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miss were about to attack Cherburguery,
we ordered the army to fall back toFontenay.
At half past one the enemies presented them
selves in the plain. Their columns were
formidable Already they began to waver ;
their defeat would have been complete, if
the national Gendarmes had charged them
according to orders. But thtfe men, instead
of fighting, fled, beating down our infantry
without the poftibility of being rallied. Our
artillery being no longer lu-pported, soon
difbandedj and fell back by different ways,
as far as the high road from Fontenay and
Niort. A great part of our artillery was ta
ken, and the fafety of the rest was only owing
to the courage of General D’Art, and the
chief of the ftaff, Neuvion, who with five
dragoons repeatedly charged the enemy’s ca
valry. Eight hundred men retired to Niort,
Übut there tley have sworn rather to die, than
to capitulate.”
to refill the courage of our brave volunteers,
who pursued them to their camp under Me
nlo, notw'tthftanding the fire from the city,
which fired five or fix times with grape (hot.
The chief of battalion, Massiek, who com
manded this expedition, is the only one who
was wounded ; he was touched by a ball which
occasioned a great confufion ; we have not
loft a single man. Six troopers of the 21st
regiment, charged about 30 Hussars ; the
enemy had 15 men killed. Citizen Mo
ta ye, Cap:, of the 16th battalion of the
National Volunteers, has Shewn as much in
treoidity as intelligence ; our brave volun
teers confuting nothing but their coora e,
were ready to charge the eneniy with the
bay vet in the midst of their camp. I can
rot, citizens Representatives, fufficiently ex
press my fatisfadion at the bravery and good
conduit of our volunteers. You may con-
Li/ie, z^tb May, 1793, Stco’ l '! Fear 7
of tbe Republic. j
I HAVE obtained. Citizens Representa
tives some of those certain details of the re
fulr of my expedition of last night. Our
brave troops forced three entrenchments in
their attack on the poll de Bauiq ; the ene
my was there with a far superior fares. Ci
tizen M assien of the 16th battalion of vol
unteers commanded the attack ;.'he had re
ceived a wound last night, this morning be
received another, which obliged him to re
tire. He was replaced by the chief of bat
talion Ferandy, of the 12th regiment. This
officer, whose talents and bravery are known
to me, has conduced himfelf, as well as his
corps, with the greaceft diftindion.
I had informed you, Citizens Reprefenta
pves, of only 300 prifuners, but they are ac
tually 400 ; 58 of whom being wounded,
have been feet to the hofpital,where they ex
perience that care which becomes a generous
nation. I have seen one of our brave volun
teers, and a dragoon of the 6th regimenr, car
rying each of ibeni a Dutch officer, whom
they had vanquished and daageroufly wound
ed. . - ' - ■ .
I Shall make this night a second expedition,
which I think inseparable from the firft, and
will have an important objed, without ap
neannH So brilliant.
r 6 (Signed) LA MARLIERE.
clude from the advantages we have incessant
ly over our enemies, that we may be allured
of victory at the firft grand opportunity ;
whereat our troops burn with ardour to dif
tinguilh themselves.
(Sgmd) LA MARLIERE.
The oath the Chiefs of the Counter-Revo-
V rion 'mpofe on the Peasantry is, To re
ma:n true to Louts XVII. to the French Mo
narchy ; and never to carry arms againfi the
Chriflian Religion ”
Gen. Miaczienski, and Devaux Ad
jutant Gen r .1 of Duircuricr’s army,convic
ted of betraying the republic, by executing
his General’s .orders, were beheaded this
morning. The latter, on receiving his fen
rence, undauntedly said, “ 1 have known
bokv to spill m* bloody at the head of armies, in
the defence of the people—l [hall a find the fcaf
fold courageoufy ; and may my death be ufeful
it) the people.”
Paris, May 22. Denmark and Sweden,
are united to fepport an armed Neutrality.
La m a r li f nE s General of Di ui/ion tCvmman
der at L'Jfa and the Dißrict thereof, to
the Citizens Representatives, deputed to
the Army of the North and of the Arden
mi.
Life, May 23, I-93, Second Fear 1
of the Republic. j
t HASTEN, Citizens Repretrutatives, to
give you an account of cur continual expe
ditions ; you ui:l diicern e'ery whee repub
lican bravery, combating in its own cauie.
’The citizens Meisei n and Laux ay, chiefs
of Battalions, pur themselves at the head of
feme de'ach meets, sent from Limelies, to
drive away the enemy which lay concealed
in the woods of Halluni and Chateau de
Bronk. Tne enemy abandoned their en
trenchments after having attempted iti vain
The preceeding articles are extra fled from the New-
York. Patriotic Register, ojthe soth.
FRIDAY, MAY 30.
(3*ERTAIN late publications render it
proper .for us to authorife you to inform the
public, that a report having reached this ci
ty from Philaoelphia, that Mr, Genet, the
French Minister, said he would 0 Appeal to
tbtPitfk from certain dectfions of the? re faint
we are alked on our return from thar place,
whether he had made such a declaration 1 "*
we anSwered, th at he had, and we also
mentioned it to others, authorising them to
fay that we had so informed them.
JOHN JAY.
New-Fork, August, 12. RUFUS KING.
[Tbe credibility of the above gentleman
no one can call in queftipn. The infulr,
therefore, offered by Mr. Genet, is eftab
liShed—and whether it was to pur beloved
PaEsiDENT personally ; or to THE PEO
PLE of the United States, and to their Go
From the National G azette, Augujt 16.
Mr, Freeneau,
XhAVE heard nothing more regretted by
the belt friends of our country, than the man
ner adopted in publishing the opinions of the
judges of the fbpreme court of the United
States, on the moil important quellion which
ever did, or evdf will, come before that judi
cature, viz. The Suability of a Hare, in that
court, by a citizen of another state. So just,
so wife, so important a decision, could not
have been made too public: The scfpec
ive opinions of the judges, ought to
have been inserted at large, in all the news
papers throughout the continent ; and this
would undoubtedly have been the case, had
not a copy-right been made of them. Good
.policy would have induced an unlimited pub
lication : but a more effedusl mode could not
have been adopted, than the one chosen, to
prevent these important opinions ficin being
read by the great body of the people : A large
pamphlet, price 50 cents was made of them,
and claimed as a copy-right, in order to pre
vent their being republiShed in the gazettes:
Whereas they ought to have been public pro
perty, that they might be published in a fix-
Penny pamphlet, and in all news-papers, in
order that the great body of citizens might
be informed of the great principles of this im
portant decision. As an individual citizen,
I hope ir is nor yet too late; and that ihe
judges, at their ensuing Scffion, will dired
their opinions, ar large, to be published in
the news-papers of your city, that the claim
of a copy-right therein may be withdrawn,
and that public notice thereof may be given,
to th? end thar the People may have the necel
fary information, whereby to judge of the
meditated alteration in the constitution of the
United States, by the enemies of Equity ;
For my own part, F have never yet heard a
good reason afligned, why a fraudulent Rare
Should not be amenable to justice, as well es
a fraudulent individual : for such we know
there are.
London, june 5. As a proof of the hor
rid carnage cauled by this war of kings a
gaind opinions, the French generals assert,
that the nearest calculation of the loss of men
fudained by the Republick in Flanders and
the country of Liege, since the firft of No
vember last, amounted to 150,000, that is,
70,000 men killed in the held of battle, and
60 000 that have died in hospitals, ard de
serted, before, and at the time of, Dumou
rier s defection ; therefore, as the French ar
mv,now oppefed to the allies on the Flemish
frontier, is chiefly composed of new levies,
there can be to wonder that they found it
prudent to retreat from the camp of Famars
before an allied army, composed of their best
veteran troops, in every relped well appoint
ed, enjoying the advantage of the immense
store seized by them at Liege, the then gieat
despot of the French for carrying on the cam
paign. To add to the above carnage, rhe
French aitert the loss of men sustained by
their opponents in Flanders and the country
of Liege, to have been greater than their
own. How happy mull this reflection make
the sanguinary authors of the war 1
BRISTOL, MAY 2s.
Mr. Burke, our Recorder,in nis admirable
charge delivered to the Grand Jury at the o
pening of the lace Goal Delivery for this
City, ipeaking of the intolerant and persecu
ting ipirit with which the Clergy of France
have been puifued, fays, that “ Tells, Decla
rations, and Oaths which were multiplied,
varied, and imposed upon them, being con
feientioufly refufed, thousands ot them were
murdered, and the remainder, firft hunted
like wild beasts through ail parts of France,
were by one sweeping Dactee, banilhed for
ever from their'country I That thus, Athe
ism, is little ihort of being efiablifhed in that
kingdom, there is not at this day ((peaking,
he favs, from undoubted information) one
place open for religious worfbip of any kind
or description, in the vast Metropolis of that
infatuated country I”
Frcm tbe NEW-YORK DIARY.
Mes rs. Printers,
ENGLAND.
new-yor-k, august 17*
Extra ft of a Itt'erfrOm an American gentieman,
at Lisbon dated hl ay 18.
I believe 1 can write you very little news
from here the latest is th-u the National
Convention, in the beginning of this month
sent an Ambaffadorto >he English Court, to
detach them from the general combination a.
gainft France. If this EmbafTy does not suc
ceed, the commerce of the French, together
with their (hips and fea-po't towns, mult in
evitably be deft eyed. A Republic they are
determined however to establish, or be buried
in its ruins, on this account they have declared
war aqainft those Monarchs who refufe to ac
knowledge them as a Republic
“ American produce must be high in every
part of Europe soon. Indeed we have every
reason to ftippofe that provisions of all kinds
are high in .France. Grain is extravagantly
high ujT the Streights—but the Algerines, keep
our veflels from this excellent market. The
Dutch have lately had several veflels taken by
them because they have refufed the customary
tribute.”
What a glorious opportunity for a display of
magnanimous generosity on the part of the
* ? .
from the best authority,is arrived at Baltimore,
with ten men belonging to 3 New Providence
privateers, whom be Captured in the following
manner :
performed bs him at the Cape during the late
cataftropbe in thst city. He, notwithstanding
a continual fire from the negro s, landed in the
midst of flames and Lved from a merchant’s
counting houie,valuables to the amouu of ma
ny thousand collats.
august io.' Thecolledion in this city
for the relief of the unfortunate St. Domingo
fuSFerers, independent of the Theatre, and
Circus benefits, and of the colledion made by
the French Patriotic Society, already exceeds
io,oco dollars- The Subscription is not yet
completed, and will probably produce 3,000
more.
Philadelphia, august 7. A Gentle*
man of character who has just arrived from
Germany, brings the following important in
telligence to the friends cf liberty and equality :
That in the middle or tenth of May latt. one
of the melt relpeCtable merchants of Berlim
(the refidenceof the King of Prufba) put the
following infeription over his door ; in golden
character?: Liberty, Equality, and the Rights of
Man. His Majesty was immediately inform
ed thereof, but thro’ fear of his own fubjefts,
fuftered it to remain unnoticed. A remarks^
ble circumstance which renders it probable,
that this debilitated voluptuary will foonexpe
rience a similar fate with Louis the XVlth.—
This gentleman farther relate?, that his mistress
es have already made such drafts upon his
treasury that it is nearly exhaufhd, and they
have debilitated his body, whilst hereditary
prince, to such a degree, that epileptic fits are
his daily portion, and his inability to govern at
preient x the greatest misfonrle to his fubjcCts.
1 he fame gentleman adds, that the combined
armies aie in the greatest want of money, pro.
visions, and supplies of all kinds ; where-J the
French have every thing in abundance, and
that the spirit of liberty and equality has made
and is flili making incredible progrtfs in the
German Empire.
Capt. Joseph Barney, who during the late
War commanded the Hyder Alt, we learn,
On his voyage from Cape Francois to Balti
more, -off the Bite of Lecgane, he fell in with
3 New-Providence privateers, which took his
Ship, the Sampfon.as having French propgrty
on board. The captors attempted to take
Capt. Barney on beard their veSfel,but he Swore
they Should not take him out alive—that he
would SHck by her while he had breath in him ;
they debited, left him on board his veffeL with
four of his men, and manned her with ten of
their crew.
Capt. Barney fetzed a favourable opportu
nity, when seven ot the priva eers men, at
trailed by their Rapidity, were learching for
plunder below, lecured them there, muttered
the lemaining three, with the affillauce of his
4 men, and has carried them into Baltimore.
This inftauce of cool intrepidity so charac
teristic ot the brave Capt. Barney, is edipSed
bv an action of the most disinterested heroism
Newark, ¥ HE Patriotic Society of this
AUG* 14. | town, at their last Meeting,
Rt/olvtd That the benefactions given by
the inhabitants of this place, towards afford
ing a temporary relief cf the ciftreffed in
habitants cf Cape Fiancois, shall not be
tranlmitted io ihe French Minister, Ge
net, as was" p’opofed ; but be at the diL
pofal of the committee, who attained this cha*
rity, for the benefit of those unfortunate pro*
n'e.
vernment ;'its unjoflifiab’euefs is dje fame—
and will call for an equal punishment from
rhe Executive Counsel of France.]
American Intelligence.
PENNSYLVANIA.
NEW-YORK.
NEW-JERSEY.
From AUX CAFES.
Under the date of July 20, we learn, -that
the mulattoes had gotpoifeffion of the fort there,
and were able to deft/oy the town at then plea
sure ; but it was supposed that for their own
interest they would not destroy the town ; they
were determined to proceed to Jeremie.
Os St. KITTS.
A gentleman from St. Kitt'i t informs, that'
several privateers, fitted out from that island,
have orders to bring in every American veflel,
having property on board, they may fall in
with ; that many had been brought in, and
had ro undergo the fever 11 scrutiny : That the
Judge of Admiralty, whose name is Efdale, had
declaied from the Bench, '.ha in his op-n on >
the Americans had no right to hspply the
French Colonies with provisions ; and that
once in reply ro an attorney, who oblerv&d that
his decisions were ca’culated to involve Great-
Britain and America in a war, this fa’d Judge
dec'ared, “ he hoped it would, and he did not
care how toon.” Our informant gives us the
foliotying particulars refpefting the American
veSTels carried into St. Kitt's, viz B igs For
tune, Newhall, and Betfej, Prince of Bollen ;
brig Industry, Slocum. of Salem ; fli-ps 4. ro
ra, Burns and Libeitv, Miller of Philadelphia ;
and Schooners Tren , & Polly ot Baltimore,had
been decided upon That the fchoonersAlias,
Sampfr n and Party, Miller of Boston ; brig
Two Friends, Endicotof Salem ; Sloop Ceres,
Child, of Rhode Island ; Ship Diligence. Nidi,
of New-York ; brig Hannah, Morey, of Phila
delphia. and schooner, Harriot, Brooks, of
Alexandria, had been cleared, and permitted
to depart: That the bark Commerce, of Nor
wich ; brig Peter-Augustus, Robson, of Phila
delphia ; and brig Mary .Barber, of New. York
had been condemned——the latter only in
part, >
boston, august 2i. Reports in town,
yelterday, were, that a veflel had arrived at the
southward, from Bourdeacx, bringing info.im
ation, that the new Ccnft.tu.ion of France,
having been submitted to the people, 42 of the
84 departments had voted for the Conltitution
of 1791. We do not vouch for the authenti
city oi tbe intelligence.
“ Some people in this place teem to have
been no less desirous of making monev I y pri
vateering, than fame t f our felloe-cit zens to *
the northward. A fchoor.er was bought for
a privateer, and with great secrecy, was nearly
sited for les. The Governour heard oft he
business and kept an eye in the progrefsof pre
paring the veflel. When file was nearly ready
to fail,and he could no longer doubt of her ob
jed. be sent a mefiage to the officer who com
mands our “militia volunteers, desiring him to
have his men in readiaeSs for fervke on ihort
notice. The officer replied, (hat his men
would be ready at a minute’s warning to sup
port govqfnmcnt, if their help ihouid be requi
red, It happens, some how or other, that from
that,very day, nothing was done on board the*
privateer. - The veflel is now Stripped of her
fighting apparatus,and we are left to conjecture
who had been her owners, or whether there
were any—though two or three mailers ol vef
fds in town declaretbat they were Severally in*
vited to take the command of her as a priva
teer. —This, I presume, lettles our privat er
ing business : A commerce, that is regarded as
not being very honourable.”
At foneflorotigh, in the Southwestern terri
tory of the United States, on the ath u't. in
commemoration of American independence, a
mongst many truly patriotick toads tl e follow
ing was given. “ A speedy and just punish
ment to the murderers of Louis XLi.
The following inhuman circufnftance took
p’ace net long since at Martinique. A party
cf English and Ariflocrats, bavirg captured a
bout 30 patriots,mace them march cut one by
one, and (hot them down. The last man
thinking to excite compiffion, took a child tn
his arms, but the unfeeling menfters (hot them
both. —
Extract of a letter from Xewbirn, fuly 16.
The following paragraph, has appeared in the
Knoxville Gazette, for four weeks fuccejfiieb; :
—The Creek nation routine defrayed or the
southwestern frontieis, from the meuthof bt.
Marv’s to the weftern extremities of Kentucky
and Virginia, will be inccfiantly harraffed by
them ; and now is the time
Englifli* the late horrid feenes of the Cape
have afforded. Had the several Governors of
the islands given orders that the’privateers
fhoold not add to the dreadful misfortunes
of the emigrants, by robbing them of whatthey
had saved from fire and sword it would have
railed their characters as men to the pinnacle
of human excellence,"and reflected in qnfailing
glory on that of the nation I There is one door
yet open to Retrieve the miflake, and that is by
compelling the robbers to refund their ill got
ten gain. This is the justice of the British
nation requires should be done. Men that
take advantage of such misfortunes, areas bad
as the wretches of Jamaica, who plUr.deed
while the earth was quaking nnd finking under
them.
MASSACAUSETTS.
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