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Jnotbir htter from thefame Commffi')niri l da*
lear»{t» i»nns, May 9.
General Dbmptere, who had hit thigh
earned away yesterday by a ball, died' this
morning. The whole army regret in him
a brave foMier, an able General and a fin
er re friend of the Republic.—The confidence
which he inspired in the troops by hrs noble
Proclamation at ih<dme when the treachery
bf PtWMrr/r was discovered ; his military
life, always glorious end onfullied ; and his
death ought to be recalled to the remetn-
JrjWje nf theft who may endeavour ro tar*
acquired repo,
f^qdi. O*o-morrow we Ball go with all rhe
good citizens to raoiiten with our tears the
fiord* and ^pnA which will cover hie
grave ** Signed, Ac. &e.
The National Convention deeply affeded
bv rhe death pt this brard General, charg
ed the Prefidebt to teftify to his widow their
cgiet fortodifwifPHC f
from the Qornm^ntrt with the army in tie
Aortb, da e.t Valenciennes, May 8.
<» General Dampiere this morning made
an a tack in the wood of Rheme andVicogoe,
todifiodgethe enemy, it was very vigo
rous, and the firing continued the whole day.
The foWrert of the Republic (hewed an ar
dour worthy of the big heft praise. and earrt
<d several intrench T.eoca with the bayonet.
had a boor 30 men killed, and fever al
wounded, but we are certain that we occa.
Boned very great loft to rhe enemy. We Hili
poflefs (ome of the increnchmeota which we
haw taken from them, bat nothing con foies
us fir rhe melancholy accident which be
st! Genera] Dampicre, obr Commander in
“ X ^hief.-~H « bravery havhag induced him to
advance too Lr^his ch^n wai carried away
gy,a ball.
“We have taken Several prifoner*. The
jy-h battalion of infantry,. commanded by
Lieut. Col. Belt lai', and the tcxh battalion
of la Mayenne, commanded by Lieut. Col.
Malberbe, having at their head Generals Afir
lurt and Deroyuet effected, with unexampled
Mntrepidi y. a flaw and well ordered retreat,
under the fire of several formidable batter
which were uri ma fled upon them in the
woods. Nothing could have been expeded
bar that they would ‘ have been cut to pieces.
They however, loft only fix men killed and
wounded. A soldier who had his arm earn*
edaway, cried out, when he returned to the
town—“ I have still one left to serve the
Ration !**—Our brave Genera', while fur.
rounded by perfotfs who were lamenting his
disaster, cried one, •* This is nothing ! Vive
la Nation I Vive la Republique 1”
HE regicides finding themselves de
feated, ran tQ. the prisons of Bouffai and the
C hapeau (prisons at Nantz) in which they
had (hut up a number of victims, males and
females. —We do not know the number of
ihote in the Chatteau I but we know, that in
the prison of Bouffai twenty two were con
fined. Os this number were Miff, de Me
noj, the Farber and eideft Son ; M. de Vue,
and bis two Sons-»n law ; two Meflieurs de
B<ue de Clcray ; Villeaude, an Advocate ;
M.G and mat fop ; Arnold de la Noe ; Cor
niieau ; Rich de fa Rouitiere, brother of
oar Lte Ultimate Mayor and Lavenon,
ind his foot companions, with-whole names
»c arc unscqusin eB.
The mongers had just time to batcher all
their vidims io. these two prisons ; but the
Divine Vengeance did not long delay the
punilhmenf doe to their barbarity. The
firft care of the Royalits. on entering viflo
rioufiy into Nantz, (an event which took
place thed^y before y citer day, as er the bat
tle of Sori nitre* fought on the lift, on the
Rochelle road at two leagues diftancc from
this capital) was to let free the prisoners,
Bit they ^e'e, ahs I oolate,tfiev found, hem
ALL BUTCHERED, AND FLOATING
IN THEIR BLOOD. WHICH WAS
^TILL WARM 1 Tnen h was <hat liflening
to the impulse of their. rage ooly» they flew
everyman they found in arms, not one of
whom Heaped their just resentment ; the
butchery was such, that the blood ran in ri
vulets through the flrects.
- Th«‘ has this juftifiable severity expiated
tile high enormities of the Guillotine, these
wreiches kept in ebnftant readiness on the
square of Bwffai, and which hke the Idol of
Bel, daily devoured idveral vidtims. Sonu
nte out *ere those, that to avoid terrifying
the P ople, they had been under the necessi
ty of surrounding it by a dumber of planks
of a certain heighth, and of covering the
fbor of the inclofure with a deep layer of
sand, to the end >hat the blood migh: be thus
abfobbed, and prevented from overflowing
the Squrae I
: . F RAN C E.
NANTZ, APRIL 24
Co if relation ot the taking of the capital of
BRI TTANY by tit ROY ALIAS.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
national convention.
PARIS. MAY 5.
letter
PENN STL VANI A.
MuurbEL^HrA 1 / july ip
Ex trad of a httif soma gy. th " t Bislti -
more, dated'July b, to his frit nd in ibis
city- ■
A Sliding beyond measure is tie fitua
lioh of those unhappy ercaturef who b-ve
made the r efeape from the maf&erc at tKa
Gape* Fathers bewailing 4heir wives atod
Children.; wives diftraded for the tof* of
theirhufbsnds; and chHdren unprotected-end
wholly destitute or every nec< ffary .—About
30 fail of the fleet arrived, and our >i' ex is’
cowded with Othe s coming up ; the inhabi
tants of Baltimore evinc6 the part they take
in their fiiuation by the liberality of their
fubferiprions, which already (only four dayk|
amount to fifteen thou (and dollars. r
“ The moll circumstantial account we htve
received of the cante bf this fatal disaster,
thrown cohfiderable pan of the ceniure on the
inhabitants of the Capa. Tt appears that
General GalbiWd arrived chare in thr^b*
fence of the commissioners ; that he found ,
the town in great want of provifion»,Jwh.iifb
he had not money topurchafe 1 thatheU^y-*
fed the Americans fourteen doUars.per'’bi?t‘d
for flour, payable in drafts on Philadelphia
or France ; that the Americans retufed to
receive fach payment, but. offered their flour
at 12 dollars for specie or the produce of the
island ; that the mbab'itanti, p eased with
the generosity of this offer, agreed with the
General tofurnifhthe produce,in conference
of which agreement'tb^ Amexidans deliver
ed their flour, and then thfe inhabi ants i^oaM
not comply with their promises—at this stage
of ihe bofinefs rhe commissioners arrived-**
they censored the General for exceeding his
powers, and so desired what they conceived
to be fiis authority, that he refufed to remain
in the island, and determined on returning
to Frann. The commissioners however con
firmed the purchafc from the Americans, and
aflefled the inhabitants heavily for the pay
ment—-the latter, disgusted with the tax, in
vited the General and Adasiral (who it fetms
was difpUafed also with his, treat men*) to an
'attack or the commissioners; they landed for
Ibe porpoft,and*thfe inhabitants refnfed their
aid ; the domthtffioner* and their party sus
tained the attack of their adversaries a days,
Ooik then Would appear that each patty ccm
E N G LA N D.
LONDON, may 15.
TheAuftriaos have maOe a reqeifition, thro’
a Bntifh officer, to our government, for va
rious Supplies, and among other articles for
40,000 tons of hay, without which they af
lure our Ministers that they cannot keep the
field.
The requisition fiJis, as we hear Irom ru
mour,fixteen pages Os paper. All the necessa
ries of flour,oats, becl,pork,peas and in fhor<
provifibns of all kind, cloaths of all kind,
arms of all kind, flores of all kind, &c. Scot
are enumerated, and without our aid the/
cannot go onw These are pleasant circum •
Hances for a country already to deeply J
volved.
“ This day M . Heckenmeldef fix q alter
preachers Dottier M’Cbflcy. and mvir< are
to hil tor De-roif, to wait'there lot h<x m
miffioners, who .nre not to leave bt’ag ra be
fore the fail of t’his month ; tnisd? <y is occa.
fioned by ale rer from Capt. M K e to G >v-
Ctnour Simcod,informing him that th? I oians
would not be^colleft d at Sandufkv before tbit
time, and thy 1 the Commissioners had as well
remain wheve they i e ” -
V IRG IN J A.
• > '' - t ' ’ ■" ' A _ rr. v•!
PITTSBURGH, July ig. * '
ExtraS of a lei fir from a genii tn anonbtifUOp f
to the treaty with the Indi am •, dated' at
Indian town at the mouth of hufale tryky
3 5 mil t above Niagara t f unt t H
his fritnd in this town*
£ ARRIVED at Niagitra after a difa
greeabh j urney, but without any accident,
where I lound the c^mmiffipners ; they are m
great h6pes of making pe^e, at>d,if hear fay
may be depended or, I fee nothing in the
way. . j
“On my route I passed through feverst
towns ot the Six ri tons £ 1 was trea ed wel r <
and they appear very friendly. The Corti
planter and Big Tree 1 are now with me, on
their way to the Allegheny.to colledl their
people, and goto the' neat* by the way Os
Fort Franklin and ch^ > L L cks—l hope thejf
may not meet any of our Routing parties to
moieft them. . .
ELISABETHTOWN,JU^E 14.
A Gentleman troni Com ernav , ntgehy
county, in this Rate lad week, fold and d£
livered 'o a merchant in this town good ma
p’e sugar, to the value of nearly ^too being
part of the produce and mantfadory of said
country. .
We are informtd that there is or soon will
be for (r e in said county, about fivetonof
this excellent sugar.
AMERICAN ADVICJESI
T e mahufa^uredf Morocco Leather has been
brought to a high degree of perfection in this
date The red, black, and other colours of
Morocco Letcher which is now expried for file
and wasmanO'aiiu’fed by Mr IfruidCafag 1 an,
-merchant tn thia city, is laid to exceed any im
ported from TOrkey- The exjhnce which has
Keen incurred in b irging inis mar uhffurc to
jis prefenc Rate, is very conficrable, and well
Worthy govern men tai encouragement.'
Various other manufactures cßabi filed in
fever al of the Rates, deferVe rp beneried, par
ticularly that offdot, by Mr.. Stephen Anjlin'.
for in this, as well -as many other ufeful under
takings, the fir 11expence has been great, and
as there can be little doubt but that this art i
, cle will be furmlhed at acheaperrate than any
imported, we hope ter fee merit arid industry
duly rewarded.
$ e w• - r 6 R k*
NKW-YORK, JULY 16.
E^iraS of a litter from a gentltman in Balti*
more io bit friend in Fbtladtlpbia, contain
ingfom* important faaib relative io the *»•
f ortunate affair at Cape Francoit.
Ooe hundred and twenty veffeis have en
tered the Chefapeaic bay, with upwards of
1200 paiTengers, men, women and children;
on board, many as whom have escaped by
fwiming from fire and (word, paked and in
want of every thing—Some French patriots
here and a number of Americans have alrea.
dy made up a small sum for their relief i He
Furtfcer accounts by the fee European arriv
als iform that the attack or ftorrihing of Mentg
or M.yence, was to be dtreded by Gen.
Turpin and that the bombardment of ^hat city
wai begun. Gtn. Cuftine’s army confiding of
46,000 men, was flrongly intrenched within
the lines of Weiflembdrg behind t^e Lauter
this army is said to be compufed of men either
t » young or too old, the consequence of forced
rt;ruitmg. TheAnftrians fay that a great many
delerters come over to taem from Cuftine, and
from Mayence—in the latter they are reduced
to the necessity of killing the rirtillery horses,
and* faking them—though the fame accounts
fav tney have meat, fufficiant for fix months;
A letter from Gen Cuftine,dated April 28 fays,
tba in a sortie and in foihe attacks op Mentz
on the 1 ith and 14th the Heffiians and Saxons
101 l 2’ooo men, in consequence of Dumourier’s
treachery,the National Convention have.pub-
Fished an addrels “to all people and all gov
ernintiits;”—--^fhis refpefls principally the
breach of the law of natrons in seizing Bour.
Pohville and the Commissioners. Cambon
rt hr erei an account of she armies; that of the
North he Hated toconfift of 90,000 rffedive
toin ; th it of the Ardennes are 37000
A p!A. ut rages at Algiers, nuhich carries off d
great many per oni daily'
The 1y o Gotenburgh, in Sweden,has great-
L 'offered by fire : 73 fine huules have been
trained, arid upwards, of 141 families, besides
the garrison, have loft the whole of their pro
per y.
' A letter from General CuftlnC dated May 7,
appears in thh Ecghfh papers in which he re
quests ti e Contention to fend him a fucceflor—
being p< fluve-v determined to resign, in con^
kquence at fife favs of 1 being brought to atriaj
be rare three Commissioners oh the 27 th April,
•• Several of the fnmale* and children are
lodg ed with different refpeftable families in
thv> town, and every step is making to af
for d them all puflible confolation.’*
Tbe principal ep^ofition to the Prefidenfs
?Proclamation in tbit city, originates in a set of
imported gentry, ,of various nations. Some
of theft speculating Knights Errand are much
jnJ ft Bed of being Juf)(.tried by Gallic fecrii
firvtce montp.
■ Yrfterday arrived here the (hip John, Cap .
Whitewell, in 56 days from Amsterdam
—a Uotch paper of the 16 h May brought by
this vdfei contains an account said to have, been
received at the; Hagtie by eXpreis from Prince
. SaxeCobourg's army—of a battle fought ch
the 11 May, between rhe French and the coin'
seined army-*in which the French were defea
led with the loss of nine thousand men killed,
..wounded and taken, and eighty.four pieces of
4innon,the account adds,thit the commander in
chief ot the French w«, s killed.— This is pre ba.
blf a repetition of the affair of the Sth <wi.b ad.
ditiont
The account in general received by this ves
sel ate as vague and indefinite as thole through
ct er mediums. '
Ed/raß of ahHe a from a refpeßable Merchant in
Baltimore, io bis friend th this dl^ dated the
16 thinpant,
•* A veflel from Cork in davs, brings an
sccour t of the defeat of the combined armies
at Conde, and of ah imm'enfe flaugher among
fh.m.
’ The French armies have been so fuccefsful
that tbe people throughout England and Idand
are leching for peace, arid it was the prevailing
opinion it Would soon take place, highly in fa-'
vor aad much to the honor of the French na
tion. — —
fideretP itfelf in danger* the one retired to
the (hipping, th* other td the country ; the
revohetl negroes woe admitted into the
iown,/md then feeneu of unparalleled horror
were/committed'
Extrad of a letter from a captain of an A
merican veftel ar St. Euflatia, dated 23d
June, 1793. received yeflerday.
“ The English privateers play the ,duce
with American veflels, that have no lea let
ters or pass, that is to fay, thdy carry them
into port, overhaul therti from flem tq stern,
Cod oftentimes detain them a week or up
wards before they will permit them to go ;
they go through an examination, in which
they are sworn aud questioned by the King’s
attorney, whitever he pkafes to aft which
m -ft be very embarraffirig.”
Yelleaday mo - ning xi rived in port, the
French frigate L’Embufcade.capr. Bompart,
as era cruifc of 25- days from this)pOrti Ai
12 o’clock (he fired a falure in commemora
tion of the deihudion of the Baftile in France,"
14 h July, 1789.
F. dm a Baltimore paper cf July 12.
•0u Toefday left arrived in this port, a
part of Che French fl.*et, which fled from thd j “
di faller 9 of the Cape ; having on board se
veral hundreds of piffengers Who had for--
tunately efeaped the ravages of that placet’
As soon as ir was known, that our unfortun
ate allies bad arrived, every exertion was
made by our aniirtated Citizens to alleviarer
their distress.
The Vice Consul of the French Republic
has appointed the following gentlemen to , .
co-operate with him in the execurion of rhe
plan of relief prefenced in the firft of the a
bove refoiutions, viz. Col. Samuel Smith, ;
Mr. David Plankett, Mr. S. Srerett, Mr.
Vouchez, Mr. C aza nave, Mr. Bentalou.
Agreeably to the resolves above exprefled’ -
fubferiptions have been Opened, and nearly
eleven thousand, dollars have been already ’
fohferibe^ ; many of the inhabitants have
generously relinquished a pin of their hoofer
for the accommodation of the flrangers, and
politely fornifhed them wi b the participa
tion of thefir tables, fach is the ardour which
inspires every bosom, that no doubt can ex
ist, but every comfort will be provided for
the unfortunate exiles^ on(il peace may again
visit Chair native ihores.
The intention of Gdbo was to make the
commissioners prisoners, to put them on
board the armed vessels be could depend up
on,to denounce them and fend chemiorrancc.
But the cofhmiffioners to baffle this attempt
called to tbeir affiftsnee the negroes of the
Country. Twenty-five thousand came in,
they were armed and their freedom was pro
railed hem if they would fight in the cause
of freedom ;it was impossible to moderate
the resentment of these, they mu dered and
burnt without discrimination, and thole ar
rived here, owe their fafe.y co their flight and
their abandoning their property Co lave their
lives.
doubt the generosity of the inhabhaets ol
every city on the continent will prompt them
to follow the example. Among thee un
fortunate people are anhmber of French pat
riotic captain* who have been obliged to fly
and abandon their veflels and property ;
numbers of old men and heads of families,
once wealthy but now reduced to misery and
want. Some among them may have by their
guile drawn the misfortunes they feel on their
own heads, but they are all unfortunate, and
pity is the only sentiment that their heart
bieakingfiiuation can inspire.
This fleet has teen convoyed by 2 seven
ty-sours, 2 forty gun frigates 2 of thirty
fix, two twenty four gun cutters and t^o
armed brigs. ,
Frym what 1 have been able to learn, Gen
eral Galbou is the canfe of this dreadful ca
tastrophe ;heis on board jhe Jupiter. The
following derails of this affair I have collec
ted from several parfens, and believe it
comes near the truth.
Upon the arrival of the national com mi f
fioner.*, Galbo who was appointed by the old
ministry of France, was fuf pended. He had
time to make bimfelf a party.among the
coloniftsj but however reigned, and the na
tional commiflioners feeing the danger of fuf.
sering Galbo to remain in the counfy, re
solved to fend him back to France and put
him pfifoner on board a (hip belonging to
the republic. Galbo took advantage of his
situation and of the sentiments of the officers
of marine to corrupt the crews, with mo
ney, and by the means of some of the colo
nists whom he had attached td him. He
©hen harrangned them and when the crews
went ashore drink was given them by the ill
disposed colonies who ar the fame time exas
perated them againfl the colonists.
There were Pveral bloody affrays in con
feq ence. The National Commissioners fee
ing the ttorm that was gathering iiTued a pro
clamation, which prohibited every fail or
from being afhoe as er seven in the evening.
They adied in this, ftriftly with n their au
thority ; but Galbo made use of this circum
stance to exasperate the sailors still more a
gainfl (hem ; and, in concern with their of
tcer'/ucteeded in preva ling on them o land
as well as iKe, troops on board ; the ill dis
posed colqnifts joined them, and even a num-,
ber of well intentioned whites forced to take
up arms and follow the nt. They attacked in
full force the commissioners, who tock refuge
in the government house with some whites,
who remained with them arid some blacks.