The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1793-08-13 00:00:00, page 2

Copy of a letter written by the Acminiftrator*
constituting the council of the departmen 1
de la Vendee, Diftrid of Fontenay.le Peo
ple, Laroche fur-Yon in an extraordinary
ftliion aflcmbled.
Fontenry-le. people, le 16 May 1793.
Second year of the French Republic^
Ciiizins,
We hasten to inform you cf a fortunate event
* To.day the rebels made their appearance be
fore our town in considerable force, supported
by a large train of artillery. After a can
nonade, which lifted several hours, cur army
Tallied out to meet them, and they were re
pulsed, their artillery, conlifting of 26 pieces
withour swivels, &c. was taken. Their pro
visions and ammunition, baggage, a furnace
' prepare red-hot balls, canle, and eighty
waggons laden with grain and flour are fallen
into our hands. Our van guard perfued them
as far as two leagues, this affords compensa
tion for the losses we (attained at the assaults
of Breffuire and of Thouars, and enables us
to recover what less fortunate circumstances
obliged ns to give up.
We do not mention the number of dead
amd wounded of the enemy, on our fide there
are but fewof them,and prifoneis are brought
in every hour.
KENTUCKY.
KNOXVILLE, JUNE Is. Cn morning
of the 10thof June, at the South W. Point,
a soldier belonging to the 12th Company of
infantry, in 3d fab legion, was guilty of the
horrid deed of Suicide.—ln a very deliberate
manner he loaded his mu&et, ard after feat
■ ing himfclf cR a bench, tied a firing to the
trigger of his gun and the other end to his
toe, (placing the muzz e dire&ly unde; his
left ear) and in a second commenced his
march for the garrison of spirits.—His name
was John Muller, an Englishman— he was
generally ford of whifky to excess. Hail ye
Wb'jky Drinkers and fallow the Hero !
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,
F-Ceinje^ by the brig Polly, Ceft, Fo^er, in
63 from Rocbelle, in France.
The Convention on the to'.h May held
their session in their new place of meeting, the
Castle of the Thuilleries. The room is an ob
long iquare, ornamented with the potraits of
Brutus, Solen, Lycurgus, Plato, and otlers.
Disagreeable accounts of the progress of
the Royalists in the department of Poitiers
were communicated to the'Aflembly this day
by a* member just returned from that quarter
—Cam bon communicated an account of some
fuecefles against the Spaniards and the fron
tiers. 'jCK , „
May 11. AreporrTOmmade to the Con
vention of the treacher^W Geo.Petino, who
had gone over to the Royalists with 2500
men, which he had commanded atThouars.
A member said in the debate, that Petino
was the firft rocry out Hu^zafor Louit XFII!
Huzza for the ^uten ! and to join to perfidy
foUiiCMO» Huzza for Jefa Chid /
tn tbit town.
“We have received a letter» from Mr-
Wilson, dated at Detroit the 17th inflant,
in'orming us> that the Weflern Indians were
then beginning to counsel amoung themselves,
at their general meeting at’the Rapids of the
Miami of the Lake, we (hall fail with the
firii wind to Detroit river, and go to San
dusky as soon as we find the Indians are ready
io proceed thither from the Miami.
Extraff 'of alelter from the Comm'jjioners ap^
pointed to treat with the Indians, dated at
Fort Erie, June 28, 1793> to a gentleman
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 31.
On Saturday Jaft came on before the Circuit
Court of the Ucd Stares the trial cf Gideon
Henfield, indifled by the Grand Jury for
entering and {etving on board the Citizen
Genet French privateer, he being a Citizen of
the United States. After the arguments of the
Council were heard, viz. Mr. Randolph and
Mr. Rawle infupportof the prosecution, and
Messrs. Sargeant; Ingerfol and Duponceau
for tne defendant—The Court in their address
to the Jury gave their opinion unanimously
that as the treaties with foreign powers, con*
flitute part of the laws of the United States#
rbe offence described in the indiflment was
an infringement not only of the laws of
nations, but also of the laws bf the United
States. Monday the Jury returned into Court
when it appeared that eleven were for a ver
difl of acquittal and one for finding the defen
dant guilty. The Coert then (eperaiely and
ciftinflly repeated to tie Jury the law—
and required that they fhouid again retire,
and reconsider their verdid —Ahour 7 o’clock
in the evening the Jury brought in a verdiS,
not guilty, after which the Jury was
dismissed and rhe Court adjourned.
AMERICAN ADVICES.
PENNSTL VA NI A.
(signed)
MASSE for, the Vice-Prefideht.
VIRGINIA.
PITTSBURGH, JULY 20.
ABSTRACT OF
NEW-YORK.
NEwiiVCRK, JULY 24.. '
Tranflatedfrom the Chromique de Paris,-nre
ceidsed ytferdav by the /hip Hare, Dekay, in
64 days from Bordeaux.
IN the Paris Chronicle of tfa nth May,
principally filled with details of the bufioefs
before the National Convention, is the fal
lowingaccount ofGen.DAMPIERE’a death:
We have no accounts of any new movements
of the Spaniards:—in a sally, the garrison of
Bellegrade carried off, from the enemy’s ter
ritory, 600 head of catlie the eafewith
which the enemy permit the flrong places of
this part of our frontier to be supplied, is a
proof that they have no fafficiint force to
prevent it. Two thousand infantry have
just arrived fit Pefpignam, among which is
the Montpeliey battallion, rjo cavalry.—
Ctmbon adds rhat an armyof 12000 menwere
forming irt the department of Herauit, and
another of Eight Thousand on the fide of
Carcaffone..—The joy which these account#
spread was however but of ftiort duration ;
for instantly after a loss which the French
will long sensibly feel was announced to the
Convention. It was somewhat moderated
tho’ by the details of an advantage gained
over the Austrians. but this success cost dear
to the republic in robbing it of a defender as
formidable to traitors within, as to enemies
without. General Dampiere yesterday had
his thigh carried away by a ball, and died
this moaning : (an expression of grief instant
ly ran through 'the whole convention—the
army regret in him a brave soldier, a gener
al full of zeal, and a true friend to the re
public. The confidence which his procla
mation at the instant of Dumourier’s treason
inspired, his military career always pure and
always glorious, and his honorable death,
ought to be in the- recollection of those who
from hatred or raving endeavour to depreciate
the credit of his justly acquired reputation.
We (hall to-morrow, wiih every gqpd citizen,'
(bed tears upon the laurel and cypress with
which we (hall spread his grave.
“ A report of his aid decamp sauvan,
was added to this letter ; —it announced.that
Dampiere had given orders to attack the
woods of Remes and a little wood, where the
enemy were entrenched. The happiest dif
pofirions had been made, and viftory ap
peared to incline to the French, when the
General, led by his valour ro the molt dan.
gerous posts, received the fatal blow We,
notwithstanding remained mailers of four re
doubts carried by dint of bayonet'—Our loss
is valued at 60 men killed and 300 mound
ed : The enemy were much more weakened.
Those who knew not general Dampiere, and
wyruld know of what a man the republic has
been deprived, let them read the' following
trait of him ; —at the moment when struck
bytbe ball,which beat him under his horfe,he
received the assistance of his brothers in army ;
Dampiere, dying cried, my friends leave here
my wounds, and fly where danger calls !—
May our Nation and Republic flourish I * *
<« ’Ti« not .Dampiere that is to be pitied y
—he lived as a sage, and died as, a hero.
He il dead, and Dumourier lives I bul, oh I
The National Convention have granted the
Honours of the pantheon to Gen. Dampierre.
Gen. Biron is appointed to command the
armies intended to aft against the rebels.
A decree palled the Convention, regulat
ing and providing for the School of the deaf
and Dumb in Bourdoux.
Such of the students in the Mi itary School
as are guilty of Incivifm, the Minister of
war obtained liberty to fend back to their
relations.
Paris, may 13. The Seftions are busy
wiih true patriotic zeal, in compleating the
recruiting : the poor offer themselves and the
rich open their purses ; offices have been
eroded in several df the pub ic squares foHhe
enrollment of recruits ; several proclamations
have been made by the beat of the drum
and other warlike instruments of inufic. The
carriages and provisions are ready, several
bodies of regulars have gone off.—The decree
which places all horses employed in objefts
of luxury at the disposal of the minister of war
is ftridly executed. Every pleasure carriage
which passes is flopped, and the horses taken
to the national fables. Without these mea
sures ic would bi impossible to furnifh horses
for our cavalry at a time when our ■ intercourse
with foreign ports is imerrupted.
May 14. Agreeably to the orders of the
Minister at war, 600 muskets were Lntoff
yesterday to Tours; for Metz about 36.0°°
weight of bullets ; Versailles 5 carriges of ar
tillery, gon€ there to be laden with i^b’boo
cartridges for the army of Vendee.
It is thought that the rebels are command
ed by Bouille and Lambefc. It is certain
that the regiment,ci-devant Royal Allemand,
of which the last mentioned had the com
mand, is among them ; many soldiers il red
are seen with them; they are English troops.
The difmiffiou of the Minister at wur is
spoken of ; Beauharnors and Lamarliert are
spoken of to facceed him.
We hear from Brest that a French ptjva
teer has brought into Morlaix the Pallas
frigate, from India. She is the firft wlich
the English took from us in 1778. This prize
is valued ar 2,600.000 livres.
consoling thought ;for fidelity to ones coun
try, Lnd for republican
man would not experience th%f^^>f Dam
pierre, and who would confentto partake
the destiny of D umourier.”
PROCLAMATION -
of the civil commissioners.
The Republic desires also, to alleviate the
condition of the other (laves—by preventing
them from being ill-treated as formerly
furnifhing them with better provisions, and
more capacious apartments for their conven
ience ; higher wages by the year, and more
leifuri through the week to attend to their
own affairs ; more kindness and refpeft for
the women who are pregnant and for nurses ;
by affording them certain means of redeem
ing themselves, by means of determined sums
—finally, by giving gradual liberty ro the
negroes who can furnilh proofs of their good
conduft, and of their assiduity in labour, and
by giving them at rhe fame time pieces of
land, and property fufficient to afford them
felvs and families an honest fubflftence. .
All the negroes who may be declared free
by the delegates of rbe Republic, shall be e
qual to all freemen, whether white or any
other colour ; they shall enjoy all the rights
belonging to French citizens.
This is the million which the National
Convention and the Executive Council of the
Republic have given to the civil Commission.
ers. (Signed) POLVEREL.
SANTHONAX.
MASSACHUSETTS.
' boston, august 7. A gentleman in
this town has received a letter from London,
dated June 6, 1793, which informs, that, the
National Convention of France, hath lately
parted a decree, that all property found in
neutral bottoms, belonging to an enemy,fhall
be a lawful prize : And that all neutral ves
sels bound to an.enemy’s port laden with pro
visions may be taken and carried into France,
they paying the parties the prices they would
have received at their deftlned market. A
similar aft is parted in England.
On Monday arrived in the outer harbour,
the French Republican Ihip La Concord, of
44 guns, commanded by Citizen Van Don
gen. She was one of the fleer, which lately
arrived in the United States, from St. Demin,
go ; and was seven days from Chefaptake.-—
She has four hundred men on board ; and is
in every refpeft a fine (hip- She was lanched
only 2or 3 days before the Declaration of
War, against England and Holland.
The Concord brought out from France a
bove a million of livres, for the relief of St.
Domingo. — 1 \
ExtraS of a letter from an American gentieman
of information, who has lately pajfed through
France and the Netherlands, to his friend in
this town, dated London, June 5, 1793*
———l am very confident that the
French cannot be subdued ; and in case Conde
and Valenciennes fhouid be taken, the combin
ed powers will not be a Angle step nearer the
objeft they aim at, than they are at present:
because Lisle, and several other towns are so
strongly fortified, chat it is impossible they
fhouid advance into rhe country, even were
they superior in the field, which 1 am fare is
not the case.”
A letter fiom Lisbon, to a merchant in this
town, dated June 19th, fays, “ The warftill
continues without any material advantage to
either party.”—This must be the latest intel- *
ligence from Europe.
The Spaniards have been repulsed in their
attempts on the town of Cape Francois—‘(o
fay the accounts from that quarter.
A New-York paper of Wednesday last
mentions, the arrival there of the “ Schooner
Republican, prize to the Boson frigate.”
There are real profpeds of a favourable
issue of the treaty now making at Sandu&y—
The Indians wish for peace, and it is said,
will agree to any honourable terms.
A letter from Charleston, S. Carolina, da
ted July 18, fays
“ Advices were yesterday received
from the President of the United
States, to the Governor of this State
and Georgia, to have the militia rea
dy at a moment’s warning.”
^l—i
The following paragraph is taken from a Nia*
gar a Paper of July 4»
The Commissioners from rhe United States
left Navy-Hall, on Thursday last, and we
undtrftand were to proceed to Fort Erie, to
embark on board bis Majesty’s Ihip ibeDun*
more, which is ordered to attend theai, to
the objift of their roiffion.
Cape Francois, June 21, 1293.
WE declare, that the will of the French
Republic, and that of its delegates, is to give
Liberty to all the negro warriors, who will
fight for the Republic, under-the orders of
the civil commijjioners, as well against the
Spaniard', as the other enemies, whether in
ternal, or external.
From PROVIDENCE, yb August.
A Packet in from Newl'ork to day, bring*
accounts of the Embu[cade having arrived
there, very much (battered in her rigging &
(pars, having had two and half hours close
engagement with the Enelifh frigate Bajion ;
a when she cut away the Engtiihman’s main
top-mast—who then up helm, and put away
before rhe wind. The Embufcade hove too,
half an hour, to repair her rigging, then bore
away after him ; but her mafls being very
lame, with several (hot in them, after eight
hours chafe was not abletooverhaul Kim—The’
Embufcade had seven men killed, and twenty
two wounded. The Frenchman, while otic,
took, a Spanish vessel, loaded with sugar,
coffee, ana indigo.
Gentlemen who came in the Packer from
New-York inform, that the Capt- of the Em
bufcade frigate, having accepted the invita,
tion of Capt, Courtney, of the Bolton/
failed from New-York, on Tuefday, last
wqek ; That on Thursday, at 5 o’clock, A,,
M. the two friga es met, when a very warm
aft ion commenced, and continued two hours
and an half ; that the Embufcade received a
severe (hot in her main-mast ; and the Bof.
ton had her • main-top.maft shot away; and
that after the above time, the Boflon hauied
her wind, and (heered off. The Embufcade
laid too an hour and an half to refit; when
she gave chafe to the Boston, for eight hours j
but not being able to overhaul her, flood for
New-York, and on Friday, came in, in com
pany with the French fleet, from Chefapeak,
confiding of two fail of the line, and several
Frigates. Coming in, the Embufcade took a
Spanish brig, and brought her in with her.
The loft of the Boftoh could not be after
twined ; that of the Embufcade WM 7
killed, 21 or 22 wounded,
About 7 the fire from the L’Embufcade
was somewhat slackened, but fe^med to be
renewed from the Bofton,when a (hot from the
L’Embufcade struck the main-top-matt of the
Boflon, and carried it over-board ; on which
she immediarely ceased firing, crouded alt
the fail she could and ran off. The L’Em
bufcade fired three guns more at her as a to
ken of vidory, and as soon as (he could get
under way to follow the Bofton t of which (be
yvas delayed about half an hour, owing to her
rigging and fails being very much mutilated,
(he gave her chafe—which our informant as
sures us (he continued until past nine o’clock,
when both (hips were out of fight. They
were both fleering ro the southward.
new-york, july 30. Laftevelingcame
up from Sandy-Hook, the Revenue Cutter,
Capt. Dennis, who at 4 P. M. 2 league E.
by S. fiom Sandy-Hook, fpeke the British
Frigare Boston, Capt. Courtney, who in
formed Capr. Dennis, he would be very hap
py to fee the Embufcade. The above Ihip
carries 32 guns.
Citizen Bompard, will wait on Captain
Courtney, to-morrow, agreeable to invitation
—he hopes to find him at the Hook.
An immediate order for failing was issued
by the Consul cf the Republic of France, oa
hearing of the challenge, all hands were feea
ar work, bending fails, (hooting top-gallant
maft an end, &c. all day on Monday, and
yesterday morning, at 5 o’clock, she dropped
do*n, where (he lay, waiting for the tide &
w nd, until 6 P. M. when (he set fail for the
Hook, to meet her bravado antagonist, but
the wind being an end (he dropped anchor a
gain tor the next tide ; the result of this in
terview we (hall, doubilefs, be able to give ia
our next.
A number of parties of citizens, went down
yesterday, in different boats, to be eye wit
nefles of the battle, and many bets are laid
on the fabjeft.
GRAND NAVAL COMBAT.
The following information is given us by
one of the hands belonging*to (he Pilot. Boat
Hound, of this Port : On Wednesday night
last about eight o’clock, the p lct boat fell
in with, to the louthward of the Hook, the
two frigates L’Embufcade and Boston, (land
ing on one course, and took a birth between
the two tin il towards day-lighr, when tie
boat (heered oft out es the leach of their guns,
and lay too. After day light the Embuf
cade fired a gun and hoifled the National
flag of France, which wasfliortly after done
by the Britifti frigate. The Embufcade
then bore down upon the Boston, both (hip*
being then between the Grove and the Woo
dlands, distant about 5 leagues S. E. of the
Hook. The Boston endeavoured several
times to get to the windward of the Embuf
cade, but not being able to accomplilh her
point, (he was obliged to come toclofe adion
precisely at 37 minutes part five o’clock, A.
M. The aftion continued frem that time
uhtil half part seven, during the course of
which the Embufcade’s colours wee (hot a
way, which induced our informant to fappofe
(he had struck, but (hortly hoisted them a
gain. In a litrle time after the fame acci
dent happened to the Boston, which was soon
replaced. The Embufcade attempted to
board the Boston, but failed.
NAVAL ACTION.
AUGUST 2.