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Gillet, Representative of the
people with the army of Sam
bre and the Meuse, to the
Committee of Public Safety.
. Hart Quarters, at Tronas, Sept. 27
We loft not an instant in exe
cuting the order you had given
us to attack the enemy on the
right bank of the Meuse. For
ty two battalions, with a pro
portionate number of squadrons,
were detached under the com
mand of Generals Sheber, Mar
cean and Bonot, and passed the
the river at Namur and Huy.—
From the 13th the pnffages of
the Ourte had been forced at
Durby and Combline-au-Pont.
It remained to clear the Aywa
ille river, the banks of which
are defended by remarkable
steep rocks and which affords
todly a practicable passage for
are infantry. The enemy with
l^ooo mtn,occupied two camps
on the right fide of the river,
the one at Emeur, the other at
- Sprimont. All the heights were
covered with redoubts ; and af
ter forcing a passage, we must
necessarily march for near a
league, under a fire es flanking
On the propofirioi of the Committee cf
Public Safety, the National Convention
nominated twenty eight citizen foldiets,
to fill the vacant employment in the army,
which it had referred for iife'f. Os these
we ihill mention a few, whofc service
appear to have been the most eminent
t. Francis Juftamont, a soldier in the
gzd regiment in infantry, to be second
• lieutenant in the 41st remi-brigade.—
Having been taken prisoner, be prevailed
upon seven of his companions to effect
their escape, and as none of them could
swim, he carried them ecrefs the river on
his back, one after another.
2. David, ferjeant of the marines, to
be fecend lieutenant. On receiving a
gun foot wound in the fto^ach, on the
joth September, 1792. he cut rhe ball
out with his own knife, loaded his mus
ket, and killed one of his antagonists with
it.
3. Fouknier, a trooper in the third
regiment of cavalry, to be sub lieutenant.
While carrying a dispatch with which he
was entrusted, he was fafrounded by an
• enemy's patrole, but he refufed to furren
der, and was reieafed by his companions
who found him lying proflrate on the
ground, pierced with seven ft^bs of the
bayonet.
paid. BruffJa litfc'H Ire th°o„
cities Which have paid the whole of their
a&ffmento. Other# have paid part, and
some nothing eg yet. The afeffmeot on the
electorate or Treves is 5,000,000 of li
vres. One million hat been already paid.
Among the fpsils of the little tyrant of
that country, was the Electoral Crewe,
which has been sent to the national craci
ble to be purified.
After hearing a report delivered by Jo
ghsnot, in the name of the Committee of
Finances, by which it appeared, that the
expences of the month Thermider last,
exceeded the receipts to the amount of
195,027,104 liv. 43. 63. for the reim
bursement of which it was necessary to
make a proposition : The Convention de
creed, that affignats to the above a
mount, should be taken oat-of the chett
with three keys.
The Section of the Social Central pre
sented them 24,000 livres, to be applied
towards the conftruftion of a hundred gun
ship, which is to be termed Commune de
Paris.
NATIONAL CONVENTION,
September 21.
Carnot, in the name of the
Committee of Public Safety,
communicated the following
dispatches:
Succeffej of the French.
TRAIT'S OF BRAPERY.
FRENCH FINANCES.
artillery, in order-te gain t sum
mit of the mountains ; never
was position more formidable ;
.art and nature seemed to have
united every possible obstacle,
ibut our army proved that it
knew of no obstacle when its
business was to conquer.
Yesterday at day break, four
columns attacked at the fame
time along the whole line, the
Aywaille to Emeur. All the
passages were forced by the
bayonet, and all the enemy's
camps taken at full charge ; 700
prisoners, 26 pieces of cannon,
almost all of large Callibre, car
riages of remount, three pair
of colours, 1200 men of killed
or wounded, abundance of mus
kets thrown away by the ene
my, about 100 hoffes and 40
ammunition waggons, were the
prize of victory. It was com
plete.
Their loss of artillery is much
more considerable than we at
firft imagined. To day we have
found fevcral pieces of cannon
and ammunition waggons in the
ravines and woods. In a word,
the army of Latour seems to
have loft all its artillery. To
morrow the army makes a gen
eral movement, and we shall
do every thing in our power to
take the advantage of our victo
ry without hazarding a reverie
of fortune. The prisoners and
deserters assure us, that the lan
guage of the Austrians is much
changed. They arc weary of
the war, and wify for nothing
so much as a speedy return to
Germany. We have seen La
tour's carriage, his Secretary,
The remnant of Latour's ar
my is entirely routed and dis
persed in the woods, our army
is in pursuit, and will give a
good account of the fugitives.
1 cannot yet slate the loss on our
fide ; but according to all the
returns received, we have to
regret but a very small number
of republicans. While the
right wing was signalizing itfelf
among the rocks of Limbourg,
the left and the centre were
beating the enemy towards Ma
feik, and before Maeftricht. —
The villages of Laweld, Emeur,
and Motenaken were carried,
and the enemy purfucd to the
glacis of Maeftricht. Health
and Fraternity !
I informed you this morning,
that the enemy had abandonee
their camp at the Chartreuefe.
General Jourdan immediately
directed two itrong columns of
infantry and cavalry to pursue
them, the one by Liege, and the
other by Bile. The cavalry
made a number of prisoners.—
Scheber pushed his advance
guards to Verviers. What 1
told you of the battle of yester
day, is far short of the truth.
The enemy left more than 2000
men on the field. Several of
their battalions are reduced to
150 men.
Gillet, Representative of 'the
people with the army of Som
bre and the Meuje, to the
Committee of Public Safety.
Hod-Barters^ at Liege, Sept. 29.
GILLET.
and his papers.—Health and
Fraternity.
GILLET.
>^^4}sQs^)i^3a^)sQa^>aG»«»^»^)«»6O<
By Yesterday's Boflon Ptf.
Suro^am ^ntcllcaence.
B, the (hip Gen. Lincoln, Captain Joy,
from London.
From the (Lon.) Oracle, of OR. 10.
In the purfuit,the Prussians were infer
ably flaughtcred, the streets through which
they passed were covered with the earcaffes
ofmetfr& horses ; and as they had not time
to bury their dead, the air abeut Warsaw,
for four or five days was greatly infeded
by the putrid exhalations from their bod
ies.
-The enraged Preffians fled like mad
dogs, destroying in their way, all the
houses of the peasants ; so that the places
through which they passed are as dreary as
a defart.
In their march to Great Poland,they have
but a melancholy profpea es penetrating
into the country, the Insurgents having
carried off all the magazines and arsenals,
and occupied the strong places in force,
and are firmly determined to eppofe them.
If the Warsaw Papers do not overcharge
their accounts, the King of Preßia is in
great danger of being cut off, with his
whole army.
The lifargents have possessed thetn
felves also of Pazin, a city with a forti
fied castle, which is the centre of the gev.
Yesterdays Dutch mil bro't
1 vast influx of important intelligence.—
The perusal of this paper will therefore
serve as an apology for the omission of
many favors from our Correspondents and
Advertisers. On great occasions we are
refolded to sacrifice our temporary interest
for tftmainteinance of that priority and
plentitude of information which have
hitherto been oyr laudable charaaeriftic.
In the following ^Cblumns may be feea,
the true state of oar affairs of Europe.—
While we tremble for the fate of Holland,
over which the sword of the enemy is sus
pended by a thread, we rejoice at the
emancipation of the Poles from a cruel
and unprovoked bondage.
The latter have completely expelled the
enemy from their terri ories, and, in the
frenzy of their indignation and resent
ment, menace the INVASION of the
Prussian dominions.
The States General, in the extremity
of danger, propose, as the last fatal reme
dy, the GRAND INUNDATION OF THE
whole country ; but the majority of
the people, inimical to the Stadtholder,
refufe their assent, preferring the clemen
cy of the enemy, with the new French
doarines, to what they term the detrac
tion of their territories.
Letters, and particularly the official ac
counts from Warsaw, to the 9th inst. give
us the most ample details of the ciream
ftances attending the retreat of the Pruf
iians, on the night between the sth and
6th.
Various causes contributed to this re
treat. The insurgents in Great Poland
net only cut off the supplies of previsions
and ammunition from the army of his,
Prussian Majesty, but nlfo cut off the com
munication between the other parts of his
dominions and his camp, in the environs
of which the Poles had demolished all the
Greets,& attempted to en'rap the Prussians
in a number of grand al ^ .'a. which the
rubbish enabled them to form.
Wnile from this ftatemeht may be seri
ously weighed trsnfa&ions of magnitude
abroad, we behold a spirit of refoliation
and vigor at home feldem surpassed in any
age of our hiftory. A great and an opu
lent company announces its determination
to fapport the prosecution of the war ;
and that its patriotic efforts may be crown
ed with the desired efieft, is our raoft fin
cre wish.
As to the Dutch having, by opening
the sluices, drowned a great part of the
French array, the reverse is the fa& ; for
the French, being in possession cf Cre
vecceur, have it in their power to drain
iff the water, which had before been kt
n, a circumstance which they have taken
advantage of, as oar renders will fee by
che letters from the British army.
VIENNA, Sept. 26.
GERMANY.
ernment if the whole province. Thiy
have ne further intelligence at Warsaw
Ance the arrival of the Prussians at Sech
aczew, in the Palatinate of Rawa.
A report prevails, but unauthenticated
by any date of name or place, that an ac
tion bat already taken place between the Peto
and Profane, in which the latter bane buri
beaten !
They again talk here of a peace, of
which the Houfc of Anftria would be ve
ry desirous, if it was not bound by its en
gagement with, the Allies, of whom it
wishes to know what terms are expeded.
If the French would consent to eftabliffi
the National Convention upon more solid
principles, humanity itfelf would call for
a peace, of which the Austrians (land
more in need than any of their Allies,
If it is required that the House es Aus
tria should try another campaign with the
money offered them, it must be very difa
grecable to the Emperor and hie Minis
ters, that it should be so long forthcom
ing.
ORcber 13.
Yesterday a meffsnger brought difpatch
•s to government, from his royal highness
the Duke of York, dated head quarters at
Grcfoeck, 7th iuQ. The Dutch mail due
on Friday left, has also arrived. The one
due this morning hasoot yet come in.
The principal intelligence, brought §,
the mefenger and the mail, is that the un
fortunate Gee. Clairfeyt, who after bis
defeat in the neighborhood of Liege, a
bout four weeks ago, had taken up so good
a petition on the banks of the Roer, as co
make him even with the enemy might as
sail him, has been again attacked by the
enemy and fuftaiaed a frefh defeat. The
accounts so far as the particulars are yet
known, state that on the ifiinft. the
French crofled the Meuse and the Raer,
and attacked all the posts cf the- Andrian
army from Ruremond down to Jaliers and
Dueren. These posts were defended with
great bravery end skill ; but were at
length carried by the masses sent forth by
the Conventic& who were every where
vifloiious. Tro Auftriansjn confluence,
were forced to cross the Rhine, near Co
logne, with the loss of more than 5000
men—some accounts fay hlmoft twice that
number, with a great tert of their artille
ry and baggage ; so lrat the French are
matters es almost the whole territories, on
the weft tide of the Rhine which may now
be cenfidered as their esftern boundary.
Congress
of the UNITED STATES.
HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES,
Monday, dic. 1.
The House went into a committee of
the whole. Mr. Cobb in the chair, er. a
LONDON, OCT. 11.
It has been said, that in eonfequence df
the Prince es Wales' intended marriage
with the princess of Brunswick, the Duke
of Brunswick, her father, is once more ip
take the command of the Allied Armies,
and that the Duke of York has Agnified
his readirefs to serve under him. The
Duke of Brunswick had the command in
chief the firft campaign, and the plan may
perhaps, be row to fight all the ^omman
de*over again, and then Du Capo. We
do not hear that the French have yet pro
posed recalling Dumaurier, their com
mander in chief for the firft campaign.
Advices from Constantinople inform us,
that a part of the Ottoman empire has
lately been vifted by an earthquake.
The population of these three is esti
mated at 100,000 fouls ; and besides these,
a number of villages in the fame territory,
were likewise destroyed, scarcely a tenth
part of the inhabitants having efcaptd the
dreadful catastrophe.
The principle of taxing places and pen
sions for the fapportof the war has al
ready spread from Spain to Germany.—
Our Ministers, and their adherents are all
in a state of the utmost alarm.
On the third of July, three towns were
fwallowcd up between Angora and Ef
drum, in Natalia, formerly known by the
name of Asa Minor, situated something
more than zoo miles S. E. of Conflanti
nople, viz. Tchograin, which consisted of
about §OOO houses ; Amafi, the capital
of the government of that name, which
was still more extensive and populous, and
which is famed as the birth place of Stra
fo; and Eaglem, which contained be
tween three and four thousand houses.
ENGLAN D.