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of Europe.
The States General, in reply,
thanked Mr. Elliot for the above
communication and prayed to
hinrto make it known to the
rniniftry of his Britanic Majesty.
<4 Thit, as the cases of the pre
sent war have been the fame
with his Britanic Majesty as with
their High Mightinels, who are
the world, amount to 60,000,
*tnd are to be increased to 85000
effe&ive men.
apprehensive of feme treachery,
forbid all communications with
them, and ordered the command
ers and officers to be immediately
arrtfled. They are to be sent
to Paris for examination.
A reinforcement of 80,000
German and Hanoverians are on
their route to the Netherlands.
The Britiffi land forces, horse
nov. 13. The report of the
French having made overtures
to the Prince de Saxe-Cobourg
for a ceflation of hostilities, is
mentioned in several letters from
Bruflels, as well as from Tour
ney.
Mr. Elliot, minister plenipo
tentiary from the King of Great
Britain, in delivering to the
States General of Holland, the
Declaration relative to the af
fairs of France, accompanied
it with a memorial, in which he
faid> That his Britanic Majes
ty doubted not but that the sen
timents contained in this Decla
ration, were perfedly conforma
ble to those of the other powers
FROM Brest we learn, that
two ffiips, belonging to the
Toulon fleet, named Le Patriote
and Le Entreprenant,of 74 guns
each, commanded by Bauvette
and Bourbone, arrived at that
place on the 25th uk. They
had been dispatched thither, it is
f^id, by Lord Hood, for some
secret services.
This Foreign Gazette re
ceived yesterday mentions the
surrender of Landau. We have,
however, reason to' believe that
this report, so far from being
the fad, is wholly unfounded ;
for we understand that the siege
of Landau is raised by the Prus
sians, and is left to be block
aded only by the troops under
the Prince de Conde, The
Pruflians who were before that
place ale, it is said, gone to
bombard Sarre Louis.
and foot, in different parts of
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ENGLAND.
Thele are, beaten on every
tack—the patriots even penetrat
ed into their country, and have
abfolucely taken the city of
Campredon by storm; the citizens
flew with precipitation : This
was communicated O&ober 13
—That the report of the traits
mcondpft of the
—Prime Minister, Cobenze, at
Vienna, is confirmed, and that
another person of rank has been
detected in a treafonabje corres
pondence with the French. The
Count de Cobenzi was carried in
irons to the fortrefs of Kusftein,
and the latter nobleman is also in
confinement! 14 other perlons
have been taken up. The prison
of Spellberg has been ordered to 1
be prepaired for the receptionof
animated by the bonds of ftrift
alliance; so the ends which the
States General have proposed to
themselves in continuing it, have
never been other than that ex
prefled in the said Declaration;
to wit, To repulse an unjulf ag
gression; to co-operate in the
defence of their Allies; and to
obtain an honourable and solid
peace, as well as a just indem
nification for the immense ex
penses occasioned to the Repub
lic and its allies, by the violence
of their common enemies. In
consequence, the States General
fully partake of the sentiments
of his Britanic Majesty and will
enjoy the utmost fatisfadion,
when the French Nation, resto
red to itfelf, and united under a
government which refpeds the
sacred bonds of civil fpciety and
the rights of other nations, shall
be able to renew its relations
of peace and union with other
States; and ensure the mainten
ance of them.
This day, from eight in the
morning till night, the armies
were engaged. The battle be-*
gan with ikirmifhes, but soon
became general. At last epn
fufion spread among the French,
and they were completely rout
ed. Our troops pursued the
enemy far beyond Menin—‘their
loss which must have been coiw
fiderable, cannot be yet afee*
tained.
.It is now aflured, that the
French army is surrounded in
its position in the environs of
Menin, by the troops of the Al
lies, which arrived on the left
over Dortignes and Rollegheim,
and on the right over Galleghim
and Morfule.
Austrian Netherlands.
COURTRAV, OCT. 27.
SPANIARDS-
TUESDAY, February n, 1794.
the Quebec Gazette
Os January 9
RANKFORT.
The followving account of what sassed It' I
tween Gwmj/CvsTlne and the People
of Frankfort, as related by M. Gor a
ni, who watt pref ent, and an eyewit'
nefs, will appear, we hope, worthy the
attention of our Readers.
FRANKFORT was and Coring
the present War had maintained a
ftiid Neutrality; she had refuted to tell
her Artillery to the French Princes; to
permit the Emigrants to alterable ;or
lend them a tem of money for Which
they offered a large intered ; and she
gave many other inHances of public faith
and honor.
These might have saved the Republic
of Frankfort from being invaded, and
have sheltered the inhabitants from a
large Coptribution demanded by Gen.
Cuftine, who was inHigated to this mea.
sure by their Enemies at Mentz, who
envied their commerce and wealth.
When they repretented to Gen. Cuftine
their inability to pay it, he remitted a
part Os the sum, and in ^onfideration of
this favour,demanded the union of Frank
fort to France; on which he was answered
in the following words
**G b n era l , You have Neither Con-
Iftitution, Law, Government, nor Pub
lie Force ; how then can we treat with
you ? Before having eftablilhed Peace at
home, or order in your Finances; before
having freed yourfclves of your internal
Enemies, of thote in particular in the
National Convention, who outrage you
with impunity) you have begun the
execution of the extravagant project of
overturning every Throne, and of pu
nishing all Tyrants; and, by these at
tempts, you have prevented the Sov
ereigns who are leagued agajnft you from
demanding Peace. Abjure publicly
(his delirium, conceived in the intoxica
tion of vengeance.
We find among you, much know
ledge and probity, but more ignorance
and egotism; your principles of Liberty
have produced insubordination and li
centiousness only j and those of Equali
ty, the foolilh and fatal intention of
equalizing all fortunes and conditions.
** These principles have produced the
injurious Decree, which gives the right
of adive Citizen* to the most numerous
elate who are at the fame time,the most
ignorant, the pooreft* the most corrupt
the most brutal, and the most irrita
ble ; and such a Decree commits exclu
sively to the populace, the ele&ions, and
aknoft every fundionof Government,
from which neceflarily. result anarchy
and the greatest disorders.
We fee the populace,proud of their
ignorance, and their poverty, payed to
fill your Clubs, your Sedions, your
Municipal Assemblies, and your Tribu
nals, in order jo drive from them all
honest, enlightened, and ufeful Citizens,
and by stupid and rude applause, or dis
approbation, to insult with impunity e
ven your Repreteniativcs.
many prisoners, which seems to
indicate, that the number im
plicated in the treason of the
prime minister is not small—
That the Emperor and Em press
were to leave Vienna, to avoid
the petitions of the family of
tobenzi. The trial of the min
ster is to commence immediate
y. The seizure of Semonville’s
papers led to the discovery of
this treasonable objed;
t « We find your Municipalities, your
Diftrids, your Administrations, your
Executive Council, and even the Con
vention, torn by fadions, with continual
diftentioLs, as indecent as they are oat
rageous.
4 ‘We observe your Mayors,your Just ices
of Peace, your Tribunals, your Minis
ters, and your Senator?, without power
to do good, or repress crimes; we know
that you permit every thing, except the
e&reife of virtue, and that there is neith
er union nor energy but among the en
emies of the public weal.
° We are sensible, that you.
ces, your national funds and all your re
sources, are squandered ; that your
afiignats lofethe half of their value, that
every necefTary of life is doubled in
price, and that the circulation of grain
is impeded in the Provinces, where, in
doing violence to the labourer, famine
ensues; and that with you, there is no
security, neither for property, life nor
reputation.
“ Lefsicftrufled, and not fetch Philo—
sophers as yon, we have a Religion waich
we love, because we judge it necessary
for the fopporfof morality, and of man
ners, without which, the laws are with
out force. We are content with our
Laws and with our Government; we
live in the prejudice that yours is inim
ical to happineis, and the deplorable hate
of France and your conduct cowards us,
strengthen that opinion? Weare con
vinced, however, that your misfortunes,
’great as they are, both for yourfelf and
the people, would not be past remedy,
if the perfonsof the greatell probity in
the Contention were united, and would
save their Country with an energy
fufficent to overcome every oppofi ion,
fdr it js certain, that with equal energy,
an eloquent man, who is at the fame
time a man of veracity and integrity, is
more powerful than a hundred malevo
lent sophists.”
The above remarks on the affairs and
Revolution of France, made by the
Deputies of Frankfort to, General Caf
tine, are most just, and most striking :
and the best excuse they could have
offered for refuting an alliance or fra-,
ternity with France.
' THE General Committee of the Sec
tions of Toulon, haying read the Procla
mation of Ad mi raj Lord Hood, Com
mander in Chief of his Britannic Ma
jesty’s fquadeon, together with his pre
liminary declaration; ahd a'fer having
communicated these two papers to all the
citizens of the town of Toulon, united
in Se&ions, ’ '
Con fideri ng that France is torn by an
archy, and that it is impossible to exist
longer a prey to the fafiio^ with which
the country is agitated, w* Out its total
deftruftion : / *
Con fide ring that the fomhern depart
ments, after having made long efforts to
refill the oppression of a party of- faflioua
men, who have coafpired to ruin them,
find themfelyes drained and-deprived of
*
“ We fee the Citizens in easy cir*
cumftances, as well as Foreigners, tiy
from your cities; weobferve, that with
out relieving the poor, all the rich fam
ilies have been ruined, and chat thou
iands of journeymen are without wa
ges.
•* We perceivp that your troops, o
vercome With useless fa.igue, and the
most urgent wants, difbknd rhemfelves,
abandon their colours, and go home to
their families.
Declaration made to
“ In jhortf nue I ehold misery and defo.
lation comer nuitb the meil of death, your
unhappy Country.
LORD HO O D.
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