The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1793-08-14 00:00:00, page 2

TOURNAY, May : 9 .
The day before yesterday, the Dutch
made themfelve# for the second time, mat
ters of the town of Tourcoin. An attempt
had been made to fit fire to this place,
but ineffectually.— The ringleaders, in
habitants, of this treachery, have been
difeovered on a frid search, and appre-
gratified with the fight of two waggons
• filled with the inceuditries, who puffed this
place cn their way to Maeffrichf.
Since the taking of the Camp at Mount
Anfin, by the Allies, the French no long
er shew themselves, unless in pillaging ex
cursions, to which they are Simulated by
their misery.
London, Ma, 27.
Yesterday evening Capt. Cra vford, aid
de campto his Royal Highness the Duke
of York, arrived at Whitehall, whh,dif
patches from the army. Soon after his
arrival, the following official Bulletin wa%
iffaed :
i " Whitehall, May 26.
" Capt. Crawford brought di patches
ftom Sir J. Murray, dated the 24th.
f' The enemy w'erg attacked oh the 23d
and,driven from their camp at Famars;
2 orgoo priibners taken, and 8 or 10
pieces of cannon. N> British officer kil
led or wounded ; under twenty noncom
mdiimed officers and privates kkled and
wounded.
" Three Hanoverian officers killed,
2nd four wounded.
ri^^g3rags&BaH^ together
abo'rt 2(0 or yeo men.”
The combined army, coaufl^g of Han
Qverians, Adrians, Britiffi, Croats, &c.
amounted to 50,000 men. Before Valen
ciennes could be forced, it was i^cfyy
to storm this camp ;. an union of the ^or
ees became necaffary ; for the camp was
strong, both by nature and art ; the righ;
was on the Scheldt, and was unattacka
b'c ; the left on the Ronelle, mrihy rivu
let; the front on heights defended by
strong works, which had been two months
contrasting; and Valenciennes was in
the rear. The battle mart h:ve beee
bloody ; and if the success of the combi
ned army has been equal to their ftate
roent of it, the next accounts will be of
the attack of Conde and Valenciennes.
The attack was made in four columns—
the left commanded by the Duka of York,
who turned the French right wing. He
was on borfeback 22 hoore. The French
camp contained 30,000 men. The alli
ed loss fell inertly on the Hanoverians —
They were under arms 24 horns. The
Austrians now poffuL the heights that com
mand Valenciennes.
(The capture cf this camp by the com
bined armies, is variaufly and contradic
torily related in the European papers.—
The Arafterdam account of May 15th,
blends it with accounts of th* battle of
the Bth, near Conde; where Gen. Dam
pierre was killed. Tne Dover, (Engilh)
account, of May 26, on the credit of the
Imperial AmfejjEidor, arrived at Br^fleb,
make the French loss 1500 men killed,
geest numbers wounded and profaners, and
16 pieces of cannon, ."lone of the accounts
however, appear so official as the follow-
* A confilerable town of Aufrian Nether
lands, taken by the French the last winter ;
hut has face been evacuated. It lies 14.
miles S. E. of Life, and 135 N. by E. of
Paris.
hended. Accordingly, we were yesterday
Camp, near Valenciennes, 'June 2, 1793°
We can approach within 300 yerds of
the town—The French are buly in repair
ing the works, &c. On the fide of St.
Sauveur, I believe the principal attack
will be made, at the ground is favourable.
On the left is a height, which in a grea;
measure commands the hern Vok, which
is likewise commanded and infiladcd from
the east fide of Mount Anfin.
We break ground to night, and I havel
just seen the firfl working party, under the;
command of Lord Charles Fitzroy, march
off. The Duke of York commands the
siege. Ferrararis, the celebrated Austri
an Engineer, conducts it. Mancrieff will,
I hope, have a good deal to lay, as he has
that buttle and adivity which is too often
wanting in the Germans# From the situ
ation of the place, which is commanded on
tvery fide, and from every appearance, I
do dot think it will be a tedious bufiaefs.
The garrison of Valenciennes is suppo
sed to be about 4 or 5000, & it is said to
be very badly fupp'ied with ^munition
SIEGE OF VALENCIENNES.
CAMP OF FAM.4RS.
June 4.—Since writing my last, I have
examined the heights cf Anfin, and the
wood on the left of the French, through
which Clairfait attacked them. They had
fortified ihemfelves so strongly, and thrown
fa many obstacles in the way, that on his
fill attack he was beat back, and, at last,
succeeded no farther than in getting pof
felEon of the wood. The entrenchments
cn the hill were abandoned by the enemy
on the morning of the z^h, after the oth
er part of the army had made their retreat
through Valenciennes. Had he succeed
ed at fi ft, it appears highly probable &t
the whole army would have been that no
in that town ;-and doabtlefs that was the
great object of the day. At present they
are reported to be between Bouchain ana
Cambrai. [The former nine, the latter
fourteen miles from Valenciennes.]
Cobourg has cioffed the Scheldt, and
his camp, I am told, extends almost to the
hid of :hefe places. The Hanoverians oc
cupy tne camp of Famars with the greater
part of thefr troops. Clairfait invests all
the other fide of the town, each wing ex
tending 10 the Scheldt, and Mount Anfio,
nearly in the centre. With the affiftanct
of Ferrari's map, this will give you an
idea of the manner in which the place i
inverted, and nothing can be mere com
plete.
When you consider what has been done
before the fesfon in which a campaign ge
nerally opens, I do not think you can at
cufe them of delay : At the fame time it
is evident that the rapidity of their fuc
cefs has put it not out of their power u
reap every possible advantage from it
Great reinforcements of men, artillery
aud horses, are on the road, and part of
them near at hand.
SIEGE OF CONDE.
June, 2.—This town holds out and will
do so, while it has provisions, being to
tally unattsckable, from the expensive
innecationQ^ffifEefiQs one cf the
fyjimgflrf^tgular fortifications in fr^ffl,
ENGLAN D.
LONDON, ^.<y 11.
The Alliance, French fri^te, of 26
guns and zoo men, is taken bf the Span
iards, and carried into St. pebaftian's,
after a stout resistance, which lifted up
wards of two glasses. Several men were
killed and wounded on both tides.
May 27. —Fr^rn Paris papers cf the
20th we learn,that Curtine has been folic
red to except, and has actually accepted
the command of the northern Army.
He was to pass through Paris in his way
to Lille.
de guerre.—They have killed a great
number of horses, the carcases of which
we can perceive round the glacis ; a proof
the, do not abound in forage.
The enemy have just begun to fire on
the working party. They are also can
nonading the Anftrians on Mount Anfin,
who are likewise at work. Us they have
not yet difeovered, and I will not until
the men are under cover.
K Herman who has been tried and ac
quiced by the Revolutionary Tribunal,
is to command the fouihern Army, in
the room of Biron, who retired front ii
jitpofition.
The following meafores, and motions,
evince the spirit of the National Conven
tion of France :—lt was supposed to shut
the theatres, because there the aristocrats
raised the cry of incivifm, and that the
cannon of alarm should be fired, to make
a more Hidden impression of danger on the
pblic mind.—V*.rginaud opposed rhefe
motions, because, he said, there was aeon#
eealed leaven of difeontent, fprefing
among the people of Paris, and it 4ould
be unwise to foment it by meafurerf pa
nicle. Roberfpierra propefed, that forges
fheud be erected in the public fqu,ts to
animate the people by a shew of the ener
gy which was efed' for their deliverance
from the danger that surrounded them;
and that a-ms of all kinds should be made
*ith the utmost speed. Camille Difmou
tins said, that they were told of two classes
of people—Gentlemen and Sans Culottes.
They must take the purse of the firft to em
ploy the arm of the second ; and he propo
sed, that the citizens- should be invited to
exercise in the Camp des Mars, to prepare
them for war. Darellton propo^d to grant
an indemnity to all persons deluded by the
fanaticks; and this idea was taken up by
Danton, and enforced with ft'ong argu
ments.—The despots had not disdained to
court the people of Belgium back to Have
rv, by this means. Why should they not
be the fame to bring them back to liberty ?
He pvpgfed also an aßeffroeA; on the rich,
Gen. Valence, the accomplice of Da
m?urie-, had yerteiday an interview with
Mr. Pitt, and feme other members of the
Cabinet, in Downing street.
Gen. Coftine writes from his camp at
Weiffembourg, May Bh, informing th
National Convention, that at half past 5
in the morning, he with 26* battalions 0:
foot, and 9 regiments of Dragoons, sough
a part of the Fruilian army ; the battle a:
firft was much in his favor, but while his
infantry were forming, a regiment of his
cavalry rede up towards them, which some
of his infantry taking for the enemy, ran
away and could not be rallied.
The General adds, that he did every
thing in his power to flop their flight, but
in vain, fer, in running off they tired in
difcriminatel,.
Two hundred pieces of cannon un
remittingly fire upon the city cf Valen
ciennes.
new-york, July ~ Ycfierda
evening arrived the Earl of Halifax Pack
et, Capt. Boulderfon, in 42 days from
Falmouth and Halifax (N. S.) by which
we have just time to give our readers ex
tracts frem Landon pipers.
JUNE B.Lift night Mr.Major,the King's
mefleoger, arrived at Whitehall,with letters
from Sir James Murray, Adjutant Gene
ral to his Grace the Duke cf York, at the
British camp near Valenciennes ,v,Wch place
he left on Tuefday last, when the Briufh
troops were within cannon ihot of the ci
tadel.
The French Republic has been ac
knowledged by the thirteen States ; which
has diffused an univerfai joy manifefted
by many public festivals. The Assembly
received this news with loud plaudits.
Barrere, also presented the actual ftatr
of the military of France, and announced
that in a little time, the armies of the
Rhine, the Mofe!le, and the Nsrth would
aCtcfonuvcly. The accounts given of
the remaining armies of the Republics are
also very fatufadory.
Detachments from the Royal Regiment
of Dragoons, the Eunifkillen, and the
Royal Regiment cf Horse Guards are or
dered to embakon Monday nextffor fo
reign service.
LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Abridgment of the State of Politics, for this
week —June S.
FRANC E.
BOURDEAUX, May 12.
NATIONAL CONTENTION.
May 5.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs trans
mitted to the Convention feme dispatches
received from our Ambassador at the V
nit a States of America.
Having received the to of February
the official news of the cftalilhment of the
Republic, his firft care was to communi
cate it to the Pefident of the Cot arrefs,
in order to have the new credentials for
warded to him by the executive, duly
acknowledged. His success was as we had
every reaicn to expert fiom a people, who
have been the firll to proclaim the fover
cignty cf nations, and issue a declaration
cf rights.
If the left week seemed to be a week of
tranquility, and distinguished, not by a
Multiplicity but by a paucity of what are
called news, or interfiling events, the pre
sent week, like aftorm after a ca'm, has
manifefted various wrecks of the hostile
and furious passions of contending nations,
and of civil difeord..
The great effort made by the French ar
my under Cuftine to raise the siege of 8,-
ence, and eventually that of Cage /, has
bee ; attended with great lighter on both
sides. The objed of this effort has not,
indeed, been completely attained, but the
French are not so much ftraitencd as they
also the formation of a guard for every ci
ty, to be cm national pay, which would
also be a relief to the poor. The propo
rtion cf Danton was adopted; 2nd two
Commiffionera being sent into each fe&ion,
they took fach measures both for an affeff
mtnt and for recruiting, that in three days
4000 men were railed by Paris, and every
hour a number was dispatched in chariots
and carriages of all kinds, against the in
surgents in the Vender, who are said in
the Convention to amount to 20,000.
to enable the poor to march ; and that ,6
Commissioners be sent into the fedions of
Paris, to fee this dene. And he moved
ENGL A N D.
LONDON, June 6.
PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA, July 24.
An ex,rtf arrived in tran las Saturday
from the commgoners to the hostile Indians,
and we bear, brought favorable intelligence
rejpeaing the pregrefs of the treaiy.
July >7. Accounts from Algiers fa, that.
ftrenuoM endeavors have lately ban made b.
ENGLAND.
They have received, at the port of Of
end, the most seasonable and encouraging
Supplies of troops, ammunition, arms,
and provisions. In the dominions of
Aurtria and Prussia, and other parts of
Germany, new levies are constantly made,
and continual supplies poured in afreflv
into the devouring flame of war. Nor
are the French Loyalifs to be cor fidered as
the Icaft formidable enemies to the Nation
al Convention. In Brittany the fucceffew
of that'honeft and brave class of men teem
to be on the inc-ease ; while the fpiric
with which they are animated h every day
widely diffafed ; cf which we have a con
fpicucus proof and example in the volun
tary surrender of three Ft each fifes of War
to the Governor of the Spar.ilh island cf
St. Trinidad. If there be any truth in
the report, that an an armv is on the
point cf being fen: to the aid of the Bre
tons; fieri the Emprels of Russia, the fpi,
rit of loyally will blaze forth in France
with fiili greater rapidity.
But whatever truth there may be in this
report, the cause of moderated monarchy
in France will d^ubtUfs derive no small
countenance and support from the Bnilk
fleet that has failed under Admiral Lord
Head into the Mediterranean, the proba
ble object ofwhich is the reduction of Cor
sica. That the importance of this ifl^nd:
0 Great Britain may be rightly unjer
ftood, it is to be observed, that with the
capital and industry of British merchants
and planters, it is capable cf rr,ucin"i«
much coffee, cotton, silk and est <>
country conftimes; aud that it |
lured with as much wood, a wool go a
rrep.t iv'; r rewards mai* .:*c
fleet for more than ha? a centu v ,
: O^vO^ ^>O''
-DomedUG 3iitellthence.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTOWN, June zo.
IMPORTANT NEWS.
ESTERDAY arrived hare the
sloop AlexandetyHarailtcn, Capt. Bac
chus, from New-Providence in fix days.
She bad been captured on her pillage from
Aux-Cays to Baltimore, by the privateer
May Flower of that port, for having
French property on board. The Captain
was obliged to land his cargo, was paid
his freight and difaaiffed.
By this arrival the following verv Im
portant News is received—That a
French fleet of nine fail of the line with
several frigates hid fallen in with a Bri
tilh outward bound fleet for the E^ft nd
Weft Indies and America, of C-pe Finif
terre, and captured nearly :he whole,
amounting to one hundred and tixty fail.
The Blips of war, which convoyed this
fleet, being only two of the line and four
frigates, got off This account has much
the appearance of truth, as it comes from
a variety of channels, namely the Havan
nah, St. Domingo, and Jamaica.
[With re/pell to the capture of the above
fleet, its authenticity is doubted, as there ban
been letters received direA from Spain, ar
late as the litb June : The Captain who
brought them, came from a country, off which
the fleet is said to be captured, and heard
nothing of the event. Bfdes, information
has been received from England as late as
June 10tb, in which no mention is made of
the failing of a feet. centinel.]
were before in their quarters; their ad*
vanced post being now in poffefiion of the
fame ground chat was formerly occupied
by their invaders.
On the northern and cittern frontier,
the French arms have likewise made a fuc
cefsful filly ; they have seized and plun
dered the town cf Furness, and beat back
the Austrian and Hanoverian troops to
Ofend. In a word,, the French, from the*
vivacity of that spirit with which they arc
actuated, and their refourccs and numbers,
if they fuffered disaster and loss in on#
place, gain advantages in another.
On the other fide, the spirit cf their op
ponents, the confederated armies, is equal
ly persevering, and their resources as
abundant.