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BALTIMORE, November 16.
the Trial, captain Howland, arrived at
'L Hew Bedford, in 20 days from Leith F.n
--' . I glijh official accounts oj new fucceffe „ :n Hoi
Wlartd.
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p |London Gazette Extraordinary,
ivslt September 16.
Vjf* From general Abercromby to the honora
i yU* • ble Mr. Dundas.
| \k\ P Head quarters, Schagen Brug,
1 September 11.
fl.l “Sir,
lllff “ Having fully considered the po-
Hi Mition which the Britifli troops had occupi-
I k,fed on the id instant, and having in view
| 4 jthe certaioty of speedy and powerful rein
ffbrcements, I determined to remain until
,then on the defenfive.
f‘ J “ From the information which we had
l u received, we were apprised of the enemy’s
A intention to attack us, and we were daily
A I impr >ving the advantages of our lituation.
j |j,| “ Yeflerdav morning at day •break, the
, enemy commenced an attack on our Gen
ii Itre and right, from St. Martins to Pettue*
‘jin three columns, and apparently with
L' j? their whole force.
r( [ The right and centre columns were
, jf \ Dutch troops, under general Daendals and
? I s # Monceau, and the left French.]
“ The enemy advanced, particularly on
! I their left and centre, with great interpidi
.l ty, and penetrated with the heads of their
fi jjL columns to within too yards of the port
! ,’f occupied by the Britifli troops. They
j •! were, however, every where repulsed, ow-
I ing to the flrength of our position, and the
Ijl determined courage of the troops.
|if About ten o’clock the enemy retired to
i wards Alkinaar, leaving behind them ma
s nv dead and some wounded men, with one
| f piece of cannon, a number of waggons,
I 111 pontoons, and portable bridges. Colonel
111 M‘Donald with the referre purlned them
for some and quickened their retreat,
fGeneral Abercromby here enumerates
..Si j the various merits of his officers and troops,
and particularizes colonel Spencer. Ge-.
nera! Moore and colonel Smyth were
| j wounded.]
“ 'Xhe tvyo brigades of guards repulsed
Ij With great vigor the column of French
whir'll had advanced to attack them, and
j|| where the (laughter was begun.
“ (t is difficult to (fate with any preci
sion the loss of the enemv, but it canuot be
computed at left than 800 or 1000 men ;
and on our fide it dors not exceed in killed,
wounded, and miffing, coo men. Exaft
S’*, returns flnll he transmitted herewith. I
| have the honor to be, &c.
R. ABERCROMBY.
Rt. Hon I fenrv Dun das
* In Noi th Holland, about 20 miles to the
j N. of Mbit nar, and 50 from Amfhr dam.
September si.
From the Duke of York to Mr. Dvndas.
Utlder , September 14, 1799.
“ Sir,
“ l have to acquaint you with my
i arrival at this place yelterday evening, hav
\ ing failed from Deal on board the Ame
-1 tln-ff frigate on Monday morning the 9th
if[! iultant.
Upon coming on fliore, I had great fa
|j| tlsfaflion in witnessing the difembarka
l|i. lion of eight batt dijons of Ruffian aux
■jy! ilary troops., confiding of 7000 men un
fy der the command of lietit. gen. D’Her-
Jg mann, which hid arrived from Revel in
- the course of me preceding day and yef
wl terdav morning. I afterwards saw tliefe
iii troops upon their march towards the po
ll fition occupied by the Britifli near Schagen; -
If and I have great pleasure in alluring you
that, from the appearance in every rtf
|i pest ti;e mod happy consequences may be
ft expect'd from their co-operation with his
W majeft) 's arms in this county ; lieut. gene
ral D’Hermann seems to enter mod hear
tily into our views, and I form very fan-
If guine hopes of receiving eflential afliftance
1| from his zeal and experience.
“ i underdood that fir Ralph Abercom
by has made you acquainted with his hav
ing repulsed the enemy in an attack made
upon him on Tuefday lad. I proceed to
I I join him at his quarters at Schagen imme-
1 1 diately.
“ I have had the pleasure to meet the
Hereditary prince of Orange here. His
lerene highlit ft is occupied in arranging
into corps a large body of deserters from
rhe Batavian army, and .volunteers from
K tire Dutch (hips of war which have ]sro
eeedt'd to England. Ev«ry afliftatlce (lull
K be given to his ftrene highness to render
thele corps an effic.cnt addition to our
I, force.
' “ I am, fir your’i
FREDERICK. ”
Kjl LONDON, Sept. 16 .
I The id and fecoiid divifioite, conihin-
H ing about 10,000 iroop% failed yefterdav
R from Deal, :>r the Texcl. A fleet with
cavalry remain here.
®F THE DUTCH FLEET
« ] Ot IS fail of the line, arrived vederdav
11)1 fate in Ot-Iv bay, from the Texei.—
IR ■ onch f't the Dutch faiiors who declared
HR Stud’.holder, were drafted out
W#/"* • • ■- T - • - My."*' 1 -. vr ■:?’rtc? >. ■
of the refpe£live fliips before the fleet fail-
THE BRITISH FLEET
Under lord Bridport, was on the 12th ind.
off Bred, all wed. • It is now composed of
forty fail of the line.
September, 17*
Private letters mention the marching of
the Ruffian and British troops, for the
neighborhood ofAlkmaar, where the ar
my is drongly entrenched. Alkmaar has
been summoned, and will be afTaulted.
The grince of Orange has 5000 Dutch vo
lunteers with him. A flotilla is ordered
to bombard Amderdam, while 900 volun
teer seamen attack the Dutch forts.
The French threaten, and are making
preparations for a general inundation of
the country—but the Dutch will oppose
the measure.
Great numbers of Dutch troopsjoin the
prince’s flag.
As soon as the Ruffian and other rein
forcements arrive, the army puflies for
ward. Three reinforcements reached the
army on Monday lad.
September 19.
ARMY OF THE RHINE.
The Hamburgh mail due on Sunday
arrived lad night. The mod important
intelligence brought by it is from Switzer
land and the Rhine. Tfce French have
eroded the Rhine in order to divert the at
tention of the archduke, and to oblige him
to divide his forces. They are now ad
vancing in two columns of nearly twenty
thousand men each of Durlach and Heil
bun, and seem to threaten the archduke
by SchafFhaufen, while Maflena is to at
tack him in front. His Royal highness
therefore has quitted with a
large part of his army, and has marched to
Donauefchingen, in order to check the
progress of the French army, in which
the accounts from Frankfort fay he has
been (uccefsful. General Hotze com
mands the Audrians and Ruffians in the
absence of the archduke. But Hotze, with
an army so inferior to Maflena, can only
aid driftlx cn thedefenfive. He is waiting
anxiously Tor the reinforcements from Italy
under gen. Kray. Lecombe is again mar
ching againd Coire.
Tiie French, it is obvious, have no idea
of maintaining themselves in Suabia
they will probably retreat as the Audrians
advance. An article from Dielburg men
tions, that they were defeated by the
Audrians fix leagues from Heidelberg but
by forcing the archduke to march into
Suabia, they expert that Maflena will suc
ceed in obliging the Audrians to evacuate
Switzerland.
The archduke has iflued a new circular
letter to the princes of the Germanic cir
cles, calling on them for their contingents.
A letter observes that the prefentisthe
mod favorable moment for Germany to
recover its ancient frontier.
In the elc&orate of Mentz, the people
have unexpc&edly risen en made, driven
the French back to Offenbach, and threa
tened the city of Mentz, which, as well as
Caflel, is declared in a date of siege.
September 20.
On Tuefday evening his majedy’s (loop
L’Efpiegle arrived in Yarmouth Roads,
with dispatches from the Britifli army in
Holland. L’ Efpiele left the Texei on
Sunday night lad.
Eleven thousand troops, Britifli and
Ruffians, were to move forward on Mon
day from the Hclder to join the main ar
my, and 5000 more were preparing to dis
embark. The whole were in the highelt
health and spirits.
All the letters yet come to hand express
the moll sanguine hopes of Amsterdam be.
ing very speedily in our poffeflion, if the
French, in their retreat did not inundate
the country, for which, by accounts re
ceived from the head quarters of the Bri
tifli army it was apprehended they were
making preparations.
It is natural to suppose, however, that
this is a mealure which the great majority
of the Dutch would rife up to oppose ; and
it is a mealure of all others calculated to’
unite that people againd the common ene
my of civilized society ; for the people of
Holland mud be convinced, that by a
dopting lo desperate a measure as that of
a general inundation, the French did not
confider not only the future welfare, but
the present exidence of a great proportion
of the inhabitants of Holland.
We know notiiing more calculated to
open the eyes of what the French call the
Batavian people than this mealure of de
ftru&ion, which they meditated againd
them. The idea of such a measure being
in contemplation, however, was accelerat
ing the landing artd march of troops, for
it was conceived pofiible that we might
press upon the French so fad, that they
might not be able to accomplifli their mur
derous »md diabolical designs.
File Juno frigate, commanded by cap
taid Dundas, had been lightened, for the
purpoJe ot her failing up as near as polli
ble to Amderdam, and Ihe was to be ac
companied bv all the gun and other vef
ie!s of force that could be adopted to the
1 navigation of the Zuyder Zee. Vice ad-
miral Mitchell, whose judgment and [pi
nt are equal to every emergincy, was him
fe!f to command this armament, with his j
flag displayed on board the Juno. |
By accounts daiiy received by those who j
flock in to range themselves under the
flag of tne hereditary prince of Orange,
there is every reason to suppose that the
main body of the Dutch troops at Amster
dam and Rotterdam will, at the approach
of the combined force, join the Orange
flag. > . ’ . ' .
Our army had remained quiet in their
pofirion till Sunday morning lass. When
die reinforcements, reached them, which
would be on Monday last, they were ex
pelled to advance.
OF PRUSSIA.
The determination of Prullia to remain
neutral is confirmed, and Saxony, in fol
lowing the example of Pruflia, has expli
citly declared to the diet, that Ihe will take
no part in the war of the empire.
Another embafly is to proceed to Berlin
—Count Bellegarde has been appointed
ambaflador from the emperor of Germany,
and prince Callitzin from the emperor of
Ruflia. Whether the objeft of the two
powers is again to urge his Prufiian majel
ty to enter into the war, we know not ;
a Ruffian army of 120,000 menisfaid to be
railing on the frontiers of Poland.
CHARLESTON, November 28.
The following is communicated by capt. Hewit,
late commander of the brig Experiment of
this port , who arrived on Friday lajl , in the
J loop Harriet , captain Roberts , from St.
Chrifiopher's.
“ I was captured on the 10th Sept, by
a brig mounting eight 6 and four 12 poun
ders, and 130 men; myfelf and crew were
taken on board the privateer, where I re
mained until the 16th, when I was put on
board the brig Lord Nelson, of and from
Halifax, a prize to the said privateer, and
arrived at Guadaloupe on the 29th, where
J remained until the 24th O&ober, when
myfelf, with 49 fellow fufFerers, were put
on board a cartel for St. Christopher’s un
der a guard of 20 armed soldiers, black and
white.
“ Every American veflel that arrived in
Port Liberly while I was there, had the A
merican flag hoisted union up, at the mail
head, and the French flag at the ensign
ftaff; every master of a veflel was put on
parole, and the agents of the privateer paid
two dollars per day for their board and
lodging. Some captains were plundered
of their quadrants, watches, cloathing, See.
when.firft taken, but were afterwards treat
ed as above mentioned.”
By Yesterday’s Northern Mail.
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BALTIMORE, November 18.
Latest European NEWS.
Received by the Hampton from Hamburgh.
MANHEIM, Sept. 10.
In the night between the 6tb and 7th,
the French commenced the bombardment
upon Philiplburg, which lasted ever since
—lt is said a great part of the city is al
ready laid in allies. From Mayence, the
French have ere&ed a bridge of boats to
wards the quarter of Philiplburg.
The Austrians have caused many pon
toons to be brought from Bellingen to the
Rhine, where it is said the Archduke
Charles intends to cross that river, in or
der to force general Maflena to retreat.—
From Kehl the French have advanced a
new, and had aq a&ion with the Aus
trians.
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 7.
This day about 20 Britilh and Ruffian
men of war and other veflels with Ruffian
troops, failed from Helfigoer for the North
Sea.
From Algiers we learn, that since the
rupture with France, there is but little in
tercourse between Algiers and Europe.—
There is the bell understanding between
admiral Nelson and the Dey ; and the lat
ter has allowed the Britilh to carry provi
sions from his ports to Mahon and their
fleets. Thirteen corlairs lately failed from
Algiers to cruise against the French.
BORDERS OF SUABIA, Sept. 6.
In the fall.a large Ruffian army, from
60 to 70,000 men, may be expe&ed.
The army which the Archduke Charles is
collecting in Suabia, will, including the
corps of Stzzarray and Meerfeld, conflft of
65,000 men. It is thought that the Im
perial army will cross the line between
Waldlhut and Bafle, in order to fall into
the rear of general Maffena’s army, in
which quarter the French are conftruCting
entrenchments to prevent the enemy’s
crossing.
VERONA, August 31.
Both nephews of the pope, the cardinal
and the duke of Brafchi, after a conlider
able flay in this city, have set off for Flor
ence. Within these few days part more
j than 3000 Ruffians ammunition waggon*
1 parted through here.
I LINDAU, Sept. 7
| . Advice is just received, that the *.■ ■
| "'ingot the trench army under l ** K
Mallena has attacked the armv of § ntrj{ Hi
I Hotze »» se veral points, and driven?^ 1 B
of the canton of Glarus. Then™ ° UI BE
Glarus fought bravely for the AufL ° f 1B
aiid loft many men. More circujft" 1 ’ B
tial accounts are expe&ed.
BOS TON, Odober 2 g. I
AMERICAN P
Capt. Bryant, who arrived here y e sl e ' B
day, in the schooner Teggv, in 16 / B
from St. Bartholemews, informs, that tvf B
days before he failed, the United Staff! B
brig Eagle, lieut. Campbell, arrived atV B
‘Bartholomews, from St. Kitts, the com’ B
mandefof which acquainted the America' -
consul, that the TJuxteJ^tate?brig Pj c I
ing, lieut. Hyllier,a§Ki4 four-pound?? ®
had, after a battler 9 hfturs, daptured* fi
and carried into St. Kitts, the French ph! HI
vateer schooner le Conqueror d’Eom B
mounting eight nines, and fix fix pounder/ B
with aoo men, The a&ion was fevere* B
and was fought off Guadaloupe, about the B
Bth Odober, from whence the Frenchman B
was sent to take the Pickering. Captain
Bryant does not recoiled! what lofs’of meri 9|
the vefiels sustained; but Tfae^afFair was B
considered as highly honorable A- B
merican flag.
CONFIRMATION . ■
Captain Ring, who also arrived yefier- Bl
day from St. Bartholomews, acquaints us, 9|
that the conqueror of Egypt was com- B
manded by one Williams, cousin to ths BE
one lately punished in Connecticut; that |E
file had 175 men; that the battle continu- H
ed five hours, then ceased for one hour,
and re-commencing, continued three hours H
longer, when the Frenchman (truck. It B
was said the Pickering had three men kil- H
led, and some wounded; while the French B
loss was fifty, (perhaps including killed and H
wounded;) that the adtion was fought be- H
tween Antigua and St. Bartholomews.— H
These particulars were from the comman
der of the Eagle. H
The Pickering was fitted out from this H
port, and in her firft cruize was command- H
ed by capt. Preble.—She mounts 14 four H
pounders, and had 80 men.—Le Con- 9
queror d’Egypt, mounted 18 nine poun- 9
ders, and had or. board 200 men. 9
A gentleman from Guadaloupe informs, 9
that the Conqueror of Egypt mounted, 9
when he was there, 16 guns, and had a S
complement of 120 men. 9
FURTHER SUCCESS. 1
The night after the capture of the Con* 9
queror of Egypt, lieut. Campbell, in the a
Eagle, took a French letter of Marque, M
from Guadaloupe bound to France, which
he carried into St. Kitts. She had dis- ■
patches on board to the French govern- ■
ment, and was very richly laden with cos- f|
fee and sugar. Capt. Tingey, of the Gan- m
ges, at St. Kitts, had written to the Arne- I
rican agent at St. Bartholomews,- for in- 9
formation whether the Eagle’s prize could i
be condemned there. I
Os St. EUSTATIA. I
Reports were in circulation, at St. Bar- I
tholomews, that the town of St. Euftatia I
had been burned by an English frigate, in I
concert with two American armed vessels, I
in consequence of having been fired on 1
from the fort.—But captain Ring informs I
that no such event had taken place, the I
16th Odtober.—lt was said, the French I
had demanded a very heavy sum of money 1
from St. EvfL ia, and that feveralofthe I
inhabitants had said fhey would burn their 1
plantations rather than submit to the tri- 1
bute: but as capt. R. had produce of the |
island on board, after the repeated reports 1
of its being burnt were circulated, he con** |
eludes the report to be a fabrication. 1
NEW-YORK, November 19. I
HORRID MURDER, &V,
We were yesterday favored with a King*
fton (jam.) paper of the 12th Odlober,
from which we copy thefollowing circum
stances of unparalleled murder—commit
ted by Regaud’s bargemen on the crew
and passengers of the brig George, from
London bound to Kingston.
Kingston , Oftober 12.
Last Saturday arrived at Rio Bueno,the
American schooner Lydia, Thos. Smith, •
matter, from Norfolk and Cape Nichola
Mole, and failed from the latter port the
firft instant. On the 26th ult. captaia
Taggart of the American sloop Cicero, be
longing to Baltimore, arrived at the Mole
from Petit Guave, his veifel being made a
prize by Toulfaint’s cruisers, for trading
with the port of St. Domingo poffefled by
Rigaud.
The following horrid and barbarous ac
count of the capture of an English vessel,
and murder of the principal part of the
crew, by the savages afting under Rigaud,
was related by captain Taggart.
The brig George, of Kingston, captain
M’Leod, from London bound to Kingston
— mounting 12 guns, with 40 men, was
taken by Rigauds barges, and carried into
Petit Guave after engaging them three
hours, with the loss of the foutfmen killed