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.' ; ; k -. I.-. J - - -M - " (Vol. p.) Saturday, Juty if 94. t-O N D O N, . i ixtratf of a letter from BY letters from different parts of lan? ders, wcnd, thta; although there is no pofitlve account of the French having wholly . cracujtcJyeU FlardcTi, theie.is rip fort of. apprehen-ffon of their making further -progrcf, dr,-ilcang.ny funh'sr rn'sfchief ; than plundering .air d.efcjhceJcfs and unr armed inhabitants We know that they are on their ; and there is -vety itrcn teafoniJ hopej that, a part of their Jrivading baridiftt' vr.ll be cnt o!r in their re ft CWn . t A ork have boh raahhed'ib . t , relief of died lor thele thirteen months; which mows' oenerai uiriaYt. tne uuice ov letters wnat attention is ha id thpm u - fv. . V-. .. . l . "'"i uuu lilJL . i hurlday lalt lailed the, MihotaurV oF 74 guns, Admiral M'Bride, Ciptlin Iiouis : Drmd, 02 uiis EuHHire. : and Lcho, ms in uelt df V fqiiadiort of French frieil;,!- - , 1 v.-zv I 1 J' guns, aptain-jpnthby tiAlfo the Pilot cutter, with the AVjIiiara tranTnnrr fnr 1 1 th regiment, wftich were embarked fbf Monica. ;1j .J .t ..1 .' It is to be remarket): thif nni. rJ . , xt-vcil f j- j " . 41 "JV- nion, nave died foi" fh?f r(liroan mnnU ...L 1 rtr - ' I oti the Scheldt, ind uillani lo iriiles north ofToilrnaf. . .J . v allies,in cohfequence of Pichegrii's attack, : is not lo confidcrable as was arlrlt eftima? ; ted. The tredps fodglit With the greateit bravery," and did not retfeai: frorri Meniri till they were actually overpoVered by n uiri beri. .The garrifon of .Meniri field oiit for confiderable t-mei wh(fi fdrtounJed by the French render, and ; they, verd f mrrforied to fuN to dciiver Up the FrtricK Emi- timcriia; andbdrtofthe Uepubhc, an order to attack Do!ie-Ana fortrefs belonging to the King of Sardinia which thej; tqqk. The fiexr dav theic cd. lu.T.ni advanced along the lea'coaft, and ren dered tfaemielves mailers, of Lonb! One oi Wc fnch columns, however which ad vanced in order to .attack Saorcrio, has been repulfed by. the. Sardinian troops and obliged to retreat to Oncglia and Lbano; Jt was velUrdavfeDorred that AI Ai chibald Hamilton" Rowan, apprehend 1 1 1. 1 : 1 : 1- -.. . - - grants to be dcilt with as he enemy thought J,,e- in danger froni certain' proper, this w.is tefufed i Tlie EarrUsn r V ; m luui h, wno would lifted from the towfi and cut their way htb'c ' cirSe h'? .wMh. high trea. through the French army. We arehappy ' ,;,ade ?aFe, om. loa.hrome: to fay? that .' .his delpnte -.ttempt. the' Zfe" ff-rgnwei grtatW number o'f them efcapedC The gar wiihttoV ,-?Heu'f nant of t"hhd. tifoa at this time confided of f.rrie baaali: Offered 2 r.S " K'W .onil;i on, of Hanoven,, and ,h.FVe-ch- Em. prantsx anJ ic is with rfpnft,rfc u recnrJ rJfi. .! , . .. .. . : muantiy ind iailed immediately fa a' , ,,.,W5Ul luc,on receiving imeiligej-ce of the difcovery lately made .at Naples r,f a confpjrcy againltthe; royal family and the cour.t,, has given.frricc orders to arrefl every itranger that lhall arrive hi that capital. Several foreigners have alrady been taken up and confined in the.fortrefs. . , Aaj V. The king of Sa'rainiai is now en tirely cut off from any. afliftance or direel Communication with the iflapd in the Medi terranean fr'iin whence deiives his legal ti tle ; nor has he, a fea-porr in JtahtronV whence tji'e Piedfaontefe lilks, raw and or namented; may be exported, as not only Nice, but.pnrjrlja are ifi'tbe polJeffionof the French.' His fmiation is delperate, f6r the..republican army can have very' few ob ftaclts to prevent their marching to befiege Sufa: ; and even Turin; his capital. grants ;,and it is with pleafuri we record for Belfafta this.act of.heroifm and vajourtohe ho- merica." flour tf rh TT innrrlifi tfnr fnm " r 1" ' manded, jinxiwho -propofed t&. fallythe rnbrnent the terms of capitulation refpedl ing the Ert"kTms were : made known to him. In rtpit to the grand operations I of tfce kllietl armies, they are rapid and brilliant No fonner was Lnndrecy reduced, than the Auftran General Latour marchf d to nveft Aveyne, while the Prince de- Cobourg be fieges Cambray. Indefd; it 13 men.ioneif in a prfrate letter from a very ,fefperab!e quirter, that tne garf fon ef Av'dyncs have offered to capitulate. " . By feveral letters received yerferday, m town from on board, the fleet under .the command cf Lord Hood, oilt Bafljat dated. April 14, it appears', that the 'attack of that pla'ce h'ad'eomrhenceif on the 1 1th. Several formidable batteries had been open ed again ft the fortrefj. On the day before the attack beun. Lord HoofTjruo! fent ro Lcdmbe St. Michael, requiring the furfen dcr of the place j but he returned for an fwer. thaf republicans woitjcJn-vef fub m:t to defpots " The attaclc commenced rprn the r.ectipt of the aofe anfwer, and I ti;c orreries wete lb conftrufle"d as to crW r.I .cje the city in various dire&ionsV cua boat, commanded by Captain Se : ."iici .o-.ving ro the weather, had not bee ' cct into the fitu.ition propofed, and ; :i that account been much cxpdled to v r. ? of the enemy. Captain SerroceicT ' ho-.vccr, with the utmoll bravery, : r.j?Mu?d to cannonade the towrt with rt ;ffct ; but cfti the'lth the bdat.Vas t : on fire Ky the red-hot (hot of the enemy.' O rtain Srroce!d withdrew his men;-whc ' xT all faved, and his. boat burnt to the edre. : : -: j - ' ! - From the judicous manner of . eredl in g and placing the batteries'oii (hore, and the produced by them, thembfl jariguine 5tecations wrre entertaxneef of loon Ijc m uUcrs of the p!acc. T OUR N A Y, Alii- 26. ' I hoped in. this letter to have announced 'to yon the rtoral. defeat or capture 6t the French army of the North : but my hopes are in a great rrieaure di fa ppointed. I know that the-Jacobins' and fiiends. of France will magnify this, Xs they did when Clairfayt otdered a retreat : i it can be confi de red in no ether light rhan the temporary interruption of afcheme, which had it com V pletely fuceeeded, vVould have nearly endeef thcwar : . 5 - ' ; ' - . " ; " On the evening i)f tlri tjth inft. the Duke.rt York rmfecj his camp, 3'nd ha; frig fent oiFhis tents and baggage to" a place of fafe'ty, marched early in the morning of the 1 8ih . in four' columns;, with the tfefign , i would appear , of grounding the French ar my in and. near Courfray, and.of cutting off its retreat to Lille.i The Duke had previ ouffy received ; a reinforcement from the? Emperor's army, which was commanded by the. Arch Duke Charhs j the .army vor therefore be between 30 and 40,cco mexi "rPng rfcrthe fciir columns amount each to bertveen 8 and; io,ooo me'ri. . . The. column commanded by hjs Royal ' v -H 'gfbaa tcmarch 1 through country 1 Vhere the Frehch Were kt?wr! to have pla- z very ftrdng pofts fihis column coniifted and the.-briGVof the L J3i i he alfouridcrhis' pc0mmand.avcor -U.W ?r vaJry and infaritryiW ' cbieinrina the fight brigader.which c-onfiftbd of- 6'Don. .. pel's itriaii regiment ' and of the flanfr , ki Ih-'5 '1' Y" undetlhe command. ':" or Major; Gen. .fc, and compriied ihe ' :.-.jSir ; Wn,: EHfeine was at trie head of an- ' ' other toimm,, which marched on i.iront ftW where they erelencampcd, a"d ,c"k iti U.reaion towards Liile j it vaS to drar periiaps to teep in check -fir prevent anv was .cpn,pofed of the Britilh heavy cavalry ' fantry and caVa!rv. lm( ir w n mimcrous ahat commanded by Ithtfuke , iu?A f f'h Doke. CharJes ommahded a third colurhn,. comporedf uftnan troops he was. ton the right of the Duke's column: and :marched nearly on. the road from mis placeto uttray. ;v - t r ; v 4plumn wis iommandea by pen. iCinfkyjf and was bri the right of all t ' it confuted moflly of Hefen troops. . . -The Duke marclieir as me mornins: was vprv rrtfrrr - l1 i J l.it rjearcdavvay i he, then proceeded tQ - Jf v iijc rrencn were laid to have a ftrong ppft . but the enemy retreat ed at his, approach., Hi? AJA . - coritinuedmim :with the enemy in the . rrts pf the wood that j.y in his wav. but tney mace no ifand againit him. , J ne men arrived m-th An- . oqpaix, a laree ard ftmnrr TuiiiL.. .t ,r 0 .iU"Ct li(JL more man tour miles from Lilte, which was 4uu dudiiuonea dv tne renrh: w' advancinir towards Torroin n, by which the enemy had attacked JMen nl1 and en rered Couhray,' when the flank bat- anon or tne guafds Having fallen in. with' a party of the French near the woods .whicir ikirt the.yilJage, he orderact the ri ti! of his army, that it might not be too far fe parated from the guards, who were then driving the French before them in a direfli on towards JLiflej , The guards came up at fun fee to a re doubt which the French tta'd thrown pp al httre our of the vilbge on the roacf to Llfle, clelended by about 400 men, with two pie-, ces pf cannon : they entered it with hxed bayonets,; and took about fixty piioners the reft were making their eicW, when tha light dragoons came up mih themvand cut them topiecesf . ' r The army was then ordered tn u ; J I S?f a and the brigade pf uiia1)Uy io hkc up an advantageous poGtion facing a poft which the enemy had cn the oppefite fide of the village, fctit 2 dr 3 miles diflarit . r v Thus far did every thing lee nl to. pro J mile the moCit happy fuccefs, and to add to that eclat which 1 he brave Jirtle army com manded by the Duke had acquired by tin' daunted valour and dninterrupted fuccefs," (ince the commencement of, the cam-: paign.' ... . . ' ; ! It. would appear, that P.chegru had fent irom X that could be coliccled from . Lifle, Tureoln and every tontiuods peft; to op f 1 is.'
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