The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-09-23 00:00:00, page 3

th-y had either*) purtut th: enemy rr
reconnoitre iheir Q^^n. ; Thr French
may now appjoa-h- the town ip the ,noleli
parties <vi& finpuhhy, fy th*. kr,&~ thkt
the garrison ha§ n>mode ofrereffiagf fh^
Garni to m^,4 tbe* either in! their ap
proach or retreat. I ~..
SUNDAY', JU4T.L3
The prefcht position of the
Date of York; and the Earl of
Moira's armies, though a posi
tion neceflary to be occupied
sh/ fetne' troops, is the most iifi
favorable that can be conceived
i r hhtith ro actin ; the cbun-l
try being fb. completely inter-!
le&ed by woods and hedges,that'
ground can hardly be found to
encamp or 'draw up a lingfe bat
talion upon. Our formidable:
cavalry would be entirely ufe
lei's where we now are „ & even
the bravery and discipline of
Uor infantry Would avaiVthem
little, where every poltroon,
Who cah fire behind a tree or
an hedge, becomes the equal of
an intrepid soldier. The wea
ther has beeahot in the extreme,
'for some days past, from which
circumstance and the fearerty of
water, the troops have fullered
.exceedingly.l
V IIOCLOCK, P. M.
The force whichth^ enemy carried a
gainrt Mali-net, amoufcd terbetweeß 6
Vd /oca men, and 5 pieces of cannon,
with which ihey kept up a iwfewre on the
|o#n, & for fouc time. They d^vever, be
gan to retreat, b^f^e L^a.M >iWi arm,
Quid facto xbepUce, in thb &c*iiua, a
Opt. of C/donnefs corps wa & Luted
O>e t&'icrp,' frith abfa thirty men,,
were ki/W .or warded ; and .feverai
houses were damaged by. & fan of the
enemy. |Atthe commencement ofthe at
tack, the garrifou„w.i&<h#i precipitation
and terror which have butl too conf^ic^
ruffy mirLeJlhr corded offotre of tour
alite , on different farmer ocerifi o n,,feti
fire to the bridge leroGihe ca-al immedi
ately in front of Marines, ~ although it;
turned on # pivot, apd^-wld be wi h
drawn in an infant'; bv which the/^ave
deprived themfeltes of the orriy mean
Ve^erdar we were informed that the
enenif had taken Louvain ; and we have
alio learnt that for these two days fall
they hive /been bombarding Eckfr find
,3s-de-G&d. Should they gain peffet
tion wf these they will immediaie'y oafs Li
fe Dutch Flanders. In fhoH every oper
ation of the enemy foewi that tl^y are
determined to }ole to time in complet
ing the cunqneft of thi^ ^ourir j^
We bear a heavy firing on- the tide of
Malim, common!/ cTted Medhin, the
enemy as we are inf.s, mH; 'hewing attack
ed that:place. Tu? liur! piMj'ra,,.with a
great partof his army, h^rr&ched to is
<chcf. ^ ^ # ^^,, ,y.
fheber its feaarh fem the fourge ©j
pqlraim. Trench's former ideas of
San Culotrifm were so exalted, thit'nbth
inf sh art of his prefeat misfortunes could
have cor reeled his political err%.'' w -
By^YeUerday's Borton BoH.
LAFESE EUROPEAN NE'^S.
fr NEW-YORK, SEPT. If.
Ygergay arrived tbejbtp Firmer, gad Ma
ry, Capt. Re:dfron Falmutb, (Leland),
bringing Landon papers down tertfoe ^g'fo
Joy :—'7be plingerf ttfarnf, ibbf it
was reported at fal&utb, tb.it Ant werp,
bad been taken by the French, „d ebat.
Lord Granville, Seert^ojt of State, far
Joreign affairs, and Earl iFlizdhm, Se
" Cretan of War, bad pofierv^ty left Lea
don, for Germany qn btfnfl of the le&tf
w»pGr@ce with the Emperor.
LONDON, JULY 24 25.
BRITISH ARMY.
Camp as Kjuu^h, July 12.
IN our present paftioa theta is such
a scarcity of water, that all the men in the
army *ho have been accustomed to fink
wel s, or to any similar employment are
immediately to fee about the digging of
some, that the troops my be fuelled wish
wa%r o • •/
S.^. SOUTH (AROLiNA.
Cw^fiow§aug..2z.
A letter frem Cap, Jo), M,%an, bated
CbaAfon bar» it bis brathr in this ci
' C TUZEN BROTHER, ' .
" I AM anchored effthe tear, boerd for
Sava„,;b ; my reasons for, oft; are Li
Iget fome,fatche< /(warded by fife of
the pilots to tye C ,ful, I left Bn^d^eux,
;the zfhJu,r, a*d am row but 7§ days
, from the port. Before figft it,; qrfp'&h
es ^ere,ecfived fr< n^Pari^ef the ex*cu-
Ition1 tion of theK ng of° Sardinia. Ohr brave
ISans Culottes, [wear (hat no tyrannical
monarch thall exiff Advices were fike
wife received from the Northern anny,
informing tha, General Pichegrv^ with an
army es 90.000 drive Rhpaolicarr, had
crossed the Sambre, and given battleto~ the
Combined Forces, order the command of
the Duke of York and Saxe Cobcurg, on
the id of June, and after taking the em
peror 2nd Gen. Mack,(who were defined
for.Vienna,) toyeiher with three thousand
prisoners, molt of whom being Englishmen
Mere inftantiv put to the (word, in cenfe
g,,epce of alate decree of the National Coa
vutiofo_ rtl
" In corCqurnce of thereat viflory,
they have ca ed a council of .war to be
held ?t Brufofo qn the 26th of June, (pro
vided, that city fy^uld not be in poi& ffion
cf the Sana Collette#.) to determine an
the propriety of an immediate peace. It
wet said, and generally believed, that
C'airfavt was likewise made a prisoner,
ard th # D^keof York received three mef
ket halts in hi, back on his retreat, which
ire laid to bomortal.
f .^<;s ^ "?^ p ^r' J.%
f. We are beginning to lend off
^ our heavy baggage ; and all our
lick at Antwerp, about 1200
^conveyed to Fluffing, which in
duces- us to, believe that wf (hall
|fhortly fail back from this in-1
to Holland. Indeed, as this
^country is now completely Toft
„to the allies, the laoner we quit
jit the better : for any action in
'lour present lituatiofl, however
'Yfcceisful we might be, could
' ,not be productive of any one
benefit to the allies.
Tpe/Sarl of Moira's army,are
feilf without tents ; but though
ithey are hutted very indifferently
there is -not a single murmur a
??%4™r troops, who every day
witness their commander, whom
there venerate aimart to adora
tl&n;'*ibjecah^ %imfe to die
lime haiddnpd. with 'themselves
—heepiug o&nis cioak on fand
hiils, or in a wretched hut of
draw, and hot-better accommo
,dated than the lowed soldier in
his-Army.
It is inipodiblc to defcrib^
wlut a disappointment the ; army
has experienced by not receiv
ing any accounts or letters late
ly from England. Bahlico,who
brop^hi the dart dispatches to the
Duke of folk, left the ar.niy
bag of letters behind him some
where 041 the -road. His Royal
jHighnefs immediately , ordered'
4 him? to return and bring forward
the bag.
' TUESDAY MORNING JULY I§
Early this morning the ene
[jny made an attack, to pals the
Icanal that, runs in front of: Na-
I liries, but^they were at last re
pulled, after a heavy filing of
tanuon and'firtall arms. '
I 5.,,0'C1.0CK, P. M.
The enemy havc-again ad
vaqced, : andar.e now ketpnga
very heavy fire, With a view- of
attempting either to pais the ca
palor the river in ourfrontrrhe
Earl of Moira has marched to
defend the,road from VVaelhom,
and the bridge which troffes
that river.-
FUR THER,
We are informed that there is a letter in
town from a gentleman in Canada, infor
• miag th.it the advance of the American
Army,, on its march to Miami, bad ec
cowDiercd and defeated a party of Indians,
aud took forty prisoners ; that upon the
approach of the army to the fort, lately
crewed Gy a detachment of British Soldiers,
^he garrifei retired without oppufirion,
leaving four pieces of cannon, and that it
was destroyed byorder of Gen. Wayne —
Not having obtained fight ofthe letter,
we are una >le to ftaie particulars.
[Amer Daily Adv]
^#ssH+MH++++M
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
KEENE, September 23, 1794.
We learn from good authority that there
is (in corifequence of some late disagreea
ble intelligence received from the conti
nent) a disposition for Peace, by the Erit
ilh Ministry, who have condescended" to
alk advice of those whose opinions they
formerly derided—and that by a meeting
at the Duke of Portland's, the fubje& of
the War was difeuffed, when many of the
mod didinguifhed Alarmists gave their
Ivoice for PE ACE, which was believed to
be thro' the, interference of Mr. JAY, the
American Envoy—to fee how fir the Con
.vention are disposed to make Peace with
the ^present Ministry. We also learn
that the Corsicans have formally declared
War against the republic of Genoa, figned|
by the famous Paoli, and that there have
been infurreaions both at Rome and Mad.
rid, from which serious consequences were
apprehended.—We likewise hear via Co
penhagen, that Mr. Jay was not likely to
1?On the ift of July, in Tat. 4.7, 30,
rtkxW >4, W. fpbke'thc French i^p of
jwar, Lh Lanteree, which informed as
.that on the izth of June, there was ar
engagement between a Franco fleet'of 12
fail and the Briiilh fleet,' under the cbm
; nUhd of -Admiral Montague,- confiding
jofjzjail,: accompanied by two Spanish
1 7+ ^ihfo,, wbicfa were part of tat flee
bent out to intercept the Chefspeake cur-
Ivoy: :„
" The, fought ebftinately for fix hosrs,
when the British bore away, leaving in
piffeffioa of the French, one 80 and one
64.-01 Ifh:ps. Ooe French fh:p fork it
he darn. One of .he Spaniards com
m?n ad by Cap . Don Anad si fell a vic
uin to the French."
Exfraa of a letter from a gentleman ts ref
pflabtlty, rejidin^ 'on tbe ft H„ern Fron
tier,, ojthe hate if New- Fork, dates 2 f
& f Augtf, '179'4.
" 1 have teen tvo gentlemen, both from
Niagara ; they' brought from thence the
Important Intelligence, tint Gen. Wayne
having advanced within for , miles cf ts
.oft Lately tak^n by the British at the M -
m Rlpids, the cavalry were uctached tv
g;4,c, the poll. Os their approach, th
zfyer commanding the cavalry ordere.
Xcm to evacuate the fort, which the cm
'landing officer refused ,5 de, faying h.
would Gcfeud it to the lad. He wrs agai.
furmoned, and told that the frt would be
n.fUndv attacked and ever, m # /u put to th;
'Acord-on their marching up, the British
ftcJrofo& and were ordered to gr^uh
p^r a !?!, which they did. '1 he arm ,
inim.uliftion a^d provifi ,ns were tasen pel
fafioa of and fen to General Wan —
fie Bpu/h nere ferv d.ut onedi ' p 0-
Y^O, ard ordered to qu t the terraor of
she Om^d States. The tort was com
pbt4i, defiroyed before the cavalry mar
cfed'tpjrin the American army.
Q>cle gentlemen further ad, that a
c. ©fap, °f grenadiers and one of light in
furry\ each e^ghty rank and file, with
four heavy artillery pieces and their com
,p:cmeoq of artillerymen, marched from
Niagara a few days ago, for fart Erie, a?
rivas there underftbod to re-ettablifh the post
at the rafifs <f Miami. It was also re
mried the Indians had had two partial en
gagements, one with a detachment from
General Wayne's army, in which fifty In
jpns •'ere kiiled—the other with the de-
Tchraent of cavalry, when on their march,
14 uLicri Seventy were killed ; that they
?n:a hatetet and a string of wampum to
Mr. Simcce, faying that the hatchet was
blunt."
From Brown's Phhiflpbia paper, receiver
l, the last Mail.
IMPORTANT hyl ELLIGENCE.
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, Sept. 18.
Maj Lather Ernes.
The Gen. has been pleased to alter the
time of the zeth Regiment from the nth
of Sept, to the 2td of the fame.
LUTHER EMES, Brig. Maj.
^KENOTICE!'
A T a meeting of the Proprietors of the
township of Keene, bolden at the
Court House. on the 17th inst. it was then
and there voted by said Proprietors, that
all persons who are possessed Qf land vet t@
be laid out in the undivided lands in said
township, by virtue of any division which
is already granted, foould as soon as peffi
ble complete the fame ; and bring.all plans
not on record to the Proprietor's Clerk,
that the records of tha fame may be coui
oleted on or before the firft Tuefday of
January next, in order that the conn bn
land in said townlhip may be better known.
By order of the Proprietors,
ICH {BOD FISHER, hop'rs Clerk.
Keene, ty.io, 1791.
Weftmorland, Atgtf 23, 1704.
THE Brigade Major of the sth Bri
gade of Mditia in the State of New
hampfhire, is hereby directed to issue or
dess to the feverat commandants of Regi
ments in said Brigade, to parade their Re
giments on each of the rtfpeaive regimen
tal parades, for a general Review and In
fpeaion, on the following days, viz.
The 20th Regt, on Thursday, nth Sept.
The 6th do. Tuefday, 30th do.
'/he 12th do. Thursday, ad Oct.
The 16. h do. Tuefday, 7th do.
The 15th do. ~ Thursday, 9th do,
Each Regiment to be paraded at to o'
clock—the infpeaion to commence precise
ly at 11, and the general Review at 1 o'
clock P. M. All those Colonels who have
not made Returns of their regimental pa
rades, you will call on for the fame before
said days.
Given under my Hand the Day and
Date above,
GEORGE ALDRICH, Brig. Gen.
That the Emperor, as well as the kin^
of Prussia, has abandoned the cause of the
allies, unless hr Ihall be furnifhrd with
supplies of money. Indeed the cause is
<or fidered as desperate, even in Great
Britain,; and the ministerial paper tells
us the mode of the war is to be changed.
That Lundrecy, Quefcoy and Conde,
are ,blockaded by the French, Valenci
ennes alone can make any refinance.
By the Mails of last night we find, that
on Sunday 1,11 a 1 eflei arrived at New
york, fom England, with papers to the
Ifta cf July— I'hefe papers contain infor
mation Os the U ion oi the Ifhnd of Corsica
to the Crown of Great Britain, w'kh lTs
formally taken place, and the oath of ai!c.
glance been a Iminitkred.
Ihat the allied armies have retreated be
fore the victorious French & left Bra
bant and Flankers in their possession —
fournay is evacuated, and the French
;ave command or the Scheldt. Ondenarde,
Mons, b'ruffels and Antwerp, are also e
vucuated and in possession Os the Fr nch,
and no force of tie allies appears to be
able to protest the Netherlands.
That in England a new arrangement
ha taken place in the cabinet. Os t're
present Mirifiry there remains in place,
Mr, Pitt lord Grenville, lord Chatham.
du:.e of Richmond,. Mr. Dundas, lord
Hawkefbury 2nd lord Amherst. Os the
Portland party, there will be the duke of
Portland, t e lord Chancellor ear? Fitz
william, earl Spencer, earl M&nsficlJ and
Mr. Windham.
Brigade Orders.
adjust the differences between the two coun
tries, so amicably as was at firft expelled ;
which ar@fe from Mr. jay's demanding ref
titutiou in all cases of capture.a
From the Westward we learn—that the
Piufoyrgh Insurgents do not decreafr, but
continue their unlawful infultk and -belts
to all who oppolethenL but that provihon
is making to quell them—alio that Guv..
Simcoe has iffaed a prercmptory order, re
quiring an immediate removal of ail the
inhabitants uho have b.en far feme tir.ie
fettled on a tradl of land within the Unit: d
States, agreeably to the treaty of peace—•
and chat the Yellow Fever rages v.i'h
great violence at Jeremie, likewifeat Man
hefier—alfo that 5 perlons had died ofthe
"utrid Fever at Newhaven in one week,
ut it was thought that the disorder was
abating —Ae alto hear that JOHN Q
ADAMS, cur Minirter lefident at cue
Hague, failed for Europe on Wccacfday
the 17th instant.
FROM THE MERCUR2: