"Citizens, when you took up arms with an intention of recovering your Liberty, and of faving the Country, you folemnly vowed and fwore before God, that neither the greateft, adverfities, nor the greatest reverses, fhould shake your fortitude. Providence, in whofe hand is the fate of Nations, has been pleased to try your conftancy. THADEUS KOSCIUSco, whom you had elected Chief of the armed force, has juft been made prifoner, in a bloody combat with the enemy. This fad event certainly fills your hearts with just sorrow, and your fenfibility is the tribute due to the virtue of that worthy citizen, the victim of his patriotifm. But, citizens, beware of defpair, and of burying with his fate the hopes of your country. Remember the motto you have adopted, Liberty or Death! Preserve the spirit of unity, redouble your zeal and courage, and God will blefs the goodness of our caufe.

In

"The Supreme council promise you, that they will remain on their poft; that they will defend Liberty with you, or perifh along with you. order to fulfil the duty prefcribed to the Council by the act of infurrection, they have appointed a new Supreme Chief of the armed force:-Thos. Wawrzecki, Lieutenant-General, has been elected. Citizens, you know his excellent character; you are acquainted with his civil and military virtues. The Council hope that you will not fuffer yourselves to be caft down by misfortune; but rather that you will fummon up all your strength, for the falvation of the State; and that, fupported by your energy, you will enable the Council to maintain the defence of liberty and the country.

"Done at Warfaw, in the fitting of the Council, Oct. 4, 1794.

LETTER or ΤΗΣ SUPREME NATIONAL

COUNCIL TO GENERALISSIMO KOSKIUSCO.

"The Council in your misfortune, bewails that of the country at large. They placed not in events that confidence which they have never ceafed to repofe in your virtues. The duty of good citizens, and your example, will prevent our defpairing of the country. As long as you fhall be at liberty to addrefs the Council, boldly make known to us your wants, and those of the brave companions of your efforts, who now partake your melancholy fituation. So high is the value which the Council fet upon your person, that they would willingly restore to the enemy all their prifoners in exchange for you; and there is not an individual in the Council that would not joyfully barter his liberty for yours.

"It is by an uncommon course of things, Generaliffimo, that you receive from your cotemporaries that tribute which the latest posterity will one day render you.

"Such are the fentiments which the Supreme Council charges me, in my quality of President for the present week, to convey to you: and to thefe I add the feelings of my profound refpect.

(Signed)

"THADEUS DEMBOWSKI, Profident.

I haften to addrefs myself to the legitimate power, to demand the liberty of all the Ruffian generals, officers, foidiers, and domeftics, as well as thofe of the diplomatic corps, and women, detained against all the rights of nations My defire is, that they be brought to the army under my command. Their fpeedy return cannot but add to the inclination I entertain of doing, on my part, every thing permitted me, or that depends upon me. It is in the hope that efforts, conftantly ufelefs, are about to bring back a durable and falutary calm in Poland, and that I may be able, during the courfe of the prefent year, to prefent my refpects to your majefty, that I beseech your majefty to accept of my previous homage, and the fentiments with which I am, &c.

"6 SIR,

THE ANSWER.

"However painful we find the defeat of a part of the Polish army on the 10th of October, efpecially on account of the lofs of a man valuable in all refpects, and whofe merit it has been to have laid the foundation to the first fruits of the independence of his country, yet it cannot shake the firmness of those, who have folemnly vowed either to die, or to conquer for liberty.

"You, who know how much modefty embellishes fuccefs, need not wonder, Sir, if the method which you propofe to us, to liberate the Ruffian prifoners, and hoftages, who ferve as pledges for the Poles feized by the Ruffians, does not meet with our concurrence. If you would endeavour to exchange your prifoners for our own, I would then attempt to gratify your wishes.

It does not appear that in this crifis of the affairs of Europe, the court of Ruffia interferes any farther than as to what regards her own interefts in Poland.

Every day couriers arrive, and are difpatched, but nothing is published. We only know that the infurgents have made confiderable progrefs in Southern Pruffia. On the contrary, the provinces bordering on our empire, Samogitia and Lithuania, for instance, have fworn to defend the Ruffian interefts, preserving at the fame time all that had been done in their favour by the Diet of

Grodno.

Much reliance is placed on the talents of our generals, particularly thofe of Repnin, Suwarrow, and Ferfen. The emprefs, to fhew her

fatisfaction to the fecond of thefe, for the victory which he has gained over the Poles in Li. thuania, has named him her aid-de-camp general, fent him a crown of laurel, adorned with brilliants, to the value of 60,000 roubles, and defired him to select a regiment in the army which shall bear his name to all perpetuity!

WARSA W.

October 22.

The fpirit of liberty animates all perfons; and whatever other nations may think of us, the diffolution of our fyftem will not be fo foon effected as might be fuppofed, nor will they return to their pristine inaction-nor even the capture of Warsaw will be able to quell the fervour of the nation. We appear already to be devoted victims of the Ruffians, and in this fuppofition proposals have been made already to remove the feat of the new Revolution elfewhere, but whither has not been determined

yet.

The day before yesterday a trumpeter from the enemy brought a letter from Kofciufko to the Supreme Council, in which he ftates, that the number of officers taken prifoners in the action of the 10th inft. amounts to 125 perfons, and 5 generals befides himself. He praises very much the good treatment he receives from general Ferfen, and the care which is taken to heal his wounds. He occupies an apartment with the Legate Memcewiz, his adjutant, is guarded by 5 officers, and 400 men mount the guard about the house he lives in.

All the officers who were taken prisoners, unanimously accufe prince Poniatowsky, who, either through ignorance or treason, neglected to fupport the corps under Kofciusko, and has thus been the caufe of this difafter. This impeachment was found of fuch importance, that he was immediately arrested, and a court martial will be held upon him.

GUADALOUPE.

The Succefs, captain John Peele, arrived at Workington on the 6th inft. from St. Kitt's: by a converfation, from the quay, (the veffel not being allowed to come in) the following particulars have been learned :-Fort Pittsburgh furrendered the 28th of September, to the people of colour, affifted by a detachment from fome French men of war lying at Point-a-Petre, who put all the white people to the fword. Captain Peele failed from Baffeterre, in company with the Woolwich of 44 guns, on the 2d of October, and botharrived at St. Kitt's on the 6th of the fame month,

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On the day he failed, he saw a confiderable fire upon the heights which command Fort Matilda, and upon inquiry, was informed that the French had taken poffeffion of them.

He had on board forty-five paffengers, chiefly French emigrants; and, on the 9th October, a floop from Guadaloupe had arrived full of paf fengers, all, or moft, of whom had paffports from general Prefcott, (who commanded at Fort Matilda) one of them had dispatches for the governor of St. Kitt's, giving information of the furrender of Fort Matilda, but captain Peele does not recollect the day, having failed from St. Kitt's on the roth of October. He reprefents the garrifon of Fort Matilda as having been very fickly, and the Woolwich as full of fick troops.

of your fociety will be proud to become membeis of it.

A member announced to the fociety that he had heard a group of ariftocrats exprefs a with to have the head of Carrier and the heads of the members of the two committees of public and general fafety, who had issued orders to Carrier.

Leonard Bourdon affured the fociety that they had many friends in the convention.

Gafton began to fpeak, when his voice was drowned by the fcreams of the women in the galleries.

The prefident endeavoured in vain to reestablish order. The fcreams continued, and the women pushed forward to the door in order to make their efcape. Information was communicated to the fociety, that the ball was beft by a great crowd crying out, e la Convertion -à bas les Jacobins, (down with the Jacobins, Large ftones thrown through the windows, fell through the interior of the hall and wounded feveral perfons.

Fayau invited the Jacobins to be firm; to remain at their pofts and die, if it was neceffary. All the members immediately got up and ex claimed, Let us die at our pets, but let the Republic live for ever Tranquillity and order were immediately establifhed, and the doors were thrown open. Several ftones continued to be thrown, and feveral members were wounded, but they did not ftir from their feats.. Some perfons who had taken the part of the Jacobins, brought in a few prifoners. The prefident ordered them to be brought near him in order to protect them, No violence was offered.

The women in the mean time who had retired out of the hall, were extremely ill-treated. The armed force and feveral deputies at length arrived. The people difperfed, and the fociety terminated their sitting,

On the next day the Convention ordered the society to be shut up.

LAST SITTING OF THE JACOBINS.

19 Brumaire, Nov. 9.

Several letters were read from persons who requested to be elected members of the fociety.

A letter was alfo read from the fociety at Porentrui, complaining of the oppreffion exercifed on the Jacobins. A difcuffion arofe on the queftion, whether the fociety of Porentrui merited the confidence of the Jacobins.

Lanot observed, that there have been Jacobins in all times and all circumftances." When they are oppreffed, certain perfons abandon them; but they are few, and when the faction that now exifts fhall be annihilated, as it foon will be, then will you fee the hall filled; and thofe even who have moved for the deftruction

FRANKFORT.

November 9.

Count Clairfayt arrived at Meerheim on the goth Odober. Immediately after he received a letter by a courier from Vienna, who fet out for London On reading this letter all the troops received orders to go into winter quarters. Head quarters were firft at Weilbourg, but afterwards changed to Limburg.-On the night of the 5th inft. the French got poffeffion of an island fituated in the Rhine near Coblentz, oppofite to Valendar. The greater part of their troops and artillery in this station have marched to Mentz, which town, according to reports by defeiters, will foon be attacked with the utmoft vigour. Yesterday morning a proclamation was made at

the

The attack was made in three columns, under the commands of general Suwarrow, Ferfen, and Derienden, and coft the Ruffians 1500 men, On the other hand, their lofs in the victory which they gained, under the command of general Suwarrow, over 4500 Poles, before Praga, on the 26th of last month, was very trifling. action, however, coft the latter one general, four majors, forty-one officers of different ranks, and eight hundred men; ten pieces of cannon alfo

fell into the hands of the Ruffians.

November 11.

The

We have learnt fome further particulars refpecting the capture of Praga, on the 4th inft. The intrenchments of that place, raifed in hafte, and in confequence untenable, were, notwithftanding, for a long time defended by the Poles with obftinate bravery and defperation.

The Ruffians, according to their own account, purchased their victory with the lofs of 2000 men. The place was taken by affault.-It is reported that the Poles loft, on this occafion, 3000 men, who were killed, and 400c made prifoners. The Ruffians alfo took 35 pieces of

cannon.

The fuburb of Praga confifted almost wholly of houfes of wood, and being fituate lower than the city of Warsaw, can be fet fire to by the artillery of that place, and confequently cannot be held by the Ruffians, unlefs, during the firft confternation of the Poles, they ihould have rendered themselves mafters of the bridges of the Viftula.

The corps of twenty thousand Pruffians, which is returning from the Rhine, is every day expected here; yesterday the military cheft, with the treasure for defraying the expence of this counter march, was difpatched to meet it. Prince Hohenlohe, who commands it, fets off a fortnight later.

The tranquillity maintained in the Auftrian Netherlands fince they were taken poffeffion of by the French troops, fuffered fome interruption

for putting Carrier under arreft, a great number On the 11th, in the evening, after the decree of the Jacobins, armed with fabres, daggers, and piftols, repaired to the club, although their meeting had been provifionally suspended by order of the committees. The numerous groups of the Thuilleries being informed of this, inftantly began debating whether they fhould repair to the Convention and demand the difarming of the Jacobins, or go and difarm them themselves? The latter opinion prevailed; they flocked to the Jacobins, and furrounded their hall, exclaiming

"Down with the Jacobins! down with the ramparts of Carrier! down with the drowners! the cut-throats! the fhooters! and the imprifoners! down with the knights of the guillotine! live liberty live juftice! live the people and their reprefentatives!" The orators of the feveral groups, however, perfuaded the people to abftain from actual violence; detachments of horfe and foot were fent to furround the hall of the fociety; and the whole tumult was confined to fhouts, cries, and reproaches, which continued the greater part of the night. About three in the morning, commiffaries fent with an exprefs order by the four committees, went to the Jacobins club; expelled the members who ftill remained in it; fealed up the papers of the fociety; fhut the doors of the hall, and carried the keys to the committees.