The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-07-29 00:00:00, page 3

Whitehall, May 16.
, e A Letter, dated Tc^rnay, May 15,
1794, of which the following is an extract,
was jefterday Received from his Riyal
Highness the Dake of York, by the Right
lion. Henry Dundas, his Majeftv's princi
pal Secretary of State for the Home De
partment.
" Since my last letter r.o attempt has
been made by the ehemAp harrafs or mo
hft an, ofmy polls. On^ueday morn
^ g, however, they attacked in great
Arre General Clairfayt's corfa, which had
>nigh: before eroded the Htye. The
^un lahch from one o'clock% t he af
',".'" '" " " n ight, *htn General
C&rbrflgcctt&J in ^ o ^,Utd,living
WESTERN TERRITORY.
KNOXVILLE, June 5 .
GEN. Rcbertfon, cf Mero Dftrid, and
Piamingo, a Chichafaw chief, acconipani
edby other chiefs, are on a visit to th'
Fietident of the United States. By Gen.
Robertson we learn, that upwards of 70
Chc&iu, and 30 Chickasaw Warriors pal
fed that price, on their way to General
Wayne's army. This proof of friendship
for the United States is the greater, as it is
given unfoliciied. The Cbickifows intend
otterin, their services to the Utied Satej,
and ifwell received,can furnith rooo men.
By two letters ficin} hn M'Kc, and
cne from Hnging-M^w, to G ve^nor
Blcui,t, it is certain that the Cherokees e^t
amicably difpoled towards the Unitec
States.
PHILADELPHIA, July I§.
By the brig William, Capain O?ks,
from Liverpool, whence she failed th
^;th cf May, we have received London
papers to the 21st and Liverpool 10 th?
22. L They state thn General Clairfayt
had fuffered a very severe defeat on the
2 Ith, in which the allies fuftrired a great
er loss than in any one action fi.ee the
commencement of the war.
The following are extraded from the
above mentioned papers.
K> ^C*G ^ <X>^ 00>0< ^OO
By Yefterday'd Bafion Pojl.
FRANCE.
PARIS, MAY 27.
I HERE has been another aßion
on the Zill :May near Tourray, between
the Republican army commanded by Pich
i:gru and the combined armies. These
)ett were forced to crofi th Scheldt, after
5 hoody action which, lifted 24 hours.
The French loft two ,pieces of artillery,
fcei, seven and made roo prisoners.
On the 20th May the right of the
French was at Binch, and was to advance
on to Mons or Charleroi ; their head
quarters ftillat Courrai, the left extend
ing near Oftend.
An attempt was made to afTaftrate Rob
erfpier.e, by a young woman, 17 years ol
age. An attempt was also made on the
life of another member of the committee
of fafety, both without fueccis.
The latter attempt was made by a mar
armed wi ha double barrelled gun, who
uniting his firft (hot fid and concealed
himfelf in a house, whee he was fob wed
by the member and an officer that chanced
to pals just after the ihot was fired. They
dife^vered the villain in his hdirg place,
and received notice from him,that the sirs
person whuendeavored to arred him sh ulc
receive the contents ofhis loaded barrel.
The member attempted to advance, but
was prevented by tie officer who declare
he had not a righ: to hazard his life, be
cause he belonged to the people. The of
£cer ftept forward, rheo, and received a
ball in hisfhoulder, with one arm, how
ever, he secured the airaffin.
(The Paris pa,; ers of the 27'h Mav,con
tain an account of the fare 01 Clairfayt's
army in the affair of the 17 h May, on the
fubjeft of which the English papers arc
quite fileat. Cairfri', our readers wi
lecollea, wss io have crossed the Lys, an
by forming a janeion with the five col
umns which proceeded from the environ;
of Tournay, have cut off the c rumurica
tion between the French at Cour:ray. ana
Lille. In this Claiifayt w^s unlucceCTul &
loft upwards of one hundred pieces of can
run, 300 horses, and had 1500 men m+df
prisoners, the number of k Led or wound
ed is sot mentioned. The artillery wa^
taken by the Saro-Cctottes General who
drove theEnglifh from before Dunkirk;
and there took a considerable quantity of
cannon &c.j
PENNSYLVANIA.
From the London Gazette.
From Antigua, June 2j.
O Saturday hit a vessel arrived from
Guadeloupe, by which ue learn, that about
4 o'clock on Friday morning, June 19, a
tremendous explosion of mortars and can
non were heard in Point a Petre quarter,
Grand Terre, which continued without
intermission until ten o'clock when it cea
sed for about an hour, and then recom
menced with equal violence, and lasted a
bout two hours longer.—From this cir
cumstance we concluded that Fleur d'Pce
and the other polls of the French, had been
attacked from all quarters, by his Majes
ty's land aigfea forces, but by an arrival
yesterday, we learn that it was occafiohed
by two French fr gates having attacked
the watering place, which was defended
by two gun boats, and a detachment of his
Majesty's troops. The frigates were beat
off, but not before they funk one gun;
boat, which has since been got up.
The British, confuting of 2,200 men ex
clusive of seamen had gained the heights
above Fleur d'Pee, without the loss of a
man; in this situation affairs flood at
Grand Terre, on Friday last. ^ |
Extraa of a Ft er from St. Bartholomews,
dated June iz, 1794
" Various reports prevail as to the
strength of the French now at Guadaloupe.
I t irk, to strike a middle line, that there
was about 2000 regular troops, 150 sail
ors, and zoco armed negroes, who are un
der white officers, and und r discipline;
their (hipping are inftriq, to the Engliih
who have blocked them in at Point Petre
but without the least alarm to the French,
who have command of the whole harbor
by the fort.fixations there. It is impoffi
bfe to fay which party will get the iil.no;
the Frenchmen have poffeflion of all that
part to the caftward of the river baric,
commonly calle Grand Terre, which is
the most valuable part of the ifl-nd The
En^lifh have poffiffion of all toe weft 01
said river.
Yeflerday arrived here in forty-one
days from Left, the brig Maria, C^t.
Green. Capt. G. informs, that on tk # 6.h
ri Jure, ne was boarded by a French fri
gate pi forty guns ; the C ,t. if which
informed aim, that cn the 30 h May, and
3d June, the British fleet, confuting of 30
ill, and the French licet of zg, bad two
severe engagements, nt^r the BiilAx chan
fl, off Sicily ; that the two fleets had
.withdrawn, but no victory was chained
on either fide. Three large frigates hove
io tight on the 7th uh. the Capt. of the
frigate tufpeding they were enemies, left
Capt. Gcen co proceed on his voyage.
In lat. 47, lang. 12, Capt Green was
boarded by an English Lugger. On the
27. h Jae f/oke the brig Batfey of Bolton,
oDunc ito Hamburgh, out 15 days.
Capt. G en arrived jciterday front
Br^ft, which he left 5 h June. In the be
ginning of that month, or the end of May,
,he e was a naval engagement between
28 E # gidh ships of the line and 25 French;
in which muci damage was sustained by
beth, and victory remained undecided.—
The French had several engagements in
Flankers, in which they were generally
lucceUful. The CheLpeake convoy was
not arrived.
From a London Paper of the 20'h May.
Mr. Eid, the Messenger, arrived yef
ercay with dispatches from the Duke of
York, dated Tournay, Mayi6. By
these dispatches it appears that the Empe-,
ror, in perfun, has joined the Duae of>
York with 25,000 men, and relieved him
from the very imminent fixation in which
he was p'aced by tne increafiog numbers
of the enemy. General Claiifayt, who
had, in his last fatal affair of the nth, inj
^hr h, before he ran away, he had con- 1
qutred, loft ncit than 4000 men, has
trace fortunately collected a num :er of
fettered battalions and iquidrons f horse,;
a thing whici (-liter a tot^l rout) was
thoug t ineradicable.
them back into the town of Courtraf, but
not being able to take pclT fllun cf the
place, he retreated firft a&ofs the Heule,
and afterwards behind the river Maedel,
but'being still very closely pursed bythe
enemy, he Land hirafelf under the necef
fcy of continuing his march to Thielt,
where he has taken up a pefiugn in order
to cover Ghent, Bruges, and Oilend. His
loss, I am lorry to fay, has been very coa
fidcrable. b
EUR THER OF GUADALOUPE.
N E IT-1 0 R K
NEW-YORK, July 16.
OF GUADALOUPE.
JULY 16.
A letter from Grenville, doted M 3 Y M
fays," The Spaniards are in poffeflion pf
the CbtckaJww-bluff, Fifteen or twenty
miles below the mocihuf the 0.f0'0.,„
An epidemic difeefe is prevalentrit Mw-
Haven. Since the prefect year commen
ced, 77 perfohs have died.—ln June 26 cf
them.—The principal part of the mahg-
Inant ftarWt feta.
ExtraQ cf a letter from aver, referable
mercantile houje in Ljbon, Gated Maj 22.
" We have no nicer particular nens
than that the Spaniards have received a
molt complete defeat at koufrlon. Rc
pors fay that they have lort 26® pieces of
cannon, all their baggage, military chest,
and near half their array killed, wounded
and mining. Another circumstance is ad
ded which we hpe is not true —.hat the
French gave no quartern, not even to the
sick and w.uded in the hospitals ! all of
whch fell Hito their hands.— - Besides this,
there is nothing of consequence, nor any
prefect of a fyeedy uemiaauua of the
wv.''
JULY 18.
All the accounts pub i&d of the defeat of
the D^keof York's divihoa of the corabi
neo army, mike the loss very g-ei.The
French accounts fay that the luU mull have
been 5000-rcne third of the whole divili-
Oft.
Cotfifbng cf about 30 fail of vessels,
wiiatne Concern ,4 ^ guns, Putritige ib,
LaJetfa .Z, failed from tne Delaware the
ijid ufr. bound 10 France, and loaded
prolipaU, on account cf the French ke
pu!c. On the 14th, in the morning, a-
Du: 3, (agues from land, they fed in with
the bit sh tict, under admits! Murray,
bound from Engiana,^ the Hahjax Ration,
cxrii tn. of Rfoiution it^ ruu 641 oei:e
38 L Offau y6,Cleopatra jzA&jty 16,/b
--urt ib r,u's. immediately on the aucovery
of the Briulh ^uadron,the Concorde made a
signal to her convoy to leaner, and endea
veur to make their escape. The Biitilh
however, captured fix of them.
A gentleman from New-York informs,
that fix of the Delegare convoy that had
been chafed by the British Beet, had arri
ved there—that fix had been taken, and
that accounts of the other 18 had not arri
ved—that the Thetis British frigate had
come up to the city, and anchored off the
fort—that the Captain and Lieutenant had
landed, and that an officer bad been dis
patched, to Mr. Hammond, with accounts
of the fuccels of the squadron.
count can, as yet, be given of the affair.
The bell that we can collect is, that a fleet
cf 25 fail from the Delaware ; and a few
from this place, proceeded Rh bunday un
der convoy of three or tour French Ihips
of war ; that on the fame day they fell in
with some English Brigs' cf war, whether
frigates, or of the line of battle is not cer
tain. That the fleet was immediately aif
perfed, several cf the veffeia taken (fomc
fay all, but from the best authorities only
fix) and several arrived in port.
The French Nothera army confits of
90000 raen, Gen. Pichegru commands it.
The Einprels of Ru,a has offered the
Jews, that if they wou.a collect for her 30
millions of pounds, she would guarantee
the holy lana to riiem, where they might
build their temp c, agreeably to their ex
pedati m grounded on the Sth chapter df
Zachariah."
In the ifiaud of iriifpanioia, was taken
by the British forces, the 4th of June lad.
Those forces condiied of tiwJrrtyahk 74,
Stytre 6 |, Boißqux 64, Europe §O, and
several frigates, and about 5000 men.
The property captured, it is Lad, exceeds
two millions herring in value—<ha vetfels
and cargoes taken, was Icid at vendue on
the nth inrtanc.
Arrived at Newcury rort, last week,
brig Polly, Capt. M ultoD, from Ortcad.
June id, 70 leagues W. of Stilly, at 4
o'clock, A M. law a fleet of 27 fail large
ships, funding to the Leftward, 4 of
which were difm.'ft&d, and in tow. At
loo'clock, A M. saw a fecend fleet of
32 fail, l,ing too with UHir heads to the
westward.
JULY 17.
Ths fate of tie Delaware fleet, which
lately failed under a French convoy, 13 so
variously reported, mat no accurate ac-
MAS SACMUSETTE.
BOSTON, July 23.
POREAU PiUNGI,
A FRENCH CONPOr,
EUROPEAN FLEET'S.
Os trance and Great - Brra r., all ac
-Icounts agree, have bad a meeting :—Ur
rather, that such an event, from the known
contiguity of these oppefing navies, is
highly probable. The force of the British
is clearly ascertained to be 32 fiil cf the
lline, one store snip of 6; guts and 12 hi-
Igates and flcops of war, betides cutters
aid fi:e Ihips. The French force has been
variously reported. Capt. Atkins from
3rcfl informs, that he fiw the fleet fil from
that port, and that he counted 32 fail cf
the line, besides a large number of ^gabs;
and that he saw the fame fleet at sea, aug
mented to 50 fail in all.—Other accounts
flare the French fleet to contain 40 fail cf
the line. The action is laid to have com
menced on the 31st May; and to have
been repeated the 3d June —and the Cap
tain cf the Precie.ife French frigate, in
formed that the battle though severe was
not decisive; that both fleets fullered much,
and that the frigate had discovered parts
of mails, rigging, &c. supposed to belong
to the fleet, floating on the water. Oar
readers will recoiled that Capt. Mouhou,
arrived at Newburyport, saw on the gd
June, two fleets, one of which had 4 aif
mafted men of war in tow.
bELA^AE FLEET.
The fate of this Meet, which was loaded
with provisions and flour, on account of
the French Republic, interests the Ameri
can public. It consisted cf about 30 vefluls
—.and was met by the Biitifh Qadror.,
under Admiral Murray, on the 14th ink.
about 20 leagues from the Capes, which
gave theni immediate chafe, captured a
number, and was in pursuit cf others at
the date ofthe last accounts. The French
force, confided of the Concorde, Capt.
Van Dogen. the Perdrix of 26 and four
smaller armed vetfels.—Two of the letter
had arrived in port, as have several of
the convey—and a letter from New-York,
mentions,that the Captain ofa vessel from
New-Providence, arrived at New-York,
saw the Concorde ftrikc to a Sritifh 6^gun
ship. This account may be relied on?ex
cept as to the lad particular.
Ofthis convoy, the ship Mary, Capt.
Dillon has arrived at Newcastle, on the
Delaware. Capt. D. fays, that on Mon
day Morning the 14th inst. at 8 o'clock,it
being very foggy until that time, 2 large
British ships, were difeovered about three
leagues within shore of the fleet, and two
others to the eafttvard ; —that the disper
sing Signal was immediately given from the
Concorde, which then flood to the call
ward, several ships following. Capt. D.
was chafed an hour and an half, but being
to windward escaped. He saw several cf
the fleet captured. The number of v^ffels
101 l is said to be sixteen.
-AN EXPRESS
Has arrived at Philadelphia from Mr.
Ebdicot, and Cvt. Dany, dated Putfc
burgh, July 7, and bearing various letters
—a " tali' of the Six Nation*, and the
answer cf the commiffihners. The tenden
cy of ihe Talk is, that unless the citizens
of the United States immediately retire -
from the line which they now dwell upbn,
they shall no longer corfider th m as
friends. The answer obfitves, That
the land was guaranteed to the United
States by treaty with the British, and also
actually parchafed by the FehnfylvaJAns,
from the fix Nations, and therefore the,
must, till further orders from the General
Government, support their poftelßohs.
eoemasmare -CT^^re-; —^i[«i wr-ura
LOOK OUT!
THE Perlon who took the liberty to
enter the fubfeiber's Store on Fri
day last, and took from thence feme change
in fmalj pieces of Silver, some ginger
bread, &c. may prevent his name being
exposed, if he will call in a penitent way
and ^Qmpromife it.
WILLIAM %BLAKE.
Kam, July zgiti, 17^4, 1 '
BLA N'K S,
of most kinds,
For SALE at this OFFICE.
July 26.
Agreeable letters from Philadelphia, by
the Lift mail, inform, that by a late arrival
there from London, official accounts had
teen received from Mr Pinkney, our 'Am
baffador at the Court of St. James, con
taining atfurances from Mr. Bitt, that a
fall indemnity would be given to the Uni
ted States for the fpoilations on the Ame
rican commerce, which the imperious r.e
ceffity of circumstances had forced them to
make.
THE GRAND FLEETS,
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