chiefs of the rebels, 2000 in number have made an attempt to save themselves by flight, but they are pursued on all fides, and cannot pofiibly escape, not only the ardor of our troops, but also that of the people of Lyons, enraged at tbeir having been deceived by them. I previously in formed my colleagues of our entrance in to Lyons. Gen. Doppet is going by an extraordinary courier to fend a detailed report of his military operations. Cou thon, Mdignet, Laporte, Dubois, Cranee and BafTel, who we had joined at St. Fox are on the point of repairing hither, and will be eager to inform you of all our o perations. My Colleagues wish to keep me here ; I the orders of the Na tional Convention. Chateauneuf R. an do v. Signed, P. S. " I have detained the courier to inform you that the rebels have been pur sued and cut to pieces on ail fides : their train of artillery and the treasure which they carried off are taken." Barrere. The committee has deter mined that not one criminal ought to es cape ; they htve ordered the fugitives to be pursued, and the tocsin to be founded all over the country, in order that the peo ple may be raj fed to exterminate them. The traitors mull be taken, their pun ithment mult be speedy : it is propel that the inhabitants of Lyons Ihould be dil armed, and their arms confided to the youth of the South, who will employ them agiiuft the (laves of Spain. But will you allow a city Jo exist, which by its rebellion has caused so much blood of the Patriots to be Ihed? Who lhall dare to demand your indulgence for this rebellious city ? What ought you to refpeft in your ven geance ! The houle of the indigent per lecuted by the rich, those manufacturers of which the barbarous English so eager ly deli re the deltru&ion. What ought you to refpeft ! The asylum of humanity, the edifice consecrated to public instruc tion. The plough ought to pats over the reft. When the Pruflians last year inva ded the territory of the Republic, the Sgu.h affected courage and republicanism. At present all is changed, the North now defends Liberty, and the South makes war upon it. In this fituition a great exam ple is necefiWy, I propose the following decree : Art. I. u There lliall be named by the National Convention, upon the presenta tion of the committee of public fafety, an extraordinary com million composed of five members, in order to punilh the Revolu tionills of Lyons according to military law, and without delay. 11. ' All the inhabitants of Lyons (hall be disarmed ; their arms (hall be immedi ately distributed among the defenders of the Republic. A part (hall be reftoied to the Patriots of Lyons, who have been op pressed by the rich and the counter-revo lutionists. 111. " The city of Lyons (hall bede ftroyed. Whatever was inhabited by a rich man, (hall be demolished. The poor houfe the dwellings of (laughtered and proscribed patriots, the edifices specially employed to iuduftry, and the monuments consecrated humanity and public instruc tions, (hall alone remain. IV. " The name of Lyons (hall be ef faced from the lift of the towns of the Republic. The re-union pre served (hall henceforth bear the name of Ville Artranchie.- V. " A column (hall be raised upon the ruins of Lyons, to attest to posterity the crimes and the punishment of the Royal ills of that city, with this inscription, " Lyons warred againjl Libertx— " I.roNS—ii no more.'— " The eighteenth Day of the JirJl Month, " Second Tear of the Repullic, " One and Indivijille." VI. " The Representatives of the peo ple shall immediately nominate commissi oners to make a lilt of all the property which belonged to the rich and counter, revolutionists of Lyons, that the refoluti. ons of the Convention may be immedi ately carried into execution."—Decreed. LONDON. Fromthe London Gazette Extraordinary. Whitehall, Odoler 11, Lajl tiigbt the Right Hen. Lord George Cor.ivay arrived at the office of the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, hit majefly's princi pal Secretary of State for Fortign Affairs, with a dispatch from the Earl of Tar mouth, cf •which the following is an extract. Waffemhcurg, 08. I 4» 1 7 93 ■ Stujir'wn Head Quarters. Teller day morning at three € clod, Ge neral IVurmfur nuule his prv.eQed attack j upon the fines of the Lauvre, upon Various points at the fame time. I have thefatisfic tion to fay thai he is in poffejf on of every part of them. Lauterbourg surrendered, without any conditions, between three and four in the evening, after* being evacuated by the enemy, who, from the prodigious number of redoubts oj which they were in poj-effion, and the natural jlrengih of the position, might have held out a siege of se veral days. This town rcfijhd some time longer. It is surrounded by a large ditch', and <was de fended by redoubts, from which the French cannonaded the Auflrians for federal hours. It is also connected with the Gielfberg, a mountain which so entirely commands the place, that if the French had determined on deriving every advantage from their filia tion, the Aujlricns could not have entered into poffejjwn of it, without further successes is the mountains. A part of the town was burnt :n the course of the flruggle ; and the French, before they retreated, set fire to their magazines, both here and at AJfladt. In other parts of this very complicated ope ration, in which fix different columns had dijlinfi plans to great success attend ed the Auflrians. They fuccejfively carried by ajfault all the different redoubts which had been covflrufied in the front of the French camps, of which the principal one fell into tnto their hands, with all their tents funding, several c affords, nine Jland ards, and twenty fix canuons of very great ( calibre. As these different anions are but jujl overj and the Auflrian corps are very re mote from each other, it is impojfible for me to transmit to your Lortifhip, any account of the killed, wounded or taken on either fide. The army has been fourteen hours under arms y almojl continually engaged in a very aSlve pursuit, and often exposed to a inofl tremendous Jire. V/t have as yet no dflir.3 account of the operations of the Duke of Brunfwick's ar my yefler da] in the mountain, but a very great cannonade was heard on that fide during the •whole day. Right Hen. Lord Grenville. IVhkehall, Oflober 2 2 A letterfrom Sir James Murray, adju tant General to the forces under the command of his Royal Highness the Duke of Tork y was received this evening by the Right Hon. Henry Dundas t his majefly i s principal Se cretary of State for the Home Department, of which the following is a copy. Engcl Fontaine, 0&. 18, 1793 Sir, I had. the honor of informing you, in my lad dispatch, that his Royal Highness, at the earned request of the Prince of Cobourg, had marched with a part of the troops under his command, for this place. They arrived here upon the 16th. The prince, being acquainted with his Roval Highnefs's intention, had been enabled to withdraw from thence fodr battalions to strengthen his other ports : a fifth batta lion followed those upon his Royal High nefs's arrival. The eaemy, having collected in extra ordinal y numbers, attacked the coips un der the command of Gen. Clairfayt, which was ported with its right near Berlemont, and its left near the village of Wattigwie*, upon the 15th and 16th. Upon the for mer day the left wing of the enemy was entirely defeated. Having advanced into the plain which lay upon that fide between the two armies, they were charged by the Imperial cavalry, and driven back, with great (laughter and the loss of twelve pie ce« of cannon. The attack which they made upon the left of the Auftrians was more obstinately supported j they were, however, finally repulsed. Upon the 16th the enemy having drawn the greatest part of their force to the right, again attacked the left of Gen. Clairfayt's corps, and the village of Wattigwies. They could upon this fide approach within cannon Ihot of the Auftrians, un der cover of an immense wood, called the Have d'Avefnes ; which, when they were repulsed, secured their retreat; they bro't a great quantity of heavy artillery to the edge of the wood, under the protection of which they attacked the village. The ut most firmnefs and bravery were displayed by the Austrian troops upon this occasion. The enemy were several times repulsed with great loss; they were repeatedly dri ven from the village after they had earned it; but being enabled, by great superio rity of numbers, to bring continually frclh troops to the point of attack, they at lail succeeded in maintaining the poflcfiios (■{ that post. The communication between General Clairfayt's corps and that of General la Tour, which observed the entrenched cam]) near Maubeurg, being by this means cut off, it was judged necefikry by the Prince ofCobourg to abandon thepoiitioli which had been taken for the pnrpofe of in veil ing Maubeuge, the army pafied the Sam bre in the night without the smallest lois. Lieutenant General Benzowllcy, who commanded a detached corps upon the left of the army, defeated a corps which was opposed to him, killed a great number of the enemy, took four hundred prisoners, and eleven pieces of cannon. Count I lad dick, who was detached by Gen. I-a Tour, likewise gained a coniiderabie advantage, penetrated to Sorbe Chateau, and took three pieces of cannon. In the two engagements, the Auftrians took twentv-four pieces of cannon and two howitzers, without the loss of one on their part. They have had about two thousand men killed and wounded. There can be no doubt that the loss of the enemy has beet much more confideiable. The Auf trians now occupy the left bank of the No cota'n accounts have betn yet received of the further morons of the enemy. I am, &c. Sambre JAMES MURRAY, (.•ngntil) October 24 We have just received a letter frcm Of tend, dated the 22d 111 ft. at one o'clock, P. M. which contains the following in terelling paragraph : " An express has this moment arrived from the army of the Prince of Cobourg, informing us, thnt after having re-croiTcd the Sambre on the night of the 17th inft. and expecting an attack from the enemy, he sent Gen. Clairfait with 30,000 a circuitous route to lie in wait for them, and retreated with the main army. As he expe&ed, the enemy fell 011 him in great numbers, but by this judicious measure, they were attacked front and rear at the fame period, and 15,000 men killed and taken, with several pieces of cannon. Trie Britifli troops had not arrived to (hare in the glory oi the day." Lord Howe failed with the fleet under his command fix m Torbay, on Sunday morning; but in consequence of diipatch es sent from London, and forwarded to hit lordihip by a fwift failing cutter, he returned again to port, after being but a few hours at sea ! Upon the probability that Brest and Bourdeaux are ready to imitate the exam ple of Toulon, Lord Hood is said to have permitted four French /hips of the line to leave the latter place, under flags of truce, for those ports —Extraordinary as f'tch a circumstance may appear, this, peilups, is the bed method of making the experi ment, whether the loyal patty has, or has not, the ascendency at them. PORTSMOUTH, Ottoler 24. Particulars of a late action, This morning came into harbour the Cres cent frigate, Capt. Saunmrex, w'-th Le Reunion, a French man of war, of 36 guns, commanded by Alonfieur Detune, which she captured on Sunday morning, off Cherbonrg, after an aSion of two hours and 25 minutes. The aSian began about ten o'cloii in the morning, within pijlolJhot, ahuut four miles wejl of Cherbourg. At firjl there was, a light breeze of wind, which soon died away to a perfect calm.—Karly in the aclion the Crescent endeavoured to rale the Reunion but the Frenchman avoided it ly luffing up i the Lead fails, however, being at length Jhot away, Capt. Saumarrz got upon the enemy's quarter, rilled her fore and ast, thereby sweeping the main-deel, and in twenty jive minutes after twelve M. Denone Jlrucl his colours. The Reunion had 33 men Idled, and 48 fevtrely wounded; mid it is a circum fiance that can hardly be credited, though firiflly true, the Crescent had only one man materially hurt ivhofe leg was hurt by a carriage wheel, and three others Jlightly. SHIP NEWS. Arrived at New-York. Ship Eliza, Harrifon, Liverpool, 9 weeks. Sloop Cyntliia, Winfee, St. Martins. PRICE OF STOCKS. Philadelphia, January 9, 1794 6 per cents, 18f <0/ to iof\ "/ 3 ditto, Deferred, tJ. S. Bai.k, N. A. ditt J, Pcnafylva'.iia do. Ijj per cent, advance. 20 ditto ditto. . - ditto ditt«. Extract of a letter from Nantz, dated O&ober 16th, 1793, to Captain Mo- I nary, Philadelphia, I cannot lend you any news mote a greeable or more glorious than, that the Republic is saved notwithstanding the in famous treasons that daily coine to light. Cuftine fnffercd last month and many ge nerals, who where of his plot, have itiarcd his fate, but no matter, all is well, cairn. England has loft 10 thousand tnen be fore Dunkirk, and Spain has 101 l her three camps near Perpigwan. We are in-Cata lonia. The king of Savoy has lott all Ins dominions, except Piedmont, where he •» loclofely hemmed in, that he cannot ef- cape : his treasure, cannon, and ammu nition have ail fallen into our hands. Ly ons is reduced to allies : 10 thousand emi grants were there put to the sword, after having sustained a (lege of two months# Ail that remains to be iubdued is the de voted town of Toulon, which has been betrayed to the Englifn, and which we are now dofely beficging with an army of 72 thousand men. Aa tor the lawleis bau- Hitti of this country, who were io iniigm ficant when you kft this, they are become an objcffc of serious concern. In Jn- c If ft, two hundred thoijCn;d of t-licm at tacked us at all the points in the city, l>nt were repulfcd with coufulcrable loss : iluy two months, 180 thousand men of the republican troops have been in puiiuit of these insurgents. V Not n day paftcs but they attack them, and it is probable that before the end of this month they will be utterly deftroyc.l. All the navy, and all the merchantmen are called into actual service. Preparati ons are making for a descent on England, and it is thought, that the troops hew, consisting of ISO thousand men, are in tended for that expedition. Naples ai: 1 the Duke of Tufcany have just deciaud vvaragainftus. No matter; we are driv ing all before us. The Auilrians, PruCi ans, Hcffians and Dutch can hold out na longer. A frefh levy of 450 thousand men lira lately been completed, uil well anned and equiped; a part of them are ahead} 0:1 :he frontiers, and the reft arc loon tc low. Another levy is now rsifiiig of the like number, 40 thousand cavalry are al ready enrolled, and on tlieir march for the frontiers, The firlt levy was composed of men of every rank without diftindtion, from the age of 18 to 2j, and the other levy whiih is almost completed, is to be ccmpofed of men from the age of 25 to j?. Every young man and widower without children, is obliged to march. All uteptils of ioa and hells are carried to the national fenri deries. Our calender is reformed. Men of improved underiiandinrs have introduc ed more order into it, and made it worthy of a free people. We 1-ve expel led from it all the flints, all the monu ments of ignorance and fanaticifiri vvh'i h have done so much milchief, a id which are the causes of oar prefer.t fuffering*. Inltead of those vile miscreants who owe their canonization to their ilugg:lh li e and their imbecility, we have fub'.tituwd the names of those heroes who have done honor to human nature in ancient times, and who arc now our models. The months are of 30 days, the wee!:s <-f 10, and at the end of each week, a day is confec: at-d to repose, and to the celebration of the epoch of our immortal revolution. Four hundred merchants and stockjobbers have been executed at Maifcilles. This exam ple has made that town and Bourdcux re turn to the principles of our revolution. Commercial ariltocracy attempt d to suc ceed the arift cracy of tiir nobles and the priesthood, but this the interior aepan ments did not relish. We (hall be free, and we (hall leave to posterity either a dreadful caiaflrophe to bewail, or grand examples for imitation. ADVERTISEMENT, I'irgtnia, Kottfi»tnkftt*nd(o**t*. D«c. «8, 1793- FOR SALE, A Valuable Tract of LAND, in thu county, containing about eight hundred acre*, one founh of which is low grounds, of cxcdlcn# quality; Ihe other three fourths is high l.ir.d, well coveted with oak, hickory and chcfnut. TltC fuuaflon is plrafant and Wealthy, on Yro comico river, about three mill* from the Puio mack. There is on it • two ilory brick dwri? ling-house, with four rooms and a prfTtgc on each floor, cxcluiive of closets ; a i;ood k'tchcr, and othei nec<ff.««y ont-l.oufcs It l»*s oicha»da of apple and p ach tre«>, and •* w»ll *»;r»cd bv many drligh'ful fpiingk. The ' e kn <wn on aupbration to the Honorable JOHN HfcATH, tn Philadelphia, or to the liblcni'ff, livmj* on iht p»rimfc*. JOHN GOt- J«l». 10 :\>r t!ui-
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