The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-04-29 00:00:00, page 3

^ sered any Loll
• Porifmouth, Feb. 21.—This af
ternoon the Hind frigate, 28 guns,
arrived at Spitbead, and brought in
with her a French privateer Brig,
of fix Guns, and 36 Men, also an
English Sloop, laden with Barley,
which had been captured by the
"French Privateer, and retaken by
the Hind. The Brig had taken two
others, which she had sent into Ha
vre-de-Grace.
March I. —A Letter from Han_
fleu, dated February 2, states, that a
French Privateer of that Place, had
captured an English Vessel, laden
%ith Tea and other Goods, and
foppofed to be worth 50,0001.
Plymouth, Feb. 25. —This after<
noon a large French ship, of 40b
cons, came io from sea, called the
Duc de Monteli. She was teken
seven leagues off Guernsey, lift
night, by the Juno frigate, Capt.
Hood. She was bound from Marseil
les to Haver-de-Grace ; is laden with
a valuable cargo of cotton, brandy,
wine, and caftile soap; and is sup
posed to be worth 30,000).
Rear Admiral Goodale, it is said,
is to be commander in cheief of the
Spanish Fleet destined to ad in con
cert with that of Great-Britain, in
the ensuing campaign.
/tiller,. The fame letters however,
speak of their prospect with confi
dence. They have no doubt but
he will be resisted, at least, until the
force to be sent from Britain and
Prussia (hall arrive.
Feb. 25. —The accounts from
Holland, by the last mail, are alarm
ing, from what they tell us and still
more alarming from appearing not
to tell us all that was known at the
time they came away.
Pacbe, late minister at war is eleft
ed mayor of Paris, by 11,000 out
of 15,000 votes.
Feb. 28.—Edicts are published,
prohibiting all Corn, Meat, and
vegetables, being sent out of Am
sterdam, under Pain of Death. Cof
fee, Sugar, and Bread, are excessive
dear. The Guns are all loaded on
the Ramparts^ and at the Barracks,
to be ready in Case of an Insurrec
tion.
A Skirmith had taken Place in
the Neighbourhood of Breda, in
which federal Frenchmen were kil
led and .taken Prisoners. It does
PHILADELPHIA, April 10.—We
have Accounts from Gibraltar, by the Fre
derickjburgh Packet, and from Malaga, that
the Algerines had declared War against
Denmark, Sweden and Holland, in Conse
quence of not having received fufficient
J>relents from those Powers.
Upon the new Establishment of the
french Armies, the whole is to coqfift of
396 Battalions of the Line, incorporated|
not appear that the Dutch had fuf-
them on the Exchange of Amster
dam."
Overlooking the egotism of this
note, what shall we fay to our Min
isters who refufed the offers of peace
made with such apparent Sincerity !
That people surely with for peace,
who tell you, th.'t in case of con
quest, they fhaii offer y^u the fame
terms.'
Lord Auckland, in his last dis
patches, fays, that Dumoukier's
two armies certainly amount to
60,000 each, and that he moves
with not less than 500 pieces of ar-
Pennsylvania.
A Letter from London, dated March 2,
fays—" This Country never entered on a
War with more Appearance of Success,
than the present. All Ranks fee the Ne
cessity of it, and give Government every
Support in their Power."
The Plan of the French, fays a London
Paper, is to carry on the War principally
against the Commerce and the Finances of
England : and one of their chief Objects
will be, to deprive her of the carrying
Trade with America. For this Purpole an
Agent was lately dispatched from the ex
ecutive Council to Philadelphia. They also
hope to seduce our Weftindia Islands, by
opening the Ports of France to their Ccm
modities, free of all Duties, giving Inde
" Feb. 4. Since my last Nothing new
has occured, except that France has de
clared WAR against England and Holland,
and will conquer them. One of their Gen
erals I believe, has already entered Holland,
and taken a strong Place, with the Ice and
Snow upjo the Shoulders of his Soldiers.
All Europe is astonished to fee with what
Rapidity they go on. I verily believe they
will make a Descent into England, in the
Course of the Spring with 60 or 80,000
Men ; to raise such an Army is but an
Affaifef 3 or 4 Weeks ; for Men are as
plenty as Affignats."
that were at the Store with the unfortu
nate Fleming and Moffett, made
their Escape. The Indians remained but
about two Hours, and then went over to
Florida, with their Horses which they bro't
with them. When-the News reached this
Place, which was two Days after, they
mustered as many as they could and went
in Pursuit of them, but found Nothing of
them ; the Murderers having 48 Hours
the Start of them.
" The next Day, viz. the 12th, another
Party proceeded to rob another Store, be
longing to Mr. Caskam, at Settila; they
came within a few Miles of it, and meeting
a Waggon loaded with Goods, as the Peo
ple were moving from the back Country,
they fired on them, and flopped the Wag
gon, the People attending it made their
Escape as well as they could ; one Man, in
attempting to get off with his Daughter,
a Child about 7 Years old, which he had
in his Arms,they fired at them, & wound
ed both ; the Father let his Child fall, ran
a few Rods and then fell ; they were taken
up a few Days after and buried ; but they
were scalped. Nothing more was heard
concerning the Affair when I left that
Place, which was the 21st Instant."
Maffackuletts.
BOSTON, April ^2Or — Extras of two
Letters from anAmerican Gentleman &/ Nantz
" Feb. 3. An Embargo is laid upon all
Vessels here, except American and Span
ifh. The greater Part of the Powers of
Europe are hostile to France, but she will
triumph over them all. England will pay
dear for her Folly in this War. Be affifr
ed the Resources of France are inexhaufti
ble. The greater the Danger, the less will
be their Division." •.
By the Vessel which brought the above,
we further leard, that a large Number of
Privateers were fitting for Sea at Nantz;
and that the French had a very formidable
Fleet in the Bref Waters.
tlie iith Inst. and plundered it of Goods
to the Amount of 15001. Sterling. They
put to Death Mr. John Fleming, who
kept the Store, and a Mr. Moffett, in
the most brutal Manner, cutting & mang
ling their Bodies, and then scalping them.
One Ann Gray who lived at the Store
was severely beat and bruised, bound and
then thrown out, supposed intended to be
made a Prisoner of, but getting loose while
the Savages were murdering the Men, the
escaped, leaving her two Children behind,
who were asleep in a Room adjoining the
Store, where they remained without the
Savages discovering them ; and which the
Mother found at her Return. Four Men
EXTRACT.: ,
Of d Letter from St. Mary, (G.) March 23.
" This Morning an Exp+efs arrived
from Trader's Hill, which is about seventy
Miles from this Place, that a Tribe of In
dians, supposed to be of the Cherneas Na
tion, in Number about 30, entered the
Store of Captain Robert Seagrove, on
with 392 Battalions of Volunteers, which
will form a Mass of Infantry equal to
462,736 Men ; to which when are added
the Artillery, light Troops, light Horse,
&c. the Whole will amount to 591,816
Men.
THE INDIANS !
Austria 290,060, Rufo 470,000, Prussia
224,4.31, France 192,000, United Provinces
37,000, Greatbritain and Ireland §B,OOO,
Sweden 49,000, Denmark 68,000, Poland
15,000, Turkey 210,000, Penice 8000, Na
ples & Sicily 30,000, See of Rome 5000, Tus
cany 3000, Sardinia 40,000, Spain 98,000,
Portugal 20,000, Saxony 26,000, Brunj
wick 16,000, Bavaria 14,000, Wirtemburg
6600, H+fecaffel 2000.
From Rotterdam, (Holland) Feb. I
Inundations are effeaed every where
with great Adivity.^ The Environs of
Bois le Duc lie already under Water. Go
vernment is employed in the Vicinity of
Bergen op Zoom and Breda, ih extending the
Inundations from Gertrudenberg to Oufler
bout.
In the Year 1784, the following was
published as a corred Lift of the land For
ces ofthe great Powers of Europe, in Time
of Peace, viz.
SALEM, April 16. —Capt. Slewman
arrived here last Sunday from Capfran
cois. A few Days before he failed, the De
claration of War against England, Holland,
&c. was published there. Five Vessels, En
gliih and Dutch, tllen in Port, were made
Prizes ; and two more, that arrived after
wards. Privateers were fitting out there,
and two had failed on a Cruise. An En
bargo was laid on French Vessels. The
Negroes were quiet.
While the most considerable maritime
Powers of Europe are engaged in War, the
perfed Neutrality happily enjoyed by the
United States; must be highly advantageous
to them. Our Farmers may now culti
vate their Lands to the fulleft Extent, with
a Certainty of their Produce being taken
off at a high Price, to feed the Nations
which are fnffering the Devastations of
War. Our Navigation will be fully em.
ployed in carrying on a peaceful Com
merce for those Nations. And our pub
lick Stocks will probably rife as theirs fall.
Our Government ^ill therefore doubtless
disclaim every Attempt which restless and
unprincipled Individuals may make to des
troy fb beneficial a Neutrality.
That Greatness you will never regain till
you are free !
Send back your Defpbts to Germany—a
republican Army once roused will soon
break the Force of Tyranny—soon will the
Troops and the brave Sailors of Holland
be one Body of Men with those of France
Thefirfl mho fl and formard Jhall enjoy tht
sirs Spoils of Tyranny !
I am at the Head of 60,000 free and ev
er victorious Frenchmen—6o,ooo more,
the Defenders of Brabant, are ready to fol
low me if needful—We go to feck at the
Hague the Plotters against our and your
Liberties—for them we feferve our Ven
geance !
Batavians,confide in a Man w^n ame
is known to you—who leads Frenchmen to
Battle, before whom have fled the Auxili
aries of your Tyrant. The Belgians call
me their Deliverer! I will speedily be
yours! Dumourier.
Os Dumourrer'j Proclamation to the Dutch.
Upon republican Principles, the Stadt
hoider is only your Captain General—who
should ad in Obedience to the sovereign
Will—He holds vou nevertheless in Slave
ry !
You know your Rights—yon lately at
tempted to restore them—'you applied to
France, but France then groaned under e
qual Despotism ; and you were mad§ the
Sport of her perfidious Court.
A Handful of Pruiiians reduced you a
gain to Slavery ; led on by tint Man who
I have chafed from France —The Hope of
Liberty among you has been extinct, until
the Period of the glorious Revolution of
France —The French now offer themselves
your Allies—powerful and free.
Not against you, People, but. against
your Tyrants we wage War.—The Eng
lish, proud < f Liberty, are milled by Gold
and P ITT, of inborn they mill soon tire. Let
our Enemies increase ten fold, it will but
increase our Strength, and propagate our
Opinions.
We enter Holland, the Friends of the
Dutch, and the Enemies of the House of
Orange —you cannot but feel its galling
Yoke—has not the Stadtholder facrificed
your Interest to his own—facrificed your
maritime Greatness to that of England?
pendence to their own Colonists, and in
viting them into a federal Union with the
British Islands, America and France.
Measures are to be taken on the sth 01
SUBSTANCE
are embodied and line the coast opposite France.
The Fleet at Spithead, Feb- 26th, amounted
to 1$ Sail of the Line, befdes Frigates ; and
were daily added to —Russia and Spain are
e^peaed to declare War against France.
The City of Mentz is in a dreadful Situa
tion, the Horrours of Famine appearing to be
unavoidable, if the French fbould retain posses
sion ofit. M. Custine has just given the
Inhabitants an Order, impoffble to be obeyed,
to procure Provisions for seven Months ; and,:
bis Preparations bejpeak an immediate Expec
tation of a Siege. The Pavement has been tak
en up in all the Streets ; and the superb Pa- j
lace of the Eleflor, called La Favourite, as
well as all the other Buildings round dhldce,
were ordered to be demolijbed wfftin eight
Days from the 17th of February. Eighty
Pieces of heavy Cannon have been brought
therefrom Alsace.
Two lug Sail Privateers have captured be
tween the North Foreland and Margate, a
small Ship and two Brigs ; the Former jap
pojes to be a port Man, and the two latter
from Briftok
It is alms impffble, from the Variety of
Accounts which hourly arrive from Europe,
to give an accurate Statement of positive and
probable Events, in that Hemisphere : But this
appears real—That a general European Var
has commenced France, on one Side, will
bring about 550,000 Men into the Field, (and
wefappofe (be can raije as many more if needed)
and will, besides a great Number of private
armed Vessels, have on float a much larger Fleet
than foe ever before equipped. Her Citizens ap
pear to be united, and injpired with entbufiafiick
Ardour ; her Armies,fufeed with Viaory, are
deemed, by her Generals, invincible ; her Re
jources are Jaid to be inexhaustible, and the
Revenue from the confijcated Property, lately
belonging to the Crown; the Clergy, and No
bility, immense. The Decapitation of Louis
has not given Rife to any unfavourable Pro
ceedings at Home ; and the Convention are bu
sy in the uninterrupted Formation of the Na
tional Couftitution —the Augmentation and Or
ganization of the land and sea Forces —and re
gulation of the internal Affairs of the Republick.
On the other Side, besides the House of Austria,
and Pruflia, England and Holland now are
of the belligerent Powers ; and it is said that
Russia, Spain and Portugal will join them.
The land and Jea Forces which these Nations
can, if they are united, bring into Adion, ex
ceeds the Number of the French —their Fleets
combined, will tbrow on the Ocean the most
formidable naval Force ever known in Eu
rope. Time must develope its Effia.
The War appears popular with the Govern
ment of England, and with the landed and
monied IntereJi —but the manufaauring and
commercial IntereJls are difaffiaed —An Inva-'
fan is feared ; and to prevent it, the Militia<
Arrived at Spithead, the Shark Sloop of
War, Captain Barker, from a Cruize,
with the La Guichard, a French Brig
Jean Gadin, Master, from St. Übes, for
Havre, with Wine, Fruit, &c.
The Greyhound Revenue Cutter, has
captured the L'Adive, a French Priva
teer, of 30 Tons, and 30 Men, and sent
her into Cowes.
The Savage Sloop of War, has captured
the La Cuftine a French lug Sail Priva
teer, off Dunkirk, eight Swivels, final!
arms, and 24 Men; and sent her into Yar
mouth.
The Alfred, Sparkes, from London and
Barcelona to Marseilles, is captured by
the French, and carried into Marseilles.
this Month, to be able, upon the firft S^o
nal, to inundate the Avenues of Gorcum: /
Cannon were lately placed in great Num
bers on.the Ramparts of that Town, the
Garrison is very much increasing, and the
Fortifications are repaired ^! h great Ac
tivity ; but it will requiere a long Tirpe;
before that Town will be in a State of De
fence ; it is exactly in the fame Situation
it was in the Year 1787.
Portsmouth (Eng.) Feb. 27. —The
Juno Frigate, Captain Hood, has sent
two Prizes into Plymouth, one of them ve
ry Rich, from Marjeilles, the other t small
Sloop. .„
The St. George Hill, from Lisbon to
London, that was chafed on shore, at the
Back of the Ifle-of-Wight by two French
Privateers, is gone to Pieces ; about 40
Casks of Wine and some Cotton saved.
LEYDEN, (Holl.) Feb. 7.—A Plot
ha; lately been difeovered in Tienna, $ in
which ten thousand Persons had CQhfpired
to destroy that City by fire, and murder
the Emperour, &c. Most of the Princi
pals have been apprehended.
MARINE NEWS.
Os Europe.