National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-01-02 00:00:00, page 4

ON BALLOONS.
A HE earth on its furl'acc 11-15 all been furveyYi,
The fcahas been travel d—and, in the {hack,
The kingdom of Pluto has heard us at work
When we dig for his metals—wherevcrthey lurk :
But who would have thought that invention could
To contrive a machine tliat wcuid soar to the (k.ies
And pierce the bright regions, which ;Vges'"aflignM
To spirits unbodied, and flights of the mind.—
Let the godsfof Olympus their revels. prepare,
By the help of a breeze o inflammable air
We'll visit them foon,and furfake this dull ball
With a streamer difplay'd—and no fear of a fall-
How France * isdiftinguifii'din lis ekty sreign !
What canricf her genius and courage attain ?
Throughout the wkie world have her aims found
the way,
And art to the liars is extending her fwav.
At sea, let the Britilh their neighbors defy -»
The French (hall have frigates to traverse the Iky,
In this navigation invincible prove,
And cudgfci your Frcdirics and a
bove.
If the Englifli (hould vehture to Tea with their
fleet,
A host of balloons, in a trice fhey shaH meet —
The French from the zenith their wings (half d'f
play,
And souse on tbefe sea-dogs, and beartbrm away,
Ye fagc*, who travel on mighty dtfigns
To m furs equators and tropical lines—
Inflcad of a vcfTel, to traverse t}ie fcas
Engage a balloon and you 11 do it with cafe.
And ye, who the heavens' broad concave survey,
Arid, aided by glasses, its fetretp betray ;
Who gale, the night through, at the wondcrfu!
fcenc,
Yet dill are complaining of vapors between :
Ah, feiac the conveyance, and fcarlet'sly rile
To peep at the lanthorns that Tight tip the Ikies,
And floating above on our ocean of air
Inform us by letter, what people are there.
* Ba loovt are wholly cf French ir.vrrairr.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Letter from General Dumourier to tie Mi
nijier of IVar—Read in the National
Contention, Osbber 4.1b.
" Vienne a fille, Qfl. 2.
" The head-quai ters-general of the ene
my is ftiil at Amry for this night, as ts
fiippofed : My ports are very near them,
and will to-morrow harrafs or purftie them.
I have followed them myfclf in person as
you fee. General Valence is on my left,
and will hem in the riL,ht of the enemy
with prudence and courage : We are go
ingto do the fame in our quarter. Th e
morning ten battalions arrived at Cler
mont,and 1500 men at Vaiennes. Gene
ral Dillon, whom I sent with two or three
thousand men to harrafs the Hessians, by
advancing to Baffcourby Pahvant has had
a success againll them, which every where
proves a weakness on their part. Marfhali
Nuilly, who charged the Hessian cavalry
at the head of his dragoons, killed with his
own hands the firil Hessian, and saved the
life of a li' utenant, named Lindau, whore
lie took prisoner.
" I fend you a copy cf a piece which is
infinitely curious—l hope soon to dis
charge this receipt for 117 (heep to the
king ofPruflia, in his states of Cleves anc
Guelderland, if his pride prevents him from
making a separate peace. I have tran f
mitted to the commiffioncrs to be laid re
fore the convention, another very curious
piece—the orderly book of the armed
emigrants, in which may be found th<
names of those Chevaliers, as much despis
ed in the Prussian army, as they are in that
of the French."
Copy of an order of tht King of Pri/Jpa.
'• The village of Hons, in Champagne
lias delivered for the Prussian army, lip
sheep, the value of which his inajelty the
kiug of France engages to pay, when hi?
sacred person (hall be at liberty, and ordei
re-eftabli(hcd in his states. In faith ol
which I give under the special guarantee
of his majesty the king of Prufiia, which
may be exchanged for the value of the
said provisions, in a proper time and place.
(Signed)
" The Duhe of Brunfwich Lunenlurgh.
" September 29."
Thursday, October it.
M. Treillard called the attention of the
Aflembly to the two battalions of Federates
of Paris, who in the mod barbarous man
ner had tarnilhed the honor of the French
nation, by maflacring, without mercy, and
in defiance of all law, theunfortunate Prus
sians, who had abandoned the stand
ards of despotism to serve under those
of liberty. He requested, that the vil
lains, who had been guilty of this atrocity,
(hould be given up to all the severity ol
the law. " The law," said he, "on this
fubjeft is explicit: Against such the penal
code pronounces the featence of death. I
I move, therefore, that the criminals shall
be conduced to some town which you may
point out ; that a court-martial ill all im
mediately be formed to try them ; and
that no application (hall be admitted to the
tribunal of appeal."
This proposal met with no opposition,
but the committee of war was charged to
give in their ideas on this fubjedl during
the fitting.
One of the Secretaries proclaimed the
names of the members who are to compose
the committee of conditution. These
were Seyes, Thomas Paine, Petion, Brif
fot, Veignini!:!, Grnfonne, Barrere, Dan
to», Condorcet. The deputies were Bar
barous, Herault, Lauthenas, Jean Debry,
Fauchet, Lavcoomtrie.
Letter f-sm the Commijjisners/ent to the
united armies.
Camp, at D:mballe, Oil. to, t792.
" Citizen^—we yesterday paid a visit to
the camp of Sivry, occupied by General
Dillon, snd \Ve afterwards accompanied
General Kcllerman, who went to recon
noitre at a very small diilance, the camp of
the enemy at Regnet and Saint Glorietix.
Belides this camp, the enemy ft ill occupy
Mount Ssii t Michael, which absolutely
or. mauds Verdnn. We arc informed by
spies, that the enemy have a great num
ber of sick in that town ; but we
are afTured at the fame time that
ihey have not lrfs than 30,000 men en
camp c d without it, which will oblige
General Keller matt to purfuc meafurt:
lucefl'.iry to attack them with advantage.
Some papers which we have ttanfmitted
to you will prove, however, that they haci
in intention of retiring through Etain.
You will receive further information 01
this from the (hameful letters of the ad
rr.inilfrators of El;: n. We have sent yoi
also the copy of a letter written by Gen
Dillon, to the Landgiave of HefTc-CaHel
when he sent back to him lieutenant Lin
dati, who alone remained of his detach
ment confiding of 30 men ; rogethci
with the answer of the Landgrave; aric
the process-verbal of the examination o!
two young men, arretted at Vouzieres :
The alfe nbly will there find some inter
tiling details.
" General Valence jomed Kellerman'i
army yesterday. He had followed the ene
my as far as Buzancy, which he took pof
session of by force. In the course of hi:
march he has taken a number of prisoners :
Auftrians, Prussians, and Emigrants, to
gether with money, and several carr:ages
He took likewise a llandard from the Emi
grants, which he sent to General Dumou
rier, to be presented to the National Con
vention. At the head quarters of Gene
ral Dil'on we found four HuiTais o
the regiment of Elben, who deserted witl
their arms and horses. They told us, thai
the decree pasTed in favor of defertcrs wa:
beginning to be known in the Prussian ar
my ; but that the officers, to prevent the
effect which it might have, assured, them,
that this decree was only a deception, ant]
that we hung all these who came to out
camp. (Signed)
" Carra.
" PriEur.
" SILLERY."
STRASBURG, (a large French city in tin
circle of the Upper Rhine) 03. 4. —The
three hundred prisoners taken in the Pa
latinate arrived here this day—The Ge
nerals advance guards, and regimental
bands of music, accompanied by an im
mense mob, preceded them. The Jacob
ins received them as brothers, making the
air resound with the tune of ca ira per
formed on the various instruments. The
decree refpe&ing deserters, and other
papers tending to seduce the enemy's ar
mies, were diilributed to them in the
French and German languages. It is re
ported that the inhabitants of Spire and
Mayence exclaimed, with a perfect good
will, vive la nation.
Vienna, Sept. 29. The Spanish am
bassador at this court made an official
communication on last Saturday, of his
Catholic majesty's disposition to co-ope
rate with Austria and Prussia in their en
deavours to re-eflablifh good order and
tranquility in France, by making a pow
erful diversion on his fide ; for which pur
pose he had ordered a body of troops to
march towards the Pyrenees, to be in rea
diness to ast when it should be necefTary.
We are informed, by our letters from
Constantinople, by the way cf Venice,
that the charge des affaires of the court of
Petersburg had communicated to the Re re j
Effendi, a note demanding permission for
eight Hiips of the line, and the fame num
b r of frigates to p?.f3 the Dardanelles, in
order to ast again ft the French. The
Reis Effendi teflified hij fiirprife at a re
quisition of this nature, and flatly refufjd
it, alledging the lad treaty of peace by
which that of Karnardge was confirmed.
Paris, Oft. 11. A grand civic feftival,
on account of the success of the French
armies is to be celebrated in this capital
on Sunday next.
The Convention has voted twenty
millions of livres, forcloathing and equip
ping the troops.
German account of the taking of Spires.
Official accounts ptylijlted'. by order of the
Klefioral Court of Aleut z.
" Colonel de Winkelman towards cvan
ng of the 29th September, receivod ad
vice of the approach of the enemy to the
lumber of 30,000. The Austrian troops
md those nf M<?ntz marched out from the
:ity at eight o'clock at night to defend the
7 our gates, and remained under arms till
half pad seven the next morning. Hear
ng then no account ofthe enemy, the gar
ifon returned to the town, but scarcely
had they retired, when the commandant o(
.lie patrole of 'norse, who having been out
■econnoitring, had loft three of his men.
ode up, on a full gallop, with intelli
gence that the enemy weie not far diftunt.
Our troops relinking then their former po
rtion without the wallc, received about
noon the French army, whom they found
:o amount to about 17,000 men, by a dif
:harge of tVir cannon. The cannonade
ivas kept up with great spirit on both fjder,.
The enemies artillery was much more nil
merous ; but as our troops were drawn up
only two men deep, while the French ad
vanced in columns, their lof3 mult have
been conliderable. At three o'clock the
garrifbit retired to the town through the
different gates, and the firing was continu
ed in the flreets with so much vivacity
that the infantry of Maymce eight times
repulsed the French cavalry. Notwith
ftandingthis brave refiflance, our troop:
were obliged to give way before the enemy,
who were much superior in number, and to
retire through the gate called Wiefethor.
towards the ford of Rheinhoufe, at about
the diflance of a league from Spires- The
French pursued them thither with theii
whole forces, and they wore then reduced
to the necessity of asking leave to capitu
late.
After a delay of 40 minutes, Lieut. Co
lonels Dietereich and Fachenbach, th<
former in the service of Austria, anil tin
latter in that of the Elector of Mentz, a
greed with M. Cuftine, the French general
that the garrison should remain prfonen
of war, that the artillery, arms, horses, ant
baggage,fhould be given up to the enemy
that the officers should be fuffered to re
tain their arms, horses and effects ; aiu
that the soldiers should not be stripped.—
After these ftipulationswere agreed to, tin
garrison was brought back to the town
where ihe soldiers laid down theii
arms close to ;he grand guard, and weri
afterwards lodged in the cathedral, but th<
officers had pcrmiffion to walk about.
•' Next morning, Oft. ift, all the pri
vates, reckoning from the {lift ftjijeant ol
each company, were conveyed to Lau
dau, and a declaration was made to the
officers affcmbled at the Hotel de-Ville,
that they would be fat at liberty aftei
they had taken an oath not to serve in the
war agaiuft the French till an exchange o:
prisoners should take place—Having ac
quiesced in this proposal, and fold theii
horses for ready money to the French, the
commandant of Landau condtifted them
without any guard to the ford of Rhien
houfe, and permitted them to retire where
ever they might think proper.
Bank of the United States.
Philadelphia, Notf. 20th, 1792.
THE ftockhoiderfj of the bank of the
United States are hereby informed
that according to the statute of incorpora
tion, a general ele£tion for twenty-five Di
rectors will be held at the bank of th«
United States, in the city of Philadelphia
on Monday the seventh day of January
next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
And pursuant to the eleventh lection o:
the bye-laws the stockholders of the faic
bank are hereby notified to alfemble in ge
neral meeting, at the fame place, 01
Thursday the eighth day of January next
at five o" clock 111 the evening.
By order of the Prefidentand Directors.
JOHN KEAN, Caftiier.
t- J- 5•
Terres a Vendre
Dani un pais lien peuple,-—
S AVOIR, foixante cinq mille, trois cens, toix
ante ct quatorze Acta, en une feble pi6ce,
dans le canton le mieux pcuple de la Caroline Me
ridionale, Je Difti i& de Ninety-Six* Ces terres
font fituees dans une contrce agrcable, et falubre,
ou les fievres font inconnuesj a environ vingt licues
de Colombie, la Capitale, et contigues ala ville
de Cambridge, eu il y a College, et Gour fuperi
eure. A environ douz-e lieucs, i 1 y a bonne navi
gation } et il eft trcs probable, que dans quelquc
Jems on rendra navigable le Grand Saiude, riviere
qui arrofc les terres memes. Elles font agreahle«
ment divciTifiees de coteaux et vallons charman*
pfopres a la culture du tabac, du coton, du mais«
et du petit grain jet dont une proportion consider
able fe pent aifement converter en prairies fertiteSj
il n'eft peut-etre gueres pofiible de rencontrerune
pareille piece de terre a vendre dans auoun autre
des EtatsUnis ; etr p'our les conditions de I'ach at
on les rendra tres commodes.
S'informer a i'lmprimerie tie la Garette Na
tonale. Sept. 5.
LANDS FOR SALE,
TN a well f-itied Country. SIXTY-FIVE
1 THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND
SEVENTY FOUR ACRES OF LAND, in or.e
bod/, in the molt populous part of the state cf
South-Caroltna, in thediftrift of Ninety-fix-—lt
is.fituateri in a fine healthy cr»mat*,fre« from
U ague.al> >ut sixty miles from Columbia, the fear,
of government. The land is contiguous* ro the
town of Cambridge, where are a seminary for the «
inftru&ion of youth, and a superior law co-Urt- It \
is at present within about thirty-five m les of good
navigation, with a probability of having the river,
calicd the Great Saluoa, that flows along one fide
of the land, made navigable. The land is beauti
fully diveifified into swells and vales, and is per
fectly well calculated for the culture of tobacco,
cotton, Indian corn, and ("mall grain ; a great
proportion of it may be made meadow ground.
There is' not, perhaps, such a body of land, focir
cumftanced, for faic in any other of the U; States.
The terms of payment will be made conveniiiat ta
the purchafep op purchafeis. Apply to the Priflter.
Auguli 29. tawtf
Soon tvill be puk'ifhed
THE SYSTEM OF
rj/iort- c¥€and }
Used hy. Mr. Lloyd, in taking down the Deb at a tf
Cpngre/sj —
AS\ STEM so easy. that any man, of ordina
ry capacity, may clearly comprehend il in
half an hour, and soon pr;»£iice it* in its fulleft
extent, without aoy further infrru&ron, than what
wiil be conveyed in a few pages,—the whole ART
being comprised in eighteen characters, with
out any of those perplexing, arbitrary marks, with
which the learners of other systems are obliged to
burden their memory, and embarrass their prac
tice.
Price, to Subfcrlbcrs, Ore Dollar :—to Non-
Subscribers, a Dollar and half.
Subscriptions received by Mefire. Rice. Book,
fellers, Market-street, and by
JOHN CAREY, No. 26, Pear.street,
Vlaif a Dollar to be paid at the tune oi
fubferibing.
CHARLES BITTERS,
No. 120, Sculh Market, near Fourtk-Jlreel,
Has received from New-York, and mi
nufa&ured by I.o> Merkel, ,
A large and general assortment of
Muffs and Tippets, Trimmings
and Edgings,
Great Coats, Caps, Mitts and Gloves lined
with Fur, which he will fell,
Wholcfale and Retail,
at the lowest prices.
Nov. 24. 2»wtf
NOTICE.
A LL persons having demands against the eftafe
L *- of Godfrey Vor.d-ercn, Lite of Bucks County,
deceased, are requeued to exhibit their accounts,
properly authenticated, in order for settlement—
And those who 3re indebted to said estate to make
immediate payment, to
JOHN HOUGH, Ad mini Orator.
Bucks Count,y, Dec. 28, 1792. 4?. iaw.
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