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j NATIONAL CONVENTION.
October 24.
- A deputation of the manufacturers
of the city of Sedan were admitted to
the bar, and delivered the following
add re Is :
‘ Citizens, the city of Sedan sent
Us to tellify the gratitude of its inha
bitants ; they know that their prei'e'nr
| enjoyment of liberty is to be attributed
to the courageous Mountaineers, who
have braved every danger.
I ‘ We are not in the habit of de
livering our sentiments in public, and
we want that eloquence which might
render our addrels more acceptable.
We come, how'ever, with aprefent of
200 000 livres. Speak, legiilators,
tell us what you want ; our lives, our
fortunes, are the property of the re
public ; our children defend thelrnn
tiers, and we defend the walls of our
city. Should the enemy attempt to
scale the rocks which nature has given
us for ramparts, they will find them
defended by our bodies; and if they
attempt to enter our city, our carcasses
shall flop their career.’
Letter from the representatives of the
, people, dated Sohe le Chateau, 0 Clo
bber 20.
* After the retreat of the Auffrians,
general Jourdan ordered the second
divilion of the army of the Ardennes
to approach Beaumont ; and having
• approached the territory of the ene
my, our.troops have occupied Sivry.
From the different villages near Mau
beuge_ we have seized whatever was
necessary for our army. We have
conduced to our head-quarter 3000
carriages of hay and corn, about 200
oxen,. 200 sheep, 410 horl’es, all
fit for the artillery ; 200 pieces of
cloth, a great quantity of linen, and
12,000 livres in specie, exacted from
this town, the retreat of the emi
grants, and in which buttons were
found bearing a fleur d:\is, with this
infeription— Vivant le roiet lunation.
‘ This operation, advantageous for
the republic, will be continued in the
whole principality of Chiuiay, of
which we are masters; for as the
enemy have evacuated Beaumont, we
shall keep Philipville on our right,
and Maubeuge on our left, and thus
enclose a great number of villages
and ground, all abounding in forage,
which we shall fend toMaubcuo-e and
O
other strong places.
* There are here also a great many
forges and furnaces; We shall neglect
nothing to procure iron, of which the
republic is in lo much need.’
Letter from the representatives of the peo
ple, Lacojle and PtJJard, dated Anas,
October 23.
* We this moment learn by a letter
from general Ranfonnet, the capture
of Marchiennes, which our troops
carried after a battle of ten hours. A
flaower of bullets and bails could not
prevent their entrance with the bay
onet. We do not yet know the de
tails of the seizures made by our
troops, but we were allured, a few
days since, that the enemy had consi
derable magazines there.
* Our troops are going to continue
their march, after a plan concerted by
the generals and the representatives
of the people, and we have reason to
believe that this part of the frontiers
will be foot) freed from the impure
breath of the satellites of tyrants.’
October 25.
* At a time when the generals be
tray us,’ said Billaud Varennes, * the
committee of public fafety has charged
me to demand of you the repeal of
the decree which forbids delivering
any general over to the revolutionary
tribunal, without a previous decree :
by which means Houchard will re
ceive the punilliment due to his
crimes.’
The proposition was decreed, and
“Yhe convention ordered that Houchard
should be delivered up to the revolu
tionary tribunal.
The representatives of the people
in the department of La Gironde,
wrote from Bourdeaux, the 20th, as
follows :
‘ We have given an account to
the committee of public welfare of
our entry at Bourdeaux on the 26th.
The fans culottes came out in great
numbers to meet us, with branches of
laurel, and accompanied us into town.
‘ Several worthy citizens, ashamed
to lie comprehended in the appellation
of Girondins, have requested us to
change the name of this department
into that of Bee d’Ambes. VVe pray
you to confirm their wishes by a de
cree.’
A quaker, fettled at Dunkirk,
claimed the jufficeof the national con
vention in favour of the Englilh
women married to Americans and
inhabitants of Nantucket, fettled in
France ‘ltis a general principle
agreed upon by all nations,’ said the
quaker, * that a wife should follow
the lot or fate of her hulband ; and
if ye do not respect this principle, ye
will afflict your belt friends, your
molt faithful allies, who came to fettle
amonglt you, becaule you called them
to increale your induitry, by purlu
ing the whaSe filhery-*
On the motion of Bazire, the con
vention decreed, ‘ ‘1 hat the wives of
Americans and coloniffsof Nantucket,
fettled in France, were not compre
hended in that law which orders the
lbizure of all foreigners born lubjects
of the countries with which the re
public is at war.’
Novemb r 4.
Extract of a report made by general
Sauteree, commanding a uivilion,
to the commandei in chief, relative
to the action which happened near
beverne, on the 23d and 24th.
Head quarters, Scbilligkeiin, near
Cti ijoiurg, October 27.
* I was attacked yelterday and the
day before by tiie enemy, at an early
hour, and we fought until night.
‘ ihe enemy had a numerous and
heavy artillery ; and as 1 had on the
lu ll day only 4 pounders to oppose to
1 heir’s, they lucceeded in forcing me
from a poll, and in gaining lome
ground ; but the pieces ot eight, and
the dying artillery wliiJi you lent to
me, join and to the reinforcement d.i
patched to me by general 1 erinan, be
ing arrived, 1 charged them with
vigour. My infantry performed
wonders, and bore tlie ihock of their
numerous cavalry without giving
groui.d, and killing many. I, in re
turn charged their infantry, which
occupied a very fine lituation, andl’uc
cteded in breaking through them, and
putting them to flight. If night had
not come on, we lhould have taken
their artillery. By every account I
received, and what I law myfelf of
their carrying away the dead, 1 lwear
that we have killed at leafl 500.
I hey have left on the field of battle
at leaff ioo, whom we did not give
them an opportunity of carrying off.
1 hey were buried this day. I have
l°ft 1 2 men killed, officers and soldiers,
and 100 wounded, l’ome of them
dangerously.
(Signed)
‘ SAUTEREE.’
A
STOCKHOLM, October 8.
The newdey of Algiers lent a let
ter full of compliments to his majeffy,
by which he lignified to the Swedilh
consul, that he would be contented
with the sum of twelve thousand rix
dollars, in the room of an anl’wer
T his demand muff be accorded to,
without the fmallert objection, in or
der to preserve peace.
LONDON, October 10.
No information was brought by the
twio fliips just arrived from India,
concerning the powerful expedition
reported to have been undertaken by
the French in that quarter ; as those
two Blips failed from Madras so long
ago as the 15th of May.
Tippoo Saib had jult completed his
last payment, when thele Hops failed
from Madras, and his two Tons W'ere
accordingly delivered to him. They
had been sent to Madras, as securities
for the sums of money he promised
to pay irhe E.dl India company—
Eastern sovereigns do not leem to
bear any great love to their lons,
whom they frequently cause to be
Hr angled, or have their eyes put out ;
however, if the two Tons ot Tippoo
Saih had remained at Madras, it
would have been iome kind of secu
rity again!! his joining with the
French. 1
November 2.
In all the places which the French
lately evacuated, they have poisoned
the iprings, as well as the provilions
which they left behind them. The
Auffrians were not aware of this vil
lany, till they had gieatly fuffered by
it. Since they have* diicovered this
abominable treachery, they can with
difficulty be prevailed upon to give
•thb French any quarter.
A letter from Marseilles in a French
Gaaette of the 24th ult. acknowledges
that the republican troops have met
with a check at Toulon ; that a regi
ment of Marfeillois, mistaking the
watch-word, had thrown their own
troops into great confufion ; that they
fired on each other ; that the allies
taking advantage of this difafler, had
put a great number to the sword, and
spiked their cannon, mortars, &c.—
The French allow that they had 300
men killed.
Lord flood has fettled a cartel with
the French, to exchange such British
seamen as are in the ports of l’Orient,
Bourdeaux, and Brelf, for the lame
number of the difaffeded Teamen be
longing to the divilion under St. Ju
lien, who surrendered themselves to
his lordship.
November ig.
w hen the fans cu ottes entered
Lyons they put upwards of 3000 men
to the sword. Upwards of 7000 Ly
onele are under an arrest. Many
thoulands perilhed by hunger; espe
cially children ; and many others, to
put an end to their mileries, drowned
themselves in the Saone.
On the Bth instant madame Roland
was condemned to futTer death. She
behaved with such firmnefs and spirit
that the judges thought proper to
order her to be silent. On the fame
day, Lamarche was condemned.—
This man was formerly head admini
ifrator of the office of aiTaffins. Five
municipal officers ot the. commonalty
of Point de Ce, a cam fed of having
carried on a correspondence with the
royalilb, were executed the fame
day in the Square of the Revolution.
On the inh, the process of Bailly
was terminated before the revoluti
onary tribunal. He was condemned
to die, and executed the next day.
November 23.
Accounts of rather an unpleasant
nature have* been received from
Cornwall, within the lait day or two,
of the miners being in a very muti
nous Hate there. Some of our Jaco
bin emissaries have been sent among
these deluded men, to preach up e
quality, and the rights of man ;
which is now again recommended in
little hand bills about the Hreets.
The vigilance of government will
no doubt Hop fiinilar proceedings.
We presume the French look for a
juftification of their political proceed
ings in the following doctrine of the
abbe Raynal “ When the Haves of
an arbitrary monarch,” lays he, “ have
once broken their chain, and lubmit
ted their fate to the decision of the
sword, they are obliged to rnaflacre
the tyrant, to exterminate his whole
race, and to change the form of tha :
government under which they have
fuffered for many ages. If they ven
ture not thus far, they will, sooner
or later, be punilhed for having
wanted courage to complete the w hole
of their design. The yoke will be
itnpofed upon them with greater se
verity than ever, and the affected le
nity of their tyrants wi 1 only prove a
new inare, in which they will be
caught and entangled without hope of
deliverance. It is the mi-fortune of
factions in an ablolute government
that neither prince iior people let any
bounds to their refentlTient, because
they know none in the exercise of
tiieir power.”
At the beginning of the present
war, Aberdeenlhire netted upwards of
100,cool, a year in the export Hock
ing trade, knit by the inhabitants of
the county, women anti children prin
cipally. At present this manufacture
is entirely at a Hand ; it is worthy of
remark, that the art of k.fitting wool
len hole was firlt invented in that
part of Scotland, about the time of
Henry the seventh.
The good of the church.—ln
Spain and Portugal the burning of an
heretic ; In Italy, the canonization
of anew faint ; in England, railing
at the dissenters ; and in Malta, tak
ing a few Turks, and felling them for
fiaves—are thought essentially to pro
mote the good of the church !
BOSTON, January 15.
The sth iriflant the Hoop Polly,
belonging to Amboy, came on shore
on the south fide of the Vineyard,
having on board five men, four
women, and seven children. They
failed from New York on the 25th
ultimo, bound to Amboy, and were
driven out to sea, having only two
quarts of water and very little pro
vilion to lublifl on for eleven days,
during which they {offered incredible
hardihips, and 101 l their mast, bow
sprit, cables and anchors. The men
on board had abandoned themselves
todefpair; but one of the women,
having once been at ie-?,
tions lor the erection of a jury, matt
and a small fail, by which they made
the land they went on. The whole
crew are likely to do well, except two
children, who are fuppoled lo be too
sickly to recover.
NEW-YORK, January 16.
Captain Dodge, of the Ihip Altrea,
who arrived port lutt evening
from Offend in 74 days, informs,
that lince the railing of the siege of
Nieuport, nothing of consequence
had happened between the French
and combined armies at the time he
left Offend—lt was given our, that
the Enghfh and Dutch troops were
immediately to go into winter quar
ters, and the Auffrians were to keep
the field.
Extract of a letter from on board
his majesty’s ship Courageaux, da
ted off Sardinia.
“ Monsieur St. Julian, late com
mander of the French fleet at Tou
lon, after proceeding for MarfeiHes,
returned in disguise, without enter
ing that city j and fearing equally
from the resentment of the Toulo
nele and the national convention, he
came to the determination of trussing
to the clemency of lord Hood, and
actually got on board the Victory,
and surrendered himielf to the Bri
tifii admiral, who with that clemen*
cy that ever accompanies a Britilh
officer, put him on board a frigate
deffined for Barcelona, in order
completely to put him out of the
reach of any relentment his country
men might entertain againff him.”
Extract of a letter from Albany, da
ted the 12th inltant.
fe The legislature as yet, have been
moflly engaged in appointing com
mittees and reading peri tions. and hey
have lopped off part ol the governor’*