The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-08-12 00:00:00, page 3

Frem the authentic accounts extraded
from Paris papers and published in our
last, it appears, that the three main
French armies of the North, of Ardennes
and of Moselle about the 23d of M^y
were near forcing a conjunaicn. Piche
gru who commands the firft has his head
quarters at Courtray, and has in that
quarter, unsupported by the other armies
been fuccefsful against the allies in sever
al engagements. Fromentin, who com
mands the second army, has penetrated
through Phillippeville, as far as Bioch,
which is at a distance of 12 miles, both
from Mons and Charleroi. A dire& line
drawn from about S. E. from Courtrai 54
miles would strike Binch ; this, then is the
distance between the armies of the North
and Ardennes, and in a line thus drawn
leaves Landreey, Quefnoy, Conde and
V4leficienr.es, the four principal places
taken and still held by the allies to the
Weft, and therefore cuts them off from
Farriere where our advanced polls are
fixed.
Never was victory more complete. We
made 900 prisoners and killed a great;
number. Oar loss, is incredible trifling,|
7 unskilled and about 30 wounded, 1
enclofc the account communicated by che
commander of each column. Europe as
tonished will hear with admiration the re
lation of the wonderful exploits of the Al
pine army.
DUMAS.
N. B General Damas, who since the
fge ofToulon has co,fanil, had command
in the'Southern armies, is a mulatto.
>OO<O< s«3<<3<O£^ O' OcO-e^OvO
^DomuUc, JvtWl^&Tice.
LATEST WESTERN NEWS.
RICHMOND, (%J^ESTERDAV
JULYib. 1 morning at
2 o'clock, arrived here an express from the
Wefrrn country, M-jor Faragut, with
dispatches to the Secretary of War—who
speaks favourably of the order, health, and
discipline of our army :,1 hat the indians
continue their hostile incursions, and have
made leveral fruitless Attempts on our
posts: That the Chickasaws, at p efent,
are the molt obnoxious, and the molt ac
tive in affcmbling and exciting the other
Indians to war, though seventeen of their
Chiefs are uew at Philadelphia, under a
pretence of peace,
The dispatches it is supposed, amount
to an information of the increasing hofti
litics & forces of the Indians,the deception
of the Chickasaws, and a requisition of re
inforcements for a decisive coup de main,
as war is inevitable.
Several old Chiefs and Warriors difaf
feaed to the war, have come with their fa
milies under our protection, and have been
received with cordiality.
At present no merchant in Edinburgh is
fuffeted to have more than two pounds of
gun-powder in his possession The info-
Icnce of the military diftufbance at the
Theatre, has greatly augmented the num
ber ofperfons who judge reform necessary.
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, July.2l.
By a gentleman arrived from Edin
burgh,, by the way of Ireland, ia the Swift,
we are informed, tint the discontents in
Scotland begin to wear a fcrious appear
ance. • In the beginning of May lait, one
Ross, formerly concerned in printing the
Edinburgh Gazetteer, a popular Newspa
per, and fourteen other persons were
apprehended, all at the fame time, and
committed to prifor. The'charge was
that they had been manufacturing and col
lecting arms of various kinds in a clandes
tine manner, and for unknown purposes.
Some hundreds of muskets, besides pikes
and other weapons, with powder and ball,
were, found ferreted ; and the quantity of
arms would soon have been very conficer
able. There is no doubt that the conspi
rators will be severely puniflied, if the go
vernment lasts long enough to give the
Lord Advocate time for their trial. How
ever desperate the project may seem of a
Scotts infurredion, yet it is certain, that
tWQ thousand well armed and resolute men
Would be Sufficient to drive the English go
vernment out of the country.
The landing forces in Scotland never
consist of more than two or three regi
ments of foot, and as many troops ofhorfe.
The new raised Scots levies are to the last
degree difaffe&ed ; fomeof them have re
peatedly mutined against their officers ; and
all of them are friends to the French Rev
olution.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
KEENE, August 12. (
Letters from Poland announce, that the
Ruffians, to the number of 18,coo men, at
tacked between the \\tb and 11th April,
General KofeiuJko ; that the latter left agreat
number of men, but fill kept bis ground;
finally, that Kofciujko attacked the general in
his turn, on the li,th, routed them entirely,
and took 20 pieces of cannon.
The opposition of the combined armies on
the northern frontiers of France, was, the
iaf campaign, enfeebled and embarraffid, by
the in/urreaion bn the Loire, and the treacb
;eroui Jurrender of Toulon. Besides, the pry.
ell raijing the aaive citizens in amass, was
the country of the allies. Tourney and
Mons also fall within this line. The
principal corps of the allies, of about 80,
coo men, is commanded nominally by the
emperor, whose head quarters are at
Tournay. This large body of troop; in-,
capable of refilling the single effort%of
Pichegru, must leave the country they
now occupy, before a junction is effected
between him & Fromentin,& in this oper
ation will oppose one flank to each of the z
victorious armies for remain they cannot,
without being cut off. Even Ihould they
effed their retreat without much lots Hill
the operation will have been of con ftdera
ble advantage to the French, who may
then, lay liege to the principal places they
have left, after having cut off all proba
bility of relief.
In this operation the Moselle army is
advancing to co-operate ; it had on the
24th of May already reached Neufchat
eau, and in two days more expelled to be
at Rochefort which is about 45 miles S.
E. of Binch, and also on a line with
Caurtrai. The armies when united will
amount to upwards of 200,000 men.
The affair of the 17th May near Cour
tray, is dated as follows to the Jacobin
Club in the Paris papers. David aid-de
campto Sauban the French general who
under Pichegru opposed Clairfayt on that
memorable day, informs, that Clairfayt
in his attempt to pass the Lys was worsted
at Lincelles, lolt 65 pieces of cannon and
several standards, 300 horses and 1500
prisoners. The column led on by the
Duke of York loft 29 pieces of cannon
and 700 prisoners ; thus the French make
the loss of Clairfayt much greater than
even that of the Duke of York on that glo
rious day.
Collet d'Herbois was the member of
the committee of fafety, on whose life an
attempt was made about the fame time
that Roberfpierre was attempted to be af
fallinated.
NEW-YORK, JULY 2§.
Arrived the z?din& the Ihip Colom
bus, Captain Towers, from Cadiz, in 53
days panage. Pafl'engers on board, A
mos Oakman and Nathaniel Jones, both
maflers of vessels belonging to Mafl'achu
let s, and lately bound to the isle of St.
Thomas, were taken by the Spanish frig
ate the Santa Catalina, and feat into Ca
diz, where the Aid mailers and crews
were detained prisoners for the space of 7
we.ks, during which time they were molt
cruelty treated, plundered of their prop
erty, and otherwise inhumanly beaten by
the officers and seamen ; brought to the
gang way, and themselves on a ihort al
lowance of unwholesome provisions, de
prived of their state rooms and cabins, as
likewise the use of pen, ink, and paper,
so that it was cut of their power to make
known their ficuation to their friends on
Ihore. After having obtained their liber
ty, they applied to the Captain General
ofthe marine department, but to no pur
pose ; in consequence of which they were
forced to go to Madrid, and their make
known the ill treatment received at the
hands of the captors, their losses, impris
onment, and long detention &c. but the
only answer they could obtain from the
court of Madrid was, thatall his Catho
lic Majesty's Ships, had orders to bring in
to port all American vessels, bound to or
from France, and they were looked on as
lawful prizes.
(Signed)
AMOS OAKMAN.
NATHANIEL JONES.
The French had a brush with Beaulieu,
in Bouillon about the iSth May. The
town of Bouillon was entered, by the Aus
trians, who committed every excess in it,
but abandoned their attempt on the cita
adel and were driven out of the town with
the affidance of the garrisons of the neigh
bouring places, with considerable lols.
N E W-T O R K.
A letter from the Duke of York to Mr.
Dundas, dated Tournay, May 26th, fays,
That General Count Kaunitz, on the 24th,
attacked the French army which had pas
sed the Sambre, and compleatly defeated
them—took 50 pieces of cannon, and a
bout jooo men, 3000 of whom are prison
ers.— Another account, dated Tournay,
May 23, mentions, that the army under
the command of Gen. Clairfayt, in con
juctlon with the Duke of York's, had at
tacked the French army under Pichegru.
The French, it is said, loft 6000, the Aus
trians 1000, the Hanoverians 500, and
the British about 150.
The 4th irift. Capt. Sayward arrived at
Sheerer, in 25 days from Antigua —he
brings the following account! That the
British. under Gen. Grey, having attack
ed the French forces at Grandterre (Gua
daloupe) in three divifibhs, were repulsed
with great daughter, and a complete de
feat: That one division had about, 400
men killed; another zoo; and the third
100 ; that Gen. Grey himfelf was wound
ed in the arm. and the Adjutant-Gen. kill
ed : That in consequence of this defeat,
the British were evacuating the island en
tirely : That Admial Jervis had difeontin
ued the blockade, and gone to Baffaterre,
to facilitate and protc& the embarkations.
London, June 13.
Mr. Jay, the Minister Extraordinary
from the United States, has arrived to de
mand fatisfaflion for the American vessels
taken, and there is no doubt that the business
rami be amicably adjufled.
crude and required another fajen to ripen into
full fffia.' But theft embarrassments being
removed, the whole clergy of the nation ts
brought into adion, and the united military
Gelanns of nalj Europe areyielding to the im
frtfons of this aflonijhing force, and borne
away by the trrtfflable torrent.
Even in generalfoip, the oldeji and most ex
perienced officers of Europe are not a match
for the prompt and ready ingenuity of the un-\
taught leather apron generals of\
France. Ibe projea of extending the lines of
the army, and attacking at all-points at once,
was deep military Jkill, and will hasten the
ruin of the allies. The French by making a
feint towards the Rhine and Moselle, have
weakened the allies in Flanders ; at the Jame
time spreading an immenje number of troops
along the coif of Normandy, under the pre
tence of invading England, they have pre
pared themselves to make an irreffable ini
prefion on the right of the allied armies in that
quarter, while the allies not aware of the
Jlratagemm had left a /mall divifon of their
forces to oppose the irruption of the French into
Flanders. The allies have indeed re-inforc
ed their right — but too late their force is de
frayed by detachments, and ruin awaits them.
The French are purfaing in Flanders this
campaign the fame desperate mode of war,
which they closed the iaft campaign on the
Rhine—attacking their enemies day after
day, till they kill, exhaust or dftearten
the foldser, who can on longer maintain afhew
°f refinance. [Herald.]
The Port from Borton did not arrive;
until this paper was nearly ready for the
Press, therefore we are unable to present
at this time, the,particulars of the intelli
gence, contained in the Bolton papers—
we will however give a summary—it fol
lows :-—
From the left intelligence cue can colled of
the naval combat, fought by the English and
French fleets, f we find, the French bad seven
Jhips taken, and two funk —so fay the Eng-
Ifh. —We muff enquire of the French,to know
the left on the other fide.
!79t
";On the morning of the 30th ult. the
escort of convoy under Maj. J. M. Ma
han; were attacked under the walls of
Fort Recovery, by upwards of 1000 In
dians, who also assaulted that Fort in eve
ry direction, but were repulsed with great
daughter. They again renewed the at
tack, but at a more refpedful distance,
keeping a very heavy and constant fire all
that day, and by intervals during the
night and morning of the ift inst. but were
ultimately compelled to retreat, between
the hours of 12 and 2 o'clock of that day,
with loss and disgrace from the very field
where they had on a former occasion been
proud and viaorfous.
" We loft 21 men killed; and 29 woun
ded during the action ; among the former,
An Embargo has taken place at Halifax,
on ali vtfels bound to the United States. An
expedition from that place is conjectured as the
cause.
FROM PHILADELPHIA AUG. 2.
BATTLE on the FRONTIERS.
Extras of a letter from Greenville, Jul, 4,
" It does not appear that the enemy
could possibly have received any informa
tion cfthe eicort—their obje& was to carry
fort Recovery by a coup de main. Ma
jor Wells, who has since reconnoitred the
ground the Indians occupied on the day
and night preceding the action, is decided
ly of the opinion the enemy had double the
number cf warriors in the affult on the
30th alt. that they had in the aftiou of I,c
4th of November, 1791.
Rindge, Aug. gtb, 179,
[ * With regard to the titles annexed tb
the names of tbofe gentlemen who Jigned this
piece in vindication of Deborah Chaplin, the
Printers will here apologize ; and inform the
Public, that the persons who wrote their
names did not prefix the titles ibemjelves, but
the gentleman whofent the piece for publica
tion. His reafonfor so doing, was, to let the
Public know they were some of the prim iphl
characters in the town where Deborah Chap
lin lived.—We were defined to make feme
apology at the time the piece was published,
but did not, therefore we do it now.}
The whole was conduced in a ferioua
and becoming manner, to the apparent
fatisfadion of a numerous audience, both
of this, and several of the neighboring
towns.
Advertisements, %. omitted ibis week,
will be in our next.
For the Columbian Informer, &c.
Messrs. Printers,
I DO not suppose myfelfto be of foch
importance in this country; that the in
habitants Should feel much interested in
hearing matrimonial anecdotes of my fam
ily, but am now under the neceffit, of ma
king a Short reply to a piece which appear
ed in your paper, No. 66, signed Deborah
Chaplin, and a certificate under it signed
by a number of gentleman living in Jaf
frey. 1
That I was married when very young
to Deborah More (who certainly was ver,
well ftrickenin years) is to me too Serious
a truth to be denied, and in publishing
my advertisement in your paper No. 60, I
did no more than the preservation of my
property and personal liberty demanded,of
this I think, notwithstanding the opinions
of Deacons, Lieutenants, &c. J have an
undoubted right of judging. The wry
appearance of the piece signed Deborah
Chaplin, indicates that it was written by.
Somebody who considers Billingsgate lan
guage as satire, and that falsehood is that
most necessary ingredient in newspaper
publications. The piece itfelf, does net
deserve attention, therefore I Shall leave
it unnoticed and in the hand of the wit
who made it, with full leave to read it to
his brother wits as long as he Shall be able,
with the assistance of a half mug of N. E. f
flip to extort a hoarse laugh from any one
of them. But, Messrs. Printers, allow me
through the channel of your paper, to aft: f
the abovementioned worthies, whether
they were ever in my house, when 1 was
present? Whether the most of them do
not live at a great diflange from the place
I did I Whether they did not blush when
they read their own pompous titled' frothy
certificate ? Whether Signing the certifi
cate was the only compensation they marie
their favorite, for her unbounded charity
and benevolence ? How long since the,
discovered that her connexion with me wsa
to her disadvantage? And whether the,
do not take Jerne pleasure in alleviating the
diftrefts of their Dulcinea?.L
HEZEKIAH CHAPLIN.
For the Columbian Informer, &c.
Packersfeld, July z^th, 1794.
THE thirteenth inst, (being
Lord's day) was admitted to baptism in
this town, FORTt TWO Children of dif
ferent ages belt nging to profit ffing parents.
Previous to which a difcouife well adapted
to the occasion was delivered by the Rev.
Pastor, from Eph. vi. 4. After sprinkling,
before the parties withdrew from the al
ley, the Rev. Pallor delivered an addrefa'
to both Parents and Children, which was
fpirited,affeaing and entertaining,and the
exercises of the day were concluded by
figging the 127th Hymn of the 2d Bock.
we have to lament the death of the brave
Maj. M'Maha-n, the brave Capt. Hartf
horne, Lieut Craig, and Cornet Turry ;
among the latter the intrepid Capt Taylor
of Dragoons, and Lieut. Drake of the In
fantry.
“ In the course of the action,upwards of
two hundred horses were killed or taken ;
but certain it is, a considerable number
were in pe ffeflioh of the enemy, loaded
with dead Indians.