National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-10-16 00:00:00, page 2

the which he iV.d not fn?.ke the
k-aft effort.
That he was at Pa-is, and h-!d cor'cr
ences with Beurnop&lle, \vlille Diimoiirk r
\va cni r htrimadiig the molt infamous p.a*v
of treachery.
That is? ' to become * the.di it at or
of France, «r.cT adopted the tone and stylo
of Mizflt, Vergni»«', E ifiot, and others a
gainfl: the Anarchtfts. R-forganizcrs,- Clubs,
r; at, and the JViottfstaiii.
That oil iiis own authority, and without
is trial, he ordered three volunteers to be
fiiot, ni)d"f pretence ot their having com
mittVd r;-'. berv.
That Ist ia'. ii'aed-praifes upon the despot
of Berlin, who is (til! duly (bedding
It reams of Fi ** h blood ; -slid iat orincd she
en-iny of the pi ins ol t!!---reps: >I.can army,
be <<-e they were determined.
That he e'icoura..:-d all. the.aristocrats,
and dilgtilted all t.,.- patriots —fnppo-tecl
every ilj disposed p' rfon, and nio i e i'. ii the
Sans Culottes, p the wflnifter
Bauchotte as Uutsiopi'ter did pache, tsc
c sufe Bauchc.tte followed the foot-(heps ol
I'ache —an i endeavoured to difpl&ce gene
ral Hosschard.
That he !' -ifely arisiouncdd.the captsire ol
,Conde, with a view :o favour tl»e infui rec
ti on which was intended to be raised or
t j t? 14th ov July, by the confpii'ators againfl
the men, -rs of the Mountairs,
And [ii t he wrote a billet to the com
mandant at .vieniz to funem'er."
The French Ssmidft all their liiiferies.
are so far fortunate, as to have a produc
live hsrveit-7—tho crops tliru^,ll oilt Fisn-c,
and in French Flanders; are uncommonly
tine. -
On Sundav. .captain Cole, who com
minds hft msjelty's »hip Eurydice, came
express to the Admiralty, with difpati he;
from lord Howe, by which it appears, tha
on the evening of the 31 it hi« lordllip I' ll ii
with the French fleet off the ill nd of Bel
Jifle, to whichi though they had two (hips n
the h'.se tnoie than Isislordiliip haduadci
Jiis command, he gave chace, and cont.nu
ed in pssrfuit of them for the two fallow
ing days; but the French having the wi a
ther ca ,r e, and being between t.ie land a.<c
the British fleet, they found means to e
lude au aflion, fheiteriog thetnfelves he
hind the iflanc! Grevais, and availing thein
felves of the 'difficult navigation betweer
thatifland and the rocks of the Saines, aac
thus ji.ot into Bref, horbour.
A Convoy is appointed fail for tilt
Weft-lßdics, on the firft of next moiitn. f.
) ,rge body of ti'oops is to-be sent out, and t
flat!" officers are already appointed. — Thi
seems as if oft'enfive operations were to b<
undertaken.
About a fortnight back a French row
galley, carrying 16 fwiveis, attempted t<
Jand a number of men is two longboats
between the Main and the K< lies-, on th<
north-weft coatt of I rei.-ntl :i! ut ana! rn
b.'ing given, the country ps As'e alt mibied
lo the number of 500, well iiirnilhed wit)
mufkew, and ranged thenifelves on tii<
beach, when thev fired at the boats, an.
after wounding levctail ot the Frenchmen
obliged them to return to their vefl'el
which immediately made fail to the weft
ward. .
The. value of the homeward bourn
French Welt-India fleet, is said to be efsi
mated at ten millions flerling.
Trade is again becoming very brisk it
Dublin. Large quantities of linen have
bee ' in pped from thence, within the lal
"week, for foreign markets, and entries tt
a very confsderable amount have been mad<
-at the custom-house there for Philadel
phia.
In every part of Ireland there is a prof
pe£t of a molt plentiful harvelt, aosmdan
in produce, and excellent in kind. •
The following calculation has been math
oftheftateof the Married Couples ir
England.—lt is to be hoped it is not
quite corre£t.
Wives eloped from their hulbands 1,348
Jlulbands ranaway frosn their wives 2,361
Married pairsin aftateof separation
from each other - - 4j'2C
Married pairs living in a state of"open
war, under the fame roof - 191,02;
Married pairs living in a state of in
ward hatred for each other, tho'
under the fame roof - 162,32 c
Married pairs ill a (late of coldness
and indifference for earti other 510,572
Msrriedpairs reputed happy in the
esteem of the v orld - 1,102
Married pairs comparatively hap
py - - - 235
Married pairs absolutely and entire
ly happy - • . - NONE.
We have now in our pay on the continent
thirty thousand men, avowedly to take
towns for the emperor, and wc have not
lent a single regiment to the Weft-Indies,
■where, whatever we might take, was to
be our own !
It was a part of the beneficent project of
the war, to ttarve about twenty-five milli
ons of people, and a cos-don was drawn
all round France for thispurpofe. We en
tered into treaties for the purpofc of en
gaging all the princes of Europe to join the
confederacy, and our ambalfadors have bul
lied such of the princes as have had tiie./V/-
famy to secure to their fubjecU tfie blellings
cf peace. YH't cffc&s has this wife and
geneicns measure produced in 1 nice ? it
lias taught them republican maimer* —it
has reduced them to had iV>bflitn cs for
every article of foreign produce and rrsnu
fadure—it lias taken from our merchautsl
not merely 'for"the time, but probably for
ever, so many-millions of cuuorpers, and
it has united alt hearts again (I the confe
derated kings, whose fouls coulcj enteftaiji
so horrid a pr'oj £t.
The patriots in France have- done mort
than all this—they have abridged e* en their
common indulgen-cies. They inUituccd ii;
Paris, which-qmckly spread every where,
itri cc\veme politique, a political rent, which
is to conclude oiv the loth of An suit. and
during which they have r ; r idiy
from flefli meat, that the armies in motion,
who wanted it more than the citizens ai
h >me, might bectfechially supplied- Such
'is the impulsion that -the criife of liberty
git-ea to a nation whose levity we have been
accu'iOmed to revile.
The deeds of miniftrv, are the deeds of
darknefj. The Rurii-an, Sardinian, and
Hessian treaties, wefe""mat»e known to pa^ j
liameßt only on the 1 alt day of its public
btifinefs. But there is Irill ahothfer treaty
to be disclosed, the treaty with Auilria.
That fiich a treaty exists, is plain; for
Cowde and Valenciennes a!*e appropriated
to Airftria, though the latter Was taken by
the combined force*. Nay more, a board
(or junto) ii formed for managing this, and
other future conquelts. , Can this be with
out a treaty ? but where is that treaty
made known f it is to be found in no ga
zette : it lies only in that large mngaz'iiJe
of treachery, the cabinets of princes.
The wickedness of the grand Duke oi
Tufcany ; in attempt! !g ro keep his'fub
je£ts free from the calamities of this jufi
atid 'holy war, is very reprehenfibie. A par
tition of hit territories is the least puniin
ment can be thought of.
The profecittirtns in the country po on
with unabated rurour, and at every afiize,
iit every quartet teflion, there are
ments presented for spoken in liquor
—for felling or for lending pamphlets-*—and
they are chiefly ag-iin(t men whose inde
pendent spirit, ariling from fuccelVUil in
duflry, makes them scorn to consult their
t afe by ignominious fubmilfions to the tooii
of oflice.
FRENCH GENERALS.
The French eXcuse theiry?r latUitv r efpeft
iwg their generals in the following manner:
Pe Bouille, they fay, planned th fl s;ht
of the kin:*. Luckner was a foreigner,
and was supposed to love money without
loving liberty. .Rodvambeau's goodqudi
ties were in efteein, but doubting his own
popularity, he resigned of his own motion :
La Fayette car-fled His politics and in
tt-igue? into the army, and they were at lalfc
tuought of the wrong fort. Dumourier.
like De Bouille and La Fayette, turned
himfeif off; and after firft difplacxng Ls
-Bourdonnaye, and bringing Miranda into
quefHon, he led Valence, E&alite, and o
th.M's into an avowed conspiracy.
Cuftine, alike fcurriilons to his enemies
and his colleagues, at lait attacked the Con
vention, whom he called brawlers, and in
want of a dictator like himfeif ; and he
was therefore soon defer ted, when he was
found deserted by fortune.
Wimpfen, who never enjoyed full confi
dence, has declared, like several of his pre
decefTors, that the Convention does not
polfefs any confidence from him. Biron,
who was of the high nobility, a quondam
Orleanite; and looking for large inherit
ances, was thought to be toodiiatory against
the infcrgents, not to have a fellow fepiinjj
for them.
Servan had a heavy charge toanfwer, in
the defeneelefs flateoi the frontier towards
Spain. Kelierman, though still in com
mand, is known only as a soldier ; and has
not fvrflicient talents to five him, fnould
any suspicions prevail refpe£ling his patrio
tism VVefterman was proved to be a ma
rauding adventurer, both iii Flanders aud
La Vendee.
On the whole, the French fay, that an
army is a-machine, and the general is the
foul of it; that it would be idle to con
tinue a general after he was fufpe&ed of
being less attached to his employers, than
to their enemies ; that to change is an evil,
but to be betrayed is a far greater evil ;
that many of their changes have been fatis
factory to their armies, and even prayed for
by them ; for when men riifc their lives, it
is at Jeaft a confojation to know,, that they
have• oftener merited cenfuie for men
they have kept, than for the men they have
difmilled ; that events have almoit urivcr
fally proved their suspicions to be founded;
and that as their firlt general.- were 'kings
men, their next confliuitionalifls. and their
third set Girondifls, no wonder that they
were each displaced by the fucceedii g par
ties. That in our civil wars in .-Charles's
tftne, generals were in the public
interett, the next m the Prefbyter'in, and
the next in the Independent; and yet they
carried through their point for tae trme
That the duke of Ormond, and the French
generals under the monarchy, were gene
rally changed, when there were ch mges
at court, and sometimes from mere caprice
9i" intrigue. That tjie senior officers in
their armies at present, are natrraily full
of old prejudices; it w'rli be (ome time be
fore thtfe are weeded (r \\ orn out, and
tlic new cies fill their placcs; and that 3'
every new choice of a general i. an expe
riment. on account of their new circum
w inces, it is not wonderful that fjme.of
their be unfortunate.
i\ut in the'.m .-an ti-ff, they fay, that as the r
army, en the whole, hangs together, and
is to > vafoto l»e ddinoli&fd at once, time
will ascertain the ability a::d fidelity oi
th- ir officers; and France having never
had half so many men armed in its defence
nor its people half'fo much ar.imat <1, tl.t
allies will become bankrupt and diihanded.
belo. e tlie conqu'eft of France can be con
cluded. If they are right in this, then it i;
pretty clear, that England is in the wrong
in its mad crulade; and that a fyfiem oi
bribery cannot go very far in a country,
whe: f the attors ere changed so often.
The return of Lord Cornwall!*, fron
India, is polrpoiied. His.lordlhip is toft.n)
until alltiie French fettle merits in thai
quarter are taken, and incorporated with
the JJf'tifh territories. This is not Uip
jpofed to be a tafl: of fticb difficulty as
m%ht not eaiiN be accomplifned by infe
rior abilities ; but it is, thought advisable,
that it (hotild have the fanflion-of his lord
ihip's name.
The object of the present war, "in re
storing tranquility (so Europe," as avowed
ill the fpeeolics and declarations ofTome of
the princes- engaged in it, seems to 1 e ef
fected by Til oat: s. fmlilar to those adopted
by the defolating'fpirit of the Komaus in
conautting their military expeditions, a..
described b/T acltu* :
XJbifolitud tm c ;i. iurit, '<acem appellant?
Wfitrs t/iey create a dejart, they call'l
peace.
The acuejjtante of the French Coiiftitu
tion, by a great majority of the prinur)
afl'eifibiirs, may be now confiderni as cer
ta;n. Not only have the departments of
Eure and CaWados, where the jti•:(f for
midable oppolition was apprehended, re
nounced the C'irondine party,and declared
for the Convention: but the furthers de
partments have begun to follow the e;x
ample.
To-morrow is the day noticed for pro
claiming the detifion at Paris.
In the Leydetl Gazette, a letter dated
Grodno July 18, fays, " that on tiie 17th,
Hie Diet, finding that no alternative re
mained but unconditional submission or
open war, and the king representing that
cruel as was the injustice to which they
were compelled to yield, it was a less evil
than having the Ruffian troops font to live
at free quarters on the wretched peasants,
" Resolved, To leave the F/mprefs hor
felt" the arbiti ess of the fate of Poland and
of the treaty, opposing nothing to the ex
tteme misfortunes, of the Republic but the
magnanimom sentiments of the said sove
reign, in the hi pe of melting 1 her by thi
condefcenlioiv.
1 his relolntion was not carried without
warmproteltalions and reuionftrances a
gainit it ; and was carried at fact by £9
agaiult 20.
Extrafb of a letter from Briifly«, Atir:- '•
" The day before yesterday the whole
city was full of incendiary pslting bills, in
which rhe French emigrants were invited
to take arms, to prevent the difmeuiber
ment of their unfortunate country, on ibe
poii . of being effpfted, like that of roiund,
by the combined powers.
" These bills were immediately torn
down, so much the more so, as it is deeply
felt here, as well as elsewhere, that, in the
present circumflaaces, the partition of un
happy Poland, and tie proceedings towards
the Diet at Grodno, do infinite i, jury to
the cai'.Je of Sovereigns "
The government of the Anftrian Nether
lands has discovered, or pretended to dis
cover, that the emigrant French aristocrats
believing that the combined powers aim
only at trie difmeinberment of France, have
entered into a confpiraoy, cf what nature is
not defcribcd, with Dumonrier. Great
numbers of them have been taken into
cuftorly, particularly at BrufiVls ; Dumon
rier hinifelf, as our readers hsve been in
formed, made his escape about two hours
before the arrival of tiie persons f»:it to
apprehend him ; r.nd such is the extent of
filfpicion, and the "rigor of .frarch, that 110
Frenchman, whether aristocrat or demo
crat, can now consider himfe'f fafe within
the jurisdiction of the Anftrian govern
ment.
Paris. July 30. A private lett»r from
Tours llales the royali!! Amy to be parti
cularly flrong in the following plates, viz.
Machecoul, Fontenny. Ghoiict. Vez:n»,
Viez-, Mortague, in tact f>vrr all Pdtou.
part of Saintonge and Anjou. Jt/»n(irts
in all of 120,000 men, Bo,oco of whom are
armed with muskets. They ha»'e already
a very numerous train of artillery. The
whole army i* divided into four rorpi,
under the dircftion of a council coinpofed
of forty persons. The principal leaders
a-e Gallon, Bernard, tie Marigny, th«
Chevalier d'Autichamp, DeleflUrt, C;.the
lineau, Laugreriiete, I.arooie jacijuelin,
Lef. ure Uc. There are trnung uiein none
ef the higher class of the nobility..
''T however remarked (fays the write:
of the letter) ere cordon rouge (red rib
band) b'.t I dopt know his Fame. —Each
ef these four armies has a general in .chief,
with a corps of regular troops, ever in ar
vjty, and is reinforced by (he inhabitant
as a certain nik b. ;■ ot parilhcs allotted for
the ferv.iceof eachdiviiion. whenever any
grand attack or vigorous defence is to be
made.—\\ hen frhey ast preparing to march
the general orders a lufii ier.t quantity of 1 •
bread to be bake d for four or live days ;
e;ich peafynt is ordered to take liis {hare,
U'hic!i v wiih his nuifquet, i; all his baggage.
—V on niuft obfene that 'they are notfuf
iered to lay down their mufquets for a
moment, and lint'they hold them in their
a nib \\ hen they fl ep. When any part of
the country th y occupy, is threatened
\viih an attack, the-general who commands
in that quarter immediately dilpatches ad-
Vice to tl.e geue'raj council, and fends off
courier?, who order the tocsin to be
rung in all (he p ~ ithes set apart for the
particular, fcrvice of that division; arc! so
tittle fcirecy and celerity is there in the o
pera'tioas of tlie republican generals, that
the chriflian army, is ever in a state of de
fence when attacked.
" Their manoeuvres are performed with
the greate# fill: at the commencement
of an attack they aln:oft always fallback
in circlet'to engage our troops to pursue
them into the interior of the" country,
and th 1. on a signal previoufiy agreed or,
made either on the top of a ijill, or bv
(lionts, their fcattercd army ciofes and m*
:\«elopes iijtirs, which ever finds i feli tx
; tremely einbar *.d in > country coven d
with woods and mountains, and "wheie
the artillery and earalry are of little aio.
They executed that manoeuvre inthelaft
aftios \ce had with them on the 17th in(r,
in whici we ftiftained a very confiderab!e
. loU.
P II I L A I > ELPIIIA.
Wednesday, oHolier 16.
The Tenth of (fay English pa
pers) was the day appointed for the behead
ing of r.i aria Antonierta. No printed ac
couriti, coive> r, of her execution have
■et been received : • America ; tho' pafien
ers in dillcrent * ;'fl: iHommuncste it, as
"t e prevalent and credited rep >rt in Lon
don, that the quern did not iurvive the ap
pointed day.; that fne was dragged to the'
guillotine to revenge the capture of Valen
ciennes, &c.
Extract of alettrrfrom Virginia; Off. 3.'
"The favour of France to tbia country are
inflate:* heightened, when one cor.liders the
diftrrflcd lorlnrn ate of America at the
time tftey were bef owed. What then mull
we think of drr dent agents & ("ecretaries,
intoxicated wii'ri'- Ir own felf-i mportance
ami political elei i.'.-n, instead of applying
public cash laanr I, t , the facrcd obje'a of
its dffiTtnitibtV, rema» ng it from France at
a t'.tne it was'rn.-it needful, and throwing
it into tl.e paprr^in!'itutioss for the uses of
speculation. Not the smallest intimation
•>f the tfouduft of these two worthy agents
(short the H igne and Hamilton at Phi
ladelphia) was given to Congress, until
vrefted rrj«i t':e latter by repeated calls.
It »ppr»r;, that the former disordered state
of French affairs had iflued contr -y to
\i'i* : r ekpfftatioos. At (he time of these
'.-41* transitions the duke of Brunfwick
•. as hero'i - y i , r'chirtg toivards Paris,
| preceded i»v fnlnrna ting inanifcftoes, but,
contrary to the S"ci erary of the 7'reafnry's
exr-eOat. jr.. c at: cry to his official calcu
atioin, perhaps co-trary to hisinoft 3rdent
wiliieji, t;ie unexampled exertions of the
French nst'on soon produced a difgracefut
retreat, and every drum which founded his
•etl-aigrado 1 ;■> oeuvres, founded the ap
proaching d . ,ce of the Secretary's cal
culation: ; founded the alarm to his con
cealed o e » . n . and founded the funeral
Knell to his r i' lijas, political, projects.
—America wants no men of huge ambition
I in her governmental departments ; when
Much nrr found there, it Jhall be the care of
the People top;:* th • into situations where
j l!ny can do no ham."
Extrafl from the jog Book of the snow
Eliza, Capt. ( 'well, arrived here Oc
tober 9, from Havre de-Grace.
"On f'rid.ij. \oth Augtift, lat. 45, 42.
Ion;-. 1 6. 50. saw two veflels that gave 11s
chace. The flap .soon came up, fired two
without fhsv.'itrg any colours; at the
t'cond fi.ot v»e rounded to. The mate of
tie (hip cam- -1 I ard in their own boar,
and examined tie flow's papers; Captain
Caldwell t-as o .'ered on board the {hip.
At 5 P M. tl-» c "tains of the {hip and
brig, who were now near us, came on
board, mir c 'ptaia being flill detained on
board the f tip— " fearclied every part m
ot the vg(T*l"icould, brokeopen a num
ber of the pals'',:r . trunks, and letters,
roUke-d r!;»m o'' pai t of their contents, fucli
a« cloathing. "'"hey also opened two
bales of «:u car.:" ; rank and deftroved 3
great part on liquor, and atfed the
wbole time like 1 'e«. At BP. M. the
captains returned beard their refpeftive
■ c'is is, 1"p aat? of the fliip and
two hand,; I'. an all night under top
sails to the's ell' kin fine weather. At
half past o. A. Cant. Caldweil came
on board " ':en r privateer's people left
J ns. The lip •• ailed the Olive of Li
! vcrjaooJ, tiid ire br■ , .Agues of Liverpool,