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~ In their Assembly on the 4th of August,
1794.; relative to a general recruiting
abtoady rnd a fevy“of the inhabi
tants at home.
High and Mighty Lord),
ON the 14th Ulf. 1 laid before
the Assembly of your High
Mightinesses, my genuine opinion
refpeff ing the present situation of
the affairs of this Republic, with
regard to the enemy’s approaching
hey frontiers- I teftified from the
bottom of my heart my readiness
to risk all for her defence; I con
lid^ed the delivery .of the ft ate as
a matter of great improbability, if,
by doubling our courage and stea
diness. and putting our trust in the
Divine aid, wremploy not the means
which are in our reach; and I final
ly considered the negleding of
those means, and a premature ap
prehen,fion, as dangerous, and as
the firft step towards the ruin of
the country.
; Your high Mightinesses, and
tjie Lords States of some Provin
ces, have,already openly adopted
those opinions as their own, evinc
ing theftrongeft dHpoficion,to help
to cake eSeatious measures for
fupporringthecommon-caufe; and
I im very much allured that the
Lords States of aft the Provinces
/will manifeft the fame good will;
as soon as their assembling shall
give them an opportunity of com
ing to a refutation of State on this
fubjed,
. Meanwhile, High and Mighty
Lords, your High Mightinesses,
and all the Colleges and Depart
ments which can contribute to the
means of defence, have not been
behind hand. Much activity has
7 been displayed in-fopplying the
1 strong holds, filling the magazines,
and procuring the arming of ves
sels for the defence of the rivers;
but however ufeful and necessary
all this be by itfelf, it seems to me,
that' there are flill two principal
objects which belongto a complete
defence, and which cannot be pro*
vided but by great measures, add
ing uniformly, namely MONEY
and MEN.
That waris expensive, I aCknow
ledge, arid the ptefe nt one more
expensive than any war ever waged
before ; but it is also in its nature
different from all preceeding wars.’;
because we have to do with an ene
my who uses means unknown be
fore, and who counts for nothing
the colonies, commerce, agricul
ture and ail-national prosperity, if
in exhausting all the forces of his
ootfatry, he can reduce >other na
tions to-the fa me privation. Such
en enemy cannot be fought with
Render finances; the force whiclr
must be opposed to him requires
no doubt great efforts, but not too
great ones* if we confider what we
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should be if the enemy fuccetded
in his designs.
I cannot therefore fufficiently
recommend to your High Might
inesses, and to the refpedtive Pro
vinces, to employ all poflible means
co put the finances in a proper
state, and co colled speedily .the
expences which the defence.of the
State ablotawly requires^
ocher objed of which 1 spoke, is
not less necessary and urgent: Nay,
of what use would fortifications,
inundations, and (hips be ro the
State, jf we want men to defend
them ? ,
It appears to me, that this de
fence may be considered in two
ways, namely as external and in
ternal ; the former relates to the
army of the State, which must ad
in the field, or in the strong holds
without the Provinces, and the
other, which ought co co-operate
with the army, to cover the Pro
vinces themselves,, or to give an
opportunity of being able to let
the regular troops ad abroad.
No one doubts that the army of
the State luftained a great loss in
several bloody adions, by sickness,
ordinary deaths, and other misfor
tunes ; and experience has taught
us, that the recruiting in the usual
way has been extremely difficult,
so that much is wanting to render
it complete; in myopinion, this
defed ought to be remedied as
speedily as possible; and for that
purpose, I fee no means more pro
per than a general raising of re
'cruits throughout the country, for
all the troops of the army, without
diftindidri, so that the men who
shall have been raised in this man
ner, shall be delivered up to the
captains of the incomplete com
panies, on restitution of what they
may have cost the country, or at
a certain price to be agreed upon.
This measure, if it be approved
by your High Mightinesses, would
make the country scarcely incur
greater expences than the advanc
ing of the monies, which will be
colleded, and the pay of the of
ficers who shall be employed with
out this state, on thjs general re
cruiting service. The reason why
I propose this recruiting service
abroad, is, th^t I may riot cross
another measure, which I deem
extremely necessary, namely, the
levy of a considerable corps of
the inhabitants of the country, for
detente of the refpedive provin
ces.
In my opinion, the manner in
which this levy, or recruiting can
be effeddd, ought to be left to the
different provinces themselves ;
but I catinot fufficiently express
my fatisfadion, u£bn what f have
frequently founds there being ma
ny ihliaffitarit^fd^e J rs bf the coun
try in the land, Whbhave evinced
their ardent desire for such a levy,
and secured idfo by mentis of sub
scription the expertCes of men who
would be more immediately em*
ployed in the defeAbe^arid protec
tion of their persons and property.
TUESDAY, October 28/ 1794.
FRANKFORT, July 2Q.
THE French at Rheignheim, Ogger
heim, and Kbcheim, ere threatening every
where to break through and make a des
cent.
Prince Hoheploe is at Pforzheim, near
Worms. The greaceft part of the maga
zines of Frankenthal and Lautern are left.
A most violent cannonade has been heard
during the whole of thia morning. The
Prbffians have loft a great many men all a
lung their line, without reckoning their
Generals Schladem, Vol's and Ruchel, who
are wounded. The Schllden, Manftein,
and Romberg {offered molt Upwards of
a hundred Prussian officers are either killed
or wounded. Had the Prussians attempted
to maintain Lautern, they would have dik
ed a loss of 20,000 men, and of being cat
off. .
M A N H E 1 M, July 17.
In the afternoon of the 15 th, the French
i" repeated their attack on the whole chain
of troops from Neuftadt to the Rhine along
! the Rehbach. The battle was obstinate,
I and extremely bloody. The report of the
1 cannon was heard without intermission from I
two till eight o’clock. . The French suc
ceeded at left in forward fcom the
mountains, and in the night all ths German
troops^retreated with the greatest prccipita
tion<. The Imperial army, and that Os th ? e
Empire pa fled th^sßkine and the P ruffian,
under the hereditary Prince Hohenlce, re
tired toward^ Ganterfblum, byway of
Darkheim; Wachenheim. ^cc. The rest
'bl the"Prpffian troops, posted near Lautern,
quoted the neigbbhurnood, and took the
rbaOf Winwfilier towarda Mentz, after
the French, by their Jppcriority, and their
furious nnd incessant attacks, had penauat
ed th tt(e environs of Tripftadt and of
johahnhs CreutZ. On these two polls the
French are supposed to have loft upwards
ordinance of military affairs, they
do also receive a greater pay.
I bring once more these propo.
fitions into the bufom of your
High Mightinesses ; it is useless to
dwell further upon them : Ycur
High Mightinesses know the ur
gent necessity of thekircumftan
ces, and will take in this refpedt,
.according to your wisdom, such ;
refohitiuns as the interest of the
country, and the prelervation of
us all require.
(Signed)
WILLIAM, PRINCE of ORANGE.
Tf&jgh at the fame time, the
mode of this levy is to be left to
the provinces, I believe hoWever,
th# lame preliminary points ought
to be, fettled, which ought to be
ebferved as general rules in this
operation, namely, that those men
ought to be ranged in corps, re
guHdrig under such changes as
their organization may render ne
cessary, on the footing of regular
troops; that they be exercised (a§
much as possible,) both by military
officers and subalterns who are in
the service of the country that they
ought to take the 4 oarh like all the
troops of the state ; that they shall
be affined that they shall neither
be employed in the field nor out
of the country against their will,
and that as much as the defence
of the country will permit, they
be employed in thao province
where they enlisted ; that their en
listment (hall not extend bevond*
/
the remaining months of the present
year, and that being in feyeral re
fpeds on another footing than the
Done at the Hague, 7
Augoft 4,1794. J
LONDON, Juy 10.
Yesterday mortiing a passenger arrived at
the Secretary of State’s office with dispatch
es from the Duke of Yoik, c a < e d Rofend
hel, near Rergen op zom, July 25, at
which .ime the Briti/h army remained nn
mblefted by the enemy.
Ano:her meflenger arrived tt the fame
time, with letters from Lord Malmelbury
at Frankfort, which announce that the
French are Hill purfairg their advantages
on the Rhine, and that their efforts havs
every where been fuccefsfnl. The whole
chain of the positions of the allies in that
quartet being completely broken, and thei?
forces routed in all diredions, they arc dy
ing with the utmost nrecipitaiioh before 3
victorious army. When the n.'efl€n[-,cr
came away, they had fallen back on Mertz
and Frankfort, which places, it was much
feared, would not be able to make an ef
fedtual refinance to the eremy’s progicfs,
as General Molleridorff ddpairs, in c,onfe
quence of the defeat which he has experi
enced, of being able to make any Hand s
gainft them.
The foreign mails due cn Monday arriv
ed yesterday, They have brought a con*
firmasion of (he surrender of Namur, by
capitulation, to the French, on the nth
indent; after which they preceeded to
march against Liege, the whole cf which
principality ass expected to fall an easy
conquest to them. On the 23d they were
but a few miles from the city, and the fol
lowirg day, it is said, they took poMoti
of it. The distance from Liege to Maii
ftricht is but 15 miles. The Prince
op, with h's suite and effects, are fafe arriv
ed at Aix-la Chapelle.
Private accounts froth Liege /ay, that
immediately on the departure of the PrincC
Bishop from thence, the patriots seized the
reigns of government, and put to death 3
few persons who had rendered themfeUss
conspicuous by their attachment to his cause,
after which dispatched a deputation to the
French commander at Namur, inviting
him to take peffedion of their City, and
form the principality into a French de
partment. For the authenticity of thisi
however, we cannot pretend to vouch.
Oa the 14th, 15th, and 16th, the French
on the Rhine attacked day and nighty
without a moment’s intermission; they
were mown down by hundreds^ who were
succeeded by thousands that used no pow
der, but carried .the Pruflian cannod by
the point of the bayonet. The allies sus
tained fatigue, (hidt, and hunger, in the
hoteft weather ever known, for thirty-fix
hours, and refilled 'the Republicans with a
fortitude unequalled since the commence
ment of the war. The daring impetuosity
of the French became at length irre(iliable,
they carried every thing they attempted,'
and strewed the whole country with, the
carcases of the slain. A few Aultrians
crUTed the Rhine at Holtzof; the remains
of the Pruflian army attempted to cross
lowdr down, but most of them were eith
er killed or drowned. Thus, in the courie
of three weeks, one of,the fineft armies ev
er seen, and confining of at haft 70,000 ,
men, is almost totally destroyed, Treves
the Palatinate, and Luxemburgh mall nt.
cefiarily fall, and the French have nothing
tooppofe them on this, fide of the river to
All idea of refiftancejs
given up. This campaign, is infinitely
more difafteious than that of 1782 ; ihe
Allies seem to have quitted lint co. nqy
never to return. ' ’
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B'riiiih accounts fta% that Ead
Spencer has completely succeeded
in his minion, that the Emperor
had agreed to continue the war,
condition of receiving a subsidy
from Great B;ham. Prince Co
bourg is to be displaced, and Suc
ceeded iii the command of the at-
ts 4000 men. The loss of rhe Preflians is
very confide;able. Among many wounded
officers, are the Lieutenant Gccerait K'cift
and Kunitzky ; the so mer received a flight
wound, the latter received a ball in his
body.
"[Number 17.