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[No. 106 of Vol. IV.]
Foreign Intelligence.
M O N S, April 5.
( Ext rati of a privatt letter.)
«< H£ right Column of 1 hePrince
X Cobourg's army is marching
towards Valenciennes. At the mo
ment I am writing it is believed
that that town is in polietiion of the
Aultrians. It is reported that the
Inhabitants of Maubege have sent
to inform General Ciairfayt, that
they are willing to open their gates
upon condition that the General
will guarantee the i'ecurity of pro
perty."
BRUSSELS, April 5.
" Lille has opened its gates to
the Auilrians. We cxpetft that Con
de, Douay, Valenciennes, and Mau
bege, will do the fame."
LIEGE, April 2
" The Prince de Hohenloe is at
Namur, where he allembles the hea
vy artillery, corps of engineers, &c.
He is to command at the sieges
which are soon expeifted to be made,
of some of the ilrong towns on the
French Frontiers. It ii thought
Maubeiige or Gavet will be the iirlt
attacked. He has five other Gene
rals under him.—General Beauiieu
is with a small army oppofue Long
•wy."
ANTWERP, April 8.
French garrison that were
ftrßreda, have made a requisition
<0 be allowed a strong escort,' left
(hey iliould he murdeied by the
Brabauters, who are highly' iiicen -
fed sk the French." '
-■V nmnbt-r of fiiigii.lt tHjopS do
duty at Offend. The Aufttiaiis
from that place, are to take
poflefllon of the French camp ac
(yeuport and Farmeries.
LIVERPOOL, March 30
Some people lhake their heads
and leem forrowful when they heai
ot large funis of money having beer
sent to thc good patriots of France,
to enable them to carry on the war
againll this country with t he greater
energy and effcift ; hue what is it
the true lons of liberty will not at
tempc in support of their darling
caul's ! Ihe Englishman who would
not betray his country, rob his cre
ditors and reduce his family to beg
gary and ruin, in fopport of liberty,
is not worthy the name of a modern
patriot.
A gentleman of veracity in War
rington informs us, that a nephew
of his rode a galloway from that
town to Settle, in Yorkshire, which
is 70 miles, in one day, and back
again the next: Af;er which bis
nephew and the galloway were
weighed, when the former proved
the heavier by 1 5 lb.
Mr. Fox said in the House of Com ■
nions the o'her d;iy, that nothing
*aS more unpopular and opposite to
the deities of the people of England,
than Sir John Scott's bill for pre
venting traiteious correspondence ;
hut Mr. Fox surely forgot himfelf ;
his conduct at this particular crisis,
is'infinitely more unpopular, and
opposite to the deflres of the people.
DUBLIN, April 4.
The Cotntnifliontfr* of the Irifli
Pr ivy Co u nci l,ap pointed to go toLon
don, to afiill in the Britilh Cabinet,
at the difcuflion of a great me.ifure
refpetJtiog this kingdom, are now
ton their way to the Englifti metro
polis. The objetft of this great cen
iultation, is by a number of people
here fuppoled to be the mode,of ef
fecting a union of the Britilh and
Irish legislatures.
_It was apprehended lor some
time, that the Guilds of this city
Wednesday, Junk 5. 1 793-
would have been so much under the
influence of old piejudnes, us to
throw diflicultics in the way of Ch- ;
tholks seeking adr.iiliiou into their
respective bodies, which would ef
fect ualJy exclude them. We are
happy to learn, however, chat ma-,
ny ot thole guilds are much mure
liberal in their feiuiments, and in
tend to admit Catholics to their free
dom, on pearly the fame terms as
Pi ot« (ianis.
Hart of the exquifiie furniture be
longing to the late King of France,
froin the Palace of Sc. Cloud, iscon
figned to the European Museum.
FROM THE MORXING CfiRONU lb.
L ONDO N, April 9.
From ps Maich to the
third, ii>ft.,/Karis appears to have
been reirtaT'kably quiet, conlideriug
that difatlerons news had been dai
ly pouring in rVorti every quarter.
The Council General of the Com
niiine has been vigilant ; and San
terre, the Commandant General, ac
tive in the discharge of his own du- 1
ty, and ftric'i in compelling those
whom he commands to perform
theirs. The Decree for difqnniiig
all fufpetfied pei sous was rigidly ex
ecuted, and without thc.fniaUrit op
petition. The itate of Paris is vow
more chat of a garrison than of a ci
ty. What effetfts the news of Du
>noiirier's conduct may produce, it
would be piefim>piio|i to anticipate.
The conduiTt of ihe Parillans is not
reducible to any known principles
of human action.
The (quadrou which failed from
Br eft oil the Stli of March, was. »
bliged to put back, having differed
fc~. Cicl
Achilles and the f ourvplle loft their
masts ; and Duval, the Commander
of 1 he (quadrun, was killed.
When the Commiliioners of the
Convention wete introduced to l)i|-
mourier, tliey a/ked him, by w;hofe
orders he had made the French ar
my retreat from the Belgic proviri
ces—he answered, by my oruti proper
order. " You tiien love the Belgic
provinces !" added he, " very well !
you (hall pay a visit to them your
l'elves."
BrifTo-t's party is now the leading
one ; he carries with hiin 300 mem
bers of the Convention, which,
f'eemingly undif'may ed, are pre
paring to refiit the renegade re
storer of Monarchy.
The Commiflionerg are lodged in
Maeftricht, by order (>f the Prince
de Cobourg, as a place of the great
elt ffrength. It is said the allies
suspend their operations until the
success of Dumourier is known.
April ji
The Gazette, in which errors are
as common as in newspapers of less
emolument, f'eems to have made a
small miltake in the number of pri-
I'oners taken by the Pruftians at the
battle ofßingen. It states thenoll
commiflioned officers and privates
taken at 200 ; the Bruflels Gazette
extraordinaiy makes the "number
2 COO.
The fame Gazette informs us,that
an aruii'ftice had been agreed upon
between his serene highnefa the
Prince of Saxe Cobourg and general
Duoiourier,' the latter having pre
viously confirmed to evacuate the
Aulirian Netherlands and Dutch
Brnbant.—Why his serene highness
(hould agree to anarmiftice, on con
dition of Duntourier's doing that,
which if the accounts of his serene
highnefs's vi&ories be true, he was
evidently obliged to do without any
condition, it is not eal'y to imagine.
The natural inference is, either that
Duinourier was (till in fufficient
force to dispute the pofleffion of the
Austrian Netherlands, or that the
prince ofbaxe Cobourghad puichaf
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>• i Ms victorias at so dear a rate as
to make an armillicc desirable, if
not neceflary.
The Duke of Richmond is now
preparing a plan for the foi tificaii-
O" of Paris againit Republicans and
Levellers, which he mcqtis to tranl
inii' to Dumcurier as soon as the lat
ter has taken ftofleftion of the capi
tal and rellored the oid government.
Mr. Reeve* is ti> go over at the lame
'time, and transfer the feat of his
aflochuion front the c»own aud an
tibor to the palais ray ale.
The fajl. From the laie intelli
gence from the armies on the Con
tinent, the bi(hops will find it lie
cefliny ro make an alteration in their
form of pray er. Since the wicked
have seen the error of their ways
0-od turned into the right path—it
(houltl be rather a thanlCfgtving than
_
T.he admiralty of Anifteidam have
given notice that the embargo upon
all the veflels of the allies and neu
tral nations bound to the Baltic,the
Ealt and Welt-Indies, is taken off.
Dumpurier is said to have been
perfnafled to change fides by the
anihi dexter negotiations of Lord
Auckland.
Letters from Vienna and Cremo
na state, that a meflenger arrived on
the nth ult. at Milan, with intelli
gence that General Colli had de
feated the French at Nizza, taken
all t.lieir baggage ; and that Bit on,
their General, was wounded, sup
posed mortally.
Intelligence was yesterday tranf
initted to the admiralty by admiral
IVlacbride, that Dumourier, finding
that his army would not fuppoit
* i,i) in his plan of marching to Pa
ris, and placing young Lonis on the
throne, had found it necelfary to
consult his fafety by going over to
the Auftrjans ; and that he effecled
his escape from his own troops, car
rying with him a regiment of caval
ry, confiding of from four to fix
hundred men.
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This intelligence is said to have
been received by Admiral
from the AuAi'tan commanding offi
ci'r at Oftend.
April 12
Yesterday morning Sir James Mur
ray arrived in town from Oitend,
with dispatches to government. He
left Antwerp the 9th inft. and has
inacje a * ery expeditious journey.
Sir James Murray confirms the le
port of Duuionriei's having been
obliged to return back to the Aus
trian head quarters at Mom.
The following intelligence may
be depended on as being con etft :
General Dumourier, at ilie head
of about 18,000 men, had reached
Canibrai, a town of considerable
ill ength iii the French Netherlands,
and 1 j miles S. W. of Valenciennes,
on his March towards Pari*. In the
coui fe of the 61 li inll. he oblerved
some difaffec r tion in his army, and
having arrived at Canibrai, he ob
served his artillery desert him, as
well as many of the National Volun
teers. He endeavored to rally his
force*, and harrangued the troops
of the line in particular, 111 a very
pathetic Ipeech, exposing to them
the villainy of the National Con
vention, and that it was impoffibJe
for the government to exilt much
lenger. He said it was a disgrace.
to serve such a cause.
The aruiy, in reply, nffured the
Genera] of tlieir persona] attach
ment and refpetft for him, but that
they could not content to follow
him in bis present views, and turn
their backs on the Conttituiion they
had fwurn to support. Finding this
disposition very general, Dumourier
thought it prudent to make good a
retreat as fuft as pofiihle; and on
the 7111 inft. be returned lotheAuf-
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irian iieatl.quarters at ar the
Lead of about 1100 Huflars, princi
pally belonging to the regiwcnt of
bercoiny, who bad always bepn
confklered as attached to the Royal
cause.
Young Egalite, who ranked as a
General in ibe army, is returned
vviih D«in«nitier, and has resumed
bis tiile of Duke de Chartres ; ihe
eon/equence of this will probably
be, that as soon as the Convention
bears this news, they will take his
father into custody, and all those
who are nearest attached to him, oiji
fuipicion of being accedaty to Du
iiiourier's treason.
The operations of Dumourier's
army are not known, after his leav
ing it ; it is certainly in a very dif
unired wreuhed (late, and we shall
not be furpi ifed to hear of its hav
ing totally dilbanded itfelf. Du
uiouiiei waj the very life and foul
of the canf'e in which he had em
harked ; and the French will not
find another General of abilities and
courage equal to him.
Gen. Duiwourier did not propose
to remain long at Mons ; he had
considerable expectations of being
able to collect a considerable force
of French Rovalilis in a very short
time, and return to some important
entei pi ize.
General Dampierre cook the com
mand of Duniourier Vanity on his
leaving it.
The dirertors of the India com
pany have resolved to puc up foqr
millions fix hundred and seventy
thousand pounds of tea at their sale
in Juuc next.
i>ir James Murray left Antwerp
on Tuerday ; and btfides a confir
mation of the failure of Dumou
rier's plan for refloiing roj'aity in
France, and his being obliged lo
confuh his perfoua! fafety, by fly
ing from his own army to the Auf
trians ; brought the result of the
Congress held at Antwerp on Mon
day ; at which were present,
The l'rince of Qrange
two lons ; his Excellency Vandv
Spiegel ; his ftoyal Hignnefs the
Duke ot York ; his Excellency Lord
Auckland ; his Excellency -Kul
ler, Miniiler of Pruflia ; his
Kighnefs the Prince dp Saxe Co
bum'g ; his Excellency M. Mettet;-
nich and his two foils ; the Count
rle Staieinbeig ; the Count Mercjr
d'Aigen;e,au ; the Minister of Spain;
the Miniiler of Naples.
The object was to fettle a general
plan fur tlie prosecution of the war ;
and, as i)umourier's defection bad
produced do material alteration, to
determine whether tlie combined
armies Ihotild again attempt the in
vasion of France, or confining the
French within their own frontier,
and cu-.ting them off from external
communication, leave the restora
tion of Monarchy to the efforts of
the Loyalists within the kingdom,
and the natural progress of discon
tent arising from diltrefs ainongthe
people.
In a letiei from Angers in France,
of a very late date, which came by
way of Ortend, it i» (laced chat there
have been two actions below Sau
mur in Brittany, between the Pa
triots and the insurgents. In the
firft aiftion, the Insurgents were de
feated ; in the second, which took
place the next day, they had ample
revenge of the National Guards ot*
Argeis, whose cannon they took.
This success made them mailers of
the bridges of Ce, an important pas
sage over the Loire, which opens
thcni ihe road to Anjou, and gives
them the command of the commu
nication between that province and
Poitou. The bridges of Ce are but
a (holt difianctf from Angers.
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