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Letter addressed to the French Kings by
M. de R)chambeau, Command
ant General of therf% o f the North.
'' Kahnciennu, Sept. 15, 1791.
"Sire,
" THE happiest moment of my life
is the Inflant at which I can renew to
your M^j-fty the assurances of my
zeal, my refpeft, and- my fidelity.
The army of the North, of which you
have given me the command, has ta
ken, by your orders, the oath to be
faithful to the Nation, the Law, and
the King,and to maintain the Confti
thtion of the kingdom. It will ob
serve this oath Sire, and I dare assure
. your Majesty that whatever General
shall command under the King, and
according to the law, will cause your
Majesty's orders to be received by a
great majority of the troops,who com
• pose it, with the refped, love and sub
mission which are due to them. . ‘
.'.'After Saving laid before your
Majesty the state and disposition of
the army of the North, 1 ought indi
vidually co assure yod. of the happiL
nefs I feel in renewing the afforances
of the profound refpe&,which! am,&c.
, (Signed) ~
"Di Virneur Rochambeau."
£ — ; —^'" IMt " 11 "
73, King's Anfucer.
"Puris, Sept.fa, 1791.
, '' I have received with equal fatis
feftion, Sir, the expression of your
Sentiments for me, and the- affurancs
" 1 have no doubt that in this case
his Electoral Highness would give the
most positive orders, and would take
the molt Speed, ineafures to prevent
the enemies, who wish to dißub the
tranquility of France, ficrapaffing
through his territory.
" if, contrary to my expedition,
they should be fuffered to pass, or
foul'd force themselves a passage, 1
have the honour to warn your Excel
lency, that " 1 will purine the ene
mies of France, where ver tK^Qiall be
permitted to assemble, or Suffered to
pass ;" observing however, all the
moderation and forbearance pcffible
ba such occafipns.
" 1 have informed the minister of
War of ^ t e p which I now take, '&
1 doubt not but that my conduct will
meet with approbation on your fide,
as it has on ours. I have the honour
to be, &c. Kellerman."
For this Spirited condud, General
Kellerman received the thanks of
the Club des jacobins at Paris.
as nearly as pottle, as that of Z^
Lin'd, and an upper-and lower houfc.
" On these principles is the m^ui
feflo drawn up, which we are going
to fend to Paris. Should the Assem
bly P&y no regard.to it, are you,gen.
Clemen, willing to return to France.
or to stay with us ?
" I he Courts of Vienna and Profit
arc about to cater into negociations in
°4 r favour. if they Ihould be unable
to obtain car demands, we are in
hopes that each of thofc powers will
furnish us with an army with which
we fail! march into France. Say,gen
tlemen, what are your resolutions ?"
Every one of the officers declared
that they would stay with the Princes,
and make an oath of remaining faith
ful to them before the Prince deConde.
" Certain rumours which appear to
me extremely ridiculous, but which
nevertheless have occauoned some
anxiety, are spread abroad in this
country. According to those reports
it is. affirmed,that a number of French
emigrants, assembled at Worms, and
its environs are armed and embodied
with an intension to make an incursion
into France. By that part of the Lower
Rhine where i command. Such an
enterprise would be a real violation
of the territory Gt his Electoral High
ness, through whose dominions the in
vaders mult necessarily pass to our
frontiers.
Translation of a Letter from M. Kel
lzrmam, General of the French
army on the Lower Rhine, to the Mt
nfer of the Ele^or Palatine,
"Sir- Count,
"Col. Sargent's conduct meets the
highest approbation—he in rics every
encomium, for intelligence, bravery
and coolneGi
" Majors Treffcott and Burnham,
of the fecund Regt. lam told, have
resigned. Toey have it is said, been
hurt by Col. Wilkinlon's promotion,
to the command of the Regt.—who
was_a much younger officer.
"Y our friend Newman was preserved
until he had got Several miles on the
retreat—ln the early part of the ac
tion he was severely wounded in the
arm—but kept his Ration, and forced
his way through the Savages. Find
ing himfelf grow faint from the loss
of blood, he told the few remaining
faithful fellows, who flood by 'him,
to make the best of .their way, and
leave him—for that he must die.—-
They refufed,and finding an old horse
they put him and another wounded
°ffi c , on ; immediately, on which a
^Pigling Indian Shot them both dead
on the horse.
, There is a report here, that
Major H k, of the fifft Regt, has
been arrested by Col. Dark. The
ground of it, is said to be this— -the
Major, with the firft Regt, met the
recreating afrmy,',about fix miles from
Fort Jefferfon ; ind instead of march
ing into the rear, [to fuccour the
wounded and lired Soldiery ; he im
mediately wheeled the Regiment to
the right about, and was, with it,
?°J?°€ " e ''^ that arrived at Fort-
Jdferfon." -
STOCKBRIDGE JAN. 3.
BY a Geotlamaa who was at Nia
gara when the news arrived
lucre of the late defeat of the Wef
tern Army, under Gen. St. Clair,
we have received the following parti
culars (grounded on the authority of
Indian account!) and currently repor
ted there for fad at that. time, viz.
That in the engagement the Indians
loft but fifty-fix of their number ; that
they captured 350 ofour troops, and
ellimate our loss killed and taken, at
1200 —That the Indians were com
manded by Miffafago Chief, a man
much in their confidence,who has been
a reno vned and fortunate warriour—.
That the next day after the engage
ment, yooindians from theWeftward,
joined their victorious brethren. They
came armed with bows, arrows and
spears ; a circumflaoce which indi
cates that they have hitherto had but
little or no acquaintance with the
cle of fire arms— That Col. Brandt
was not (as has been imagined by
many) with the Indians in the late
action, but lay. very sick at a final!
distance from Niagara : that the in
dians were very much exasperated
againii him, and threatened to use
him and his nation as they had done
the whites.
'' I dined yesterday at Mr.———'s,
in company with a number of the firft
official characters here. The defeat
and retreat of the Weftern army,
were the fubjeft of conversation.
Gen. S'. Clair's conduct was freely
canvassed, and there was not an ex
preflion dropped to his prejudice—a
cigcumftance uncommon upon such
ill # success. Witness poor Harmar,
who, notwithstanding the obliquy
against him, has been honourably ac
quitted.•
from Philadelphia —□ e c.2s.
you give me of the disposition of the
army under your command. lam
sensible of the ffiare which you have
in producing these difpofitioas, and 1
confide to your zeal and talents the
care of maintaining them,! am pleat
ed to think, that the d itradtioa of a
part of the troops will quickly cease,
and that the army brought back to
proper principles,will henceforth ful
fil all those duties which their coun
try has a right to exped. (Signed)
“ LOUiS."
AMERICAN ADVICES.
boston, jan. 11.
, A correspondent observes that th.
Devil and his friends must feel them
selves under great obligation to Al
cander for giving the public so com
plete a vindication of the moral cha
rader of that personage, as appeared,
not long since, in this paper. For
if fin be really so necefiry as he re
presents it ; and if the Deity be true
iy the original cause and author of it,
as he thinks he has demonstrated; then
the Devil must have been ouly the in
ffrument, which he saw fit to employ
in efraing ics introduction. Now a>
the guilt of a vicious action always
refc off the agent, and never on the
infrument, the D.vil must stand en
tirely acquitted of all blame in the
business. Let it not be here said,
continues our correspondent, that the
Devil quill'd the adion before he
committed it, and approved of it as
terwards, and by that means made it
his own for admitting that he ac
ted under the immediate agency of
the Deity, this is the molt pitiful sub
terfuge, to which confeious weakneG
ever had recourse. The Deity posses
ft, unlimited power—His operation,
therefore must be irrefiftable, If,
then, the arch-apostate were influen
ced by the Deity to commit the firft
finful aft, he had not power to decline
it: and if he will'd that aa and vo
luntarily preferred it to retaining hi^
original integrity, that volition and
preference were the very thing effeded
by the divine energy. For it is the
will only and not the executive powers,
upon which the Deity operates. It
undeniably follows, then, that the
Devil even in willing that action was
altogether a machine , • and can no more
be holden guilty of the high crime,
with which he has so long been char
ged, of introducing into the moral
system of the Deity that fin and con
sequent misery, which so greatly, at
present, deform it, than the club,
with which Cain, flew his brother,
was of the firft murder. Our corres
pondent concludes by faying that,
although he always rejoices when any
rational being is refeued from unme
ritted ignominy and reproach ; yet
he is extremely sorry that, in this in
ft^nce, it could have been done no
otherwise than at ;he expence of the
Deity; on whole moral charader Al
- has endeavored to fix a deeper
stain cf infamy than that, which he
has iocav tioufy wiped eff from the
Devil's. ~
In the Weft-Indies,driven to def
perarion, have lodged the last appeal
— The glorious sentiments of Cato,
and the Hon, Samuel Adams. Esq
" that one moment of Liberty, is worth
an eternity of bondage—that if one and
but one of three millions,, escapes gene
ral destruction, he is pre era le to two
hundred ninety and nine thousand,
nine hundred and ninety nine faves,''
burns strong in their bosoms ; ar.c
tha.flame, which the patriot kind
led on the altar of American freedom
must finally conquer, The ftrugglc
will be arduous,
Os the Corps Diplomatique, in Por
tugal, none fapport a more elegant
hyle than Col. HUMPHREYS, the
Resident from the United States—and
in his attention to his countrymen
none can exceed him. All his do
mefticks are Americans—.his Hate
coach was made at Philadelphia, and
is drawn by four beautiful American
borfes. His Excellency, we under-
Hand, is shortly to be married 'to an
accomplished young lady, of Lisbon —
possessed of an immense fortune
" The fair reward the brave."
The gentleman nominated by the
President of the United States, as
Ambaffadour to the Court of London,
aded a very diHinguifhed part during
the late war : He was wounded at the
battle of Camden, when aid-de-camp
to Gen. Gates, Thus is merit fought
for and rewarded
EXETER, January 14.
THE NEGROES
i^ .f'^ ?
^OTED, that the Trca-
V Surer call on all persons indebted
to the Sate for Impost or Excise,
to pay or renew their refeedive Bonds
wiih In crest by the twenty-Second
day of March next, with such Securi
ties as the T/eafurer may require,and
that he issue Extents agair.lt all per
sons who shall refufe or neglect to
comply with this order
Sent down for concurrence :
JOSEPH PEARSON, S^y.
In the House of Reprefen
atives the fame day read and con-
Treafury.Office, New Hampfeire—
Exe er, Jan. 10. 1791.
PURSUANT to the above
' —all concerned are,, requeued to
pay, or renew tlieir Bard), agreeably
to said note, o.herwife Extents will
be iff^eJ.
J. T. Gilman, Treafc.
The fubferiber is sorry that
be is obliged to trouble bis Cufomers a
gain with a disagreeable dun, but bis
nectfLy calls loudly for their affiJlance—
and unless they lodge their little dues at
the refpeaive places heretofore mention
ed, immediately, be must inevitably fuf
fer for their negligence. He hopes.finally,
that none will need any further notice
in this way, which is to him and them
mo, disagreeable.
curred.
Wm. PLUMER, Speahr.
Atrue Cop, —Aitefl:
JOSEPH PEARSON, Sec'ry.
qpHE Honorable General
Court, by a Revolution puffed
the 30th of December 1791, having
(among other things) Ordered —
,' That the expediency of issuing
Extents for the Outflanding Taxes
be left diferetionary with the Trea
surer, any former order of the Gene
ral Court to the contrary notwitti
ftanding: Excepting only that this
Resolve shall not affed or alter the
force of any Vote or Resolve for flay
ing Extends in particular cases."
°The Treasurer 'thinks it.
his duty to call on all Collectors, and
on the Selectmen where Collectors
have not been returned agreeably to
Law, to make payment of the fams
due from them refpeditely. It ap
pears by the returns, lately made by
Selectmen, that large sums have been
colleded from the people, which sums
are not paid into the Treasury ; some
towns have paid all the Taxes requir
ed of them ; others owe small sums,
while some others are much in arrears.
The General Court at their Ute fel
fion have made some orders to facili
tate the payment of the Taxes due ia
paper ; There has not been any Rate
Tax required for the last, or present
year, and it is the opinion of the
Treasurer, that the Tree Interest of
the good people of this State will ba
promo ed by a.fpeedy collection of all
outflanking Taxes ; Therefore he re
quests that all concerned would pay
immediate and particular attention to
this notice ; pay the sums due from
them refpedively, and thereby save
Irm the trouble and themfelvu the
expence of Extents.
J. T. GILMAN, rfy^^
E. CR A M.
Pittsfield, Jan..l2, 1792. .
Dr. Watts',
PSALMS and HYMNS
and a few
Round band Copy-Slits,
to~ be fold at the printing-office in
±_]^ff^ CT _7 '79 L
ft. The Editor hereof in
tendsto public t he Laws of this state
in the Gazetteer as soon as he cap oh
t„p a correct copy of them.
IN SENATE, fa. 5, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
Trea,ury-O,ce, Atw rlarn t joste —
EXETER,JAN. 10, A/QZ.