The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), 1794-01-27 00:00:00

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
By the ship Eliza. Captain Harrison arrived at New-York on Wednesday last from Liverpool. Engl/sh papers are received to the 31st of October, 1793 from which the following interesting particulars are copied:—
PARIS, October 16. TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF THE QUEEN OF FRANCE.
YESTERDAY morning the once all powerful and beautiful Marie Antoinette, consort of the unfortunate Louis, King of France, the daughter, sister and aunt, of Emperors, was brought like the meanest malefactor from the vile prison of the Conciergerie, and placed at the criminal bar of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
The act of accusation as prepared by the public accuser was to the following purport:
Marie Antoinette stands charged; 1st with having dilapidated and lavished the finances of the nation, in concert with the execrable Calonne, by causing to be transmitted to the Emperor several millions, which will serve to carry on the war against France—2dly with having, in imitation of Brunehaud, and Damedicis, who also called themselves Queens of France, conspired against the liberty of the French nation,—3dly. With having sought to starve the people in 1789—4thly. With having excited the murders of October 5 and 6—5thly. With having in concert with Bailly, and La Fayette, caused the patriots to be butchered in the camp De Mars—6thly. With having prevailed upon the Swiss to fire on the people on the 10th of August—7thly. With having like another Agrippina, forgotten she was a mother, in order to commit incest with her son.
Shocked, as this unhappy Queen must have been at some of the articles of her accusation, and particularly at the last, which seems to have been designed to load her memory with infamy, she heard them with magnanimous fortitude and composure, and replied without confusion, and with dignity to the interrogatory, which began as follows:
President—"What is your name?"—Queen—"Marie Antoinette, of Lorraine and Austria"
President—"Your Quality?"—Queen—"I am the widow of Louis Capet, King of the French."
[Here the witnesses were called in] Laurent Lecointre, the first witness formerly chief of a Division of the National Guard of Versailles, and at present a Member of the National Convention, related the historical occurrences of the 5th, and 6th of October; and from his relation it appeared, that the ci devant Gardes de Corps or Life Guards, were the first aggressors.
Lecointre spoke also, though not as an ocular witness, of the nocturnal riot which was occasioned October 1st at Versailles, by the late King's Life Guards in the hall of the Opera. "Marie Antoinette, said he, repaired to that banquet; she applauded the conduct of the Guards; she also visited the regiment of Nassau and the Chasseurs of Trois Eveches, who were quartered in the Orangerie of the Gardens of Versailles."
Queen—"I repaired, I must own, with my husband and his children to the Hall of the Opera House; but I did not see that the national cockade was trode under foot. It is false that I ever spoke to the soldiers of the Regiment of Nassau, or the Chasseurs of Trois Eveches."
President—"What did you say to the Life Guards when you appeared at that orgie?"—Queen—"I applauded that banquet, because it was to have produced the union of the life guards with the national guards."
Public Accuser—"Have you not held secret councils at the house of the ci devant Duchess of Poignad, Councils at which the ci devant French Princes assisted and in which, after having discussed the fate of the empire, you gave yourself into the infamous pleasures of debauchery?"—Queen—"All the state affairs were discussed in council, and no where else. I have no knowledge of the rest of this assertion."
Public Accuser—"Are not Thouret, Barentin, & De Espremeuil, the authors of the articles of the declaration of June 23d?"—Queen—"The ministers in place alone composed the council at that time."
Judge—"Did not your husband communicate his designs to you, when he invited the Hall of the Representatives of the people with troops?"—Queen—"My husband reposed his confidence in me; he communicated to me the speech which he was to have made on that occasion. He had, in other respects, no bad intentions."
Judge—"Why did troops of the line invest Paris and Versailles?"—Queen—"For the sake of general safety."
Judge—"What use have you made of the immense sums which you have been entrusted with?"—Queen—"No enormous sum has been entrusted with me; the
accounts of my household will prove what use has been made of all I have received."
Judge—"How did the family of the Polignacs, which was so poor at first, grow so rich?"—Queen—"That family held offices at court which were very lucrative."
The Queen was then questioned respecting the flight to Varennes. She acknowledged that she opened the door and led the way from the Thuilleries and that though they saw M. La Fayette as they crossed the square of the Carouse, he knew nothing of their flight.
Hebert, substitute of the Commissions, then gave evidence with a view of substantiating the infamous charge of incest: and stated that it was founded upon the confession of the young Louis himself.
When the tribunal put the question on this charge, the Queen indignantly replied as follows:
"I remain, sir, silent on that subject, because nature holds such crimes in abhorrence." And then turning with an animated air to the people, she exclaimed, "I appeal to all mothers who are present in this auditory—is such a crime possible?"
After the examination had closed, the Queen was condemned, "as guilty of having been accessory to, and having co-operated in different manoeuvres against the liberty of France; of having entertained a correspondence with the enemies of the republic; of having participated in a plot tending to kindle civil war in the interior of the republic, by arming citizens against each other."
When the sentence was read, the Queen cast down her eyes, and did not raise them again. "Have you nothing to reply upon the determination of the law?" said the President to her: "Nothing," she replied. He then addressed himself to her pleaders, "and you officious defenders." "Our mission is fulfilled with respect to the widow Capet," said they.
This morning (the 16th) this unhappy victim of democrat fury was ignominiously carried to the place of execution in a common cart. The whole armed force of Paris was on foot, from the Palace of Justice to the place de la Revolution. The streets were lined by two very close rows of armed citizens. The Queen was in a white loose dress—but they tied her arms behind her. As she passed along, the multitude frequently cried out "bravo." At the place of execution, she looked firmly round on all sides. She was accompanied by the ci-devant curate of St. Laudry, a constitutional priest, and on the scaffold preserved her natural dignity of mind.
After the execution, three young persons dipped their handkerchiefs in her blood. They were immediately arrested.
Fromon de Condray and Chaveau de la Garde, the pleaders for Marie Antoinette, had been put in a state of arrest before her execution, by order of the Committee of General Safety, the order says, that this is a measure of general safety, that the arrest shall last 24 hours, and that every attention shall be paid to these prisoners.
Gen. Surrier, who commanded a division of the army of Italy, is put under arrest.
Gusman, a Spaniard, who had found means to introduce himself into the revolutionary committee of May 31, is arrested.
The squadron of the Republic, lately stationed under Bellisle, is returned to Brest where the commissioners are disembarking the sick, and imprisoning the suspected. The rest are allowed to have no communication with the people on shore.
The camp at St. Venant is broken up, and the troops put into quarters in Brest and its neighbourhood.
NATIONAL CONVENTION, October 12.
Barrere read a letter from Chateaneuf Randon, dated Head Quarters, at Lyons, Oct. 9, which ran as follows:
"Citizens Colleagues,
"The actions of the 25th and 26th of Sept. have been closely followed by prodigies of valor, and to-night the troops of the Republic entered Lyons.—The chiefs of the rebels, 2000 in number have made an attempt to save themselves by flight, but they are pursued on all sides, and cannot possibly escape, nor only the ardor of our troops, but also that of the people of Lyons, enraged at their having been deceived by them. I previously informed my colleagues of our entrance into Lyons. Gen. Dopper is going by an extraordinary courier to send a detailed report of his military operations. Couthon, Maignet, Laporte, Dubois, Crance and Basset, who we had joined at St. Fox are on the point of repairing hither, and will be eager to inform you of all our operations. My Colleagues with to keep me here; I expect the orders of the National Convention.
Signed, Chateaneuf Randon.
P. S. "I have detained the courier to inform you that the rebels have been pursued and cut to pieces on all sides: their train of artillery and the treasure which they carried off are taken"
Barrere. The committee has determined that not
one criminal ought to escape; they have ordered the fugitives to be pursued, and the tocsin to be sounded all over the country, in order that the people may be raised to exterminate them.
The traitors must be taken, their punishment must be speedy: it is proper that the inhabitants of Lyons should be disarmed, and their arms confided to the youth of the South, who will employ them against the slaves of Spain. But will you allow a city to exist, which by its rebellion has caused so much blood of the patriots to be spilt? Who shall dare to demand your indulgence for this rebellious city? What ought you to respect in your vengeance? The house of the indigent persecuted by the rich, those manufacturers of which the barbarous English so eagerly desire the destruction. What ought you to respect? The asylum of humanity, the edifice consecrated to public instruction. The plough ought to pass over the rest. When the Prussians last year invaded the territory of the Republic, the South effected courage and republicanism. At present all is changed, the North now defends Liberty, and the South makes war upon it. In this situation a great example is necessary, I propose the following decree:
Art. I. "There shall be named by the National Convention, upon the presentation of the Committee of public safety, an extraordinary commission composed of five members, in order to punish the Revolutionists of Lyons according to the military law, and without delay.
II. "All the inhabitants of Lyons shall be disarmed; their arms shall be immediately distributed among the defenders of the Republic. A part shall be restored to the Patriots of Lyons, who have been oppressed by the rich and the counter-revolutionists.
III. "The city of Lyons shall be destroyed. Whatever was inhabited by a rich man shall be demolished. The poor house, the dwellings of slaughtered & proscribed patriots, the edifices specially employed to industry, and the monuments consecrated to humanity and public instruction, shall alone remain.
IV. "The name of Lyons shall be effaced from the list of the towns of the Republic. The re-union of houses preserved shall henceforth bear the name of Ville Affranchie.
V. "A column shall be raised upon the ruins of Lyons, to attest to posterity the crimes and the punishment of the Royalists of that city, with this inscription,
"LYONS warred against LIBERTY— "LYONS is no more "The eighteenth Day of the first Month, "Second Year of the Republic, "One and Indivisible."
VI. "The Representatives of the people shall immediately nominate commissioners to make a list of all the property which belonged to the rich and counter-revolutionists of Lyons, that the resolutions of the Convention may be immediately carried into execution."—Decreed.
BRUSSELS, October 11.
Previous to our surrounding the entrenched camp of Maubeuge, and the fortress of that name, it was absolutely necessary to cross the river Sambre to penetrate thither; an enterprize the more perilous, as the enemy occupied redoubts extremely well fortified on the opposite side of the river. Very early in the morning of the 29th, a large corps of Austrian troops made a movement, tending to force the French in their posts; in despite of the violent fire of the hostile artillery, which discharged safe shot, our brave soldiers passed Sambre with undaunted courage, and after a long and obstinate engagement the Republicans were forced in several redoubts, and obliged to retreat with the utmost precipitation into the town of Maubeuge; they left us eleven pieces of cannon and some wounded prisoners. After this bloody engagement, the entrenched camp and forress of Maubeuge were completely blockaded.
The loss of the French must have been very considerable on this occasion: On our part we had about 200 men either killed or wounded, which is a very trifling loss, if the difficulty is properly considered. General Tourville, the present commandant of Maubeuge, is strongly suspected of aristocracy by the Parisian Jacobins, but a mad commissioner of the convention of the mountain party, watches him narrowly in his functions, the name of the commissioner is Dubois, one of those who voted for the death of the unfortunate Louis XVI. The French army under the command of General Houchard, has again taken station in the camp of Cætar. In this position it waits the arrival of some considerable reinforcements; after which it will put itself in motion for the purpose of raising the siege of Maubeuge; but it is more than probable that this attempt will miscarry.
October 22.
The great and bloody battle which should have crowned all the former victories of the campaign, and from which we expected such brilliant success,

was fought on the 15th and 16th inst. unfortunately to the disadvantage of the combined armies.
You will have seen what the government has thought fit to tell the public in the official bulletins; but the facts, you may be assured, are such as I have stated.
The loss of our army is 5000 men killed and wounded, among whom are 115 officers. The Prince of Saxe Cobourg, who commanded the dragoons of Cobourg, on the left, was struck down by a shot, and it is not known whether he fell dead or alive into the hands of the enemy.
It is now certain that the defeat of the left wing of Prince Cobourg's army, commanded by Tertzzi and Hohenlohe, was the principal cause of the loss of the battle, which obliged the generals to retreat in the night, to avoid being precipitated into the Sambre. The retreat was effected in good order, and the army is now encamped along the other side of the river, partly under cover of the fortresses of Quesnoy and Valenciennes.
The regiments of Brebianville, Stein Kaunitz, infantry, Kavanagh, Cobourg, Bareo, Alemande cavalry, (a French regiment that came over with Dumourier,) have suffered the most. That of Kavanagh had 213 men killed, and 180 wounded. The loss of the other regiments was in the same proportion.
The French attacked us in all points at once with from 70,000 to 80,000 men commanded by general Jourdan; general Dupont commanded their right. Lavaseur and Bentabole, the two representatives of the people, appeared sword in hand at the head of their combatants, whom they animated with loud cries of exhortation to advance, and as loudly menaced, when they seemed to hesitate. Behind their first line, an immense number of women, without fear or disorder, supplied the soldiers with ammunition, distributed brandy among them, and carried away the wounded; such were the means by which they obtained a victory over our brave and veteran troops.
The conduct of the Dutch troops in this action is strongly talked of. It is very confidentially affirmed, that Byland's dragoons fled outright, and left one of the flanks of the main body, which they were stationed to cover, quite exposed; and that three whole companies went over to the enemy.
The English who came just as the battle was beginning, were not in a condition to display their accustomed valor and intrepidity. They were exhausted by the fatigue of a forced march of nine leagues. Their cavalry were so out of order, that they were unable to act.
The day before yesterday, 400 French prisoners and 39 waggon loads of the wounded arrived here. The night after came a convoy of 52 waggons, with the wounded of the regiment of Cobourg and Kaunitz; and yesterday morning 63 waggons, with the wounded of several other regiments. Where to lay these unfortunate victims of war we know not.
All the hospitals and all the convents are already full. Lint, bandages, and attendants on the sick, are advertised for. On Saturday last the general return of the Austrians wounded in the Pays Bays was 6449.
The prince of Saxe Cobourg writes in strong terms of the danger to which Austrian Flanders is now exposed; that without a reinforcement of 50,000 men at least, he cannot answer for maintaining his present position; that he expects to be attacked in a few days; and that the French have augmented their army of the north to 170,000 men. He complains of the Dutch and even of the English. The instant that troops arrive here they are sent to join the army; as are all the stores and ammunition, which arrive in quantities almost incredible, from Holland.
On Saturday morning an officer arrived here, with the important intelligence, that Gen. Wurmser on the 13th, attacked the lines of Weissenbourg with the Austrians and Hessians, that after an action of eleven hours, the lines were forced, and the French camp behind them, attacked by assault; that the Duke of Brunswick having turned their army, attacked them at the same time in the rear; that the carnage was dreadful, more than 14,000 of the French and Austrians have fallen; that general Wurmser took possession Weissenbourg and Lauterbourg, and pursued the French to the gates of Strasburgh; that 168 pieces of heavy cannon, all their baggage and ammunition, with 29,000 prisoners were taken from the enemy. The Austrians had 3500 men killed. The number of wounded is not yet ascertained.
We are assured that Landau has offered terms of capitulation, which the Prussian general who commands the siege has refused; and that Strasburgh will surrender on the first appearance of an army before it.
October 24.
We have just received a letter from Ostend, dated the 22d inst. at one o'clock, P. M. which contains the following interesting paragraph:
An express has this moment arrived from the brave army of the Prince of Cobourg, informing us, that after having re-crossed the Sambre on the night of the 17th inst. and expecting an attack from the enemy, he sent General Clairfayt with 30,000 men, by a circuitous route to lie in wait for them, and retreated with the main army. As he expected, the enemy fell on him in great numbers, but by this judicious measure, they were attacked front and rear, at the same period, and 15,000 men killed and taken, with several pieces of cannon. The British troops had not arrived to share in the glory of the day.
Lord Howe failed with the fleet under his command from Torbay on Sunday morning; but in consequence
of dispatches sent from London, and forwarded to his Lordship by a swift sailing cutter, he returned again to port, after being but a few hours at sea!
Upon the probability that Brest and Bourdeaux are ready to imitate the example of Toulon, Lord Hood is said to have permitted four French ships of the line to leave the latter place, under flags of truce, for those ports—Extraordinary as such a circumstance may appear, this perhaps is the best method of making the experiment, whether the loyal party has, or has not the ascendancy of them.
October 25.
By advices from the combined army, we learn, that since the Austrian army, under the command of Prince Cobourg, raised the siege of Maubeuge and passed the Sambre, nothing of importance has passed between the French and the allied troops. Our troops have not yet made any movement, but remain still posted behind the Sambre, whilst the French army, under General Jourdan, are on the other side of that river. The greater part of our battering cannon and heavy stores have been carried to Boisut, near Mons: The troops of Holland are also encamped in the environs of that place: the head quarters of Prince Cobourg are at Bavay. It is very probable that nothing interesting will pass on this side, the campaign being too far advanced for the allies to make any attempt on any of the strong places of the enemy: Besides, their armies are very much diminished, not only by the losses sustained in the different engagements, (which have succeeded each other with a rapidity of which history furnishes no similar example) but also by sickness and desertion. The English army, commanded by the Duke of York, is weakened by a detachment of 2500 men, who have embarked at Ostend to return to England, where preparations are making to defeat a project, formed by the French, for making a descent on that kingdom.—On the side of West Flanders, the enemy do not allow a moment's repose to the cordon of troops who cover that part of our frontier: There likewise has been a smart action in the neighbourhood of Furnes. All the inhabitants of the neighbourhood have retired into the interior part of the country, fleeing before the French, who plunder and burn their habitations.
It appears that the States of each of the Belgic Provinces have at last determined to afford succours both in men and money to the Emperor. These succours, so long deferred under various pretexes, are the more necessary from the circumstances that the time has not yet arrived for the House of Austria to reap the fruits of an expensive war, of which doubtless, it would not have to sustain the burden, had it not been for the proximity of the Low-Countries to France. Several Chapters and Abbies have made loans, the produce of which is destined to be turned into the public treasury.
October 28.
Lieutenant-General d'Erbach, who commanded near Menin, being informed that the French had forced the posts of Werwick and Moueron on the 22d inst. and having himself sustained some loss, abandoned Menin on the night of the 22d, fearing his retreat should be cut off. On the morning of the 23d, the French took possession of that town (where there remained only about 50 inhabitants) and were guilty of the greatest excesses: They were followed by carriages laden with what they plundered the churches and convents of, and with the pillage of private houses. Ypres was menaced the 24th inst. and some shells were thrown into it; but without any other effect than obliging Col. de Salis, who commanded there, to call in his advanced posts. A party of this corps advanced to attack Courtray, but Lieutenant-General d'Erbach, who, on returning from Menin, posted himself at Wevelghem, in advance of Courtray, repulsed them on the 24th with great loss. The enemy having the same day made an attack on Orchies and Denain, were briskly received in both places, and obliged to retire with the loss of 600 men, 5 pieces of cannon, and several covered waggons. We learn that considerable reinforcements are marching to free Flanders again: and that the Duke of York, with the English army, has taken a position between Ypres and Courtray, which covers that part from the incursions of the enemy. In our frontier villages numbers of French peasants daily arrive, who prefer abandoning their country to carrying arms as they are compelled to do it by the despotic decrees of the Convention. Our Generals have given orders to employ them, in preference, as pioneers in our armies.
ANDERNACH, October 19.
An officer has this moment passed here, charged with despatches to the prince de Cobourg, containing an account of the surrender of Landau. He said, that when he set out, Strasburgh was entering into a capitulation. We are assured that the French have retired to the environs of Colmar.
HAGUE, October 30.
The hereditary Prince of Orange, by a letter dated head-quarters, at Mons, October 19, has informed the States General, that at break of day he left the entrenched camp near Bitignis, and had taken a position before Mons; the army of the Prince de Cobourg being come to occupy the place which the Prince of Orange left. Another letter from him, dated at Mons. October the 24th, informs, "that on being informed of the recapture of Menin and the adjacent posts by the French, and that they were making a movement towards Ypres, it became necessary to make new dispositions in the combined army; and as the Imperialists, in consequence,
moved from our environs further to the right, a corps of between four and five thousand of the republican troops, under the command of Lieutenant-General Prince Waldeck, were detached yesterday to Thurn, to relieve the Austrian troops, and garrison that post." The most recent information concerning the state of Prince Frederick of Orange, gives hopes of an approaching cure, the wound having been cleansed of all the small splinters which the ball had made in striking the shoulder bone.—
L O N D O N,
October 10.
GENERAL HOUCHARD, hitherto commander of the army of the North has been cashiered, and the command given to Jourdan. Houchard, who was a creature of Custine, has been detected in a traitorous correspondence with the enemy. Thus the Duke of York, when the soldiers of the Republic had rendered vain the means taken to have them cut to pieces before Honschoote, is said to have exclaimed, in a plaintive manner, "We are betrayed!" Generals Landriment and Schombourg have also been displaced, the former commanded the army of the Rhine, and the latter that of the Moselle. They are replaced by Generals Delmas and Moreau.
DUKE OF YORK. Mr. Lauzanne, jun. arrived yesterday from the Duke of York. The best account that we could collect is, that the army of the Allied Powers have not made a complete junction, and if they had, their efforts would, at this season, prove ineffectual; they had formed a line from Menin to Courtray. The most alarming part of the information is, that the great body of the French nation are determined to risk a winter campaign, and to preserve the commonwealth or perish; and that where discipline fails, numbers supply the place.—Upon the whole, Mr. Lauzanne's intelligence is by no means favourable.
PRINCE SAXE COBOURG. The intelligence received on Thursday night (October 5,) from the army of the Prince Saxe Cobourg, is of the most pleasing and satisfactory nature. That great General has chased before him the flower of the whole French army; for General Houchard's present forces consist chiefly of troops of the line collected from all their armies on the Rhine, and the Northern parts of France. Hemmed in, as they now are in the entrenched camp of Maubeuge, there can be little doubt of their being defeated or obliged to surrender.
MAUBEUGE. The French have expended three millions in fortifying Maubeuge and the camp before it. The Austrians have collected 400 battering cannon to besiege it. General Tourville commands it, and is assisted by Dubois Dubay, commissioner of the Convention.
October 31.
From the London Gazette Extraordinary.
Whitehall, October 22.
Last night the Right Hon. Lord George Conway arrived at the office of the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, his majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with a dispatch from the Earl of Yarmouth, of which the following is an extract.
Weissenbourg, October 14, 1793.
Austrian Head Quarters.
Yesterday morning at three o'clock, General Wurmser made his projected attack upon the lines of the Lauvre, upon various points at the same time. I have the satisfaction to say that he is in possession of every part of them. Lauterbourg surrendered, without any conditions, between three and four in the evening, after being evacuated by the enemy, who, from the prodigious number of redoubts of which they were in possession, and the natural strength of the position, might have held out a siege of several days.
This town resisted some time longer. It is surrounded by a large ditch, and was defended by redoubts, from which the French cannonaded the Austrians for several hours. It is also connected with the Gielberg, a mountain which so entirely commands the place, that if the French had determined on deriving every advantage from their situation the Austrians could not have entered into possession of it, without further successes in the mountains.—A part of the town was burnt in the course of the struggle; and the French, before they retreated, set fire to their magazines, both here and at Alstadt.—In other parts of this very complicated operation, in which six different columns had distinct plans to execute, great success attended the Austrians. They successively carried by assault all the different redoubts which had been constructed in the front of the French camps, of which the principal one fell into their hands, with all their tents standing, several caissons, nine standards, and twenty six cannons of very great calibre.
As these different actions are but just over, and the Austrian corps are very remote from each other, it is impossible for me to transmit to your Lordship, any account of the killed, wounded or taken on either side. The army has been fourteen hours under arms, almost continually engaged in a very active pursuit, and often exposed to a most tremendous fire.
We have as yet no distinct account of the operations of the Duke of Brunswick's army yesterday in the mountain, but a very great cannonade was heard on that side during the whole day.
Right Hon. Lord Grenville.
Whitehall, October 22.
A letter from Sir James Murray, Adjutant General to the forces under the command of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, was received this evening by the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, his majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, of which the following is a copy.

SIR,
I had the honor of informing you, in my last dispatch, that his Royal Highness, at the earnest request of the Prince of Cobourg, had marched with a part of the troops under his command, for this place. They arrived here upon the 16th. The Prince being acquainted with his Royal Highness's intention, had been enabled to withdraw from thence four battalions to strengthen his other posts: a fifth battalion followed those upon his Royal Highness's arrival.
The enemy having collected in extraordinary numbers, attacked the corps under the command of Gen. Clairfayt, which was posted with its right near Barlemont, and its left near the village of Wattigwies, upon the 15th and 16th. Upon the former day the left wing of the enemy was entirely defeated. Having advanced into the plain which lay upon that side, between the two armies, they were charged by the imperial cavalry, and driven back with great slaughter, and the loss of twelve pieces of cannon. The attack which they made upon the left of the Austrians was most obstinately supported; they were however, finally repulsed.
Upon the 16th, the enemy having drawn the greatest part of their force to the right, again attacked the left of Gen. Clairfayt's corps, and the village of Wattigwies.
They could upon this side approach within cannon shot of the Austrians, under cover of an immense wood, called the Have d'Avelines; which when they were repulsed, secured their retreat; they brought an immense quantity of heavy artillery to the edge of the wood, under the protection of which they attacked the village. The utmost firmness and bravery were displayed by the Austrian troops upon this occasion. The enemy were several times repulsed with great loss; they were repeatedly driven from the village after they had carried it; but being enabled, by great superiority of numbers, to bring continually fresh troops to the point of attack, they at last succeeded in maintaining the possession of that post.
The communication between General Clairfayt's corps and that of General la Tour, which observed the entrenched camp near Maubeuge, being by this means cut off, it was judged necessary by the Prince of Cobourg to abandon the position which had been taken for the purpose of investing Maubeuge, the army passed the Sambre in the night, without the smallest loss. Lieut. General Benzowsky, who commanded a detached corps upon the left of the army, defeated a corps which was opposed to him, killed a great number of the enemy, took 400 prisoners, and eleven pieces of cannon. Count Haddick, who was detached by Gen. la Tour, likewise gained a considerable advantage, penetrated to Sorbe Chateau, & took three pieces of cannon.
In the two engagements, the Austrians took 24 pieces of cannon, and two howitzers, without the loss of one on their part. They have had about two thousand men killed and wounded. There can be no doubt, that the loss of the enemy has been much more considerable. The Austrians now occupy the left bank of the Sambre. No certain accounts have been yet received of the enemy.
I am, &c.
(Signed) JAMES MURRAY.
RAISING of the SIEGE of MAUBEUGE.
This intelligence was received from lord Elgin's brother, the honorable Mr. Bruce, who is at Brussels.
The French for several days past, had made sallies from their entrenched camp at Maubeuge. As in many of those they had been successful, it was resolved to make a general attack on the division under general Clairfayt.
The attack was conducted with such force and perseverance, that general Clairfayt was under the necessity of dispatching an aid de-camp to the prince of Saxe Cobourg, requesting him to advance immediately to his assistance.
The prince of Saxe Cobourg accordingly crossed the Sambre with his whole army.
The assistance which the prince furnished to general Clairfayt, was not so efficacious as to resist the torrent which the French poured upon the allied army. It was only sufficient to prevent general Clairfayt's army from being cut to pieces.
After a vigorous endeavor to drive the French back to their entrenched camp, the allied army found it necessary to retreat, and recross the Sambre.
The raising of the siege was the necessary and immediate consequence of this defeat.
The Prince of Saxe Cobourg had two horses shot under him.
The bad news, which was transmitted to us yesterday by an express that left Ostend a day after the mail; but which we did not think proper to publish, lest we should give a groundless alarm, was, that the Duke of York had been obliged to throw himself, with his whole detachment that was to reinforce the prince of Cobourg into Valenciennes, where he is said to be surrounded by the French. One part of this we now find to be undoubtedly true; that the duke had been under the necessity of retreating to Valenciennes; the other part, it is to be hoped, will not be confirmed by the letters which we impatiently expect from the continent, by the Flanders mail now due.
UNITED STATES.
NEW-YORK. January 11.
It was the Glorious Retreat of Gen. Clairfayt from the French army before Maubeuge, of 30 000 men who attacked him, which constituted the glory of that campaign—that the Austrians were repulsed, in this action, three several times—but that they regularly returned, and forced the French to retire!—That, however in the fourth attack, "the Austrians were ob-
liged to give way, and retreat to a redoubt, evacuating, at the same time, Eclanbes and Solvbanies—in this bloody contest one Austrian regiment lost 700 men!"
PHILADELPHIA, January 13.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, January 8.
THE committee appointed to enquire whether any and what alteration would be proper to be made in the rations of the troops of the United States, brought in a report, which was read and laid on the table.
THURSDAY, January 9.
The house proceeded to consider the amendment agreed to by the committee of the whole, to the bill for completing and better supporting the military establishment of the United States.
This amendment was the clause proposed by Mr. J. Wadsworth, making a provision of half pay for the widows and orphans of the officers and soldiers—and was disagreed to by the House—this vote left the bill as it was originally brought in.
Mr. Beatty, after offering some remarks on the inadequacy of the present compensation of the soldiery, and expressing his wish, that it should be made at least equal to the price of labor, moved the following in substance, That a section should be added to the bill—which should provide for a monthly additional allowance, to be reserved for, and paid to, the non-commissioned officers and privates, who shall hereafter enlist and continue in the service during the term of their enlistment, to be paid to them, or to their legal representatives.
By the proceedings of the National Convention, it appears that a bloody battle was fought between the Patriots and Insurgents on the 9th of October, in which the latter were totally defeated, and their army of Twenty thousand Men, dispersed over an extent of country of 30 leagues circumference; that the 28 sections of Bourdeaux, had sent a deputation to the Convention informing them of their approbation of the Revolutions of the 31st May and 2d June—and advising them to stand firm at their post.—
That the army of the republic entered Lyons without disorder, and crowned its glory by acts of humanity—No person had reason to complain of any injury—General Dagobert at the head of a republican army has entered Spain—and taken the town of Campredon.—The Spanish army is in the most distasteful situation, afraid even of attempting a retreat.
BALTIMORE, January 20.
On the 14th instant Captain Culver arrived at Reedy Island, Delaware, in a sloop belonging to Philadelphia, which was sent by the Executive of the United States, with despatches to France, and brings, we are informed, despatches in return.—Letters, dated Havre de Grace, November 2, are said to have been received at Philadelphia by this vessel, informing that the Duke of York, with the greater part of his army, had been taken prisoners and conducted to Lisle—that it was proposed in the French National Convention, to shut him up in an iron cage, and expose him to public view in Paris, in return for the treatment received by a Deputy of the Convention, from the British at Toulon, and the enormities said to have been committed by them in that city—that Valenciennes, Quesnoy, and Conde have been evacuated by the combined forces—that Ostend was bombarded—that Toulon, with all the ships of the combined powers in that harbour, were taken—that overtures were to be made by the French, for an offensive and defensive treaty with the United States.
Captain Norman, of the Harriet, who arrived in this port on Saturday last, from Havre, which he left the 6th of November, informs, that no intelligence had been received at that place before he sailed, relative to the Duke of York.
By the ship Sally, Capt. Griffith, arrived in this port from Amsterdam, which he left the 8th of November, we are informed, that no news of such events taking place had reached that city before he sailed.
MARTINSBURG, JANUARY 27, 1794.
Brigadier General DARKE has appointed Capt. JAMES STEPHENSON Inspector of Brigade for this District.
Further accounts by the Eliza, Capt. Harrison, state, That 650 British foot guards were to embark at Greenwich to re-inforce the Duke of York, and the troops which had embarked for the West Indies, were counter-ordered for Ostend: That the Spaniards were beaten on every tack; the patriots even penetrated into their country, and have absolutely taken the city of Campredon by storm: That the report of the traitorous conduct of the Prime Minister Cobenzi, at Vienna, is confirmed: That one hundred and thirty deputies of the National Convention had been arrested, several have been guillotined, and others under trial: That 44 000 municipalities are equipping each a horseman completely accoutred, and all the young men from 18 to 25 years of age were marching to the frontier; and that the rebels in Vendee are exterminated, their leaders taken, and the army in that quarter marching to Toulon.
From a Springfield (Massachusetts) Paper of Dec. 13.
A gentleman from Albany on the last week, informs, that there had been just landed at that place 10,000 stand of French Arms; accompanied by four
Frenchmen only, whose business it was to store them and see that they were taken proper care of. The report was there at that time, that the French Government were making preparations for an attack upon the province of Canada. And that so fearful was the Governor of that province, of an attack from the French, that he had called down the militia from Upper Canada, in order to be properly fortified against the attack.
We were yesterday favored with the perusal of Philadelphia papers down to the 21st instant—but had time only to extract the following:—
Extract of a letter from New-York, January
19, 1794.
"Yesterday arrived here the ship Astrer, from Ostend, which place she left on the 28th of November. No information is to be got out of the officers. I sent on board to learn something from the seamen, but they answered to every question, I do not know . They were asked whether Ostend was in the hands of the French, their answer still was I do not know . The coffee-house politicians were unable to make out any of the intelligence brought by this vessel."
House of Representatives of the United States, January 20.
A message from the President of the United States by Mr. Secretary Dandridge, was received, which being read, purported that the letters which he sent to France, relative to the recall of the French Minister, were received, that "his conduct was unequivocally "disapproved of, and that his recall would be expected without delay."
Valuable Lands for sale.
THREE Tracts, adjoining each other, on Barrell's and Barton's runs, containing upwards of 1100 acres, about 4 miles from Romney. A considerable part of this Land is fit for small grain, and well clothed with timber, some part is also capable of making meadow, and lies convenient to range.
A Tract, on the Clay Lick, a branch of Little Cacapehon, containing 71 acres, this is a valuable piece of land, being fit for cultivation, and lies convenient to good range.
Two Tracts, on the waters of Great Cacapehon, containing 464 acres, well calculated for the erection of a saw-mill, having a quantity of excellent pine, and adjacent to water.
A Tract, near Frankfort, containing 400 acres, well timbered, and about 70 or 80 acres level, and very fit for wheat.
A Tract, on Parterson's Creek, containing 200 acres, adjoining the lands of John Thomson, Andrew Leafe and others, well timbered.
A Tract, on New-Creek, near Paddy-Town, containing 442 acres, most of it fit for small grain.
Another Tract, on the waters of New-Creek, containing 441 acres.
A Tract on Tear Coat, near the land of Henry Lander, containing 131 acres; an old survey, and formerly belonging to Henry Heth, deceased: It is well adapted for wheat and meadow; it is also well timbered, and in the middle of the best range in the county.
A Tract on Stoney-Run, on the waters of Mill-Creek containing 205 acres.
Two Tracts on the Middle Ridge, on the main road leading from Winchester to Fort-Pitt, containing 800 acres and odd.
Such of the foregoing lands as I do not sell at private sale, will be set up at public auction, on the 12th day of March next, at Romney, being the first day of court. One half to be paid in one year, and the other in two years from the day of sale, and, on receiving approved security for the payments, an indisputable title will be made at the time of sale.
ANDREW WODROW.
Romney, 22d January, 1794.
THE Subscriber returns his grateful acknowledgments to his friends and customers—and most humbly solicits a settlement with those whom he has accounts unsettled with, and of long standing. This requisition he hopes will be acceptable to his friends, as he is desirous of closing his accounts by the first day of April next, at which time he shall retire from public business.
WILLIAM LEMEN.
Shepherd's-Town, January 25, 1794.
ALL Persons indebted to, or have any demands on the estate of JAMES RIDGWAY, late of Berkeley, deceased, are requested to exhibit their accounts for immediate settlement.
Jan. 25, 1794.
F O R S A L E,
A House and Lot in Shepherd's-Town, on the main Street, the lot contains a quarter of an acre, with a small dwelling-house on it; it will be sold low and the payments made easy; for terms apply to John Kearfley, Esq. in laid town, who is authorised to sell the same, or to the Subscriber living in Green-Castle.
WILLIAM WOODS.
January 23, 1794.
F O R S A L E,
A Valuable Negro Wench; for terms apply to the Subscriber, living in Charles Town, Berkeley County.
ROBERT HENRY.
January 24th, 1794.
MADE his escape out of Berkeley County jail, last night, a certain Job Swingle, an Englishman born, about five feet 10 or 11 inches high, dark brown hair, large grey eyes, had on drab coloured clothes, and has a very sore leg; he was committed for stealing a horse from Joseph Bird, and was to be tried for the same, by a call Court on Friday next.
Jan. 26th, 1794. ROBERT COCKBURN, jailor.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
It is a stranger's feet.
A Muse forlorn, bewildered in her way, Begg'd an admittance, 'ere stern winter comes, Asks a small corner for her humble lay, A vacant place for her poetic crumbs.
HEAR Boreas whistling thro' the shatter'd dome, Bleak, pale, and thro' the view the shatter'd wretch, And having view'd, will you debar a home, A place sufficient for the Muse to stretch.
Tho' poor, she'd rather starve than steal a groat; She'd rather feel chill penury's heavy hand, Than have it said she's purlained aught, That grew in modern or in ancient land.
Tho' from her youth misfortune's been her guide, Led her through want and dire affliction's road; Yet hope and patience will her friends reside, 'Till she obtains at least a scant abode.
Should blind compassion touch thy feeling breast, And wake to pity a complaisant look; The favour would with deep impression rest On mem'ry fairer than inscrib'd on book.
Think of an outcast what her fate must be, Branded forever and forever curst; And you, the author of her insanity— Think—O think! and but admittance trust.
THE MISER'S FEAST.
His chimney smokes! it is some omen dire! His neighbours are alarm'd; and cry out fire .
EXTRACT.
THE monstrous mountain with four heads, that has been in travail for four months, has at last, to the no small amusement of the friends to good government brought forth a MOUSE. The great injury said to be done to our beloved President by Mr. Genet's threat of an Appeal from the President to the PEOPLE, seems to have inflicted a much deeper wound on certain heads of departments, than either on the President or the People; and by their whining and kicking one against the other , they appear to be in great pain, and at a loss how to cure it. KING says he received his information from JAY; JAY says he had his from KNOX; KNOX from HAMILTON, and he from DALAS, KING and JAY, in their card last August, tell us there, that Mr. GENET threatened to "appeal from the decisions of the President to the PEOPLE." Now they tell us upon the information they had from Hamilton and Knox, that he said he would "appeal to the People from the President;" but great pains is taken by Jay and King, before they come to this last assertion, founded on Hamilton and Knox, to say much about the "poison of foreign influence in our free government." If the government is a free one, gentlemen, why do you make so much noise about an appeal to the PEOPLE, who alone support and create all free governments, and make the officers under them accountable: If the President has done wrong, HE or another must be made to do right, if the Government is in the hands of the PEOPLE. When those gentlemen talk about foreign influence poisoning us, they would do well to recollect the actual appeal made by Vice-President Adams to the Patriots of Holland against the decisions of "THEIR HIGH MIGHTINESSES the States General of the United Provinces," which was thought by us to be right and just, because, in every instance of importance or danger, the PEOPLE are the only power to appeal to from the wrong or hasty decisions of their servants in Government. His appeal did not poison the Patriots of Holland.
NOTICE.
ALL Persons having accounts unsettled with us (as Millers) are requested to call and have the same adjusted and finally closed, as we wish to have our mill business settled before the first of March next, we having sold our lease of Shively's mills, and Mr. Thomson, our miller, being about to remove out of the state. We wish to have the business closed before that time, and desire every person who may have flour in the mills to call for it, or we will not consider ourselves liable for it, should they neglect this notice. The public will please to accept our thanks for the encouragement we received during the time we have carried on the milling business.
J. & J. RIDDLE. Martinsburg, January 13, 1794.
CAME to the subscriber's plantation, some time in the beginning of last summer, a white steer, with brown ears, the mark not remembered, two years old next spring. The owner is desired to prove his property, pay charges, and take him away.
Jan. 11, 1794.
TO BE SOLD, Between 50 and 60 acres of LAND, lying about one mile from Back-Creek, on the Warm Spring road; there are about twenty acres cleared, some meadow, a small house, and is a suitable stand for a tradesman. For terms, apply to JOHN FRONK.
Martinsburg, Jan. 13, 1794.
WANTED, A small Plantation, within a few miles of Martinsburg, for which real property in said town will in part be given. Apply to the Printer.
FOR SALE, A serviceable young Mare, a young Cow and Calf, and a Cow forward with Calf. Apply at the Printing Office.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A YOUNG MAN, well acquainted with the Distilling Business, and who can give an indispitable recommendation. December 23d, 1793. Inquire of the Printer.
TO BE SOLD, ON THE PREMISES, AT PUBLIC AUCTION—For ready money, On FRIDAY the 31st of January, instant, By Virtue of a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, obtained by the late Humphrey Keyes against Richard Boucher, on the 10th day of March, 1791, Two hundred and fifty acres of Land, in the County of Berkeley, on Evan's run, near Charlestown, whereon the said Richard Boucher now lives. This Land has the advantage of a fine stream of water running through it, affords a competent proportion of meadow, is well timbered, and a rich strong soil. ABRAHAM SHEPHERD, WILLIAM DARKE, } Commissioners. THOMAS RUTHERFORD, January 4, 1794.
Will be sold at PUBLIC SALE, On the premises, for cash, On Saturday the first day of February next, TWO Lots in the Town of Martinsburg, in Berkeley County, formerly the property of Thomas Martin; upon one of these lots is built a stone dwelling-house, two story high, 36 by 30 feet, with three rooms and five places on each floor, and a good cellar under half the house; upon the other is a large stone building, intended for a distillery or brewery, and well calculated for both or either, having a large lime-stone spring that rises in the house. An indispitable title will be made the purchaser. December 24th, 1793. B. REEDER.
FOR SALE A TRACT of Land lying in the parish of Norborne, in the County of Berkeley, containing two hundred and thirty-two acres, adjoining Capt. Benjamin Beeler's. For terms, apply to Colonel Charles Magill, Winchester, or to the Subscribers. WILLIAMS & CAREY. Alexandria, 26th December, 1793.
WHEREAS the Subscribers signed three penal Bonds to Thomas Noble, of Berkely County, each for the sum of forty seven pounds five shillings, the first due November 1, 1794, the second November 1, 1795, and the third November 1, 1796, and which Bonds were given the said Noble for a certain tract of land, but to which said land we are well assured he has not a good right, we therefore forewarn all persons from taking an assignment of either of the said Bonds, as we are determined not to pay them until we are satisfied with regard to the title.
SOLOMON SILKWOOD. WILLIAM ROBINSON. December 21st, 1793.
To be hired, for one year from the first day of January next, to the highest bidder, A stout, healthy Negro Man, about 34 years old, who has been brought up to Plantation work. E. O. WILLIAMS. Shepherd's Town, December 30, 1793.
In the High Court of Chancery, September the 26th, 1793.
BETWEEN Robert M c Knight } Pl. AND Milling Wooley, and Laurence M c Kernan, Deft. }
THE Defendant Milling Wooley not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the act of assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this country, on the motion of the plaintiff by his council, it is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Virginia Gazette for two months successively, and published at some church of the parish of Norborne, in the county of Berkeley, on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and at the front door of the Capitol in the city of Richmond. A Copy. Teste, PETER TINSLEY, C.H.C.C.
THE Subscriber requests those that are indebted to him by open account, to come and settle, and if they cannot discharge what may be due, to give their obligations, as their accounts may be closed by the first of April next; he then purposes to open a large assortment of Merchandize, and wants his books settled before he begins business again, as they have been long standing. JOSEPH MINGHINI.
TO BE RENTED. THE House in Martinsburg, opposite Mr. John Rohr's, and now occupied by Mr. Christian Smith. The House has adjoining a very complete kitchen, stable and garden, with every other convenience that could be wished for the accommodation of a family. Possession will be given on the first of April next. For terms apply to Mr. Edward Christian in Martinsburg, or the Subscriber in Winchester. JAMES ASH.
A valuable Plantation for sale. PURSUANT to the last will of William Baldwin, deceased, will be sold by Public Vendue, on the 2d Tuesday of March next, on the Premises, (if fair, if not, the next fair day,) the Plantation on which the said William Baldwin lately dwelt, situate in Berkeley County, Virginia, about 8 miles from Martinsburg, containing about 300 acres, one hundred and sixty or seventy of which are cleared, and under good fence, 10 acres of excellent meadow made, which may easily be watered from a large limestone spring. The remainder of the land is well covered with oak, walnut, hickory and poplar timber. There is on said Plantation, two dwelling houses, two double barns, a large apple-orchard, and other fruit-trees. One fifth part of the purchase money must be paid down, the remainder in four equal annual payments, on giving bonds with approved security. A plat of the land will be shown, and other particulars respecting the premises made known on the day of sale by JAMES SIRODE, } Executors. JAMES CAMPBELL }
The title is indispitable. December 17th, 1793.
N O T I C E.
THE Subscriber returns his grateful acknowledgments to his friends and customers—and most humbly solicits a settlement with those whom he has accounts unsettled with, and of long standing. This requisition he hopes will be acceptable to his friends, as he is desirous of closing his accounts to the present date. FLORENCE MAHONY. Martinsburg, January 1, 1794.
TO BE SOLD, 530 acres of LAND, lying on Sleepy-Creek, a corner of Frederick County, nearly adjoining Berkeley and Hampshire line; there are about 50 acres of plow-land clear'd, 12 acres of meadow, and much more may be made, a young bearing apple and peach orchard, the land well watered and timbered, it has a good mill seat, a limestone spring, some cabin buildings, &c. Appy to WILLIAM CATLETT.
FOR SALE. A HOUSE and Lot in Middletown; the House is built with large squared logs, 28 by 26 feet, two stories high, with three rooms on each floor, completely finished, with a good kitchen adjoining the same; the lot is enclosed with good paling post and rail fence. There is likewise a convenient stable, adjoining the premises is a grass lot containing three quarters of an acre, under good post and rail fence, clear of ground rent, which will be sold with the former. Any person inclining to purchase this valuable property, may know the terms (which will be reasonable) by applying to the Subscriber, living on the premises. ROBERT LAMON.