w!:h ficih troops, our people much fa
t'.Hwd, with ruuch difficulty i.iltaiudd
tliefe repeated attacks. We had the
good fortune to rcjiulfc them a third time,
with charged b*yo' let seconded by the
ChafTcurs of Anfpack, and to r.main
s of the
" Nutwithftancing a ,cr<;fs fire of hea
vy artillery, with ball and grape {hot,
which the enemy made during tl.efe at
tacks, their loss was greater than ours,
which confided of 13 killed, and 19
wounded, whilit the French left more
than 60 dead on the field of battle, and
carried ofl" a great number with them.—
We have taken prisoners, a Chief of Bri
gade, a Captain, a Sub-L ley tenant,* and
twenty-four soldiers : A Lieutenant Co
lonel and Captain on their fide were
wounded.
" Colonel Van Haakc, whose conduct
'defc'rvis every pra'ie, extols much'the
vuior and perift verance of the troops who
v. cre engaged in this action, particularly
Of Lieutenant Colonel Monin de Roiig
nus, of the Walloon Grenadiers, and ot
Capt. de Harden, of the Chasseurs of
Anfpack, not knowing by name the other
officers whose bravery heebfervedon this
Occaixn.
" Head Quarters at Gentreuil, 14th
October, 1793,
(Signed)
" High and Mighty Lorils,
" I have the honor to inform your
High Mightinefies, that the French army,
t>y repoits 70 or Bc,ooo men llrong, un
der the command of general Jourdan, at
tacked yelterday, l JthO&ober, in three
columns, the Imperial Army had the ad
vantage the whole time, and pursued the
enemv into the hedges of Aveihee, behind
the villages of St. Val, St. Vaaft & Mon
clieaux ; but at the comn.enctnient of the
attfen, the ptfition of the left
•left favorable : however, even in-the even
ing, it attacked the enemy's right wing,
•which glib gained an advantage over them.
" We do not yet know 'lie!ofsoll,both
fides ; but it is certain, that the Imperial
ills have taken ten pieces of cannon, and
three hundred orifoners.
" Oa our fide, the enemy remained
quiet the whole day ; but in the evening,
they made a sortie against the Imperial
itfs, from their entrenched camp before
Maubeuge, which occasioned a brine can
nonade in that quarter; they afterwards
retired to their camp,
" Head Quarters at Gentreuil, 16th
Oftoher, 179j-
{ Signed'
From, the London Gazette.
Whitehall, Q&. 29, 1793
"7 he following
DECLARATION
ties been sent by, his Majefly's command
to the ccnmiaideri of his Meijrjfy'i
Fleets and Armies, employed
againfi Fkancf., and to his
Maje/ly's mintfttrs, re
ading at Foreign
THE eircumftances, in consequence of
which his Majesty has found himfdf en
gaged in a defenfive war against France
arc known already to aH Europe. The
objcdU which his Majesty has proposed to
J.'mfelf from the commencement of the
war are of equal notoriety. To repel an un
provoked aggreflion, to contribute to the
immediate defence of his allies, to obtain
for them and for himfelf a just indemni
fieation, and to provide as far as cir
cuwftance* will allow, for the future fe
curitv of Wis own fubje&B, and of all the
other nations of Europe ; these are the
points for which his Majesty has felt it in
cumbent on hiiu to employ all the means ( i
wliicli he derives from the resources of
h's dominions, frcm the zeal and affec- I
the unquef- |
more evident, how nu.ch the internal fi
tnation ot France obftrufts the conclufioi
and i
•nt
- *- - - 4 /' • -
an alone fulfil hw Majesty's juit and fa
utarv views, for the acccnljdiftitneiit of
hefc important objcfls, and for rcftoring
he general tranquility of Europe. His
Maicfty fees, therefore, with the utmost
fatiifaftiori, the profpeiV; which the pre
fer. rcircuniftances afford hint, os-accelera
ting the return of peace, hy making to the
well diffofed J>art us llie people o£ France,
" If'. F. Hereditary
" Prince of Orange."
SECOND LETTER.
IV. F, Hereditary
u Prince of Orange %
u Commandant General
Courts.
a more particular declaration of the prin
ciples which aniirate-him, of the objedts
to which his views are directed, add of
the conduct which it is his intention to
pursue. With refpeft to the prcfent si
tuation of affairs, the events of the war,
the confidence reposed in him by one of
the moll conlidetable cities ot Fiance,
and, above all, the wiih which is mani
fofted almoll utiiverfally in that country,
to find refuge from the tyranny, by
which it is now overwhelmed, render this
explanation on his Mujefty'a part a cel
ling and indispensable duty : —And his
Majelty feels additional latisfaction in
making such a declaration, from the hope
of finding, in other powers engaged with
him in the common canfe, sentiments and
views, perfectly conformable to his own.
From the firit period when his Moll
Cliriilian Majelly Louis the XVlth had
tailed his people around him, to join in
concerting meafurcs for their common
hnppinefa, the King has uniformly (hewn
by his condud the sincerity of his willies
fpr the success of so difficult, but, at the
fame time, so interelling an undertaking.
His Majelly was deeply afflicted with all
the misfortunes which eniued ; but par
ticularly when he perceived move and
more evidently, that measures, the con
sequences of which he could not disguise
from himfelf, mull finally compel him to
relinguilh that friendly and pacific fyllem
which he had adopted. The moment at
length arrived when his Majelly saw that
it was necessary for him not only to de
fend his own rights and those of his al
lies, not only to repel the unjull aggreflion
which he had recently experienced, but
that all the dearell interells of his people
imposed upon him a duty Hill more im
portant, that of exerting his efforts for the
preservation of civil society itfelf, as hap
pily eltablilhed among the nations of Eu
rope.
The designs which had been profefTed
of reforming the abides of the govern
ment of France, of eilablifhing personal
liberty and the rights of property on a
solid foundation, of fccuring to an exten
iive and populous country the benefit of
a wife legislation, and an equitable and
mild admiuiftration of its laws; all these
folutary views have unfortunately vanish
ed. In their place has succeeded a
system deltructive of all public order,
maintained by proscriptions exiles, and
confifcations without number, by arbitra
ry imprisonments, by mafl'acres, which
cannot be remembered without horror ;
and at length, by the execrable murder of
a just and beneficent sovereign, and of
the illustrious princess, who, with an un
(haken firmnefs, has (hared all the mis
fortunes of her royal consort, his pro- 1
trailed fgfferings, his cruel captivity, his
ignominious death. The inhabitants of
that unfortunate country, so long flatter
ed by promises of happiness, renewed at
the period of every frefti crime, have
found themselves plunged into an abyf6
of unexampled calamities; and neigh
bouring nations, instead of deriving a
new security for the maintenance of ge
neral tranquillity from the establishment of
a wife and moderate government, have
been exposed to the repeated attacks of a
ferocious anarchy, the natural and neces
sary enemy of all public order. They
have had to encounter aits of aggression
without pretext, open violations of all trea
ties, an unprovoked declaration of war ; in
word, whatever corruption, intrigue, or
violence could effect for the purpose so
openly avowed of fubvertmg all the insti
tutions of society, and of extending over
all the nations of Europe that confnfion
which has produced the misery of France.
. This state of things cannot exist in
France without involving all the surround
ing powers in one common danger, with
out giving them the right, without impos
ing it upon them as a duty, to Hop the
progress of an evil which exists only by
the fucceflive violation of all law and all
property, and which attacks the funda
mental principles by which mankind is held
in the bonds of civil society.—His majesty
by no means disputes the right of France
to reform it's daws. It never would have
been his wifti to employ the influence of
external force with refpeft to the particu
lar forms of government to be eftahlilhed
in an independent country. Neither has
he now that with, excepting so far as such
interference is become>eflential to the se
curity and repose of other powers. Under
these circumstances, he demands from
France, and he demands with justice, the
termination of a fvftem of anarchy, which
has no- force but fgr the purposes of niif-
chief, unable to discharge the p-imary du
ty of all government, to reprtfs the dif
•orders, or to punilh the crimes which are
daily iiicreafing in the interior of the coun
try, but disposing arbitrarily of the pro
perty and blood of the inhabitants of
France, in order to disturb the tranquility,
of other nations, and to render all Europe
the theatre of the fame crimes and of the
fame misfortunes. The King demands that
some legitimate and stable government
ihould be ellabliihcd, founded on the ac
knowledged principles of universal justice,
and capable of maintaining with other
powers the aceuflomed relations of union
and of peace. Mis majesty wiflies ardent
ly to be enabled to treat for the re-efta
blilhment of general tranquility with such
a government, exercising a legal and per
manent authority, animated with the wi(h
for general tranquility, and pofleffing pow
er to enforce the observance of it's engage
ments.—The King would propose none
other than equitable and moderate condi
tions, not such as the expenses, the rifques,
and the facrificesof the war might juitifv,
but such as his majesty thinks himfelf un
der the indifpenfible neceflity of requiring,
with a view to these confederations, and
still more to that of his own security, and
of the future tranquility of Europe.
His majesty desires nothing more sin
cerely than thus to terminate a war which
he in vain endeavoured to avoid, and all
the calamities of which, as now experienc
ed by France, are to be attributed only
to the ambition, the perfidy, and the vio
lence of those, whose crimes have ill voir ed
their own country in misery, and disgrac
ed all civilized nations. ft
As his majesty has hitherto been com
pelled to carry on war againit the people
of France co'Jeftively, to treat as enemies
all those who fuffer their property and
blood to be lavilhed in support of an un
just aggression, his majesty would fee with
infinite fatlsfa&ion the opportunity of
making exceptions in favor of the well
difpofed inhabitants of other parts of
France, as he has already done with res
pect to those of Toulon.
The King promises, on his part, the
suspension of holtilities, friendfhip, and (as
for as of events will allow, of
which the will of man cannot dispose) fe
curity and protection to all those who, by
declaring for,a monarcliical government,
(hall (hake off the yoke of a sanguinary
anarchy, of that anarchy which has broken
all the molt sacred bonds of society, dis
solved all the relations of civil life, violat
ed every right, confounded every duty ;
which uses the name of liberty to exer
cifc the most cruel tyranny, to annihilate
all property, to seize on all poffeflions,
which fpunds its power on the pretended
consent of the people, and itfelf carries fire
and sword through extensive provinces for
having demanded their laws, their religion,
and their lawful Sovereign.
It is then in order to deliver therofelves
from this unheard of opprefiion s to put.
an end to a fyltem of unparalleled crimes,
and to r?ftore, at length tranquility to
France, and security to all Europe, that
his majesty invites the co-operation of the
people of France.
It is for theft objects that he calls upon
them to join the standard of an hereditary
monarchy not for the purpose of deciding,
in this moment of dilorder, calamity, and
public danger, o„n all the modifications of
which this form of government may here
after be susceptible, but in order to unite
themselVes once more under the empire of
law, of morality and of religion ; a,nd to
secure at length to their own county, ex
ternal peace, domestic tranquility, a real
and genuine liberty, a wife, moderate, and
beneficent government, and the uninter
rupted enjoyment of all the advantages
which can contribute to the happiness and
prosperity of a great and powerful nation.
Coj/grefs of the United States.
Nonfi of ReprefenlatVues.
Friday, January 10.
Mr. Smilie presented the petition of
Ann- Ladley, praying compensation for
the services of her late husband, during
the late war—trad and referred to the Se
cretary of the Treaiury.
Mr. Madison presented the petition of
George Taylor, jun. chief clerk in the of
fice of the Department of State, praying,
for sundry reasons therein stated, an aug
mentation of hi» compensation—read and
referred to a special committee, confiding
of Mr. Madison, Mr. Foftcr and Mr.
Griffin.
Mr. Lyman moved that all the petiffons
on the fame fubjeft, be referred to the
fame committee. —Agreed
Mr. Dexter presented the petition of
Sarah Parker, widow of Lieut. Col. Par-
ker, who was wounded at the battle of
Bunker"s-Hill, and died in Boston Goal,
praying that the pension allowed to the
widows ttnd orphans of other deceased of
ficers roav be extended to her—laid on the
table.
The petition of James and William
Smith presented by Mr. Baldwin, was
read, and with the accompanying docu
ments, referred to a feleft committee.
Some other petitions were read and re
ferred.
It being moved to go into a committee
of the whole on the eltimate-of appropri
ations.
Mr. Giles after suggesting several rea
sons in favor of separating the items in the
estimate appropriated for the support of
the civil lilt, and clifcharging the current
expenses of government, from the articles
delignated for other purposes, moved that
the House (hould now take up the rrfolu-
tipn agreed to by the committee of the
whole yellerday, and make that the sub-
je£t of a bill by itfelf.
Mr. Nicholas supported this motion—
he urged several conlidcrations arifhig
from the situation of the members— : ?.n.i
the embarraflment which would attend the
deliberations of the House from blending
so many dill! net obje&s in urn kill.
It; being remarked that the next article
in the estimate was so conneifted with the
preceding, that it was necessary it Ihouid
be included in the fame bill.
Mr. Nicholas withdrew his fsccind to
the motion—and the 'House went into
committee of the whole—Mr. Trumbull
in the chair.
Mr. Boudinot moved a refblution co
vering the next article in the eilimate-—
The Item, providing for the salaries of
clerks to the Loan-Office, being objected
to —it was paflid over for the present.
This part of the eftinlate being gone
through with, Mr, Giles moved that the
committee flipuld rife—this motion Was
leconded by Mr. Nicholas, and supported
by Mr. Madison.
The resolution moved by Mr. Boudmot
providing that the ftim of t0*,693 dollars
and 43 cents, be appropriated for sundry
purposes was agreed to.
The committee then rose, and the House
took into consideration the two rifoluti
ons, and adopted the fame. '
Mr. Giles then moved that a conWmttee
ihouid be appointed to prepare and bring
in a bill agreeable to the two resolutions ;
this motion was agteed to and a conuWttee
appointed accordingly.
Mr. Boudinot then moved a tefolution,
the obiect of which is to direst the Secre
tary of the Treasury to lay before the
House further information refpe&irig the
Loan-Office s; this was agreed to,
Mr. Nicholas of the committee appoint
ed to examine and report, on the.comiden
tial communications of the.Preiident of
the United States, relative to Algiers,
brought in a report, which was laid on the
table.
Mr. S. Smith of the committee on the
memorial of the Relief-Committee of Bal-
timore, presented a report which was read
—he moved that it (hoidd be read a second
time, and referred to the committee of
the whole.
Mr. Smith gave a fuccinft account of
the situation of the refugees from Cape-
Francois, and the great burthen thrown
on the citizens of Baltimore, in conse
quence of the deilitute and didreffed con
dition of these refugees—burthens so great,
as he presumej 1 , loudly called for the inter
position of government —Mr. Smith de
tailed the progress of the benevolent exer
tions of the citizens of Baltimore on this
a Retting appeal to their humanity, from
which it appears hat the unfortunate peo
ple had been relieved by the rnoft extrnor
dinary ads of benevolence and compassion
—that the inhabitants of that town had
for more than fix months supported this
numerous body of people, and fumiflied
them with money, cloaths and the necessa
ries of life ; it is hardly poflible to do jus
tice to the affecting narative of Mr. Smith
—fuffice it to fay, that a greater scene
of misery and distress was hardly ever be
fore witnessed, nor a more noble and
prompt display of the fined feelings of the
human heart exhibited than in the relief
afforded by the citizens of Baltimore.
It was then voted that the pe'ition be
again read, a* referred to a fommittee
of the whole.