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the .flank of the enemy, ' threw them
into the greatefl dilorder.
During the retreat of the Duke’s
army, he ordered all the flat-bottom
ed boats which were on their way to
his army with an immense
quantity of powder, bombs and other
warlike (lores) to be emptied and
their contents thrown into the canal.
The French gun-boats, which have
always kept the road (the English
gun-boats not being able to approach
nearer than Newport) by a well di
rected and inceliant fire, did consi
derable execution as long as the ene
my made a stand. The dege of Dun
kirk may therefore be considered as
fairly raised, and that his Royal
H i gnnefs is gone to seek winter
quarters elsewhere.
In contrail w ith the above intelli
gence, through the fame channel,
tne taking of Toulon by the English
fleet is confirmed, it appears that the
number of aristocrats in that place
took this cceafion to unmalk them
selves, and through their machinati
ons & intrigue, the city was delivered
'up conditionally to the English, who
took poffeflion of it and all its im
mense magazines (guaranteed by his
Britannic Majefly) in the name and
behalf of Louis XVII.
The following intelligence is translated
from the Hamburgh Gazette, of the
2 1 st September .
Letters from the Hague, dated
17th September, informs us, that
on the i3thinftant, the Dutch Polls
at Werwyk and Haln.yn, were at
tacked by about 60,000 French
troops, and that after an obilinate
battle the Dutch were defeated and
driven from those places; that Prince
Frederick of Orange defended the
polls at Werwyk, and was W’ounded
in the arm ; he arrived here byway
of Siuis it Flanders. The Dutch
retreated towards Deynfe and Roul
lelaar; they had about two thousand
killed and wounded. General Beau
lieu came too late, and did not de
fend the bridge at Werwyk as he
ought to have done, having let the
French pass over, by which means
the column under the Prince of
Orange was surrounded, and all
communication was cut olf between
him and the hereditary prince ; they
were obliged to fight their way thro’
the enemy, which occafr&ied the
great loss of the Dutch troops.
General Beaulieu has since taken poll
between Menin and Coutray, and
the Dutch are assembling near Ghent.
General Freytag on hearing of this
defeat, retreated with the Hanove
rians. Chriflian, Prince of Hefle
Darmfladt, and General Van War
tenfleben, w r ere wounded. Lieu
tenant-Colonel Van Tengnagel, of
the grenadiers, was killed.
Ext raft of a letter from Os end, dated
2if September , by Capt. Weeks.
The Duke of York appeared
before Dunkirk on the Bth inst. with
about 50,000 men. The Sans Cu
lottes, well clad y after an hearty din
ner, sallied forth, and a moil terri
ble engagement took place. The
next day the French made a second
attack with great success, and obli
ged hisHoyal Highness to move off
with a quick Hep, leaving thousands
on the field; 52 pieces of cannon
—all the tents, baggage, See. with
an immense quantity of ammunition*
The young General is gone to Me
nin, and I suppose intends putting
himfelf under the tuition of Prince
Cobourg, to be drilled into prudence
and good conduit.”
Since our last, near 100 fail of
vessels have arrived in this port from
different places. Upwards of 5000
of the inhabitants have returned from
the country: the if reefs are lively,
and birfinefs begins to resume its for
mer appearance. Yefferday the mar
kets were well supplied, and provi
sions cheap*
BALTIMORE, Nov. 13
A letter (the date of which we
have not learnt) from a gentleman
in Wilmington, Delaware, to his
friend in this town, fays, that a
Captain of a vessel had arrived there
from Offend, who informs, that
Prince Cobourg’s. army was com
pletely defeated by the French, and
that General with 15000 of his men;
killed in the action—The Captain
fays he fawthe Prince’s funeral, but
gives no information where or when
the battle was fought.
The Delaware gazette, of the 9th
inffant, adds, that in the above en
gagement, the Duke of York was
taken pri loner, and refcuect by the
bravery of the Britifli guards.
17. We are informed, by a gentle
man from the Wefterncountry, who
arrived in this town on Saturday laif,
that as Wayne’s arrr* was
on its march, near Fort jefferfoil, the
ammunition an! baggage waggons,
under an elcort confiding of a lieu
tenant and l'eventeen men, being
t about fifteen miles in the rear, were
suddenly attacked by a party of In
dians, who killed the lieutenant,
with fix of his men, and took thir
teen of the waggons—-that the re
mainder of the men were miffing,
supposed to have been carried off'
priloners by the lavages.
NORFOL K, Nov. 16.
Captain Homer ipoke at lea the
fl'iip Henrietta, Capt. Weeks bound
to Philadelphia, who left Oitend
the 24th September; and informed
him, that the lols of the combined
army at the railing of the liege of
Dunkirk, amounted to between 8&
10,000 men ; that they were mo
mently expecting the French at Oil
end, from which place the Englilh
were shipping off their ffores ; that
the hereditary Prince of Grange lay
mortally wounded at Bruges; and
three regiments, that actually §
barked for- the Weil-lndies,* W er I
ordered for the continent.
PETERSBURG, Nov. 22 . I
Extract of a letter from Baltimore, I
dated November 7.
“ Since my lafl letter I have re*
ceived advice, by a vessel which left i
Nichola Mole, in October, and on
the passage touched New-Provi- 1
dence, that 10,000 British troops
had arrived at the Island of Jamah 1
ca, wkhfome ships of war, which
when joined to those of Admiral
Gardner, will encreafe his squadron fl
to 12 fail of the line. You may re
ly on the certainty of this intellb
gence, the particulars of which I
received from a British officer whom
I saw on his arrival at Providence, I
whither he came to aneunce the ar- I
rival of these forces.’*
WINCHESTER, Nov. 1 u I
A report circulated lafl week, said
to have been brought by some per
sons „ arrived from Kentucky, that
the army under General Wayne had
engaged the Indians, flaih 1100
of them, and that 800 of the Arne- ,
ricans fell. “ The Kentucky Gazet
tes to the 1 qth of Odtober* received
by Saturday's mail, are entirely fi
lentwith refpeit to the movements
of the army; we may therefore pro
nounce the report to be a there fa
brication.
Lift of all the Burials in the several grave-yards of
the city and liberties of Philadelphia, as taken
from the several books kept by Clergymen,
Sextons, &c. from August ill to November 9th,
’proteflant C Chnft Church „j
Epifcopaliana. | St! Paul” “°o
First 73
1 Second 128
Prefbyteriansi f Third 107
I Scotch 1 1
*■ Seceders 33
f St. Mary’s 251
Roman Catholics r German part ditto 30
£ Trinity 54.
Friends 373
Free Quakers returned in gross 39
German 5 6 f
l Calyimfts 261
Moravians < 13
Swedes ’75
Baptists returned in gross 5 o
Methodists do. ' 32
Univerfalifts ' ' z
Jews 2
Kenlington 169
Potter’s field, including the new ground 1334
‘Total 4031
Extraft of a letter from an eminent commercial 1
establishment at Oitend, to his friend in Phila
delphia, dated 2ift September, 1793.
“ We have been made very uneasy this eight
days past, the French having attacked the Englilh
the 9th instant, who were engaged in the siege of
Dunkirk. The English were totally routed and
left So pieces of cannon, and the greatest part of
the baggage and provisions, and fled with great
, recipiiation and disorder, plundered the different
towns and villages they palled through. The
Dutch on the other fide, have been equally thrown
in disorder, and pursued as far as between Alloft
and Ghent. The French entered Menin and to
tally plundered it—they are still at Furnes, where
they are unloading the Engliili store-houses.
In iad my dear fir, it has been a total rout, almost
in itseiTeft without example—happily the French
confined themselves to the plunder of Menin and
Furnes, for had they come on here, not much
would have been left for them to do.”
Printed by JOHN E. SMITH.