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NEW-YORK, January 17.
Exprcfs dispatched from citizen Genet, at
J'htladdphia, to citizen Hautvicre .
y l| k e of A oik is taken, with
his w hole army. Toulon is retaken,
W'itli every ship which was in the liar
hour. All this, my dear feliow-citi
?.en, has been announced to the con
gress, not officially, but as certain,
i he congress could not (lay in their
fitting. The whole people in Phila
delphia are in the greatest joy, and
compliments and habitations are com
ing in to me from every part. It ap
pears to be certain, that this news
was brought iri by the vellel lent to
France by the president. Let all our
friends know this news—and let us
cry out together, Vive fa Ve/üb/faue.
(Signed) GENE i‘.
(Copy) Haut\ if,re, cunful.
“January 22.
A letter from Baltimore, dated the
16 h imlant, fay*, “ An American
vet Tel has arrived here from Cadiz.
She fell in with ari English 74, in a
diftiefled condition. 1 lie captain of
this (hip informed the American, that
there had been a severe engagement
between tlie two fleets, and that the
■Fnglifh, a'ter being much injured,
pu t into i or bay.”
A letter from Birmingham, dated
October 7, lays, “ Ihe report ot a
war with America ft, 11 circulates here,
and makes a difugpeeable iniprctlion
on the minds of the | übbt ; for the
dtflrefs the War with France has al
ready produced, begins to make it
unpopular. she poor of this town
are more and more dill refit and $ of this
yon may judge, when 1 mention to
you, that the out-pay at the poor
hou e was for the months of. jur.e,
July, a,| d Angull, 1a it year, 120).
p> 1 uetk ; when the fame months,
tlii- year, there has bum paid 2301.
P cr week. Emigrations to America
would Ja*lv -.k< U tiu* expence
of the paflage could he ealily railed.
1 o the above ft)in ot 2301. per week,
or 1 if ,690!.. per annum, may be added
many o her expences, as v ell as the
ftipport of nearly one thouland per
lons in the poor-house.”
PHILADELPHIA, January 10.
Extract of a lett> r from a gentleman
in 1 .ondun, to his friend in this city,
dated 24111 October, 1 793*
c Citizen and frend,
‘ The french have retaken that
very important city, Lyons, which
gives them poll llion ot the river
Rhone, w hich enables them to trans
port their armies 300 miles hy water.
Ihe national convention has lince,
from policy, palled sundry deciees
respecting Lyons, w hich are as fob
lows : Ihe town fhali he dc firoyed,
ad the name of Lyons ilia 11 be ef
faced from the lift-, of the towns of
the republic. Ihe property of the
rich inhabitants lliall be confiscated
for the benefit of the republic'. And,
upon its ruins, find! be railed a column,
to atteil to posterity, the crimes and
punishment of the royalists of that
city, with this infeription :
• Lyon 1 warred again/} liberty —
Ly ons—is ns mor :.
The eighteenth dry of the fi jl month,
Second yea,- of the republic,
One and indivjilie.’
‘ Ihe French in Flanders have
obliged the combined armies under
the command of prince Cobourg and
general Clairfayr, to raise the liege of
Matibeuge, and recroft the river Sam
bre. ‘The army tin er Cobourg was
of 80,000 men, of whom, it is laid,
he only 101 l 3000 men in his retreat :
the number ot C airfayt’s army is not
exactly known, but it is luppofed
between 30 and 40,000 men, of
which lie loft a much more confklera
biO number than Cobourg* This re
treat... ‘bought to be a greater dil’ad
.vantage to e combined armies than
theirs from Dunkirk. But the French,
in ronfequence of withdrawing a num
ber of their belt men from the army
against the king of Profits, h..ve had
the lines of W eiflenib rg forced, and
Jolt 30 pieces of cannon; but the
situation of the country is futh, that
it is thought the armies mult with
draw thentfelves in winter.
‘ ft he national convention havepafT
ed lundry decrees against England
alone, in conlequence, it is Paid, of
the English who took Toulon, put
ting to death Beauvis Precieu, the re
presentative of the people, who was
in the town when it funendered ; they
are about to the following purport:
all the subjects of the king of Great-
Britain (children excepted) shall be
immediately (the 6th inst.) arrested,
and seals put upon their papers, and
the property of thole lubjeds of
Great-Britain, who are absent, fiiali
be seized and confilcated for the bene
fit of the republic.
‘ It is with regret that I have to
lay, the queen of France is no more ;
fhc luflered under the axe of the
guillotine on Wednesday, the i6th
inlfant, at ter having been condemned
the preceding day by the revolution
ary tribunal, as guilty of having been
acceflary to, and having co operated
againlt the liberties of France.’
Extract of a letter from Nantz, dated
16th of October, 1793, to captain
Molinary, Philadelpma.
‘ 1 cannot lend you any news more
agreeable or more glorious chart that
tlie republic is laved, notwithftand
iug the iulamuus treasons that daily
come to light. Cuftlue fufFered I aft
month, and many generals who were
ot his plot, have shared his fate, but
no matter, all is well, ca ira .
‘ England has loft 10,000 men be
fore Dm kit k, and Spain has loft her
three camps near Perpignan. We
are in Catalonia. T heking of Savoy
lias loft all his dominions, except Pied .
tnonr, where he is lo cloudy hemmed
HI. mat he caiiuoi escape ; his trcalorc,
cannon, provuiuns and aimnumt ou
have all fallen into our hands. Ly ns
is reduced to allies ; 10,000 emi
grants were there put to the fvvoid,
atter having I’ullaintd a liege of two
rnou hs. Ali that remains to be lub
dued is the devoted tow nos Toulon,
which has been betrayed to the Eng
lilh, and which we a e now closely
besieging with an army of 72 OCO
men. 1 As tor the lawless banditti of
this cou try, who were so infignifi
cant when you left this, they are
now be, ome an object of I -nous
concern* In June last, 200.000 of
them attacked us at all the points of
the city, but were repulled with con
liderable loss : they have lince re
palled th ■ Loire. For theft two
months 1 Bo,oco men of the republi
can troops have been in pursuit of
thele inlurgents.
4 Not a clay pafies but they attack
them, and it is probable that, before
the end of this month, they will be
utterly deltroyed. AH the navy and
all the merchantmen are calied into
achnl fervicc. Preparations atetnak
ing for a delcent on England, and it i
thought that the troops here, conlift
ing of 180,000 men, are intended for
that expedition. Naples arc! tin
duke of Tnfcany have just declared
war against us. No matter ; we are
driving all before us. The Austrians,
Pritflians, Heflians and Dutch, can
hold out no longer.
4 Afre Hi levy ot 430,000 men has
lately been compleated, all well armed
and equipped ; apart of them are al
ready on the frontiers, and the rest
are loon to follow. Another levy is
now railing of the like number;
40,000 cavalry are already enrolled,
and on iheir march for the frontiers.
The fir ft levy was cotnpofed of men
of every rank without diltimfron, from
the age of 18 to 25, and the oth r
levy, which is alrnoft completed, is to
be composed of men from the age of
25 to 45. Every young man and
widower without children is obliged
to march. Ail irtenfi sos iron and
all bells are carried to the national
founderies. Our calendar is reform
ed. Men of improved underftaricl
ings have introduced more order into
it, and made it more worthy of a free
people. We have expelled from it ad
the faints, ail the monuments ol igno
rance and fanaticism which have done
so much tniklvef, and which are the
causes of our present bufferings. In -
stead of those vile mifereant who owe
their cannonization to ihtir sluggish
life and their imbecility, we have iub
flituted the names of thole heroes
who have done honour to human na
ture in ancient times, and who are
now our models. Ihe months of 30
days, the weeks of 10, and at the
end of each week a day is conlecrated
to repole, and to the celebration of
the epoch of our immortal revoUnion.
Four hundred merchants and flock
jobbers have been executed at Mar
leilles. ft his example has made that
town and Bourdeaux return to the
principles ot our revolution. Com
mercial anftocracy attem, ted to luc
ceed the aristocracy of the nobles and
the priesthood, bu. this the interior
departments did not reiilh. We fli.ili
be free, nd we Iliad leave topcfteriiy
either a dreadful catastrophe to be
wail, or grand examples for their
imitation.’
Extraft of a U tter, dated Havre, Oc
tober 8, 1793, received hy the brig
G orge, arrived at Baltimore.
* Be cautious how you act in the
United States. It is the plan of the
combined delpots to permit no neu
trality, and to drag every power into
the present contcft. Sweden and
Denmark have been threatened if they
do not engage on their Ade, and they
may next turn their views to Ame-
rica.
4 No bale means are neglecflcd to
gain the public mind, ft here has
been much corruption m the south j
b it the republic now riies in a body,
determined to armUiilate tuole con
lpir.itors. Priests and nobles have
done a 1 10 check the progreis of our
revolution, but we ilia 11 fur mount
every difficulty.
4 We begin to get rid of traitors ;
they are treated with leveritv. Cuf
tme’s head, and that of many others
has fallen. A decree has just palled,
excluding all ci-devant nobles from
O
civil and mi itary employments ; by
these means we expect to avoid
treachery.
4 We have a committee of public
! fafery here that watches over the
conduct of every individual. Four
suspected persons have keen put under
am ft. ft his silences many of our
coffee lioufes, w hich employed every
effort to combat liberty.
4 Our lucceffes against the com
bined powers t|nd Vendee rebels in
duce us to think that we shall have a
peace this winter. Lyons and Tou
lon yet hold out ; but sixty thousand
men be liege each plate. Toulon will
he immediately bombarded unless a
lurrender loon takes place.
* All suspected perl'ons are order
ed to be arrested and to be kept im
prif ‘ned. Defpreminel and his w ife
are among, the number. A decree is
pa fled fixing the price of all necef
laries as in I 790.
4 i hree of our generals have been
lately impeached ; if one of them,
Hour hard, had done his duty, the
English and Dutch would have been
cut to pieces before Dunkirk. We
hope that the defeat of those armies
will have an excellent effeift in Eng
land, where the war is already popu
lar.
4 Our volunteers run on the enemy
in spite ot the treachery of their
officers. Had it not been for the
treachery of our generals, we should
have gone to Btrlin and Vienna to
make peace.
4 The Spaniards have been com
plcutly beaten near Perpignan, where
they loft alyiioft all their
proviiions, tents, and artillery j )e ’
(ides tome thouiands killed, wounded
and prisoners.
4 All our young men, between th;
age of 18 and 25, are on the frontier.-
We have here 22 ships of war, and
our merchantmen in every channel
port are engaged hy the government.
4 We are about building a number
of gun boats, of three 24 pounders
each- A defeent on England is talked
of. One hundred thousand men’, it is
f id, are destined for this expedition.
I am convinced that fometr.ing vert
decisive will take place before loim.
4 Eighty more deputies to the na
tional convention have been lately ar
rested, of which number are Faurr
and Bailleul. ft hey are accuftd of
wishing the reftovation of monarchy
in the person of Louis XVII. Those
concerned in tfte disturbances of
Lyons, Toulon and Vendee, ars
immediately to be tried.
4 Ten American veflels from Ham
burgh, laden with corn arc arrived
here.
4 P. S. We receive every day
favourable news from Ve; dee, and
J we expeeft that 15 days hence not a
rebel will remain, ft he English by
their gold have cut out much work
for us : hut the e fit els of their bale
bribery is no longer felt; the rep;;: .
lie one and indivilible wid be eitub
liihed.’
January 18.
By captain Culverly, who com*
manded the advice boat from France,
with dispatches f< r the prclident, we
hear that every thing in France was,
at the date of his departure, Novem
her iff, going on well for the re iub
lic—he was present at ;he execution
of the queen, which was conducted
with the utmost order, an immense
body of troops lining all the ft reels,
in w hich cannon were a so ul-inted,
and the general shouts of ‘ Vvs -a
nation refounding in every quarter
the defeat of. Cow..urg?t MuuUtage
had beer, announced < ificiady tovtvs
convention—the rebels in Vendee
were put to route—-at Havre gri3t
armaments by land and water were
preparing, luppoicd for an iavaiion
of Eng and.
News from other quarters announce
that Conde, Valenciennes, Ypreq
Furnes, and Malines, have all been
taken pofleflion of by the French
army, and the duke of Yorktaku
prii'oner, with 600 men, who la: 1
down iheir arms, anti were conducted
to L.fle—that Oftend being threaten
ed, the English forces destined for
Weft India service were all ordered
for its relief—that the army in La
Y r endee, having accomplished the.r
objetft of reducing the iniurgents, had
marched to Toulon, to join the forces
besieging that port —that new levies
were railing in ail parts of France—
aflignats palling equal to specie, under
pain of death if higher prices were
demanded in one currency than the
other.
BALTIMORE, January 13.
Y efterday arrived at this port the
fiiip Sally, captain Gr'ffith, for Air*
fterdam, which place she left the Bth
of November last. By this veliel
we learn that the French had com
pelled the duke of York to raise the
of Dunkirk a second time ; that
they had like wile forced him to eva
cuate Oftend, in a very precipitate
manner, where they found a large’
quantity of cannon, ammunition,
together with the duke’s military
chclf ; that the duke embarked f ol>
England ; that the French have again
entered the Anftrian Netherlands*
penetrated as farasMons, and were
rapidly over running that country-
Captain Griffith, in lat. 24. 3°;
lon. 29. fp ke the fiiip Joseph, of
Portland, Maflachufetts, from Lisbon,
bound to CharlcAon. ft he Joseph,
uc was informed by the vv#