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for tnany years fubjeft to French
force or intrigue, but the last revo
lution or change in the government
was in favour of the liberty of its
cici^eqs* What pretence there
couliL be fpr a revolution at this
time, we are not informed ; but
French idtrigbes have introduced
Jacobinifm into the city ; many
of its most refpe&able and valua
ble citizens are .arretted ; Mr.
Meeker is among them ; and al
ready do blood and violence mark
the progress of (heir detestable
machinations..
Before the revolution the French
cabinet managed half th.e courts of
Europe by intrigue and corrup
’nom It has been afTerted that
filled the government of France
has been changed, Republicans
will detert filch intrigues. Hith
. erto, fads have disproved such
visionary ideas., The French were
never more busy with their in
trigues in every part of the world.
; Thanks be to the vigilance of our
old ’y 5 whigs, their agent in A
. meriCa was arretted in his career,
and we hope toefcape internal fac
tions with one formidable rebel
lion; Bit had not Genet been
suddenly checked, it is rrtore than
an equal Chap.ce|^at. ; we Ihould
before this time, have fullered the
. fate of Geneva. ^We are allured
that his private” inftru&ions went
all the lenght of authorizing him
> to draw round Mmfef and attach
to his cause as many of the people
as poihble, without regarding the
government. : i ? G
BOSTON,O<?^2j.
Capture- of'Trews:
From a London paper of August 2?.
WE are forty co learh Treves
has been taken by storm. A let
ter from Coblentz, the i2th inst.
gives the foilowing account of this
, affair, f f f y
“ General Michaud having re
ceived orders from the Convention
to take Treves, whatever it might
cost him, nwphed thither in epti
f .quence,oa the Eth’inft; A French
column forced one of the intrench
ments fnuared before that city; in
(pireof the most vigdrousTefiftance.
The Ptuffun' corps in the neigh
- bourhood- advanced with haste,
but not iu time co save the city,
which the French epterei on the
i-’ lothv •• ;''
The' Ao&rian troops retired in
good order towards Mayence
Geperaf Kalkreuth i^ arrived at
. Molelie with* 15,000- men, but we
are allured that the ndmber of rhe
enemy exceeds 50,000. It was
not till the fourth aflault, and af
ter a great lots that the French
. carried the entrenchments .which
covered Treves. < By the ciptUt^
of Treves the city of Coblentz is
much e^ofed to the enemy J 1
fax trail of a letterfrom ^Gentleman in ton*
don, to bit friendin fbh town, dated Aug.
'T T ’ 2^ 1794* ' ; <
'/ f “ The fuccep of France will, I believe,
* preserve your peace, but io Europe war
' will AHI rage/ind perhaps with redoublad
violence,Ms all erownod hods are uneasy,
^nd th« agitation produces a kind of phren
2y, that will not bp refttaioed by any re« 6
enable confiderationr. Europe hin con
vuihons throughout.andao man can even
conjcAure What will be the reful'. It »p.
pears to me to be ony of those great ALris
w which the wWdom of man it to be con.
funded, and which that wrfdom that rules
.» all intends (houU introduce a new order
of government, and perhaps of raorali—
when all old tbingi are done
wirbecome ww—and a very old and gpbd
book fays,that before this, multitudes fhdttld
fill in the valley of IX-caphas. Every
Foreign Intelligence.
By Friday s Mail.
LOND 6 N,‘ 16.
The Austrian and Pfußan ar
mies on the Rhine are reduced to
the necelrtty of a&ihg on & e .
fenhve, Manheims a
- Luxemburg will ,be the places
where they are tp maker a.ftand.
There appears be AQtruth in .
the report of a maflacre at Faris. J
The report probably originated m
thee on f u fioris of Par rs on (benight
of the 2/th of July occasioned by
the attempts made to refeue Ro
bespierre and his friends from (he
officers of justice/
The number of men under com
mand of tbe Duke of York is 3®,
000 including English, Hanove
rians and Hefiians,
The French privateers eominue
to be fuccefsful m capturing En
glilh vessels. Fhirteed fail of vef
feis were reported in one day at
Loyd’s coffee hoyfe as taken by
the French; the property of them
valued at 100,000 sterling was
insured; but the faft does little
honor to the vickorious fleet of the
Englilh—*or rather the Ministers
who manage the fleets
A London paper makes, merry
with the Erigtilh for.their alarms
about Jacobi nifm ;by stating that
ah eminent Dtntift has lately been
examined by the Privy C^ncil on
a charge of procuring the teeth
of French and Sans. Culottes and
transplanting them into- the jaws
of his Majesty’s Hege fubjeds^
thus*planting the trees of liberty in
. their very jaw bones. This if true,
feenis to be a pradice of cramming
Jacobinifm down their throats in
ipite of their tecth^
ffAETIMOrE-j (MAR.)OC?r. 18.
' THE (hip Camilla. Capt. Rob
. ert Service of New-York^ arrived
in* this port yesterday frohx Liver
pool On his paflage,Cape. Ser
vice spoke the (hip Induftry t ’--- i —
Redmond, matter, r abound up *
James River,, which left ^London
about the/gh September :the pat
fengers on board her reported, that
the French were ac ^reda^the peo
pie of England
\ pt their, arrival at
Rotterdam: "further th^Ttheap-;
parent disposition of th^ Bri Jib
• ministry was in favor o€prOfecu.r
ting the war.
*7" ■”7 ■ *—■ ■i/'.rr- •• .. . ;
: Norfolk, 0$? ^r;
On Tuefday tatt arrived th* Ihip Ann,
Capt. Ballard., in 7.0 daya frdtri London.
C*ph B. inform?, 7th«t a few days before
he failed, be saw 4000 troop?, with 100
pieces of artillery embarked for the conti- -
nent. Ohthe^d of September, in lat.
44 • 23 Jo W. of Londoji, spoke
five French frigates, 4 ffwp of war, and
a schooner, 22 days from Brett, on a cruise.
■ They had captured 4 Engltlh fifip? and
two Arn ericans—the Engfift - they had
burnt; one of which was then oh fire in
fight—the American veflels they had Lent
to France, after caking the men out, W in
■ number, all of whom they obliged Capt.
Bullard to taka on board, giving with them
apuachebna of w««r,aplb/ of breads
event in Fiince ten^s to cenjenttheße
public, and increase its tritunpba. Per*
bapa a new century nny hear mankind
exulting in peace on earth, ihd goodwill
amongst man—and this little period of fix
yearj, if revolutions are as rapid as in the
last fix, may introduce ir^ Hwe outlive
the Whirlwind and the tempest, we lhell
be among those who will exult in so iuj>-
py a revolution. *•
Ameridafi Intelligence.
; tillery arid stores of all kinds,
which were at the'places taken.
/They soon after seemed to direct
their march towards Bilboa x 5 arid
; have had an engagement with the
Spaniards (who were but 4000
strong ; the enemy 1 y,ceo) on the
- 9th at Tolofa, three leagues from
St. Sebaftiantowards Ferrol.—
The Spaniards made a resolute
- (land* but were repul fed after Joof
- ing one fourth* of their number.*
J It is to be observed Vera is fitua
-5 ted in a’ valley furrdunded with
eminence^ therefore not tenable
4 Fontarabia, Tran, and St, Sebaf
j tiai<jn- locality could have renft
’ ed, but there was not men enough
to defend them.
But government now feeni to fee
into the danger of neglect so much
• that ancounts agree 167,000 men
* have been levied lince the taking
of St. Sebaftiapai Sixty seven
thou sand were intended to attack
the French in Guipufcoa, whilst
another army not left considerable,
* aflembles, at Pampeluna. The
Bifcayans (or more properlyfpeak
ing, the natives of the lordships or
independent fovertigntyof Bilboa)
have taifed 24^000 men, already
under arms, and in the &lcU But
all the riches of the adjacent coun
-7 try Wf removed to Santandero,
; ' ,/ * ■ ”
Biit nd At half paA 1 o’clock they ‘
bore 4w ay al era fleet of New loud land fifh
ermen, whom they intended to burr.—
The Capt. of ontdf the frigates informed
Capt. Bullard that they had positive orders
from the National Convention to burn all
Eogliih vcflcL they captured. r
< . i^rom the PALRICfT. dRMT.
O ur .accounts tom the gallant afierters
ofthehondur of their country, nowon
their march egainft the Whilky Jacobins
at Pittiborgh, are as Iste as the loth, when,
they were moving forward. The chief
command devolves on Gov. Lee, of Vir«
ginia—Gov. Mifflin of PennfylVania is
fMcond in command, and Gov- Howel, of
New-Jeriey, third. The President—aster
receive g marks of refptdt and attention,and.
animating the troops by his pre ft nee, and
example, is. gone on a visit to the .Virginia
troops, at Fort Cumberland. The prime
Litigators of the rebellion are supplicating
forgivenels for them (elves j an ct appear anx
ious only for their penunal falct).
Interesting Intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 2T.
The fallowing important intelligence
we have received from Capt . As.
King^ qf the brig Pomona^ in 4^
■ a days from Fei rol. It was com*
municated io him in writing juji
before he failed* on the second of
September. '
The effort, of some of tire London prints
to keep Joha Bull in spirits, notwithfland
ing the late victories of the French, are
truly laughable. They fay as little as
poflrble of those victories and when they
me ft-be mentioned, a fenttre beating is cal
led A- eheck, an important advance of the
French ia called dn irruption of the Carmag*
noh. A retreat, or flight on their own fide,
is termed a re.rogade march, or a change
of pofi'ibn, 10 defend an important post ;
acd then much is said always if the {Length
of ifre present portion of the allies, which
if they are obliged to abandon by the valor
of the French, they are fa d to have chang
ed it by a rerrogade movement for a much
(Longer one.
•* On the 25th of July the
French forced and took the, town
of Vera, in Spanish Navarra.
On the 2d of August they
took Fomerabia and Trun, on the
fide of Guipofcoal And on the
sth they peaceably entered Sc. Se
baftians, apparently with the pre
conferit of the citizens and depu
ties of the Piovince.
“ The french have made them
selves matters of the immense ar-
^-EXTRaCTED.^
go, (where there is a foundary)
and from the Junquera, a strong
barrier nbt far from Raias. The
Spaniards have had near 2000 kil
led, many wounded, and a few
prisoners. But they have taken
batteries, cannon, and prisoners
from the French, and . a great
quantity of stores, &c. The infor
mation came by ah extraordinary
dispatch from the Spanilh camp,
dated the 18th 4.Uguft. p
Extras of a letter from Bdliimof e
dated y eJi er day uiarnin^
“ Avast number of vedils have
arrßed here within a few days.—'
The Harmony arrived at Bour
deaux the sth august, A veflel
arrived here which left Brest the
4th September, The French fleet
was manned, viduailed and ready
for sea, confuting of 50 fail— 40*
of which" were line of baLdc foips
the rest frigafes. The armies of
France, were growing rich by
their captures. Mr. Munro, had
arrived fafe in France ^ and Cap
tain Barney had a profped of get
ting a commiflioni
‘‘ The* death of Efobefpierrb
gave universal fatisfadion—the
nation was not bunhened with,
taxes—military fame was the am
bition of every man. The army
and navy abound with every thing
neoeflary for , » seven years war,
and no man is heard to utter, a
wifti tor peace. They are proceed
ing in a fatal manner against the
commerce of Great Britain. The
French cruisers arefuperior in the
Channel.’* r - - '
* . ’j-. ■■■ ■ ? \ y
u Letters received fromSf; An.
derofthezid of August, mentiod
that the French were difledged
from Tolofa, and « was expected
they would loori be difpoffefled of
St. Sebastian’s which they had not
yet put in any state of defence,
“ The, Spaniards are afft'mbling
three armies in the N;E. of Spain
—i-one at Pampeldna, another ac
Giemberry, (to prevent the junc
tion of the Frerith. armies of Bis
cay and Navarre) and a third to
attack the corps m the Province
of Guipufcoa and St. Sebaftians.
And every infotmatron received
by this port agrees, that all pofll
ble efforts are makink to* raise a
fufficrerit army to drive out the
French, and defend the- frontiers
of the kingdom. - All people not
ufefuily employed are “obliged to
take tip arms. The Mobility and
dergy appear foremoft cu fuporc
the crown the northern army is
already b’o 000 strong, the head
quarters aie ac Burgos,and advan
cing.
“ There is every reason to be
lieve that the French will be dif
loged from St. Sebastian’s before
they are reinforced. On the fron
tier of Catalonia a division of the
SpanHh army of 15,000, under
the command of Lieutenant Gen-
where is a third body of troops
chiefly volunteer^ Extraordinary
levies are making, and it is said
all pebflons and gratifications hith
erto allowed by government, are
already fuFpended- The Church
arid ribbiiky have offered. 25 per
cent of their mcoarrj btfides all
the aftoal teafure belonging to the
rich churches; > ■ ' "
era! Cour ten/obtained feme con
siderable advantages Oh the 15th
16th and 17th cunerir,driving the
French/after the most bloody at
tacks from San Lorenzo la Mu-