The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1792-12-17 00:00:00, page 2

LONDON, September 20.
A young woman of the name of Lacombe
was among he ranksnfthe patriots who bald
ly stormed the palace of the Thuilleries, amidst
the havock made by the fire of the Swiss
guards.
Whilst the battle raged, the fought as if she :
had been equally a ffrahger to fear and to hu
manity, but when the enemy was overcome,
and refiftence was at an end, the appeared in
the amiable garb of humanity, defending from
violence and outrage, men who, having thrown
down their arms, cnfeffed themselves van
quished, and sued fir quarter.
In one place the favedjo Swiss soldiers from
immediate daughter, and c- lleding a ch fen
band of Federifts, ihe put herfelt at their
head, and placing these 70 men in the centre,
protested them through crouds of people, who
cried out for their blood, which they said
ought to be shed to revenge the death of the
brave patriots whom these Swiss had slain.
But this truly gallant Amazon declared,
that :hofe who should attack these disarmed
prisoners must firft take her life:-— Nor did the
quit them till fhehad conveyed them to prifen,
and &s secured them from every other ven
geance save that of the law. -
The Federifts of the 83 departments, who
had witnessed both her bravery in the atack,
and her humanry as er victory, bestowed upon
her a civick crown,as the reward of her virtues.
She appeared, on Saturday last, at the bar of
the National A,(feebly, and presented this
crown to the President, as homage paid to the
patriotism of the Legislature.,
She was invited to fit within the bar; and
honourable mention of her and her offering
was made in the journals. 6 ;
The Empress of Rtfa is (aid to have declar
ed War against France.
M. -DumPurier's army is ef imaged in Path
at 54/300 mtn, and M. Kellerman was dai
ly expeaed to fain it, when the united army would
amount to an hundred tbosyand men- M. LuCK
ner, if was thought, would Jhortly have fat,
thofand men at Chalons. M. Biron has fifteen
,tbcufand men under him at Wiflemburg.
A stratagem of General Wimpin, the Com
mander of Thionville, is much praijed. On the
111 b inf. be made a prodigious fire in the market
place, thefames of which were mifaken by the ene
my, for a Jire among the houjes kindled by their
bombs. They immediately made an afault. A de
tachment from thegarrijati took tljem in fanh, while
AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS.
BRUSSELS, September 22.
AFTER the events of'the 14th instant, the
news of which you probably have heard,
the armies under the command ^f the Duke of
Brunswick, having turned the ^mountains of
Clermantois, found the armies of Luckner,
Dumourier and KELLERMAN veiy advan
tageouily ported in a chain of mountains par
rallel to the river of Aifne.
The combined armies offered &#e to the
French, which they refufed. It rhen beanie
necertary to turn a corps of twenty thousand
men under M. Dumourier, who occupied a
height which is considered as a key to the pass
es. The intrepidity of the troops conquered
all obstacles ; they attacked and took a battery
of cannon, and M. Dumourier perceiving
they would turn his flank, took flight. The
two other Generals followed his example, and
the French army palled the Aifne in the great
est disorder, and fled towards Chains, where it
is thought they did not stop.
In this retreat from four to five hundred
prisoners have been made, and they loft a great
number of people, four pieces of cannon, sixty
waggons, and an infinite number of baggage.
M. De SoMßßUEiL,aiddecamp of the Prince
of Nassau, has gained great credit in this ac
tion by his valour and intelligence^ It is un
derstood that the King ofPrQfa decorated him
with military orders on the field of battle.,
All the difficult passages are now forced,
and the combined armies have the keys to Pa
ris, except the battle which the patriots are to
fight in the plains of Champaigne, behind
Chalons, but it is feared their courage will not
await the Austrians and Pruffiatis.
By last Wednesday's MAIL.
ENGLAND.
'FOREIGN.
'LYONS, September rg.
In imitation ofthe example set by the Pa
risians the" prisons in this City were forc
ed op^n and the prisoners, though defend
ed by the Municipal Officers were all Slaugh
tered indifcrimina,ely ; nothing Could exceed
the fury of the populace, and the effects it pro
duced are too Shocking to relate ; several heads
were carried through the streets. One of
the prisoners had escaped from his murderers,
and came to the hall of the Magiftra es, to
implore. protedion; but even the Judges
could not save him from the monsters who
were in pursuit of him who cut h m in pieces,
with several more unfortunate citizens and
prisoners, in the very presence of the officers
of justice.
At night the bloody feenes increased—eve
ry moment the prisons were opened—a great
numberof Priests were murdered, one of them
was disguised in woman's clothes— he daugh
ter did net cease until the streets were covered
with dead bodies.
An infurreaion hasalfo taken place at St.
Martin near Lyons—7 perfuns, among whom
were 4 priests were laved from being massa
cred by a party of National Guards.
IRELAND.
DUBLI N, September 13.
It is said, that in the course of la ft week, a
fubfeription amounting to three millions ster
ling was completed among the Roman Cath
olick Gentlemen and Merchants of this coun
try, for the purpose of purchasing lands in
America. .
This measure of the Cath licks should it be
carried in:o execution must very deeply inter-
FRANCE.
PAR I S, August 23.
I just learn, that the editor of the Gazette
de Paris is Condemned to die, for fending his
political opinions into the world—this is li
berty oftbe prejs.
La Fayette's property in France and in
the Wefindia Islands is already ordered to be
fold-; many assert that his Wife and Family
are taken up, I think the contrary—you may
be convinced, that he is too proud tojoin the
Emigrants after having been so long an arch
rebel, and the keeper of his King; neither is
there any probability, that the Emigrants,
who hate him,will avail themselves of his pre
sent critical fi nation, and punilh him for his
past offences. He will, doubtless, go to En
gland.
National Legifative dffembly, August 28.
• M. Lamourett b complained, thatall the
ariftocratical presses were not yet destroyed ;
that Libels were still circulated ; and moved,
that the Royal Family should be confined in
separate apartments, and no person fuffered to
have communication with them. The As
sembly after some debate, passed to the order
of the day.
That on the 26th, the triumphant army of
invaders were advanced to Meaux; within 12
leagues of Paris.
But notwi hftanmhg the high authority
from which it comes, the dates are strong ar
guments against its truth, and its coming
From Brunels is considered by many as a kind
of evidence of its falfehood.
Yesterday the Ministers received dispatches
from the Earl of Elgin, informing them, that
just as the Mail was departing, information
had arrived at Brussels of the most important
kind..
That the Duke of Brunswick had taken Cha
lons on the 22d of September—that General
Ciairfait had taken Rieto on the 24th —and
that on the 2§ h the combined armies had, by
a dexterous manoeuvre, completely surrounded
the army of General Dumourier—tha^ the
General had in vain solicited permission to
march to Paris, abandoning their artillery,
tents, ammunition, and provisions ; & that the
Duke of Brunswick Had insisted that they should
lay down their arms,to which at length, they
had been obliged to submit, and that twenty
five thousand men had accordingly laid down
their arms.
the cannon of the place plfyd upon their front, and
the, acere presently routed with tbe loss of three bun
dred men, left dead upon tbe jpot. Upon the whole,
Thionville has already cost the enemy a tbaujand
men, besides an immense quantity of cannon and bombs
funk in the Moselle.
October 2.
ExtraA of a fetter from a gentleman at St. Chris
topher's, to bis correspondent in tbis city, dated
October 3.
" We have now amongst us very unexpect
edly, 15,000 French soldiers, arid daily expe&
2000 more ; these troops were lent out by the
King & National Assembly, to Martinique ; on
their arrival there,they were fired upon by the
forts, an 80 gun (hip and a frigate— not a man
fuffered to land, & apprehending they should
meet with some reception at Gaudaloupe, they
were kind enough to take us in their way, to
God knows where, for they are afraid to go to
the Cape. They are in want of water and ev
ery kind of provision, and have neither money
nor credit, with water they have been supplied,
but the expense of supplying them properly
with provisions would amount to ten or twelve
thousand pounds currency ; this is too large a
sum for the malcontents to venture upon. I
have no doubt myfelf that the bills, when they
offer to draw on the treasury of France, would
not be paid; they have made an application
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, November 10.
A gentleman arrived on Tuefday from Cape
francois, informs us that the colony, at the
time of his departure, which was the 21st of
last month, was in a more diftra&ed state than
it has been at’any period since the rebellion of
the Negroes. Discord and conlufion seem
to have erected their ffandard at the Cape —
Party fpifit is wound up to a pitch that has
seldom been equalled, even in the most violent
and difafterous revolutions—The common
and inveterate enemy to the whi e people (th.^
rebel Negroes) is nearly forgotten-and the
colonists, are totally abferbed in animosity
against each other.'
NEWYORK.
NEWYORK, November 30.
We just now hear, and the intelli
gence may be depended on, that Cavils
lon, Jeremie, Cayemittee, Petit Trout;
and L'Safe a Veau, have surrounded
the rebels of Petit Trou, had pursued
them for nine days, and killed almost
the whole of them ; the survivors pray
ed for mercy, and all is restored to or
der. It should be observed that they
had as commander, no agent of th<£
old executive.-
A Letter ft ma Gentleman in South Caro
lina dated the zoth of September, fays,
" A general Indian war (without the Gnalleft
alledged provocation) on the back parts of this
state, Georgia, and Nort bearolina, is reduced
to a certainty, and the militia of the back coun
iry are ordered out."
An account fr <m Richmond (Virginia) men
ti ns, tha f the principal chiefs of the Chero
kees, exceptthofe of the five lower towns, are
for war, and every other part of the nation for
peace with the United States, and that there
are daily proofs ofboih.
eftthe national welfare.#-Nothing has occur
red in Irish politicks within the present cen- &
tury more worthy the attention of the poli
tician and the fta efman.-,'
September 28..
By a letter received yesterday from Abbe- ts
ville, from a gentleman of character and for
tune, by his kinsman here a perlon of veracity
and diftindion, we learn that a column of
100,000 national troops, with fcveral trains of
artillery, had parted the neigbourhood of that|
town on its way to the frontiers from the;
South Weft Departments of France; and that
2 other columns, equal in number to this one,
from the Centre and eastern Departments of
the South were on .heir march in parallel(
lines: These enormous armies, the writer
adds, are inspired with the.fame enthufiaftick
design to destroy the invading armies, or pe
rish in the attempt. Sydi is the quarter from
which this intelligence comes, that we cannot
doubt of its authenticity.
The Minister of France, though no longer
acknowledged by the Stales General, remains
still at the Hague.
MARYLAND.
BALTI M ORE, November 2.
DOMESTICK.