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Austrian Netherlands^
BRUSSEL S, Feb. 4.
«« A COUNCIL of general Officers,
in conf?quence of the imminent
fituacion of things, is now holding here.
The Prince of jCobourg, Generals Clair
fayt, Colloredo and Scchendorf, the Duke
of York, Prince Erneft.and Gen. Waimo
den, all arrived in this city three days ago.
The firft conference was held on the zd
infant, at the Minister’s Hotel, the Count
de Metternich; at which the Arch-Duke
Charles, Msrfhal de Bender, and Colonel
Maek, affifted.—lt is impossible for me to
know what pafed in this Grand Council,
but it is evident that its objed was to con
cert measures for the defence of Flanders
Ngainft themeditated torrent. The young
Prince of Orange is expeAe^ this day, and
there is to be another grand conference to
morrow. .
“ An officer of chaflcars, who m the as-
3 or 4 days, four merchantmen,
loaded with provisions, had come
into the port* The day before
yesterday there arrived an English
ship of war, of 30 guns, from Gib
raker, with fix millions on board,
and an English Genera), who came
to take command. The crew
have been made prisoners, and
the General is proceeding to Paris
to keep company with his col
league O Hara. This ship is to
be followed, as we are allured, by
five other veflels with troops and
provisions on board.”
“The white flag,” fays this let
ter, “ still flies here as a decoy to
the enemy’s veflels. Within theft
TOULON.
A letter from Toulon, dated the
4th of Jan. states that the execu
tions go on rapidly in that city, and
that already almost 3000, accused
of having traiteroufly assisted the
Englilh, have been tried by the
Military Tribunal and guilloti
ned.
to fill the magazines cf the repub
lic at the exptnce of the enemy.
“The elements agree with us
in exterminating the traitors; the
Rhine has just (wallowed five hun
dred emigarnts who fled from
Weifiembourgh, to swell the brok
en army of Conde.
January 20.
Read, a letter from the Nation
al Representative Moulard, dated
Fort National, Jan. 17, in which
it was announced, that no fewer
than 45 vessels had been taken
from the Engliffi in the Channel
within the last ten days. The
Englilh, fays the letter, seem as
if they wished to pay us for the
Expences of the W ar.
“The municipal officers and
the commandant of Lauterburg,
dared to demand of us an amnesty
of those inhabitants of that city
who followed the infamous Au
strians in their flight. We answer
ed by putting them under arrest,
and their conduit will be examin
ed in such a manner as to convince
the traitors and cowards that they
have nothing to exped but death
from the republic.
“ P. S. This moment, dear col
leagues we receive news of the
greatest importance. The famous
post of Kaiftrs ‘Lautern is in our
power. Vive la Republic.
Foreign Intelligence.
By Friday s Mail. -
BOSTON, April 30.
By the Minerva, Capt. Scott,from London,
vue lave been favoured with a regular,
fie of the London Morning’ Chronicle,from
November, to the "Jib March; and a num
ber of papers printed in Paris, from vohich
voe have dranvn up the following
summary. ’ ?
Since the fucceffesof the French on the
Rhine, about the Beginning and middle
of January^ no military operations of im
portance have been made on the great
Theatre of War, the Frontiers of France :
But about the beginning of March mea
sures were in train for opening a cam
paign which unless counteracted by pro?
portions for peace, mult be more interefa
ing than the annals of the world have
heretofore produced. The combined for
ces on the North of France, had marched
from their winter cantonments, and were
forming a cordon near Valenciennes Con
de, Q^efcoy, &c.—At the former of which
ttc Prince of Cobcurg had clUblifhcd his*
T
ENGLAND.
LONDON, FEB; IQ.
According to the accounts from the
Weft Indies, a great number of American
ships had been taken and sent into our ports
under the order of November 6th. This
order, issued by our Mirifters on no prin'
ci pie of justice or found policy, but in the
intoxication of imaginary success, and as
pufillanimoofly retraced as it was incon
siderately issued, will thus be a&ed upon
for Several weeks, and the public will have
to pay all the expenfer incurred by the
detention of the ships taken only to be re
stored. The effects of it in America will
be to convince every man that the States
are not to depend for the security of their
commerce as a neutral nation, on the mod
eration of the British Cabisct, but on their
ow n power to afford it protection.
The whole expenditure of the American
States, on their, eftablifhnents civil and
military, did not amount in the last year
to 1800001. One sing-e subsidy, that
which we pay to the King of Sardinia for
defending his own dominiots, exceeds by
20,000]. the whole expence of the Ame
rican government 1
The Editor of the Leyden Gazette, the
friend cf truth and liberty as far as the cir
cumstances under which his p|per is pub
lished will permit, introduces the speech
of Washington, on opening the
Congress in December, with .the following
preface:
“While Europe, towards the clofeof
the eighteenth century, presents an afped
the most doleful to philanthophy, deeply
affli&ed by the inconsiderate zeal w/th
which men rush into opposite extremes, e
qually adverse to public happiness; it Seems
to have been reserved for the New world
to furnifh the cohfolation of this melan
cholly period, and soon, perhaps, an afylam
for the true friend, of freedom, the btfis
of permanent tranquility. The United
States of America afford the example of a
government, truely just and moderate. For
this, next to the public spirit, and a na
tional character of equity and wifdom,they
are indebted to some great men; among
whom none will dispute the firft place with
the illuflrious Washington. It isim
poflible to read, but with real pleasure, the
successive produftions of his pen, either as
a Statesman or a Soldier.”
The Committee of Public Safety pro
posed a decree on the Marine, which was
adopted. The fame Committee propofcd,
that the captain and officers of ahy ship of
the line that should strike to Jess thandou
ble her own force, should be punifhed.witb
death, as traitors to their country ; and
that the mariners who should take a ship
one third stronger than their own, should
be rewarded and promoted. '
fair of Thursday last, came over to the
Austrians, has given impoitanr informat.cn
to the Prince de Hohenloe, who commands
in the absence of the Prince de Cobourg :
He fays, that fined the arrival of Pichegru,
the French armies areincreafed to 170,000
men—that a part cf the army of La Vendee
h>s arrived, as well as the garrisons of
Valenciennes, Conde and Lt ^uefnoy—on^
this officer supposes, that by the 15th their
artillery, horle and ammunition, will be ar*
rived, so as to commence their grand
fehemeef attack.
American Intelligence. *
FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION, FEB. 2.
FROM LONDON, march 5, 1794.
** The commercial Rate of things be
tween France and this country is now as
much deranged, as the political; and the
commercial men there are watched with a
jealous eye. The late cruel decrees of the
French Convention, tended to universal
spoilage of all British property—but the
Counterafting Bill passing here will save
some. For Heaven’s fake let America
keep peace. The old adage ihould be ever
in view ; “ war begets poverty.” This
country would have avoided war if she
could. Let what will be said, Pitt is not
a War Minister, but was forced into it—
Atonement mufl be made for your fuffer
iifgs.—The American interest will be
better regarded in future j the rascally pri
vateering intcrefts, which have done all the
mifchief? begin to fuffer in their turn. —
The ship Boßon Pacquet, and others, are
liberated—compensation for detention>&c.
is demanded, and it muR be had. Our
committee have been to the Admiralty, and
have been told, if your government should
ask convoy for your ships it should be
granted j but I fay you had best guard
yourfehes ; had you been pcffcffed of half a
score protesting frigates, which from your
opulence and great commerce you ought
to be, your flag would be refpefted and
the prowlers of Algiers would probably
not have comenced hostilities against you.
The truth is, tha^sa great nation, grow
ing in wealth, you have been by much too
parfimonius; but you w ill now amend—
No foul here can devife.why France locks
up in the rivers of Bourdeaux near 1 zofail
of your {hips—fome conjefture for trans
ports—hardly that, when they have such a
multitude of their own lying idle—per
haps you know the cause in Boßon better
than we do here.
«< The funds of your Rates are nearly
as they were months paR, except Bank
flock, which has mended since the last ar
rivals from New-York.— very little de
mand—and our own funds are drooping :
Nothing will get right until we can end
this curbed war—the armies are preparing
for a meeting, and dreadful will be the firft
conflift—France in the field out-numbers
the allied powers much, and she cannot |
want recruits while the guillotine and
want of bread exist.
“ We are about to enlarge our militia,
that the regulars may indulge themselves
on the Continent—this has always been
head quarters. The allies, composed of
Aclhian, Prussian, Bric/h, Hanoverian and
Dutch troops, will form a Body of jy.cco
cavalry, and 170,000 infantry ; afiilted by
a powerful artillery. To oppose these
the French a^ my of the North has been
augmented to above 200,000 men by Gen
eral Pichegou, who has iucceeded Gen.
Joutdon j aided by an artillery no ways
inferior to the allies either in /kill or num
bers. - The Convention of France, firm as
the everlasting hills thinking.only of victo
ry, and anticipating the speedy display of
the tri-colourcd flag over the tower of
London; despising peace on any terms
Short of the entire acknowledgment of the
Republic; putting every engine in opera*
tion to carry on the war—manufacturing
fix hundred mufquets a day, and 1200
.pieces ordnance a month, having 72 fail of
ships in complete repair a? Brest, 16 of
which are of 110 guns, besides 14 fail of
the line, at Toulon, which are equipping
with the most furprizing rapidity—the
defeent on England not given up—and
the augmentation of the land forces, which
already amount to Twelve Hundred
Thousand, daily made. However florid
this (ketch may appear, we believe it no
exaggeration; On the other hand, the
combined powers are pursuing the most
adive measures. The railing of the peaf
anta of Germany, in amass, is ordered—
In England, a law has palled augmenting
the militia in order to employ the regular
forces of that country on the frontiers, if
not in a defeent bn the coast of France—a
large loan of money is effected—Bß ships
of the line are in commiflion, besides fifty
gun ships and lesser vessels—and large ma
jorities in both Houses of parliament, de
termined to support the war. In ihort—
although in the last year near Three Hun
dted Thousand men, the flower of Europe,
were sent headlong to the tomb, we may
expeCt that the current year will not be less
bloody, unless the meek.eyed Deiety (hall
deign to dilperfe on the wings of the wind,
the restless spirits who deligt in war. One
consolation alone, remains, the violence of
the exertions may Ihorten their duration-
Such a war must soon beget Poverty, and
Poverty will soon beget peace.
We hear that the President of the U
nited States has appointed Nathaniel^ Ca
bot Higginfon, legal Commissioner, for the
United States, on a mission to the Weft.
Indies, to fuperintehd the entering of ap
peals from the decrees of condemnation $ to
investigate the grounds on which they
have been made and to do other things re
lative to American vessels and , cargoes
which have been condemned in the Vice-
Admiralty courts of the several islands,
and also to afford relief to our teamen now
there. '
CONGRESS was to have adjourned
yesterday, until November next; but some
dispatches from Europe, it is expelled will
prolong the session a few days.
Left Thuffday aComittee of Merchants,
who have buffered depredations on their
property by fubjefts of Great Britain and
other belligerent powers, from Boflon in
the county of Suffolk, Char'efton in the
county of Middleiex, Salem, Marblehead,
Beverly, Newbury-port, Glbuccfter, Man
chefler, Ipswich and Danvers, in thecoun
ty of Eflex, met in this town, for the pur.
pose of consulting and taking uniform
measures refpefting their losses j at which
meeting a memorial was agreed on, to
be presented to Congress— setting forth,
that these depredations were committed,
while pursuing the peaceable objefts of
commerce, without injuring or atempt
ing to injure the rights of other nations,
or violating in the smallest. degree the
known laws of neutrality ; that, in com
mon with other classes of citizens,, their
perlons and property were under the pro*
teftion of our own government; and that
therefore to that government they look for
complete indemnification—trufling at the
fame time to their wisdom refpefting the
means of effefting so just and equitable ao
objed ' \ ‘
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 22.
The two military bills before the House
of Representatives, were this day passed
to be engrossed for a third reading to mor
row—one refpefts the arming and equip
ping of 80,000 militia ; the other provides
for railing an additional regiment of artil
leHfts and engineers.
All the main e^orte of theje Generali
We re ft our hope forlorn —on-—General Fast.
According to Lloyd’s lift, the prizes ta
ken by the French, from Feb. 1, 1793, to
Feb. i, 1794» w * s 41° ships—the allied
powers 316—balance in favour of the
French 94 ships.
The French fleet from the Chesapeake,
coiififting of upwards of 150 fail, we un
derstand, have been spoken with in the
latitude of Bermuda.
faign^
Then GeneralCdboox^took thefieldin ‘vain ?
Next, General Wurmier bid. the troop ad-
The War against France is attacked by
Wits as well as Politicians, in England.
One of the neatest jeu d’efprits we have met
wi h is the following, on the British King’s
ordering a General Fall, in January last;
LA FAYEnE,
The virtuous but unfortunate disciple Os
Liberty, at the date of our last account?,
was still a close prisoner in Prussia. His
fate is every where lamented; and the
King of Prussia, as an apology for his con
finement, f^ s, that he is rot his prisoner
but the prifonerof the combined powers.—
Mr. Fox has lately mentioned in the Brit
ish Parliament, the fubjefl of his release;
and was concurred with by Mr. Pitt.
vance, ,
And General York declar'd he'd conquer
France :
Has been captured ,by the British forces
under Gen. Gray, and Admiral Jarvis ;
who were proceeding for Guadeloupe, at
the date of the last accounts. Gen. Prei
cott is appointed Gov. of Mattinico.
Capt. Lovell from St. Euftatia mentions,
that the British in the Weft-Indies were
calling in their privateers.
First Central Brunswick made a fad cam*
an unfortunate business for this country—
is femething of a piece with your Indian
war: I pray you have done with that, and
subdue them with other weapons than
swords and guns.”
THE GENERALS.
SALEM, APRIL 26.
EPIGRAM.
ST. LUCIA,