National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-08-10 00:00:00, page 4

FRANCE.
ISailonal Convention.
X.etter ficm General Cufline to the Mi
nider at War.
" IV 18.
" fOR some time pad I had formed a
plan of taking from the enemy a body of 7
or 8000 men whom they had pushed as
far as Rheinzabern ; but to lucceed, it
was ncceflaA- to occupy the Prufiians in
ail pans, and to deltroy their cavzlrv and
infantry, which they had at Edeltheim,
and at the didanee of a league and a half
from Landau Had I retained the com
mand of this army, 1 ftiould have deferred
the enrerprize till the commencement of
June, and tlu-n the army, better exercised,
would have been in a condition to execute
it completely ; but reflecting that I was
about to depart, and that our enemies
might advantage of their good difpo
iition to gain some success over our ad
vanced polls, which perhaps tie new ge
neral wou'd not be able to prevent, fori
want of knowing the country, in which Ik
Is to carry 011 'he war, I determined to
attempt an action.
• I sent a courier to general Houchard
with orders to attack in the rear Limberg
an ' O-tfberg, with the army of the Mo
selle, whih- Pulh should keep in check, and
attack with the reft of the corps des vallies.
a Prussian corps, who had advanced ; and
while general Sulk with nine battaliors
and some cavalry should advance tow. rd 6
Anwelier to molell the Pruflians- The
fame day the garrison of Landau had orders
to occupy the banks of the canal of An
veil r, and the vineyards and village of
Nuflcuff, with fcveral other potts, and
make the Prufiians appre end they would
be attacked in the rear, in cafe they should
make any movement. I had caused are
port also to be spread in the Piuffian ar
my, that the cavalry of that and the Mo
selle had arrived, as weil as a part of the
artilliry of Strafburg. I had ordered ge
neral Ferrier, who commanded forty bat
talions, only to shew himfelf to the enemy,
until he [hould hear that tha engagement
had commenccd, and to attack then the
wood of Rhienzabern and the Auftrians
who were in it b yond the village, Not
withllanding my orders, I did not fee his
troops appear till il o'clock, at which
time gcneial Diettman had commanded a
retreat, because the troops, being fa
tigued, could neither procure provisions
nor drink. I began to march at 8 o'clock
in the evening with 26 battriions, 3 regi
ments of dragoons, 2 of chafTeurs, and 3 of
cavalry, to repair to the heights above In
fheim towards Rulfheim. I ought to have
arrived there at break of day, but the
unavoidable delays which I experienced,
prevented me from reaching that place till
5 in the morning.
" The advanced guard, under the com
mand of general Landremont, behaved in
a manner superior to all praise ; during
the engagt ment they kept back the enemy,
y.nd prevented them from quitting the
sorest of Gemerfheim. Our artillery had
a prodigious effect on the troops of the
enemy who appeared.
" The eleventh legiment of dragoons
charged, with the grea eft fucctfs, a regi
ment of Austrian huffais, who fullained
great loss Several ot the officers '.ver e
killed on the spot. While general Lan
dremont w. s thus engaging the Austrian
array, and preventing them from advan
cing, the army of the republic extended
itfelf on the heights of Rulfheim, and
proceeded as far as that village, when the
flankers came to inform me that they
observed a column of the enemy's infantry,
with c nnon, and a column of cavalry
proceeding from the wood. I ordered the
tenth regiment ofchafTeurs to march, and
dispatched general Diettman to go and
view the, force of the enemy. As I was
certain that the enemy's cavalry confided
ot only 2 divisions of dragoons, I charged
them with vigour, and they betook them
selves to flight, after sustaining considera
ble loss. mong the number of the dead
were three officers. Had it not been for
the infatuation of the battalion, who took
our cavalry for that of the enemy, this day
would have been glorious for the troops of
the Republic
" In vain did we attempt to rally them
again—they answered only by discharges ;
and it was with great difficulty we could
■make thc-m re fume their ranks. It may,
liowever, be proper toobferve, that several
(jpippaijits of this battalion, and fosie
! others whom tliey had hunied away by
their panic, kept firm to their ports
" 1 have learned that this event was
occasioned merely by the commander, who
began to cry out—trenthery ! tieachery !
He was arretted, and I ha'e since been
told that he deilroyed himfelf.
" This day, which ought to have been
so memorable, terminated by th: tak'-ng
of one piece of cannon, and a very great
nnmber ot prisoners. The loss of the
enemy mull have been considerable, it we
may judge from the ravage made by our
cannon. Our loss does not exceed J2O
men, and is only in cavalry.
" 1 (hall not set out for the army of t'ie
north till the end of three days. Ism
afflicted with dreadful fits of the cholic,
which oblige me (till to remain.
" I mull be candid enough to inform
| you, that the command of the two armies,
"hat of ihe Rhine, and that of the Mo
fel'.e, which you have entrulled to genera)
Houchard, is superior to his strength.
" General Diettman, on whom I had
cad my eyes, and whose modelly is equal
to his talents, finds also that the military
duties of a general are superior to his : —
But this I do not believe.
" I have already solicited the rank of
general of a division for general Landre
mont—and I agau renew it.
(Signed) " CU3TINE."
[From the South-Carolina STATE
GAZETTE)
IN the State Gazette of the I 7th instant
I have read the biographical (ketches of
ioine of the leading men at present at the
head of affairs in France, extracted from
an Edinburgh paper.
The characters of MetTrs. Roberfpierre,
Pethion, Dariton, and Marat, in tliefe
(ketches, are trade particularly the fub
jeft of illiberal animadversion.
Not only againll tliefe individuals, but
againll the members of that august a'fem
bly, ihe National Convention of France,
the moll malicious calumnies, and malevo
lent inlinuations have, in a variety of pub
ications, and from a variety of quarters,
been difTeminated. To damn the reputa
tion of its members, to depict them to the
l world in an odious point of view, feemi to
jbe the objefl of such publications. Could
this be effeiied, it would be an important
point gained. It would bring discredit tc
the cause, of which they are the supporters,
and in proportion to the reduction of its
influence on the minds of men, would the
monarchical and ariftocratical interests bt
benefitted.
Had a policy of this kind been confin'i!
to those regioivs only where despotism is
tftablifhed, where tie will of the fove.
ieign, and not the vox populi, is the fu
preme law, it would not have been a fub
je£l of wonder, but surely it mud becomt
so, when in a fiee republic, the legitimatt
representatives of a great and enlightened
people, are fligmatized and spoken of in
terms of opprobrium and disrespect. When
occasions are fought to hold up, as a base
and imlamous band, the legislators and ru
lers of a magnanimous and generous na
tion : When a word, an cxprefiion, of one
of its members (and that word, perhaps
erroneously or maiicioufly translated) is
catched at for the moll mischievous pur
poses, and the theme of public declamation!
" Tell it not in Gath, pubiifh it not in
the streets of Alkelon."
I don't mean, meflrs- Printers,to under
take the defcnce of the moral characters of
either Mr. Roberfpierre, Mr. Danton,
Marat, or Pethion ; nor to advocate the
atheiflical theoiies of Mr. Dupont, so ably
combated by a learned divine, though
not so much with a view of serving the
caule of religion, as to fix an odium on the
supporters of liberty in Fiance ; but not
withflanding what has been said of thefc
king killers,prieft killers Atheifls, See. See.
charity leads me to believe that there are
at leafl as many virtuous, honell and good
men among the members who compose the
French convention, as are to be found in
the like number, colledted together in the
fame manner, in any country, or nation
whatever, with the superiority on the fide
of the French, of a much greater propor
tion of patriots, and friends to the liber
ties of the human race.
Where dodtrines immutable in their na
ture, relating to matters of government
and the rights of man, are promulgated,
they naturally become the objedt of serious
alarm to tyrants ; and as I (hall presently
(hew, it is no new thing for the satellites
of despotism to endeavour to throw an odi-
um on tenets an J principles which ilify
have no argument to controvert, by hold
ing lip to the world their propagators, as
A-retches of the molt contemptible c.ft,
ind unworthy of the notice orattention of
nankind. A# oht likenpfs begets another,
l ey wit}) to establish this inference, thai
10 doctrine can be morally good, which
< as for its p omulgarors or supporters men
tiorally bad. 1 his seems to be the specious
nit fallacious reasoning of the advocates
or expiring despotism. Hence it is, that
lefpatring of iuccefs ;n the field of argu
nent, to refute eternal truths, these chani
jions of monarchy seize every occasion to
tamp with in amy, the characters of those
vho are advocates for the righis of man.
Hence it is, th t the celebrated author o(
he work diltinguifred by that appellation,
has been lo often traduced in the English
piints and as the (light ti mark of indig
nity, been burnt in cfngy, in that boalted
and of liberty, for the propagation ot his
principles, by the common hangman. And
from the fame insidious motives, 011 the
defeat of general Gate?, near Camden
were the following exprefiions insultingly
made life ofagainit the American congrels
n a congratulatory address to earl Corn
ivallis, fubferibed by " divers loyal inha
bitants of Charleston."
"We connot but consider the late at
tempt of Congress to fuhjugate the free
ncn of this province t*o their tyrannical
lowination, as an additional proof ot their
"efllefs ambition, and of the wicked ma
chinations of the contemptible remains o(
hat expiring fa£tion who have so rect nt
y exercised a despotic and lawlcfs sway
jver us."
Here, Mtfirs. Printers, the reprefenta
ives of the American nation in oae ind f
:riminate mass, were accused by the abet,
lors of liritifb tyranny,in this very city of
Charleston, of the bale design of ftibjuga
ling the people, and of bringing them
under their, (the Congtefs's) tyrannical
' ruination. Are not the convention
charged with the fame crime? Tlu-y are
iccufed ot priffi-ffing, what the Frencli
ire said to pofTcfs, a "reltlefs ambition"
ind wicked intentions. They ;ire cJ ed a
fadlion, and a contemptible one too. The
ame thing is said of our allies. And
'hey are charged with having adtually ck
:rcifed despotic and lawlels sway.
Were these declarations founded in
truth, I would fuppo'e that the mem
bers of the Ajnericao Congrtfe, at that
time, were as r fcallv a set of fellows as
the members of the National convention
ire said to be. But hajepy for America,
that though forne bad men have ctept into
her councils, a fuflicinnt majority of
them (as the event has proved beyond
contradidion) were worthy of the conli
dence and high trufl the r country re
posed in them. And happy it is for
America that if (he has produced an Ar
nold, the is not without her Washington.
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