The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-12-30 00:00:00, page 3

The public expedition was, that the
French, if not opposed with success, would
be in that city, in the course of a few
days—they being only five days march
off.
parties are fufficiently weakened, we may
venture to predict, that nothing very ef
fectual will be done against the Poles.—
Whennhat time arrives, we may possibly
behold the Empress's forces enter, as it
were in a kind of triumph, into that ill
fated Republic.
lO §©4§O©<O'OoOoO'© 6£>O<
counts from that quarter.
At the date of Odo. 17, the French
were at Maellricht, and appeared to be
bonding their whole force against cite cap
ital of Holland —the northern army hav
ing afeended the Maefe, and taken a cir
cuitous rout for Amsterdam, leaving Rot
terdam on the left.
The Duke of York, whose army was at
Nimeguen, (about 12 miles from Amster
dam) had offered to march in for the de
fence of the city, but had been refufed;
and the proposition of a general inunda
tion was strongly opposed ; which apper.-
ed to augur that some propositions of ac
commodatory surrender would be made,
on the approach of the French.
A letter from Amftcrdam, Ofto. 6, has
the following paragraph :— ' The Car
magnoles are now at only 14 hours dist
ance, which is about §0 English miles—
and the country nearly open to them ; &
although there are some here, who will not
believe in their coming to this place this
year, 1 have no doubt in my mind of
their being here in all this month, and
rerhaps sooner. When that takes place,
think the game wdi be up, and John
Bull my fettle and pay the reckoning."
were co have landed on the enemies coast,
to quell the infurgen; Republicans, in their
own country. Os late we have heard
much of 30,000 Mucovites, that were to
have aided the King of Prussia, in his at
tempt upon Warsaw. Os these we have
neither seen one or the other, and till all
m^ss^chuse rrs.
BOSTON, December 25.
FROM AMSTERDAM.
By an arrival on Tuefday DU from Am
sterdam, we have receieved the latest ac-
Grave, octo. 9. Every day the
French show themfclves before this place ;
all our pavements have been taken up,
and the women sent eutof the city. Num
bers of reinforcements of English and
Dutch troops have arrived, to occupy the
forts oppofiie to this place. Fort St. An
dries has been demolished by our troops ;
but all the batteries at Rofium, in the
county of Bommel, are strongly fortified.
The dyke by Nimeguen (in Guelderland)
has been cut, to inundate all the country
between the Maefe and Waal; in the
neighborhood of Nimeguen there are yet
a number of thousands of English troops.
Since our last, all the differences be
tween the emperor and the king of Great
Britain, have been entirely fettled, by
paying the contrasted subsidies. Gen.
Clairfait is to advance, with alarge army,
towards Wefel, to re-eftablilh the junction
with the duke of York's army, for the de
fence of the United Provinces.
St. Andries has been retaken by our
troops, with the assistance of fix gun boats;
end preparations are making, to drive the
French back, out of the country betwixt
the Maefe and Waal.
According to letters, of a late date, from
the county of Bommel, every thing was
in a perfect state, the rivers swelling every
day; but we have received, on the con
trary, the news of the capitulation of
Bois-le-Duc; the garrison to leave the
placeon Sunday morning, at eight o'clock,
with their standards flying, drums beat
ing, field-pieces, and all their baggage,
with liberty to go where they please, un
der the condition of not serving against
the French.,
^mfterdam, Oa. 14. The Hereditary
prince of Orange, has issued in the prov-
[fbe following are tranjiattas from Dutch
papers, brought by Capt. Cook — oubich
afford, in detail, much authentic informa-
tion]
Hulst, (Dutch Flanders) OCT. 6. Last
Sunday, and Tuefday, all the English
Hanoverian, and Dutch troops, evacuated
this place, Sans de Gand, Axel, and Phil
ippine : and all the military floret, maga
zines, &c. have been transported to Hol
land.
^Dom^tto Jiitellt^ 71C5.
AMERICAN FUNDS.
We are credibly informed, that withm\
the lafl eight or ten months, dhisut a million
sterling has been remitted from Europe to this
I country to be deputed in the American banks.
I, the troubles in Europe continue, and there
is emery reason to imagine that they will, re
mittances of this nature, must in a fart time,
;become extremely numerous.
The conquest of Holland will be the great
efl crajh that commercial property has per
haps met with, face Scipio Emilianus sacked
Carthage, which was about thrice as popu
lous as Amsterdam is at present. The Dutch\
commonwealth has long been imihenfeh in debtl
The amount was many years ago computed a,
more than an hundred millions flerling, and is
by this time ver, likely increased to a third
more.
This kih, of property drill vanish,under the
S ra fP °f Jourdan and Picbegru, '< life th
bajelefs fabric of a wifan, and this dilu
tion alone would be Efficient to foake the cre-'
Private LETTERS from AMSTERDAM,
B, the Charlotte, ad-vise, that the Burgo
masters of feme cities in Holland have rtfgned
their offices, and decline jerquing under the
preftnt adminft alien. Indeed a total revo
lution in Holland was expend—the peace oj
Amflerdam is kept by leaded cannon or.l, —
A revolution there will detach Holland from
her alliance quick England ; jo that not only
commerce, bat the political machine oj Eu
rope well be jbaken by this event.
LATEST FROM ^EST-INDIES.
A brig arrived at Portland, on Satur
day fe'nnight, in 22 days frern Barbadoes,
the Captain cf which informs, that a
British Admiral had arrived at that illa.id,
about the 17th November with 4 74 gun
Blips, frigates and transports, in 24 days
from Eng. and that two days after the
Squadron failed for Martinico or Guada
-1: ape. It was reported at Barbadoes,that
10,000 Briufh treops were daily expelled
in the Weft-ladies.
A Barbadots paper of Nov. i„ has
the following : " General Sir John
Vaughan, K. B. arrived here yefterda,
morning, in his Majesty's Ihip cf war
Ramehesof 74 guns, and after paying his
relpecb to his Excellency the Governor,
failed from hence in the evening for Mar
tinico."
LATE FROM MARTINI CO.
We have seen letters from I juniro,
as late as the 14th Novembe , which
make no mention of the arrival rhoroi
an English or French fleet in the '
Indies ; and from the con-mc r^ ar
iingcmenu la them, no French 0. ^ u i &
expected.
PEACE! n prospect or.
The province of Friedland, h^ ^i
tioned the States General, to'
themfclves forthwith in refloring pea<
to the country —even if they treat t<,a,
ately.
The King of Prussia is laid to be h#
negotiation with the French fir Beac
The condition—the abandon;rg ;h ~ia,''
on Holland. This has been : ^ i1
from enmity of the French to^
Dutch, but as breaking therein the rig l
arm of England.
The Legislature of New Jr', h:''
exprefied their higheftappn thin ^ ^
measures pursued by the Federal E\~w
tive for iuppreffing the Jac ?hin ,? ;r.h;3
in the weftern counties cf %»rfylvw,,
and resolved, that the army e<nplov.ri
therein have " dejirued fall cf to;:r <%L
try."
Three of the Pittfbarg leaders 1^
made their eicape from the prison. Gv
Lee has offered a reward of 600 dollars
for apprehending them.
Hague, Oft. 11. We have now receiv
ed authentic information that the country
of Bommel is put in a great date of de
fence; that 12000 men have been sent on
there by the duke of York, to reinforce
the troops already Rationed there; and
that the report of the French having pe
netrated to Tie! is falfe.
inces es Gelderland and Holland, an in
vitation'to all the inhabitants of these
provinces, to embody themselves for their
mutual defence, with liberty, that every
company of §0 men ffiall have the prive
lege of choosing a lieutenant, and two un
der officers; that they Ihall not serve out
of their provinces, but with their own
confenc, that they ffiall, further, be Ap
plied with experienced officers, arms, am
munition, cannon, &c.
His been received since our Dft, which
unequivocally contradicts all the former
in/o.mation of the capture of that City —
The arrival which brings this latest news
from thence, left there the igih October,
it was then held by the Dutch, but it was
expsded by every one that it would
haage mailers in a Ihort time. The
French were at a trifling dillance, and the
Duke of York with the Britilh army, near
ly between tnem and Amsterdam ; ano
tbcrbattle, therefore, it is probable will
iHKAplaec between Pichegru and he Duke
pre tio^fly to the reduction of Amsterdam,
and/the termination of this battle will de
cide the fate of Holland.
FATO URABLE.
The Winchcrier (Vir.) paper of the Sth
infant, informs that some of the Kentuc
ky Volunteers who have returned from
Qei. Wayne's army, report that the Wa
tah Indians have sent a flag into Green
vil>, with proposals for peace.
O^^'^^^''e^ooooet&epixx
^-HAMPSHIRE.
{EE N E, December 30.
SUICIDE.
iday the zzd November, Barnabas
in. of Mapletown (Vermont) the
,?,« a family of children by a wife de
*^ t of one by a 2d wife now living,
<.^ dby one of his funs, ata Short
fiance from his house. with his throat
/ .^ ? ear to ear, in so dreadful a n. n
^er, all hopes of his recovery ap p
ed futile. Tia thought he gave
::cwhen about forty rods^H
houfr, wh^re near a
3-1), —at.cr this proc^t
i., # .:^sfartlt
vhich he ■
the boufe,
1
withstands
fe
iit of all thi orb,, ^blic fund's in Europe.
Monica people cun then owl, look, for an ay
:um, to America ; an d bitber the, will no
doubt fly. A, ratio?: fryer gained more b,
neutrality than t , United Siam may, at this
period. Thoufartdi of intelligent manujaa
ures, and tboufanas of -wealth, merchants,
willfen be fanflying to ties continent for re
fugefrom that belom of dettru&ion, that is
nowjweeping before it the kings and emperors 1
of the old world.
A few days since, in a mixed company,
the c&verfation turning or politicks, it
was enquired, whether it was true that
the Dutch inten^d to inundate their coun
try,to prevent the approach of the French.
Certainly, said an Irishman,"' they must
drown themselves 10 fa-vetbeir own lives."
4
The decision of the Phyticians of Eng
land, on the late poisoning attempt is by
no means a compliment on the royal b<aa
of that country—for if poison will not ope
rate upon it, in the name of fortune, what
will ?
INTELLIGENCE from AMSTERDAM,
PLEASANTRIES.
DEC. 6.
The proclaimers of news about the
Greets, fays a London paper, have alrea
dy got hold of the death of the Dauphin,as
if the fad was fully ascertained. One of
thele roily promulgators of information
was busily employed, in vociferating the
news in the following manner : '' A men#-
tug copy ofa blood, clerg, open the much
lamented death of that unfortunate and
farguinar, prince,the Dolphin of France."
" ra < ago, to elablith a more extenlive ex
tercourfe with the Indian#, and to traffic
for fur#, arrived at the banks of a river,
which took a we&ern direction, and which
he observed to rife upwards of two feet, by
the influence of the tide. In prosecuting
a second expedition from Michilimakinak,
after undergoing the federal hardships at
tfndant on such a journey,which was car
ried on in canoes along various rivers and
lakes, and often, through forefts, where
men were obliged to carry the canoes, he
at length attained the utmeft bounds of the
weftern continent. This circumfiance
will in the course of time, be of the great
est consequence to this country, as it opens
a dired communication with China, and
ry doubtless lead to further difeoveries.
I ne di^aace from Michilimakinak to the
weftern cool, is supposed to be i§oo
roles, of which the company had before
eiteo Tied hues e, fir as 1000 miles.
I was pleased with reading, not long
since, in your paper, an account of the lau
dable example fee us by the town of Lem
ster, in their contributing so liberally
for the relief of our enllaved Brethren at
ALGIERS. I ihhkthr example is wor
thy of imitation, and will, it is hoped (b,
me at lea;.) fpeeaily and cheerfully be
fdil^^^ty^^^^tl^^!
For the Columbian Informer, &c.
Messrs. Printers,
There are about twelve hundred En
glish prizes, and twenty ihoufand prifon
era.
"e learn by recent accounts from Alba
ny that Baron Steuben, late infpe&or Gen.
of the army of the United States, died at
his country feat, of a paralytic tircke, on
Friday 27th Nov. aged about 62 years.—
The eminent services of this aged veteran,
are engraved on the memory of every true
American in indelible characters.
DEATH OF BARON STEUBEN.
HAWKERS.
IN BREST.