Foreign Affairs.
WARSAW, July 4-
THE latt accounts from the army of
PrinceJofeph Poniatowlki,menti
-011 his being now'poiled near Dubuo.
In his march front Oltrog, his rear
guard was continually engaged with
the enemy, by which the Ruffians 101 l
200 men, and otir troops about 40.
Jui.y 13.
We have received accounts here
that the Polirh army under Prince Jo
seph Poniatowfki, near Polonnoc, has
fnffered a great loss from the l(uffians.
On the 7th inlt. the Polish artny,
consisting of 25,000 men, approached
the Ruffians, whole numbers we have
110 accounts of. Prince Poniatowlki
was just absent ; thus the army was
■without a head. The Ruffians no
sooner appeared, but th« Polish Nati
onal troops were immediately struck
with a panic terror and put to flight.
Two Polifl) Generals, either thro'
inclination or fear, went over to the
Ruffians. A reinforcement of 20,000
men for this army was 011 the march,
and it is much apprehended they wilf
meet with the Ruffians unprepared.
The loss of our defeated army con
sists of the whole field equipage, 49
guns, 227 bags of gunpowder, 1475
firelocks, 50,000 cartridges, 24,000
i~ack9 of flour, j,ooo sacks of oats, 2?
cart loads of hay, 2800 pieces of cloth,
470 ammunition waggons, and the
chest of war ; 1737 '"en were killed,
439 wounded, and 1247 taken prison
ers. This affair cost the Ruffians no
thing, iince the Polish army made no
resistance.
On the joth July the King and the
whole corps de rcfer-je that was en
camped in the adjacent diftridts,
marched and fixed their camp in the
ood of Prague (in Poland)
on the oppofire banks of the Vistula.
B RES LAW, July 21.
The report of the defeatofthe Po
lifli army commanded by Prince Po
niatowfki, is not confirmed, and from
the accounts which have been receiv
ed, it feenis to be a falfe one, as they
mention nothing neither" of the ab
sence of Prince Poniatowfki the trea
<oll of one or more of the generals,
or the total defeat of the army.
GLASGOW, July 28.
The new gaol at Ipswich is divided
into four pares ; one for debtors, a
nother for convitfts, a third for felons,
and a fourth for women. They have
separate cells, and are provided with
a comfortable dress at the expence of
the county ; each tfas a bedstead,
ilraw, mattrafs ftieet, blankets, and
coverlid. From the ltrutflure of the
building no gaol dittemper can possi
bly arise, and every priloner on his
entrance is obliged to strip and be
bathed before he is apparelled with
the cloathing of the house ; nor are
strangers admitted to fee them.
PARIS, August 3.
The authenticity of the Duke of
Brunfwick's declaration is no longer
queftioij.ed ; but it has not produced
the union which all rational men
consider as ouronly means ofdefence.
On the contrary, the two pat ties are
as eager in reviling and calumniating
each other, as if they had no common
enemy. To their activity, hi this re
fpe<ft, may, I presume, be attributed
tjie idea of a letter which the Jaco
bins affirm to have been written by
the king to the duke of Brunfwick,
inviting him to Paris, and which the
f euillants aliert is a forgery by the
Jacobins, intended to be produced at
foine convenient opportunity, to de
lude the people, and serve as a pre
text for seizing the whole executive
power into their own hands. It is
our good fortune that these plots, if
they have any foundation in truth
are too much talked of to succeed. '
M. Robertl'pierre moved the Jaco
bins that to save their country there
ihould be a new national
to be chosen by the primary Aflem
blies, to exiit for one year, neither
the Aflemblee Conrtituente, nor the
present Afiembly, to be eligible to it,
and this convention to have the whole
power.
" Another member proposed, that
a Dirtaturate of twentv-one fliould
fupercede both King and Allernbly,
chnfe ministers, appoint generals.and'
conduct the war.
Such are the questions that now a
gitate the public mind ; but 1 fee a
probability in the present tumult, of
order. The Jacobins fay, they have
no more than 45 or 46 members in
the National Alfembly, upon whom
they can depend. All the relt are
either intriguers or touched by 1110-
derantifm ; be it so, we are likely at
least to have a confirmed majority on
one iide, and for the fake of experi
ment, 1 care not 011 which lide ; for
I desire them only to confront their
foreign foes and poflpone for the
term of war ac lcalt, all questions
merely acceflary.
" The National AfTembly to the Na
tional Guards of Paris, and to their
brothers in a'rins, the National
Guards of the several Departments
of the kingdom, come to Paris in
order to repair to the camp at So
i lions, or to join the armies 011 Che
frontiers
" Citizen' Soldiers,
" The Representatives of the peo
ple, whose lively solicitude watches
unceasingly over all parts of the king-
dom, think it their duty to inform
you themf«lves of the dangers that
threaten you. The enemies of the
conllitution redouble their efforts to
destroy your force by dividing it." It
is in the name of that liberty which
you adore ; it is in the name of the
law, to which you have sworn to be
faithful, lhat they have the audacity
to sow so fatal diflentions aniongyou.
Artfully perverting every circum
stance, reviving every prejudice, in
flaming every mind, they ftrive,from
district to diftridt, from division to
division, to lead you on to adtual
crimes, and make you turn your arms
against one another. They want to
introduce among you anarchy and ci
vil discord, those terrible precursors
of defpotifin ; they wish to deliver
you, without defence, to the po%vers
leagued against your liberty, your
independence, and your happiness.
" Citizen soldiers, mark the prec;
pice over which they wish you to fall.
The representatives of the nation
have shewn it to you ; they have 110
more fears on your account. Your
patriotism, your fidelity, the interest
of your country and your own, all
allure them, that apprized of the per
fidious plots against your fafety, no
force will be able to vanquish you,
because 110 fedutfiion will be able to
disunite you."
Proclamation by the King, for the
*' O »
maintenance of public tranquility.
" The King cannot fee, withoi
profound indignation, the arts of v
olence by which the public tranquil
ty for several days palt has been dii
turbed in the Capital, individual li
berty outraged, ihe fafety of person
and property endangered. His Ma
jefty would think hiiyfelf the accom
plice of such excefles, if he fuffereti
them in silence to be committed be
fore his eyes, and the blood of French
men to be sprinkled, to use a itrong
expreifion, on the walls ofhis palace,
on the gates of the National AHem
bly. If armed men are capable of
forgetting that there exist laws, the
guardians and protestors of liberty
and lives o'f citizens, his Majesty will
never forget that be is inveited with
the national power, but to maintain
the execution of thole laws. He has
already directed the minister of jus
tice to denounce to his commissioner
in the criminal tribunal, the crimes
perpetrated yesterday. He has to
day enjoined the department, the
municipality, all public officers, civil
and military, to employ all the means
given them by the constitution, to re
establish order and peace. Heinvites
all the citizens to concord, to refpert
for the conlHtuted authorities, to
zeal for maintaining tranquility ;'and
111 cafe of its being difhirbed af.efli
he enjoins all the friends of their
country and of liberty to give force
Co the 1 aw.
At Paris July 3 ,ft f I? 2 f ,
year of Libei ty.
(Signed) « LOUIS.
(Undersigned) « CHAMPION "
The general council of the depart
ment of Morb.han, have prohibited
he CMculauon (till the national as.
ten,bly ordered otherwise) of thirteen
incendiary newlpapers.
M. Luckner's army 'has marched
towards Meiz. That of M. La Fav
ctte has marched through Sedan
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This morning the capital was on
the point of being a scene of confuli
on and bloodlhed— on account of the
populace receiving information that
there were a large quantity of arms
concealed in the Kings Palace ; they
had afleinbled in vast numbers in the
Kauxbourg St. Antoine, &c. but the
virtual Pet lON arriving and all'ur
ing them to the contrary, they dif
peifed without any confetjuences.
The present plan of the Jacobins
adopted in their cavern on the 25th
as follows :
I. To suspend the King. 2. To
form an Executive Council iuftead ol
him. 3. To abolish the Civil Lilt for
ever, and that all the King's expences
and those of his family fliall be de
frayed by the National Treasury.
The quantum to be fixed every year
by the National Afl'embly. Those ac
counts to be pablilhed yearly. That
this plan be sent, not to the 83 De
partments as was at firit intended, but
to the 44,000 Municipalities of the
kingdom.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, >
July 24
M. Monrefquiou appeared at the
bar. He plainly informed the augulh
Diet, that the King of Sardinia hag
70,000 troops ready to march, whff
receive war pay.
M. Montefquiou said that his army
confided of only 94 battalions for the
defence of all the Southern Depart
ments, and that 32 battalions only
could be employed in the campaign.
, M. Guerin said that he would de
nounce to all good citizens any man
who ihould maintain that the King
ought not to be deposed.—" Then
you may denounce nie," cried M.
Boulanger.
Read a letter from the war minister,
containing information that the Auf
trians are extending their lines at Ba
vay, with a view to intercept all com
uiunications with Maubeuge, that the
towns threatened with an attack are
fortifying night and and that
M. Dillon has held a council of war
at Valenciennes on the operations
most proper to be adopted at this cri
tical moment : that the fire has con
sumed in that town all the camp im
plements, and that some men have
been arretted on suspicion of being
incendiaries.
M. Duhame declaimed loudly a
gainfl the treachery of the executive
power.—Adjourned.
July 25.
On the motion of the military com
mittee it was decreed, that every com
mander of a fortified place, who (hall
surrender before a practicable breach
is made in it, or without fuilaining at
least one allault, if there be an inte
rior entrenchment, lhall be punilhed
with death.
That fortified places being the pro
perty of the whole nation, in no cafe
can the inhabitants or adminillrative
bodies of fucli places require the com
mander to surrender, on pain of be
ing treated as rebels and traitors to
their country.
The following extraordinary cafe
was referred by one of the criminal
tribunals to the Afl'embly :
" A woman, two months gone with
child, had run some melted lead into
her husband's ear, who instantly ex
pired. The culprit made the moll
ample conleflion, and excused herfelf
by lifying, that ihe loved her hulband
tenderly, but that she could not refill
the inclination} of a w»man in her Jitu-
ation
" We have consulted the Faculty
011 this point, and they have unani
mously declared, that the longings
of a woman with child might be I'uch
as to induce her to commit so horri
ble a deed, without her own volition.
" We requell the rtfl'embly to di
re»si us how 10 proceed upon thisfub
jec't.
July 26.
The Aflembly decreed, that a Le
gion conipoled entirely of foreigners,
ihould be raised under the name of
Legion Blanche Etrangers. it is to
consist of 2622 men, of whom 500 are
to be mounted on horseback.
M. Gaudet, in the name of the
comnnflion of public fafety, presented
the projetft of an addrels to the King,
requelling him, "in the name of their
common country, and from regard to
his own interest, to batiifh from about
his person, all those who are the ob
jeiils of public mistrust, and thecaufe
of the present alarmln
activity.
M. Briflot then rose, „ d
and eloquent speech, dep re JY " :
cipitation, which according , J ii
would produce a civil war ° "
He observed, that the Kin* TV
not to be tried, until all France fe
be convinced of his perfidy.
He concluded by moving i(V tl
the committee ftould bring j,' * 1
port concerning .hole cases i„ wh l
a Sovereign „„ght he confid'erej ,
having abdicated his IWalty . J!
2 y, VV hither an abdication had now
really taken place? He recommend*
an address to the nation.
Mr. Arena moved that the late mi
ni .y be Puniihed, without excepting
one individual as being guilty ofiiavt
mg betrayed the nation.
L O N D O N, July i 9.
The Court of Vienna is faidto have
lnfifted on the difniilfion 0 f Calonne
from the g>uncils of the French
Princes, on account of the genml
deteftationin which he is held in
France.
I The Cardinal Archbilhop of Twin
|as published, by order of hu Coait
■ paltoral letter, to invite the people
to pray for the fuccels of the Piemon
tefe arms againlt a nation equally the
enemy of God and of Kings.
The Ambaflador from the- United
States of America to the &>iu&'C«w
arrived 011 Friday night, with
merous suite, and has taken op
residence at the Royal Hotel, Su
James's.
Two ltandards belonging ioTippoo
Sultan's army, and taken by Lord
Cornwallisi before the walls of Serin-
gapatam, have been sent home by his
Lordlhip as a present to Lord Pea.
broke.
The Auftrians and Pruflians have,
it is laid, finally determined to form
immediate arrangements for advanc
ing to Paris, which they are resolved
to capture on or before the 23d u?
October next.
The Declaration of the Duke of
Brunfwick is said to be a compolition
entirely his own, and contrary to the
opinion of Prince Hohenlohe, the
General of the Imperial troops. The
Duke was perhaps afraid that he
fliould not meet with opposition e
nough in France to afford an oppor
tunity for a full display of his mili
tary lkill, and propofcd a declaration
to provoke the whole nation to unite
against him.
The f übfeription towards the suc
cour of the people of Poland is likely
to be taken up ill away unprecedent
ed in the history of England. Not
merely coiporations, public bodies
and clubs—but the ladies have*dillin
guilhed themselves in a cause so no
ble, and foine of our molt exalted wo-
men emulate the Duchess of Marlbo
rough in the cause of Maria Theresa,
A diabolical attempt has been made
to poison the bread making for t lie
Prussian army. The bakers had
ceived for that purpose large funis ot
money, and as soon as the money was
in their pockets they discovered the
whole plot. Several frenchmen were
immediately taken up and committed
to prison. They palled for emigrants.
The attorney-general has given no
tice to Jordan the bookseller, pub
lilher of Mr. Paine's Rights of Man,
that his pleading Guilty, will noi
entiile him to any more favour than
he ihould have received, h> d he beea
cortviifted.
Angling is not confined to the wa
tery element : a gentleman of the
black rod, one evening lad week, "e
---ry dexterously contrived'to cram a
hook with a wire to it, through t -e
key-diole of Mr. Francis's Ihop, ' e
clothier,in Cheller j where lie caught
about 30 yards of cloth, whic 1C
found means to drag through .ma
perture at the bottom ol the door.
The government of this f ° unl !' s j;
in the whole of their conduit
regard to the revolution in ranc
have maintained 4 a system 0
neutrality, They have eqiia )
borne to interfere in the.r eternal
government, or take advaut'g
their diftrefles. They haveT.kew.fc
taken care not to pledge 1 {nl ,
by any tie to their fuppoit, or .
any claim which might 1 ei> e
a Alliance neceHary.-I" ftor «h«J
have left the French to US aiie
theinfelves.