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even vi&ories, he cannot help
being a little /hocked at the
exultation which they occasion.
1 have often thought it a laugh
able fcenc. if there were not a
little too much of the melancho
ly in it, when a circle of eager
politicians have met to congratu-
fame kind are levied^ soldiers
are collected so as to leave a
paucity of husbandmen. Re
views and encampments fuc
ceedand at last fifteen or
twenty thousand men meet on
a plain, and coolly shed each
Other’s blood without the smal
lest personal animosity, or the
fhaddow of provocation. The
King in the mean time, and the
Grandees, who have employed
those poor innocent victims to
(hoot bullets ateach other’s head,
remain quietly at home, and a
muse themselves in the interval,
in balls, hunting feafts, and plea
sure of etrery species, with rea
ding at the fire fide and over a
cup of chocolate, (he dispatch
es from the army, and
the news in the extraordinary
gazexte. Old Horace very tru
ly obftrves, that whatever mad
frolics enter into the heads of
Kings, it is the common people,
that is, the honest artizans, and
From Knox's ** Moral and Literary L£ays.
THE causes of war are for
the most part such as
must disgrace an animal preten
ding w rationality. Two poor
mortals, eleva ed with the dif
tindion of a golden bauble on
their heads, called a crown, take
offence at each other without a
ny rtafon, or with the very bad
oneof wifhingforan opportunity
of aggrandizing themselves by
making reciprocal depredations.
—The creatures of the Court and
the leading men of the nation,
who are usually under the influ
ence of the Court, resolve (for
it is their interfl) to fupporc their
royal mailer, and are never at a
loss to invent some colourable
pretence for engaging the nation
in the horrors of war.
would be judged more worthy
to be tried, cast and condemned
at the Old Baily, than any fhed
der of blood who ever died by
a halter. But he is a King ;he
is a Hero ; —thofe names fafei
nate us, and we enroll the butch
er of mankind among their be
nefaftors.
When one confiders the dread-
ful circumstances that attend
the industrious tribes in the
middle ranks, unoffended and
unoffending, who chiefly fuffer
in the evil consequences.
If the King of Pruflia were
not at the head of some of the
best troops in the universe, he
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late each other on a piece of good
news just arrived. Every e>e spar
kies with delight—every voice is
raised with the happy event. And
what is the caule of all this joy ?—
And for what are our windows .il
luminated, bonfires kindled, bells
rung, and feafts celebrated ? Ne
have had a fuccefsful engagement
—we have left tooo of the entmv
dead on the field of battle, and ddy
900 of our countrymen. Charm
ing news I It was a glorious bat
tie I But before vou give a loose to
your raptures, pause a while, and
confider, that to every one of these
1900, life was no Jess sweet than it
is to you, that to the far greater
part of them there probably were
wives, fathers, mothers, sons,
daughters, fillers, brothers, and
friends* afl of whom are at this
moment bewailingthat event which
occasions your brutifli and fodlifh
triumph.
A LETTER from Laplahche
gave frefh particulars refpeft
ing the viftory obtained at Gran
ville. The Roya.ifts loft 600 men,
exclusive of those whom they car
ried with them, and those who
perifbed in the sea, and in the
flames; Their chiefs, Talmont,
Laroche, J a quelin, and aßifliop,
have been killed. The rebels re
treated to Avranches.
The Representatives of the peo
ple at Lyons write, that fanaticifm
is expiring there. A grand Fete
has been celebrated, at which the
people assisted in amass ; an ass,
dressed in pontifical habits was the
hero of the piece; with the stole
round his neck, and the mitre on
his head, he afted the part of the
Abbe Lamourette. The guil
lotine continues to punish the trai
tors; 27 conspirators have been
executed in three days, exclusive
of those who lose their heads by
sentence of the Military Commit
tee.
Internal French Commotions.
Cambon announced, that the
competitors for subscribing to the
voluntary loan, were actually quar
celling for priority about the trealu*
ry doors ; that aflignats and specie
were this day at par; that many of
the felfifli monied men, who had
before hid their specie in cellars,
were now bringing lacks full of
silver crowns in exchange for aflig
nats; and that rhe purchaser of na
tional pro.perry, preferred paying
in money to paying in paper.
The Popular Society of St.
Maloes write as follows “The
enemy is at our gates; but we have
sworn to live and die free. We
(hall fay no more to you ; but our
adious will prove that we are Re
publicans, and that we shall al
ways be so.”
NATIONAL CcNvkNTION, NOV, 21.
TUESDAY, February 25, 1794.
By letter from an officer at Tou
lon we learn, that General O’Ha
ra carried with him from Gib
ralter one thousand troops. The
force at Toulon was eighteen
thoufand men on the ift instant,
and great reinforcements were
daily expeded from the different
allied powers.
Paris, nov. 23. The length
of the siege of Toulon, without
any thing desirable having been
effected, occaffions great difeon
tent both in the army before it,
and in Paris.
BRUSSELS, NOV. 25.’
The Head Quarters of the grand
army under the command of
Prince Cobourg, have been trans
ferred to Mons, which city, toge
ther with Tourney, Conde and
Valenciennes, contains ar preient
a very numerous garrison. In the
two last cities they are repairing
the fortifications which were dam
aged during the liege. Before
each of those places there are
large cantonments, which can as
semble in a few hours, and form
a numerous corps, to repel any at
tack of the enemy. These pre
cautions are the more neceffarv,
as the army commanded by Gen.
Jourdan, far from entering into
winter quarters, seems inclined to
continue the campaign ; at least it
appears so by some of their move
ments, and we are inclined to
think that army will shortly aft in
an offenfive manner, to pursue the
plan of campaign concerted by
the committee of. public fafety,
and Gen. Jourdan when he was
at Paris. The army which he
commands is reinforced daily by
frelh battalions of troops of the
firft levy, and by different corps
of cavalry raiftd at the expence
of the populardocieties, and com
poled of Jacobins of the most de
termined resolution: We> how-
Fort Lewis, has fallen into
the hands of the Imperial roops,
with its gar riion, which was still
4000 strong, and all its artillery.
The blockadeof the place com
menced on rhe firft inst. andon
the 16th, the garrison marched out,
with all the honours of war, as far
as the glacis, where they piled their
arms, and remain by virtue of
the capitulations prisoners of war.
In the place iio pieces of
cannon were taken.
* Fort Lewis, a Hr ng place of France,
in Alsace, built by Lewis XIV. in an isle
formed by ihe Rhine, 20 miles N. E. 0!
ttralburg, and 224 of Pons.
Capture of Fort Lewis*
Miscellaneous Articles.
TOULO N.
BRUSSELS, NOV. 16.
The garrison of Srrafbourg, to '
the number of ^OOO men. have
made a sortie agaiUt the Auftri-.
ans ; but the latter having intdli^
gence of their intenfions, were pre
pared, and drove them balk with
great toss.
The Hereditary Prince of
Orange, in a letter to the Srates-
General, acquaints them, that ac
cording to rhe orders of his father,
and the difpefitions of the P ince
of Cobuurg/he army of the States
is partly to return to the Republic,
and partly to go into winter quar
ters jn the Bishopric of Liege,
Extra fl of a letter from the com^
manaer of an American vefel at
Gibi alter, tq a mercantile house in
the city, Nov 13.
“I left Malaga on the sth inst;
but had scarcely cleared the har
bour when I was dialed by an
Algerine cruizer. The enemy
gaining upon me,& the wind blow
ing me upon the sea (hore, I con
sidered my vessel as loft, when j
drove under the proteftion of a
ever, flatter ourselves, that all the
efforts of the enemy to penetrate
into Belgia will be of no effect.
The French have orders, cost
what it may, to take their winter
quarters in Germany.
Gen; Wurmser defeated the
French on the 18th. Gen. Horze
took some of their cannon and the
Prince of Waldeck, drove them
back to Strafburgh.
By accounts from France there
is advice, that the Royalist army
is divided into two columns, one
of which went against Granville,
the other against St. Maine’s. Ic
is fuppoled that the column which
marched towards Glanville, has
only made a falfe attack on that
place to protect the other column,
and at fii fl drove the enemy with
in the garrison, and only remain
ed in the town whilst they judged
it neceflary, and then retired with
out being forced 10 it by the Re
publicans, who did not even make
a sortie to repulse them ; but after
the former had voluntarily with
drawn themselves, rhe light troops
faliied out, and only found three
small pieces of artillery, which
were unferviceable.
LONDON, DEC. 7. .
Fauchet, whom the French
Convention have appointed to
succeed Genet as Minister in A
merica, spent many years ar New-
Orleans, he (peaks the English
language with great fluency, and
used to correspond with rhe lare
Dr. Franklin on phiiofophieal
fubjeds; about ten years ago, he
wrote a curious treatise on chim
neys, which was deemed ieditious
by the old government of France,
and for which he was ordered to
be prosecuted, but it ended in
smoke.
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