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. Sitting of the Jacobins — March 31.
Marat. —“ THE dangers which threaten our
country are at their height, and the moment has ai —
rived when the courage of Republicans ought to be
difplaved. The treacheries of our Generals are no
longer a mystery. My prediiftions are accomplic
es—but we have opened ouf eyes too late a
fenger has been dispatched to Dumovriir, and I
will warrant that by this time he has ^migrated.
Bournonvil le has sent oiit to seize all the pa
pers which may tend to convid himfelf, and per
haps to try to march against Pans with Dvmou
** dlnton, In a speech of some length recapitulat
ed his former services, in having prevented thqmm
iftrv of which he was a member, from leaving Pa
ris in September last. He knew Do mou ribr td be
unprincipled and ambitions; but hf knew his mil>
l1 ' ■
fore hand, with them, in fccuring those Commifioners
tand their deputies as my pr if oners.” “ These he has
lent under a strong escort to the Prince de Co
hourg, after having put seals on all their papers,
&c.”
[The following HIGHLY INTERESTING INTEL*
LICENCE wa< received by the Brig Orange, arrived
at New-York, on Saturday lajl, from Bristol, which
Jhe left the i ^th April. It corroborates the defellion
of Gen, Dumourier and communicates particulars
which mujt ajftcl every Freeman.] [Centinel.J
PARIS, APRIL 3-
Ily some Dumourier is accused as a traitor; and as
having ailed all along with views hostile to his
country : By Others, his condiiH is juftified upon
. the ground of necessity, and represented as the only
resource which his present situation allowed. He
has been publickly threatened with assassination. In
the club of Cordeliers, it was resolved on the 26th
March,that he and the other compianders of the at
tny (hould be brought to Paris, in 6tder to be tried,
“ andlf” cried some of those present, “ They efeape
the Tribunal, they Jhall not efeape us.*’
Orders of arrest are issued against Madames Stile-'
rv, Egalite, Lady Fitzegarld ; against Faience, Ega
lite the younger, Montjoye, and others, who afe offi
cers under the command of Dumourier.
DUTCH B RABANT.
BERGEN-OP-ZOOM, APRIL 4.
Intelligence has been received from the
Prince di Saxe-Cobourg’s head quarters at Mons,
that an crniiYlice had been agreed upon between his
Serene Highness and Gen. Dumourier, the latter ha
t ing previonfly consented to evacuate the Austrian
Netherlands and Dutch Brabant : That Gen. Du
mourier let out on the 3d instant, on his march to
Paris : That his serene highness had put his troops
into very dole cantonments, keeping them in imme
diate readinffs to aft That the King of Pruflia
had crossed theßhine at Buchera, attacked the French
qt Bingen Cruitzenach and Althcim, took General
Neuwinger, 50 officers, 200 non-commissioned offi
cers and privates, 15 cannon, and a military chest,
and had formed the blockade of Mayence : That
General Wurmfer, with a Pntffian corps, was imme
diately to pass the Rhine at Manheim and aft on the
left of the King : That Worms and Oppenheim
were evacuated, and that the enemy had retreated
from those places towards Landatf. These opera
tions happened between the i 7th of March and the.
sit of April.
Intelligence has been received from Gen.Clairfayt
dated at Tournay the 3d instant advising that Gen.
Demourier had that morning sent ter him, as prison
ers, M. BournonvUle, M. Camus, and other cbmmif
fioners, who had been authorized by the national
convention to apprehend him, and conduft him to
the bar, and that, in a letter to Gen. Clairfayt, he de
clared his intention to march the next morning
to Paris.
March 31.
'Letterfrom his Excellency General Clairfayt^ at Mont,
Conte Starenberg, Imperial Minifer at the Hague,
dated, Tournay, April 3, 1793.
“ I lose not A moment in communicating to your
Excellency what M. Dumourier has just written to
me, when he sent to our camp eight or nine prison
ers, this morning, four of whom with Gen. Bournon
■ville, he faysj were fpec.ially commissioned by the
National Convention to arrest and conduit him a
prifoncr to their bar, and, On any resistance ort the
part of Dumourier, to have him affaflinated on the
road :—“ But,” adds the writer, “ I have been be-
Lord Auckland, the Britifli Minister, set off yefter
ilay morning for Antwerp, to meet his Royal High
ness the Duke of York, and the Prince of Saxe Co
bourg.—The honourable terms granted to the French
garrisons of Breda and Gertruydenburg, appear now
to have been stipulated by Dumourier, in his confer
ence with the Prince of Cobourg.
Contrary to the orders of Gen. Dumourier to re
turn ail the plate "which had been forcibly taken out
of the Churches, it has not vtt been given back. : and
it is even perceived that it is fending off to France.
This offends the people very much, and exasperates
them against the French ; in manv places they have
taken tip arms. The peasants in the neighbourhood
of Tirlemont and St. Tron have joined the Austri
ans.
AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS.
“ M. Dumourier transmitted me at the fame time
a lift of the prisoners, and concludes by faying^ that
he was that inftantabout to move with the trusty
part of his army, in order to destroy those who may
further oppose themselves to the publick, good ol
France, and to give to that diftrafted kingdom per
manent peace and tranquility. I have the honour
to be, &c. &c.
We are this instant informed that Cuflitie having
inarched fmmMentz on the ift ihft. to retakeOppen
heim, the two wings of the Prussian army cut off
his retreat, and he was entirely surrounded with all
his army ; it was supposed that he could not es
cape.
Everything is ready for the bombardment ofMentz
and Caffel, and if the garrisons do not surrender,
they will be entirely destroyed.
Latest European Intelligence.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 21.
HOLLAND.
Hague, April 4.
GERMANY.
COLOGNE, APRIL 2.
FRANCE.
APRIL 8.
“ CLAIRFAYT.**
fary talents, and wiflied to give his country the be
nefit of them. But Dumourier conceived the
projeft of conquering the Netherlands and Holland,
and making himfelf their proteftor —All his aftions
were infefted by this idea—And if he did not anni
hilate the Prussians in the camp of Ld Lune, it waS
because he wiffied to reserve himfelf an asylum, in
case of defeat, in the States of Frederick William.
His retreat from Belgium was rather the fault of his
inferior officers than his own. Miranda was a
fool or a traitbr. When Dumourier returned
from Holland to Belgium, he was quite dejefted.
The failure of his vilionary projefts reduced him al
most to a state of insanity; He retained nothing of
a republican but his military ardor, and fought ev
ery two leagues. “But,” continued the speaker,
“ let us leave this raving General, and think only of
saving the republic. France is far from having loft
her force. Under Louis XV. (he combatted all
Europe, with refourecs far inferior. But where are
thole rcfources ? It is for the Jacobins to find
them. It is not enough to have levied an army of
300,000 men ; we mult raise a central army to de
fend Paris and fuccour all the rest. Let the Jacobins
call upon all good citzens, and feleft those who are
the molt capable of deHmding-their country, and we
shall soon have a foiih'dable army. The faftious,
talk of dissolving the Convention—l cannot endure
the idea of dissolution.
“ Let those who have shewn thenifelves too pu»
fiilanimous to join their names to thole whose glory
will alcend to poilerity, withdraw from it. Let us
engage the people to ipeak, and we shall purge the
Convention of those who are incapable of saving the
republic. Those only who have killed a king, are
worthy of representing Republicans.”
Marat —“Dumourier is the creature of a
wicked faftion. He was at firft their pupil, and
now he is their proteftor. I fufpeft the commission
ers Camus and Treillard. Such men ought not to
give us a report on our situation in Belgium. I must
rcquc.it that Danton will tear aside the veil before the
tribune of the Convention.”
Danton.—“ I engage to comply with that re
quest.”
Mara-. ’‘Aft with energy and courage. Be
have like a t-^e republican. Do as I shall do. If
the enemy enter France, I shall draw my poignard
and fall upon the traitors; [Here Maßat, draw
ing a dagger from his bosom, brandijhed it in his
hand.] lam determined to die, rather than bend
the knee. The detpair of liberty will give me death.
I propose that a considerable number of luch arms
shall be manufaftured and given to all citizens of
known patriotism; who are not acquainted with
millitary evolutions. Let us set on foot a fubferip
tion for this purpole. I myfelf shall make the firft
facrifice to it.” This was adopted, and the fubferip
tlon agreed to.
St. Jusf.—“ I denounce Bournonville as d
traitor."
Previous to Dumourier’s quitting Liflc, he put a
white cockade into his hat, and all the army follow
ed his example,as faft as ribbons could be procured
for them. We understand that the white flag is
flying on the tower of the garrison at Lisle, in
which Dumourier left a garrison on whom he could
depend. .
It was understood in the Austrian army, that all
dffenfive measures against France were to be sus
pended during the execution of Dumourier’s plan—
a proof that the Prince of Saxc-Cobourg is well assur
ed of his fmcerity.
April 10. It is now rumoured, that Dumou
rier having found reason to fufpelt the sincerity of
a great part of his army, in the promises they had
given to support him in his plan of marching to
Paris, and placing young Louis on the throne, had
left his army at the head of a regiment of cavalry,
and gone to the Austrian army. We give this mere
ly as a report —we may, however, add, that no of
ficial intelligence of any such event has been re*
ceived. -
ExtraH of a letter from Paris, April 3.
“ Theconfufion which reigns here can more
easily be conceived than deferrbed. We seem
to have returned to a Hate of complete politi.
cal chaos. All is tumult and disorder. In
this situation force alone can decide, and dis
entangle the jarring elements.—‘-Thofe, how
ever, who forefee a speedy cbnclufion to the
present state of diftraftion, will probably
miftaken.r—That order will spring from con
fufioni and some regular form of government
succeed to the present anarchy, is indeed to be
hoped, but 'not speedily to be looked for.
What means indeed will be found to reconcile
the wishes and adjust the claims of the differ
ent parties, it is impoflible to forefee.
44 In consequence of an order of the Com
mittee if fuperintendance, all the papers of
Roland have been sealed up. He is actufed
of being concerned in the confederacy with
Dumourier
«« Philip d’Orleans commonly called Ega
lite, is fufpe&ed of being concerning with Du
mourierin the grand confpiracy,and a motion
has been made in the Convention that he be
arvefted, and all those supposed to be connect
ed with him. This jsreierred to a Comtpittee
of enquiry. .
In the conference with theConimimoli
^rs, among other particulars, Dumourier very
much disproved of the war with England
and Severely inveighed against Briffot as the
author of the declaration ot war.
«• The Convention has decreed, that all ci
devant Nobles, Priests, and fafpeCUd perlons
throughout the Republick, be disarmed except
ENGLAND.
LONDON, APRIL 9.
Alt the letters brought by the Dutch and Flanders
mails yesterday confirm the accounts Os the declara
tion of Gen. Dumourier in favour of monarchy, and
his being, on his march to Paris to support the re
eftablilhment of a regal government in France. The
fame letters mention other defeats of the French be
fore Mentz and at Nizza. In short, the late univer
sal defeat of the French seems, if poftible, more ra
pid than their former successes; and the decided
part taken by their commander in chief, added to
the vigorous proceedings of the Connter-Revolu
tionifts in France, appear more likely to be the
means of re-eftablilhing a permanent form of gov
ernment in that country.
General Dumourier certainly marched on the 3d
for Paris, with the avowed intention of restoring
the monarchy of France. He was joined on his
march by numbers of people, who, (hocked with
the iniquitous murder of Louis the Sixteenth, were
now happy in an opportunity of declaring their sen
timents.
SOUTH-CAROLINA. ,
CHARLESTON, MAY 2.
1 I
A Proclamation.
Whefeas it is judged expedient in the present cir-
CUmftances of the country, to allow theadmiflion of
provifionS into the different ports within this gov*
ernment ; I have therefore thought fit, by and with
the advice and consent of his Majesty’s honorable
council, to issue this my proclamation, allowing and
permitting, and I do hereby allow and permit the
importtition for fix months, computing from the
day of the date hereof, into the ports of Nassau, Ex
uma and Turks islands, as well in foreign as British
bottoms, the following species of provifionS, viz.
corn & all forts of grain & pulfe,floflr and bread,rice
& every species of salted provisions ; cattle and live
flock of all kinds ; of which the officers of his Ma
jesty’s customs, and all whom it may concern are to
take due notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Given under my hand and seal of the said islands,
at Nassau, (New-Providence) the irthj day of
April, in the year of our Lord 1793, and in the
qqd yea» of his Majesty’s reign.
(Signed) DUNMORE.
It is reported, that 3000 troops were poisoned in
the Cape, and that a great number of the French
, troops, are called home from their Islands in the
Weft-Indies. ———
MARYLAND.
BALTIMORE, MAY 17.
The latest European advices further inform that
the difeontents of the polish nobility, in Provinces
bordering onTurky, were so much increased, that
an alarming infurreftion was daily expelled ; that
the division of the Kingdom of Poland was re
duced to a Certainty,that Austrian troops had^ entef-^
cd that Country, and taken possession of Watfaw,
Cracow, and the palatinates of Chelm and Lubin,
and had, oit their entrance, published a tnanifeft, fi
rnilar to that of his Prussian Majesty.
A society in London, for the improvement of naval
atchiteflure, having offered a silver medal and, ao
guineas, for the most immediate expeditibus method oj
flopping the progress of pre on board of flips, Mr.
Joftin Read, of the Royal Military Repofitoty, at
Woolwich, has obtained the reward due to this very
interesting di (co ver y—a difeovery which may be o
infinite service at all times.-but particularly in e
time of war, when (hips are often set on fire during
an engagement. Mr. Read’s account pf this inven
tmri, is as follows : “ From the great confnfion oe
cafioned by the alarm of fire on board a (hip, with
the difficulty of afeettaining the precise (pot where
it is,it appears alrtioft impoflible to devise amean to
prevent the progress of such an accident when once
it has got head. The only mean that seems to pro
mise success is, to convey water t<S any part ot tne
(hip, according to the following method : To place
strong pipes through the deck, close td the 11 es o
she vessel : Those going to the hold must be cased,
to prevent their being damaged, by moving ffores
detween the decks.' These may be so diftnbuted,
that parts between the decks may be witniri the reach
of a stream of waiter issuing from them. The maga
zine, and places where fpiritsand inflammable ftoreS
dre kept, ought to ha^e the greatest number of pipes
about them, to prevent the fire reaching those parts.
Streams of water, to the part on fire, may be direct
' ed by a Idver fixed on thd top df the pipe, the end
of which, corresponding with the aperture below
the fajne vertical plane, will pafJ through the
and the stream. Small engines, such as those uied
for watering gardens, will be fumcient for the pur
pose, Two men only will be required for the fef
. , . I • > p • ‘ x ■ I I
Tach pF the firft as are employed in the army.
This decree was rigidly executed and without
the smallest opposition.”
It is said that the dity of Nantes is taken poffef
fton of by the insurgents of Britanny.
On Sunday last, the 7th inst. a Congress was td
be held at Antwerp, chnfifting of the following per
sonages viz.—The Prince of Orange, the Prince of
Saxe Cobourg, his Royal Highness the Duke of
York, Prince Frederick of Biunfwick, Lord Auk
land, and the Ministers of the other powers aftually
at war with France. —The objefts of this Congress
must evidently have reference to the late unexpect
ed events, and probably to concert the plan of future
operations.
By a French paper of the 2d, it appears that the
Spaniards have entered France in two places riear
Abdave.
By every intelligence received from France, it ap
pears that the general body of the people on tne sea
coasts adjacent to Flanders, are unanimous for hav
ing a King.
The son of Louis XVI. haS been proclairtied
King of the French at Lille, Valenciennes and Do
nay:
However they are likely to pay dear fob their
treachery, and in their turns, fall a facrifice to the
spirit thty have railed.
During the contest in France, we have 4 constantly
seen that the Generals they have idolized when fuc
tefsful, have ban proscribed, denounced, and per-.
fecuted, on any reverse of fortune. The National
Convention bar many members whose only fpitir
lies in (edition, and only courrge in midnight or
tumultuous massacres; men, who as the poet fays,
are
The unfortunate King of Poland, has at last been
forced to fubmft to the imperious commands of
OLD KATE. His Majefiy relunftantly to be drag
ged to Grodno on the 4th inst. The great Marshal
of the crown has announced this event to all the
foreign Ambassadors.
The following is foid to be Dumourier's letter to Ge
neral (fairfoyt t
“ The National Convention have thought proper
fb fend their war-minister and five of their body; td
bring me to their bar, or rather, td murder me on
the way there. I now fend them to you as a pre
sent, to do with them whatever you please ; at the
fame time, I beg leave to inform you, that my army
uniting with me in opinion, I shall immediately
march to Paris, and declare and proclaim the Dau
phin King.”
It has been tke general error of moA republicks;
to disgrace and persecute those Generals who have
fuffered a defeat, however bravely they have fought;
but such proceedings have generally produced fatal
consequences, and ruin hath fallen on the heads of
those republicks for such impolitic ingratitude.
Rome was near annihilation by her conduft toward
the brave Coriolanus, arid the deftriiftion of Car
thage was owing to its base treatment of Hanni
bal.
American Intelligence.
— .. Bold in clamourous council,
But of a cold inaflive hand in tear.
lars, firft coll, in China-Ware.
MAY 31.
IMPORT ANT NEWS—DireS from France,
Capt. Haden, in the (hip Canton, arrived at New*
Bed(prd on Wednesday, from Dunkirk ; which port
lie left oh the 13th of April. He confirms the in
telligence ofDumourier’s desertion, and informs that
between two and three hundred of his officers, a
mong whom were several Generals, had abfeonded
with him : That the Austrian army was within S
miles of Dunkirk, and the French army, which Du
mourier had left, was within 12 or 14 miles of the
fame place. —
Extrafl of a letter from a gentleman in P aris, to a gen
tleman in Maryland.
4< It is very remarkable, that out of fxty thousand
nuns, that have been turntd out of Nunneries in
France, by the revolutionists, forty seven thousand
four hundred atid thirty fix, have had children, and
the moll of them boys. It may seem incredible, but
this account has been publiffied here, as copied fr<>m
the register of births direfted to be taken, by the
laws of France, which also (pccify the condition of
the mothers, who ate all stated to be nuns. There
are also thirty-three mother ahbejfes who have bad
children, four of which are upwards of fxty years of
age. It is. also, remarked, that they have become
the most violent revolutionists, and pray most devout
ly for the success oftheatms of the republic,for fear
if a counter revolution ftiould take place, they may
be again cloistered in Nunneries. In fine, every thing
seems to be in motion in thid countfy, andtqconlpire
to support the cause of Liberty.”
June i.
NEW BEDFORD,
Wednesday, 10 o’clock, P. M.
“ I havi been cioieiy engaged, iince the
Canton’s arrival, two hours lince, in looking
otar my letters, and hearing the calamities ot
France detailed by the passengers, who, not
being politicans, differ so much ih their re
port-, that I can fcarceiy colle& a chain of
intelligence to be depended upon. By the
best information 1 have gained, it appears that
Dumourier arretted the Commissioners of the
National Convention, and (ent them prisoners
to the Austrian General : That several days
previous thereto, he.with Clairfayt, agreed up
on a reflation of hostilities a and upon pain of
death had each forbidden <h,eir troops enter
ing the other’s dominions t That Dumourier^
with Generals Aa/enreand Egahte, (the youn
ger) Two Hundred Officers, and 4000 men,
had joined the Austrian army: That the
French, though spparantly in good fpirits^
were making but feeble resistance, and that
the Austrians Were within 5 or 6 leagues of
Dunkirk, and it was not expefled it could be
held from them. It was said the elder Egalitt
is under arrest at Paris.”
The remains of the French armv lately com
manded by Dumourier were in France, about
15 miles from Dunkirk ;at the date of our
last accounts.
We have not seen in all the European ac
counts, a single charge dr infmuation of Dti^
tnouritrs having been bought by the Austrians.
His defertiori is attributed fdlely to personal
fafety.-— ** All that a man hath will he give
for his life.” •
R^ittgh^ff. 1 W E the iubfenbers
5 mj yy be * og a pp 6 inted
Cdmmiffiotiers to receive and examine the
claims or demands On the eft* tes of "'iL
-1.1 amßen nb T, Jhif'wrigbt, and Wll l1 a m
Bennet, jan./wnrr, both late of Exeter,
deceased, repreiented insolvent,
notice that we shall attend that bufine a
the firft Wednesday of this and
lowing months, at the house of
BmS. in Exeter, from 3 to 5 o’clock F. M.
Simeon La..
WILLIAM Pa*ki*»F*
. .
Wajhingtoh of Providence, 882 chests of Bohea
Tea,76 tons of Sugar and 6obo dollars in Chi
na-Ware. Total amount, 2532 chests of Bo
hea-Tea, 592 tons of Sugar, and 14,6000 dol«
Sugar, and 2.000 dollars in China-Ware. Ship
Hannibal, of Philadelphia, 600 chests of Bohea
Tea, 200 tons of Sugar, and 25C0 dollars in
China Ware. Ship Rising Sun, of Providence^
3so chests of Bohea Tea, 22 tons ol Sugar, &
2600 dollars in China ware. Ship General-
vice of earn pipe, one to lupply it,and the other t«
direct the stream.”
PHILADELPHIA,MAY 22.
By an arrival at this port yesterday in twelve days
from Cape-Francois we learn thrt a frigate had arri
ved there in 28 days from Bicft ; which brought
intelligence that General Dumorier had gone over
to the Austrians—that a fleet of 20 fail of French
line of battle ships had failed for the Mediterranean,
and that another French fleet was cruising in the
Britifli Channel ; a new Governor for Hispaniola a
very popular charafter, came in the frigate.
York, 300 chests of Bohea-Tea, 50 tons of
, Yesterday arrived here the brig Sally, from Cape*
Francois in 13 days. On the 6th, arrived at the
Cape, the frigate I 1 Concorde, of 44 guns and 4
howitzers, with the Governour and his family. '
This vessel left Brest the 6th of April, with about 5
millions of money. She brings accounts that “ Gen.
Dumourier had qmtted his army in France, having
been leduced by dint of gold. Luckily his flight
was not attended with any ill consequences—Twen-
ty ships of the line were in the Mediterranean, and
eight in the channel. Forty more ships, were fitting
but at Brest, to be ready the beginnieg of May for
sea. There was not a man in the French army found
base enough to accompany Gen. Dumourier, when
deferring the cause of Liberty and his country.”
men expefted this year in the American ftatfea
from China.
Ship Hunter of New-York, 400 chests Bo
hea Tea, 250 tons of Sugar and 1.400 dollars
firft cost in China-Ware. ShipA^cy, of New-
BOSTON, MAY 22.
A Corrclpondent has favoured us with an
abftrafl of the Cargoes of the American Jndia-