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Twelfth Bulletin of the Hr and Arm f.
Marshal Soult has followed the enemy to
the gitei of Magdeburg ; fevcral tines the
I’rafiians attempted to takepofuions and they
were always Overthrown.
We found at Nordhaufen very confioera
ble magazines, and a chcft of the king of
Prulfia’s, filled with money* Daring the
five days which Marshal Soult has employed
in povfuit of the enemy, he has made 1200
prifoncts, and toak 30 pieces of cannon an if
two or 300 caffoons.
The lit ft objefl of the campaign is com
pleted ; Saxony, Wtftphalia, and all the
countries situated on the left bank of the Elbe
arc delivered Irom the prtftrfce of the Pruf-
Ibn army—this army, beaten and pursued
with the bayonet at its back for more than
fifty league l ;, is this day without artillery,
without baggage without generals, reduced
to one third of what it was eight days ago ;
and what is worfc than all It has led all con.
fideace in iiftlf. Two corps of the French
army are on the Elbe, occupied in confl rue
ting. bridges. The head quarters arc at
Halle. The following letter, which had
been intercepted, contains a detailed pifturc of
the situation of Pruflia after the battle of Jina.
Mr D|ar With.—l am still alive &in
gord heilth, after having afliftid at the moll
unfortunate battle ; hut alas, 1 cannot re
train royfelf from telling you, that we have
there 101 l the halt of our army, and all the
oeft of our generals. My battalion behaved
perfaflly well, but has lull in canno.i ia the
retreat; my company has loft forty men
and lieutenant Schweinitz.—Was I to in
form you of all our misfortunes, it would
take an infinity of time. The whole of the
haggle of our part of the army was taken
at Weimare, our domcftics even, could hot
five thcmfelves. on the evening
of the i6t h at Nordhaufen without a horse
and deprived of every thing; the army is
in full retreat for Magdeburg. His Royal
WUjefty has received a contusion, neverthe.
less, he is in good health; you can tell
Schuberton that his cldeil son was killed and
wc do not know what has become of the
other, as well as of Jarulh, Macftaelzeck
and Jofcph Ty falls ; we miss be Titles, five
under officers, four muftcians, three artille
rifts, two fspj’ers, the grenadiers,
Blonoriflcilh has 16ft all his men. Fonta
nius the fame; they are ail as naked as
worms. Ihe major has only preserved a
horse ; many generals arc killed—Sanetz
and Malchetz are miffing—the duke of
Brunswick has loft both his eyes by a (hot
of a fufd—.Ruchel and Winning are dead;
many regiments arc without officers, and
others have officers and no foldiers...our
loft, is immense, we no longer dillinguifh
the different corps, ail is pell-mell. The
battalon of Loftin, Borck and Gordani ex.
ill no longer; they made part of the rear,
guard which has been entirely cut into mor
sels; I can give you no idea of the dcllruc
tion with which the French have pursued us.
You can write to me in the body of the
army at Magdeburgh, ..
BERNE, Sept. 2.
Wc received information two days since,
of a dreadful accident which has destroyed
fevcr.il villages in the canton of Schwitz.—
The following are the details of this difaf.
ter, the moll dreadful recorded in the annals
of Switzerland :
“OaTucfday the 2d of September, at
five in the evening, the Knippenbuld Rock,
which formed the summit of mount Rosen
berg, was on a Hidden detached from its fla
lion, and at the fame time, part of the moun
tain, of fevcral feet in thickness, on the
weftern fide, and about 280 feet in thickness
on the call fide, gave way and fell into the
valley which separates the lake of Zug from
that of Lauwcrtz, overwhelming the whole
of the villages of Goldan, Radian, Bufiog
han, Huzlocb, three pans of that of Lau
wertz, and feme houses in the village of
Sccin. The fall of one part of the moun
tain into the lake of Lmwertz, about a
fourth part of which is filled up, cauftd
such an agitation in the waters of the lake
that they overthrew a number of houses.
chapels, mills, &c. along the fouihern fiiore
of the lake; amongst others the mill of
Lauwertz, where fifteen persons were killed
and buried in the ruins of the buildings, all
the parrs of which were dispersed with such
violcnbe that tho foundation only remains.
This mill was situated 50 or 60 feet above
the level of the lake. *
The waves also beat against the village
of Sceven, firuate at the extremity of the
lake, and destroyed some houses. Two
persons were killed. In the villages which
tvwe overwhelmed, not an individual esca
ped. Upwards of one thousand persons have
been the victims of this disaster.
“ Several circamftances attending this
event are very remarkable. Enormous mas
ses ol rock were carried through the air to
prodigious diftanccs. The rocks in falling
drew with them immense mattes of earth, of
from ten to eighty feet in thickness : and
numbers of thefc mattes, together with large
blocks of flint ft on?', were thrown on the
opposite (bore, to the height of from eight
to one hundred t. One can scarcely be.
lieve one’s eye* when he foes th#fe pheno.
mena. Every fnftant one fees houses, some
forced on on|ff t de, others cut in two and
separated at diftanccs, and others car.
ried more tfy jn a quarter of a league, from
their foundj^i ons .
P villages of Goldaqi and Ratban,
f 115 houses, that of Bufinghen,
c totally disappeared. Os Lau
gh loft 2 j Louies, them remains
rs, all much damaged.’*
j UTEST PROM LONDON.
New-York, December 29.
The Bricifli Packet Diana, capt. -Gib.
bons, who arrived here yesterday via Ber
muda, failed from Falmouth on the 1 3th
ult. and btinga us London papers and ma
rine lifts to the 7th.
The papers are filled with the French suc
cesses in Pruflia. The latest date from Ber.
lln is October 24th : on which day the
French took pofleflion of that place—the
queen of Pr uflia had fled to the Baltic on her
way to Cuftren.
Lord Morpeth and suite arrived at Lon.
don from Berlin on the ift of November
byway of Hamburg. •
On the i ath of November, 4 (hips of
the line, 3 frigates, a (loop of war, 10 cut.
ters and 23 transports, having on board
) 4000 troops including cavalry, failed from
I Falmouth on a fccret expedition. They
\ were victualled for r 1 months ; and cem-
I raanded by commodore Robert Stopford
j and Gen. Crauford. There was another
expedition fitting out at Ramfgate and
Margate.
WSSS&Si 1/
CHILLICOTHE, (Ohio.) December z*
On Tuefday the fccond inst. .the Governor of
this state sent the following Confidential
Communication to both Houles of the Le
gifhtnrc;
T# the General AJfiemhlj of the fate of Ohio,
A number of concurrent circurrftanccs, re
ceived from faurccs on which the greatest pof.
fiblc reliance may be placed, warrants a be.
lief, that some hoflile expedition is on foot
inimical to the peace and ihtereft of the U,
1 States, as well as calculated to prove ruinous
to peace and prosperity of the weftern part
thereof. As chief magiftrateof this state, I
have thought it a duty I owe to my fellow,
citizens, to this state, and to the general
government, to lay the information 1 have
received before the representatives of the
people, that their united wisdom might di
rect to some msans of prevention, as far as
intheirpower towards counteracting the evil
designs,
I have it from a gentleman of great refpcc.
lability clothed by the United States with a
public character, that a person living near
Marietta on the Ohio river, but out of the
jurifdiCtion of this fttate, has avowed him.
felt the agent of a gentleman late high in of
fice in the United States, and is empowered,
and is actually preparing a flotilla, confiding
•t from ro to 15 batteaux, 40 feet long, on
the Muflcingum river, and is purchaftng up
provisions to load them with, and endeavor
ing to engage siftive, enterprizing young
men to fail down the Ohio, who arc promi.
fed pay and rations from the lime qf engage
ment, with promises of future fortunes, Ac.
—that this agent propofol to two gentlemen
of great rcfpeftability to join in a plan fag.
failed by his principal, and which he had
engaged in, which would procare for them
ample fuitsncv, which plan tr »b to attack and
seize tha city of New. Orleans and its depen
dencies, the monay in the bank and treasury,
whiah amounts to upwards of two millions
of dollars, the military ftorcs, and a fine
park of French brat artillery, laying there,
and to ercCl a government indepeudeat to the
United S tales, under the direction of a fo
reign European power, and finally to force
or draw the people of the weftern country to
secede from the union, byfundry means poin
ted out. It has also been suggested that three
different small armaments below this, on the
Ohio, arc preparing to join in this expedi
tion, and if all are permitted to join, will
amount to 1300 men, the force designed to
commence operations with—and from which,
owing to the difafteftion of the people of that
territory, and the expectation that ihe A
mcrican troops will be kept in motion by
another power, success Is strongly calculated
on. It is also strongly fnfpeCted that a fo
reign gentleman, friendly to the entsrprize,
has pecuniary means equal to the extent and
wants thereof, at command.
Oo Friday last I received a communica
tion from a general officer in the militia, in
thelirft division, informing me that two
boats leaded with artillery, raolkcts end bay
onets, new, and of French manufacture,
palfcd down the Ohio, on board of w Inch
were gentlemen who {poke the French lan.
guage ; that for want oflegal authority he
was not able to gratify his patriotic wilhes
in arresting them.
1 Under this state of things it is fubmittod
whether the public energies of Ohio ought
not to be directed towards counteracting that
part of the preparing forces within our ju
rifdiCtion, on the Mclkingum rivar, and the
securing the agent preparing them if poflible ?
And indeed, it is thought other fames may
defeend tha Ohio from above, and which
might bcjftopped in the Ohio while floating
down towards the point of junction.
EDWARD TIFFIN.
In addition to the foregoing information, ex
traded from the acioto Gazette, letters
fro-.rt Ohio state that ten boars have been
seized, and that Tyler and Blcnnerhaffet
had fled. We have likewise received the
following | e tter.
Extrafl of a leti.r x dated Frankfort, ( K.)
December 6, /• a gtttUman in thit citj.
“On the aid ult. a committee was ap.
pointed to enquire into the of the
hon, Benjamin Scbaftian ; the result %f the
enquiry was, that communication and con.
fcrcnces contrary to the constitution of Ken.
tncky and of tho United States, were had Sc
carried on by Scbaftian as the representatives
•f MeiTrs, Innes, Nicholas, and Murry with
colonel Giozo, the oi the Ba
ron de Corondclet, the govcrnor-general of
Louisiana ; in 1795, and 1797 a communi
cation which had for its object the reparation
of the country weft of the Aleghany mourv
tains was made to Mr. Sebastian, and by Sc.
baftian to Innes and Nicholas, but not to
Murry, and it was also proved that Sebasti
an had received in the years 1801 and 180a,
2000 as a pen (ion from the Spanith govern,
meat. He has resigned his office as judge in ■
order to save the trouble of removing him
from office.
The whole of the evidence containing 40
pages is ordered to be printed and a copy sent
to each representative from the state to the
congress of the United States.
rhdi&ments have bee prepared against
col, Barr, and John Adair, but they were
not found by the Grand Jury the contents of
the indidltnents 1 do not know only from re.
port, which fays they were for setting on
foot an expedition against Mexico a pro.
vincc oi Spain."
BALTIMORE, December 23.
The following extraft from a letter, da
ted Lexington, (Ken.) Nov. 30, has been
politely handed to the editors :
“ Yesterday, at Frankfort, judge Schai
tian was convided, on the evidence of
judge Innes, before the legidatore, of re
ceiving a Spanish peufion some years ago,
Innes produced a letter, given to him by
Sebastian, from the governor at Orleans,
with a proposition to (end 200,000 dollars,
and some cannon to Kaiksfkas, if Sebastian,
Innes, col. Nichols and Wm. Murray,
would use thtir influence to deliver the
weftern country to the Spaniards. The
three latter declined having any thing to
do with it; Sebastian declared himielf wil
ling to be governed by their determination,
but received 6.000 dollars.
VERMONT ADDRESS.
The following addres to the President of
the United States, palled the a (Terribly of
Vermont on the sth ult. and the speaker
direfled to transmit the fame to the Presi
dent.
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON,
President of the United States,
Sir,
Permit the general aflembly of the State
of Vermont to avail themfelvcs ot the oppor
tunity, prefer)ted by their annual meeting,
to exprm to you the fatisfa&ien they do
rive from the increasing prolperity of cur
common country.
Remote as we are placed from the feat of
government, we have observed with anxious
and continual solicitude, the tntafures adop
ted by ,the public fuß&ionaries, to (tcure
and promote the interests of the Union.—
We have seen the diminution of taxes, the
extension of territory, the increafc of popu.
lation, the due regulation of the Judicial
and military systems, the security of peace
abroad and at home, with fentimems of
finccre approbation. We learn that in thefc
fsntiments, our lifter dates have almost una.
nimoefty coincided ; and that defpifiog the
ftrnggles of faftion, and the whifpera of
(lander, the public opinion has ripened from
the full grades of favorable expectation in a
bold and general applause. The eminent
degree in which you have contributed, by
the patriotic difeharge of j our official duties,
to call forth thefc fentirnents has not escaped
ns. Adulation is the language of llaves ;
but a just, a free, and independent people
who have seen and clcapcd the attempted
fubverflon, of their liberties, will never
hefitat* to anticipate the voice ofhiftory
and posterity, when gratitude demands it.
Wc will not fir, conceal our regret, ari
sing from rumours which have reached us, 1
calculated to excite the belief, that it was
your wi(h to withdraw from the public fer
vies, at the close of the period for which
you was last defied chief magistrate of the
union. Wc venture to hope that the in
sinuation is unauthorifed, and to express a
wift* that, in the full pofteffion of faculties
and talent, you will not refafe the citizens
the benefits arising from long political ex
perience, and deprive them of the full oppor
tunity of exerciiing their choice and judg
ment in fclcfting their President from the
whole number of people. .
In pmfuing and completing the measures
so happily begun ; in encouraging the indus
try, and protecting the rights of the citi
zens ; in promoting the happiness of the
people, and supporting the dignity of the
government, we, with confidence afture you
of our most cordial support. And relying
on that Divine being who holds in his hand
the destiny oi empires, we trust we (hall be
so directed as to long sxift a peaceful, prof,
percus and happy nation.
AARON LELAND,
Speaker of thi Ucufe of Repreficntatnei .
European madsufs. —France, in the year
,1791, set about to new model the govern
ment. The Italian and German states, in
cluding Prussia, incited by the government
of England, interfered in their concerns and
threatened, if the French people persevered,
to partition their Gauntry j as some of the
crowned monsters had just partitioned Po
land. The German and Italian states had
foldicrs but no money ; England had money
but no foldicrs. Englaad therefore futnith
cd those states with money and they Cent
legions Into France to conquer and partition
it; The duke of Btunfwick was the ftrft
illuftrioos villain employed in this work of
»s»d dcftrullioo. Justice is Hire tho*
fomctiru«< not Cpccdy. He fell at the battle
of Jena. HU favageand infamous mani- '
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fefio, publllhed when he hostilely erstetei
into the territories of France, is not forgot.
ten. The war on the part of the comfoned $
powers was one of booty \ est the fade <4
France (originally) of dejenct.
His Pruflian majesty, alter two or
) ears of impotent fighting, haded cut, 2s
waggonners fay ; lirft robbing England
however, byway of a joke, of three ajjllil
ons sterling, font as subsidy to continue hit*
in arras. His Pruflian majesty pockcud the
money and then made peace. This was alt
well enough amongst such folks. Plunder i
was the cement of the tombinatior of crown
ed heads. In pocketing the three millions
the grand biter was but bitten.
Mow the firople question among thefc war.
ring powers has been, ever fmcc the corn,
mencement of hoflilitics; w hether the coir,
bined powers lhall partition France, cr i
France, forced into the contest, shall aggran. I
dize herfelf at the expense of the combined -
powers ? and it is only answered by France
finding herfelf in a condition to play the |
character of the mailer robber,
England half bullied and half bribed the
combined powers in the war, and her agents
here are attempting ito play the fame garre
with us. Their Sardinian and Neapolitan
majesties—the emperor of Aaftria, probably
the king of Prufiia, and certainly fcitie
twenty or thirty Dukes and Stadtholders are
no more / It should seem as if the ceunfel
of England was death to all nations that
listen to it,
American. Citizen, • |
CHARLESTON, January 8,
BURR'S CONSF/RJCr.
The arrival of the fehooner Amelia, Cap
tain Brooks, from New. Orleans, haslur. I
riifhcd us with the papers of that city to t
the 13th ult, from which we derive iht ■
following intcrefiing intelligence :
On the 9th alt. in consequence of a pre- |
vious invitation from Governor C l a i s oaten,
the Merchants es New-Orleans are a«cm, f
bled at the Government Honfc, for the pur. '
pose of conftilting with him on fontc point* t
of great importance.
The meeting confided of aimed all rise mer
chants cf the city j they were informed by his
excellency, that he had goed and undoubted
reasons to believe, that a conspiracy, fraoght
with objects highly prejudicial to the Uni.
ted States in general, and (his territory in
particular, was plotting by a set of lawless
andartful men, dangerous both from their ts
lents and rank in fccicty ; that he thought
the fafety of the territory nquired iramedi
ate mcafures of defence, that there was a ne
cefSty to give vigor to their preparations, of
a number of fcaipen which Commodore Shaw
had been unable, in the ordinary way of en
listment, to procure, and that as this regar
ded more immediately the merchants, he
thought proper to call them together, perfu,
aded that by difcloftng to them the danger,
that threatned them, he would find them cm.
ulated with patrictifm, and ready to co-op.
crate in the defence of their country j that
he left to themihe foggefiing the heft mede
of procuring the men wanted, confident that
with their afliftance, the oljeft would be
completed in the coutfe of twenty-four hours.
His Excellency mentioned the manner he
had received communication of this dange
rous plot, width was through general \Vil
kirifoD, who confided to him the perusal cf
the dispatches and overtuies made to him j
that he had moreover, received hirnfeifa let
ter from one of his rroft particular friends, a
highly refpedlablc citizen of Tcnndfee,
which, though in ambiguous words, posi
tively denounced fomethir.g important, and
dangerous in this government, likely to
take place in the month of December j and
then recommended ro him, to be upon his
guard, to organize tit militia , and to be
ware of the ides of March.
General Wilkinson entered more minutely
into the particulars of the case—he began,
by expressing hisdiflatisfallionat tltSOalling
of a meeting to deliberate on thejfubjcil
mentioned by his Excellency ; he faK. that
if it had been consistent with the Sc
civil relations of our government, he srbuid
have conduced the whole business in hbeva
way, and should have adopted other that the
present mcafures to obtain the ebjeft defiled \
he found hirafelf, however, under the ce
city of communicating with his Excellen
cy, aad, cn fcveral cccaftons, took oppor
tunities of noticing his own want of autho
rity, and the fruitlcflnefs of his applications
to those who were empowered. He irenti.
oned, that withrefpell to the premeditated
invasion, it had been couaamunicated to him
by a fpccial melftnger Irom the ccr.fpirators,
on the iS:h cf Oftober, at the moment he <
was preparing to proceed to the Sabine ; the
objedf of making him acquainted with the
plot, was, the hope of his co-operating with
them; bur, without divulging hts
mination, he set out for the Sabine, fettled
the Spanifii affairs, attd with all the expedi
tion in his power, repaired » this plac' 1 ,
where he intended concentrating Lis forces
and defend it or perjfh in its luin* ; iha;
whilff at Natchitoches he received a meflaga
on rhefame ful je<ft from New-Oricsns, and,
he added, that there were fevers! pcrft ns in
in New .Orleans concerned in the plot, whom
he kmew, and had he the power, world
have arretted longfince. He mentioned rha:
his objeft, in coming to town, was to pre
pare the place for defence, but that fuLfcquait
advices from the invaders ltd him to believe
that their forces would be greater than he
at fitft expelled, and be bad accordingly
changed his plan, and intended, if pcffible,
to attack them before they reached town,
and flattered himfelf, if be couid ftteceed in
getting off the flotilla they weic preparing.