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' :'. Extract oj a letter jrom itamarj.amp.
' te a mne from Valenciennes rf
iv 2j, 1 793- V; . - .'j j
Vi&orv is to the allies, and the molt
, ccifive and glorious obtained for fome
rs. At eleven o clock on Wedneiday
hi laft,- the whole Auftrian and Britifh .
i jie leparate commands of Prince Ho
l e General Walmoden; General
and the Duke of York, to attack
x v-?: ch on the heiehts of Famers. where
Vv ixS.sto encamped. About day-break,
v. i .hVjX their, picqnets, I and the action,
; recount -ot the number; or oat-
on places almoft. Tendered
1 ' Vart inacceffiblc to man, cpn-
' trwhen the allies had made
: ers-of maft-bf" the batteries,
r; ' ttacked frord inI)anSaind
? - s;'' 1 Jefe, attacks the cavalry ;
' - y ; 'r-:'' Sfer'truaiter was
! therein.! Darknef&put .
yeftertlay. The men
" :! , ' ' ' '-eir armsm fields clofe
1 'Vries that remained to
' r, ,T ; : f ' ; . f" : 'jie action, the French
.;',';,;'.V':- noquarteT being given.
. J(;iion, andjthe remairi-r
, V 5 ' eo a dark night to retreat
f'' aU from tkc' heights, which
J : ' -y, and with ;fo much harte
ryon as to leave Jfeverat of their '
:- , V"? f,;Uind them. The vidlory was moft
; ! ' ( 9 and in my opinion decifive of trie
. ' France 5 this army was compofed of.
v. elr bed troops, and the heights I f uppofed
Miacceflible the French could (carce credit
their eyefight when we afcended! they ap
peared panic-ftruck. General" Clairfait's'
column futTered much, the Dukejof York's
fuffered.very little. - "We (hall, .this niht,
open our batteries on Valenciennes, and as
".-.
The -rift Lieutenant (yho had been
wdnnded before) came ' on deck, and took
the command ; he immediately bore away,
making what lail he could, and having a fair
wind, let all his (leering-fails on his fore. V
mill. The Ambufcade 'gave chafe which
Ihe continued about two hours ; bur finding
me could not overtake the Boftan,. fpoke a
brig which meappeared to have captured
The'Boftonihas received much damage in
her hQll, and fprung her mizen-maft, dam
aged ber fore and mizen.yard, and moft part
ot her ftanding and cunning-rigging is cut to
pieces, i One of her main-deck guns waVaKb 1
difmounted, and by the lureon's account;
there were 10 merr killed and 24 wounded ;
among the lormer were Captain Courtney
.the Lieutenant and Corporal of marines ; a
mong the latter, 3 Lieutenants and 1 Mid
fhpman. ' 1 ; '
As fome perfons have:difputed the - chal
lenge lent by Captain 'Courtney to citizen
Bompard, I think jproper to certify that it is
a matter of fa dr. ; '
k: The Ambufcade returned to New-York
on- Saturday imorning,. with the lofs or 8
men killed and about i 30 wounded, in the .
above engagement. : jj
1 he New-York papers inform us, that the
malts of the Ambulbade were fo; wounded in
the late, -engagement, , that flie mud have. a
new fetxoniptete.';
A L T I M O R E, Mgufl 9.
... r . .
, ,uuu,ouuu 01 our money. Alter
t PnnvVntinn -a11 m i
jr have a furplus of 2,600,000,000
y about an hundred and thirteen
fa letterjrom the hend.qharters of
our heights command it, I doubt notwith
much fuccefs. Moft probably my next will
inform you that Conde - and Valenciennes
are in our poflTeflion. I cannot at prefent
afcertaih xhe number of dead and wounded,
but little quarter ns now given by J the Atrf-
trnns to the Trench, 10 that few prifoners,
kce CQbourgf dated QweVr am j in comparifon, were taken. England has
O V -J - I reafon to rejoice at tlris day's" fucef3.
.c Vrnt 'the 'day before yefterday, Ten at night vnie battery! is open
v I f. (T-. JkA .1 J " t cf . n tt 1!
; iwn of Caflcl was deltroyed, and 2nd keeps an incefTmt fire on Valenciennes
: ')nce . will fufFer the famefate, if ivhich is-in flames in one place." Vr , u
VitoreHfl. . . - '. Hl";.:';': ;-L''f !'
e will. ''not fare; Auch' better. PHIL A t E L P Hj I A, July 23.
'. rir?. confiftintr nf tirtnr nf : ir
,in. 11 "j z fla, ,Pr AivmuauAiJ and budiuw xnt-
":: ' : - : GvrES.i :
An account of tkeaflhn between ihoe vejfi Is t
by a fpeflutor onboard the I utter.
On Thuriday the 1 ft of Augult, at 2,
A. M the Bolton difcovered a fan bh tUe
weather-bow 5 fhe immediately beat tb arms
and every thing was prepared for action. 1
tn intelligence ot there having near the fleet, concluded to ftand to the fouth-
at wivi, m me luinaot uor. ward as long as it was dark; that at daylight
, te" Jerc heaJedb thc he might fee if any more flr ps were in fight.
1 pKflbn of the Chateau, At about 5 o'clock, finding no other Ihip in
i the city. :; . fight, fet.fat! to head breach the Ambuftade,
' - Wived on Saturday from lo as to fetch her on the jother) tack. In
neafiiiefs that has lately about 20 minutes they tacked mlp again, "but
account of the militia- could not fetch the AtnbuTcade. l JAs fdon' as
- at fuch a height,; as to ' the Bofton came a breafti flie bore dbwn.
,nent to countermand Captain 'Courtney, expecting the enemy
' .' s ' ltety anno,unccd a$ were gomg to rake him, wore (hip, ajld met
Pft of Britanny ; it him on the oppofite tack.: (The Boftdn then
V'.' v.-" us, at the; prefent hauled down her French colours which. fhe
lleri arc all ready to acl. The
ex in nier iecmj aetcrmined not
V fy capitulation with the garrifon,
. rnilhment whiclt it, merits mar
om Toilon, dated the pth ult.
;?,vi,ivice had been received: there
aptun of the French r frigate la
; Vith intelligince of there having
7 at Calvi, in the ifl md of Cor.
, ts which were .to
; ) depart! from Ire-
: ' : ' 1 oaoers of the
has been
had wore in her former manoeuvrings, and
hoiftin her Eh glilh colours; fired a
broadfide without hailing the other ihip
The Ambufcade returned the fire, carried
away the Bofton's crols iack-vard, and nafled
ually' to pafs, by. The Bofton then tacked again and
ulle. ' came unaer tne Ainnuicade's lee quarter,
In
2d
the
; . '. v, . ; 71, tried and .wne tbe engagement was very fmarr. '
: , -'ry. Tribunal, i . the'early part of the aaion s the ill and
. . - rmy, in the Lieutenants were wounded. About
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.'quitted be-
,.:.'' V-':'1 i: ltd :him -on
CIVIC
ited the
middle part the Captain was killed, as was
the Lieutenant of marines $ and about the
fame time the main-top-maft was hoc away.
;The Ambufcade was; the whole of this time
dropping a-ftern, to get on the Bofton's
weather quarter, as foon as fhe had crot this
fituation, had greatly the advantace. and
IV rr ovifion, -crcuc ineipars, ta is, and rigging
; j; r r. ot the Bolton in fuch amanner. thr Uw
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: ' - . u . , - had very little command ot their Ihip.
The lateft European Advices further jn
form, that the Emprefs of P uflia had ad
'drefiedvan I niverfal to the fubjecls of her
'newly- acquired Dominions in Poland, in
forming them,! " that at laft, they are go
ing to tafte the Happinefs which fp reads it
feif equally over all her! Subjects j that it is
her Purnofe th f(xhih fnr thrm a
Governments that fliallVvpmnf them frnm
perfonai Taxes until the firft of January,
1 795 S and that fhe expecls they will-gratefully
receive thefe : Marks - of tar Favour,
which blight to confolfdate them in the
Faithfulnefs they owe her, and in a conftant
Submiflion to her Laws" that fhe Po ifti
Inhabitants were faid to be very well fatis
fiedr with their Change of "Government,
; except the Nobles, Iwhofe defpptic Power?
were quite circumftribed---that the late Po1.
..... wmuaxw jnnna .ai lyu 1 it; J IH II1C
North, on account of its great Fcrti'ity and,
the rvlildneft of i
prefs had gifein Orders to mark out Ground
on which fix Corps of Coflacks were to be
encamped which would enable her over-!
run all Moldavia, in cafe; of a War with r
the" Porte That the Aaafian imfter. at
. Grodno had formally demalided theWay
w'odefhips of Sandomir and Iublin, as the
Emperor's Share of olani! That a .Flee t
of Spanifh Ships of War was lying off the
Heights of Nice ion; the i ft of June, -a n d
was hourly expeded in that Harbour That
the States of Brabant opened their, Stflion,
. in Brufllis, 6n the 8th of May, by Voting a
gratuitous Gfft of fix Millions of Brabant
Florins- to the Em peror towards !; the Ex-
penfes of War thai; in their Sitting of the
i loth, they ifTued Letters pf Ptquifitiori,
fend all j that was not abfolutely necefiV.ry
for the Subfiftance of the Cattle, to the
trisice of Colscurg's Army, promifing that
very Thing fhould be paid for in ready
MoneyThat the City of Mentz was com
pletely furrounded by the Imperial, Pruffian,
Saxon, and Heffian Troops, whole Camps
t formed Circle nearly i fix Leagues I in' Cir
cumference, and were plentifully fuf plied
with Piovifions of all Forts 1 hat on the
bay after Prince CobourgTmade himfelf
m after of the French Camp at Famars, Ge
neral Cuftinejoined the French Army, and
( was aflemblihgall his Forces behind Bouch
airt, which obi iged-Cobourg to forrrf an Ar-..
my of Obfervati6n,;; cbnfifting of 30,000
Men, under the Command of General
Clairf ait, which was polled from Vavrechin
; ., to Mayeile, to cover the Siege that Prince
v- Cobourg, with' an equal Number, was go
ing to encamp at Den ain that 35,0c o ilea
were fo be employed in the Siege of Valen
ciennes, i 7000 in that of Conde, and 5000
were to join General Latour to1 hefiee
Maubeuge that Quefnoy was tb be invefted
. ana attactea at the lame Time as the othcri