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TOURNaA’, may 3.
On ♦h*' firft, the French, unocr Dampiere,
attacked Geieral Clairfa £s pods, at Raimcs
arid Vicognt, with considerable force.—-Their
intention probably was to relieve Conde,
which they would have succeeded in, had the/
taken ihefe Polls .—-They made four fevera!
attacks from five in the morning until the ev
cuing, but were repulsed With the affillance of
a detachment from the Prufiians under Gen
eral Knoblefdarf, sent from their carop at
Maulde, notwithilandinga French corps which
was ported in front of the Camp to keep them
in check The two battalions of Prussians
had left the camp near Tournay, to reinforce
those polled at Maulde. The affair was se
vere, and the loss great on both Tides ; but
the French were completely repulsed.
The fame day, the French affo left their
Camp at F smart, and attacked Prince CobtJurfj
Ports at St, Sauve and Urmaing, probably
with a view to prevent his givngany effiftarice
to Clairfayt. _
The Infantry advanced with an intention
of turning the left of the Auftrianr, and at the
fame time kept up a violent and heavy can
nonade and feint attack from the right, but
were so Well received from the right by the
Austrians, that they fell back into two villages
in great disorder, to the amount of 15,000,
and were some time exposed to a heavy canon
ade, by which they <oft sor5 or 606 men, wU'^y
out daring to move Out until their Cavalry ad
vanced and covered their retreat, which they
made in great confufion, and were purfoed by
the Auftrins beyond the last height before their
Camp at Famarf, which the latter would have
forced, had they been stronger. The French
have loft II pieces of cannon, among which
were two 16 and three 12 pounder—the
rest were 8 and 9 pounders.
Theie attacks which were evidently meant to
relieve or raise the siege o ( Conde, by turning
out exactly countrary to their expectation,will
probably hasten its surrender.
We had yesterday a Imall affair with the
French at Rumes. The French ehole to at
tack us and were fools enough to bring a can
non, which they had time to fire but once, the
Austrian Cavalry falling in sword in hand be
fore they could load again, and took the can
non, and an amunition waggon with 8" horses.
The French had 15 or 16 killed, and retak
en, among whom, was ari artillery officer.
The French made a confuted (land, oh the
rbad &. fields; but t>ri the arrival of two Hano
verian canhon, and firing a couple of rounds'at
them, they took to their heels, and retired tog
village, into which we fired a couple of (hots
more, which frightened them to such a degree,
that they run, and did not Hop until they got
to Orchie. The Guards and Hanoverian
Horse were not there, being at too great a
distance to arrive iff tim<. We had only a
Battalion of Hanoverian Foot, arid some Aus
trian Cavalry. We had'onlyone Austrian kill
ed, and one horses
Every preparation is making to commence
immediately the attack of Conde. The train
of Artillery is completely bulied in filling
bum (hells; and the ditch and earth-works are
a, most finifhed.
On the 1 ft inst. the French attacked th£ ad.
vanced polls of the left wing of the combined
army, but were repulsed in all thHr attempts.
Ori thefame morning the French aifo attacked
the advanced posts on; the cenTe, but were
there repulsed: They fuffered in these fevera!
engagements a considerable lote both of men
end cannon,
Ji
HE French, with an eye to a diversion,
having re-entered Deax.Ponts, and spread their
Forces from Saar. Lows, to Bitche, the Duke -
of Brunfaicb has pushed forward to recon
noitre the ground they occupy,and was follow
ed yelierday by the King of Pryfta in per.
son. His M»je(ty» attended by the Duke of
Deux Ponts ,proceeded to Carle (hergybe. French
having in the mean time retreaded back to the
height? that border on the Duchy. Cu/line
has published a Proclamation, in which he en
deavours to prove, that he is not the greatest
Publick Robber in exigence.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The Clubbtjit at Mertz, endeavour more
than the French themselves, by' every possible
expedient, to prevent a capitulation ; and the
National Deputies, to keep up the farce of de
lulion, have declared in a Proclamation, that
they expeii a iuccour of sixty thcufand men.
The French have plundered the peasants at
Hornbach, and committed every poffib’.e enor
mity.
Prince Maximilian, of DeuxPonts, makes
the Campaign with the Prufiian army.
We have possession of a Battery very'near
Mtht%, formed on the ruins of an ancient en
trenchment, from which we play oh the Fort,
and the Bastion named Philhppe. We have
contrived by means of the relicks of an old
Roman Aqueduft, to inundate the Enemy’s
Mmes.
G E R MANY.
General Dumourier is still at Stuttgard.
UNITED NETHERLANDS.
FRANKFORT, APRIL 28.
TUESDAY, APRIL 2J.
The Deputies returned from Valencitnnei
Rated, that they had taken every precaution to
couhtera& the ill effects of the extreme dearth
of provisions experienced in that city, though
the treachey of Dumourier, who had con
veyed stores. to the enemy. The frontier
towns, they added, were in a refpedable flare
of defence—They had narrowly escaped be
ing (hot by a set of counter-revblutidnifla/
whilst haranguing the troops.
Referred to the Committex of Public Safe
‘r-
Barbaroux impeached MonGe, the Ma
rine Minister, whom he thought ’ guilty of un.
pardonable ueglience, in allowing seventeen
merchants ships belonging to the port of Mar*
Jelles, arid returning thither froth the colonies,
to be capitured by the English* and Spanifli'
fleets/ notwithstanding sixteen fail of French
ships of the line were cruizing in the Mediier*
ranean.
NAPLES, APRIL 20.
The conduct of the Frenc^ towards our vtf.
fels which were th the ports of Corsica, giving
ns reafonto presume that tiMffe in France Will
not experience better treatment, our court has
ordered all our naval and land forces to be
put on the best footing pcflible. M. Macao
has several times alked for apaffport to return
to France, but it has been refufed him. He
is kept as an hostage, in order that the French
nation may refpefi the Neapolitans who are in
France. - 1
Brussels, april 26.
Gen. Dumourier’s prospect of restoring a
ling and constitution tb France had .totally
mifearried. lam th^more sorry for it, as I
am perforded its fucc^Bwould have saved a
deluge of blood * A Tmwed monarchy in my
mind the best government ; and such an alli
ance as was pTopofed to be the consequence,
would have certainly fecuredto the French a ra
tional system of liberty. Though 1 must in my
confidence, blame all foreign interference (open
ejandeftinej in the affairs of France,- yet as
this interference has been carried so far, I
should have been glad to lee it terminated in a
way favourable to humanity, and not ihithical
to freedom ; a very different result may now
be apprehended. It seems as if this projeft
had mifearried from want of Co-operation at
Paris. Dumourier’s letter avowing his de-
Cgns were intended as the signal for the Or
lean’s party to rife. The assembly concealed
these letters, and the report of the commif
fioners.as long as they could; it was important
for them <o.gain time, because the new levies
were agitators.. Had they attemped a massa
cre, they would have been laid hold of. Their
emissaries threatened, in the tribunes of the
assembly, sixty of the mdft noted republicans,
but did not dare to put their threats into exe
cution. In short, this infurredion not haying
taken place at the time it w& qxpetted, Du*
mourier durst not venturi wili the few troops
attached to him iflto £he heart of the kingdom;
he propofol reinforcing bis army with a body
Os Auftrims, and this circumfhiice cobied
most of his friends. The constant methodis
to keep themselves too much backward, and
depend too much on their agents, so that what
has happened to Dumonrier is no more than
what before Happened to the late king of Swe
den and the Brabanters.
Charles, a National Deputy from the
Department of Maine and Loire, represented
the parade and luxurious manners of General
Becruyed which he thought incompari
bl« with the Command of Sans.Culottet. The
Soldiers of the General’s army were in a Rate
bordering on infurredion, and demanded the
appointment of their own officers.
The acquittal of Marat by the Revolu
tionary Tribunal, was announced to the Con
vention.
SITTING OF THE JACOBINR.
RobeßSPiEaYfer the younger, denounced
Le Brun, rheMiuifter, who was guilty, he
said, of the crime of leze,nation, when he
preferred to the Convention the Proclanratioii
of the Prince of i>axe.Cobourg'.
APRIL 64
It was proposed to fend 2 deputation from
the club..to accompany the commissioners of
the Convention intd all tHeT departments, to
diffetninate the “ holy morality of the Jaco
bins”. This measure was opposed by all
the,leading members—^for two excellent rea
fpnjff 1 ft. because the fraternal debt” of the
club was, already so great, that they could
not beat any new cx|>cnceJ— and adly that
L
PARIS, APRIL 2j.
Six thousand Marfeillois, at the instigation
of the Jacobins, are marching to this capital.
You will fee in the details of the Convention I
enclose you, that MaraTt was yesterday ac
quitted. He loft no tirpe in resuming his feat
in the Convention, whither he was followed by
a formidable mob, who had prcvioufly placed
on his head a Civic Crown.
This farce will most probably be followed
by a tragedy/ on the arrival of the Marjeilloit,
who will fee Marat in the light of a much
injured Patriot.
FRANCE.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2zp.
their deputies would certainly be mafia cred,
for the Jacobins were held in the greatest ab
horrence through all the departments. That
they were regarded by the whole nation (the
Sans Culottes of Patii excepted) as a band of
affaflins, who with Marat at their head, were
wantonly (pilling the blood of the. troeft pa
triots. These assertions were proved by letters
from all parts of the Republic.—Mar at said
the-Briffotihs had deceived the nation, and
that if the French had withdrawn their con
fidence from the Jacobin*; they were all
fools. . .
tence ; but was flopt again, by loud murmurs.
TheViec President begs them tohear Albitte
with moderation, and then refute him,—hear
a moderate,with' moderation I Albitte
Continues—f am not a moderate, I fubferibe
to every thing you propose t It is true, there
are traitors in cheConvention; but our denun
ciations ought not to condemn them ; they
mull be judged by the law. For my own
part, 1 will not condemn Br issot, and the
rest, on a mere fu picion He was again n
terrupted by a cry of “ ddvjn with the moder
ate ** He rose once more—and said, if he
A deputation of the fe di ion of Bonconfeil,
read an add refs; which they were going to
present to the Convention. The follcwing is
an extract. “ Legislators lAn infernal fatlion
influences the Convention—a gang of villians
are plotting and executing a Counter-revolu
tion : We demand, in th6 name of the law
in the name of the people, that the Gaudets,
theVeßGNius, the Brissots, the Buzots
the BarjbaroUx, the ;Petlons, be driven
from among you. Mouhtain of Sinai ! on thee
the Most High reposes himfelf ; in thee alone
is founded our hope—thou wilt deliver us
from our enemies; but how long wilt thou
fuffer those Catalines in thy bosom ? Min
isters of an avenging Gob I deliver to the jus
tice of the people his unfaithful mandatories !
And thou people ! rife and crush the, traitors
-who are in this affembly.”— (Long and loud
appiau/e ) “ Yes, my friends and brothers,”
continues the orator, “the people must help
us again tocleanfe the dung-hill of ariftocracy.’’
AlblttL I applaud with all my heart,
the patnotifm of these citizens ; but while
striving to serve us, they will embarrass us ;
it is not fufficient to dpmand the punishment
of traitors ;we mruft know them, before we
can judge them.” At these words, the tri
bunes, and all the Jacobins, rose in a fury,
crying—“ We kno^w them' all, and 'will kill
them ally After much cons uflon in the Club,
ENGL A N Di
v DOVER, MAY 6.
There has been a very brisk engagement
near Conde, Jaft Tuefday. The French at
tacked the Austrian lines, and made great ha
vockin the Prince de Lign^s regiment ; but
at last were defeated by General Clairfait,who
has taken 14 pieces of cannon, and a largd
quantity in amunition and baggage.
The Prussians were al(o attacked, and de
feated the French.
Hii Royal Highness the Duke of York.with
his Hanoverians, attacked a poll of two pieces
of cannon, and took one of them.
The further particulars of the above engage
ment have not yet transpired, but it seems to
have been bloody, and lasted from 4 A.M. un
til 8, P. M. /
LONDON, MAY 7.
Geri. Cufine, at the head of 20,000 men,
is ready to axtack the* Eleftbrate of Treves, and
his advanced pofta are already on the Electo
ral Frontiers.
The PremieY, notwithstanding his elaborate
display and enumeration of the refoureds and
opulence of the country, has already changed
his opinion upon that fobjed:; arid what a few
months past he treated as trifling and inconfidera
ble.he now regards as obje&s of such an alarm
ing natu re that all the (kill and fegacity which
may be employed upon the occasion, will
prdbably prove inefficatious in surmounting
them. If the enquiry into the state arid condi
licta of* the’ country, which Ms; Fox was so
V■ ' ‘
St. Just said, *‘,ln 1792, I told you there
was but one man, who flopt our progrefs—
his head is fallen. There ar£ now a hundred
thoffland conspirators j their heads mutt all
fall. We had better swim to liberty through
waves of aristocratic blood, than to fee a (ingle
patriot receive a scratch. Albitte talks of
fornis and laws —as if any were to be cbferv
ed in such a crisis. We must have blood ;
the country is in danger; Dumourier is
gone ; but his satellites are among us; they
must be delivered Up to the revolutionary tri
bunal, arid to the National Razor, (applaud,
ed with tranjport.)
Albitte recommences wi h his last fen-
ed to conform to the decisions of the Club.—
was now convinced the add refs was good—•
Was wrong, it was by excess of zeal-^—promif-
and declared, he would support it. This re
pentance was however too late—a general hifir
proved to him, that to adt from rCafon was an
unpardonable crime among the Jacobins.
Deffieux supported the petition withail
his might- He presented to prove thatPETioN,
Brissot, &c. were the Agen s ol Dumou-
RiER, and that they, with the other wicked
moderates, wanted to facrifite the virttioiis
Eg'alite, because, his fpn was a traitor.
APRIL 8.
The Coroner’s Inquest (at four days for the
full investigation of this crime, the cruelties of
which are thus related—that these boys hav-.
ing the care of a boat upon the Oxford Canal
left to their charge, they had exercised num
berless and excessive cruelties upon the deceal
ed ; that after unmercifully beating and o
therwise ill-treating him, he was lathed to the
rudder, and then thrown into the canal, and
dragged along a considerable distance—that
stripping off his (hirt at another time, they
had thrown it upon the top of a thorn, and for
ced him, in that (late, to climb up after it;
and that from divers abuses, (hocking to re'ate,
-the wounds having at length mortified, they
dragged him out of the boat to a bank contig
uous, where he expired.
The whole capture of the Spanish Galleon
was on- Saturday last adjudged io the captors,
and the Spanish Ambassador has affected ja
it, after a minute investigation on the fubjeift.
Lord Hood will be iniitlecTto a (hare, as com-,
m and er in chief of the fleet which made the
captore ; and it is said that his proposition a
lone will amount to 60 000 . sterling.
The French Convention have voted to their
minister at war the enormous sum of 52,800,
000 liv. about 2 300,000!. to provide sub
sistence for the armies.
———■
A Caution,
j[ A HE public are cautioned againff receiv
"<* coin bearing the impreflion of the Mex
ican dollar, but 1 6th lighter, or of lets value
than the Mexican dollar ; the silver is of the
common ftandard,the most of ihofe in circula
tion here are da^d 1791, and are said to be
made in Dominica, and to answer to the value
of pieces of eight ih the V^ft-Indies.
deGrous might have taken place, previous to
the declaration of war, had been brought for^
ward and properly attended to, the fucceediog
misfortunes, which have nearly overwhelmed
the commercial part of the natlop would never
have occured ; and in lieu of that deftruftion
and desolation which have taken place in eve
ry branch of ourcommerce and manufactures,
peace, plenty and general unanimity, would
probably have prevailed thooghout the nation.
** The French came to attack us yesterday
in force. They were at firft fepulfed from St.
Sauve. There is reason to believe that their
intention Was to turn the left wing of our ar
my.
t “It was determined to make the second line
march by Sebourg, Concheis, and Preffen.
Conchies had been burnt—The enemy were
beaten, and pursued as far as Famars.
“ Four divisions Braco drove them from Sa
ten, and took from them fix cannon, with their
horles, 1
HOUSE of COMMONS.
FRIDAY, MAY J.
REFORM.
Mr. .Sheridan preleoted a petition from the
merchants, traders, manutaClurers, Sec. of the
city of Glasgow, praying for a reform of the
Commons House of Parliament, &c. He said
the Ggnatures in general were of a very respec
table kind, and of their number the Houle
would judge, when he aflured them that they
were very cjofely written on paper which ex
tended to the length of fifty yards ! !
4 “ About One F. M. the firing ceased, but
it began again in the right wing of the army
about three, and .was- still continued at (even.
5 “ The corps under General Clairfait, still
in pursuit of the enemy. Our loss is eflimat
ed at almost 200 men. Our chaffcurs (iff r.
ed greatly, . and would have been di perled,
had it not been for the support of the caval
ry- _ -
The French have loft a number of men.
Besides thirteen ammunition waggots, we
have taken from them, eight pieces of cannon
of which four are.<four pounders, two eignt
pounders, and one twelve pounder, together
with a fourteen pound howitzer.
** We wait for more circumftandal details
of this affair.” n
“ Mons, May I.
We have taken by affauk the mountain of
Aulin, one league distant from Valenciennes,
which was ftongly fortified with cannon, and
intercepted the communication of the four
roads. We have taken fcveral prisoner?, and
we are allured 4^ or 5® pieces of cannon.
However this may be, it is certain that we
have poflelfion of the mountain ; 10-that we
can keep a check on the camp of Famars, and
get poffcffion of Valenciennes with more sac k
ity
Saturday was committed to Warwick gaol,
Christopher Jeffries and William Harnlon,
the former fifteen, the latter twelve years of
age, charged with a most inhuman murder
committed on the body of William. Seilard,
a briy of only ten years old ; they were com
mitted for trial at the present affixes for War.
wichfkire ; but it appearing that Worm-
Leighton, the place where the offence was
committed, lies in the county of Northamp-,
ton, they will be removed by Habeas Corpus
to take their trails at the eniuing summer affix
es for that county-
Brussels Gazette Extraordinary,
: May 2d,>1793.
Oxford, April 6. ,