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PARIS, November 6.
The execution of the deputies has
not occasioned any disturbance of the
public tranquility. Some rumours
were indeed circulated, that Bnfiot
and the other deputies had a large
party of friends in Paris. The
rumours appear to have been entirely
void of foundation, for no fyfnptoms
were dilcovercd in the people favour
able to the deputies.
Sitting of the Jacobin f, November I.
Frellinet, in a letter from the army
of Italy, informed the society, that
the magazines received large anddailv
fuppliesof stores. He also acquainted
the society, that a sortie had been
made front Toulon, by 6oco men,
who advanced to the village of La
gard. After a vigorous contest the
English, he (aid, were defeated, with
the lois of the English general killed,
and his nephew made prisoner.
A letter from the army of the
Rhine, contained an account of an
engagement near Saverric, between
the French and Prussians, in which
the latter were defeated.
municipality of Paris. November I.
Chaurnet informed the municipality
that he had attended the tr.al of Bril
fot, from the commencement to the
couclufion, and that lie was convinced
of the perfidy of the deputies, who
contradicted the fecund day what
laid on the fir 11.
As soon as lentence Was pronounced
on them, one (Valaze) dabbed him
lell; the red rule up a;.d cried out —
N nous, nos am sdu courage. I hey
expected to find perfcuis prepared to
fe ure their retreat from the bar of
the revolutionary tribunal. Being
dilappointed m this expectation, they
threw affignats among the people ;
but the people immediately tore them
to pieces, and threw the fragments
on the ground with great indignation.
Again and {'appointed, they exclaimed—
Vive la republique.
From the London Gazttte.
Admiralty Office* Nov. t).
The ditpatches, of which the fol
lowing are copies and exttaft, were
this day received by Philip Stephens,
efiq. from the right honourable vice
admiral lord Hood, comm, uder in
chief of his majesty’s ships and vtficls
in the Mediterranean.
Pidl ry, Toulon Road ,
Olio be r 6, 1793.
Btr,
I have the honour to define you
will be pleafi and to offer to the lords
cOmmilfioners of the admiralty my sin
cere congratu atious on a very bril
liant and complete viclcry obtained
over the enemy the firft infiant, up.
on the heights of Pharon. The Bri
tish and Piedmontefe troops computed
. the column under lord Mulgrave,
and led the v/av ;■ but his lordship
gives full credit to the spirit and ex
ertion of the troops of every nation,
and is loud in the praifie of the Nea
politan*, who greatly diftingniftied
thentfelves. I transmit, for their
lotdfhips information, a duplicate of
the order his lordiJtip gave out next
morning, with an account of the kill
ed and wounded. Ihe aftion was
fliort, but hot. filie enemy had upon
the heights iron 1800 to 2000 men,
the flower of the eastern army, not a
fourth part of which, we are well in
formed, ever returned to head quar
ters 5 for what did not fall by the bul
let or bayonet, broke their necks in
tumbling headlong over the precipices
‘in their flight. In the inghc of the
ppth, a very important poll, above
fort Pharon, Wis Lrprized and ta
ken, the re-poflVifipg of which being
much coolequence, an attempt was
immediately refolved'upon ; and, in
•jrder to enable lord Mulgrave, ge
era! Gravina, and governor Elphin
‘one, with the re (petti ve columns
under their commands, to go out
.mb the greater force I undertook
the care of Toulon, and fort La TVlal
gue, and had a fuffi.cient number of
good men on fliore, within two hours
after receiving notice of the fad dii
alter.
I am fiorry to inform their lordships
of that gallant and able officer, gene
ral Gravina, being wounded in the
leg ; and although there is no doubt
(as Dr. Hamel's allures me, who has
the care of him) of his doing perfectly
well, he will probably be confined
fume time, as the ball is lodged be
tween two bones.
His majelly’s fliip Colefins return
ed to me, on the 24th, from Cag
liari, and brought 350 good troops ;
and I expert 800 more from Conti,
in three or four days. The second
division of Neapolitans, confiding of
2000, arrived 1 alt night, ahd the
lalt2ooo were to leave Naples yester
day- His Sicilian roajefty lias mani
ieltcd the greatest readiness and zeal
in fulfilling the treaty, and has con
fided his fillips and troops fiotely to my
di poi’al, which his maj fly made
known to me from under his own
hand.
1 have good reafion to expett ge
neral O’Hara will be here in a very
few days, with 12 or 1500 men
from Gibraltar ; he will be welcome
to us.
I have the honour to he, &c.
HOOD.
Philip Stevens, Efiq,
Bet ‘rn of the killed, wounded, and mif
fing, at the fa h'ng of Pharon redoubt,
the ijl of o Stoker, 1793.
British. 1 fierjeant, i private, kill
ed ; 1 captain, 1 subaltern, 3 cor
porals, 27 privates, wounded.
Spanish. i field officer, 3 privates,
w oumted.
Sardinian. 1 captain, 4 privates,
killed ; I field officer, 2 captains, 2
lubalterns, 2 fierjeants, 3 corpo
rals, 13 privates, wounded.
Neapolitan. 1 leijtant, 12 pri
vates, wounded.
Officers names killed.
Sardinian. Captain Le Chevalier
Fabar.
Officers names wounded.
Britlfl:. Captain O’Dogherty,
69th regiment ; lieutenant Carter of
the marines.
Spanish. Brigadier general admiral
Gra > ina.
Sardinian. Major and commandant
mooheiir Le Ciiavaiicr, captain mon
fit ur l)e Torricella ; lieutenant
tnoniieur L- Chevalier Cerutti.
A ij/ing. British. 2 1 rivates.
1 ri fners taken. 1 captain, 47 pri
vates.
ihe enemy’s lofis is supposed to
have been about 1500 killed, woun
ded, and taken priioners.
Ex'raft of a letter front vice admiral lord
Hood, to /nr.. Stephens, dated Pillory,
Tou ch road, Cilober 6, 1793.
1 beg you will be pleafied to’ make
known to the lords comniiflioners of
the admiralty, that upon receiving
a prefling request from general Paoli,
for ailifi.iuce, and informing me at the
fame time that even the appearance
of a few ships would very eflential y
fierve him, provided it (hou and not be
judged expedient to make an attack
bv them on any of rhe forts, I there
fore determined to fend three ships of
the line ami two frigates to him, and
as the fieafon was too far advanced for
a second rare to go on that coast, I
eftablifheci captain Linzee as a com
modore, appointed captain Woodley
his captain, and gave an order to lord
Amelius Beautleik to command the
Nemesis.
Alcide in the Gulph of St. Florence,
October 1, 1793.
My Lord,
I have the honour to inform your
lord fliip, that being joined by the Ar
dent on the 2 ill ult and it being deem
ed practicable ro make an attack by sea
upon tlie tower and redoubt of For
fliil (a post at the distance of two j
miles oppoiiie the'town of Florenze)
I immediately gave the necefiary or
ders tor the squadron to act whenevei
the wind was fulhciently fteacly sot
that purpose. On the 24th the Cou*
rageux joined, with provisions f 10m
Leghorn; and on the 27 f h> t^lt
launches of the lquadron tut out a
Veflel, which has since been converted
into a gun-boat. Having made fieve
rfel attempts (between the 2ilt and
30th ult.) to attack the above polts,
which were always fruftrated by the
wind dying away as loon as I drew
into the gulph ; experience having
pointed out the improbability of the
wind’s blowing ffeady in a gulph of
such depth, and fiurrounded by moun-
I tains o’ considerable height, it was
! deemed expedient to execute my in
-1 centions the following morning, by
warping the Ardent, during the
night, into a situation from whence flit
j could not only annoy the redoubt,
: but cover the approach of the fqnad
! ron* Captain Sutton placed his fillip
1 with as much judgment and precision
i as if the lervice had been executed
during the day, and at half pall three
A. M. opened a fire, which was
kept Up without inrermiffion till near
8 o’clock. By 4 o’clock the Alcide
was in a situation to open her battery
on the enemy’s works; but being too
dole to the Ardent, and a flaw of
wind filling the fails, endangered her
(hooting on cher cks, be: ore the could
be anchored with fiecunty. Ihe fails
were inftamly thrown aback, and ji e
boats were employ ed, towing, toex
tricate her from this difficulty. Cap
tain Mathews, obfiervmg the Alcide’s
situation, very gallantly flint under
her Item, to cover her, and occupied
the (iui.tnn I intended to anchor in.
As the situation of the Courageux
prevented the Alcide from opening
her fire, except at intervals, 1 order
ed captain Woodley to carry out
warps, to move us into a more eligi
ble situation, which lervice was ex
ecuted with the greatell alacrity, and
a spirited fire opened again on the
enemy’s polts.
Although a close and powerful
cannonade had been kept up by th
lquadron, till a quarter before eight,
no vilible itnpreliion was made : and
captain Sutton having reported the
Ardent w as much dam ged, and that,
in his opinion, there was no profpedt
of luccefis j and captain Woodley (who
had been on board the Courageux, ro
inquire into the Hate of thai ship) hav
ing brought a limilar report from cap
tain Mathews, who, as well as cap
tain Woodley and himfelf, agreed in
rhe above opinion, I judged it advis
able to make the ligual for dificontinu
ing the attack.
I he Alcide is not materially da
maged in her marts or rigging, but
the Ardent and Courageux have fuf
fered conliderably in both, from be
ing expoled to the raking fire of the
town ot Florenze, though every in
formation had allured me the dillance
of that place was too great for guns
to have any effect.
Our failure is not only to be im
puted to the falfe intelligence refpeft
ing the ranging of cannon from the
town of Florenze, but to the want of
ardour on the part of the Corsicans,
who had faithfully promised to florin
the polts on the land fide, though they
never made the finallell movement
to effeefl that lervice during the ac
tion. I inclofe a lilt of the killed and
wounded ; and of the artillery op
poled to the squadron, and am happy
in teftifying my warmest approbation
of the gallant manner in which every
officer and man employed on this oc
casion conducted hlmfie f. lam fiorry
to find mr. Shield;, firlt lieutenant of
the Courageux, is among the number
of killed, and have appointed mr. Pe
ter Hunt,a very deserving young man,
to aJt as junior lieutenant of that
(hip, till your lordthips’ pltjafure is
known.
I have the honour to he, See.
ROB. LINZEE.
DOVER, October 21.
A gentleman who land and tins d.v
from a ship from Havre die Grace. f„yi’
(hat Lyons has surrendered, and ti la |
t terrible maflacre of the royaliltj
took place.
LONDON, Oclober 22.
The whole power of the French
government is now veiled in the com
mittee of public welfare ; the follow
ing is the fubflance of a decree pafl’ed
on this head on the 1 ith infiant :
c The provdionary government of
the republic is revolutionary until
peace is concluded. The executive
council, the generals, and, in ffiurr,
all the conft tutsd authorities are
placed under the orders of the com
mittee of pub ic welfare. Nomeafure
whatever can be undertaken without
their authority. The revolutionary
laws shall be executed without any,
delay. On the firft of M rch next,
Paris shall be provisioned for one year.
The revolutionary army shall be im
mediately p ! aced in a fiate of activity
under the orders of this comm ttee.
In every town where infi rrection is
vifihle, a garrifnn shall be lent into it ]
at the expcifice of the town, until peace
is concluded,
‘ A tribunal of infnettion. shall
formed, to examine the accounts of
thole who have had any (bare in the
alia rs ot the repub ic lince 1 7 89. ’
Late lafi night lord George Con
way, b other to the earl of Yarmouth,
arrived at Whitehall with the im
portant and pleasing intelligence, that
on Sunday the 13th infi. the French
fines, extending between Weiffem
bourg and Lauterbourg, had been at
fatked by the Andrians under general
Af tinnier, who had completely fiuc
ceeded in forcing them, and driving
the French from them with great
daughter, and lofis of baggage and ar
tillery.
The French fled in all direttiom,
and the pursuit was not over when
lord George Conway came away;
but the allied army wo e then liYcom
plete poffefii m of the camp and lines i
it Weillembourg.
o
Adv,ces, we learn, are received in
town, of Clairfait’s army having beta
obliged to repafs the Sambre with
considerable lof's, and that the siege
of Maubeuge had in consequence been
raded. ’1 he duke of York, we un
derstand, immediately marched t®
join the prince of Saxe Cobcurg.
I fie last advices from Toulon are
dated the 30th, and are highly fiatis
fattory. t our thousand Neapolitans
hid arrived ; the Piedmontefe and
Sardinians were daily expected ; these
would be of the greatest fiervice, as
thereby the garrison would bs strong
enough ro make forties.
Corsica has throughout declared a
gainfi the convention.
A part of lord Hood’s squadron has
taken, off Genoa, the Modefte, a
French frigate, which had failed out
of that port for the purpole of making
prizes.
The royalists-that have evacuated
Lyons have marched direttly for Tou
lon. By the passage of the Rhone,
they may reach that garrison in a
very few days, as they might go by
water to a place filuated to the south
ward of Avignon, and distant only a
tew miles from Toulon.
Ihe number of the royalifis who
left Lyons, amounted to 30,000;
they carried off with them all their
artillery, as was admitted in the na
tional convention ; and there is little
doubt but that they have been able to
take in rhe rear the republican army
under Carteau, which certainly could
not fund beiore luch fupenor num
bers.
Oflobtr 28.
hen the last advices came aw-ay
from the prince of Saxe-Cobourg’s
armv, great exertions W’ere making
to repair the works of Otiefnoy,
which were in luch a battered state