The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-04-15 00:00:00, page 3

LONDON, Janua. 21. —The approaching
War with France will unquestionably be the
most popular in which this Country has ever
been involved—We have justice and expedi
ency on our fide, and the call of Europe to step
forward and check the career of blood hounds,
A letter, said to come from ah officer in
commodore Murry's squadron, mentions that
the commodore beingjoined by twoDutch fri
gates, and having taken on board pilots at
Fluihing, he entered the Scheldt on Thursday
last. The commodore boarded one of the
French frigates lying in the Scheldt, which
the crew had abandoned on his approach. A
fyall vessel under. French colours, on Tuefday,
attempting to fail up the Scheldt, was fired at
by the Dutch, and funk. r.
January 2§. — Dumourier has proposed
P to the executive Council, that a Messenger be
sent to demand o^the britifh Minister an im
mediate Answer, as to their intentions towards
France, and the Object of the present Arma
ment ; and that, Should the British Minister
refufe to treat with the. Messenger, or return
— ~ any unfatisfadory Answer, that War ihould
be immediately declared. Dumourier
promises with the Army already in the Bays
Bas, to overrun Holland in eight Days.
There are nofse er than 200 Indiaments prepar
ed by the crown Officers to he presented to the grand
Juries throughout the Kingdom, for Libels and se
ditious Words. They are of all Kinds, some against
Newspapers, some against Pamphlets, and Hand
bills, tSc. and of the feditioits Words some lucre ut
tered from the Pulpit and some in the Alehouses, in
Moments of Jollity and Inebriation. On the slight
est Computation, the Trial of these Indictments in
law Costs, and the Value of the Time of the Impris
onments that may follow Cowviaion, cannot be less
than 50,000/. to fay nothing of the utter Extinaion
of free Opinion.
THOLLAND.
AMSTERDAM, fen. 8. The lift
Letters from Newrembourg, bring Ad
& vice, that the Prince of Saxe Cobourg,
Commander in chief of the Austrian
, Army, fixed his head Quarters at that
Place, whilst 38,090 Imperialists, of
r which r 2,000 were Cavalry, passed by
on their March to the Rhine.
IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Jan. 19. Yesterday Ev-
T erring arrived a Mail dated London, 15
Jan. It brings Intelligence that the
Dutch have laid the Environs of Bois
le Duc under Water : that the Inhab-
L itants of the Provinces of Utrecht and
Friffland having displayed the French
That the Enmity of the Spaniards against
England, was such as to induce an Opinion
that if the King of Spain Ihould declare War,
in favour of England, he would be beheaded :
That there were Reports in Cadiz, of the
Execution,of the Queen of France ; and, that
the Dauphin was bled to death by Order of
the ruling,Powers, a few Days after the Decol
lation of his Father.
Some Letters received by this Arrival, dated
Feb. 27, do not fay any thing of a Declaration
of War.—Others of nearly the fame Date
afloat, and very well manned
There are Reports, in Towri, said to' be
foundedon Letters from various Parts of the
United States, that the National Convention of
France, had declared War against all the Na
tions of Europe ; and have excepted none, in
the civilized World except the Turks and Ame
ricans! This Declaration we understand was
made the 12th of February, and was to be
carried into prompt Execution. The Moment
-is big with Events, of the most interesting
kind, which must daily unfold themselves.
mention the Event as certain.
The French Privateers will have fine Game
upon the Ocean, Ihould it be true that the
National Convention has declared War a
gainst the European Powers.
The French have a very formidable Fleet
' That twelve Ships of the Line, were In
Commillion at Cadiz ; but that very few Sail
ors could be obtained to man them ;—and
Government were fearful ofiffuing press War
rants.
ENGLAND.
March 27. —On the 14th of March arrived
at Charleston, (Southcarolina) the Ship James
from Brifol, which Place me left the 28th of
January. The former Accounts of the Exe
cution of the King of France on the 21st of
January are confirmed by this Vessel. The
most material Particulars by the James are, in
brief, as follows :=On Sunday the 20th of
January the executive Council assembled early
in the Morning, with the Mayor and other
Officers, to concert Measures for the Execu
tion of the Decree against Louis the 16th.
Having concerted the Measures of Execution,
at 2 o'clock P. M. they were sent to Louis,
who was at the fame Time waited upon by tho
President of the executive Council. The three
Extracts of the Decree of the national Conven
tion were then read bythe Secretary of the ex
ecutive Council. To which Louis answered
by readinga written Paper, Signed by him
felf, making known his last Requests, which
ran thus—" I demand a Delay of three Days,
in order to make necessary Preparations^ ap
pear in the presence of God !—I demand for
that Purpose to fend for and fee freely the
Person whom I Shall Name—the Person whom
I demand is, M. Escheauvaux de For
mont, he lodges at No. 483, Rue de Bacq.
" Idemand that his Person be secured from
all disturbance, from all Apprehension on Ac
count of the last Offices of Charity which he
shall render me.
" I demand to be freed from that perpetu
al Infpedion, which the Council General has
established over me for some Months.
" I demand in this Interval, to be able to
fee my Family as often as I fliall request, and
without witness.
" I would request, that the national Con
vention would immediately proceed to delibe
rate on the Fate of my Family, and permit
them to retire freely, wherever they may, think
proper.
.' " I recommend to the Nation, all the Per
sons who were attached to me. There are
m^ny of them who have expended all their
Fortunes to purchase Places under the new
Government, and who, having now loft their
sole Dependance, must be in Circumstances
of Want.: , Among my Pensioners, were many<
aged and' indigent Persons, who had no other
means of Support except the Pension which I
gave them. (Signed) LOUIS."
Done at the Temple, January 20th, 1793.
On which one of the Members observed—
-" Louis Capet has only made these De
mands which you have now heard, to the De
putation of the executive Council, because
they did not inform him of the Decree passed
Yesterday on my Proposition, in which the
greater Part of his requests are anticipated. I
demand on that Ground, that we shall pass to
the order of the Day. The Assembly accord
ingly passed to the order of the Day.'
Cockade, Troops had been sent to
chose Places to prevent Tumults.
The Prince of Caftlecicala, now Ne
apolitan Ambassador at London, has re
ceived Orders from his Sovereign, the
King of the two Sicilies, to take his
Departure to Paris, in Confluence of
being appointed Ambassador to the
Republick of France.
PARIS, Jan. 4. —Part of the plan of the
committee of General Defence is, to station a
number of small vessels on the coast between
Calais and Dunkirk to intercept the British
traders, & perhaps occasionally to harraf§ the
coast of England. These vessels will be sup
plied with a powerful artillery, and will dis
charge fed hot foot ; and their force will be
such, as to render it necessary for the British to
keep a large squadron in the Downs.
Some of the English Admirals, if they
Should go to war, will not like the present
French mode of fighting. They will not find
their squadrons so easy a conquest as they have
been. You may depend on it, that thechar
-ader of the nation is effentiaffy changed, and
that it is chiefly the fierce republican fpirit,with
which they are adnated, that has rendered'
their armies invincible to the German mer
cenaries.
From Philadelphia.
FRANCE.
EXECUTION of LOUIS XVI.
Paris, "January 22, 1793-
Louis was beheaded Yesterday at the Place •
de Louis xvi. at a quarter past ten o'Clock
in the Morning. He was conduced thiffier
in the Mayor's Carriage, accompanied, by his
Confeffor a' d two Gendarmes. Great Silence
was prefer, ed during the Procession, but when
he reached the fatal Spot, the Noise of Drums
and Trumpets was great. He ascended the
Scaffold with Firmness, made a Sign he had
something to fay : Little, however, was heard,
on Account of the Noise, except. " I die
Innocent ! I forgive you all ?" The Sen
tence was instantly executed, and Five la Na
tion resounded on all Sides.
The whole Place, and the Avenues, were
filled with Troops of the -Line.
A Member of the Convention, who voted
for his Death, was attacked in a Coffeehoufe
and killed. This,' is feared, is but the begin
ning ofa Scene of Bloodlhed, which will net
soon be terminated.
Orders have lately been sent to Truget, to
fail from the Mediterranean into the Ocean to
watch the Motions of Lord Hood.
The Governour of the United Slates Territo
ry, fouth ofthe Ohio, issued a Proclamation on
the 28th of January, notifying a Number of
disorderly Persons under his jurifdiaion, who
were collecting with an Intention to march to
the upper Cherokee Towns and destroy the
fame, to refrain from any such attempts, and
commanding them to disperse, &c. or that
they would Answer the contrary at their Peril
—in Consequence of the Proclamation they
dispersed accordingly, and returned to their
Homes. Numberless Depredations we hear
are constantly committed by Straggling In
dians on the Frontier of the Territory above
mentioned. Their chief Objed appears to be
carrying off Horses, in accomplishing which
they pay no Regard to the lives of the Inhabi
tants, many of whom have been killed during
the late Winter.'
By an Arrival at Nevyork, that left Ireland
the 24th of January, we hear, that the distur
bances in that Kingdom were very great, oc
cafipned principally by a Scarcity of Provi
sions which prevailed throughout all Ireland,
especially in the northern Parts,where, it was
reported, many thousands of inhabitants were
embodied, and had committed great Outra
ges ; and so alarming were their Excesses that
molt Part of the Troops from other Quarters
were drawn off, in order to quell the Rioters.
When the Vessel left Cork, pressing of Men to
go on board Ships of War,had not taken place,
but it was hourly expected it-would.
We hear from Martinico that Tranquility is
perfeaiy restored in that Island.—The repub
lican Flag of the Nation was hoisted on the 4th
of January, immediately after the Departure
ofthe Fleet of Royalists, who have taken Re
fuge in the Spanilh Island of Trinidadamhere
they were but indifferently received by the
Government, which has since written to Spain
relative to the Part that is to be taken with
them. A Squadron was to fail from France
the 24th of January to restore Order in th, —
several Islands.
Entraß of a letter from a gentleman in
Cadiz, to bis Friend in Boston,
dated Feb. 22.
'" That Spain was threatened with a
War, by France ; and that France had
actually declared War against the Eng
lilb, Dutch, and Ruffians."
Extraaofaletter from a French Merchant, dated
Point-a- Petre, Feb. 16. ,
" We have just received official
news, by the packet-boat le Tiercelei,
which bad only 22 days passage, that
notwithftandingfte rigours of winter,
our armies get a head faft—that they ,
have entirely routed that of )he King
of Prnffia, and taken his artillery and
tafys. We expe& soon to have the
particulars of this last a&ion. The
fame news quiets us as to England.
Firm and victorious abroad, we want
Nothing but a good Conftitutidn^ith
in."-