The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1793-11-27 00:00:00, page 3

BEFORE TOULON, Sept. 14.
Our fixation is the fame as it was yes
terday ; we have now every thing that we
want, just arrived from Marseilles to re
duce the English fleet, and we shall soon
makejbe traitors and tyrants sensible of
Q^R^ance of a free people so jurtl)
. arc affared that the English are
preparing to take flight, and that the fleet
lays only on an anchor.
, a,,g^o4^f tarethes 'potifm Rationed
at QueFoy ;^ \ thou'ad of the enemy
are lurrounded in a worded we hope that
ujt one will e[c?„, Tne garrison of Gi
bet ro. <*3 v,rtQ : 1 . from Dinan and
took 50 waggons loaded with forage.
[Here ends foreign extracts for this da, —
•use are bapp, in giving our readers intelligence
so propitious to the cause of Republican French
men,]
to the FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
already detailed the following particulars :
That the whole Republic was in a state
of the molt active warlike movements and
preparations—all the male citzens, from
,6 to 45 years of age being required to
bear arms, and to hold themselves in rea
diness to march. All stores, provisions,
&c. held to be at the fervke of the public,
d 3 , ^w^ one of the principal posts
of it ft, where they were assembled
in great rce. /hey only fired three
rounds of artillery ; this we did not think
worthy of a reply, as all our charges were
made with the fixed bayonnet. The right
column of the army was obliged to defile
before Pdligu, another pod in poss-s
--son of the rebels. It was alio abandoned,
4f:er the lofi of 156 men on their part.
Oar victorious troops matched yefterdav
I<.)c; gne,& if the ar ny on the coasts
iv? h ,e, succeed in the tour of du.y
ce^ MU d to them, Vendee will be taken
in eight days.
Gen. Dogobert To a letter dated at
Mont Libre Sept. 4, writer thus; that
being informed of a sudden attack which
had been made upon Lis camp at Port
Olett,- by 50C0 infantry and 400 horse, he
immediately threw himfelf at the head of
bistre ps, and formed the line of march
at ib.ee in the morning, with a determi
nta give them battle. Having come
up with the enemy, a severe conflict en
^ed, wnichladed for two hours, when
the enemy was completely routed,and fled
with precipitation, leaving behind avast
quantity of military Hores, and 300 pris
oners, 30 officers, 3 colonels, and the
commandant cf artillery. We had but
eight men killed.
Our army since it departure from Nants,
b?? gone on from one success to ano her
'.. *n:ry from Nants to Rochelle is en
ir^ F c 'a 'd of the rebels.
I - r racked and taken on Sat-
The rebels made an attack on a part of
our troops posted at St. Salvador. It was
begunwith incredible fury on their part.
They were received by our brave Repub
licans with the greatest fang froid, who
necessitated them to retreat, witu 12 wag
gon loads of dead, and many more
wounded.
ROUEN, S pt. 15.
The news which we have received from
the army of the Republic, in the environs
of T«ulon, ate very fatisfadory. Tnt
blockade is still contig ued, but our arm»
incre.fes daily. Eight hundred young
men from the diffrid of St Elprit, have
marched to join their fellow republicans
who are united under the brave Cortaux.
command of Gen. Ilher, have marched
Twa Army, of the Rhine—has
had an a&ion with the Prussians a: Lauter
bourg, in Allace, and killed 1500, took
a few prisoners, and among whom were,
of the emigrants, the ci devant Marquis
Dumav.
Gen. Kellerman writes, that the satel
lites of tyranny were driven from the
valley of Morain, and that Major St.
Afoldo is indebted to the fieetnefs of his
horse for having escaped;
1 he Auttrian troops in the environs of
Ardennes are compeiely discouraged.
Siktee^ rhoufand ^ üblicans under the
From a lengthy convention with two
gentlemen who arrived here, in the Sally,
from France, the Edi.or is enabled to add
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.
FURTHER FROM FRANCE.
Particulars refpe&ing Toulon.
NANTS, Sept. 16.
the owners to receive fuck eempenfation
therefor, as may be awarded by referees.
That all the artizans in metals and wood
were employed in the manufacture of can
non, and warlike implements. In the
manufactory at Paris, 23,000 mu queer
and 30 pieces of cannon were manofactur
ed every month ; and the useless bells in
the churches melted down to supply the
forges :
That the Convention pursued their steps
with firmnefs ; and that notwithltanding
the Constitution was adopted by a majori
ty of the primary assemblies, they were
required to keep at the helm as long as th:
norm continued.
That the Royalilts in La Vendee had
fuffered great lots in fix successive engage
ments, and that the Rebellion was nearly
tuppreffed :
T'hat the victory cf General Houchard,
on the Bth of September over th? column
of the combined armies, under Mailhai
Freytag, had given a great spirit to re
cruiting ; and that the advantages then
gained had been followed by several favor
abe, tho' fubcroinate circumstances :
That Gen. Houchard had in his army
twenty thousand chosen Grenadiers, to
whole intrepidity the success 'cf the a^icn
of the Sth was attributed.
The re-capture of Toulon is confirmed,
via' Portland, where Mr. Landa Smith has
arrived from Spain, after a paaffge of
thirty days. Mr. Smith adds, that it was
generally believed in Spain that Ameri
ca had declared war against Great Britain,
in conlequence of vVhich belief the vessel
he came in loft a valuable freight.
Froth another fouree we learn, that the
Royalists in Toulon were not so numerous
as had been fafpeded j and that on the
arrival of General Corteaux, with the ar
my of Marseilles, the principal fort which
commands the city was given up to him
without firing a gun.
Capt# Parsons informs that a subsidy of
6o®o troops had been granted by Portu
gal, to the Spaniards, who had failed un
der the convoy of 6 men of war.
Our accounts from Philadelphia ffill
continue favourable—indeed we can an
nounce almoil an inure annihilation of the
disease.
November 18.
Extrafl of a letter from a Gentleman in Ofend,
to bit friend in this town, dated Sept. 21.
*793-
7 On the 2ift ultimo, I left Dunkirk,
That the number of Republicans ir
arms, in F r ance, was ONE MILLION
FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND : And
That the garrisons of Valenciennes and
Mayeoce, had been ordered by the Con
vention to serve in the Repu 1 can ar
mies in la Vei dee, and before Lyons,and
lu.h was the rapidity cf their march, that
they reached the places of their deftinatior
in 5 days, being furr-ilhed wi.hhorfes ;
all of which, except such as are used ir
husbandry, being decreed to be in public
service :
They mention, that of the rebels sub
dued, all the Priests, noblr^ gentlemen,
servants, and foreigners were put to death ;
the peasants disarmed, and feat home;
And chat the adjudged victims to the guil
lotine at Paris, averaged about 40 a
month.
Our informants appear to be men of
information, and impartiality : And cb
ferve, that implicit reliance cannot be had
,n all the accounts published ; as in the
commotions of the times, every day gav e
oith to various and contradictory rumour s
Capt, Partons, arrived here from Lis
bon, which he left the id. of October,in
forms, that a few days before he failed,
authentic information had been received,
and published at L fb >n, that the army cf
the Republic of Fr nee,had recaptur
ED THE IMPORTANT POSTS OF TOU
lop : I'hat the army conhfled of 25,000
mt i; that the English who had porfeffion
of he forts were obliged to abandon them,
ar. that those of the counter-revolutionists
wl ) could not escape were put to the sword.
Captain Parsons did not underhand
what became ot the English or French
fleets.
A very daring burglary Was committed
in the houfeof the Hon- Williara Philips,
Esq. in the night of the 12th, inti.
That on the arrival of the intelligence
of the farrender of Toulou : the Conven
tion decreed, That all the former Nobles
who were in the service of the Republic,
Ihoald instantly be displaced, and theii
vacancies filled up.
RECAPTURE OF TOULON.
* This it is imagined is a mfake — The
burial was probahl, that of the MarJbal
Freytag, who was wounded in ibe battle of
<ne %tb,
■ ■«<|'|
VARIOUS REPORTS,
Wtre in circulation on Saturday,that the
patriotic Irishmen had risen throughout
the Kingdom, and had driven from their
borders the Englilh troops, &c. that Scot
land had revolted from the British Crown,
rod that great commotions had lately tak
mplace in London, &c. We mention
these merely as reports ; as after making
aquiry we were not able to trace the
inundation of them.
&04&O§ OO^OG©©4&oo<
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Jlcene, A'ove/nil&r 27.
From B fton, Nov. Q.
ENGLISH AND FRENCH BARBA
RITY.
ENGLIS H.
Extra& from the Log-Book cf the brig
Cadet, arrived at Salem.
Oaober 6th, 1793, lat. 28. 30. long.
63, 25, at fix A. M. saw a fail bearing N.
kF. at 7 hove to, ibatJhe might speak to me ;
fee proved to be an EnglJh letter of marque,
longing to Liverpool, but las from Neou-
Providence, owned by Mtfrt. Wm. and J.
Mtfa ^*d commanded b, Cornelius Cayley,
wbofe lie^t.'s name was Smith, and the jhip's
<he Chambley, burthen 224 tons : —They, not
(hewing an, colors, ordered me to boft out
m, boat, and font their lieut. nyith several
sailors to rummage theveffel ; which the, ef
feauall, did, breaking, plundering and seal
ing, from all the boxes, chefs and trunks,
the, could la, their hands on ; and, to give a
more courageous appearance to their villai
ny, the, threatened to /boot me, b, ,resenting
cocked pifols to m, breaf, and fourifhing
aords over m, head. They then proceeded
to broach cur prov fions ; took a number bar
rels of bread, beef and pork from us, robbing
me of all my fmail fores, taking knives, forks
and spoons ; depriving ui of our maps, not
leaving even a chart of the ceaf, on board;
and with dffi ult, we retained our quad
rants : This not contenting these mfereants,
they tore open our hatches,broke the combings,
l& them lap open to the weather, notwitb
funding it blewfrejh and rained ver, hard,
that a large quantity of water poured into the
hold, which we were prevented from pump
ing far-federal hours, wh^e their boat was
continually paging and repaying from the brig
to the jhifo loaded with plunder.
We bad, previous to our meeting with this
pirate, been taken and carried into St. Chrif
opher's where we bad been examined by the
admiralty, and obtained our difebarge, with
out any lof ; and afo a purport, which we
produced to the Capt. of the Jhip without any
effa :—WI also baling the former prize
imfron board, who took passage with us fir
Salem, they Jwore we bad bribed him, mur
dered the crew, and ran away with the vessel
out of St. Cbr fopbers and that they would
bang us at the main yard arm. I then told
bins to proceed whither be chafe with the brig,
as I home her on bis bandsJ3 would not Accept
her any more ; furthermore tilling bim, to
complete bis charaaer, be wanted nothing but
to boi, the black flag. They then proceeded
to further injuries, broke the caboose, fove
I the boat, and let the fails bang unfurled,fa,-
pirg to pieces id heavy squalls, and damaged
our rigging ver, much. Rut the most inhu
mfc. part of ibis feene was, their treatment
: o„n unfortunatefek gentleman, a merchant
fr'-f Point Peter, who was a passenger on
fan of us : —they plundered bim of ever,
HW shearing apparel, fores, and even
'* J^ articles tb&f Were nice,ar, to one in
and the next dav it wss inverted by an ar
ny of 40 ojb men under the command
f he Dwke of Yoik-but his Royal
11 gn,ef, has been.obliged to raise the
fcge, and retire with the loss of his heavy
cianon, ammunition, and 8 or 10,000
men killed and wounded. This has giv
en th Ihgiifh a great check, and if the
news of the capture of Toulon had not ar
ived about the fame time, their funds
would have been considerably depressed."
Extras of a letter from a Gentleman in Phil
adelphia, to bis Friend in this town, dated
Nov. 8, 1793.
" This day we have accounts from
Dunkirk, by a Capt. Weeks, in a short
pillage fr in Oltend ; that the Combined
armies ard entirely defeated before Dun
kirk—Cubourg, killed*—Capt. Weeks
..as at his funeral—a very great flaugh er
of the combined troops and that they had
recreated with their wourded to Olend."
bis fixation : The, took from bim a trunk of
cloaibs,valued at 150 Johannes ; aljo apsofa
o f%; Johannes and fix crowns ; and to grace
their oar barit, with what would makejav-
;ages dslufQhe, plundered the /beets ft om under
, b.m as be la, languishing with feknfs, and
pulled him from bis bed.—Four or five days
after, be departed this life, and we commit
ted him to tbe sea, presuming the necefaries
be bad been deprived of, with the more than
savage treatment be bad met withfrom theft
I barbarians, bad bafenea bis exit. After ex-
I periencing the vile treatmew, with e very fpe
ties ofabufe and insult ; after being pillaged
and robbed, my rigging damaged,and not hav
ing a square fail on board; in this mijeruble
plight, the Capt. of the foip refufing to suppl,
me with either fails or 1 igging,oid me to make
the bes of my way ; night coming on, and the
Captain of the jhip being fid on board too
brig, ordered his Lieutenant tofreer to the caf
ward till morning : at day light be again or
dered bis Lieutenant to boif out the boat and
bring him on board, telling me, as 1 suppose
fill more to mortify me, be bad cneeded to
fend me to Providence. wberyfUu^'rc, be - -
% afriend to Americans, would condemn
m., right or wrong. However,at length af
•ter detaining me 40 hours out of m, ceurfe, I
left him, with my colours flying half maf ß
fgnifcam, ofdifrefs.
DANIEL PIERCE.
Jlift received an assortment of Books, which
are now for fate at this Office, among
•which are thefollowing, V'Z.
THE Vicar of Wakefielu, Tom Jones,
abridged—Child's Friend, His
tory of E. W. Montague, Sterne's Senti
mental Journey, S & ch after Happiness.
Robinson Crusoe, Latin Accidence, Pfa ni
Books, Deserted Village a Poem, A new
collection of Baptist Hymns, Father's Le^
gacy to hi, daughters, Watts' Divine
Songs for Children, Hiftory es George
Barnwell, Returned Captive, H.gar in
the Desert, Winchelter's Leflores on the
Prophecies, Ah Humble Address to Chris
tians of every denomination, Polly Davis;
Present to Children, &c. &c.
Also,
the PSALMODIST's COMPANION.
By JACOB FRENCH, Philo Mufich,
(Author of the new American Melody.)
Containing the Rudiments of Mun
sic, in a toncife and easy method.—lt '#
allowed by the beftjudges, to be as coni-'
plete a collection as any whatever—man,
of the tunes were never before published.
Pedlars may be (applied with a variety
of Pamphlets, by wholesale, on the most
reasonable terms.
Any of the above Boob, may fa fetal at th
Store of William W. Blake.
On Friday next will be published, and
for sale at this Office; the, Confeffion and
Dying words, of Samuel Frost, who was
executed at Worcester, on the gift ult. for
the murder of Capt. Elisha Allen, of
Princeton.—Also, a Poem, written on the
occasion.
I Keene, N0v.271b, 1793.
We learn from Salem, that Ca,t. Benjd
Henderjon, mafler of a brig belonging to Wm.
Gray, jun. Eg. has arrived there, and in
jorms, that on bis passage from Mariinice, be
was boarded b, the French privateer Citizen
Genet, fitted out at Charlfown, 3. C. and
commissioned by the French Minifer, wbefe
name jhe bears, the crew of which robbed bra
of near 800 dollars, and many other articled
— And not content with this on the Captain's
Jhewing his d,pleasure at such piratical and
rascally treatment, the, tied him to one of their
guns, fogged bim jroerely, and treated bim
with the mos abusive language.
Proper information will, no doubt, be giv
en to the Executive of the United States ,of tha
above iofances of piracy and inhumanity—
And the Captain's called to * £ ffy to :be out^
rages on oath.
To Correspondents.
To the Cbnsor and Zenex, we mus
fay, we wife a truce may be effefled between
them ; or let the public pronounce, who bar
gained the vi&ory. Their communications 0*
any other fubjea, would be more acceptable.
The SHAVER, in our next.
Thtirfday; the fifta day of December
next, is to be observed as a day of Public
Thanksgiving and Praise, throughout the
state of Vermont
DIED ] At Savannah, M^ George
R. Miller, of Bolton, &. z, fr
At Roxbury, Mr. John Lewis, &.
6 5-
At Boston, Mr. John Richardfon,lhip
wright, &. 77.
French.