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Latest Foreign Intelligence.
France.
Paris, 7•T'HERE has been anoftrer ac
may 27. j non on the 21st Ma,, near
Tournay, between the republican army,com
manded by Pichegru, and the combined ar.
mies. These last were forced to cross the
Scheldt, after a bloody a&ion which lasted
24 hours. The French loft two pieces of
artillery, took seven, and made 500 prifon
crs.
On the 20th of May, the right of the
French was at Binch, and was to advance on
to Mons or Charleroi ; their head quarters
at Courtray, the left extending near
An attempt was made to assassinate Rober
fpierre, by a young woman, 17 years of age.
An attempt tfis also made on fhe.life of an
other member of the Committee of Publick
Safety, both without success.
The latter attempt was made by a man
armed wih a double barrel'd gun, who miff
ing his firft (hot, fled and concealed himfelf
in a house, where be was followed by the
member and an officer that chanced to pass
just after the shot was fired. They discover
ed the villain in his hiding place, and receiv
ed notice from him, that the firft person who
endeavoured to arrest him Should receive the
contents of his loaded,barrel. The member
attempted to advance, but was prevented by
the officer who declared he had not a right
to hazard his life because he belonged to the
people. The officer ftept forward, then, and
received a ball in his fhoylder, with one arm,
however/he secured the assassin.
[The Paris papers of the 27th May, con
tain an account of the fateof Ciairfait's ar
my in the affair of the 17th May, on the fub
jefl of which the English papers are quite si
lent. Clairfait, our readers will recoiled,
was tg have crossed the Lys, and by forming a
jundion with the five columns which pro
ceeded from the environs of Tournay, have
cut off the communication between the
French at Courtray and Lisle. In this Clair
fait was unfuccefsful, and loft upwards of 100
pieces of cannon, 500 horses, and had 1500
men made prisoners ; the number of killed
or wounded is not mentioned. , The artillery
was taken by the Sans Culottes General, who
drove the English' from before Dunkirk-;
and there took a considerable quantity of
\ cannon, &c.]'
FRENCH ACCOUNT
OF THE BATTLE^OVGHT Maj „tb.
From French papers.
LILLE, MAY, 18.
Citizens-,
THE letter of exchange drawn by the Al
pine army on that of the north, begins to be
daly honoured. Vidory is here the order of
the day. The enemy is in full rout. Not
withstanding their losses at Court ray, Mou
cron and Menin, they determined to attack
us again, and to use every endeavour to re
lume their former position.
Yesterday having assembled their troops of
the center, they attacked us on all points.
They obliged us to fall back from Port a
Mark and Lannoy. We retreated in good,
order.—Proud of this firft success, they ex-
Deded, by attacking us again to day, to make
further progress. Itwhs their objed to cut
off our communication ; but we did not give
them time to effed it ; we attacked them,
and every where drove them back, beat to the
charge, and our vidory was complete.
Adjutant General Revel fought with the
greatest vigor. We took a train of artillery
complete, made the garrison of Lannoy pris
oners ; near 300 Hessians have fallen into
our hands. They asked for quarters, we
ought not, by the laws of war to have grant,
ed it, since the town was taken by aflault,
yet they obtained it. We Shall ffiow the
world that Frenchmen are only to be feared
in battle.
We learn that the enemy opposed to our
forces 60,000 men. The commander in chief
just returns from his round with try col
league Richard ; I hope soon to be able to
communicate new vidories. We have taken
50 pieces of cannon, the enemy loft 1000
men. This division needed this vidory.
CHODIEU,
Representative of the People.
P. S. I learnt this moment that the ene
my evacuated Port a Marque, and have fall
en back upon Orchies, consequently, the
communication between Douay and Lille is
re-established.;
may 24. We promised not to fuffer the
enemy to rest. We keep good our word.—
We attacked them yefterda, in all quarters,
and every where heat. We have driven them
to Tourpay ,nd Mount Trinity. The bate
tie lasted fifteen hours, and was well fought
The enemy were considerably reinforced and
we retired in good i order, having taken a con
fiderable &nvoy on the Scheldt. We loft
two cannon that ^%^ d :, W e took
seven from the enemy ind 600 prisoners.—
withal! soon again.
&camt of this LAST ACTION by /fa General
in Chief of the Northern Army.
CQURTRAY, may 23. >
• Citizen Representatives,-
Ore. fought yesterday the whole day long.
We have driven the enemy beyond the
Scheldt ; we captured a convoy of hay, oats
and coal. We carried off what we could ;
the remainder was burnt The affair was
bloody on both sides. There has been a
great dumber wounded. We took from the
enemy 7 pieces of cannon, who took two of
ours. We made about 500 prisoners.
Traits of courage were numerous; cow
ardice and treachery in some parts injured us.
Many soldiers left their duty to pillage, which
so weakened the battalions,that towards even
ing we were near being driven back.
The right of the army, on the 21st May
was near Binche, and must thence have pro
ceeded to Mons or Charleroi
PICHEGRU.
ARMY ts the ARDENNES.
Commanded by General Fromentin.
BINCHY, MAY 22.
We have crossed the Sambre in several
points. Our divisions a&ed with concert
and success. I have taken from the enemy
all their travelling hospital, a great many
Sheets, a considerable number of Flemish
horses. We have also taken several droves
of cattle ; I fend them to Philipville. We
drive on the enemy with expedition, and may
anticipate successes the mod important. The
Representative of the People Levaffeur fol
lows us every where ; he is always in the
!height of adion. I expedite this moment
900 carriages that bring in all kinds of
goods. In a skirmish this day a chaffeur had
his arm carried away ; he said turning round
to an artilleryman, " put the arm in the
mouth of your cannon, and fend it back to
those brigands."
MOSELLE ARMY.
Commanded b, Jourdan;
ARLON, MAY %2.
We arrived this day at Arlop. The small
number of the enemy here did not attempt
to resist. I leave here a body of troops to
proted the march of our artillery and provis
ions which pass through the country of
Treves, and of Luxembourg, and I march
on. Expea great successes.
JOURDAN.
\
NEUSCHATEAU, MAY 24.
We have this day taken this post. We
made 70 prisoners, and loft but 5 men killed
and 15 taken prifoner,.— The inhabitants
had been taught to believe, that the French
pillaged every thing, they have been unde
ceived.—The troops have not pillaged. We
are terrible to ourenemies ; kind to the peo
ple.
The vanguard of Beaulieu has been com
pletely beaten by that of the Mcfelle army.
We took 100 prisoners. Ito morrow march
to St. Hubert, and the day after to Rochfort.
Our communication is restored with Bouif
fon ; it soon will be with Givet,
England.
london, may 20. Yesterday afternoon,
Mr. Needham, one of his Majesty's messen
gers in ordinary, took into custody in the
city, one Ed wards, charged with making and
having in his custody, a 'ft iff of fix feet high,
of wood, mounted with a long sharp piece of:
iron, about a foot long, made in imitation of
a Parisian pike. On his examination; he
had made others for one Hilliyard, and a for
eigner of 'he name of Rouffel, both members
of the different societies in White-Chapel.
Hilliyard and Rouffell, were both taken yes
terday afternoon, aed pikes of this descrip
tion were found in their custody.
In consequence of information received by
the magistrates and Sheriff of Edinburgh,
several persons were apprehended there fy
Thursday and Friday night, and after being
, temined,, were committed to prison. In
two of their houses some weapons, between.
40 and 50 were found ; several of them ¥
made after the form of a battle-axe, 22 inch,
es long, and having what resembles a small
feythe, much curved, fixed across. Others of
these instruments are in the Shape of daggers,
bayonets, pikes, &c. They are all made fe
as they can be fixed on poles, or used without
them. Ope of the persons apprehended is a
blackfrnith, who has of late been busily em
ployed in manufaaupng them. He refufes
to anf&er who employed him, but fays, that
hearing that an invasion was intended by the
French, he thought the citizens would need
such instruments as weapons of defence, and
as he expected a good sale, thought it best to
have some ready made. \
WHITEHALL, MAY 16.
Ataff dated T„, May 13, 1794,
of which ,be followiw? ifo extras,
^to ,frda, rented fit bis far
*H%fe.the p&rf"m %
'Right Hon. Henr, Dundas, bis Ma
jeftfs principal Secretary of State
far the Homo Department
" Since my last letter no attempt
has been made by the enemy to har
rafs or molest any of my pofa. On
Sunday morning, however, they at
tacked in great force General Clair
fayt's corps, which had the night be
fore crossed the Heule. The action
lasted from one o'clock in the after
noon till eleven at night, when Gen
eral Clairfayt succeeded in completely
driving them back into the town of
Courtraybut not being able to take
possession of the place, he retreated
firft across the Heule, and afterwards
behind the river Mandel, but being
. still very closely pursued by the ene
my, he,bund himfelf under the ne
cessity of continuing hit march co
Thiele, where he has taken up a posi
tion in order to cover Ghent, Bruges,
and Oftend. Hislofi, lam forty to
fay, has been very confiderable.''
Supplement Extraordinary to the Brufl
els Gazette, Ma, 16
1 hasten tp give you some faithful
particulars of the dismal situation of
this country. General Clairfayt was
forced to retire to this place, and to
Ghent, with the loss in the various^
aflions, of not fewer that 10,000
men, of killed wounded and prisoners.
His defeat is again ascribed to the
conduct of the Hanoverians, who,
fled in whole battalions and Iquad
rons, and whom it is in vain to rally,
for they clearly are disgusted with
the fetvice and inveigh against the
war. Among the ' killed is the gal
la6< General Wencheim. The lot's
of the Englilh I have not been able
to afeertain ; but' I myfelf saw 59
carriages full of wounded English
come into Ghent this morning. Ev
ery thing is in the utmost consterna
tion ; for on Thursday last the French
made themfelvei masters of Charleroi,
Binch, and Mariemont; and an a
larm was spread in Brussels, that a col
umn was marching in full force a
gainst chat city, as well al the citizens
at large, to take up arms for their
own defence. I enclose you copies
of their fopplicating addresses; but
though they were so earnest in their
applications, they refuted to give
whac they called their useless aid,
which would only expose their city,
and their helpless relatives,to violence
and pillage. It was the fame both
at Louvaine and Antwerpc ; and to
such a height did their fears carry
them, that the minister had adually
given directions for preparing to
withdraw the government to Breda."
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Late Domestic Intelligence.
NORFOLK JULY 14.
On Saturday morning arrived here
in 7 weeks from Portsmouth, (Eng.)
Capt. Bell, who informs, that on the
day he cleared out, a person arrived
at the custom house, (the Capt. of a
Doop captured with the Newfound
land fleet) who informs that the whole
of the fleet bound to Newfoundland,
cor lifting Q f upwards of a too fail,
under convoy of two frigates and a
sloop of war, had keen taken by the
French, but that through the inatten
tion of the captors he had escaped
with his sloop. Capt. B. further adds,
that a person was at the fame time in
the custom house, who had left Brest
only fix days before, and who inform
ed him, that 10 fail of the line had
failed 8 days before he left Brest ; 28
fail were lying there ready armed and
equipped for lea, and ten more ready
at Rochelle, making in all 48 fail of
the line ready for sea; that during his
flay at Brest, he saw upwards of forty
perlons guillotined. He funs/ ^,
that it was currently reported dm the
Duke of York had been defeated by
Gen. Pichegru between Manheim &
Courtray, with the loft of several prin
cipal officers, and 1000 men. That
the French had entirely driven the
Spaniards off the field, and they were
overrunning Savoy.
BALTIMOR E, JULY If.
A letter from an officer at Greet*
ville, dated May 25, fays, 66 The
Spaniards are in poss ffion of the
Chickasaw Bluff, 15 or 20 miles be
low the mouth of Ohio."
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 16.
Bj the brig William, Captain Oah, in 49 days
from Liverpool.
BASLE (Switz.) May 8.
The news is at present extremely impor
tant. The French are in Piedmont on the
one fide, and on the other; the, have early
last week passed the Petit Mont St. Bernard,
and have taken the town of Aoft, which com-/
mands the valley of the fame name, and is
capital of the principal of Aoft ; from thence
to Turin there is but i§ or 16 leagues dis
tance, along the river Dona Baltea, which
joins the Po near Civafco, about fix leagues
from Turin The forts Bard, '[erea, and
Civafco, are the only obstacles on the road,
of less consequence than the port they have
stormed. We have the intelligence from the
brother of a Swiss officer in the King of Sar
dinia's service, who was unfortunately killed
in this affair.
There were two attacks by the French in
the morning : after an a&ion of two hours
they made a falfe ret.eat. At night, the posts
were attacked with such fury, that the Pie<|-
montefe gave way.—The Swiss defended the
pass for a long time, till overpowered by
numbers, they were obliged to retreat with
a considerable loss. Moiges and Sola were
carried from this , place, only distant three
leagues of Aoft. The French marched for
ward, and entered pell-mell, according to
report, with the Sardinian troops.
Saorgio, near Nice, is taken by the French,
with two^Generals, and 400 prisoners, be
-7 sides killed and wounded.
From a London paper of the 20th May.
Mr. East, the messenger, arrived yesterday
with dispatches from the Duke of York, dat
ed Tournay, May 16, —By these dispatches,
it appears that the Emperour, in person, has
joined the Duke of York with 25,000 men,
and relieved him from the very imminent
Situation which he was placed by the encreaf
ing numbers of the enemy. General Clair
fait, who had, in his last fatal affair of the
llth, in which, before he ran away, he had
conquered, loft more than 4000 men, had
since fortunately collected a number of fcat
fered battalions and. squadrons of horse, a
thing which (aftera total fout) was thought
impra&icable.,
JULY •
Extrad of a letter from a merchant in London, to
hit correspondent in this city, received by the
foip Thtrefa.
" I hope before this that you are fatisfied
that no war can take place between America
and this country, as Greatbritain means to
pay for every American cargo that has been
condemned since the war.?
/,&fohem_Q_
JULY 18. Captain Dillon, of the ship
Mary, one of the vessels that failed under the
convoy of the Concorde, &c. is returned, and
his vessel is now in the Delaware, witha few
more of the fleet. He informs, that ttie,
were met on Monday, at 7 in the morning
by four fliips of force, which proved to te
British. A signal was given to disperse ; he
saw the Atlas of Newyork, strike, and per
ceived that the English vessels strove most to
overtake the Corcorde, which he feared the,
would accomplish, as they appeared to gain
upon her. Several of the merchantmen ve
ry imprudently steered the fame course as the
Concorde, instead of scattering as directed
by signal, which may occasion several to be
taken. . The Concorde, however, is known
to be a faft failing frigate, and if She has been
overtaken, it has not been without a long
chafe, during which, the merchantmen may
have had time to take care of themselves.—
These British vessels are probably part, if not
the whole of Admiral Murray's fqyadron ;
if so, the Concorde stands but an even chance
of escaping, as two of the frigates of that
squadron, the Blanche and Cleopatra, were
originally French, the fafteft failing frigates
in the Britilh navy.
NEWYORK, JULY 18. By the brig
William, Ctpt. Oaks who arrived at\
Philadelphia from Liverpool, whence
me failed the 25th May, London pa
per! have teen received to the 21st,
and Liverpool to the 22d.—They