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VIENNA, September 4.
The duke of Polignac, i t is said, has
presented a memorial to our court,
in the najjne of Monsieur, protesting
against: the taking pofleflron of Valen
ciennes in the name of the emperor ;
and demanding that Monsieur should
be permitted to make a kind of tri
umphal entry into the place, as the
regent of its lawful sovereign. This
Hep of Polignac, is laid to be by no
means approved of by the court of
Vienna.
FONTENAI-L£-PEUPLE,Sept 9.
From the representatives of the
people—The affair of Chantonay has
been much less important than was
at firlt imagined. We have not loft
above 200 men in killed and wounded.
The eriemy’slofs was much more con
siderable. The army is rallied and
burns with a delire to retrieve the
idles they have sustained. Thischeck
is to be attributed to Tuncq, who
abandoned his poll under the pretext
•of a wound. The commiffoners from
the lection of French Guards write,
that a village occupied by the rebels
was burpt. The women and children
have been taken care ofi
SAUMUR, September to.
From Eourbotte, representative of
the people—This warcannot lalt much
longer. All is in motion here ; all
march ; imtnenfe legions are going
off. The ci-devant marquis of Maille
has been arrelted, with his Wile and
children*
POTIER, September 12.
• From the reprel’entaiives of the
people—The city lias been purged of
all aristocrats. The riling produces
innumerable loldiers. Tile total ex
ceeds’ 1513,000 men. Soon there will
be no more in Vendee.
AFiRAS, September 12.
Fiom the representatives of the
people—The garrilon of Cainbrai, in
a sortie, ventured too far, and has
been levcrely handled. Cambrai needs
a reinforcement for its garrilon. It
appears they attacked improperly. To
alleviate the ibrrow this intelligence
will caule, we will mention that we
learn the enemy have been driven Iroin
Pont-a-Marque and Menin*
LILLE, September 13.
From the representatives of the
people—ls the new recruits arrive
jfoon, the campaign is won. One of
our columns has got poireilion of Po”
peringue. The Austrians are guilty
of the greatest cruelties. They fired
with grape fliot upon a trumpet fenl
to futnmon Ypres to liirrender. They
maffiicred a child who cried u Vive
la republique i”
DEFEAT OF THE DUTCH.
General Be res to the prefuient of the nati
onal convention . •
Head-quarters , Alenin, Sept. 13.
. {< I announce to you, citizen pre
jvdent, a viftory obtained this day by
the troops of the republic. We have
aken Menin, Warwick, and the dif
ferent passes of the Lys, which were
Intended by the Dutch army, and
(formidable entrenchments.
General Hedonville carried War
wick; I took Menin by our ulual
[mode of attack, the bayonet. In the
defeat of Menin, the enemy aban
doned about forty pieces of cannon.—
■They have fled in great disorder to-
Ivards Bruges and Courtrai.
The second battalion of Paris,
iA filtered the molt, deserves also
J ybeft eulogium ; the fourth Ba
-7 f ‘ ‘ battalion, the folJiers lately
■L,”"*.*■ the Rhine, indeed all the troops
r ‘therepublic, have (hewn themselves
* r *hy of their caul’s.
<l This triumph has been tarniffied
at Menin by pillage. I was obliged to
be severe to put a flop to it. I wait
here the orders of the commander in
chief, as to future operations.
“ The representative of the people,
Chales, was wounded at Warwick, at
the head of general Duroefnil’s co
lumn. Citizen Lavaffeur was also
present on this glorious day. Their
presence animated the courage of out
soldiers.
“ I hope the convention will learn
with pleasure the news of this viftory,
which, with that of Dunkirk, appears
to decide the fate of the campaign.
BERES.
P. S. We have made 1200 prison
ers at Menin, apd among them seve
ral general officers.
PARIS, September 25-
Letter from citizen Andre Dumont,
comtniflioner of the department of
the Somme, dated Amiensj Sep
tember 20.
u I write you often ; but if I wrote
an hundred times a day, I ftiould al”
ways announce to you feme agreeable
information. Having spread my net
into the Boulertois, I have caught a
member of the English parliament—
the brother-in-law of the duke of
Cumberland—a page of the queen—
foine knights of St. Louis—a marlhal
of camp—a number of English gentle
men—some priests, See. all are in my
bagi Do order me a cage immediately,
fufficient for about lix dozen of these
pretty birds, which I lliall fend you*
under a good el’cort. The enclol’ed
billet will acquaint the prelident of a
conlulerable deposit of gold and silver-
I am going to fiuilli another expedition,
which I have entrusted to an intimate
friend of mine, who I am sure will
be as fuccefsful as I have been.”
Extraft of a letter frornToulon, dated
September 14.
* f Last Thurfftay arrived here 300
Spanilh priioners, taken by the army
of general Dagobert—there are a
mong them twelve officers, one of
whom is a colonel. By them we
learn, that they were in the army of
general Ricardos, and that after the
repeated checks which the Spaniards
had met with iince their entrance on
the French territories, there was no
doubt but they would be obliged to
keep themselves on the def'enlive, as
they were in great want of proviliojisi
Thete priioners are treated with the
utmort humanity, and we hope loon
to make ot them excellent convertsfor
liberty, and to prove to them, that
men lighting for the rights of man,
know better how to practice theChrif
tian virtues, than thole deceitful priests
who fanaticife them.”
Another letter from the fame place,
to the general of the national guards-,
announces that general Dagobert has
retaken Ville-Franca and Allette, and
has drubbed the Spaniards (b severely,
that they dare not Ihew themselves
on the plains of Perpignan, to com
mit their ulual depredations.
SEPI'EMBtR 27.
Last night, it is said, general Hou
chard arrived at Paris, and was con
duffed to the Abbaye,
DUKE OF YORK’S ARMY.
Citnp at Menin , Sept . 19.
For the two last days and nights we
have been exposed to an incessant rain,
which we fear may have bad effects,
as many of the regiments are unco
vered, and those that have a fufficient
number of tents, are entirely unpro
vided with straw to lie upon.
The horles have fuffered much.—
For two or three days after the re
treat, they were almost entirely with
out forage $ and molt of their backs
are galled by the constant pressure of
the laddie, as sometimes the troops
have been obliged to remain-mounted,
not only in the day time, but during
the whole night*
Our flek and wounded are sent to
Bruges, a very pleasant and healthy
town, where we hope the Aioft of
them will recover. Many of the poor
fellows, who were not dangerously
wounded, aftually perilhed on the
road for want of alliftance. The sur
geons did their duty to the best of their
power : but could not attend to eveiy
individual, when the waggons con
taining the wounded formed a line of
at lealt two miles ; there was one loss
which we mult regret, because that it
might have been avoided. This was
a waggon of lick men, left by lome
accident on the bands near Nieuport,
between high and low water mark—
On the flood making, all thole who
could not move were drowned.
Os the wounded there are not quite
two hundred English. The rest are
chiefly Hanoverians, who formed the
army of observation, and bore the
brunt of all the battles. There are
now in Nieuport four Hanoverian re
giments, which coniifted of near 1000
men each, and now the four do not
make more than 700. There is in
one of them an officer who has to la”
ment the lots of three brothers in the
last engagement.
We have been told by the prison
ers, that when they attacked the Ha
noverians, they had three reliefs ;
these bodies were brought successively
to the charge. This accounts for their
superiority, and for the carnage. The
dead lay in such heaps, that they were
obliged sometimes to flop and move
the bodies, to let the columns pass.
—The French at firft took general
Frey tag’s army for Englilh, because
they wore red. The chief diftinffion
conlifts in the yellow sashes of the
officers, ours being crimson.
We are in constant expeffation of
another fight. Our line extends from
hence to within a short distance of
Fumes, which is occupied by the
trench. The advanced poll is held
by the legion of French emigrants,
which behaved very well, and had
about 80 men killed in the late en
gagement.
It is itiil thought that our generals
will not give up their delign upon
Dunkirk. What would render the
acquisition of Dunkirk particularly de
lirable is, that it would be a secure
arid capacious winter quarters for
our troops. There are barracks in
it that would contain the whole of
the duke’s army—atleaft all the Brit
ilh, and this place, we underitood,
was to be our own.
Some blame the navy, and others
the ordnance, for not being ready to
co-operate with us at the stipulated
time ; but after all the delays, we
should have taken the place, if the
army of oblervation had been strong
enough to repel Houchard.
Moft of the attacks made on the
several points last week by the French
were falfe ones, to cover the real at
tacks against the duke of York’s army,
and the corps under the prince of
Orange. These they thought moft
vulnerable ; and in both they were
too fuccelsful. I know not what ac
count the Dutch will publish of their
affairs on the 10th and the succeeding
days ; but of this lam assured, that
their army is annihilated for the re
mainder of the campaign. The few
of their officers and men that are to be
found, are destitute of almost every
thing. The remnant that was saved,
was carried into Ghent.
Among their losses was that of the
caiffe militaire, or military chest, with
a treasure that must have been very
acceptable to the fans culottes. Prince
Waldeck is certainly taken prisoner,
and the hereditary prince of Orange
is milling.
The engagement that was expeffed
has not yet taken place, nor has any
news arrived fmee yesterday of the
combined army. The duke of York
has been reinforced by five regiments
of foot. Three more are on their
palfage.
Add rtfs of tic Senate (fj. S.) to the PrefJe,,t,
Accept, fir, the thanks Os the fen ate, J
for your speech delivered to both 1
houses of congress at the opening 0 f I
the session. Your re-eleffion to the j
chief magistracy of the United States, j
gives 11s lincere pleasure. We confi. ]
der it as an event every way propiti- 1
ous to the happiness of our couury, I
and your compliance with the call as I
a freih instance of thepatriotifin which I
has so repeatedly led you to lacritice j
private inclination to the public good. I
In the unanimity which a second time I
marks this important national aft we 1
trace with particular fatisfaftion, be. |
sides the diltinguilhed tribute paid to 1
the virtues and abilities which it re* 1
cognifes, another proof ol that just 1
dilcernment, and constancy of senti
ments and views, which have hither,
to characterized the citizens oi the
United States.
As the European powers with whom I
the United States have the moft ex
tensive relations were involved in war,
in which we had taken no part, it
teemed necessary that the dilpofitioa
of the nation for peace should be pro
mulgated to the world, as well for
the purpose of admonilhing our citi
zens of the confequenees of a contra
band trade, and of afts hostile to any
of the beliigerant parties, as to obtain,
by a declaration of the existing legal
state of things, an ealier admission of
our right to the immunities of our litu
arion ; we therefore contemplate with
pleasure the proclamation by you iiTu.
ed, and give it our hearty approbation.
We deemed it a measure well timed
and wife, manifefting a watchful foli.
citude for the welfare of the nation,
and calculated to promote it. The
several important matters presented
t 6 our conlideration will in the course
of the session engage all the attention
to which they are refpeftively en
titled ; and as the public happiness
will be the foie guide of our delibera
tions we are perfeftly allured of re*
ceiving your ftrenuoUs and moft zeal
ous co-operation.
at is!ml'hie.
Gf.N tlemen,
The pleasure expressed by the senate
on my re-eleffion to the station which
I fill, commands my lincere and warm
est acknowledgments. If this be an
event which prorhifes the finallcft ad
dition to the happiness of ourcountry,
as it is my duty, so lliall it be my study
to realise the expeffation.
The decided approbation which the
proclamation now receives from your
house, by completing the proof that
this measure is conlidered as manifeft-,
ing a vigilant attention to the welfare
of the United States brings with it a
peculiar gratification to my mind.
The other important fubjefts which
have been communicated to you will I
am confident receive a due difeuffion,
and the result will I trust prove for
tunate to the United States.
G. WASHINGTON.
The President's reply to the House of Reprefntuli-ue
Gentlemen,
I lliall not affect to conceal the
cordial fatisfaftion which I derive from
the address of the house of reprelenta
tives. Whatever those services may
be which you have fanftioned by your
favour, it is a fufficient reward that
they have been accepted as they were
meant. For the fulfilment of your
anticipations of the future I can give
no other aifurance than that the mo
tives which you approve ffiall con
tinue unchanged.
It is truly gratifying to me to learn
that the proclamation has been con
lidered as a seasonable guard against
the interruption of the public peace.
Nor can I doubt that the fubjefts
which I have recommended to your
attention, as depending on legislative 1
provilion, will receive a dilculliou
luited to their importance. With
every reason then it may be expected
that your deliberations, under the
divine blessing, will be matured to the
honor and happiness of the United-
States. G. WASHINGTON.