ten that they were 110 longer able to do any good, and that they began to despair. The convention decreed, that 3 commiUioners from their own num ber (hotild be fcnt with full powers to atft as ciriumftances might re quire, and ordered the executive power to difpaich an armed force futficient to rettore tranquility. Alarming ft ate of h'arts. He said there existed a great fer ment among the people, and that they were assembling in a tumult ous manner in very large bodies,on account of i he Icarcity of provisions. He moved, therefore, and the con vention decreed, that the municipa lity of Pari9 fliould be authorized to pursue such measures as they might think necessary for reftoi ing order ; even to cause the drum to beat to arms if neceflary ; and that they (hould every day give to the con vention an account of the (late of Paris. February 16, The affair of Lyons again occupi ed the attention of the convention, and several farther particulars, re fpe<fting the disorders in that city,- were stated : among others/ that the counter-revolutionists openly shouted out Long Vt.ve Louis XV-lf.'— D n to the Municipality : Jtwti wit A it. Two battalions, hpwever, arriving there, a number of the ring leaders quitted that place. March 6. Letter from the commiffiuners sent to Belgium. Liege, March 3, ,1793 Citizens our colleagues, " As you will have laid before you the letter which we have ad d'refled to the national convention, we fliall hot here repeat the con tents of it. But we mud add, that every thing is in a tnoft alarming fltuation ; that the army which re tired from Aix-la-Chapelle, and the environs, is almost entirely dilband ed ; that the enemy will perhaps to-morrow, or perhaps this evening, be in Liege—-in Liege, where all our provisions are colledted, and which contains inimenfe treasures ! We give this account from the in formation of General Valence, at whose house wc now write. He as sures us, that if Dumourier him (elf does not arrive, he canndt answer for the conferences. " We are endeavoring to rally the fugitives, and are using oilr ut most endeavors with the provisional administration and the citizens,that the people of Liege may second us, and supply the wants of'our army. The dangers resulting from this want are so much the greater, as the enemy are very strong in caval ry, while we have scarcely any at all. (Signed) Delacroix, Coujfin, and Merlin de Dottay.". When this letter was read several members moved, that Bournonville, the minister at war, should be called to the bar.—Bournonville accord ingly appeared and said ; 1 receiv ed yesterday from Gen. Valence dis patches, which simply dated, that the polls on the Roer had been forc ed ; that a column of Prussians were advancing towards Ruremonde.and that another body of 10,000 were marching against him. It is aston ishing that the com'miflioners should have been so imprudent as to give fttch details. Were they real, the generals would certainly have com municated them to me. I have re> ceived difpatclies also from Dumou rier, who gives me only a very flight account, of that affair. Yesterday morning I dispatched a courier,with orders to Valence and Miranda to unite, and form a body of 40,000 men ; for should the enemy appear before Liege, it would not be afto nHhing to hear of its being taken next day, as it is not fortified. I hfive besides given orders to Du mburier to lay siege to Maeftricht in form, in fliort,. news coming from fugitives is not entitled to cre dit*; and it is impossible that the commissioners could be properly in formed of the derails of that affair by men who fled." Paris, Match 11. We are aflured that the fitting of last night was ve ry intfrefting to the committees of the Convention. More than 80 per sons prcfent—Oanton and Genfonnet set out this morning for Belgium. The dispatches from Gen.Dumou rier are of the utmost importance. A very serious atftion took place be tween Bruflels snd Louvain, the de tails of which will probably be laid before the Convention to morrow. LEYDEN, March 11. The following is said to be a cor rect statement of the forces of the combined powers,now adting againll France on the banks of the Rhine, viz. under the command of Prince de Saxe Cob»urg and Gen.Clairfa^t r 38,000 infantry,and 12,000 $avalry ; —Prince Hohenlohe, 35,000 troops * —Count Colleredo, near Manheiin, 26,000 ;—Gen. Beanlieu, 1 4,000 ; General Wurmfer, 111 the Brifgjau, 3J,000 ; —befides 30,000 Croats, now marchjng through Germany to the fame deitination —making in the whole, 180*500 troops ; which num ber the addition of the Prulfian ar mies, and the army of the Empire, make above 300,000 tffFetftive men. It is also said that Cuftine's army is reduced to the last extremity by sickness and want. LIEGE, March 8. The Auflrians made themselves mailers of this place on the evening of the sth. Anarch of t lie great bridge having been broken down by the French, the Duke "ftf W3r»l temberg was not able to make his way thither sooner. The Prince de Saxe Cobourg has demanded from this city 600,000 flo rins by way of present to his army, and all the towns which were so im prudent as to receive the French will undergo the fame fate. Re tnonftrances have been made to the Prince on this fubje<S, but he repli ed that he could not depart from his demand. The Hulans have seized feveraj. waggons loaded with silver plate,, and 4J ounces of gold plate, taken from the cathedral, hare been in part seized near St. Tron. Th« olate of the chapter of St. Pete; vas luckily forgotten. . j -- . 0 - . . - , . t; . Last Sunday three French prjeft% /even emigrants and three citiren*, were by the patriot*. VIENNA, March 2. A arrived here yelterday at four o'clock in the afternoon, from Peterlburgh, with the official account, that the Empress of Russia had acceded to the coalition of the powers of Europe, and that a fleet of ten ships of the line are soon to quit the port of her majesty, in or der to join the Spanish squadron, and to a<s in concert with the Spa niards against France. His Imperial Majesty has just ac knowledged in form Monsieur, the eldest brother of the late Louis XVI. as Regent of France. COLOGNE, March 4. Yesterday 83 waggons with French wound ed, and a strong detachment of prisoners, rived here; which were taken by the Irape rialifts in the a&ion on the Roer the day be fore yesterday. Thisdav 24 waggons with wounded French men, among whom are feverai officers, enter ed this place, with some carts full of final! arms, and 11 pieces of cannon. It is reported that the French had 6333 men killed and wounded, and loft 45 pieces of cannon ; the Imperialists had 3JO killed, and 263 wounded. This evening 23 more waggons of woouded Frenchmen are come in. We have just re ceived accounts of a warm action between the Auftrians under Gen. Beaulieu and the French, td the advantage of the former, who killed a vast number of the French, took se veral pieces of cannon, and drove the enemy from Stablo and Malmedy. ROTTERDAM, March 8. A letter from Utrecht, 7th March, fays— " I havejuft time to tell you, that I left the Duke of Brunfwick's head quarters at BFiig gen, yesterday at noon, and you have in aii probability heard of the French having eva cuated Liege, Mazyk, Roermonde, and Fort St. Michael, and also of their having railed the siege of Maeftricht." HAGUE, March 11. Lift night ai 'ived here, and was put under confinement, J. H. Bedaulx, Lieutenant Ge neral, who had the command of Gertruydeu burg, &c. - FRANKFORT, March 9. _ The fortrefs of Konigftsiu l las at length oeen reduced by the allied armies. The French garnfon who were obliged to surren der at difcretioii, were brought hither to-dav. 386- Tbij eveniitg w> exf»A t'w fi'ft f«ln «f Imperial litavy artillery, that of the PruJHans has aireadyneacbed the place of K* tion. It is said, tha't the expenee of tr»nf-< porting thii firift train of Aafrrtwr artillery, ' and that of the second, which' is lofcn to-fol low, will not be lek .400,000 Sarins. ' LONDON, March \l. The secrecy, the vigor, the dis patch, with all the other unremit ting exertions, used by goverpment since the French have thought pro per to declare war against us, eor refpond with their general charac ter for wisdom and policy—They have, since that (hort period, silenc ed and reftri&ed tl>e daring among ourselves—they have purged the land of foreign and insidious emis saries, and put the kingdom in the bell general state of defcnce. Equal ly faithful to their allies, they have sent effevflual succour to their aid, and.by acling with a central 1 pirlt, have given wisdom and vigor to the councils and armies of Europe. To such spirited exertions,under God, we may attribute the late fuc cefles in Holland, and by persever ance, we may reasonably hope for a continuance of them. The late boast of Gen. Dumourier was, that he would breakfaft in Amsterdam the 17th of February last—but that day is past, and no Dumourier is arrived ! i The taking of Liege by General Beaulieu is a mod important con ijueft The magazines of the French, and all the treasures of which they had robbed the Nether lands, were stored in this place. Letters receive'd from Breda men tion, that Dumourier found in that fortrefs 187 pieces of cannon,— 200,000 pounds of 6,0c0 muskets, and a great quantity of bombs, cannon balls, &c. Dumou rier immediately set out upon an important expedition, carrying off a great part of the military stores. Maeftricht is defended by 4,000 German troops, chiefly from the duchy of Brunfwick, and 1,200 French emigrants, of whom the greater part are officers. The Brul fels Gazette, which now publishes only what the French didtate, ad mits, that the siege of this place was found much more difficult than was expetTted, and that the fire of the garrison proved the fuperin tendance of some able engineers. After the battle of Jemappe, in which very near 12,000 of the French were slain, Dumourier informed the Convention, that the day had cost him three hundred men. But how did this cunning Gene ral afterwards reconcile this infor mation to his conscience ? Thus— Upon being alked, when at Paris, by an English officer who was pre sent at the battle, how he could have sent word to the convention that that day had coll him onl) 300 men ? the General replied, that it was exa&ly so ; for, added he, be fore the engagement had been over an hour, 1 hail near 12,000 recruits sent to my army ; so that in balanc ing the account of killed and receiv ed, I found a deficiency only of 500' men—which, therefore, was the Joss of the day. March 19 Mr. Hope, of Amfterdain, who is now in London, received a letter by yesterday's ma'il, which he conli dered of so much importance as to transmit to Ministers. It slated that the Erince de Saxe Cobourg came up with the French armies between St. Tron and Louvain ; engaged them, and gained a complete victo ry, in which the French loss was eflimated at 12,000 men. Their armies were totally routed and dis persed. In addition to this, rumours more vague said, that the Auftrians had afterwards captured Louvain, and were marching to Bruflels with the certainty of taking it. We state these reports without giving them as facets. The name of Mr. Hope gave weight to the story, but it does not appear that the letter received by him Hates the fatfi other wise than as a report in Amfterdain. The accounts from Paris, down to Thursday Jail, ftatethat Dumourier had come to take the command of the Belgic army, but fays nothing of this defeat. HOUSE OF COMMONS, M.rtlm. • The UiavultoT of the Ejtxbr truer .xftrr l,„ r *, >■ ""V "" « ' ■" ofibf, in rrfpeft to tnt var, Jkteib, LyUi ,'J j ' to be proved for, and ,/« » uys and as johoil : TH! SUPPLY The navy—ordinal irs anid extra ordinaries Excels, by war The arms—guards, gamfonsj and augmentations of all for s, Excels, independent ot militia, Hanovciun troops, (feoiilj the Heufc ~~ " vot< (hem . « Miiitu and all cosiio^ciiciei vote for a rmy Excefj of the whole The ordnance total Excef» ... Mrfceiianeous, for extra unforefcea articles, Which was above the estimate of peace establishment Deficiency of grants Deficiency of land and male the ufuaT sum of • Additional iflue to the commiflion ers for theJrcdu&iou of the na i . . 800i0ao The total to be provided for to be 11,182,000 wavs and means. The ways and means to meet this fupplv he stated as-follows : Land and malt at the ufnal sum Surplus in hand on the sth January, arising from the large produd of the revenue To which was to be added the efti. mate fur plus up to the £th of April, to which the ways and means of the year had been cal culated, which he took at 274,000!. making a .oufbf . 7#0i009 Of which 435,000!. being the furplui ar.ring out of the three firft quarters, had been already voted. 7 Irt taking this future eftimMe of the Mrttt* nent revenue, after defraying the p«r«fcMM charges, h# should go on an average of years, (he total revenue in each of which excluding land and malt On the 51 hof Jan. J790 >791 »70» '793 Total in four years Which divided by 4. produced the average of For which deduct for charges For additional future charges "i39t«coo ' Making total c! Which, in round fui a disposable furp) ters of upwards o ADDRESS from the Nation'** jC<*l«iifT. tiow to the Fizncb Nation. Ptopofedby and tultptai tyfit' Jljfcmbly t an the prejatt crijis of iktirj- iuntton. is the inevitable lot of rations whi iave given te themselves kings, that they ne 'er can ihake off their yoke without a It rug »le with every neighbouring tyrant. Scarce had you proclaimed your own fover cignty when the emperor and king of Prussia took up arms against you, but now that you have proclaimed your constitution to b'c repub lican, there is not one despot who has not re* solved upon your utter ruin. Those who have not already forced you into open war, are pro bably temporising, that they may the more ealily deceive you, and it is but tod true, that' the proje&ei ftrogglc is between the" enfrsn chifed France and enslaved Europe. Be that so, France must eventually triumph if its will is firm and constant; for nations are stronger than armies. Those who havo fought' for independance were ever vuftors. Let Hol land, Switzerland, and the United States, be proofs of this afTertion. Free nations find resources in their utmort extremities and distress. Rome reduced to she circumference of the capital, arose from defeat more formidable than from vi<3ory. Remember, Franks, your own eiploits,whm the Pruflians dared to pollute your territory.— Ever did the enthusiasm of liberty triumph ov er numbers ; ever did fortune smile on the va lourous enterprise, and victory on true cot rage ! Franks, Heroes of Marathon, Salamis, and Jenimap pe, we invoke your testimony. Infant repub lic, such are thy models, fuchare the presages of thy success. Surely thou waft reserved to give the universe a display of a scene hithertrt unknown, hitherto unimaginediu the mindof man ; for never did such a cause occupy the ft™ of mankind, never was such a cause referred to the ultimate decision of war. Not the inte rest or concerns of the day is the theme, poste rity and ages to come are the fubjefl; not the liberty of one nation—no, the enfranchifemeot of human species. Franks, may the fuhlimity of these ideas flame thy valour, crufli every tyrant, rathtr than thyfelf becomc a slave —a slave ! What {hall then new kings feed on thy gold, on th c sweat of thy brow, on the profufion of thy blood ? Shall again unfeeling Parliaments, at their caprice, dilpofe of thy fortune, of thy life ?—Shall again a fanatic priesthood decimate thy industry and thy harvests ? Shall again <■' faitidious nobility tread thee under the loot c " r 3-79<<«e» - 2 .°?P**o a >S73.os* »-90Q,c0» ««s **, 939 AOO., #*■«*' •,300.009 » 793,00 i >»«•Ot».. tf<M. 3i°iOo» «, 750,000 14.41 M* iS,afc&* 13971,000 *40,000 31,6*t no* ur Z.i^.C'+h -I
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