The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser — Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.], 1795-05-23 00:00:00, page 2

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[By Wednejday's Mai/.]
"Late and interej/ing European intelligence.
Jty the Mary, Gap. Kennedy, arrived at Nenv York in
40 dap from Liverpool, complete files of London papers,
as late nrrhe vqrb-of-Mtrrch,,'being eight days later
-than th je obtained at Philadelphia.) mere iHtrvtd, and
from 'which,'the fdKrtvhjg extra Lis have been taken.
LONDON, March 13.
■ E have avoided to mention the report which
W. has been (free!-/ circulated on the continent
for Tome t ime, but without any other evidence than
its probability—we meart the ieparate peace actual
ly Lid to be concluded between thd’French and the1
King of Prufiia. It is.now reported upon authority
that in our minds is decifive of the fact. Minifters
Juuot deny it ; and even the terms have traulpired.
A bpdy of PrufJSan troops are perhaps at this mo
ment on the march, and it is fittingly fufpected that
Hanover is to be made the theatre of the action of
the two powers, tlie conqneft and guarantee of
which will be made to Prutiia by the French <*% the
price of peace.
On the fame authority we learn the equally im
portant fact, that the Emperor perfifts in refuting
the loan offered to him by this country ,fmce the ex
traordinary movements in his own neighbourhood
make it incompatible with his ervn fafety to proceed
in the war. The terms offered him by the French
are too advantageous to be refitted-; anB there is
little doubt but that he, like Pruflia, will accept of
the boon that is held Out to him, namely, the guar
antee of Bivaria.
Thus will The French dexteroufly draw from our
fide all our allies, preferve the immenle frontier,
they have acquired, and laugh to (corn the pride &
paftion of thole feIf fufficient men whd’AvouId not
treat with a people, that will thus become the arbi
ters of Europe. The predicament into which we
ihall be brought, is roo dreadful to be contemplated,
and yet lo Jolt are the public to all fen lie of JSritilh
in'etefts, thar our danger produces no fenfation, &
Tvl'nifters are fuffered to po on with the indifference
ot SroicilR'..
The French areholding our Rufliaand Great Bri
ta;ri as the real objects of terror to all other powers
with whom they are at war, and calling upon tbttn
to unite againfc the two Coloilufses that beftride
earth and or-an. The naval power of Britain can
.^»ive no alarm to any of the -Combined l’owers ex
cept Spain ; but the charge again ft Ruflia has alrea
dy induced the King of Prufsia to open a negociati.
on for peace with France, and mull have great influ
ence upon the conduct of the Emperor.
There is a very ferions difference in the Cabinet,
which, it is imagined, will terminate in the dilmif
fal of Mr. Pitt, if Mr. Fox can be prevailed upon
to fucceed him as Chancellor of the'Excheouer. The
only point c* which thisbuftnefs refis at prefent is,
’thar Mr. Fox is rdquefted to relinqoifh fume of his
molt particular friends to which he has too much
f.rmneis to agree. A gtent perfonage, we under
hand, is extremely dilgufted at the'conduct of the
niinifter, who objects to the Duke of York having a
feat in the Cabinet, though entitled to it by cuftom
in conference of his appointment to the high mili
tary rank which he fills ar pnefent. Should the
Duke become a member of the Cabinet, there will
he a decided majority againft Mr. Pitt, as the
Duke, fince his return from the continent, has kept
him at a great diftance, and has, in the molt manly
manner, exprefsed his decided difapprobafion of the
conduct of tile Minifter, as far as related to his roy
■fcl highneis while acting on th* continent.
^ March 16.
Encampments,
Inthecourfe of next month the following among
Dther Encampments, will be formed in the vicinity
t><f the Southern Coafts.
BARHAM DOWNS,
Mu ilia.
'3d Dragoon guards Oxford
22(1 Light dragoons South Devan
Lincalhire ■ Dorfec
'Rutland FenciMei South Hant3
A '.:—r artil lerj. Park of artillery.
DOVER,
iEaft Middlefex Eaft Norfolk
Eaft Efsex, and Militia.
BR1GHTELSMSTONE.
Prince of Wales's Light, Wefr Efsex
Dragoons, Summerfet, and
Sooth Gloucefter, Wiltshire
•Hereford, Militia
Chefhire, Park of Artillery.
At the fame time, Encampments will alf0 (,t
formed at Hythe, Dungenels, Eaftbouroe, Seaford,
Dhicheftcr, the Ifle of Wight, Southamion, Poole
•&c. 01 to the Land's End.
MUTINY AT BIRMINGHAM.
'Extract of a letter from Birmingham, halfpaft two
in the afternoon, Monday, March 9.
" A conftderable alarm prevails here this morn
ing, occefioned as follows : On Saturday laft arri
ved here a lecond divifion of the Fingal; orti8th
regimlnt from Dublin, laft from the Ifle of Man, &
jjurfuaot to orders, were ifsemWed this morning to
proceed on their march. This they abfolutely re
Yufed, till they were paid their clearance-money, &
bounty, which, they Laid, had been hitherto wilh
•beld.
“ Remonftrances were ufed in vain .-’the mob which
hid aCsembled to fee them depart, prefently ma
«ifeted aa iuclination tnjoin the difsatrafied folditra
and the atuboriry cf ilic Acer's t-ota-Py
difregirded. Application was then made to the
Miguirates and Colonel Callow, commander of
the 3d regiment of dragoons, in our barracks. Co
loneiCaliow, in pafsing through rheBigh iVeet#=to
give orders that his men might inftantly attend him
wai purfued . by a numerous and daring rrtisb, huz
zaing and grojsly infuliing him, and, but for iomV
officers on the recruiting lervice, who luckily hap
pened to be near the fpot, he certainly, would have
been in great perlonal.danger.
“ The baggage, however, moved off accompanied
by a very tew of the privates and Icme officers,
home of the foldiers now informed the mob, that
many of them had been kidnapped, had never been
attel'ed, andhad received no bounty—a feene of
conlufion eniued. A largv party of dragoons pre
lently appeared, beaded by aMagiltraur, and twr
rounded the principal part of the mutinous loldiers,
in the yard of the Swan Hottl, but they (many of
them in a ftateof intoxication) declared they were
ready to defend themleives to the lal’t moment.
“ This is the ftate of things at half .paft two in
the afternoon. Another party of the tame regi
ment is momentarily expected from Lithfield ; but
it is laid an exprefs has been lent off to change the
direction of their march towards Coventry The
officers and M igiltrate* are now parleying with the
men from the bwan Hotel windows, and the dra
goons ftill keep their polition in High flreet : the
rcftih lhall be communicated to morrow.
March 17. Yt fterday Come difpatches were re
ceived at the admiralty office from the Mediterra-.
nean, by the way of Gibraltar and Lifbon. Admi
ral Hotbam is returned to hi* ltation off Toulon,
watching theFrench fleet, which 1’tili continue in
that port, though they have long been refitted and
ready to fail. The Brit ifh ctmmander in chief has
received repeated .intelligence of the want of naval
ftores, timber, &c. at Toulon.
An order has been ilsued from the pay office, for
roo.oool. to be fent to the continent, by the Syren
frigate, for the fervice of the army.
BRITISH ARMY.
Lord CATHCART's Brigade.
Lord Cathcart took a feparate corps, confifting
of the 27th, 48th, 8oth, and 84th regiments, with
(heir artillery, when our retreat began, and made
a very circuitous tour through Welt Frufland, and
aldng the borders of the Province of Groningen, a
very, difaffecred province. We were entirely wide
of the Eritiih arinv, and fkirted near the Z der
Zee. The objeet of this march feetoed ro be to
found the difpolition of the people, but it appeared
to aifiwer no purpofe. The people in our prefence
were Launch, and treated both officers and men
with the molt extravagant fympioms of loyalty to
thccaufe of the Prince, but ihel'e only lafted till our
departure.
We inarched without a halt for upwards of 170
miles, through the dreary country, fuffering much
from extreme cold and fatigue.
We palsecl within ten miles of Groningen, and
Lord Cathcarr received deputies from the city, of
fering to open their gate to us, if his Lordlhip in
filled on it, but rather wilhing we would not enter,
as there were two parties in town. They afsured
us of every lupply to the brigades of’ihoes, &c.
which we tiood much ifl need of. We halted three
days at Hageftadt, about nine miles from Gronin
gen. A particular thaw coming on, we m-arched
acrofs the Emits into Prufsia, and before we had to
remain there thre® days, at a town called Lear, we
were ordered to repafs the'Embs, and advance to
this pofition, where w* have taken poisefsion of the
three Dutch Fnrtrefses on the frontiers of Holland,
viz. Bourlang. O'ldfkans, and Neuikans, which form
ed our advanced poft. The enemies advanced pol:s
are about two miles from ours. Our advanced
corps is ftrong, and is very ably commanded by
Lord Cathcart.
Orders have been received at the war office for the
83d, and 98th regiments in barracks at Poole, to,
hold themfclves in readiuefs to embark on fomc fe
cret expedition.
March 18.
From the London Gazette, March 17.
Copy of a letter from Captain Burltop, command
ing his Mtijelty’s Ihip Lively, to Mr* Nepeag, da
ted the 13th iui't. Ulhant South, half weft, 13
leagues.
S 1 R,
I beg you will acquaint’ tVe Lords Commifsion
ers of the admiralty, that half an hour paft ten
o'clock this morning, I brought the French frigate
La Tourterille, of 30 /uns and 250 men, to action ;
and at half paft one o'clock, I had the (atisfaction
too fee her furrender to his majefty's lhip Lively,
under my command. Our lofs is very trifling for
fo long an actiyn, only two men wounded. The
enemy's lofs is 16 killed and 2£ wounded. I can
not conclude without obierving that the officers and
crew throughout behaved with that determined
coolnefs and bravery that muft have enfured them
fuccefs. 1 have the honor to be, &c.
GEO. BURLTON.
It appears by the lateft communications from the
army,that the approach of one column of theFrench
towards Embden was little more than a feint, in
tended to cover the advances of another column to
the electorate of Hanover,from which the letter bo
dy are Paid to be "tit more than fixry miles diftanr.
The Dutch, commifsioncr who left this country a
few weeks ft nee, for the pqjr^ofe of communicating
tha Britjih minifter's anfwer on the detention of
the Dutch ihips, arrived in town yefterday with
frc*h inftructions from the provifional Reprefenta
rives of Holland on that fubject.
It is believed that Goveijnuient has information
o- a formtdffile ttcpccltion intended agsinftCorf
The following is an extract of a letter front a
tleman in Italy, dated Jan. 31ft, t;gj. B‘st
'4 T he fleet in Toulon roaus is ready fff|
^"htre ahe StgydrthMiibed’r.t men'rn'board it bf,t L
general *on£of abfo featnen. There are 8no
mutt eplcanipe® readyfto embark at a moment's no*
lice |ffo that Hfc pl^Sof an expedition is not vee
given over.
A gt-tat mercantile .bnulein this city, is fahj ,
have received a letter front Frankfort, announcing
the truth-of a negotiation now cartyingon betwtef
the Emperor of Germany and the FrtnCh Republic
T he object of this treaty is fa id to-be the chargecf
Bavaria againft the Amman Low Countries. ‘
We have the fatisfsetion of bating the arrivtlst
Falmouth of the Lanzarotte, a Spanilh packet, aftc
a very quick pafsage of only three days from La[
runna, which brings advice of the Spnnifh arm"
in’Roufillbn having attacked theFrench, killed
and taken 1800 prifoners, with 20 pieces of csn’
nOn.
T he account of-Admiral Langsra’s fquadronhav
ing.captured }our-French frigates, is confirmed.
March V). it was yefteraay reported, and gene
rally believed, that the fquadrein of Toulon havini
failed for the expedition againlt Coiftca, had met
at fea loVloleut agate, that they had loft (e'vt
fhips ot the line, five of which had foundered a.„t
ail the clews perilhed. ’
Three of thole lhips were reported to he le Lan
guedoc, of Bn guns, le Soverain, and !e Mercure of
74. This lait was in the number of thole burnt bv
nr Sydney Smith ; but probably the conflagration
had not been fuel) as not to leavea pofsibilitv of tei
pairing her front the water's edge.
March 20. It is with great latisfaction we hav'i
to record the fpirit, activity, and loecefs that now
diltinguilh our naval operations. Sir Edward Pe
lew, that gallant and enterprifing officer, on the
9th in It. fell in vtitii a French convoy, conliftirocf
50 fail, which had failed on the preceeding day from
•theft forBuurdeaux—He had captured 18 or sg vef.
lels, and difperftd the convoy. To cur Falmouth
letter we refer for all the particulars that wtra
known at the time di its date.
Letters from Falmouth, received tnis morning
ftate, that on Tutfday lalt, in the afternoon, the
French brig Temeriur, was brought in there, a
prize to Sir ‘Edward Ptllew’s fquadron, which on
the 1 ith inft. fiad talicn iat with a convov of .bstv
fifty iaiI from Brest to 'Bourdeaux. Sir Edward,
whole f quad ton confifted of th e Jndefai igalde [Ins
ihip}- the Jafon, and .the’Concord, be liefer burning
four, took ntreeu of the convoy ; Come of them hue
valuable cargoes, others aVe in bfiHafr. Had rot
th't^hips been very dole to the Ihore, the whole
convoy would have been captured. The fquadron,
with the other prizes, -were expected to arrive ac
Falmouth on Wednesday la ft.
A cartel for the exchange of prifoners, is on the
point of being concluded. Government have alrea
dy hired three velsels foi the purpofe of bringing
home the Britilh prifoners ; and have given four
hundred French prifoners who were brelight from
Martinique, leave to go to France.
We are afsured, thar the Frer..>i have put all the
flat-bottomed boats of Holland, amounting to 185,
in a hate of requilition ; i»<rch boat containing p or
6 excellent feamen, befif>'s two pilots perfectly ac
quainted with the isn^ilh ceaft; they are from 29
to 30 tons.
March 21. In our paper of yefterday, we ft a ted,
upon the information of a correfpondent there, the
arrival at Ya/mouth qfthree Dutch merchants and
an Englilh/'an, the mate of an Englifh tranfport
lunk at Rotterdam, and who made their happy
efcape from the Texel on Monday night ]aft in *
Schr.tt. As the intelligence was not contained ill
ther w hole of our imprefsion yefterday,we beg leave
t.o recapitulate it to day, for the fatiifaction of all
r our reader*.
There had been no particular occurrence at Aro
! frerdam, but letters had been received there with
veryextraordinaryimelligencefrcni Paris*
Thefe letters ftate, that on Wednefday the mh
infr. late in the afternoon, Judgment of Death wa*
pronounced by tne revolutionary I ribunal againft
Birrere and his accomplices. The fame night, on
lome fignals being fired from the Obfervatory, a
banditti afsembled in the fuburbs of St. Germain,
Sc. Marceau, and Sr. Antoine, led on by the moft
enraged of the Jacobins, and accompanied by a
ihoal of Poiisards, to the number of about 15,000.
They proceeded to the Thuilleries, befet the guards
of the diftrice, and took pofsefsion of the Bairiers
and the Bridges.
The general cry was “ a bas les Moderes, vivant
les Jacobins," while another part of the mob ex
claimed, “ Du Pain, et un Roi !” The ifstie of this
tumult was not known when the accounts t>3me a
way. The terment had been fome time brewing,
as was evident from feveral eircumftances, particu
larly from the cry that wss railed in the Parterre of
the opera of the night before, a bas les Mufcadins,
on the entrv of Ivladame Tallien or Cabarres, in
her fupurb Greek drefs into one of the boxes.
Jn the courfe of the night a large party was de
tached from the Carufel to the Temple, From the
divided fentiments of the mob, it appeared quite
uncertain what was their delign, whether to put to
death the illuftrious prifoner confined there, of li
berate and proclaim Louis XVII.
Such is the ftatement which reached us yefterday
and which we thought it our duty immediately to
communicate. We have this day nothing to add
in fupport of its credibility, having, when this pa
per was put to prefs, received no further account or
confirmation : Wc ihall look however with mor®