The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-06-05 00:00:00, page 1

Latest European Intelligence.
• [The following HIGHLY INTER
ESTING INTELLIGENCE was re
ceived by the Brig Orange, arrived at Nm
york, the 26th ult. from Briflol, which
ihe left the 14th April. It corroborates
the Defeaion of Gen. Dumourier—■
and Communicates Particulars which must
affed every Freeman.]
Dutch Brabant.
BERGEN-OP-ZOOM, April 4 .
INTELLIGENCE, has been re
ceived from Prince de Saxe-
Cobourg's head Quarters at Mons,
hat an Armistice had been agreed
upon between his Serene High
ness and General Dumourier,
the latter having previously con
sented to evacuate the Austrian
Netherlands and Dutch Brabant :
That General Dumourier set
out on the 3d Instant, on his march
to Paris : -That his serene High
ness had put his Troops into veryi
close Cantonments, keeping them
in immediate Readiness to a& : —
That the King of Prussia had cross.
ed the Rhine at Bucbera, attacked
the French at Bingen Creutzenacb
and Altbeim, took General Neu
winger, 50 Officers, 200 non
commissioned Officers and Privates,
15 Cannon, and a military Chest,
and had formed the Blockade of
Mayence : That General Wurm
ser, with a Prussian Corps, -was
immediately to pass the Rhine at
Manheim and aft on the left of the
King .-'That Worms and Oppen
heim were evacuated, and that the,
Enemy had retreated from those
'Places towards Landan. These
Operations happened between the
17,h March and the ift of April.
i Holland.
HAGUE, April 4.—lntelligence
has been received from General
Clairfayt dated at Tourna, the
3d Instant, advising that General
Dumourier had that Morning sent
to him, as Prisoners, M. Bournon
ville, M: Camus, and other Com
missioners, who had been authoriz
'ted by the National Convention to
apprehend him, and condud him
to the Bar, and that, in a Letter to
General Clairfayt, he declared his
Intention to march the next Morn
ing to Paris.
April 8. Lord Auckland, the
British Minister, set off Yesterday
Morning for Antwerp, to meet his
Royal Highness the Duke of York,
and the Prince of Saxe-Cobourgh:
The honourable Terms granted to
the French Garrisons of Breda and
fcertrudenbourg, appear nowto have
Veen stipulated by Dumourier, in
his Conference with the Prince of
Austrian Netherlands.
BRUSSELS, March 21.— Con
trary to the Orders of General Du
'mourier to return all the Plate
which had been forcibly taken Out
tot the Churches, it has not yet
Keen given back ; and it is even
perceived that it is fending off to
France. This offends the People
very much, and exafperate# them
©inft the French ; in many Pise
Published by ELIJAH RUSSELL, at his OFFICE, near the Meeting House, in CONCORD, N EWHAMPSHIRE.
The Mirtour. ^^
CONCOR D, WEDNESDAY, June 5, 1793.
es they have taken up arms. The
Peasants in the Neighbourhood of
Tirlemont and St. Iron have joined
the Austrians.
march 31.
Letter from his Excellency General
Clairfayt, at Mons, to Conte Sta
benberg, Imperial Minister at the-
Hague, dated Tournay, April 3,
'793- ,I
" I lose not a Moment in com^
muoicating to your Excellency^
what M. Dumourier has just writ
ten to me, when he sent to our
Camp eight or nine Prisoners, this
Morning, four of whom with Gen.
Bournonuille, he fays, were speci
ally commissioned by the National
Convention to arrest and conduct
him a Prisoner to their Bar, and,
on any Resistance on the Part oy
Dumourier, to have him affeffin.'
ated on the Road : —" But," adds!
the Writer, " 1 have been before]
band with them, in securing tbofe\
Commiffiouers and their Deputies as'
my Prisoners." " These he hasi
sent under a strong Escort to thei
Prince tie Cobourg, after having
put Seals on all their Papers, &c."
" M. Dumourier transmitted me
at the fame time a Lift of the Pris
oners, and conclude# by faying,
that he was that Instant about to
move with the trusty Part of his
Army, in order to destroy those
who may further oppose them-!
selves to the publick Good of
France, and to give to that diftraft
ed Kingdom permanent Peace and
Tranquility. I have the Honour
to be, &c. &c.
“ CLAIRFAYT."
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Germany.
COLOGNE, April 2. —We are
this Instant informed that Cuftine
having marched from Mentz on
the ift Instant, to retake Oppen
heim, the two Wings of the Prus
sian Army cut off his retreat, and
he was entirely surrounded with all
nis Army ; it was supposed that
he could not escape,
Every thing is ready for the
Bombardment of Mentz and Caffel,
and if the Garrisons do not sur
render, they will be entirely de.
ftroyed.
——lahfa-W>
France.
PARIS, April 3.7— By some Du
mourier is accused as a Traitor ;
and as having a&ed all along with
views hostile to his Country : By
others, his Condud is juftified up.
on the Ground of Necessity, and
represented as the only resource
which his present Situation allow
ed. He has been publickly threat
ened with Assassination. In the
Club of Cordeliers, it was resolved
on the 26th of March, that he and
the other Commanders of the Ar
my should be brought to Paris, in
prder to be tried, " and if," cried
some of those present, "The, es
cape the Tribunal, the, Jhall not es- ।
%e#t." —
Orders of arrest are issued againft|
Madames Sillery, Egalice, Ladyj
!Fitzgerald ; against Valence, Ega
lite the younger, Montjoye, and
others, who are Officers under the
Command of Dumourier.
Sitting of the Jacobins, March 31.
Marat.-—The Dangers which
threaten our Country are at their
Height, and the Moment has ar.
hived when the Courage of Repub
|licans ought to be displayed. The
;Treacheries of our Generals are no
longer a Mystery. My Predic
tions are accomplished—but we
have opened our Eyes too late—
a Messenger has been dispatched
to Dumourier, and I will warrant
that by this Time he has emigrat
ed. Bournonville has sent out to
seize all the Papers which may tend
to convict himfelf, and perhaps to
try to march against Paris with
'Dumourier.
I Danton, in a Speech of some
[length, recapitulated his former
!Services, in having prevented the
Miniftry,of which he was a Mem
iber, from, leaving, Paris in Sep
tember last. He knew Dumou
rier~to be unprincipled and ambi.
tjpus ; but he knew his military
Tafents, and wished to give hi#
Country the Benefit of them. But
Dumourier conceived the Projea
of conquering the Netherlands and
Holland, and making himfelf their
Protector—All his Aaions were
infeQed by this Idea—and if he
did ooLauuihluie the Pfuffians in
the Camp of La Lune, it was be
cause he wished to reserve himfelf
an Asylum, in Case of Defeat, in
the States of Frederick William,
His retreat from Belgium was ra
ther the Fault of his inferior Offic
ers than hii own. Miranda was a
Fool or a Traitor. When Du
mourier returned from Holland to
Belgium, he was quite dejefted.
The Failure of his visionary Pro
jects reduced him almost to a State
of infinity. He retained Nothing
of a Republican but his military
Ardour, and fought every two
Leagues. “ But," continued the
Speaker, " let us leave thia raving
General, and think only of saving
the Republick. France is far from
having loft her Force. Under
Louis XV. the combated all Eu
rope, with Resources far Inferiour.
But where are those Resources? It
is for the Jacobins to find them.
It is not enough to have levied an
Army of 300,000 Men ; we must
raise a central Army to defend Pa
ris and fuccour all the rest. Let
the Jacobins call upon all good
Citizens, and fele& those who are
the most capable of defending their
Country, and we Ihall soon have a 1
formidable Army. The factious,
talk of dissolving the Convention ; (
I cannot endure the Idea of Diffo-'
lution.
"Let those who have shewn
themfelve# too pusillanimous to'
join their Name# to those whofe'
glory will afeend to posterity with- c
draw from it. Let us engage the
People to speak, and we /hall purge'
the Convention of those who are (
incapable of saving the Republick.
Those only who have killed a
King, are worthy of repiefentiog
Republicans."
Marat.-—" Dumourier is the
Creature of a wicked Fadion. He
was at firft their Pupil, and now
he is their Froteaor. I fufpe& the
Commissioners Camus and Treil
lard. Such Men ought not to
give us a Report on our Situation
in Belgium. I must request that
Danton will tear aside the Veil be.
fore the Tribune of the Conven,
tion."
Danton.—" 1 engage to com
ply with that Request."
Marat.--—" Aft with Energy
and Courage. Behave like a true
Republican. Do as I shall do. If
the Enemy qnter France, I shall
draw my Poignard and fall upon
the Traitors. [Here Marat, draw
fag a Dagger from bis Bosom, brand
ished it in bis Hand] I am de^
termined to die, rather than bend
the Knee. The despair of Liberty
will give me Death. I propose
that a considerable number of such
Arms Ihall be manufadured and
given to all Citizens of known
Patriotism, who are not acquainted
with military Evolutions. Let us
set on foot a Subscription for this
Purpose. I myfelf shall make the
firft Sacrifice to it." This was
adopted, and the Subfeription
agreed to.
St. Just.—" I denounce Bour
nonville as a Traitor?'
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
March 30. — Camus.—" The
Committee of general Defence has
charged me to propose to you
measures of Safety, resolved upon
this Night, in Presence of a great
Number of Deputies, and after a
long Deliberation.
" Dispatches arrived Yesterday
from the Army informs us, that
the most odious Plots are in Agi
tation for the Deftrudion of the
Republick. We do not know the
whole, but we shall soon be in
Possession of it. I propose,
I._To order General Dumou
rier to the Bar.
2. That the Minister at War
shall instantly set out to examine
the^ state of the army of the North.
3. That our Commissioners,
Members of the Convention, shall
repair to the laid Army with Pow
er to suspend and arrest all Gene,
rals and military Officers whom
they shall fufpea, and bring them
to the Bar."
This Decree was passed almost
unanimously.
After the Convention had de
creed that General Dumourier
should be brought to the Bar,
Marat moved, that the Minister at'
War should remain at Paris, where
he would be more ufeful than on
the Frontiers infpeding the Army
of the North.
Camus said, that the Minister J
had Yesterday made two ptfa/
tion# to the Committee, ift. T'
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