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POL A N D.
Proclamation of fbaddee Kosciusko.
I commander in chief of the armies
of the nation, to the citizens of
<7 Poland
“ DSar Fallow Citizens,
* y y AVING been often called
| 1 toaffilt in the salvation of
Our common country, behold I o
bey the call —but I cannot be ufe
ful to you, or break the chains of
slavery, if you do not give me fpee
' dy fuccour !—Support me with
• your whole force, and fly to the
standard of your country. In this
common cause, the fame zeal
ought to animate us all.
“ Make voluntary facrific^s of
your wealth, which hitherto,inflead
of being at your own disposal, was
at the will of a defpot!—Furnilh
men capable of bearing arms—Do
not refufe the neceflary provisions
of bread, biscuit &c-—Send horses
shirts, boots,cloth and canvas for
tents.—The generous Sacrifices
made to liberty and your country,
will receive their recompence in
the gratitude of the nation*
“ The last moment is arrived,
in which Despair; in the midst of
shame and reproach, puts arms in
your hand. Our hope is in the
contempt ofdeathywhichcan alone
enable us to ameliorate our fate,
and that of our pofteiicy. Far be
from us that terror which the ene
mies, conspired against us, endea
vour to iritufe into Our minds —
“The firft step-to throw off the
yoke is to dare to believe ourselves
free—and the firft step to victory
is a confidence in our strength.
“ Citizens, the Palatinate of
Cracow affords you a single exam
ple of patriotism. It offers the
flower of its youth, having already
granted pecuniary and other assis
tance—their example is worthy of
imitation—do not hesitate to place
credit in your country, which wdl
reward you well —-the ordinances
issued by the Generals of the Pa
latinate, and the commanders of
the troops, to furnifll the neceflary
provisions! will be placed to the
account of imposts, and will be
paid for inthelequel. It is un—
neceflary to encourage you before
hand, because that would appear
to doubt your civifm ; the contin
ued oppression pradifed by the
Ruffian Soldiers, ought fufficient
ly to convince you that it is better
to make voluntary facrificestoyour
country, than to make facrifices
by force to an enemy. Whoever
in these circumftanees dare be in
fenfibleto the urgent neceflitiesof
his country, must draw upon him
fclf eternal infamy.
“ Dear fellow citizens £ expect
every thing from your zeal-^your
hearts will join that sacred union
which is neither the work of for
eign intrigue, not of a desire of do
mination, but is solely the effeft of
love for liberty*
“ Who does not declare for us is
against us. He who refufes to as
sociate with those who have sworn
to Ihed their last drop of blood for
their country, is either an enemy'
or one who is neuter^ and in such
a case neutrality is a crime against
civifm. f have sworn to the na
tion that the powers entrufled to
me (ball not be applied to the op
preflion of the people* At the
fame time> I declare, that whoever
Foreign Intelligence.
a&s against our confederacy shall x
fuffer the pumlhment eftabliftkd
in the national aft, of a fraitor and
enemy to his country.
♦ We have already finned by
connivance*which has ruined Po
land. Scarce has an offence a
gainffthe people ever been punish- '
ed. Let us now adopt a different
mode of canduft; and let us re
commerce virtue arid * civifm by
pursuing and puniftiing traitors.
(Signed) “ ThaddeeKosciusko.”
He»i quarters at Cracow. March 24.
WARSAW, April 24.
The 17th of this month proved
a dreadful day to Warsaw, Gene
ral Igelftrohm, a few days before,
had given orders to the whole of
the Ruffian cavalry, in garrifpn
there to march from Warsaw to
join the troops which had been
previou fly detached inorder to aft
against the army under General
Kosciusko.
When the infurreftioh took
place on the 17th in the morning,
General Igelftrohm ordered the
only three battalions of Ruffian
'infantry, v^ho remained in the
garrison, to take up arms; at the
fame time he sent a message to the
King informing his Majesty of the
event. The King sent him word
that he had already been infor
med of what had happened ; that
his Majesty had dnly to add a re
quest of the General to fend all his
troops, out of the capital in order
to prevent bloodshed. Until the
minds of the people should in some
nieafure be pacified.? \
General Igelftrohm, in the mean
time, had sent General Baueri’ at *
the head of a detachment to pro
test the Arfenalj but this was too
late. The patriots had already
rendered themselves masters of all
the artillery contained in that build
ing; and the latter General, with
his detachment! on their arrival,
were forced to lay down their arms,
and to surrender prisoners ofwaf,
The patriots afterwards, provided
with arms from the Arsenal, for
med themselves in order of battle,
and marched against a battalion
of the Ruffian infantry, whom they
drove out of the town.
General igelftrohm, however,
placed himfelf at the head of the
two other battalions, and took post
in Catharine-street, where he was
determined todefehdhimfelf; these
battalions wele fired upon with
great violence from every window,
and after an engagement which
lasted 33 hours without intermis
sion, the Ruffians retreated from
Warsaw, with thelois of half their
number, almost all killed. Thus
Gen. Igelftrohm, Apravins and
Su bow, at the head of the remain- *
. ing Ruffian infantry, joined the
Prussian corps, under Gen. Wol
ky, stationed inthe neighbottrhobd
that capital. The people of
Warsaw were obliged to set several
houses on fire where the Ruffian
foldiets had poftedthemfelves dur*
ing the engagement* ,'T
The houses and palaces* which
had been inhabited by the Ruffian
officers and their adherents, were
plundered by the rtiob; particular
the baggage of the Ruffian gene
rals fell a prey to the rapacious
part of the lower order bf the peo
ple.
A^number of the Ruffian fol
diets,who concealed themselves dur.
ing the engagement, were after:
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Sittihgof the 16th FLORE AL, (jth may.)
BARRERE in the name of the
committee of public fafety, made
the following communication.
Viftory is permanent in the
whole fouth of the Republic* The
tri-coloured standard is flying on
the whole'Alps and on the whole
Pyrennes.
Thereprefentativesof the peo
ple with the army of Italy, have
made themselves masters of Saor
gio, of all the camps of the Aus
trians and Piedmontefe,of 60 piec
es of cannon and a great number
of mortars and howitzers. The
enemy put fire to ail they left be
hind ; but our brave bre-thren in
arms saved the magazines, killed
almost 3000 slaves; made a great
many prisoners. The republic
has to regret the loss of Brig. Geni
Brule, and Adjutant General Lan
clois, which waS bayonetted in
putting his hands on a Eiedmon
tefe redoubt. The names of these
two Republicans shall be engraved
on a column, which in the Pan
theon, is to transmit to posterity
the names of the heroes of the Re
public. Our wounded amounted
to about 25b or 300*
The army of Italy will have ho
rest until they have annihilated the
tyraht of Pidemont, who is said to
hayefled. The Representatives
further add, that we are masters of
Leatena, Saint Martin, Belvedere,
and another pointj and that deser
ters come in great numbers.
On the fame day; and’at the
fame hour, the army of the eastern
Pyrennes had an engagement with
the slaves of the fame tyrant —
They have taken from them at
least 200 pieces of cannon, ail
their ammunition, magazines full
of all kinds offtores, one'General
officer*three Colonels, feventy-fiye
officers of different rank, all their
tents* camp equipage, &c. Our
army is working towards CoHioure
and Port-Vendee; but the most
fortunate circumstance is, that so
signalized a viftory has not cost us
ten men. The route of the Span
iards is completely, they have for
faken all. z
The Convention decreed 1.
That the army of Italy has not
left off deserving well of their
zcountry, id. That the army of
the.eaftern Pyrennes has deserved
well of their country ;in the affair
of the 10th of this month. 3d.
That honourable mention be made
of the cortduft of the ardy of the
weftern Pyrennes. 4th. That the
dispatches shall be printed and
sent to the. army of the North
who undoubtedly will soon avenge
the lols sustained at Landrecyl
. ■ - * »
PARI S, tjtb Fhr tai. (Mt^6)
We think we, ought to give our
readers some further details of our
wards mafiacred as fooh as they
appeared f in the streets. .
The magistrates had aflemblea
during the tumult; but all their
endeavours to reftdre tranquility
proved ineffeftuah
The patriots have iince sent aft
account of the reyolution to Gen.
Kosciusko, at Cracow; at the fame
time inviting that General to come
to their afliftance*
[Tranflated from French Papers.]
FRANCE.
Foreign Particulars,
Buildings & Orchard,
with as much LAND, lying
in Poplin, belonging to the Estate
of JOHN .CRAMj late of East-
Kingston, deceased, as will pay
One Hundred Pounds, lawful mo
ney.
^3* Conditions of fate will be
known at time and places
Hannah CraM; Adm^x,
t EaHKingfion. July q, 1794. . ;
Letters remaining in the Poji^
Office, Better, July \Ji t 1794.
DOdor Joseph Tilton, *
Augustus Odlin, EXETER.
Treworthy Dudley, .
Mary Bartlett, ,
Richatd Bean, - - - Brentwood,
Dftvid Lovekin, - - - Chifter.
Theophilus Goodwin, - Kewtown,
Abigail Hibbert, - - Almfiury.
John W. GiLman, foft-Mafter,
One penny Reward.
RAN away from the Jubfcriber
the ^b of June loft, an In
dented apprentice boy, named Na
thaniel Lougc. - /
- AU persons are forbid harbourl
ing or trusting said boy on my ac
count as they would avoid the penal
ty of the law.
Whoever will return bimjhall r^
cpive the above reward.
\ Daniel Jonis.
. . jT,-. •• -• •
Exeter, July 6, 1794^
RA G S.
CASH, Writing-Paper, or
Books jgiven for clean
cotton and linen Ragsat this
Office.
" v-’k ; V.’e 'A •* ■J'k '■ -
fuccefles in the maritime Flan
ders. We expeft they will read
With pleasure and pride the fol
lowing letter from head- quarters/
to the citizen Guovolot, com
manding at Dune Libre Dake, the
11 th Floreal.
“After an engagement of 8
hours, the enemy, to the number
of 6o,ocb^ attacking in three
colums, has been entirely routed
by an equal force) we cut off his
retreat/ and made >5,060 prison-i
ers,wehave taken 32 pieces ofcan^
non, and killed or woundetd 4"
thousand men; the Hanoveriirt
General, and 32 officers, are fallen;;
into our hands: the enemy wars
pursued to St. Leges, a leagbe and
a half from Tourhay. The ene-.
ttty’s plan was to furroufid us at,
Courtray, and give feccburs to
Menin; which was in a refpefta
ble state of defbhte». but Menin
surrendered at 6 o’clock in the
morning of the nth Floreal; we
made 1100 prisoners, took 81
pieces of cannbn, and put to the
sword 500 Emigrants. This is
one of the most important vifto^
lies; aS the COnfequence, £ trust,
will Ihow.”
By virtue of licence from the Hon.
Judge of the Probate Os Wills c.
for the county of Rockingham—
to Be sold at
PUBLIC VENDUE.
To the highest bidder.
On Wednejday the 2Qtb day of Au
gufi next, at two of the clock
in the afternoon, at the
dwelling boufe of
Ezekiel Robinson,
Public Vendue.
IN POPLIN, THE