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From a late London Paper.
M. DUMOURIEk'S LIFE.
"The follow ing is brief, but compre-1
hen five ikctchofDuMoußiEii's Life,
nude yet more intcrefting, as being
written by himfelf—for few men have
filled a la.ger (pace in bum an atten
tion, and fewer ft ill can have agitated
more the various and oppolite emoti
ons of hope and fear, Tif admiration
and contemik ! Gallant he un
■ubtedly was, and with an eriviabk.
< ldain of personal danger, he never
iiiled to exemplify, till his fall, re
fniices no less rare of nrft-rate intel
lectual parts.
The following month (April 1794)
fcv age \Vi 11 be 55. —Is it imaginable
tl.it lean wish, by concealment perhaps
(candalonsj to get a few days more of
iieafirtefs, of bitternels and (hame ?
I was born at Cambray, in the year
I 739 ; my family were noble, .but not
tich. My father was a very knowing,
a veVy virtuous man. My education
was right, both as to ftricipefs and ex
tent ; and when 18 years old-, in 1757, I
went into the army as my trade. There
1 was diilinguifhed without delay! when
1 was 22 years old, I had the military
order, (La Croix de St. Louis) and
my wounds like my years wure 22.
In 1763 was the peace. Then I be
gan to travel, with a view to lasguages
and manners ; for moral philoiophy ever
was my favoriti theme. Tlieove the va
gabond French have imagined
that I wj| occupied as a spy for the
then administration of France ; as if
had there been in Greece such vermin as
them, (les Marquis) they would not
liave said the fame of Pythagoras and
l'lato. - " ""
In 1768, I was recalled from Spain*
and sent to Corsica, where I was railed
to t!ic rank- of Colonel after the two
campaigns of 1768 and 1769.
In 1770, the due De Chbifeul sent
rneto Poland, minister to the confeder
ates ; and there in two campaigns, and
in negociat ions, of no small magnitude,
1 was the leader, with Various success.
As the affairs of Poland were ill-con
sidered, that revolution ended ill !—A
partition of that country ensued.
* In 1772 the marquis De Monti
guard, the war minister, employed me
in his depaVtment; and at the end of
that year sent me, by the order of Louis
XV. to Sweden,on the revolution which
had happened.
This employment, on which I had
my orders dire&ly front the kirtg him
felf, •• is known to tlx due D'Acquil
lon, the minister for foreign affairs; he
had me arretted at Hamburgh, and con
ducted to the 13afti!.e in 1773.
Louis XV, mittirrrHy weakj in
cidentally weakened more by his mis
tress La Duban y, and his minister, dis
graced the virtuous Montignard !—con
cealed the part be himfelf had taken in
fending me to Sweden, and left me ex
p jfed to a criminal process, which the
- ic D'Acquillon had began ; but dou'ot
i- g of its being tenable, had not dared
to try. At fix months end I was exiled
to Caen so. three,months !
In 1774, Louis XV. died. D'Ac
quillon fras disgraced. I wrote to Louis
XVI. deliring to be removed from Caen
to the Baftile, and to be tried. The
three ministers, de Muy, de Vergennes
and de Sartines, were my judges, and
they attested the hardftlip of my cafe,
that I had been persecuted unjustly.
As Colonel, I was sent to Lille, with
the new military manoeuvres the baron
de Pcrkh had brought from Prussia,
with a project of reform for the river
Rys-—and another plan, then in con
templation, for a port at Ambletetife.
On thefc occupations I parted 17 74 and
J775-
In 1776 I was king's commiflary
with the chevalier D'Oify, a captain of
a (hip, and field marechal De Roziere,
a celebrated military engineer, 011 a sur
vey of the Channel, for the canftru&ion
of a new port.
The year 1777 I lived in the country,
eighty miles from Paris. It is the only
year of repose I have had. At the end
of it there happened the Ame.ican war,
as I had foretold ; and 1 was accord
ingly sent for by the war minister, M.
De Montbakez.
In 1778 I had the command at Cher
bourg, which appeared to me mod fa
vorable for a port on the Channel; and
aided by the zeal, the activity, and the t
known character of the ducd'Harcotirt, j
who had the government of the pro- |
vince, we decided the point, above a j
* hundred years disputed, viz. that for a
military port, Cherbourg was preferable
to La Hogue. From that time to 1789,
I was Wholly occupied there, and never
more than three times at Paris.
Cheibourg, when I fouiid it, had but
7,300 inhabitants i when I left it, the
population was 20,000.
"flte vagabond rt?neb fugitives have
dared to add, to the former calumny of
my being a spy, another Imputed infa
my* of intrigues in the" war-office!
though in the whole period »f a dozen
years, and all my journeys 'taken toge
ther, pay (lay at Paris did not afnouut
to fix months during that time 1
had but very little refbrt'to Versailles.
Thus to recapitulate, tlu- account is |
so—
Twenty-two wounds in battle ;
Six campaigns in Germany ;
Two ditto in Corsica ;
Two ditto in Poland ;
Some important negociatiorvs ;
The creation of a town and port ;
And twenty years fpe.nt in travel,and
intiie study of languages aud po
litics.
And he then adds a wifli,which may
extend rather wholesomely to foine o
ther countries on the continent, where
there have been certain ingenious gen
tlemen, at the top of life,' with such a
state of talents and accomplishments to
earn a mental that they
would not have been certain ingenious
men at the bottoiri of life. The wish
is, that every man, who bf the luck of
birth, of wealth, of place, may be
tailed to support the fame and welfare
of a country, in&y render himfeif qua
lified, by similar studies and by similar
labours: and then—Revolutions would
be no more !
Dumourier thus continues,
Personally I have gained nothings—l
was among the Field Marshals. 1
sure of being Lieutenant General,' of
having a red ribband and a command.—
1 had 2Q,000 lirre9 (Rool. sterling)
a yean That was enough for me.—
But 1 few the state of France ! dishon
oured without, rujned within,. „A—def
■ Tiny, <H r ~wfiTclT minillers, by my memo
rials, had been long forewarned !
The year 1789 was glorious by the
Revolution ! Where I was, it altoge
ther was rational and mild; for without
trenching upon liberty, every excess of
liberty into liccntioufnefs was punished
■by law, even unto death.
j On the fupprefiion of the Military
{ Commandants I went to Paris. There
{I made the Revolution my study. The
I Princes, by running away had hurt the j
j King's cause. The Veto I saW would
1 be useless, and might be fatal. Though
t not a Legiflatot, I endeavoured to un
' do it, as far as I could !
j In 1791, 1 had the cortomand, from
( Nantz to feourdeaux. The war, a war.
i of religion, then raged in the Vendee.
! The Religionists were burning all be
-1 fore them. I saved everjr thing ! I qui
| ettd fell ! —till Febhriry 179 2, tvhen I
was called-to Paris* and named Lieute
nant-General, and Minister for foreign
affairs !
With the War, they reproach me; It
inevitable. It had exiiled long be
fore.
For the reft, my opinion was for de
elating war ! The. King was for it, too!
The King not only read my report to
the AfTembly, but he corrected it ! The
corrections are in his own hand-writing !
and his own speech was written by
himfelt!
At three months end, confounded by
the fa&ions which raged, and failing of
the King in Council to fan ft ion two
Decrees, I wished to retire. Retire
ment was refufedi 1 changed the ad
ministration by the King's order, and I
took the Department of War.
But finding that the Court had de
ceived me, I would not be the Minister
of intrigue ! I foretold to Louis and
his Wife every evil which awaited them,
and in three daVs I resigned. The va
gabond fugitives (Les Emigres) have
said that I was turned out : It is a lie.
I resigned my jilqe<?, though I,ouis was
urgent it might be otherwise !
though for two days together he oppo
sed my resignation ! and though, when
I departed, he mingled his tears with
'mine!
The War has been splendidly fuccefs
ful to the French. If the French had
shewn equal wlfdom and virtue, peace
would have returned long ago ! Louis
would have lived ! There had been no
anarchy ! But France had been glori
ous and happy in her Conllitution.
Such is the rapid sketch of my *x
iftence; a /ketch which may fuffice, if
I cannot finifh the work and give it to
the Public. Adieu 1 my worthy friend.
This is an important letter ; and as
such, it soothes me ; here it is, I wait
I without inquietnde, the wilhes of the
| Emperor, and decisions of my fate !
IMy character shall assert itfelf! and in
stead of weakenidg, shall strengthen by
myfhape. I shall be, at all times, mv
felf! y
CONGRESS. ~
IN S EN4 TE,
Saturday June 7 th, 1794.
( Continued.)
A meflage from the President of the
Yjnited States, by Mr. Dandridge, his
Secretary! #
" Mr. Preddent—The President of
the United States hath this day, ap
proved and signed, " An aft in addi
tion 10 the "Aft for making further
and more effectual provision for the pro
tection of the frontiers of the United
States" An aft for the remission of
, the duties on certain distilled spirits fle
ftroyed by fire," and " An aft allow
ing an additional compensation to the
principal clerks in the department of
State,and tbeTreafury and War depart
ments for tlie yeai one thoufa id leven
hundred and ninety four.H
Ordered, that the Secretary acqaaint
the House of Repreleutatives there
with.
A meflage from the Hor.fe of Re
presentatives, by Mr. Becklev, their
Clerk ;
" Mr. President—The House of Re
presentatives agree to the amendments
of the Senate to the bill, entitled, yAn
ad declaring the consent ot Congreisto
sn aft of the State of Maryland, pal
fed the twenty eighth day of Decem
ber, one thousand seven hundred and
ninety three, for the iippointment of a
health officer."
" The President of the United
States hath notified the House of Rc
prefentatives that he this day approved
and signed, " An aft laying addition
al duties on goods, wares and merchan
dize imported into the United States,"
and "An aft to make provision for
the widow and orphan children of Ro
bert Forfyth."
" They have palled a resolution di
recting the refpeftive clerks of the Dif-,
trift Courts of the United States, to
return copies of the tables of fees pay
ahltia the Supreme or Superior Courts
in which he tefides, to the Attorney
General in which they desire the
concurrence of the Senate." And he
withdrew.
The resolution last brought from the
House of Representatives for concur
rence was read.
Resolved, that the- Senate conour
therein.
Ordered, that the Secretary acquaint
the House of Representatives with the
concurrence of the Senate in this reso
lution.
M;. Vinirtj reported from the com
mittee for enrolled bflls, that they had
examined the bill, entitled, " An aft
declaring theconfent of Congress to an
aft of the fate of iVlaryljyd, paded
the twenty eighth »f December, one
thousand fevtn hundred and ninety
three, for-the appointment of a health
ofheer ;" the bill, entitled, " An aft
to amend the aft, intitutled, " An aft
to enable the officers and soldiers of the
Virginia line on contin«.«tnl cftablifh
ment, to obtain titles to certain lands
lying north weft of the river Ohio, be
tween the little Miami and Sciota
the " Resolution ditefting the respec
tive clerks of the Diftritt Courts of
the Stntes to return copies of the ta
bles of fees payable in the supreme or
superior Court of the State in which
he resides, to the Attorney General
and a resolution directing the Secreta
ry of War to make out and return to
the Diftrift Judges, certain lifts, in the
cases of invalid pensioners," and that
tliey were duly enrolled.
A meflag£ from the House of Re
presentatives, by Mr. Beckley, their
Clerk :
Mr. President—The Speaker of the
House of Representatives having sign
ed two enrolled bills, and two enrolled
resolutions, I am directed to bring
them to the Senate for the signature of
the President," And he, withdrew.
The President of the Senate signed
cd the two bills ..nd the twi resolutions
lalt reported to have been examined,
and they were deliveted to the commit
tee, to be laid before the Prefidtnt of
the United States.
(To be Cont'iuucd.)
Foreign Intelligence.
BOURDEAUX, May 8
Copy of the particulars given by Du
gommier, Commander in chief of
the army of the Ealtem Pyrenees.
Dated Head Quarters, Bagnoul,
May lit. Published by order of the
Rcprrfcntative of the people Isab ea u.
i his is a fkeWh of our morning's
work ; as accurately as it can be given
in hafti. We have completely beaten
the Spaniards, and they have already
flown back from the extremity of their
conquests in the it clevant Rouffillon
They have left us at lea ft 200 pieces of
different kinds of artillery ; all their am
munition, magazines well' filled with
provisions, near 2000 prisoners, among
whom are a general officer, three colonels
and 65 officers of different grades. The
number of th« killed and wounded is in
proportion to the prfcmers. All their
tents, camp equipage, an immefe quan
tity of baggage, in .fine all that charac
terizes a Complete rotii, have fallen into
bur tiands. Th# reduftton of Alberts
ha3fo terrified the enemy, that the order
was already given to. evacuate all their
pods: but we have been fortunate
enough to be before hand and to make
good use of their panic. Thdir Count
de i'.Union gave into the snare most Com
pletely i ffothing can equal the ardor
with which our brethren in aims fell
upon the enemy ; and we are going,
ttiis very evening, to pursue them in
their Hit entrenchments.-
LONDON, April 7.
On Satuiday night, Mr. Lau2un,
jun.'a iiing's messenger was dispatched
with four other persons, to apprehend
Mr. Stone,the c6le-merchant, of Rut
land-place, Thames street, at his coun
try house, at Old Ford, near Bow, on
a charge of High Treason, for keep
ing up an impropercorrefpondence with
the enemy.
The charge made against Mr. Jackfoh
'rwe underfland lb be, that he has held a
correfpondehce of a criminal nature with
feverai persons who belong to the exist
ing government of France* ih which
treafonahle information was given to the
enemy refpefting the force in 'Great
'Britain and Ireland,' with {he opinions
of the people as to the prosecution of
the war. '
In consequence of the investigation bf
Jackson's papers before the privy coun
cil, some persons of refpeftability in dif
ferent parts of Ireland are implicated fti
the charge of high treason ; and Mr.
Poyle ahd another of the King's mes
sengers have been sent ofT from Dublin
to apprehend those against whom war
rents have been ifTued by the council.
Mr. Jatkfon is a elofe prisoner in
Newgate. Two sentinels are placed at
the outside of the room door in which
he is irtiprifoned, to prevent all inler
courfe between visitors or prisoners, and
who attentively examine every article be
fore it is faffered to enter for his ufe t
Trait of bravery in British feamem
■ On Monday came on, at Doctors
Commons, the cafe of the Isabella, an
American taken by the Resolution pri
vateer. In the course -of the evidence
it appeared, that there were 14 French
officers on board the Isabella as passen
gers, who, the day after the capttire,
rose upon the eight feahien left in pos
session. The contest was carried on
with piftoh and hangers ; and although
the P rize-maller was knocked down,
and three of the seamen thrown over
and drowned, yet uiftory at last deter
mined in favoi of the English. Several
of the French arc since dead of their
wounds. During the contest the Ame
ricans remained neuter.
Captain W. of jhe artillery is the
person now in custody in the Duke of
York's army, for communicating to
Pichegru the disposition of the allied
forces, and suggesting a plan by which
the Carina gnols might surround and cut
off the invading armies.
Upon a suspicion of this riature, We
must be silent; but we blush for the ho
nor of the British arms, when we hear
that for a cause so detestable, a breach
of confidence, of conscience, and ho
nor* like this has occured.
It is very little to the honor of our
ship builders, that on almost every oc-'
cafion the French'fhips of war are found
to out fail ours. We do not find the
fame difference in point of failing be
tween their Merchantmen or privateers
and ours ; and the reason is obvious.
In private dockyards, there is encou
ragement and scope soT ingenuity ; in
the public dock-yards there is neither.
An attemj»i to reform this would pro
bably be called by the parties concerned
a Jacobinical innovation^
His Pi ulTian Majesty last year entered
into treaties with this country, and with
his other allies, by which he solemnly
engaged not to lay down his arms but
bv mutual consent. Last month he de
clared the contest with France was fruit
lefs, that he was determined to resign
it, and absolutely ordered the main bo
dy of his troops back to his own domi
nions. This month he, for the sum
of two millions two hundred thousand
pounds, four fifths of which are to be
paid by-this country, iVTIs sixty thou
sand of his ftibjcfts to be engaged in
that contest which he had three weeks
ago declared to be fruitlcfs! All this is,
(to use his Majesty's own language) the
result of his known patriotism and vir
tues j
SWEDISH CONSPIRACY.
In a Protocol, held in the Palace at
tockholm, April 9, in presence of
the King's majesty &c. See. the Duke
of Sudermania gave an account of the
manner in which the letters and papers of
Baron Armfeldt had fallen into his harts
on which the minute of the Protocol
contains the following very remarkable
observations :
"Those papers contained, that Baron
Guftvns MauriceArmfeldt, formerly up
per governor, &c. See. had been so for
getful of hi? honor, and of his fidelity
and duty towards his King and country,
as tohavc intended to calla foreign power
into the kingdom, to overturn the le
gitimate government of the kingdom, to
facrifice his fellow citizens, in order that
he might obtain himfelf a (hare in the
government, and gratify his own im
j moderate d'efires and deltruftive inteu
i tions, by depriving his country of its
j moil ancient liberty and independence.
" The plan, in Baron Armfcldt'9
own liand writing, demonstrates, that
his nefarious designs went so far as to
fuffer a foreign fleet to cast anchor in
the heart of the kfftgdom, to accompliih,
even by the means of force, his traitor
ous plans in this capital. Among these
papers is also the correspondence which
he kept up, for the purpdfe of fettling
his plan with A foreign power, &c.
. What foreign power is here impli
cated in a conspiracy with the futjefits
of an independent itate to subvert an
eftabliihed government and dethrone a
lawful King, it is unnecessary to point
otit to any reader; Our Alai milts, if
they are true to their own principles,
have here a new disturber of public older
against whom to declare a war of ex
terminatidn: They will lay that they
wage war only with Jacobin clubs; but in
what other light can such a character as
this be considered, than as the Prcfident
and Diredtor of an Armed club, main,
tained by rapine, and emploved only to
bring calamity on mankind.
DUBLIN, May 3.
Particulari of the Escape of Archibald .
Hamilton Rowan.
Mr. Rowan had been 011 all occasions
allowed the full and free intercourse of
his family and friends, and cfpecially
his wife and children, who generally
dined arid spent the evening at his a
partmeuts, and always went away at
ten o'clock.
At half pad nine on Tlnnfday night,
Mr. Gregg, the head gaoler, paid his
usual visit to the prison, in order to fee
all his prisoners locked up, and that
every thing was quiet.
Mr. Rowan, with his wife and chil
dren} were then in their apartment. It
has been usual with him to escort his
wite to the prison door on her depar
ture—an indulgence never refufed him,
because a firm, but (It seems) a very
ill-founded confidence was placed on
his honor, tharnothing like an attempt
to escape would have ever entered his
mind.
Mr. Rowan, however, (very honor
ably) took care to profit by this appar
ent security of his keepeis.
. Some time before Mrs. Rowan was
prepared to depai t on Thurfdny night,
a bonfire was lighted in Green-street,
nearly opposite the prison door, (it be
ing May flight) and furfounded by a
numerous crowd of the populace. As
Mrs. Rowan reached her carriage,
which waited before the prison, several
squibs were thrown, and the horses be
came rather restive.
Mr. Rowan, who still flood at the
door with one of the turnkeys, with
out his hat reached forward with ap
parent eagerness to fee if his wife was
in any danger, and, as if alarmed for
her lituation, rushed haflily towards the
steps, which he descended with rapidi
ty, and instantly mixing with the crowd,
ran off.
The coach, in the mean time, fat
out at full gallop, and the turnkey,
miffing his prisoner, purfiied the conch
to Mr. Rowan's house in Domiuick
fireet, where he searched in vain for
Mr. Rowan.
What seems a little extraordinary in
the matter is, that no report of Mr,
Rowan's escape was made either to Mr.
Gregg, or to any magiilrate, until
yesterday morning.
Some citcumltances cf a mod a
larming tendency and trcafonable nn.
tare, which have transpired relative to
Mr. Rowan, since the appt-ehenfion of
Jackson, are supposed to have been the
motives that urged the former to at
tempt a precipitate escape, in which he
effectually succeeded.
Matters, it is said, were so well pie
conceited in this buTmefs, that Mr.
Rowan had a horse in waiting, upon
which he set off immediately for Ri (] ,
from whence he was directly court vt ;l
011 board an American vessel, which
waited for him off that place, and (ail
ed the instant he came on board.
A icene of treason long since deve
loped in the views of that party with
whom Rowan was concerned, is at.
length brought into proof, and will in
a few days be brought to light, and
which will (hew the principles of that
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