad against
them were affembiing. In the mean time
the Commissioners both of the United States
and Pennsylvania, were Sedulous in their en
deavours, to effect their suppression without
the affiftante of an armed force.
In all the other States, perfea tranquility,
content and happiness, appear to reign ; and
under the smiles of Heaven, the Hefbandmen
expeft to gather one of the most luxuraint
Harvests they have been favoured with fora
number of years.
A letter from Halifax, dated August
aid. "I am forty to inform you,
that Captain Thomas Lewis, of the
Eliza, of Boston, is under close con
finement on boaid the Africa, 64, for
riling and taking his Ship after being
captured by an Erglifh frigate. The
ship has' not yet arrived, and it is fear
ed She is loft. The Eliza is owned
by Messrs. Puinom, Swan and Score,
of Charkflown—cargo by Mr. Tay
ler, of Baltimore.
" The Pigou remains in the fame
fitutiicn She did before, The cargo
is condemned, and the Ship undecid
ed upon.
The Newhaven fever we are tin
happy to learn does not diminish.
On the 27th uh. the committee pub
lished in their lift of the mortality of
the preceding week, that eight pet
font had died, (even of the putrid fe
ver, and one by confumprion.
Extr^a cf a letter from a gentleman ts veracity
in Wizdbm, (Con.J datea Sw,t. ill.
" There will be no commencement this
year—College has broken up. The fame
fever that desolated Philadephia last year,
has broken out in Newhaven, and is rapidly
spreading through the town—the ini^abit
ants flying—feveral families are come to this
place."
Boston, Sept^ 8. On the iith June the
National Convention of Frarfte decreed, that
they would make every pcffible effort to re
take the French colonies.
Ail those vessels under convoy of the Con
corde, remain at Halifax—cargoes not dist
charged—both vessels and cargoes were li
belled, and the general opinion was, that
both would be condemned. A vessel arrived
at Halifax from Bermuda, fays, vessels were
dilily broughtin there, belonging to the U.
States, & condemned. An American schoon
er, with produce of the Weftindies, bound
to Newyork, is taken a prize to Halifax.
From Philadelphia, Sept. 1. An express ar
rived at the War Office on Saturday last from
the Genefee country, (within the state of N.
York) with dispatches for the Executive of
the United States, which were immediately
laid before the President. Several private
letters, received by the fame conveyance, ad
vise that a peremptory order had been issued
by Col. Simcoe, the Governor of Upper Ca
nada, requiring an immediate removal of the
inhabitants who have been for some time fet
tled on a trad of land in that country, within
the bounds of the United States, agreeable to i
the treaty of peace.—They likewise inform,
that Capt. Williamfon,and the other citizens
of the United States, who are principally con
cerned In the settlement of those lands, were
determined to resist the said order, and were
preparing to oppose any force that may be
sent to reprive them of their lawful rights
and property. ft
It is Aid that an express had arrived to
Gov. Clinton on the above fubjed.
Salem, Sept. 2. Pnph frratbt WtftadiU} fy>
that the condua of Admiral ,trvu bat rendered
him equally an ofya of abhorrence there at cuitb
us. We <wonld net wife to defame ewen anenen,;
but the Eoglifetbmetoes confident!, relate thefol
lowing anecdote of him . •That the little iflaud of
Dejecta, that badfurrendrtd to the Brltijb arms,
on the arrival of the French armament Lifled a-,
gain the national colours ; after which, a Britifo
floe, of war arrived there, -which the, beat offs
This being reported tb Admiral Jervis, hb
ordered verbally, Capt. Rofs,of the Resource
frigate, to proceed to that island, and cause
every woman to be ravished, and every male
child to be bro't to him to be made imperfea.
How far he intended these savage, brutal
orders (which were prbbably given in his
cups) should be executed, is uncertain ; but
it is a forthwith truth, that they were too
ftrialy adherd to : for when the frigate ar
rived at the island, the inhabitants sent a de- ,
putation of 18 men to make their fubmif- ,
fion ; they were taken on board, 8 of them
blindfolded and shot upon the forecaftle, the „
rest hanged at the yard-arm, and a general'
slaughter followed in the island.