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SATURDAY, January 12, 1793. J
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
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FRANKFORT, Sept. 24.
ACTRCUMSTANCE has occurred here
Which has occasioned much alarm. On
application from the.Princ* ofConde, a person
of the name of l’Eveque, who is by profef
<ion a dentist, and is eltablifhed at Strafburg,
has been apprehended, in confluence of a
difcovery‘having been made that he was en
gaged to affafHnate the King of Pruflia.
This person had been employed profeffion
ally in the family of the Duke of Wurtem
4)urg, and attended the Duchess in her late
wifit to the Prrncefs Ferdinand of Pruflia. Af
ter he was taken into custody he confeffed
•the truth df the charge, and added, that he
had already received 30,000 livres in part oj
the reward Which had been promised him
for the perpetration df this horid crime*
From the measures which are now taking
it is probable that many additional particulars
of this business will soon be known. It may
in the main time be confldered as an additi
onal evidence of the principles by which
thofc abandoned persons are aftuated who
have usurped the conduit of affairs in France.
B R U S -S E L S, Sept. %6.
By intelligence received from the head- ,
quarters of the Imperial army, under the
command of bis Royal Highness the Duke of
Saxe Tefchen, we are informed, that, on the
a1 ft of this month, his Royal Highneft, who
for some days had eflabliflied his headquarters
atTouruar, had advanced towards Lifls with
a part of his army ; that the bead-quarters
-were transferred to Flets, a village situated
at a small diftancefrom the capital of French
Flanders; that the next morning his Royal
Highness (ummoned the inhabitants of the
laid province to return to their allegiance to
his Most Christian Mujeftr, their lawful So
vereign, and that, toencourage them to do so, !
he caused to be published the following pro
clamation.
The unhappy events of France having de
termined his Majesty, the Emperor and
King, at-a .good neighbour of French Flanders, ;
to come to the assistance of the honed citizens
of that province, and to favc their lawful j
King, and his Royal Family, from the naif- j
fortunes which oppress them, we declare,
by these presents, that all thofc who lhall lay
down their -arms, and submit to the protecti
on which his Majesty, the Emperor and King,
offers to them, (hall be treated as friends, 1
and enjoy all the protection of the law; but
those who lhall make refiflance will be treated
as rebels to their lawful Sovereign,
Given at our head-quarters, before Lisle,
September 24, 1792.
(Signed) ALBERT.
Inflead of complying with so moderate a
lequitition the garrison ofLifle made prepa
rations for defending itfelf, and fcveral de
tachments advanced on the morning of the
23th to attack the outposts of the Imperial
army; but they were repulsed and driven
back as far as the suburbs. As the enemy
seemed desirous of maintaining their polls in
-Faubourg de Fifves, Major General Count
dcStaray was ordered to dislodge them, at
the head of a division of chaffeurs, and a Bat
talion of the regiment of Clairfayt, supported
by a battalion of the regiment d’Alton. The
good difpofltions of this General and the bra
very of the Imperial troops forced the enemy
to route from this quarter into the palace.
The Faubourg was taken poffeflioa of, and our
GEORGIA.
troops having eftabl rtied themselves in that
poll have begun entrenchments, at which they
continue to labor even under the cannon of
the place.
These works are directed by Lieut. Col.
du Chatele', and Major du Hamel de Quer
land of the Engineers, under the infpettionof
Count Brown Feld Zeug Meister, who in this
attack rendered the mod essential services.
We had 70 men killed and 80 wounded.
The. valor and difeipline displayed by the
troops cannot be fufficiently praised. A Cap*
tain and a Lieutenant of the regiment ofClair
fayt are among the wounded. Among the
officers who distinguished themfclves mod,
Major Count de Ribancourt, of the fame re*
giment is particularly mentioned.
LONDON, Sept. 16.
The following attrocious adions, lately
pradifed at Paris, it would be criminal to
conceal; they are given on the credit of an
immediate eyewitness:
The Countess du Chevre, with her five
children, the oldest not 11 years of age,
were massacred at her house, Rue de Bucb,
on the 3d, and their bodies exposed before
the door. The children were firft assassinated
before the eyes of their parent.Bbe bore this
infernal fight with a fortitude supernatural;
(lie embraced the bleeding head of the young*
est, and met her fate with the raoft heroic con*
tempt. The wretches firft cut off the arms
that sustained her last fad comfort, and then
fevered her head from her body.
In the fame street an old Swiss gentleman,
M. d'Aubcrc, about 70, who before the re
volution had some place under government,
was thrown alive into a fire kindled of the
furniture belonging to the different hotels of
the Emigrants. Thrice he ran from the
flames, and as often was driven back ; at last,
with their pikes, the sanguinary monsters pin*
j ned him there, and insultingly demanding him
to sing Ca ira, danced around the fire Ting
ing, themselves, in the true spirit of North
American savages.
One Gruuault and his wife lived in the Rue
Ja'ob ; be was a grocer; the mob aflaflinated
i tbem both. Provident of their children,
though hopclefs of their own fafety, they had
sent them to a friend’s house in the neigh
bourhood, that, if possible, they might be
saved. They were met, however, by 30
\ or 40 children, who were going, as they
said, to dispatch all the young aristocrats.
They attacked the servant who was going with
them, beat the poor children with their flicks,
and finally with their penknives cut r.ff their
heads. Tie poor murdered children were
four and fix years old, and no one of the
S little fiends who difpatchsd them, lam con
fident, was above 12.
Not the flighted expreflion of concern,
much left horror, appeared in the faces of
the populace, at these unaccountable villanies;
and the women even encouraged those infauc
furies.
Many, with courage, surely pitiable, al
most justifiable, gave themselves a death that
approached more terrible in the garb of this
aflaffiu. Hundreds placed themselves upon
three bridges, and when the mob appeared
threw themselves into tbe Seine.
On the aad of August, about one o’clock
-in tbe day-time, a fire broke out in the suburbs
of the toytrq of Stargardt in JPrufLa, and the
wind being vety high 4t increased so much
that, except the cfcfcroa, that all the town
and suburbs were reduced to ashes.
BOSTON, N 9 vernier 18.
On Friday last a very severe nortbeaft ftornj
commenced, and continued until Sunday
morning, attended, we fear, with much loft
to the mercantile iutereft. In this ftortn the
(hip Rovlney, ttf London, Captain Whytook,
which failed from this port on Tuefday left,
went on (horc at Merihfield, and was entirely
loft.
N E W- Y O R K, December
Sunday the 25th inftaot, being tbe ninth
anniversary of tbe evacuation of this oity
and country by the Brirtfh troops and thcic
mercenary allies, tbe fame was celebrated
on Monday evening'by the Tammany Society,
in their great Wigwam, with that good hu
mour and hilarity which is To confpicuoos in k
the font of freedom on all ifiiular occasions, {
when the following toasts were drank :
I. N twYork. May the Duke of Bninf
wick, King of Pruflii, and Emperor of Ger
many, be introduced to the National Conveu
tion of France, dancing a trio, to the tune
ofCa Ira, performed by tbe font of freedom. ,
a. Nw-H&mpfotrt. May she *i)ofce of ' ,
Brunswick m a rapid retreat w*nt time to
* greaft a flagfif.
3 Majfachuittts . May the friende of tyran
ny and oppreflion in every country expe
rience the fate of the B*iti(h in New Yj:lc
onthe2;th November, 1783.
4. Rhode IJlund Miy France experience
her freedom without the controul of defpotifoi.
5. Connefitcut . Tbe rights of fuffrage.
6 Nt'w-Jerjtr, May the sons of Tammau
ny ever commemorate the 25th November.
7. Pennsylvania • May the enemies to free
doora in France, headed by that trio of ty
rants, (if not Burgoyne’d) retreat after hav
tog reaped firailar laurels to tboft tbe Britifti
gained in America.
8. Delaware. May the fails of our com
merce be unfurl’d by none but Columbia ’•
Nautic sons.
9. Maryland . May difappointraent and de
feat atteod tbe invaders of the liberty of
France.
10. Virginia . Reformation to the antieat
dominion.
11. North Carolina . May the conduct of
the |aconins of France, after investigation, be
such as will convince the impartial world of
its propriety, and the hero of the two hemif
pheret be again received into the bosom of bia
country.
12. South Carolina . Subversion to mo
narchy.
I Georgia . May the enemies of Colum
bia have a fair wind oa quitting our cuaft,
and a foul one if returning.
Volunteerfrom the Chair • The brave health $
the slave liberty.
* When the British evacuated New York t
they were so extremely mortified at striking
the English ftsndard on the fart, that "in or
der to lave their tender feelings from farther
disagreeable fenfatione at the fight of the
American stripes, they greaied the dhgfhff,
hoping by that low stratagem to prevent theic
being displayed.
PHILADELPHIA, Dee. r.
It has been the policy of the wisest leg: (la
tnres to employ the paflioas of mankind in sup-
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