The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-08-18 00:00:00, page 3

tnQdinian Miuifer hits just received some
very^agreeable intelligence from Italy, ft
is prefomed tip from the Ute ahr^tyg prog,
refs of , th e F,°ch in jh, quacft tod the
general difafc^on of the people, ifiat Td
% the capital ,of Sardinia, is either taken,
or in imminentteg^r, '„
Saorgio, near Nice, is captured by the'
French, with two Generals, and 4000 prif
opers, besides killed and wounded#„
The Expedition Packet which filled on
)the loth from Lisbon for England, is taken
by a French frigate and carried into Brest.
' Ten Thousand Men, it is now said, Were
driven into Valenctennes—Fhis teas done on
purpose by the Auftrian>, that these men
might impart to the Garrifon,tfe dismay
which they felt, and facilitate the reduction
of the place,find a great additional consump
tion of provifions.^ :'
,Pery Important.
/ Efr^, *^ nfotoes, May 27.
" Valenciennes is completely, inverted.-
The operations of the Siege are begun, and
the necessary works are railing against the
town. '
/ " His Royal Highness the Duke of York,
is to have command of the Siege. His Roy
al Highness's Head Quarters ate removed to
this ffite, rtf ^ "^^/; q
* Letters from the Continents received in
town yesterday, state, as a pefitive fad, that
the Poles have acknowledged the .Mirtifter
from the French Republick, and fa^fe
pointed him a guard. 1
A foreign (hip from b,dia, has brought the
news of the French having taken qur settle
ment of Bencoolen, in the Eaftindies.
Accounts were yesterday received of 35 of
our merchantmen, some outward and some
* homeward bound, being taken, and greater
part of them carried into Brest. Thelofs is
eftimeted at 8oo,oooL_^"?^
CENTINEL. . boston, aug. 9.
Latest fr^EUROPE.
By an arrival at Portland, from Rotter,
dam, the Editor has received the papers
printed in that city as late as June 17,-which
are 17 days la er than before received. They
being printed in the Dutch language, the
tratiflation was difficult to be procured—
The following,' however, are the articles of
the most Important Intelligence :
Grand Naval ABion^
. LONDON, JUNE 13,
THE two proceeding days have been very
remarkable, as therein we have received the
news of two victories gained by the arras of
Greatbritain. One over the enemy in the
1 island of Corsica, by Lord Hood ; the other
overthe French fleet, by Lord Howe: both
' which accounts have been made publick in
the London Gazette.'
On Tuesday at 9 o'clock, Mr. Curtis,
Captain of the ship Queen Charlotte, arriv
ed at the Admiralty, with the Important In- t
telligence, that the two fleets, from the 28th
of May to the ift June, were every day en
gaged with each other ; and, that on the last
day, the battle was the most severe ; when
the French Admiral, forrounded on l every
fide, endeavoured by every means to retire,
leading off ten or twelve of his /hipping—our
fleet being damaged and scattered, occasion
ed their escaping. However, seven of their
line of battle (hips fell intoonr hands. The
Vengeu struck, and at the fame moment
funk. Another ship of the line funk during
the battle, The names of the (hips taken,
are, —Le Jufte of 80, Sans Parieile of 80,
L'Amerique 74, L'Achilles 74, Northum
berland 74, and LTmpeteux 74. It is not
yet known what has become of the Revolu
tionaire of 120, which was engaged with the
Audacious : nor of the Brunswick, one of
out 74's, which had her masts fluttered, and
was obliged to leave the line.
-We are not yet informed of the lots sus
tained by our fleet ; but so much we can re
late, that Captain Montague, brother of the
Admiral of that name is the only officer of
rank, killed. Admirals Bowyer. Pafley, and
Graves, are wounded —as also Captain Hall,,
ofthe(Queen : who has loft too of his crew.
The English fleet contained 25, and the
French, 26 line of battle ships. .
As soon as the news reached the Admiral
ty, and the King and Ministry advised of it,
the intelligence was sent to the Theatres
where it occasioned the loudest expressions of
j°y.
,Wednesday the Park and Tower guns were
fired and all the bells rung. In the evening
the town was illuminated.^
* , Yesterday dilpatches were received from
Admiral Montague, dated in Brest waters;
he informs that there was no ships of force
therein ; and on this account it is expeded,
he will not quit the station, and that some of
the disabled ships, and fomeof the fleet from
America, will fall into his hands.
/Mr. Jay, the Minister Extraordinary from
the United States, has arrived, to demand
fatisfadion for the American vessels taken,
and there is no doubt that the business will
be amicably adjusted.
The Brunswick arrived at Portsmouth, the
loth June, difmafted.: , * '
CONCORD, 4UGU3T 18, 1794,
„6 Our pages are this day crowded with
various Intelligence, highly interesting-—
The despots of Europe (if thur rarioccogM is
ira/g have gained some advantages over our
brave Republican Allies—but their Courage
and Intrepidity will check them, and Toon
Wrest from them whatever thef have gain'd—
Our Readers will observe, that we have only
o%ftory told yet—when the French account
arrives, we ffiall have mfar—— Indeed, we
think the Combined Powetfhve gained but
little, on the whole; for, vmrcthe French
tof, in one part,they generally make goodin an
other ; and sometimes with ten, and some-.
times with an hundred fold, intraft— —The
following is favourable :
BOSTON, AUG. 11. A gentleman from
Salem yesterday morning, brings the follow,
jng interesting intelligence : That Capt. Di
mond arrived there on Saturday evening from
Ireland, who fell in with the English fleet of
men of war, frigates, cutters, firefhips, and
tenders, in all about 50, bound up the chan
nel to Portsmouth. Capt. D. fays, that he
saw 1, of their ships of the line,difmafted and
in tow, and the rest of the ships In a very
Shattered condition. Capt. D. also fell in
with and (poke a ship bound to Jamaica, who
parted with the above fleet in the English
channel, the captain of which confirmed the
above—.and added, that " the British fleet
had been most horridly mauled, and one of
their 74 gun fhipswas funk with all her crew.
A letter of the 13th, from a mer
chant of veracity in Holland to hit
friend in Boston, mentions the cap
ture of eighty veffeto and, wo frigates
by the French, which were carried
fafely ino port : half these were
Dutch and the other half Britith,
He (peaks of the French being very
fuccefsful in Flanders, and of a gen
eral consternation prevailing among
the unhappy Belgians, who are dif
trefi'd on all hand,.
Rotterdam it the centre ,of Aristo
cratic politics—every thing from
that quartet may therefore be depend
ed on, when it is for the French.
Mr Jay had arrived, and all things
it ii said are to be '! amicably adjuft
with our true friends the British"
11, however, our lofuiaace offices
groan under the friendly adjudication!
of the Courts of Admiralty, in Ber
muda, Halifax, and elsewhere.
The cargo of the Pigou alone wu
worth 200,000 dollars, and is con
demned.
[/» Lord Howe's official account ofthe aaion of
the fleets, bejays, that partial anions were bod "
the zßtb and 2gtb May —-be next mentions tbe ac
"^ ^ %^ e % nobicb was tbe most blood, —He
jays, " Tbe French, their force consisting of
26 ships of the line, opposed to his Majesty's
fleet of 35, «he Audacious having parted
company with the fternmoft ship of the line,
captured in the night of the 28th) waited for
the a&ion,jand sustained thrattack with their
customary refolutiop. In lets than an hour
after the close action commencedjn the cen
tre, the French Admiral, engaged by the
Qjeen Charlotte, crowded off ; and was fol
lowed by most of the ships of his van in con
dition to carry fail after him, leaving with us
about lo or 12 of his crippled or totally dif
mafted ships, exelu five of one funk in the en
gagement, Then Queen Charlotte had then
loft her sore-topmast, and the main-topmast
fell over the fide very foon^aftef. The,great
eft number of the other ships of the Britilh
fleet were at this time so much disabled or
widely separated, and under such circum
.ftances with refped to those ships of the ene
my in aftate for adion, and with which the
firing was still continued, that two or three,
even of their difmafted ships, attempting to
getaway under a fpritfai ltingly, or fmalier
fail railed on the frump of the foremaft, could
not be detained; Seven remained in our pof
feflion, one of which however funk, before
the /adequate assistance could be given to the
crew, but many were saved. The Brunswick
having left her mizen mast in the adion, &
drifted to leeward of the French retreating
mips, was obliged to put away large, to the
northward from them. Not feeing her chaf.
ed by the enemy, in that predicament, I flat
ter nyfrfffhc may arclvejn^flyfat Plymouth
All the other 24 ships Ot his Majesty's Mt
re-assembled late ip the day,and lam prepar
ing to return with them, as soon as the cap
tured ships of the enemy are secured, jfa
Spitheagl. The material injury to his mF
eftv's ships, I underhand is confined princi
pally to tbgr marts and yards, which I con
clhde Will be foc^
, H ^ rjr't help observing, that from
Lord HoftCT own account, he got horridly
mauled ; a^ he was not able to detain ships
which were difmafted, or but little better—,
Finally, we want the French account, before
we can form ^judgment-—but we may con
je&ure—and from what precedes, we cou
je&ure, That the French ships were in the
best condition at the end of tbe action, for it
appears they Were able to get away, and the
English were not able to stop them, nor do we
find that they difeovered any inclination to
pursue them, but were for making the best
way they could for port.] - 1
Indian Battle.
FROM FHILADRLPHrA,AUGUST 2.
Extraa of a letter from Greenville, July 4.
On the morning of the 30th ult.
the efcorc of convoy tinder M. J. Ma
han were titled under the walls of
Fort Recovery, by upwards of 1000
Indians; who also affauked that Fort^
in every diredion, but were reported
with great daughter, They again re
newed the attack, but ata more r,
fpeaable distance, keeping a very
heavy and conftanc fire all that day,
and by intervals during the night and
moraing of the firft left, but were ul
timately compelled to retreat between
the hours of 12 and 2 o'clock of that
day, with lota and disgrace, from the
very field where they had on a former
occasion been proud and victorious,
"We loft 21 men killed, and had
29 wounded during the aQion ; a
mong the former we have to lament
the death of the gallant Major Mac
Mahan, the brave Capt: Harifhorne,
Lieut. Craig, and Cornet Turry ; &.
moogft the latter the intrepid Captain
Taylor of Dragoons, and Lieutenant
Drake of the Infantry.
"In the course of the adion, up
wards of 200 horses were killed or
taken j but certain it is a considerable
number were in pofleffion of the ene
my, loaded with dead Indiana.
" It does not appear that the ene
my could possibly have received any
information of this efcorc—their ob
je& was to carry fort Recovery by a
coup de msin, and Major Wells, who
has since reconnoitred the ground the
Indians occupied on the day and night
preceding the action, is decidedly of
opinion, that the enemy had double
the number of warriors in the assault
on the 30th ult. that they had in the
action of the 4th Non 1791."
The opposition to the Continental
Excise law, it is said, still continues
in the interior of Pennsylvania—And
a Collector has resigned—The Mail
stage has also been waylaid, and flop
ped, that, by an examination of the
letters, the friends to the Excise might
be difeovered, &c.
On the 7th inst. arrived at Boston,
Capt, Lewis, who commanded tbe
Pigou, an American Indiaman, which
was taken and carried into Halifax—
her cargo was condemned, but deci
sion was not had on the ship, when
he left Halifax—2s,ooo dollars of
her cargo was insured in Boston, as
bona fidk American property— Here
is Britilh friendfhip—-An embargo
had taken place at Halifax, on all ves
sels bound to the. United States. Two
ships of admiral Murray's fquadroo
had arrived at Halifax, convoying in
14'kil of the French provision fleet.
The Beaulieu 40, Alarm 32, Quebec
32, and the Zebra 16 guns, had failed
to cruize off the American coalt
There is now 20 American pris
oners in Halifax, most of whom are
amicably difper fed on board the King's
fyj&fa in a state of impartial neu
trality. rs&
Electioneering. fl
: MR.RUSSBLL, )^ ^ V^Grga
TN Massachusetts, so state is divided into
A.diftri&s tor feeding Members to Congress,
that every part of it may be represented ; and
tho' there is no such division In Newhamp
fhire, yet true policy requires that Members
should be distributed all over the State, as
much as may be. Now there are no left than
FOUR quite m the lb*er corner of the Stare-
No doubt in the centre and upper parts of it,
there are men of equal ability, integrity and
experience, as any ; let us look them up and
vote for them : The firft tiiat prefect, are—
Judge Softer, Smith, Freeman,
and for the lower part of the State,
Sberburn ,
LIBERTY & EQFA4TY.
Take Notice.
THE business of Congress, the enfaing term
of two years, most be of the highest import
ance-Much money to be collected and ap
propriated—War with Foreign Nations and
with the Savage tribes to be guarded against
—and the highest concerns ot the Union to
be attended to —Therefore, let us look out,
for Members to Congress, some of the Tr«e
,ige of 17,5—Men of tried ability, integ
rity and experience—as such, I recommend
Judge Softer, Judge Walker, Mr
Sherburne, and Mr Freeman,
A FRIEND to th^PEOPLE.
Pleafeto attend. .
UNDER the Old Confederation, they were
obliged in many of the states to drop the Old
Members, and to fend New ones every three
years'—l liked the plan much, and tho' not
now required by the Constitution, yet I think
it very advisable—Old Members, long from
home, grow less attached to the intefrefts of
the State—they grow rich and careless lam
for fending new ones, and chink we cannot
do better than to vote for Judge FOSTER,
WHITE, FREEMAN, WALKER.
a CITIZEN,
~— — — = ..
Curious Ahertifement.
YXT ANTED immediately, Bor 10 RUN
VV NERS, to run all over the State of
Newhampfhire, on the business of Election
eering for Members tb Cbngrefs— For which
services, ample compeofetion will be made in
Soldiers Notes, C#— —1 Promotion, and ma
ny most obliging affirrances OF a variety of
good things to come.—None need apply but
those Os the following qualifications^ They
must be/w„ ^foot,and perjeiertflg ; for long
is the route, and much the business to be done
—-They must be w, artful, for deep marccu
vring and curious intrigues will be necessary
•—Visiting D—-— College*—,frrob.tfhg lands,
public securities, and various other pretences
'twill be necessary to make, to ceverthe r.al
object in view.—g Also, those who apply as
above, must be of boraft, not re rigia ; as it
will be necessary for. them to frepreftot Tbe
Bsau as tbe Ma* ofSorje^b give large prop
erty in Newhampfhire to him who read, has
float at all iatbe State—To pay Nurse Bills
—and to fay in faa, (where it will do to fay
it) that they were never due— To be of whin
ing fandity —fubtil and fa—plaufible and
flattering—or, to blaze away, with patriotic
zeal and mighty eloquence, as time and place
may require— and, in Ihort, to take their er
rand, and to do it, be it what it tray — For
further particulars, apply near theGßaAr
Bridge, or two or three miles below.^
, August 17% .: =^
,TO CORRESPONDENTS.
; ''/The final Confummation"—We will
give it Birth ere long. °
“ Honoris Amicus''—We'll gratify
him—He makes many good observations
Miscellanies, from W. b.—Merit at
tentiori..
We arte thankful for the Hint " from the
woods" —also, for Pro Bono Publico's—
We will be .ever grateful for Hints from our
Friends, which may tend to render the Mir
rour more ufeful and agreeable to its nume
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Concord, July 17, 1794. 95
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