finished a campaign which will form an epoch in the annals of France.

"One will be scarcely able to believe, that he dared to retreat with 17,000 men from an army of 80,000; to take fuch a position as enabled him to stop their progrefs, effect a junction with the, different bodies which came to his affiftance, and placing himself directly between the Pruffian army, encamped at Liron and la Lune, oppofite the latter, and be a check by the camp at Bienne, which he took poffeffion of, upon 20,000 Hefhians, encamped at Clermont. By continually haraffing the enemy, and intercepting their convoys, he has been able to detain them in the moft barren part of France, and to oblige them at length to retire fhamefully from the country, with an army diminithed one third by difeafe, and the prifoners they have loft. We are going to fet out for the camp of Bienne."

Another from the fame.

3] "We fet out from St. Menehould, at two o'clock in the morning, in order to proceed to Suippe, where general Kellerman's army was encamped. On the ground lately abandoned by the emigrants and the Pruffians, we found a confiderable number of borfes which they had left dead on the fpot. The inhabitants of the country even affured us, that the ditches, in which they buried their dead, were likewife covered with the carcafes of horses. When we arrived at the village of Somme-Tourtu, it exhibited a moft hideous fpectacle of devastation, pillage, and deftruction. A great number of the inhabitants were difperfed throughout the neighbouring villages, whither they had gone in queft of bread: and others, ftill under great confternation from the prefence of the emigrants, fcarcely thought of procuring the neceffaries of life. We fent for the mayor, and from an account which he gave to us, we thought it our duty, after a confultation with the adminiftrator of provifions, to deposit in this village 300 rations of bread, which were deftined for the ufe of the army, but were not at that moment neceffary. The fame fpectacle prefented itself in the villages of Lacroix, Semme-Suippe, La-Chapelle, and many others, which we visited, Suippe has fuffered much, but an excess of atrocity which filled us with horror is, that the migrants, when quitting this country, which they had ravaged, poifoned the water, by actually throwing into the wells the carcafes of their dhorfes. [Loud murmurs.] Their whole Conduct fully proves that they confider themselves justly profcribed from the land of liberty:ince their rage, at the time when the king of Prutia gave them orders for retreating, was carded to fuch a length that they did not lewe, in e places which they abandoned, corn to fow the land, horfes to cultivate it, or cattle to fupply d to the inhabitants. We have found various receipts given for provifions of-all kinds extorted rom the inhabitants.The tenor of them all was that the provifions were furnished for the Goya' army.'

4] The confinement of the royal family has

kan rendered more severe by a late

commons of Paris. Each of the royal perfonages.
is to be kept in a feparate apartment. They are
neither to have pens, pencils, ink, nor paper; and
to prevent them from holding correfpondence by
figns, with any perfons without, the windows of
their prifons are to be coloured. Herbert, the
commiffioner of the commons at the Temple,
thus informs the Jacobics of the manner of his
executing the above arret.
"I informed Louis of the refolution of the
"When," fays he,
common, he was Aruck with aftonishment.

Leave me where I am!" faid the unhappy
king: "I find myself very well at prefent.
The queen and madame Elizabeth wept bitterly on
their feparating. But, obferves Herbert, that did
not prevent us from putting the decree in executi-
on.
Louis took their hands in his, and fid,
"Let us refign ourfelves." When he entered
his own apartment, he feemed at fir content
with it; but when he faw the iron grates and the
fky-lights, he faid he was too warm, and did not
with to remain there any longer. The women,
fuch is the language of Herbet, folicited per-
miflion to converfe with the children at leat.
This requcit was granted them; but on condition
they do not converfe by figns, or in any fufpected
manner,

The wall of the Temple will foon be finished; before it will be a ditch of twelve feet deep, fo that the guards can hold out for twenty-four hours, in

cafe of an attack.

General Cuftine, with an army of 20,000 men, is penetrating into the heart of Germany; by the laft accounts from him, he has taken the cities of Spires and Wurms, with an immenfe quantity of provifions, ammunition, flores of every kind, and confiderable fums of money belonging to the royal treasury.

Letter from the Minifter at War.

Paris, 0. 15. Citizen prefident, I embrace the earliest opporturity of tranfmitting to the national convention the copy of difpatches I have received from general Dillon, and which contain the important rows of the recovering of Verdun. will doubtlefs lean with ple fure and fatisfaction, The convention the pacific difpofition thewn by the Prufian general Kalckreuth, in a conference which generaļ Dillon had with him in the village of Glorieux. (Signed)

LE PRUN.

Summons fent by General Dillon to the Commandant,
of the Pruffian Trots at Verdun.
Camp of Laura, 07. 12.
General Dillon, commander of the French army
new encamped under Verdun, propofes to the
commandant of his Pruffian majefty in the town
and citadel in Verdun, to deliver up that place to
him, and to evacuate it immediately, or in the
courfe of a day. On thefe conditions the general
affures him, that he will not impede the retreat
of the Pruffian troops, and that he will even pro-
te the removal of furch fick as are in a condition
to be tranfported. He informs the commandant-
that if be

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avoid a clofe fiege, which will otherwise be com-
menced this day. I fend this to you by lieutenant
colonel Chenetz, my aid-de-camp, whom I have
ordered to bring back your anfwer.
(Signed)

DILLON.

Anfwer by the Pruffian General Coubire.
Verdun, 08. 11.

I am ordered by the king to inform you, in anfwer to your fummons, that to-morrow morning the 12th current, you will be put in poffeffion of the gate of Secours, which fhall be occupied jointly by the troops of the king and the French troops; that Verdun fhall be completely evacuated on the 14th; and that the fick who are in a condition to be removed, shall follow in carriages of the country, which shall be paid for. On these articles I am authorised to agree to a capitulation, &c.

Letter from the Minifter at War.

Paris, 08. 13.

Citizen prefident, I have received letters from different towns in Germany, which give me reafon to hope that general Cuftine will foon have new

fucceffes to announce to you. The national con-
vention will doubtlefs hear with fatisfaction, that
the people are peaceable on the approach of our
armies, and confide in thofe fentiments of hurra-
nity which unite us to all oppreffed citizens.
The following are extracts from these letters:

The French, to the number of 15,000 men, having appeared at Darmstadt, 3000 men who were in garrison then fell back upon Francfort, which they quitted on the 5th inftant, to retire to Giefen. The magiftrates fent a deputation to the French army, to affure them that they would find at Francfort none but friends.

At Coblentz, the elector being informed on the 5th, that the French were only twelve leagues diftant from that city, endeavoured to fly: the citizens, however, cut the traces of his carriage, but permitted him to retire to his country feat at Kerlick, which is at the distance of a quarter of a league from the city. In the night time he efcaped and pursued his way to Bonn. The nobles and priests wished to follow his example, but the citizens took poffeffion of the gates of the city, and would not fuffer any one to go out

BRITISH INTELLIGENCE.

Hull, August 15, 1792.

three people employed in his works; they de fired him to get up and go home, which he re fufed. Upon this they determined to play him a A employed near the Spurn, one of them, a trick, and poured fome coal oil upon his clarths,

BOUT midnight, two fishermen being

This fomehow took fire. The man got up, and at his departure fhook hands with one of them, and wifhed him a good night; he went away towards his own houfe, and the three inen left him, and took a different road towards their own dwelling. The poor man did not proceed far, before again laid himself down, near a ditch, where he was found in the morning, alive indeed, but speechlefs, and expired in a very short time after. A jury fat on the body, and brought in their verde, manflaughter. His body was much fcorched by th oil, but his cloaths uninjured.

called Sanuel Sallies, having both his hands en-
gaged in drawing the net, caught the head of a
foal, which was endeavouring to escape through,
the mesh of the net, between his teeth (a practice
very common among fishermen.) The foal making
an effort, fprung into the man's throat, who
being thereby rendered incapable of calling out to
his companion, went toward him, and made him
fenfible by figns, of his melancholy fituation. His
comrade inftantly laid hold of the fish's tail, but
not being able to extract the body, the man was
fuffocated foon after he reached the boat. It was
Edinburgh, Sept. 8.] A pinnace-boat fram
judged proper, for the juftification of the other
fishermen, to afcertain his death; therefore, pre- Leith, with four young gentlemen of that pla
vious to the jury's fitting over the body, the gullet and three feamen, went to Inchkeith,
was opened in prefence of the coroner, when the pleafure-party: when, owing to the fool-harde
foal (the dimenfions of which were eight inches of the feamen, who, although repeatedly reque
and a half in length, by three and a quarter in to reef the fails, infifted on keeping the whol
breadth) was found with the head near the upper her canvafs out, fhe was fuddenly upfet in a g
orifice of the ftomach, the teeth being faftened of wind. The three feamen were unfortuna
into the fubftance of the afophagus, and its tail drowned; the young men, who all clung to th

Inverted. The circumstances being fo extraordinary, Qars, were providentially taken up by another

Leith boat, who faw the accident. One of th give this detail, both with a view to establish the drowned mea was found, and carried to Inchkeim fact, and to caution fishermen against a practice, by the gentlemen in the boat who picked them which, however common, was in this inftance and every means used to restore him, but without effect. The wind blowing from the harbour, they The following landed the body at Fisher-row, where a gentle

induced the gentlemen prefent at the inspection to

fatal.

Wolverhampton, Aug. 29.]

melancholy accident, which happened last week humanely took upon himfelf the charge of leag

at Wombridge, near Willington, will, it is hoped,
warning to all those who are in the habit of

it decently interred.

Portsmouth, Sept. 18.] A Court-Martial h heen neid on board the Duke, in the harbour, and every day fince,

on board his Majefty's armed veffel Bounty, for running away with the fhip, and deferting his Majefty's service, against Joseph Coleman, Charles Norman, Tho. Mackintosh, Peter Haywood, Ifaac Morris, John Milward, Wm. Mufprat, Thomas Birkett, Thomas Ellifon, and Michael Byrd.

The evidence for the profecution clofed on Friday night, and the Court indulged the prifoners till Monday to give in their defence, and this day took the whole into confideration, when they were pleafed to pals fentence of death on Haywood, Morris, Milward, Mufprat, Birkett, and Ellifon, the two firit of whom the Court recommended to mercy. Coleman, Norman, Mackintosh, and Byrn, were acquitted and difcharged.

During the whole of this interesting trial, the attorney general had attended the court, which has frequently been vifited by people of rank; among thefe may be reckoned lord Macartney, fir Nash Grofe, judge Afhurft, Mr. fecretary Rofe, &c. On the part of the prifoners, Aaron raham, Ffq. formerly judge-advocate of Newfoundland, and now one of the juftices for Westminster, appointed by the new police-bill, attended by a counfel from Weftminster-hall, and Stephen Barry, Efq. town clerk of this borough, acted as folicitors, and did every thing for their unhappy clients that humanity could dictate, or indefatigable industry and abilities accomplish.

Mr. Haywood is an accomplished young gentleman, genteelly connected, with a fortune of 30,000l, fallen to him fince he has been in confinement.

LONDON, October 1, 1792.

quence of an alarm of fire, at Mr. Furning's, near Hackney, when a young gentleman, a vifitor, in forcing himself out of a window into the yard, was torn fo violently by a dog, that his life is defpaired of. The fire, which had caught to the curtains in one of the chambers, was happily extinguished.

As a young man, named Thomas Forster, son of an eminent gardener of Mickleton, in Glouceftershire, was walking in their own garden, he faw an adder; he laid hold of a garden-rake, and ftruck it; upon which, with a fudden spring,. it faftened round his left arm, bit him upon the pit of the ftomach, and then dropped off. The place bitten began fwelling immediately, with an uncommon degree of pain, which baffled every. effort of an experienced furgeon for the fpace of fix hours, when the young man died in the moft excruciating and tormenting pain.

The American honey fuckle, which bears so pretty a flower in moft gardens in this kingdom, after its bloffom closes, instead of going to feed, the pod ripens into very fine cotton, which it produces in abundance. This is a circumstance which, if not worthy the attention of the cotton manufacturer, at leaft merits notice from the curious.

In confequence of the fuppofed danger to which.' the lives of the royal family of France are expofed, the undersigned minifters have presented the following note to lord Grenville on the fubject.

"The undersigned envoys extraordinary and minifters plenipotentiary to his imperial apoftolic majefty, and his majesty the king of the two Sicilies, in confequence of the ties of blood and friendship which attach their fovereigns to the A MOST wonderful curiofity has very lately king and queen of France, have the honour, to been fent to John Selwand, Efq. of Portman- addrefs lord Grenville, to reprefent to him the fquare; it is a hawk of a very large fize, imminent danger which threatens the lives of caught at the Cape of Good Hope: round its their most chriftian majesties, and their royal. neck is a gold collar, of curious workmanship, on - family, and the apprehenfions they have too much which have been difcovered the following words: caufe to entertain, that the atrocities which the "This goodlie hawke doth belong to his moft factions in France practise against these august excellente majeftie James, king of Englande, perfonages, will not ceafe until the crime is. A. D. 1610."The hawk still betrays a degree completed. They are authorized to exprefs the of vigour, and the only fymptom of old age dif- with of their respective courts, that his Britannic coverable, is a dimnefs of fight, and a change in majefty, in the event of fuch a horrible attempt, the colour of the feathers round the neck, from will not permit the refidence, nor give any protecbrown to white. tion or aflum to thofe perfons who may be known to have participated in fuch a step. (Signed)

A packet arrived from Sierra Leone, which brings the most melancholy accounts from this new fettlement. So dreadful a mortality has prevailed, that upwards of two hundred white perfons have died fince the laft accounts were received. Numbers of the blacks have alfo fallen facrifices to the inclemency of the climate. The natives, although not at open war with the fettlement, are far from being friendly to it-they never omit an opportunity to plunder, and have, in many inftances, committed daring outrages.

As Mifs Davis, a beautiful and accomplished young lady of Colchester, was lately croffing the freet, fhe flipped, fell under a waggon, and was killed on the pot. Her body lay at the Three Cups for fome time, and was taken away by a friend of her father's in a poft-chaife.

An unhappy circumftance occurred, in confe

COUNT STADION.
PRINCE CASTELCICALA.

Sept. 20th, 1792.

Lord Grenville's Anfover,

"The underfigned, fecretary of state, in anfwer to the official note of yesterday's date, which he had received on the part of the count de Stadion, and the prince of Caftelcicala, ministers plenipotentiary and envoys extraordinary of his imperial catholic majefly, and of his Sicilian majefty, has the honour of renewing to those minifters the exnieffion of the fincere interest which the king has always taken, in whatever perfonally regards their mot chriftian majetics;

bridge, co. Stafford. At Bristol, Wm. Richmond, E. collector of the falt duties, to Mrs. James.— At Slindon, Suffex, captain Slade, of the 10th reg. dragons, to Mifs Dawon, of Dublin. -For Seephenson, Eq. to Mifs Molesworth, both of Kenfington-palace. Rev. Robert Hardy, M. A f Emanuel-college, Cambridge, vi ar of Strugit, rector of Eaft Marden, Suflex, and chaplain to the pince of Wales, to Mifs Sophia Adair Howard, of Chelsea college.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE,

mistaken lenity relaxed the arm of justice fo as to burlefque the fentence.

A large smuggling lugger, a few days fince, came up with the tender belonging to the Pigmy cutter, half channel over, which they obliged to come along-fide of her, by firing a nine-pound fhot through her mainfail.

She compelled the tender to remain in that fituation until two frigates hove in fight, when the shrew into her an anker of geneva, and a fmall cheft of tea, and then wishing them a pleafant voyage, the fmuggler hoifted his 'large luggs, and flood close by the wind.

9.] A robbery was committed in Great Shipftreet, by the following new, and we cannot help 'faying, clean device: a fellow in the garb of a lamplighter, with all the neceffary implements of that profeffion, fet up his ladder oppofite a gen leman's houfe in the above neighbourhood, and entered on the bufinefs of trimming the lamp, fecundum artem; watching, however, an unobferved moment, he feized, while the family were engaged at table, an opportunity of getting into one of the dining-room windows, and packing up a quantity of plate, &c. to a confiderable amount, effecting his efcape, leaving the ladder behind him. The regular profeffor having shortly after made his appearance, had fcarcely entered on his operations before the depredations were difcovered, and he was instantly feized as the fuppofed delinquent; but it having been proved by fome of the neighbours that another had preceded him, he was difcharged on their teftimony, and throbber as yet remains undetected.

10. A. numerous meeting of the citizens of Dublin affembled at the Royal Exchange, in the Ouzle Galley Chamber, pursuant to an invitation from the right honourable the lord mayor, to take into confideration a fubfcription for the relief of a number of non-juring prieits from Frince, who had taken refuge in England, on account of their political principles.

The lord mayor informed the meeting that the advertisement which he had caufed to be inferted in the papers, was at the request of fome refpectable citizens, to promote a chrity; but as he did not, nor would, unlefs called upon, affure the chair, he left to the company the arrangement of the manner in which it would be proper to conduct the bufinefs.

It being however obferved by an eminent citizen prefent, that the bufinefs intended involved, under the garb of charity, a political question, it would be better not to enter upon it there, but get rid of it by an adjournment, he was answered, that no adjournment could take place until the chair was taken.

A motion was made that the lord mayor do take the chair.

On the queftion being put by Mr. Sheriff Poole, it was negatived with only about half a dozen diffenting voices.

The meeting was therefore at an end, and the company difperfed.

laft feloniously embezzled a letter fent by poft from Ballybay, in the county of Monaghan, containing a bill of exchange rawn by James Hogg on Wilcocks and Jo... Phelps, in favour of William Gillefpie, for 381. and a bill of exchange drawn by Clibborn and for, Alloway and Boake, for 351. 9s. which letter was entrusted to the care of faid Walsh, and directed to Thomas Whelan, merchant, in Anderfon's court Dublin.-Thomas Walsh (the father) was indicted for receiving and uttering the faid bills, knowing them to be ftolen, and forging the name of Thomas Wation

on faid bills.

James Clarke depofed on the 2d of April he gave his fervant, Patrick Ward, a letter to put into the post-office of Ballybay, directed to Thomas Whelan, merchant, Anderfon's-court, Dublin, containing bills and bank notes to the amount of 570l. 1s. 3d. that the bills laid in the indictment were part of them, and that they were not endorfed with the name of Thomas Watfon when he font them.

Patrick Ward (wore his having put the above mentioned letter into the poft-office of Ballybay on the 2d of April laft, and that it was fealed.

Richard Thorpe fwore that the prifoner, Thomas Walsh, came into his brother's thop in Capel-ftreet, on the 6th of April last, and purchafed woollen goods to the amount of 51. 18s. and tendered in payment a bill drawn by Clibborn and Son, on Alloway and Boake, for 351. 9s. -The prifoner got the balance, and endorsed on the bill the name of Thomas Watson.

Terence Maguire, jeweller, in Parliamenttreet, depofed that the prifoner, Thomas Walsh, purchafed a filver watch from him on the 6th of April laft, price four guineas, that the prifoner tendered him in payment a bill drawn by JamesHogg on Wilcocks and John Phelps, for 38. Witneis not having change, applied to his neighbour Mr. Dillon. Walth went with him, and purchased a fuit of clothes. Mr. Dillon gave the difference of the bill, deducting for the witch and cloth.-The prifoner endorfed the bill Thomas Watson.

The profecution being clofed, lord Clonmell charged the jury, who after being out four hours and a half, brought in their verdict-guilty..

25.] Mr. G. J. Browne moved an arrest of judgment on behalf of Thomas Styles Walsh, and Thomas Walsh, who were capitally convicted, the former for taking bills of exchange out of letters entrusted to his care to deliver, and the latter for receiving and uttering the fame, knowing them to be ftolen; and for forging an endorsement on the faid bills. The ground on which Mr. Browne male his motion was, that by the commiffion of Oyer and Terminer, and general jail delivery, which paffed the great feal of this kingdom the first year of the prefent king, the commiflioners in the faid commiffion named, one of whom is only lizing at prefent (the fecretary of state) were only empowered to try offences created by ftatutes then exifting; and he contended, that as the offence of which the prifoners were found guilty was created a felony by a ftatute which pred fubfequent to the prefent commillion of Oyer and Terminer, they could not be legally convicted of the fame,--Court adjourned to Tuesday.

23.] At the commission of Oyer and Terminer, come on the trial of Thomas Styles Walh and Thomas Walth, the fun and father. The former was employed in the Pot-office as a letter carrier, and was indicted for having on the 6th of April.

BIRTHS.