The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-03-10 00:00:00, page 2

the Eaftindies.
This day the following mips cast
anchor here :—III Trancrede of 74
guns and 750 men, commanded by
Count Caraciolo ; the frigate Sirena
of 40 guns and 330 men, command
ed by Count Marefcotti, and the
Arethufa, frigate of 40 guns and 330
men, commanded by Count Thuen.
These three ships are Neapolitan,and
came from the Gulph of Spezia, with
12 Neapolitian transports.
We now have in fight two other
large men of war : One of them is
supposed to be the Scipio, a royal
French ship.
By letters from Genoa, we learn,
that last week a great numbers of bar
rels, filled with gun-powder, were
found in Porto Franco, probably hid
den there with the wicked intention
of blowing up the great magazines.
On account of this manoeuvre, an ex
traordinary Council was held, the re
luct of which was, an order for all
foreigners to quit immediately the city
and harbour erf Genoa. This morn
ing, several ships full of foreigners,
expelled from Genoa arrived here.
A letter was received from Lequinio and
Laignelot, commissioners at Rochefort, in
timating, that a plot of the English to pro--
cure the surrender of Rochefort, L'Orient,
Brest, St. Maloes, Bourdeaux, arid other
ports of the ocean, had been seasonably dif
covered,—That there had been on board a
vessel called L'Apollon, which had been lent
to Rochefort for the purpose of debauching
the people, a number of the papers, which
gave the most complete evidence that a dia
bolical plot was in agitation to procure the
surrender of all ihefe places, as they had pro
cured that of Toulon^ That an engineer on
board the Apollon,being deteded, had blown
out his brains, which had prevented them
from drawing from him the secrets with
which he was evidently entrusted; that a
vessel sent to Bourdeaux for the purpose of
Hiring; up rebellion, had been wrecked
near Rochefort; that the guillotine had in
consequence been eroded, and had received
the new name of " The people's jurtice,"
which is written over the fatal national axe ;
and that from morning till night, the ruf
fians, federalifts, &c. who had entered into
conspiracy to fell their country, were expi
ating the crime with their lives, and feeling
the strokes of" the people's juHice."—Ap
plaufe. <
PARIS, DEC. 2.— -Yesterday the Conven
tion received advice that the Republicans had
obtained a vi&ory over the 'Piedmon'efe
troops, and thatthey had taken their Camp
at Magdalena, and also of ts fruitlefs attack
of the Pruffianson Bitche, from whom they
took 250 prisoners. ° ' ' ' - ; ,
From SatLritiiswe learn,that on the 25th
November the army of Saarbuch had its head
quarters at ti^fwo Bridges, and another
divifionwad ^^urgh,which kept the en
emy in garrison of Sar-Louis
had the da^^^^n^de a sortie, with two
cannon, which were in pof
session who on their ap
proach petre,j^mß oar troops returned
mthe city wim|^&, a number of hogs,
fix waggon^mmH£nd three waggons
with I L
,^U_ N rc^,'•
Memo, from which place the cannon
placed on the rampart! played on
them, which made them retreat, after
having 50 men taken prifonera; and
we understand that in the diftrift of
Stunwooden, the enemy are coiled
ing in great numbers •,from which
we judge, that their design is once
more to wrest from us Weft Fiande r s.
Italy.
. Leghorn, nov. 12.—Yeflerday
morning failed hence for Toulon the
Fortitude of 74 guns, and 600 men ;
the Leviathan of 74 guns, 650 men ;
and La Sincere, of 24 guns and'loo
men as a transport. Befidesthefe fail
ed La Perie, a French royal frigate,
of 40 guns and 300 men. The a
bove squadron is commanded by Capt.
Young ; it serves as a convoy to some
ships, including the Grand Dutchefs
of Tuscany, commanded by Captain
Constantine Tofcane, and bound for
France.
NATIONAL CONVENTION, nov. 26.
England.
lon don , o ec. 26..—The mail from Flan
ders brought us this day intelligence from
Paris as recent as the gth inff. Our cotem
poraries have received no Paris papers of a
later date than the 7th.
This intelligence, which we have received
thus speedily, informs us of the condemna-.
tian of Madame du Barre ; the defeat of the
Royalists in an attempt upon the city of
Angers ; and the capture of an Englifli tranf
porx belonging to Guernsey.
Our Oftend cbrrefpondent Rates that the
French have extremely harraffed the allies
upon the frontiers of Flanders. The retak
ing of Poperinge, and" recent, operations 4-
gainft other frontier places, seem to encour
age a supposition that the French do not
mean to go into winter quarters.,
Certain information is received, that since
the battles between the Duke of Brunswick
and the French in Deux Ponts, General
Wurmfer had defeated the Republican troops
in three fucceflive engagements, and has put
the whole French army in Alsace to the rout.
In the session of the National Convention
lof the 29th of November, the Assembly re
-4 >- # ifrrf &
Letters and accounts from Germany and
Flanders, mention, that ffveral battles have
been fought with success. The forces under
the command of the Duke of Brunswick, and
those directed by Gen. Wurmfer, appear to
have been engaged by the French,near Stras
bourg (with scarcely the intermiflion of a
day) from the beginning of November to the
fiift last month. Accounts from thole ar
mies of the attacks made by the French on
the 28th, 29th and 30th of November, in
which they were so severely repulsed, fay,
that the daughter made by the Prussians was
so great, that their lines were furronnded
with a pile of the carcases of men and horses
nearly five feet in heighth, that the French
soldiery had been made furioufly drunk by
their officers,which occasioned them to fight
with the most fatal desperation. The intel
licence brought by Lord George Conway,,
is ofthe most important nature. The sur
render of Fort Louis, wiihagarrifon of four
thculand men, and one hundred and twelve
pieces of artillery, and the quantity of am
munition, and military stores of all kinds
taken in the place is immense.,
Mr. Pitt seems determined to carry on the
war with the fame spirit his father Chewed
upon fimiliar occasions. The most formidj
able preparations for another campaign are
making by the allied powers ; & the French
to enable themselves to carry on the war,
are seizing on property wherever they can
find it—and the unfortunate man who is in
pofleffion of wealth most not only part with
it without murmuring; but muff think him
felf happy if he is not obliged to part with
his head also. His Britannick Majesty, as
elector of Hanover, demanded of the diet of
Ratifbon, the sum of 2,000,000 florins, for
the assistance which he afforded to the Em
pire during the Spanish succession war. The
States of Austrian Netherlands have offered
the sum of 4,500,000 florins, as a voluntary
contribution to the war. The states of
Hungary have it in contemplation to offer
the Emperor a volutary gift of 3,000,000
florins, and three regiments, each of which
to consist of between four and five thousand
men.'
The nirmber of killed and wounded, pris
oners, and sick, in the Austrian armies, is said
to amount to 30,000 men. This loss in.
com parifon with that of the French, is but
finally There are 16,000 French prisoners
in the Netherlands. There is also a great
number of them in Interior Austria, and
10,000 more are expetlud in Austria before
the middle of the present month—General
Jourdan's profpeas in the North have all
mifcurried,in consequence of the timely inti
mation the Prince of Saxe Cobourg had re
ceived, and the prudent disposition he made
accordingly to thwart them. The vast re
inforcements he has since obtained, render
his situation too formidable for any further
apprehensions —The Elector Palatine of Ba
varias, is to furnish 15,000 men for the ser
vice of Great-Britain.
Neva)citia.
Halifax, Jan. 28.— On TuefJay last ar
rived here the Roebuck packet in 32 days
pillage from Falmouth.
By the Roebuck packet, we received Lon
don papers to the 16th ult. from which we
have extracted the preceding intelligence—
befides the extracts we have made from the
papers we find, that the parliament is pro
rogued to the 21st January, then to meet for
the dispatch of business. Sir John Jervis's
squadron was (poke with the 4th December,
clear off the channel, confining of the fol
lowing fhips—Boyne, 9,8 guns, Vengeance
74, Veteran 64, Ulysses 44, Woolwich 44,
Quebec 52, Role 28, Dromedary 24, Infpec
toc 16, Vetuvius Bomb 8, and 12 or fourteen
transports with troops under convoy for the
Weftindies. Rear Admiral Kingfmill, who
is appointed commander in chief of his Ma
jesty's ships and vessels at Newfoundland, in
the room of Sir Richard King, set off for
Portsmouth, in order to embark for his Ra
tion.
Baltimore, ) r) Y gentlemen arrived in
feb. 19. ) town, from Norfolk,
we learn, that Rear Admiral Vanftable had
arrived at Norfolk, with two line of battle
ships, viz. the Leopard and the Tyger, and
two frigates (being part of a fleet which fail
ed from Brest, and which parted with these
at their departure from France, an army of
100,000 Republicans had penetrated into
Spain, by Catalonia, and were laying siege
to Barcelona, besides 25,000 men which
have entered Spain by Biscay, and that the
Spanish army had been completely routed.
That Oftend and Nieuport were inverted by
a numerous army ; the Dutch troops almost
discouraged and reduced ; and that the
combined armies which were lately beaten,
had been forced to retreat into Austrian
Flanders ; that it was impossible for Valenci
ennes, which was inverted, to bold out much
longer. That the almost impregnable lines
of Weiffembourg, which the treacherous
Gen. Ferrend had delivered up to the Prus
sians and Germans, had been retaken by the
Republicans, who have again entered the
Dutchy of Deux-Ponts, where the grand
army of the lower Rhine have retreated.
That the Swiss Cantons have renewed their
treaty with the Republick, and have engaged
themselves by the new treaty, to observe the
ftrideft neutrality, and to guard with a Ef
ficient force all the defiles through which
the enemies could enter the territory of the
Republic ; that an army of 6000 men, which
before the new treaty guarded those defiles,
has now marched into lower Alsace. That
although a large portion of the troops which
composed the army in Sardinia have march
ed to the siege of Toulon, yet notwithstand
ing, the success of the Republicans in that
part has been marked by the taking of three
very advantageous posts. That at the de
parture of the squadron from Brest, the news
of the retaking of Toulon was exped every
day ; the republican army before that city
cohfifting of izo,ooo men ; which had al
ready taken posse flion of all the heights and
forts which surround it; arid that even the
enemies of the Republic were persuaded that
that city could not hold out much longer.
That the laws of the Republic were in full
vigour, and had never yet since the begin
ning of the Revolution, been so well obeyed ;
that the most perfect tranquility and harmo
ny reigns every where : That the 450000
men of reserve, being the class of citizens
from the age of eighteen to twenty five, are
to aflemble early in the spring, to go to rein
force the armies on the frontiers. That the
Dedalus, a British frigate, which has for this
long time lain at Norfolk, had escaped very
narrowly being burnt up, by a Newengland
Captain, joined by the inhabitants, who had
two of his hands pressed by the Britiffi Capt.
and who was however, obliged to liberate
them afterwards. That by a revengeful dis.
position, the British Capt. had fired into the
Newengland vessel with langrage ; and by a
(hot which passed under her bow, and went
through a stable, had killed a horse—that
the inhabitants of Norfolk, had met togeth
er, and determined not to let the vessel fail
without unloading the cargo of pork, and
other provisions (he bad on board, intended
for the Britiih fleet, which were purchased
there contrary to treaty, and which had en
hanced the price of that article to more than
thirty per cent. That in retaliation for the
French frigate, which was, in violation of the
Law of Nations,taken in the port, and under
the guns of GehioX, and the crew inhumanly
butchered, the Rear Admiral at Norfolk had
reived with the utmost apfflaufe a denuncia
tion against the Bnglifh nation by the ad
ministrators of the department of Gard.—
The infamous Pitt, as they term him, was
particularly included in this denunciation,
the origin of which proceeded from the mas
sacre of 300 Frenchmen, who they laid, had
been killed by the English at Genoa. They
insisted on the deftrudion of London, and
assured the Convention that they had only to
decree it, and the Sans Culottes would leap
over the face which separates the two coun
tries, and London would loon be no more.
They further requested that the name of
Engliihlhould be proscribed in France, and
the most barbarous name substituted torit,
to perpetuate the remembrance of the horrid
massacre at Genoa.
The Convention ordered it to be inserted
in the bulletin with honourable mention,
but issued no decree refpeding it.
By a letter received last night from Edin
burgh,we are informed, that Messrs. Gerald,
Sinclair, Margarot, Brown, Hastie, &c. del
egates to the Convention held in that city,
for promoting a reform in parliament, were
committed to prison oh Thursday morning
last, in consequence of the aCtive part which
they had taken in parfait of the object for
which they were delegated The lord pro
vost in his character of high constable, went
to the Convention and took Citizen President
by the collar, and turned him out. The'
rest of his brethren following.
Domenic Occurrences.
Maryland.
taken possession of the British frigate, „nt
did not dispose of the crew in the £me man
ner as the English did at Genoa.
FEM. 20. —By a gentleman just from Nor
folk,and who was present at the difpure be
tween an American Capt. and Sir Charles
Knowles, commander ot the BiiiUh frigate
Dedalus, refpeding a teaman—our inform
ant (whose veracity is undoubted) fays,that the
teaman was not prefled ; but entered freely
on board the frigate—that (here was no at
tempt made by the French Admiral to take
possession of die Dedalus —and our inform
ant uhderftood, that matters were fettled be
tween the two Consuls, so as to preserve per
fed tranquility while at that port—there was
no hor e /hot, nor any firing at the Artur
ican brig—and that Sir Charles Knowles had
obtained another hand for the American
brig in place of the one entered on board
his fhip.J
PHILADELPHIA, FEB. 22. This day
M. Fauchet, was publickly introduced to the
President of the United States, by the Hen.
Mr. Randolph, Secretary of State. His cre
dentials being produced, he was acknowl
edged as Miniher Plenipotentiary of the
French Republick
M. de la Forest, is recognized ns Coriful
General of the French Republick, for the
United States ; and M. Petry, as Consul for
the port of Philadelphia.
This day being the anniversary of the birth
day of the President of the United States, at
12 o'clock, the Vice Prefid,ent of the Unit,
ed States, Members of the Senate and Hoofe
of Reprefenta rives, Foreign Minister,, the
Heads of Departments ; the society of his
fellow veterans, the Cincinnati ; the Gover
nour and other functionaries ofPennfylvania,
with a great number of their fellow citizens,
waited on the President and congratulated
him on the occaGon.
The day was devoted to joy and feftivity —
the bells were rung and colours were display
ed from various parts of the city, and the
/hipping.
The several military corps paraded in hon
our of the day, and fired federal salutes.—
The officers of the militia appeared in a new
and elegant uniform.
feb. 24. —Saturday tfoe zzd inst. being
the Birth Day of our,beloved Prefiderit, the
Managers or the City Dancing Assembly
gave a Ball in the evening.
They were honoured with the company of
the President and Mrs. Washington,
several of the Foreign Minifters,* a number
ofthe Members of Congrefe, the Secretaries
of the Treasury and of War, the Governours
of rhe State and of the Wefiera Territor,,
and the most brilliant display of beauty, per
haps, ever exhibited in this city. The coun
tenances of all present, appeared perfectly
congenial with the happy occasion. The
toasts given were highly patribtick, and tru
ly federal.
Yesterday arrived in town from Baltimore,
three waggons, supposed to contain money,
and the effects of the Minister of France.—
The carriages were guarded by a party of the
Baltimore Volunteer Dragoons.
Maffacbufetts.
BOSTON, MARCH C.
Os TOULON.
Within the last three days, we have receiv
ed additional advices of the recapture and
evacuation of Touton. The publick have
so often been deceived by similar accounts,
that the fubjed ought to be touched with
caution. We ihall, however, present the re
ports given by gentlemen arrived here from
Newyork, who inform, That Capt. Brown,
had arrived at Newyork, from Guern fey,
[an island in. the English channel, on the
coaftof Normandy, fu bjed to Greatbritain]
which he left January Sth, and informs, that
Toulon was retaken by the French, that
Gen. O'Hara, with his army, were captoredr •
and that Lord Hood had escaped, with the
combined and French fleets.
Another account fays, that the English,
finding they could not bold the plmcey evacu
ated it ; firft burning the French ships which
Tire in the inner harbour :
And a third account state,, that the French
carried the works by assault, in which theyf
loft 20,000 men ; and that the garrison was
put to the sword. xo> . • 'I? t <
The gentlemen further fay, that the re
ports of the recapture of the place, Were cred
ited at Newyork. A few days will evince,
whether they arefounded infra, in Tumours
or made out of the repulse which General
O'Hara lately met in one of she sallies. Iti#
to be noted, that according to the acconnte
lately pobliftied. General O'Hara wire taken
prisoner, in the foetid ; but that his troupe
got into Toulon..
.^^^{fr >l% «\ilwte^A)&AMr^v^
Letters from Guernsey mention, that thq
expedition set on foot by the Britiih Cabinet,
;for landing a body, of troops in France, had
* Among whom, we learn, was M. Fau
chet, the new Minister Plenipotentiary from
France.
PennJyroania.