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no other hope of relief but from the
humanity and benevolence which
have ever resided in your royal bo
som, humbly beg to lay this our dif
trefled fnuaticn before your Majefly,
ss the kind friend and patron of your
people : To implore your Mgefty to
take these melancholy truths into
your merciful confidcratior—to have
pity on .the many thousands in this
place, who are finking under the
most deplorable calamities ; and, in
your gracious wisdom to lee meet, that
2 speedy conclusion may be pur to
the prelent lamentable war, the cxift
ino cause of all our bufferings ; that
the,earth may no more be wantonly
drenched with the blocd of our feb
low-lubje&s, but the terrible engines
ofdeftru&ion resigned for the more
blessed inftrumems of peace—that
our country may once more resume her
former splendor and prosperity, and
a grateful and affectionate nation,
perpetuate to posterity its Sovereign’s
timely and merciful interposition,
And your petitioners, as in duty
bound, shall ever pray.
Warsaw, july 27. In conformity with
the imperious injunction of Sievers, the Ruf
fian Envoy the treaty between Ruflia and Po
land, was signed on the 2zd. The articles
were denied even the formality of discussion,
and the pride of a'haughty Diet was not even
lowered by gentle degrees.
Sievers had altered a few terms to make
the ratification o( flaverv as precise as pofli
blc, and thus the facrifice is consummated ;
we mean, that part of the Hecatomb claimed
by the court of Ruflia.
ButWol^, the Prussian Envoy, has now in
turn fubmnted the demands of his Coutt to
the ^me^patient acquiescence.
He called the attention of the Diet by a
brief note, dated July 20, and reminds them
that they furniih a delegation with the necef
fvy powers, to conclude a treaty with the
King hi? mailer, upon the stipulations of the
Allied Courts.
Conferences are now holding upon this
partition—and if tbcßuflian Minister supports
the claim of his brother invader,there can be
but little doubt of his success- There can be
no hope that Poland will be able to throw off
these usurpations, but through the fluctuating
instability of politics, and the enemies that
spring up so suddenly in courts.
The D'et, indeed, have made null their ex
torted confrat to these oppreflions, by an ap
peal, foprow fully directed to that “ Power
ful God, who in flrift justice determines upen
the anions of individuals of the universe, and
who fees the opproflion under which Poland is
compelled to groan.”
GERMANY,
VIENNA, AUG. 6.
Answer of the Emperor to the Solicitations of
Poland.
His Majeftv the Emperor,upon the request
of the Ambassador from Poland, to interpose
his kind influence against the intention of the
Courts of Peterfburgh and Berlin, with re
gard to the partition of the different provin
ces of the Republic already invaded by
their xefpedive troop?, gave for anfwer—*
«* that there was no room for any more rcedi
•r ation 00 the part of his Imperial 1 Majefly,
<« as there had been a treaty signed by both
• ( parti?;, with refped to those provinces
•t in poffefficn of the troops of her Imperial
** Majefly the Empress of Ruflia, on the 22d
M of July cit.”
HOLLAND.
hagub, sfpt. 2. It is now a certain
raft that the Swiss Cantons have presented a
emonftrauce to the government of Milan,
9r seizing M. de Seatonville,the French Am
saffador, on their territory, and thereby vi-
Jating the rights of nations.
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MAD RAY, FEB.’IO. TippOO, though for
the present weakened, is by no means dis
armed, on the contrary, he is already es
tablishing his army, and has lately pur
chased 7000 Lorfes, towards effecting h ; s fu
ture objeds. His field preparations are cer
tainly proportionable 10 ours.
Scindia. an aspiring Mahratra Prince, ag
grandized b.’ the la e conquest, at this peri
od awes ail rhe pcr.infula of India, with a
large and potent army. Report fays he
threatens our pcflefficns, and though he has
cot adopted hoiiile measures agairft us or our
allies, it ; s thought by many that he soon
will, especially if backed by the French.
By lafl Friday^ Mail.
EAST-INDIES.
POLAND.
ch.ambe.ri, aug 23; On the 2lfl a co
lumn cf the Piedmontefe de'e.ted the French
near Saienches, took their cannon, and cha
ced them our of all Fauvigny, unti wiihtn 2
leagues from Geneva, the whole territory of
which they have cvucuxted, without Hiking
another engsgejnent.
Two other columns crcfled Mount Cenis
and St. Bernhard. One of them took on the
15th the French redoubts in Tarentaife, ^nd
drove the enemy from Sr- Maurice and from
Sixt. The other forced the French entrench
ments a: Tefmigron, Brarrens, and St. Mi
chel in La Maurienne. Ihe enemy, in their
precipirate flight, abandoned their maga*
zines, equipage and cannon.
The two columns being joined, marched
oh the 21st against Chamber^, from whence
on the next day they drove Kellerman in
ail speed was arrived there 2 days befoe
from Lyons, and is fled into France with
the Municipalities and the Administrators of
the diftrifts. The Tree of Liberty, which
was called the Tree of Lictntioufntfs, has been
cut down every where. Blue cockades (which
the Piedmontefe troops generally wear) have
succeeded to those of three colours. The
people have risen in favour of their lawful
Sovereign. At Clufe, Bonneville, Mouflice
and St. Jean, women and old men, fired up
on the Republicans from the windows.
The/French corps which was left at Chab
lair under the orders of General Muy, from
fear of being cut off, has croflcd the lake of
Geneva, in order to march to Verfoix and
thence to Bugez-
Julien now particularized the crimes ^Ma
rie Antoinette'. She exercised influence over
her husband ; fee said (he would bathe berfelf
so the blood of the French. Here a member
exclaimed, f * It is falfc I Have you heard
her fay so t”
Julien—" Who durß belie me here ? Docs
not all France know it to be a lad ? Vve
ought to pay no regard to that serpent ; her
crimes are manifeft, and her trial ought to be
fommary.”
Roufullon —“ That woman is Equally be
fore our tribunal —the guillotine (hall be her
lot ; I will anf*er for it.’*
Julien—" What needs the Revolutionaay
Tribunal Rand upon formalities I If ir has
no material proofs, it ought to ch em moral
proofs or probabilities fufficienr.”
PARIS, AUGUST 16.
Letter from General of Brigade Omeara.
Dated Dunkirk, Augufl 23.
“Citizen President 1 have rhe
honor of addrefling to you the fob
joined copy of the summons just
made to me on the parr of’theDuke
of York, with a copy of mv answer.
(Signed,) ? OMEARA.”
Bead Quarters of the Combined Army, 7
Before Dunkirk, Augufl ,13. j
“Sir,
“ I give you notice, that the army I com
mand, is at our gates. Your city, deflitu/e of
any real defence, can oppose no refinance to
the victorious arms which I might instantly
employ .gainfl it, if I did not wifli to avoid
the total ruin of a flourifhing city, and if hu
manity and generosity did not render me desi
rous of {paring human blood. I therefore sum
mon you Sir, to surrender the city of Dunkirk,
to his Britanic Majefly, before I display against
it, the very considerable forces at my dilpofal;
apprizing you however, that I will -listen to a
ny proportions you may make, provided they
be such as are not injurious to the confidcnticn
and the honour of the Brjiifh arms, the inter
ests of Great Britain, and those of her allies. I
give you twenty-four hours to deliberate cm
this summons.
(Signed) Frederick Duke of
York,
Commander of the Combined Army before
Dunkirk.
Copp of the Answer to. the Summons.
Dunkirk, Aug. 23, Second year pf the Fetich 7
Repubiick, one and indivisible. J
“ GENERAL, ' :
«• Invefled with the confidence of the French
Republic, I have received your summons to
ferrender an important city. I answer by
tffuring you# that I fliall defend it with the
lulen de Carentan digressed to the mcaimes
of Public Welfare.—“ There are two mea
sures (said he,) proper to dispel the dangers
of the country. ihe firfl is cruel and at ro
cioiis, but neceflary ; it mull be put in force,
and is the following.—“ Let us tell the Def
potswho pollute the foil of Liberty: ycurfatel
lites, your (laves, your partizans are is cur
pover ; we pre going to immolate them, if
you do not defill from your guilty deigns.—
Marie Antoinette, her ion, and filter, her
daughter (hall be the firft vidims. The cler
gy, the nobiFty, he remains cf that infamous
Dynafly which kept us long in bondage
even the foreigrers, shall fall beneath our
blows.”
NATIONAL CONTENTION—Aug. 22.
SAVOY.
FRANCE.
brave Republicans, whom I have the honour to
command.
A fourth seizing him by his (word belt,
and endeavouring to drag the Prince from
his horse, was himfelf seized by his Royal
Higbnefs, pulled front his own horse, and
thrown across the neck of the Prince’s charg
er. B) this time the Hanoverians miffing
him, a party came up to his relief, and the
French trooper, was carried by his Royal
Highness acrof- his horse, until he jqtntd the
main body 1
[The Lnglijb Editor adds a firoke of Jo?a
Bullifm,z» olferwing that thisf gat demonflrater,
* s one Engliflman can beat three Frercbmen.”—
But does not the preceding flew, that oneFrer.ch
man has beat a whole company of Dutchmen t ]
ENGLAND.
LONDON, AUG. 20.
BATTLE of SQJJIRT.
The women of Tonland, in France, lately
declared themselves in a date of infurredion,
assembled in crowds, and threatened to hang the
magistrates, if they did not lower the price of
Sugar.—The procurator Syndic at firft laughed
at their threats, but when he saw therkt be
come ferfaur, he assembled the council general
of the commune; They ordered the fire cn
g nes with a plentiful supply of water miked
with foot, to be drawn up in battle array, and
, by.a vigorioijs difchargeof this smutty artille-’
ry, the infergents in petticoats, were complete-*
ly routed, without the co isolation cf an hop
-oralle woupd,
I * ■
Miller and Felix, Commifliorers from the
Commune, ia a letter dated Saumur, Aug. 5,
give an account of a vi&ory obtained over loco
Insurgents, by 600 Republicans. Three hun
dred of the former were taken, and many kil
led.
Aug. 14. The general abundance of the
harvett, and the immense quantities of grain
brought to the capital, have given a new rum
to the minds of ihe people. No longer agita
ted by the fear of wanting oread, they think
cf nothing but repelling the foreign enemy,
and they are roused to an ex'raordinary pitch
of unanimity and aflicn.
Warned by the influence which the difaffec
ted cit zens ol Valenciennes pofTefied, and
which occasioned the surrender of the town be
fore a practicable breach had been made, the
Commute of General Safety has ordered, that
jn al! cities threatened with a fjcge.the Nation
al Commissioners or the Governor shall have
the power of fending fufpefted perlons out of
the town, and alfb any other inhabitants; ta
king care that their propery be committed to
the gjardianfhip of the law, and reftoted to
them after the expiration of the flege.
london, aug- 29. Th«,hcrcitm of this
excellent yovng Prince, in the affair near
Bocchain, has not been cs;redly Hated. It
was thus :
His Highntfs, at the head of fame Hano
verian cavalry,being eager in the pursuit,ex
ceedingly well rr.ounted, and being likewise
nr-figh'ed rtde so far from his detachment,
that of a sodden he was surrounded by five
French troopers.
They perceiving him alone, immedately
came up to him. The firft that advanced to
wards Mm, aimed a blew at his head with a
fey meter,which tock offi the corner of his bat;
but the Prince pulling cut a ptftol, (hot him
deed on the spot. *
A second likewise aiming a blow at his
HighneF, was (hot by him in the (hculder,
and fell to the ground.
A third, on coming up to the Prince, had
iis head almost fevered from his body by his
sword.
The National Convention, on the
28th Aus. decreed on the motion of
Bazire — “that France (bould ccnti
nue tn a fiate of Revolution, until its
Independence (hould be acknowledged by
all the Combined Powers.”
Paris, aug. 28. A letter from the Com
miflioneis to the army of the North, mention
ed that in an adion, a (ingle dragoon, pie
fcnied himfelf before a troop of Dutchmen,
and killed the Captain their Lead. His
firmnefs had such an rfFcft on the enemy,
that they took flight. On motion it was de
creed,’hat this dragoon fneuld be promoted to
an officer of cavalry. A member obfervsd,
it was unfortunate that he could not read or
wiite. La Croix, said, “ I prefer an officer
who cannot write, but who can fight, to a
Mufcadin just efenped from college, and who
can do nothing bi t read and write—we mull
(hew that the Cor vention can difeover, and
icwatd talents, end rot theory.”
\Whethergajt onade cr fddlyht (fortei read <u’e/Z.]
ODDS. — FRENCH and ENGLISH.
MISCELLANEOUS
(Signed
PRINCE ERNEST,
OME ARA.”
Since our lafl several veflels have arri
ved here from Europe—by whom we have
received French papers to the 4 b., and En
glish papers to the 9th Sept, which do not
contain later intelligence, than we ctmmuni
cated laftSaturday. On the frontier of France
almcfl every day, brings forth an engage,
mrnt : Success alternately crowns the con
tending armies—and the immolation cf hu
man Eves scarce finds 2 reflation—No prof
pe.ft of peace apr ears ; and from the prepa
rations making by the combined forces to
winter quarter in the ccnquert d.and expelled
to be conquered cit es ; as wed as from ti c
immense armies of the French are prepiring
to eprefe them—- the an ; mated zeal f he
people.and the determined spirit of the Con
vention, ’be profped of rzconcilea'.icn is rar,
very far removed.
Os affairs cn the feuthern fronuers cf
France, cur foreign head will furniih Jbme
infern^tien ; on the porrh, the siege of Dun
kirk occupies moll attention—-at the da eof
the 6d Sept, the siege was carrying on with
vigenr, but reports of a powerful sor
tie from the gairifor, have since been re
ceived*
Preiious to the arrival of the Resolutions
cf this town, and other places, on the fubjetl
of Neutrality, many rumours of war between
G’eatß'itain and the United States, were in
circulation in England—but ?e- are allured
that the Executives of both Nsnons, have
received information indicative cf a continu
ance cf peace and harmony.
•With rcfpctl to American veflels carried
into England, a gentleman of this town has
received the following information, in a let
ter, dated London,
sept. 7. “ There has been a decificn on
an American Ship—the cargo to be p?id far
■—also freight demnrage and charges.”
^New Borkha font u- 5000 dollar?—from
many other places, frnaHcr. (cm- h?se breu
received. A letter, without any figratnre,
cnclofed 500 dollar.* — Another unknown in
dividual font 2CO—Thefe are txal ed feed
mens of bonevo'erce, I rejoice at your in
formation, that the fympa hisfog citizens cf
Boflon, intend to throw their mi«e, into the
scale ot iriencfljip and ccmpaflion. These
things vTH kflen the weight of cur sfSifticns,
by enabling the city to extricate itfelf with
facility frem the embarrifimeers incurred on
this melancholy occanon.
“ In my lad, I informed yea that the d’s-
Order was abating—this pleasing intelligence,
lam so happy as to be able to cucfirm. The
number cf those attacked dimir.ifl c; cally—
the convajefeents rapidly enctesfe—’he buri
als are reduced, so that in feme grounds there
was none htuied yesterday. This morning [
was by the Qfaktr Bu> fl 'g-oraund, ia which
there has been five ar.d fix grave-diggers em.
ploved almost the whole time for two jnomLs
Daft—they wpre ail leant g over the wall, en
tirely idle, nor had they broke ground for a
Angle grave. But sor 6 were buried at the
Hos pi tai yesterday, and not more than 6 car
ried cu’, and all those from the southern lib
erties, where the disorder is principally con
fined.
Some perlons have returned, the’ num
bers continue to remove to ti e country. Me
nv (hops wsie opened yesterday, that have
been (hut for two months past. 1 nuke no
doubt but the disorder ill be totally eradica
ted in a fortnight ffvm this time, and before
that period F hope ihe absentees will not gen
erally return.
“ I was told this morning that 8 letter had
been received from The President, infor
ming of his intentfon to set our in a few days
fur the Seat of Government ; eight or ten
days hence he may perhaps return in perfect
fafety ; and his prefeccc here wiH conduce
greatly to a reftotation of public confidence
in the security of the city from the conta
gion.”
SALEM, OCT- 29.
LATEST NEWS EROM FRANCE.
Sunday night. Capt. Rea arrived here
from Rochfort, which he left on the 17th Sept.
He was there only 3 or 4 days, and therefore
could rot colled much authentic ir-te ligence.
It was however reported there, and some said
it might be depended as certain, that the Bn\
tifli and Spanilh fleet had £;ken Toulon, and
all the French Hiips in the per ,which cocfift
ed of a considerable number of the line and
inferior veffiels. It was also said, thil the
RoyaJifts were daily gaining ground ; and
it could easily be fecn that people of property
and business in Rochfort rejoiced at their fuc4
cefs, hoping it might fodn put an end to the
war, of which they were heartily tired.
Toulon, no doubt, was capable of making
a great defence ; and would require a ccnfo
Crable land aa well as naval force to reduce
it; if it was taken, it is therefore probable
that there was a co-operation of the internal
ppcmics. of the French* Rgpablb with the
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
FROM PHILAO. OFI. 2 p
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, OCT. JO;