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Foreign Intelligence.
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german r.
* | ^HE torn of fubfidieS offered
1 by rhe Court of Great Brit
iju to the Emperor, is ftaied to be
000 of Austrian florins,
5 about /even millions ft er ling.
-ENGLAND.
\,. LONDON, AUG. 29.
The difparches by Mr. Major
from Earl Spencer and the Rt
Hon. Thomas Grenville, he Vien
na, are, we are informed,of a very
fatisfaCtory nature. The Empe
ror, at the expence of this coun
try, is now willing to defend his
own territories, and to co operate
in the most decided manner, in
the views of the British Cabinet;
in profecuiing the , war against
France. That ip, he has agreed
to rake our money and has prom r
ifea co fend his armies against
France.; which, we have no doubt
he Will perform with' as much
punctuality as our faithful ally
rhe king of Prussia. We have
hot learned whether there is to be
any article in agreement between
the two Courts, stipulating that
rhe cooquefts (Ball be at the dis
posal of Great Britain, as. wawhe
case in the treaty with Pruflia,
from which we received so many
fubftamial benefits. 5 ■
As one proof of the firicerity of
the E^mperor^the command of the
army is, it.feems, to be. taken from
the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, be
tween whom and hiS Royal High
r.efs the Duke of York, it is whif
.pored, a difference lately took
place. Whether that was actual- ■
ly the case, we c^ntiot -.iffert Oh
pofnive information of our own,
but,we can state with:confidence
that there was hardly ever any a
greement between them; or indeed
among any of the. Generals of the
allies. During the. la^e campaign, .
it was no unuiual thing for the
Germans to strike tents and quit
the gfound, without so much as
■ giving the British the flighted inti
mation of thHr designs.— Nay, in
bne or two instances they absolute
ly destroyed the bridges behindj
them, aS if it bad been their * ip- '
tenvibn to prevent our troops from :
retneHing. This honest manoeu- ’
vre, (for ih w^ every thing is fair,
except the "tricks of the enemy)
was praCtifed/when they ' quitted =
'the neighbourhood of Tournay,
With a wiew, it was tho't to com
pel the Britifli to rernaio there to
garrison the place; or at least co
prevent them from carrying off
theit^ftores, which consequently
were deposited in the Austrian
magazines. ’
Generals CJairfayt and Beaulieu
are co have the principal command -
id the new operations, but under
the nominal dire&ion of the Arch
duke Charles. -
' Os toe plans which the French
mean so adopt during the remain
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der of the campaign; various con
jectures have been formed. It has
been imagined by feme, that an\
immediate attempt will be made
against Breda , others suppose that
the French will content themselves
with keeping the AWs in check,
on the tide of Holland, while they
prosecute their designs against
Coblebtz and Luxembourg. Per
haps the most probable supposition
is, they will not have recourle to
very active operations, until they
have received a very large rein
forcement which has been ordered
to the amount of one hundred and
ninety thdufand men of the feednd
requisition which is far from being
exhausted; that in the mean time
they will employ chemielves in
organizing the Netherlands, of
which it is evident they mean to re
tain the pofleffion ; and that, when
they have received the expe&ed
reinforcement, they will immedi
ately adopt a vigorous system of
operation against Holland, and a
gainst the important forrtefs of
Luxembourg. ;
The fattsfadliori arising from the
fafe arrival of the East India fleet
in the Downs, was yesterday forhe
what abated at Lloyd’s - Coffe
House, by the appearance upon
the books of 9 mips captured by
the French. , :
. At Frankfort it is repotted,that
tome of the circles of the Empire
in alliance with Switzerland, are
upon the point of entering into a
negociation for the formation of
an armed neutrality*
We subsidized the King of
Pruflia to fend a large army into
Flanders—he sent no • army !' We
subsidized the King of Sardinia to
make a diversion in Pidemont—
he made none I And yet we are
ftilb. it is Taid, to grant a subsidy
to the Emperor of Germany—Oh
sapient Ministry and filly Na
tion !!!
By our letters from Vienna it
appears, that a demand has been
made by our court of fifty thou
sand Imperial troops, to be paid
by Great Britain* Thus it is not,
the emperor who intreats us to
subsidize himi but we who intreat j
him to allow Ogj to foppQFt fhofe I
troops, which are fighting in a |
cause, in which he is more deep*'
ly concerned than- we are. ’? ’ ‘ ; -
The Ffec^'feem once more to ’
have adopted' that pho in which (
\they have already so often suc
ceeded, of making a general at
tack upon the whole armies of the
combined powers* The army of;
the Moselle is in pofleffion of Tre
ves, and is now marching towards*^
. Coblentz. In the different anions
upori the Rhine the I French have
been every where fuccefsful* The*
Austrian and Prussian troops tsp-,
on that frontier have been so up
able tooppofe' the enemy with ef
fed, that the prince of Cobourg*
' has been forced to detach a 1^
qf hi^ aertsy to their fupporu
General Frthegrq has demand*
TUESDAY, November ii, 1794.
his Allies, and the French nation,”
; Mr. Fox proceeds in the follow
ing manner : ;
To these Teafoniogs it appear
ed to me, that they only could
• dbjeCl: with copfiftency,who wotffd;
go to.war with France on account
’of her, internal concerns, and who
would confider the eftabliffiment
of the old, or at least tome other
, form of government, as the fair
objeCtof the contest. Sueh per
tons might reasonably enough ar
gue, that with those whom they
, are determined to destroy, it is
useless to treat. / y
< w To arguments of this nature,
however, £ paid little attention,
because the eccentric, opinion^-.
on which they are founded was
ex press I y difay owed, both in the
Ring’s Speech and in rhe Address
' es of toe two houfesof parliament
and* it was an additional motive
with me for making my motion',
that if airly debated, it toig^ be
tihe oecafion of bringing into free
difeuffion that opinion, and of fe
' parating more diftinCtly those who
By the Paris papers which we
received this morning to the 13th
of Aug? it appears that the or
ganization of the committees of
the convention and of the revo
lutionary tribunal, is not' yet com
pleated. A decree relative to the
revolutionary tribunal passed on
the 9th of August, has been sus
pended, after a long debate in
which the deputies Dehem and
Ruamps aflerted that the aristo
crats in several of the departments
particularly in the northern, had
recommended their intrigues.—
Two plans have been presented
to the convention, relative to the
different committees; one by
Barrere the other by Camdom.—
Bourdon de I’Oife is a warm sup
porter of the former; he remarked
of the latter, that it would be
dangerous to adopt it till the
coqclufion of the war.
AFTER having adduced sev
eral Unanswerable arguments
in iupport of his motion for treat
ing with the persons who exerdle
provisionally the funftionS of ex
ecutive government in France,
pitching such points as may be
fn difeufiionbetween hisMajelty &
ed from the new administration of
the French Republic, two hun
dred thousand men ; with whom
he has pledged himlelf.ro conquer
Holland. One hundred thousand
have been granted.
Tho’ the debates on these plans
were long and animated, they
were carried on without any acri
mony.—The arrest of suspicious
perfohs seized at Paris; and up
wards of 500 persons have been
reteafed from the different prisons
within the Ihort space of five
days.
fox^s letter
To bis CONSTITUENTS.
.ENGLAND.
maintained and a&ed upon it from
others,w^o from different motives
(whatever they might be) were
difinclineJ to my proposal.
“ But if the objections of the
violent party appeared to me ex
travagent, thofr of the more mode
rate leemed wholly uninreliigable.
Would they make and continue
war, till they can force France to
a Counter revolution ? No; this
they disclaim. What then is to
be the tirrhination of the war to
which they would excite us ? t
answered confidently, that it can
be no other than a negociation)
upon the fame principles, because
after war, peace cannot be ob
tained but by a treaty, and a trea
ty neceflarily implies the ipdepen
dfenfcy of the contracting ^parties*
f fay the fame men; because
though the^^tfy be changed be
fore rhe hapKuiour of reconcilia
tion arrives, Whjkat change, up
on the prmcipre^above ftated^
would be merely accidental and
in no wife a neceflary preliminary
to peace, for I cannot suppose
that they who disclaim making
war for a change, would yet think
it right to continue it till a change,
or, in other words, that the blood
and treasure of this country fhobld
be expended and in hope that—
not our effbrts-^but rime and
change may produce a new gov
ernment in France) with which it
would be more agreeable to our
Ministers to negotiate than with
the present. ' And it is further to
be observed, that the necessity of
such a negociation will not in any,
degree depend upon the success of
our armies, since the reciprocal
reebgnition or the independency of
contracting parties is equally ne
celfary to those who exafl, and to
those who offer facrifices for the
purpose of peace, f forbear to
put thecaufe of ill success, because
to contemplate the situation to
which we and especially our ally,
might in such ah event be placed,
is a talk too painful to be under
taken but in a case of the last ne
cessity. Let us suppose therefore,
the. (kill and gallantry of our sail
ors and soldiers to be crowned
with a series of uninterrupted vic
tories and those victories to lead
us to the legitimate objeft of a just
war, a fafe and honourable peace.
“ The terms of such a peace (I
am supposing that Great Britain
it to diftate them) may cqnfift in.
fatistadion, refthution, or even by
>yav of indemnity to us or to othera
>iq cession of territory bn the part
of France. Now that such fads
faction may. be honourable, it
must be made by an avowed
Minister, that Inch reflitutibn or
cession may be fafe or honourable,
they must be made by an inde
pendent power, competent to make
. them. And thus our very succes
ses and victories $ ill neceffarijy^
liead us to that measure of nego-*
ciation and recognition, whichfrom
the dtftoried Ihapc in which paflb
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