That he is in pofTeflion of the mod important secrets,
we niay conclude Tfom the earneftneis with which, after his ai
lettment, the Dutchefs d*UVfi solicited on her knees an interview
of four minutes wftH'hiifr; but the could not obtain tier request.
The officer on guard was inexorable.
" On the following .day twenty peifons were arreßed, umong
whom were the celeknattd Linguet Trilco, the Deputy Town En
gineer, two Canons of thechurch ot St Gudule, and M. lierman
a reputable merchant, In whofc garden were discovered iooocui-
with two mnfket balls to each. The Town hnjin ci
hmifeif, Mr. W , the Ranker, and several other periods o:
coniequcnce have escaped. The conllernation and dilmay iur
pal's description. The Enlivimins proceed hourly, and every mji
lecms to expect, -with silent despair, the mandate that is toimmuri
hint, and the military hand that is to conduct him to his dungeon.
Meanwhile the wantonnefs ot oppreflion proceeds with rapic
ftnde* in the country. In confequcnce of the fuppolad partiality
ot the Abbots for the Patriots, the Emperor has publitlied 11
edia, sequestrating all the abbeys of Braban;, and appointuigcivi.
otticeis M them for the adminittration of their revenue. thelc
admimftrations, each of them attended by 100 grenadiers and
100 dragoons, have entered on their office, and the taini ic av.t
Pes of Croatia and Sdavoma itvel in the enjoyment ot all the deb
cious wines that minifteied to the luxury of the Fkmilh monks.
Miss D'Oliva, Id famous in the hiltory of tin necklace, by Iki
candid .vidence which cleared the Cardinal, died lately at ton
tenv near Paris in the g.eat.-ll distress. after having been deserted
by a fellow of the name of Beaufaue, whom (be had married.
The child of -which she was delivered in the Balhlcis still alive.
The friends of the Duke ot O' :' mi now lay, the yucen chaig
edhim with heaid o; . party inimical to the r cl g"|"B
Monarch ; and that his Highfltfs immediately went tohis Majetly.
and besought him to give him some honourable million to tiig
land, that his departure might not have the appeatance ot a flight ,
and thathe m; ,ht prove by hisabfencc, until the new constitution
was further advanced, his attachment to the public weal.
Marlhal Laudohn is a Pole by birth, though he has long been
n the Aufuian feivice. He has acquired as much popularity 111
he army, by tin? judicious promotions made in conkquence ot his
reefs, as lie hiss gained throughout the Emperor's dominions by
t fuccefsof hit arms.
- |C new French Administration is reported to be as follows,
an 'he Members are all from among the National Airembly.
de Mirabean, Minister for Pans.
op of Autun, Minifte- of Finance.
L: de Seger, Minister ot Foreign Affairs.
I) i de Rochefoucault, Keeper of the Seals.
November io.
Ch< 'ourg, at present, is in great commotion,
and no day patfes without some express from
the National Aflembly with orders how to ast. —
The woH notwithltandiug, are carried on with
the fame in fatigable industry ; and the infpetft
ing boats la ly made aftritft survey of the road,
to learn if any sand had gathered since the mak
ing of the wall, when they found it all as found
as "before the works were begun.
An order is passed, for all Nobles and persons
of landed property to appear at Paris, within a
limited time, on pain of confifcation of all their
property for theufe of the nation.
The attempts to aflenible the States of the pro
vinces, according to the ancient form, seems to
have been an expiring effort of the clergy and
aristocratic party, whom common danger has uni
ted in a common cause, without the consent, ap
probation, or concurrence of the people. It has
not succeeded in any one inltance. The meeting
of the States of Dauphiny, who were fununoned
by the Commiffioit Intermediairc, to meet on the 2d
ill It. is put off, by the fame authority, to the 14th
ol" December. Before that time the National
Aflembly will, probably, have completed the or
ganization of the primary and intermediate af
lemblies; and the cities, towns, and other corpor
ations of Dauphiny, and all the other provinces
will prefer a general, uniform, and equal plan ot
repi efentation to the old arillocratic constitution
of the States.
Letters from in Britany, dated Otflo
ber 26th, fay, that all the cities ot that province
are fending detachments of National militia to
Tregnier and Lannion, to prevent the efferts ot
the Bilhop's incendiary mandate, and to atft, it
neceflary, againlt him and his adherents. The
letters add, that the number of troops then 011
their march, was computed at between twenty
and thirty thousand.
Gn the firft of this month the diftritfts of Paris
fen deputies to the Hotel de VilL', to enquire into
the 11 ate of the provision of tlie city. The mem
bers of the,community appointed to preside ovet
this department retuined for answer, that abun
dai.ee was everv day encreafing; that before the
fifteenth iuftant, Paris would have a supply in
hand of more than 40,000 sacks of flour ; that the
magazines already began to fill; and that thefub
filtence of the capital was completely fecuretl for
the winter.
Letters are alfofaid to have been received from
Philadelphia, that the harvest in the United States
has been so abundant in general, that the faint
quantity of corn which before colt from 35 to 4c
livres, may now be had fax five 11 ; that thf
Americans were ready to supply the Europeai
markets : " See," fay the Parisians, "how Hei
ven favors those countries in which the rights <
men are known and refpec r ted."
Extract of a letter Jrom Geneva, Odobea 28.
You vrifli for some news from this country
Well, I'll tell you foine : Every part of Swit
land, and Geneva above all, swarms with Frt
Nobility ; Marshal de Castries is hourly exp<
at Copec; a country feat of M. Neckar, his fr
who iends it to him as a fafe retreat ; the
bifliop of Paris is at Chamberry, with M. 1
tin, tlie late Keeper of the Seals ; the Prin
Conti will spend the winter there. M.de
Toleiida! is at Netifchatel, preparing a m i
tliat will astonish all Eur, *e ; M. Mouniei
his neck from the reverb re (lamp-iron) o
failles, lias fled into Savoy. (This intelligent
I had from an Aid de Camp of M. de Dbrfort,
Commandant at Grenoble.) M. deLallyand the
Princess of Henin are to pay a visit to_ the Mar
shal at Copet, and the former will certainly meet,
and have a conference, somewhere with M. Mou
nter, on state affairs. A fubferiprion has been
opened here by the Geneva bankers in favor of
France. Six hundred thousand livres (2Jo,oool.)
have been already fubferibed ; it is like a drop ol
oil thrown into the sea to calm a storm. Ihe
magittrates of this republic have forbidden the
manufacturing offtarch or hair powder, and fup
prefled all biscuits and pastry works. The petit
maitresand gluttons do not murmur. No baker
is permitted to make white bread ; the brown loaf
has been raised from 45 sous to 6, and yet 110 re
verberes ever came to our minds. This certain
ly proclaims the praise ofa free nation at the ex
pence of another, that talk *rymuchol liberty,
and are perhaps not ripe • it, since they are
unwilling to make the facr - s liberty requires,
and seem to mistake lictnt inefs for liberty, in
the fame manner that a 111 is., thrown, on a sud
den, into the world, won take debauchery foi
gallantry. Adieu. Lan without ceremony, as
a true republican, your'? cc.
November 14.
Extract of a letter sumf um Parts, Niv. 4.
The news we receiv< rom Brabant announce
another acftion near Tf lout. Between two and
iliree thousand patrio have perished. Count
d'Anhalt Saxe, brothe o the Empress of Russia,
is killed *. The troo refufed to fire a feconil
time. The Prince o( .igne, and the Count de la
March, both officers the French service, are
gone to join the patri . M. de T rauttmanfdorff,
The burner of , has placed fifty guards at
at the Dowagers of mberg's hotel, and as ma
ny at that of Maline and at the Capuchin's con
vent."
*He-aas .1 volunteer i e Bender Regiment, and once Cap
lain of Hussars.
The Ruffians ar' now matters of the mouth and
of both fides the liefter, and when the accounts
came away, wcr to tui-n the blockade of
Bender into a re- arfiege. This town, itis tlio't,
cannot hold ou >ng, as all communication with
it, bothby lane' id by the Black Sea, is nowen
tirely cut off.
The mefleiif vlio brought this news to Vienna
carried with h. . some links of chains, in which
the Grand Vi intended to have bound the Au
strian troops, hom he hoped to have made pri
soners of wa A great many waggons were load
ed with thelt locking chains, which fell into the
hands of th Prince de Coubourg after his vic
tory at Mav eftie on the 22d of September.
One of tl chains weighed two quintals and
ahalf, and i 14feet long, and was calculated to
bind five p .ners.
As the G id Vizicrexpedted to make the whole
of the P i. e's forces prisoners of war, some
j uflgeme ! lay be formed of the number of those
chains, a veil as of the waggous which carried
them. e Emperor gave orders that these hor
rid trop: s should be placed in the arsenal, there
to rerna is monuments not only of the savage
cruelty the Turks, but also of their fhaineful
defeat.
TIII egiments have received orders to march
to the Jtherlands, two of them are liorfe, name
ly, C. -ourg's and Keifer's light dragoons.
At nts were received at Vienna from Jafly,
in Mi ivia, that the Auftrians had again defeated
the rks near Brailow, taken 30 pieees of can
non in them and made themselves matters of
cha own.
1 .low was taken without a fliot.
M rfhal Laudohn intends, before he puts his ar
m- ito winter quarters, to penetrate further in
t- rvia, in three different directions : one by
Z rnick and Ufilzai, another by Nyfla, and the
t) dby Orfova.
v'iddin is to be bombarded ; and 18 battalions
• foot, and all the light horse, had been aiflually
: on that service.
" e Marshal gave a magnificent entertainment
jo ; late Governor of Belgrade and his prin
ci officers, before they were sent away toa Tur
; fortrefs.
is reported that the Marshal asked the Pacha
at could have been his reason for surrendering,
so short a time, a fortrefs of so much impor
nce, that wasfo amply provided with stores and
iimunitiori, and might, in the opinion of all the
uftrian officers, have flood out at leatt a week
anger.
Ofman replied, " My soldiers refufed to stand
by ine. They skulked into the casemates when
your dreadful fire opened from all your bat
teries. I could not, thus abandoned, witlittand
• alone, your formidable attacks.
" But, laid Marshal Laudohn, what will the
r< Porte fay on the occasion ? In a Government
" such as yours, do you think that allowance will
" be made for the necessity imposed upon you
" by the desertion of your troops, to lurrender
" the fortrefs?—Do you think your life in dan*
" ger
" All the Officers in the garrison," replied
Ofman, " prefled. me tocapitulate ; and all have
ligned the minutes bf capitulation. Upon ilii
" circumstance 1 chiefly depend for my perfonai
" fafety."
The total loss of the Imperialists, from the day
they crolied the Save, to the day they took Bel
grade, amounted to no more than 289 feijeants
and rank and file killed, and 752 wounded ; anil
11 officers killed, and 27 wounded.
The military chest at Belgrade, when the place
surrendered, whs totally empty. It was though:
the Pacha had divided the money among hissofti
cers.
Ofm.m Pacha is about forty years of age: he
speaks Italian extremely well; in his haram there
were only four women.
A Ihort account of Brabant, and upon what;
principle the Brabancons, at present, make re
liftance to the Emperor.
The province of Brabant is distinguished by
two divisions— firft what is called Dutch Brabant,
the second Aujlrtan Brabant.
The chief towns of the firft are Boifteduc,
Breda, Bergenopzoom, Maeftriclit, Grave, Lillo,
Steenbergen—of the l'econd, Bruilells, Louvain,
Vilvorden, and Lawden.
Antwerp and Malines are provinces indepen
dent of Brabant, though surrounded by it, and
fubjedt to the House of Austria.
The seventeen provinces, of which Brabant
forms apart, were, long after the decline of the
Roman empire, governed by their own Princes,
till swallowed up by the House of Burgundy ■/
from thence they palled to Spain, and from Spain,
thole which are now called Austrian Netherlands,
are considered as a circle of the empire, and
contribute their lhare to the imposts ot the em
pire, but notji'ubje»ft to its judicatures; for though
the Archducal House, as being- Sovereign of the
whole, is the directing and summoning Prince,
the Constitution enjoins an Aflembly, or Parlia
ment, for each province, confiding of the Cler
gy, Nobility, and Deputies, who meet at Brus
sels, and who are convened to make laws for the
general good of the whole.
Conceiving those privileges trampled upon by
the late decrees of the Emperor, and, perhaps,
feeling the general spirit of Continental politics
at present in their favour, the inhabitants of the
different towns have armed and make refiltance,
the event of which time only can determine.
November, 17.
By the Dutch and Flanders mail which arrived
on Saturday morning, we have the following
important news from Cleves :
That the King of Prussia has sent orders to
Lieutenant General de Schliffen, Governor of
Wefel, to march with a considerable body of
forces to appease the troubles at Leige, they are
no be joined by others belonging to the Bishop ol
Munfterand the Duke of Juliers, in their titles as
co-directors of the empires.'
Extract of a letter from Brussels, O&ober 27.
The Rubicon is atlength palled ! The armed
refugees of Brabant, dispersed in proclamations
and annihilated in gazettes, entered this province
oil the Dutch frontier, to the number, it is said,
of near forty thousand men, 011 the 23d inft.
The following day, after some fkirmiflies, in
which only a few lives were loft, they nvadethein
lelves mailers of Lillo, the key of Brabant ou
that fide, and advanced towards Antwerp. In the
night of jhe 24th, they poifelled themselves of
an holtage, for the security of their friends in.
Bruflels. M. de Crumpiper, Chancellor of Bra
bant, one of the molt active among the agents of
their sovereign, wasfurprifed at his country fear
on the banks of the Scheld, by a detachment of
about 30omen,andconveyedtot.he head-quarters
of the patriots. They gave immediate notice to
the Aultrian officer that they would retaliate on
hi» person any feveritiesexercifed on their imprU
foned friends.
This manoeuvre gave to the following
one 011 the part of the government: —Count Lan
noy, and three more noblemen of the most an
cient and opulent families in the province, had,
in obedience to the injunctions, and on the faitli
of the promiles contained in the Emperor's last
proclamation, returned to this capital from their
voluntary exile. They were yesterday appre
hended as hostages for the fafety of the Chan
cellor.
General Dalton has just issued the following
proclamation :
Whereas, several villages have hoisted the
Standard of revolt, their inhabitants have been
found in arms, and every thing drawn up in mi
litary order ; and as it is ellentially proper to
make the rebels return to their duty of fubuiiffion
to their legal sovereign, we notify, that notwitli
ftanding our repugnance to shed human blood,
and to render unhappy innocent people who may
be found amongst the guilty, we ffiall neverthe
less be reduced to the disagreeable necellity of
fire to all such villages as shall hoist the
Standard of revolt, or where any of-the inhab
itants Ihall have Ihewn themselves friends to ir,
by making refinance to his Majesty's troops.
In the general search made here for arms, even
the dignity of foreign Ministers was not spared.
The houses of the French, Dutch, and English.
Envoys were fcarched. The firft of these mini-