The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-09-21 00:00:00, page 2

" I have the honor to fend yourMa„
jefty the copy of a letter to the Nation
al Assembly, in which your Majesty
will find the expression of sentiments
that have animated my whole life.—
The King knows with what ardour,
with what constancy, I have been at all
times devoted to the cause of liberty
to the faced principles of humanity,
equality and justice. He knows that
I was always the adversary of factions,
the enemy of licentiousness, and that
no power, which I thought unlawful,
was ever acknowledged by me. He
knows my devotion to his constitution
al authority, and my attachment to his
person. Such, Sire, are the basis of
my letter to the National Affembly—
fuch will be those of my condud to
wards my Country and your Majesty,
amid the storms which so many com
binations, hostile or fadious, strive to
draw upon us,
" It belongs not to me, Sire, to give
to my opinions or my measures a higher
degree of importance than the uncon
nefted a&sof a simple citizen ought to
possess; but the expression of my tho'ts
was always a right, and on this occa
sion becomes a duty ; and, although I
might have fulfilled this duty soon
er, if, instead of being to be heard
from the midst of a camp, my voice
had been to issue from the retreat from
which I was drawn by the dangers of
my country. Ido not think that any
publick function, any personal consi
deration, excuses me from exercising
this duty of a citizen, this right of a
freeman.
“ Remain, Sire, firm in the author
ity which the national will has deleg
ated to you, in the generous resolution
choosing a ministry that wears not the
chainsofa fadion ; and it there be
conspirators, let them perish by the
sword of the law.
"In fine,let the reign of Clubs,an
nihilated by you, give place to the
reign of the Law ; their usurpations,
to the firm and independent exercise
of the constituted authorities ; their
disorganizing maxims, to the true
principles of liberty ; their delirious
fury, to the calm and Ready courage
of a nation that knows its rights and
defends them ; in fine, their factious
combinaitons, to the true intercity of
our country, which in this moment of
danger ought to un,e all those to
whom her Subjugation and her ruin are
not objects of attrocious joy, or infa
mous {peculation.
'' Such, Gentlemen, are the repre.
fentations and the petitions submitted
to the National Assembly, as they are
to the King,by a citizen whose love of
liberty will never be honestly question
ed ; whom the different fadions would
hate less, if he had not raised himfelf
above them by his difintereftednef,—
whom silence would have betterbecame
if like so many others,he had been in
different to the glow of the National
Assembly, and the confidence with
which it is of importance that it (hould
be surrounded; and who cannot bet
ter teftify his own confidence, than by
laying before it the truth without dis
guise.
" Gentlemen I have obeyed the dic
tates of my conscience, and the obli
gation of my oaths. I owed it to my
country, to you, to the King, & above
all to myfelf ; whom the chances of war
do not allow to postpone observations
that I think ufeful—and who wish to
believe that the Assembly will find in
this a new homage of my devotion to
its constitutional authority, of my per
sonal gratitude, and of my jefpe&.
M. la. Fayette lent a copy of his
Leiter to theNationalAffembly, to the
King,: with the following Letter to
his Majesty.
"Entrenched camp of Maubeuge,June\6,
<79 2 -
" Fourth Year of Liberty.-
LETTER,
From M. LA FAYETTE,
To the KING.
(Signed)
" Sire,
"LA FAYETTE."
LONDON, June 23..
In the neighborhood of
Inverness a woman of the
name of Margaret Charters,
aged 57, was lately delivered
of twins, who are both like
ly to do well. She had been
twice married—to her firft
husband 29 years—to her 2d
just 11 months. By the firft
she had 13 children, who
are all alive#
Above forty thouland aimed men
are, at this moment, marching up to
the capital to assist at the anniver
sary ceremony of the 14th July,in con
sequence of a decree of the National
Assembly, not fandioned by the King,
and consequently not a law.
of defending the principles of the Con
stitution against all their enemies.
Let this resolution, supported by all
the ads of your private life, as by a
firm and full exercise of the Royal
power, become the pledge of harmony,
which above all in foch critical times,
cannot fail to be established between
the Representatives elected by the peo
ple, and their hereditary Representa
tive. It is in this resolution, Sire,
that for your country and for yonrfelf
are glory and fafety. There you will
find the friends of liberty, all good
Frenchmen,ranged around your throne,
to defend it against the machinations
of the rebellious, and the enterprise of
the factious. And I, Sire, who, in
their honourable hatred, have found
the recompense of my persevering op
position—l will always merit it by my
zeal to serve the cause to which my
whole life is devoted, and by my fide
lity to the oath which I have taken to
the nation, the law, and the King.
" Such, Sire, are the unalterable
sentiments of which I subjoin the
homage, and that of my refped.
(Signed) "LA FAYETTE,"
PARIS, July 6.
Yesterday evening the Minister for
Foreign affairs appeared before the as
sembly. He said among other things,
that the emigrant Princes have taken
upon themselves to open a loan, secur
ed on all their estates in France, Re
ferred to a committee of twelve.
On the 10th July the King and the
whole corps tie referee that was encamp
ed in the adjacent diftrids, marched &
fixed their camp in the neighbourhood
of Prague (in Poland,) on the opposite
banks of the Vistula.
WE have received accounts here
that the Polilh army under
Prince Joseph Ponido^/ky, near Po
lonnoc, has fuffcred a great loss from
the Ruffians.
On the 7th inst. the Polish army,
confiding of 25,000 men approachec
the Ruffians, wtofe numbers we Eave
no accounts of. Prince Pooiatowfky
was just absent—thus the army wanted
a head. The Ruffians no sooner ap
peared but the Polish National troops
were immediately liruck with a panic
terror and put to flight.
Two Polish Generals,either through
inclination or fear, went over to the
Ruffians. A reinforcement of 20,000
men for this army was on the march,
and it is much apprehended they will
meet with the Ruffians unprepared.
The loss of our defeated army con
fifts of the whole field equippage, 49
guns-—227 bags of gunpowder, 1475
firelocks, 50,000 cartridges, 24,000
sacks of flour, 5000 lacks of oats, 25
cart loads of hay, 2800 pieces of cloth,
470 ammunition waggons,and the chert
of war—l 737 men were killed, 439
bounded, and 1247 taken prisoners.
This affair cost the Ruffians nothing,
since the Polish army made no refill
ance.
WARSAW, July 1 3 .
By Yesterday's Mail.
JULY 19.
During the march of La
Fayette's army two of the
private soldiers attempted to
excite a mutiny, by crying
out that they were betray
ed and requiring to know
whither they were march
ing. They were instantly
feized,tried by a drum head
Court Martial, condemned,
and executed in fight of the
army.
LIVERPOOL, July 16.
A new invention of mak
ing a cable by means of a
piece of machinery, just e
reded in Portsmouth-yard;
the conftruaion of which is
very curious, and has been
submitted to the Board of
Admiralty. By means of
this engine, which is put in
motion by 15 horfes—2o
men, wholly unskilled in
rope-works will be enabled
to make a cable of dimen
sions for the largest fhip,in
less time than 200 men can
make one according to the
usual method.
PITTSBURG, ^^2s.
SATURDAY laft,the 4th
inst. Henry Hamilton, a
soldier belonging to the de
tachment under the com
mand of major Afheton,was
taken to the gallows, to be
A diabolical attempt has
been made to poison the
bread making for the Prus
sian army—The bakers had
received for that purpole,
large lums of money,and as
soon as the money was in
their pockets, they dilcover
ed the whole plot. Several
Frenchmen were immediate
ly taken up and committed
to prison. They passed for
emigrants.
The Empress of Russia is
fitting out a iquadron of 12
fail of the line, and 8 frig
ates, in the Ports of Cron
ftadt, Archangel and Revel.
This armament is destined
against France.
While the Papers have been
dinning us with instances of
human prolificknefs in the
country, a little Scotch-wo
man, in Black-Friars in the
city ofLondon,has been fuf
fered to pass to her grave
unnoticed. This woman
had twice,4 children—three
times 3 —and four times, 2
—in all 25 —at nine births.
Besides thele, Die had lome
others at single births.
American Advices.'
Extract of a letter from the
Rev. Mr. Heckewwelder, <
Indian Missionary, to the
Rev. Daniel Story, Mari
etta, dated Fort Wafting
ton, July 26, 1792.
" A day or two after our
arrival at this place, we had
news from Post-Vincent,
that one oii.two of our Flags
had been killed ; and since
that, this news has been
confirmed,by two men who
had been taken prisoners by ,
the Indians ; the firft in
General Harmar's expedi
tion, and the other on the
4th of November last.—
These men give the parti-1
culars of the whole, as told
them by the Indians them
felves,^. that they were
firft taken and brought into
the towns, and after know--
ing their errand,the Indians
put them to death."
These flags were sent for
the purpose of making one
more attempt to bring a
bout a peace with the lava
ges—their fate we adduce,
as a palpaple and public
inflance of savage honor
and benevolence, and as a
proof of the value of trea
ties with those who difre-
executed for mutiny in at
tempting to take the life of'
ensign Devin, by flicking^
him in the breast with a
bayonet, on the march to
this place.'
The whole of the troops,
conlifting of major Afhe
ton's detachment of infant
ry, artillery and riflemen,
and captain Stake's troop
of horfe,were paraded,when
the major read his death
warrant, and the awful
ceremony was about to be
performed—the unfortu
nate man appeared fully
convinced of the juftnels of
his lentence, exhorted his
brother soldiers to beware
of falling into the like error
—his behaviour was manly,
firm and penitent.—After
he had been tied up to the
gallows, every moment ex
peeing to be launched into
eternity, a reprieve from
the commander in chief
was brought forward
Pleasure was pictured in
the countenance of every
one, but in none more io }
than that of Mr. Devin,
who had, in a very particu
lar manner, exerted himfelf
to obtain it, but had reason
to fear his exertions were
in vain.