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Englith Lord, (probably Lord
Yarmouth,) arrived at Gemappe,
and immediately rode ro the left
wing of our army, which-extended
along the Sambre, from Namur
to above Charleroi. The centre
was nearly between Goflelies and
Fralnes. The main body* of the
French was at Goflelies, and in the
villages of Toumion and Vieux
Ville, a league, distant from Gofle
bes. At three o’clock the Emperor
attacked them in these three points,
and the Austrians weretwice repul*
fed. Thefireof grapelhotand mus
quewy then became dreadful, and
continued so till half an hour pad
nine, when the three posts were
carried by the bayonet, and acharge
of thecavalry* The French quitted
Goflelies,cry ingout, “ Wearefold,-
Wave himlelf who can in the wood
of Lambu!” and retreated in con
fufion to the wood, and towards
Marbue, while those who occupi
ed the two villages repafled the
Sambre. The’latter were vigor
oully canonaded by Gen, Beau
lieu, who was polled between the
Sambre and the Meuse to cut
off the retreat of the fugitives;
but as they were reinforced by
, a considerable body of French,
from the other fide of the Sam
bre, which had been conceal
ed in a wood to watch Beaulieu’s
motions, he was too weak co exe*
cute this part of the plan.
“ While this was passing id the
centre, our right wing, reinforced
by the Dutch, attacked the ene
my’s left j and the g^rrifon of
Charleroi, which had been clofcly
besieged, fa lied forth at the fame
time. The French were repulsed,
some of them puffed the Sambre,
and some retreated to the wood of
Fleurus above Charleroi.
“ Charleroi was thus entirely
disengaged. At n o’clock, the
Emperor.after taking some refresh
ment at Goffelies, went thither,
and found the place (till on fire.
The French bombs have damaged
all the upper towns, and twenty
three or the inhabitatnts perished
in the ruins of their houses. .
“ Our loss is not yet alcertained.
I crossed the field of battle on
Tudday afternoon, and think
there could not be less than five
or fix thousand French and Au
strians lying dead upon it; per*
haps four or the former for one of
w the latter. Our- right wing con
tinued flighting with the enemy for
the greater part of the ni^ht, and
we do not yet know the issue.
“The Prince of Saxe Cobourg
offered to*refign, but the Emper
or requested him to continue in
command. M. de Mack asked
leave to resign, and obtained it, on
pretext that ill health will not al
low him to remain with the army.
He goes co Vienna with the Em
peror. %
♦♦ The Geperals ftffpcnded from
command are, Count Kaunitz,
Count Kinzky? the Pnince do Reufs,
and Baron de Schroder. Kaunitz
and Kinzky are accused ofuopar
den able mistakes in the difpofidon
The battle of Tutfday last
has not been attended with all the
success expected from it. Having
been aneyewitnefs of the principal
attack, 1 can speak with certainty
to the most important fads.
“ On Tuefday morning, at two
o’clock, the Emperor, attended by
the Arch Duke Charles, Gen.
Mack. Col. Stiebehutz, and an
Brussels, June 6.
both under arrest and to be lent to
Vienna. >
4< The day before veflerday<the
States of Brabant delivered to the
Emperor a refoludon, by which
they engaged to raise 25,000 men
immediately, the States co nomi
nate one half of the Captains and
Lieutenants. Thele troops are to
serve during the war for the pro
tection of the Netherlands. —-The
States of Brabant and Flanders
have also engaged to raise 10,000
men within fix weeks, to recruit
the Walloon regiments.
“ P. S. We are just informed
that the French again erode cliche
Sambre yesterday afternoon, apcl
took poffeflion ofFontain 1* ^vc-,
que, between Binch and Charleroi.
We are, however, under no alarm,
for the Combined troops in that
quarter now amount to 70,000
This afternoon arrived the brigantine
Abeonf, of Emfworth, Blanch mefte, f em
Cadiz, last from Lifban, from which place
(he failed the sth ult. in company with
the Andalusia, France, Friendfhp and St
George, all of London; Friendftiip of
Liverpool; George of Liverpool: Perle
verance, of Lyon ; Renton, of Ddrcmouth ;
and two other EngHlh veiTcls; 44 fail of
Dutch merchantmen, and one Spaniard, all
from the Strait®, Cadiz and Lisbon, under
convoy of a Dutch frigate of 30 guns and
oneof24gunr. On the aoch ult. they
fell i n with two 44 gun frigates, which cha-f
fed under English. colours, until they got
w it*3n ha’f a mile of the fleet, end then
hoisted French colours, and fired into th^;
Mill of the Dutch frigates, bn vehich^f
figna! for general dispersion was thrown
out; moll cf the English vessels made fail
to windward, but the Dutch (hips bore
way before the wind, and one cf the French
frigates after them i and it ia supposed by
the crew of the Abeona, that great part
of them must be taken ; but by chafing to
the windward, and night xoming on, the
Abeona fortunately elcaped, loft fight of
the French frigates and whole fleet, f« that,
they cannot speak as to the number captur
ed.
Further European Intelligence.
, ■' FRAN CE.
N ATIO NAt CON VE KT IO N , MAY 20.
*AI WAR Commissary of Morhis, in
the Department of Finifterre, demanded,
that each department should (apply a man
ofwwof roogjmand afrfiate; wdalfo
Barrere has confirmed the decree
for allowing no quarter to the Brit
ijh and Hanoverians ; and has fol
lowed it up by a manefefto against
tbe Englijh nation.
We yesterday received a variety of
intelligence from tbe Continent, which
gives a very par tec tel ar detail of all
tbe latest iranjafiions. The French
completely invested Ypres, which they
have bombarded for fever al days,
Gen Clairfay t has marched to its re.
lief \ and a general engagement in
that quarter is hourly expelled. The
French are in very great force.
of the troops intended to cover
Bruflels, which nothing but the
ignorance of the French prevented
from once rhore falling into their
hands. They also fuffered the
French to erpfs the Sambre a fee
ond time unmolefted,under an idea
that they could drive them back
when they pleased, or perhaps cut
off their retrea-t ; but before they
were aware, the French had pafled
over 60,000 men, and have now
such fait pofleOior) of the woods,
that airhough we repulle, we can
not didodge them* Against Reufs
and Schroder^ there are charges of
a more heinous nature. They sre
men.”
LONDON, JUNE 12.
PLYMOUTH, JUNB 2.
that a Committee of fix should be eftablifil
ed, to receive the fabferiptions and (uper
intend the conftru&on of these fh' p«-
Re erred to the Committee of Public
Safety. -
IMPORTANT.
England is capable of every outrage on
humanity ; and of every crime towards the
Republic. She attacks the rights of Na
tions, and threatens to annihilate liberty.
M How long will you fufcr to continue
on your f ontier, the Slaves of George i the
soldier? of the most t'trocious of tyrant*.'
“ He formed the Congress of Pifnitz, and
brought about the scandalous surrender of
Toulon.——He maflacreed your brethren
at Genoa, and burned our magazines in
the maranme towns. He corrupted our
cities, and endeavoured to destroy the Na
tional Reprefenta*ion. He ftarVed vour
plains, and purchafcd treasons on the fron
tiers.
“When the event of battles (hall put ih
y^ur power either English or Hahoverians,
bring to your remembrance she vast trails
of country English slaves have laid waste.
Carry your view to la Vendee, Toulon,
Lyons, Landrecies, Martinique, and St.
Domingo, places (till reaking with the
bjood which the attrocious policy of the En
glish has (hed. Do not trust to their artful
language, which is an additional crime,
worthy of their perfidious character and
Machiavdian government. Those who
abhor the tyranny of George, fay, can
they fight for him ?
“ No, no . Republican soldiers, you ought
therefore, when vi&ory (hall put in your
power, either Engiifhmen or Hanoverians,
to fir.ke : nor one of them ought to return
to the traiterous territory of England,’ or be
brought into France. Let the Brtcilh (laves
perifli and Europe will be free !”
Barreke then entered into a descrip
tion of |he manner in which the defenders
of the Guillotine ( his is his expreflion} had
been rested by the Allies at Keylerflautern.
Barrere has also publiflied a long m inifefto
•gainft the English nation, which the Paris
Gazette of the 31st promises to give on the
Lcceeding day.
Bafrere then read an «ddrefs to the armies
of the Republic, the purport of which was
adopted by the Convention in the fitting of
the 26th. It is as. fol lows :
By private lertters yesterday received id
the city from America, we learn, that Mr.
JAY, a Member of Congrels, is coming to
this country'to fettle all mifund-rftahdngs be
tween Gteat-Britain and America. The
government of America is extremely averse
to a Wat v^ith Great-Britam, while the peo
ple on the other hand are Jacobinical in the
extreme. Perhaps nothing will tend so much
to bring the Americans to their (enfes, as to
h^ar that the French fleet is completely de
feated, upon the superiority of which they
probably built very flattering hopes.
On Saturday evening last, Jo*m
Jay, Ejq arrived at Falmouth, in
the AmericanJhip Ohio, in, «9 days
from New Fork, He is come to
this country in the character of Am
bo ffador Extraordinary and Mini ft
ter Plenipotentiary, and is attended
by bis son, and a Secretary.
Although it must be allowed that
the Americans are very much out of
humour at the numerous captures
maae on their Jhips ; we are well in
formed that such measures have long
feme been taken by our government,
ar will effectually remove every cause
of difeontent; and it appears from
the above paragraph, that the Amer^
icon government is extremely adverje
to any hostile measures.
The loftei sustained by the Ameri.
cans in consequence of the order of
Nov. 6, for making prizes of their
Jhips, amount, on ibe most moderate
calculation, to half a million. Min
isters by revoking that order, before
any complaint could be made by tbe
Americans, have acknowledged that
it ought not to have been iftued, and
the country must make good all the
damages incurred by tft or go to war
with America^ Will Ministers pay
the damages out oftheif own pockets,
or will they mortgage their sinecure
places for a term of yea fs to repair
the mifebief accajioned by their rajh*
nefs? 4 '/; !r
fc , Il
NEW AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.
LONDON, June 12.
The French are said, on the au
thority of a letter from Bruflels, to
have again crofled the Sambre, and
taken Fontain I’Eveque. The late
check which they received at Char
leroi was not produdive of the ex
pefted advantages, and it is re
ported they have returned with
considerable reinforcements.
If the French (bould succeed in
their attempt against Sardinia,there
is no doubt but they will proceed
to Rome, not indeed, tokifs rhe
toe of his Holiness the Pope, but
to tread on it.
Thd Archduke of Mdan set out
for Alexandria on the 12thof Moy,
in order to receive the King of
Sardinia, who has been obliged to
fly from his capital. The troops
at the fame time received orders
to march.
The Empress of Rufihj rheans
formally to declare war against the
Poles, and to march an immence
number of troops immediately in
to their country.
Considerable luriis of money are
Paid to have been sent from Con
stantinople to Coozim, for the sup
port of the Poles against Ruflia.
Opatow,a few miles from War
faW,js the prefenc head quarters
of Gen. Kosciusko.
It is probable has arrived fafe
in France, in iorne port in the bay
of Biscay. On the 3d of June,
they Wfcre (poke in las. 46. s^^
long. 15. 19. They were then
two degrees and an half to the
Southward of Breit, within ten de
grees of long, of the French ports
in the bay. On rhe 6th of June,
Admiral Montague’s fquadroh,
which was fenc in quest of them/
was off the Lizard, which is a de
gree to the Northward of Brest.
FROM GUAD ALOU PE.
Yesterday arrived here, the
schooner Polly. Capt. Clark,
from Guadaloupe, which he left
the 24th of July. At that time
the French were still at Point Pe
tre, blocked in by the Enghfh, who
had erected works, and disposed of
a number of fhipsfo as to prevent
the introdu&ion of any supplies-
The account is confirmed, that a
party of theEnglilh,fuppofed two
or three hundred, were blown up,,
ia attempting an attack on some
of the Frehch works.
LATE *nd IMPORTANT
News from France !
BOSTOW, AUG.
LAST evening arrived here, (hip Ju
no, Capt. Wardell, in 44 days from
Amsterdam—by this arrival we are fa
voured with London papers to the 18th
June, from Which the important article®
that follow ace extraded. • n ;
In addition to which, we can fay,That
Lord How had arrived with a part ot
his fleet at Ponfmouth, together with the
“ rip HERE have been frequent
meetings of the Executive
and J udicial officers with the Prrf
ident, on account of the Prtfburgh
business; but the refuit is not
known.”
Official accounts have been re
ceived at the War Office, Phila
deipia, confirmative of the defeat
of the savages, on the lit July*
Domestic Intelligence.
JHE CHESAPEAKE FLEET t
BOSTON, AUGUST 1J-
From Pbiladel.