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FRANCE. \
French accounts of the late Battle near
Dunkirk.
ROUEN,* sepT. 29.
Extrall of a letter from Dunkirk, September 8.
¢ DUNKIRK is completely relieved, the
besiegers are retreating, without know
ing where to go—they have left behind 40 pie
ces of cannon, 24 pounders, and loft an incre
dible number of men., The three forties made
by the garrison have succeeded to a charm. In
the firflt we loft only 120 killed and wounded.
In the od only a few were wounded, and the
enemy drove back to their entrenchments with
great loss. The third and last was a day of
triumph. Two hundredimen werecut down in
a regiment of 600 ; and the road is flrewed
with baggage of every kind. Among the arti
cles which have fallen into our hands, are 6000
24 pound balls ; 52,000 sacks of earth ; 800 .
barrels of powder; a large number of muskets,
travelling forges and mulitary equipage to the
amount of two millions of livres.
* Rouen, capital of ci-devant Normandy—
On the Scine, 70 miles N. W. of Paris.
September 15. A letter arrived from Citizen
Burthelemi, Adjutant-General of the army of
the North. Itisin these words—Citizen Mi
nister of War, since my letter dated at Honf
choote, after the manceuvres of the Bth,a varietyi
of interesting details have occurred. General
Houchard informs me of the retreat of the En
glith, who have left behind them an immense
artillery, ammunition and baggage. Their rout
was complete, and our soldiers have learnt by
this battle to value their own courage, when
set in competition with royal soldiers. The
Englith have loft a number of their officers.
Two of their Generals were buried at Honf
choote. Prince Adolphus is gricvou/ly wound
ed and General Dalton killed.
Geueral Beriu writes from Menin, Septem
ber 13th, that new viflories were atchieved by
the troops of the republic, who have taken Me
mn, Warwich, and the different passages of the
Lys, which were defended by a body of Dutch
troops well intrenched. General Hederovilie
fiormed Werwick. The enemy abandoned 40
ieces of cannon at Menin. I trust that the
Klational Convention will receive this interefl
ing news with pleasure. We have made 1200
prisoners and several generals are captured,
Letters received from Wefl-Flanders, an
nounce the capture of Warwick, Ware&on
and Menin, with 1500 prisoners, and 50 pieces
of artillery. The immediate surrender of Ypres
and Courtray is expeéled, as our advanced
guards are beyond Voimelell and Verelghem.
The reprelentatives of the people writz from
Dunkirk on the 15th, that the Englith have
evacuated Furnes ; that they have fallen back
upon Nieuport¥®; and that they appeared difpo—l
{ed to retrograde as far as Oflend. ‘
[(#l¢t 25 at this place, that the British landed
their battering cannon from their fhips.] {
A letter from Dunkirk asserts that we have
taken 78 pieces of cannon ; 1200 barrels of
%owder, 1900 prisoners, of whom 1300 are
nglifh, besides 400 cavalry mounted. |
Intelligence from the Camp of Ragon, l
Gen. Charerte, commanding the rebel army,
determined upon a grand attack on our camp.
It consisted of goo men ; the enemy’s force
was 8000, the firing commenced at three quar
ters past 8, and continued for 5 hours, when
they retreated from before this handful of pa
triots, leaving 515 wounded, and 402 dead.
OBSERVATION,
[lt zs evident from the dates and places men
tioned in the above, that there are wvarious ac
counts of the fame battle, related by the French.
Our readers who wtfh to hear both sides, on a
Jubject, have already been presented with the
“Britifb official account of the fame allion—ac
cording to which the combined jforces loft 1500
men, killed, wounded, and miffing, and between
g 0 and 40 preces of cannon. The accounts do
not agree. Truth may lie between them. ]
Defeats, &c. of the Royalists and other
Insurgents.
ROUEN, SEPT. 22.
General Rofignol fates, that on the 7th of
September, he came up with a detachment of
the rebel army, whom he drove two leagues
“from their post, and burnt all their magazines,
houses, &c. ' £e ) : 1
-y (Genewl Beyffer in his letter of the gd of
September, announces, that having recetved
intelligence of 2 body of rebels, to the number
of 10,000, who had posted themselves in the
wood of the Chateau de la Frufliere that he
immediately formed the design of attacking
gem, which he happily effetted; having put
48 to a complete rout, accompanied by an
S mende {laughter.
¥ ITHeWe(in has been founded in the diftrifls
OFAngers, Saumur, Bauge, Segre; &c. All the
citizens of thele districts are united to a man;
and with four days provision, and completely
armed, they have gone in queil of the rebels.
They write from Brefl, that the patriotic ar
my has taken Portmc, Bourgneif, Machecuci,
Martaigue and*fcveral other important pofls.
That not less than 1500 of the rebels have fallen
in the different rencountres, and that their spirit
of enterprize is completely damped.
On the 13th of September, a detachment of
our army took pofieflion of Pays Cerda ; 1n
this place they found 29 magaZzines; 40 tents;
500 mufquets ; 150 sheep, and goo oxen.
BREST|, SEPT. 14.
Yesterday General Beyffer, commanding the
right column of the army, wmarched for Hir
vaudere, the fourth battalion who was marching
to take the fame position, fell in with a large
body of rebels, whom they engaged from 6 in
the morning ull 6 at night, with only the loss
of one grenadier wounded on our part. Thirty
of the enemy were killed.
T his gallant resistance may be jultly attributed
to the malterly disposition of Ciuzen Faerau,
temporary commandant at Indret ; and to the
intelligence and bravery of Licut. Cols. Rocke,
Plante, Geoffroy, and Charente.
Lieut. Col, Groben, of the 3d battalion, con
tributed to the good fortune of the day, by
marching from the Chateau de Eau, with 200
men to {fupport his brethren in attion. He
was completely fuccefsful in turnming the right
wing of the enemy, and at the fame moment
checked the too violent impetuosity of the vo
lunteers, whose ardor has sometimes proved
detrimental.
Gen. Kleber slates in his letter of the 12th of
Sept. that he had taken seven pieces of heavy
ordnance from the rebels, and tfl)lat 500 waggons
would not contain tha booty which had been
captured.
The Commandant at Douay informs, that he
has obtained a complete viftory over the re
bels, who presented themselves in two columns
before Douay—that the pursuit was continued
to Vihiers. Their loss in men and ammunition
was great,
- 'The army at Thouars obtained another vic
tory—took a large number of prisoners, and
killed 150 of the enemy.
Gen. Dagobert, in a letter dated at Mont Li
bre, Sept. 4, writes thus : That being informed
of a sudden attack which had been made upon
his camp at Port Olett, by 5000 infantry and
400 horse, he immediately threw himfelf at the
head of his troops, and formed the line of march
at three in the morning, with a determination
to give them battle. Having come up with the
enemy, a severe conflit ensued, which lafled
for two hours, when the enemy was completely
routed, and fled with precipitation, leaving be
hind a vall quantity of military stores, and 300
prisoners, 3o oflicers, g colonels and the com
mandant of artillery. 'We had but eight men
killed.
IBREST, 1 ci-devant Britanny—gess miles
N. of Paris.
NANTZ*, SEPT. 16.
Our army since its departure from Nantz,
has gone on from one success to another. The
country from Nantz to Rochelle is entirely
clearea of the rebels.
Legre was attacked and taken on Saturday ;
this was one of the principal posts of the rebels,
where they were aflembled in great force. They
only fired three rounds of artillery; this we
did not think worthy of a reply, as all our char
ges are made with the fixed bayonet. The right
column of the army was obliged to defile be
fore Pallau, another post in poffeflion of the
rebels. It was al{o abandoned, after the loss of
150 men on their part. Qur vittorious troops
marched yesterday for Montaigne, and if the
army on the coasts of Rochelle, succeed in the
tour of duty committed to them, Vendee will
be taken in eight days.
The rebels made an attack on 2 part of our
troops posted at St. Salvador. It was begun
with incredible fury on their part. They were
received by our brave Republicans with the
greatelt fang froid, who neceflitated them to
retreat, with 12 waggon loads of dead, and ma
ny more wounded,
*NANTZ, in Britanny—gl7 miles S. W. of
Parss. 5
Success of the Pruflians at Northaveller.
S:pt. 13. Gen. Arlande, at the head of a
body of Pruflians and Emigrants, attacked the
French camp at Northweller, and drove them
from 1t with loss. DEOI ey
~ [Other accounts, after mentioning this aétion,
s
T INE
inform, that on the 14th, the camp was retaken
at the point of the bayonet. That the enemy
fled on all quarters, and the emigrants were the
firlt to cry out, we are all loss. The pursuit was
continued to Buntenthal. We have taken o
pieces of cannon, 1500 muskets, and a quantity
of forage. The camp at Northweller, the tren
ches and the village of Buntenhal are piled with
dead bodies. ]
Unfuccefsful jorsie from Cambrai*.
- Sept. 15: The garnifon of Cambrai, made
“ wowertal fortze, on the combined forces in
velting that place, but being overpowered by
numbers were obliged to return with great loss.
'The enemy slate our loss to be 2000 men kill
ed and takg\, 18 pieces of cannon, and nine
stands of colours, But this may be exaggerated.
* CAMBRATI 5 on the Scheldt, 12 miles S.E.
of drras, and 10e N. of Paris.
Particulars refpeQing Toulon.
BEFORE TOULON, Sept. 14.
Qur situation is the fame as it was yester
day ; we have every thing we want—just arri
ved from Marseilles to reduce the English fleet,
and we shall soon make the traitors and tyrants
sensible of the vengeance of a free people so
Juitly exasperated.
We are aflured that the English are prepa
ring to take flight, and that the flect lays only
on an anchor.
ROUEN, SEPT. 15.
The news which we have received from the
army of the Republic, in the environs of Tou:
lon, are very fausfaCtory. The blockade is flill
continued, but our army increases daily. Eight
hundred young men from the diftrni& of St.
Esprit, have marched to join their fellow re
publicans who are united under the brave Cor
taux.
MISCELLANEQUS ARTICLES.
Tune ArRMY OF THE RulNE—has had
an athion with the Prussians at Lauterbourg, in
Alsace, and killed 1500, took a few prisoners,
and among whom were, of the emigrants, the
ci-devant Marquis du May.
General Dakoufe, commanding at Perpignan
declares that the ramparts of that city shall ne
ver be disgraced by the flandard of royalty ; and
if circumitances should oblige him to surrender,
that he will primarily reduce the city to ashes.
The army under the orders of Gen. Caricin,
entered yelterday into lurnes (Sept. 10) and
expeéted to be 1n Nieuport to-morrow, whither
the English have retreated.
Gen, Kellerman writes, that the satellites of
tyranny were driven from the valley of Morain,
and that Major Strafoldo 1s indebted to the
fleetnels of his horse for having escaped.
The army of the Moselle bas driven the Au
firians from their pofls; and in many instances
obliged them to abandon their camps ; we have
taken go pieces of cannon. Forty of our ca
valry palfed the Sane, and attacked 8o dragoons,
killed several, and brought off 6 men and 6
horses.
The Aufinan troops in the environs of
Ardennes are completely discouraged. Sixteen
thousand republicans under the command of
General flier, have marched against the fattel
lites of despotism stationed at Quefnoy ; Six
thousand of the enemy are surrounded in a
wood, and we hope that not one will escape.
The garrison of Gibet made a vigorous sortie
from Dinan and took 50 waggons loaded with
forage.
The commandant in chief, at Weiflemberg
writes, that on the 12th of Sept. he attacked,
and on the 13th carried the enemy’s camp at
Limbach. Our troops advanced with hxed
fbia)(rioncts. The Pruflian and Austrian cavalry
ed.
A letter from Couthon, {lates that the de
partment of Puydome, whose quota was 25,000
men, has generously turned out upwards of
40,00aq effeétive.
From the Bth to gth of September, more
than 500 bombs and 1000 red-hot balls were
thrown into Lyons, but without any effeét in
firing the city, which is conflantly watched by
6000 Engine men. There is not a doubt en
tertained of its fafety.
LYONS. '
This city flill continues its opposition to the
arms of the Convention. The palaces and the
hotels of the rich are the objett of the canno
nade of the investing forces : the troops of the
Republic wifbing to spare this delightful and
opulent city. An immense number of balls
and shells, had notwithstanding been fired into
the city—but without effe¢t. This city in point
of wealth and confidération, is considered next
to Paris, containing 150,000 inhabitants ; and
its opposition is greatly regretted by all who
wish the real good of the Republic.
A BPIT AP, :
How jtrangely fond of lifc poor mortals be !
Who that shall fee this bed would change withme?
Vit, gentle Reader, tell me which is best,
The toilsome jcurney, or the Trav'ier's rest 2
[VoLuME xxxVII.—NUME, 1931,
THE EMISTLE
Fromthe YEARLY MEETING, held in LON
DO N, by adjournment, from the goth to the
28th of the Fifth Month, 1793, inclusive, to
the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of
Friexbps, in Great-Britain, Ireland, and
clfewhere.
DEAR FRIENDS,
WE salute vou in gospel love, and in adegZree
of that humanity, which a close inspec
tion into the {tate of our réligious society at this
time hathproduced ; for although we may thank
fully acknowledge that we have not found things
in {o negletied a condition as in some former
years ; and some increasing concern appears to
have invested the minds of many brethren for the
{upport of our testimonies ; yet much remains to
be done, and much laborious exercise of {pirit to
be patiently endured, before our Sion can become
so eminently as we trust she is designed to be, the
praile of nations. Friends! may every one of
you, who may read or hear this our tender saluta
tion, closely and effeftually confider in what in
flance, and to what degree, he obfirufls, in his
pratice, the accomplishing a design so gracious.
Our meeting hath been large, and, through
the mercy of our Holy Head and Hich Priest,
hath been favored with the renewed assistance of
his {pirit ; and although divers matters have oc
curred which have been fubjefts of considerable
discussion, we have a frefh experienced the pre
valence of Chrittian condescension.
The account of {ufferings brought in this year,
amount in Great-Britain, to six-thousand and
eighty pounds. The largest part, as usual, 1s for
those ecclesiastical demands with which we scru
ple aftively to comply, as being the support of
a Minftry formed by the will of man ; and not
only inefficecious in combating the desires of she
carnal mind (which, faith the holy f{cripiure, is
at enmity with God) but too generally {ubfervient
in its purposes.
Our correspondence with our brethren in
Ireland and on the continent of America is main
tained ; and we have received epifiles from all
the yearly meetings, informing usoftheirconcern
for the cause of truth ; and in some of those from
America, of their continued care to be, as oppor
tumties offer, the advacates.of the opprefled
black people.~——The flow progress in thiscoun
try of the cause of these our fellow men we la
ment, but do not despair of its fuccels ; and we
desire Friends may never fuffer the cause to cool
on thetr minds, through the delay, which the
opposition of interested men hathoccafioned, in
this work of justice and mercy ; but rather be
ammated to confider, that, the longer the oppo
sition remains, the more neceflity there is on the
{ide of righteoufnefls and benevolence, for flea
dinefs, perseverance and continued breathing of
spirit to the God and father of all, who formed
of one blood, all the families of the earth.
From Philadelphia, we learn that Friends
have also had at heart to be instrumental in promo
ting a pacification with the frontier and other
Indians ; in which benevolent purpose they are
encouraged by the Indians themselves; who
having been accultomed, for more than a century,
to just and kind treatment from the Friends, have
been induced to repose much confidence in them.
At our last yearly meeting, we were engaged
to caution oug members against fuffering the voice
of party to draw anv of us from the fleadfaflnefs
which we may poflefs in Christ ; and now, when
war 1s making Its ravages 1n the adjacent nations,
we are again concerned to exhort Friends, that
on all occasions, they evince themselves to be in
deed the followersofthe Prince of Peace. Aswe
profefs to be restrained from joining in a praftice
{fo desolating to mankind, let us not indulge the
{pinit of it in ourselves, or encourage it in others,
by making the events of wara frequent fubjeét
of conversation ; but, {o far as we are truly re
deemed from those warring lults in ourselves, to
which the apostle ascribes its origin, let us, as
enabled, be Kequently enfiaged in {ecret suppli
cation to the God of the [lu(irits of all flefh, that
it may please him ¢ to.brea the bow, and cut the
{pear in {funder ; making wars to ceale unto the
ends of the earth ;” and to enhft the nations
under his holy banner, in o]}l)pofition to those
iniquities whichare a reproach to the profeffion
of Chrifhamity.
Many have been of late the overturnings and
failures in the commercial world ; and some
amongst us have not escaped the disgrace. We
desire these things may opperate asa call to all of
us who may need the caution, to contraét rather
than enlarge our plans for theacquifitionof wealth,
Let us sooner endeavor to secure a competency,
by contrasting our wants and limiting our desires ;
recolleting, that, as Christ, our great example,
declared his kingdom not to be of this wor-lcfi so
neither can his faithful followers make it the
florehoufe of their treasure. ¢ Lay not up for
your{elves treasures upon earth, where moth and
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break
‘through and steal ; but lay up your treasures in
Heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth cor
rupt ; and where thieves do not break throngh
and steal. For where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also.” , :
Signed, in, and on behalf of the Yearly Meets.
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