The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-06-03 00:00:00, page 3

Another Letter from the jame Minder P
I herewith communicate to the Coff
vention, the Letters and Qifpatches which
I have received from General Dumou-
RIER. Altho' alarming as they may ap
pear, the Convention will fee that the
Intrepidity of the French Soldiers is not
abated. 1
Copy ofa Letter from Gen. Dumourier;
dated at Tirlemont, March 19.
" It is with great Pain, Citizen Min
ister, that 1 communicate to you an Ac
count of the Check which I have received.
You must have seen, by my Letters of
Yesterday, that my Presentments are but
too truly juftified, on Account of. the
News which I have received of the Dan,
\gers at Namur, in the Approach of a
Corps of about 10,000 Men; who dired
&d themselves towards Brussels and Lou
lain. I had doubt that it would riot
have been in my Power to preserve the
publick Good, without dislodging the
mnemy from the Camp of Nervengen. I
have made, in Conference, an Attack
oro the left Wing of the Enemy ; my cen
tr^ Division made their Attack on Nerv
eng^n, and my left, commanded by Mi
ra/nda and Champmorin, attacked
thee Village ;—the Right, and Centre of
the)Army had fome'Succefs, although
the Infantry was twice repulsed, and
dfiven, from the Village of Nervengen.
The left Wing proving unfortunate, their
Retreat was made with Confufibn till be
hind folemont, or perhaps a little further.
The Marefhall de Camp Mielen was
killed, who commanded the Artillery,
and two teeneral Officers were wounded
in the Flight, and sundry Pieces of Can
non takqn, among# which there were 3
12 Pountlers, .
" I wa) ignorant of this Derangement,
and I had prepared an Attack for to Mor
row to complete Vidory. And uneasy at
not hearingfem Miranda, and hear
ing murmurs that he had retired, I quit
ted the victorious Part of the Field in the
Evening, to learn the Situation of the left
Wing, and was astonished not to find one
of the Corps on my way to Tirlemont. I
gave order to Miranda to resume his
Post on the Heights of St. Margarita to
cover the Retreat.
'' I fend you, Citizen Minister, a Let
ter from Valence, who was wounded ;
and who is^ow on his Way to Bruffe L. I
am going bagk to the Camp of Louvain to
cover Brussels and Malines. I cannot dis
simulate that the evil of -Di(organization
is at its Height. I fear for the Event of
this Retreat, in a Country, where we have
aggravated the Inhabitants, by pillage
and the Indiscipline of the Troops.l
will do all I can to save the Army, who
place in me the utmost Confidence, and I
will abide by their Judgment. I willlub
mit myfelf to the most severe Examina
tion, and I will demand a court Martil to
judge of my conduct. Two happy if the
Sacrifice of my life can be of Utility to
the glorious Cause of Liberty! and I
shall tight till I die, or am condemned by
the Patriots. I fear not the Jugdment
ofmy fellow Citizens, or the Reproach of
Posterity. You will fee that our loss has
been considerable, about 2000 Men. I
must pass the utmost praise on the brav
est Soldiers of the Universe, but we are
in want of experienced Officers. I pro
pose a Suppression of the Mode of eieft
ing them. This Mode gives neither Tal
ents nor Confidence, and will tiever pro
duce Subordination^
The Minister sent the Copy of a Let
ter from General Dumou rier to Gen
eral Dv Val. The Letter is wrote from
the Camp of Campeacbie, dated 20th of
March. The following is the Substance:
" Send me, my dear General, the
Corps of Troops which you promised me,
to replace the 4.000 Cowards, who aban
doned me, and snatched from my Hand
the most certain Viftdry.,
" I beat the Enemy, on the 18th, all
Day long, in the famous Field of Ner
vinde. The Enemy left us Poffeflion
of the Field. When I had learned the
Cowardice of my left Wing, the Enemy
' wanted to attack my right Wing, which
was commanded by Valence, the Cen
tre by Eg alite ; but I have rallied the
left Wing. The right and Centre sus
tained the Combat.—l hate, in the Pref
ence of the Enemy, made a fafe Retreat
to Campeacbie, where I expert to be at
tacked to Morrow." ;
' PHILADELPHIA, May 18.—By the
Sloop—— from Port-au-Prince we have a
Confirmation of the Account received
from Captain Green, about ten Days
since of the Attack on Port-au-Prince by
a French Frigate. The Occasion was as
related by Captain Green. The In-,
habitants were unwilling to receive a na-j
tional Commiffionet, who came on board
the Ship of War, and the Commander of
the Squadron was refolvedthat he should
land. The Town was cannonaded from
yin the Morning till 4 in the Afternoon,
and the powder House blown op by the
Effect of a red hot Ball.
The Town answered to the Fire, but at
last was forced to give up ; the Commit
fioner landed, and 4 of the Ringleaders of
the Opposition were hung on board the
Ship of War the next Day.
By a Gentleman who arrived here in
24 Days from Port-au-Prince, we are in
formed of the Troubles which happened
there last Month. Our Informant re
lates, that Mr. Santhonax, the nation
al civil Commissioner, arrived there in the
American, of 74 Guns' with two large
Frigates, on the 4th of April ; that he if
sued a thundering Proclamation against
the Inhabitants, whom he branded with
the Term of counter Revolutionists, and
imputed to them the Cause of the Infur
reaions of the Blacks ; that during the
sth and 6th the Disputes ran high be
tween the Aristocrats and Democrats ;
that on the 7th the national Commission
ers gave orders to the Captains and Com
manders of American and French Mer
chantmen to quit the Port, arid to retire
out of the reach of the Artillery, and get
under the Prote&ion of the Ships of War.
The Captains drew- up and signed a pa
thetic Memorial, and presented the fame
to the Commissioners, remonstrating
against the approaching Deftru&ion of
the Town ; they were, however, obliged
to comply, and retired out of the reach of
Cannon /hot, during the roth and iith.
On the I'zfh, as nine o'Clock in the
Morning, the Ship America commenced
a most dreadful cannonade against Fort
St. Clair ; at the fame time the Frigates
began to bombard the Town, and con
tinted that dreadful Work till the After
noon. The Forts St. Joseph, St. Clair,
and another, returned the Fire with des
perate intrepidity. It is computed that
these three Ships discharged about 35000
Balls against the Town and Forts. The
old Men, Women and Children ,an in
different Directions to meet Death, 75 of
these were killed On the Spot. A Cart
loaded with Powder blew up in one of
the Forts, by which Accident 8 Persons
loft their Lives. Towards the Close of
the Day Mr, Borel l, a leading Man in
the Town, made his escape with 300
white Men, and ioo Blacks, to Jackmell.
The Commissioners took Possession, and
have firice been organizing the Troops,
and imprisoning the difaffeded, 300 of
whom are now in Jail there, ^
Maffacbufetts.
.BOSTON, May 25.
[THE French papers received at Phi
ladelphia, mention troubles, infurredions
and even rebellions, in several parts of the
French Republick, particularly at Or
leans, at Rouen, in ci-devant Normandy
and Britanny, in the department of Deux
Sevres and Vendee, and other places.—
The orator of the administration of the
last mentioned department, informed the
National Convention as follows :J
" It is not mere partial infurredions,
it is not a handful of rebels, that the pa
triots could easily dilperfe, but real coun
ter revolutionary armies. They recruited
among us, but it appears that they formed
themselves in the department of lower
Loire. They march in two columns,
one towards the diftrid of Challons and
that of Sables, the other to Montaign.
Between these two main bodies are others
less considerable. One Gaston is the
Commander in Chief. One hunded gal
lant inhabitants ofFontenay dared toat
tack at St. Fulgent 600 of the rebels.
They could not be fuccefsful, 17 fell on
the spot — The city of Chattenay has
been attacked, taken and pillaged by she
revolters. About this time Gen. Marce
arrived at St. Hermand. He -attacked
the rebels and killed 100 men. The 18th
his army rested ; the 19th he took a bad
position, was attacked and put totally to
flight. Our defeat was such that we left
74. or 80 wounded to the mercy of the
counterrevolutionalifts.~
[added to these are the following more
alarming particulars by the Britijb April
Packet —That the flor, is told by an enemy,
and consequentl, is much inflated, is evident
but it may contain the rays of trutholfcured by
prejudice.]
LONDON, April 6.—By express just
from the Hague, we learn, that General;
DUMOV r i er, after his retreat to France,
[wrote to the Convention,.that such was
|the state of insubordination in a part of
rhe soldiery, such the effect which the
conduct of the National Commiilioners
had made on the minds of the Belgic and
frontier people, and such the imbecility
of the Supreme Executive Council, that
he found it utterly impodible to make any
head against the combined armies ; and
that to save the Republick it was neceffa
ry^to appoint aJingle Executive Officer-^
Head—who could colled to a point, and
direct the force of the Republick against
its enemies, In consequence of this let
ter, he was denounced as a traitor, and
Bg&rnonvi lle, Chabot and others,
deputed to arrest him, and lend him pti
foner to Paris. They reached the army,
and were preparing toput the decree into
execution—when General Dumourier
calling his troops together, informed
them of the event ; and received their
united protestations to defend and stand
by him: He accordingly arrested the
Commissioners and confined them, and
it is said sent them prisoners of war to the
Austrian General, Clarfait. It is
also said, that he had began on the 2d
April, the march ofhis army towards Pa
ris, determined to introduce, if possible, a
new order of things. The account, fay
some of the British papers, is immediately
from the hand of Prince de Saxe-Co
bourg.
[Another British paper has the follow
ing paragraph :] It is said that Dumou
rier has seized the Commissioners sent
by the National Covention to arrest him,
whom he sent prisoners to the Austrians ;
and that he afterwards marched with his
army to Paris. On this news, stocks rose
two per cent. e ,
The fame paper adds—A letter is said
to have been received by a merchant in
the city, from a refpe&able house in
Amsterdam, dated the 2d of April, stat
ing, that intelligence had been received
there of an infurredion at Paris—that the
mob had taken the Convention, and
mudered 80 of the members.
[ln feeble confirmation of the above,
as far as they reaped Gen Dumourier,
is a letter received at Philadelphia, from
Amsterdam, dated April 5, which fays,]
" It is reported, that in confequenee of
Gen. Dumourier's letter [// is berefug
gefedtbat the letter in quefion was the one
datpd from Louvain; March 12th] to the
Convention, Commillioners had been
sent to the army from Paris, with orders
for that officer immediately to repair to
the Convention. The letter adds as an
other report, that the Commissioners had
been arrested by the General, and sent to
the Austrian army :—And that General
Dumourier, with his faithful army af
ter assuming the white cockade, had
marched for Paris.
IMPORTANT NEWS.
CONCORD,
SATURDAY MORNING, 6 o'Clock.
. JUNE 1, 1793.
[Til importance of the following Intelligence,
contained in the Boften Centinel, brought by
Mr. KENT, who arrived in town last ev
ening, will apologiJe for the early appearance
of the Mirrour for Monday next.]
DUMOURIER delerted.
BOSTON, May zg.—Aveffel arrived at
Salem last Monday from Capefrancois. Apa
per brought by this vessel informs-, that on the
qth of May a frigate arrived at that place,
which left Brest the 9th of April, which bro't
an account ofDv mourier's having quitted
the army, after writing to the National Con
vention, that he tho't the publick good required
it ; that proclamations were out for apprehend
ing him ; and that many of the French troops
had dejerted; but that, notwitbranding this,
things went on fuccef sfully, and the conquef of
Holland was fill expeßed. It does not tbere
for, appear that Dumourier marched to Paris
on the 2d of April to reft ore the monarchy.
PHILADELPHIA, May 21.—This day
arrived Capt. Cochran, from Capefrah
cois, which he left April gth< He, and
his passengers, inform,—That Dumou
rier really went over to the Austrians some
time in the beginning of April. He tam
pered firft with the old Commissioners to
Belgia, informed them that he now found
Frenchmen unmanageable under a Re
public, and that they required all the rig
our of monarchical energy to keep them
in a proper degree of subordination. He
next communicated his change of. senti
ment to the Convention by letter, (who
probably received the information from
the commissioners as 4een at least) and
^explicitly declared to them that France
must have a King. <
The pafftngers in the Sally do not ap
pear acquainted with the circumstance of
Commissioners being dispatched by the
Convention to apprehend him ; but men
tion, that BournonviHe was sent off to
take the command of the army.
Dumourier, they fay, before he quitted
his post, made known his sentiments to
his army, particularly to a body of about
12',000 most attached to him. These lat
ter hesitated a moment whether they
should join him, but as last determined to
remain firm. His etat-major, some pas-:
fengers affirm, others mention, and a
great number of officers accompanied
him in his difgraceful flight.
Letter from Capefrancois May 8.
" We hear from France, that Dumourier has
quitted his army in Brabant, having been je
duced by dint fy gold ; luckily bis flight has not
been attended with an, evil consequence."
'A gentleman who came ,affnger in the Sal
ly, informs,.that there q.vas not a man in the
French army found base enough to accompany
Dumourier, when deserting the cause of liberty
and bis country.
Letter from Bruffils, April 1.
" The French are continuing to retreat,fill
pressed by the numerous body of Austrian horse,
which follows them. The archduke Charles is
at Mons, bis vanguard at Frameries. On the
29th, the imperial troops entered at Ghent,
which the French have entirely evacuated,
leaving therefome confderablefores. On the
29th of March; there was an engagement near
Antwerp, between a bod, of French troops &
an Austrian divifon. The battle was Long and
bloody, and was maintained on both fdes with
the greattft intrepidity ; but the French, 'upe
riour in number,forced the Aufrians to retire,
and took feveral prisoners."
On Monday arrived here Capt. Ross, from
St, Peters. He informs us, that on the 4th in
fant, a BritiJb armament of 2 frigates, two
Jloops of war, and a transport, arrived of St.
Peters, (Newfoundland) ^ immediately made
preparations for landing the marines & troops;
who, meeting with no reffance, took poffif
fan of the island: That on the landing of the
troops, Capt. Ross, cut bis cables, and Jlipt to
sea; and that there was one American vessel
there, and about _2O French fjhing vessels. —
The Britilbfquadron was commanded b, com
modore Affleck ; the troops b, Gen. Ogilvie,
USEFUL INFORMATION.
containing, Page
Address to the Publick, 2
Account of the late Mr. Ledyard;a
celebrated traveller; with some
curious particulars of his travels, 3
setter upon falhionable Libertinifm, 8
^avater, -------- 10
'oetry, - ----- 11
The GAZETTE, - - - - 14
The Hiftory of Rosella & Alphonso, 17
The Ways to raise a fortune, &c. 23
Dismal pidure of the manner of liv
ing among the common people
of Ireland, - ----- 27
The Duel.—A Fragment, - - 29
Envy, --------- 31
Sentiments on agriculture, - - 33
Direaions for making Cheese, - ibid
Memoirs bf the Life of Sir Isaac
Newton, - - - - - - -3;
The Hiftory of Mons. and Madam
duF—, — — — — - 43
The Colledion, — — — — 48
A wife and good man is a proof'
against all accidents of fate, - 5°
Diogenes' Reply, - - - - 52
The wretched Taillah.—An African
story, - - - - - 53
The Entertainer, - - - 56
The story of Altamont and Arabella, 59-
Indian Cruelty and Fortitude, - 62
An original receipt to cure cancers, # 64
Aphorisms on Man, - - - - ibid.
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