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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’*