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her cause—some distresses must happen—
fome wrongs must be committed— but the
principle is eternal, and mull finally pre
vail. ’*
MIL TARY APPARATUS.
~" ln the edimate of the expences of the
mar department, for the year i 794 are
the fcllevying ar. ides, mbich mill give to
the vic rid fame informatian of the means
the Unied States have Jor profleuting a
nvar, (hould they in any event be drive n
into one. The Secretary propose, that
nt<w carriages be providedfor Tv'O Hun
dred and Thirty Pieces of brass field artil.
lery—and garrison carriage! for 134
pities of iron cannon. That nem beds be
made for forty mortars That 14000
Hands of arms, he repaired, and 12OOQ
cleaned— and that JO brass field pieces be
caff cut of ufelef mortars. ‘lhere are in
tie report, edimates of the expente of one
* hundred tons of lead 5 Jevinty five tom of
gun p< voder ; one thousand. rifles, 10. 000
j knap laths, to 000 car ridge boxes, 2000
' tents, ico horjtman's tents, of marques
and of magazines to be budt, &c. 'Jbefe
^ith the pay, fubfifienct and clothing o’
the troops of the United States. and volun
teers, toge h.rviththe charges ofgarrison
j andarftnal duties, and the pensions to in
valids, vdllfarm an aggregate of expente
of one million four hundred and fifty seven
thousand, nine hundred and thittv-fix dd*
lars, and ant ctnl—and no morts J
“ PARIS, CCT. 25, 1793.
,f I cannot help (ending you this, in
hopes it will reach you by the fame vef
icl that 1 wrote my last. The affairs cf
France are much altered within a few
days, and every appearance juilifies the
meft sanguine expectations in fovour of
their final fuccels. Nothing could have
placed them on so good a footing, as the
total deftruflion of all their internal en
emies, or rather c vil wars ; but they
have not only done that ; but, appear in
e very fairway to repel all the Combi
ned Armies. They have been beaten
upon the Rhine, a complete surprise was
effeded ; but in every other part they
have the advantage—(hould Toulon be
re taken which is qui e probable, (as the
French have driven the Spaniards and
English q iite into the town) I think the
dance will be up, I cannot but believe,
that in case France falls, America will fol
low** - ■
BT the last arrivals from Europe, nue
learn, that the army of the "Rhine com
manned by General Wu R nse r, attacked
the French lines at Lauterburg, and WeJ
ft ml ourgh, on the x^th of Oft- lad and
carried them after a conftift cf 11 ho <rs.
The Duke of Brunfwicb turned the French,
army and alt a ked them in the ? ear—a
terrible carnage ensued; The Audrians loft
3500 men kiled—tbe slain of b. th armies
are said to amount to 14,000. The Au
Hi ians tock 168 pieces of cannon and 2900
prisoners. Inconfutqnce of this a feat,
Landau Jurrevdered to the Audiians, andtt
was expelled Straflurg woulu soon cpitu
late, and all Alsace be foci in pofefion of
the Austrians,
■ ft ,
privateer, the Capt. of which
compelled the matter of the
schooner to go on board hisvef
id with all bis papers, which he
had no /boner in possession than
he tore them to pieces and threw
overboard ; after this daring out
rage, he ordered the Ichooner to
Martinique, where he impiifon
td the matter, mate and crew,
and in a few days a mock trial
was had, the relult of which was,
that not only the cargo, but the
veird a Ifo, was condemned and
fold. hiram.
Providence, Jan. 20,1794.
“ The state of France is much altered
within a few weeks for the better. Liber
ty must triumph, and I thank God there
is iuch a nation as the French to defend
Extrafl of t c wo letters from a gentleman of
undoubted veracity, vshofe information
may be depended on, novo in France, to
bis friend in this tevun, datea “ Parts,
CCT. 20, I 793.
A B ST R ACT.
ARMY OF THE RHINE.
nov. 17. We are forryto
hear that the Courageaux of 74
guns, one of the BriCifh veflels
engaged in the adion before St.
Florentz, in Corsica, then receiv
ed so much injury that (he funk
befeye she could reach a poit to
refit: The crew, with molt of
the ammunition, &c. was how
Letters from Bruflels men
tion, that the celebrated M.
Condorcet, one of the proscribed
members of the Convention, has
found.means to make his escape
from France •, and is arrived at
Lausanne in Switzerland.
ever previously removed. The
Courageaux was an old vessel,
having been taking from the
French in the war before the lafl.
The paris papers of the 15th
inst. aflert, that , the Thames
frigate has, been carried into
Brest.
A very large French frigate
of 42 guns, is taken by a Span
ilh 50 gun ship off Cape Ortu
gal, and sent into Cadiz. Both
(hips fuffered much in the ac
tion. The Frenchman is named
Rouffillone, or Roflignole. -
r 11 «
PLYMOUTH, NOV. 13,
By letters received here, we
have advice that Earl Howe’s
fleet arecruizing off the Lizard ;
fomeof the Chips have received
damage, which will cause their
return co port very soon.
^gierican Intelligence.
' Yl AD E L PH i A, Jan. £O.
THE wonderful alacrity with which
the fabricated news is circulated,
in order to mifinform the public of the
nov, 16. General O’Hara,
had arrived at Toulon, Od. 31st,
from Gibralter, with a reinforce
menc of troops j and the com
bined forces, composing the
garrison, amounted to 45,000
men, who were in good health,
well provided, and in high fpir
ks. The Republican army was
encreafing so rapidly, that the
allies were in a few davs ex
peded to be in a state of siege.
The B: iti/h land forces, hor/e
and Toot, in different parts of
the world, amount at present to
60 thousand, and are to be en
creafed to 85,000 effective men.
LONDON, NOVEMBER 7.
TTHE province of Boenos
Ayres, in Spani/h Ameri
ca, has fubferibed the sum of
15 millions of piaftres to his
Catholic Majetty to carry on
the war against France.
Nov. 9. Yesterday -an ac
count was received from the ar
my of His Royol Highntfs the
Duke of York, by a gentleman
who left his head-quarters on
Sunday last. The army was in
the highest health and spirits,
The prince of Saxe Cobourg
was doing his utmoftr to bring
the French to a general action,
which there were some hopes of
his being able to accomplish.
European Advices.
By this Day s Mail.
ENGLAND.
The intelligence by arrivals at the
Southard, from Europe, is but a few
days later than that brought in the Ha
zard, Capt. Delano —No important
event has transpired in the conflicts of
the contending nations, later than the
battles near the Sombre :—But some in
telligence of the firft moment may be
expcCted, as the French armies have been
ordered not to think cf Winter-Quarters
until they have extirpated their ene
mies—as the combined Forces, at the
.latest date, appeared desirous to try the
event, in the North, of a general aCtion ;
and as the Pruffan arms on the Rhine
having lately been fuccefsful at Weiffm
burg, are pulhing the sieges of fcveral
important places in that quarter.
Sonthonax and Polverel, the
Commiflioners in the Island of Hispani
ola, have been denounced in the Nation
al Convention of France, as guilty Com
miflioners who have destroyed the Col
onies. ■ w —
In the mean time, whatever private
temimenis may prompt, public meafares
(hould Readily follow up the true na~
tional interest of the United States,with
out a deviation, occafloned by this vic
tory, or that defeat. Thus, while the
great powers of the world are weaken
ing themfelvea by war, this happy coun
try will be strengthening i<felt by peace.
Unless this guarded and fleady policy be
pursued, we (hall, by entangling our
selves with hazardous connections, blall
all our profpeCts of peace and put our
fdves back where we were io 1782.
ExtraS of a letterfromEaltimtre.f an. 16.
“An American veflel has ar
rived here from Cadiz. She fell
in with an English, 74, in distress
ed condition. The Captain of
this (hip informed the American,
that there had been afevere en
gagemens between the two fleets,
and that the Engldh, after being
much injured put into T’orba^.”
Extract of a letter feom Fayette
ville, dated the 6th M.-
“Two gentlemen just arrived
The events of war are fluctuating—-
in a war, like that of Europe, a great
victory cn one day is counterbalanced
by a great defeat on another—the cap
ture of a town in one quarter, is an off
fet aga’nft that of another in another
quarter——and it may be some years
before the ultimate decilion of the con
test will be seen.
real state of things in Europe, is no
small evidence of the aefigns of their au
thors. But the citizens of the United
States cannot certainly be disposed to
'thank those who are perpetually deceiv
ing them. When great events take place,
they will be known here by the usual
and frequent channels of communications
—The anticipation of events frequently
leads to dilappointments, and does more
injury than good co that cause on the
fide of which they are anticipated.
They can answer no other purpose
than tp give a temporary aid; when
they are afterwards found to be falfe and
fabricated with improper views, they
produce a permanent evil.
The great news of last Tuefday, which
the public were amused with, and which
Mr. Genet tells us prevented the Con
gress from flaying in their fitting, turns
out to be without foundation, notwith
standing the Extraordinary Gazette of
Sunday, which indeed defeats itfelf.
If the intelligence was calculated to
hate any influence on certain measures
depending, the folly of such a project is
obvious, for the speedy contradiction
must convince the refteding, hew dan
gerous it is to fufFer the fhiftirg and va
rying hazards of war in Europe to weigh
in the decifton of great national ads.
An independent nation (hould por
fue its own policy and not fufFer the
measures on which its prosperity de
pends to shake in the wind from every
breath of rumour. Miserably depend
ent indeed should we be on European
politics, if the gain or the loss of a bat
tle is to be the standard of merit and the
rule of decision in great questions of
government.
BOSTON.M 1.
ladelphia.
A PROCLAMATION,
by thb QUEEN o? PORTUGAL.
HER moll Faithful Majesty wilhing
to manifeft 00 every occasion justice and
clemency, and to give a proof of the
good faith which aduates this country in
all its ads, has been pleased to order, in
consequence of the exposed fituauon un
der which the American navigation la
bours from the cr offers of Algiers in the
ocean, to give a convoy to all the Amer
ican vessels belonging to the United
States of America, whicli may be in her
different ports, and to be so proteded to
a proportionate di it a nee. And moreo
ver has direded thd necessary Guarda
Codas to be sent out for the procedion
of those vessels expeded, and for this
purpose the Algerine privateers that may
be met with, are to be apprised of this
re (blue ion, in order that they may not
make prizes of Lch American vessels
Which (he proteds, being bound to the
porta of this Kingdom.
Our informant farther adds,
that the fame person has lately re
turned from a tour of between two
and three thousand miles into the
Indian country—that he had been
among the bojiile tribes—and fays
the Indians speak with the utmost
contempt of the Jmall force employ
ed by our government against them,
that three times the number would
be equally inadequate to the pur
pose of subduing them—aud fur
ther—that several numerous re
mote tribes had joined with the
Wabash Indians determined to im^
pede the progress of the Federal
army into the Miami towns.
In CONG RESS, Jan. 20.
A Message from the Prefldent of the
United States by Mr. Secretary Dand
ridge, was received, which being read,
purported, that the letters which were
sent to France, relative to the recall of
the French Minister, were received, that
^His ccn J udfwas unequivocally difapirov*
t d of—and. that bis recall would be ex
prd, ted without delay.
By a gentleman lately from Que
bee, we are informed, that a Mrs
Holland of that place will set
off early the enfuingfpring with a
party of forty men and a number
of Indians, to explore the unculti
vated continent of America, from
Cnwfato Nootka-Sound. We
wifi him success in bis arduous en
ter prize.
The following was received at the feat of
government by the arrival of the
Brandywine-Miller at the port of Phi,
We hear with pleasure, that
the manufacture of gla/s in Bos
ton, is now carried on with great
success. The window glass pro
duced there, exceeds inclearnefs
and tranfparcncy, any of the im
ported glass, and some ,of the
most elegant buildings, ereCted
in that town the last summer,
are glazed with it.
here, from Charleston, S. C. re
port that a French 20 gun (hip
and an Engli/h 18 gun frigate
had a severe adtion near the har
bour; that the English /hip was
taken and brought into Charles
ton; in consequence of which a
riot took place between the
French and .Engli/h on their ar
rival, and that the city constable
was killed in suppressing the
fracus.”
EXETER, February 4.
NEW-YOIK, JAN. 22.