FOREIGN OCCURRENCE S. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, July 2. Copy of a Letter from Brigadier-general Ogilvie to the Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, dated land of St. Pierre, May 18,1793. Received June 30. SIR, HAVE the honour to acquaint you, that the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon furrendered at difcretion to his majefty's forces on the 14th inftant. In obedience to his majesty's commands, fignified to me in your letter of the 15th of February, having confulted, at Halifax, with Capt. Affleck, commanding his majesty's ihip Alligator, I embarked, without lofs of time, for the attack of these islands with a detachment of the royal artillery, and 310 rank and file, with officers and non-commiffioned officers in proportion of the 4th and 65th regiments on board that ship, a king's fchooner, and three tranfports, and failed on the 7th inftant. On the 14th, about day-break, we make the island of St. Pierre; and Capt. Affleck having made a difpofition to proceed by the channel of Miquelon, a convenient place in that strait for debarking the troops offering, and our information from different quarters (however imperfect) giving us reafon to fuppofe that a French frigate was in the harbour, and of the further defences of which we had not been able to gain any real intelligence, I propofed to Capt. Affleck to land the troops, that an attack by fea and land might be made at the fame time, with which he perfectly coincided; and ac cordingly I landed, with great part of the troops, in the Auce à Savoyard, about 5 miles to the westward of the town, and proceeded towards it, fending a fummons from Capt. Affleck and myself to the commandant for the immediate furrender of the island; when an answer being returned, demanding terms of capitulation, they were decidedly refufed. The troops continued their march; and having reached, without oppofition, the heights above the town, the Alligator at the fame time appearing in fight of the harbour, the commandant, M. Danfville, (who from circumftances was under the direction of the commune of the island,) furrendered the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon at difcretion, and poffeffion was immediate ly taken of the battery and places of de. fence near the town and harbour. The garrifon confifted of between 80 and 100 men only, but there were upwards of 500 French fishermen (exclufive ofthe inhabi tants) in the town, who, had they been prepared and well armed, might have made great oppofition. They had likewife begun to put in a state of defence the bat. tery of eight 26-pounders, which effec. tually defended the harbour. If, from fortunate events, no opportu nity offered for the troops to distinguish themselves, it would be doing the greatest injuftice both to officers and men, if I did not, in the ftrongest terms mention their good conduct, difcipline, and regularity, the flighteft depredation not having been committed on any of the inhabi tants by the troops I have the honour to command, in a place taken in the man ner above ftated.-I inclofe a return of the ordnance and military ftores taken on the ifland, and have the honour to be your obedient humble fervant, JAS. OGILVIE, Brig. Gen. This morning one of his majesty's meffengers arrived with a dispatch from Colonel Sir James Murray, Bart. adjutant general to the forces under the command of his royal highness the duke of York, to the Rt. Honble. Henry Dundas, one of his majesty's principal fecretaries of itate, of which the following is a copy. 66 SIR, Eftreux, July 10, 1793. I have the honour to acquaint you, that the governor of Condé has this day confented to furrender that place to the Imperial forces, under the command of the prince of Wirtemberg, by whom it has been blockaded for fome time part. "The Auftrian troops are to be put in immediate poffeffion of the detached works, and of one of the gates of the town (that leading to Tournay). The garrifon is to furrender as prifoners of war, and to march out upon the 13th. "This is a conqueft of the utmost importance; Condé being one of the strongeft places of this frontier, requiring but a finall garrifon for its defence, commanding the navigation of the Scheldt, and facilitating any future operation. "I have the honour to be, with the greatest refpect, Sir, your most obedient humble fervant, M 2 JAMES MURRAY." WHITE furrender, and indeed to come over entirely to the king's party; but they were Va-deterred by the confideration of their wives and families, who were in Valenciennes, and would be at the mercy of the governor. WHITEHALL, July 22. Yesterday afternoon a meflenger arrived from the British head-quarters before lenciennes, with difpatches from his royal highnefs the duke of York, ftating, that Valenciennes, if attacked by storm, might be carried in two days, but, if the regular approaches were followed out, it might ftand another month. A cabinet-council was held on this business, the refult of which remains a perfect fecret. Col. Forbes has received a fhot from the fortrefs of Valenciennes, by which unfortunate accident he has loft one of his eyes, and his face is otherwife greatly disfigured. On the 13th, agreable to articles of furrender, the garrifon of Condé marched out of the town, and laid down their arms. It confifted of four thousand and nine men, amongst whom were three regiments of the line, amounting to two thoufand feven hundred men : the reft were national guards, the ftrongest batallions of whom confifted of 440 men. The troops of the line in general, and a few of the national guards, looked well, but the reft cut a miferable figure. They had been living for fome time on eleven ounces of bread, and two of horfe- tiefh, and some rice, per diem. A confiderable quantity of rice was ftill remaining, but bread had very much failed. They carried out with them about one hundred horfes in good condition. One hundred and three pieces of ordnance were found in the place, but the quantity of ammunition was inconficerable. The firing from Valenciennes ceased on a fudden this morning, and a flag of truce caine out from the town. It was the general conjecture and expectation, that the French were at length going to furrender. The occafion was, however, to conduct a lady, Madame Metiour, to our camp, who wished to leave the place, and wanted to go to Paris. She was readily received, but the latter part of her requeft cannot at prefent be complied with. She has her choice of Mons, Condé, or Bruffels, for her place of refidence. The prefent operations of the siege are very much confined to mining, from which the greatest advantages are expected. The fufpenfion of hostilities gave the captain of the mines an opportunity of walking to the covered way, and afcertaining the progrefs, length, and depth, of his inine. During the truce, likewife, feveral of our officers had an opportunity of verfing with fome of thofe of the troops of the line who came without the gar. rifon. They expreffed their withes to There are frequent fkirmishes between our advanced pofts and thofe of the enemy, in all of which we are successful. The French attacked, four days ago, an Auftrian poft, near Maubeuge, in which affair they had 100 taken prifoners, and a much greater number killed and wounded. The Auftrians had only between 20 and 30 killed and wounded. Since the 10th, only one British has been killed, and feven have been wounded, in the trenches, The lofs of the Auftrians, Hanoverians, and Heffians, has been fomewhat proportionably greater, particularly last night, when near fifty were killed and wounded. A very heavy cannonade is at prefent kept up on both fides. JULY 12. The prince of Cobourg, being with a number of officers, and a body of cavalry, on a reconnoitring party, between Efcaillon and Bouchain, fell in with 200 horfes bridled and faddled, without being mounted; the prince immediately gave directions to his cavalry to take poffeffion of them, when 40 men on horfeback, to whom the care of thefe horfes had been entrusted, whilft their riders were difperfed in the different villages, fuddenly made their appearance. The Auftrian cavalry immediately attacked them, cut them to pieces, and took poffeffion of the 200 horses. Advices from Lisbon mention a recent fhock of an earthquake at Oporto, and feveral other places in that kingdom, immediately after which the weather be, came remarkably cold. Some travellers lately arrived from Maldonado and Monteviedo, poffeffions belonging to the Spaniards in South America, relate a fingular phenomenon which took place in the river de la Plata, in the month of April laft. The waters of the river were forced, by a moft impetuous ftorm of wind, to the diftance of ten leagues, fo that the neighbouring plains were entirely inundated, and the bed of the river left dry. Ships which had been funk in the river for upwards of thirty years, were uncovered; and among others an Englith veflel, which was caft away in the year 1762. Several perfons repaired to the bed of the river, on which they could walk about without wetting their feet, and returned loaded with filver and other riches, which had been long buried under under the water. This phenomenon, which may be ranked among the grand revolutions of nature, continued three days; at the end of which the wind ceafed, and the water returned with great violence to its natural bed. AWFUL DEATH of MR, MUNRO. [The unfortunate young the Shaw Ardafier country fhip, off Saugur Ifland, Dec. 23, 1792,-is addreffed to a gentleman in Calcutta, and a copy of it was brought by the Jaft fhips from India.] To defcribe the awful, horrid, and lamentable, accident I have been an eye witnefs of, is impoffible. Yefterd y morning, Mr. Downey, of the company's troops, Lieutenant Pyefinch, and poor Mr. Munro, and I, went on fhore, on Saugur ifland, to shoot deer; we saw innumerable tracks of tygers and deer, but ftill we were induced to purfue our fport, and did the whole day; about half paft three we fat down on the edge of the jungle to eat fome cold meat fent us from the hip, and had just commenced our meal, when Mr. Pyefinch and a "black fervant told us there was a fine deer within fix yards of us: Mr. Downey and I immediately jumped up to take our guns mine was the nearest, and I had but juft laid hold of it, when I heard a roar, like thunder, and faw an immenfe royal tyger fpring on the unfortunate Munro, who was fitting down; in a moment his head was in the beaft's mouth, and he rufhed into the jungle with him, with as much ease as 1 could lift a kitten, tearing him through the thickeft bufhes and trees-every thing yielding to his monKrous ftrength. The agonies of horror, regret, and, I muft fay, fear (for there were two tygers, a male and female), .. rushed on me at once; the only effort I could make was to fire at him, though the poor youth was ftill in his mouth. I relied partly on Providence, partly on my own aim, and fired a mufquet. I I faw the tyger ftagger and agitated, and I cried out fo immediately. Mr. Downey then fired two fhots, and I one few minutes after Mr. Munro came up to We retired from the jungle, and a us, all over blood, and fell; we took him on our backs to the boat, and gor every medical affiitance for him from the Valentine Indianan, which lay at anchor near the island, but in vain. He lived more. twenty-four hours in the extreme of torture; his head and fkull were all torn and broke to pieces, and he was wounded by the beaft's claws all over his neck and thoulders; but it was better to take him away, though irrecoverable, than leave him to be devoured, limb by limb. We have juft read the funeral fervice over his body, and committed it to the deep. He was an amiable and promising youth, I must obferve, there was a large fire blazing clofe to us, compofed of ten or a dozen of whole trees: I made it myself on purpose to keep the tygers off, as I had always heard it would. There were eight or ten of the natives about us; many thot had been fired at the place, and much noife and laughing at the time, but this ferocious animal difregarded all. The human mind cannot form an idea of the fcene: it turned my very foul within me. The beast was about four and a half feet high, and nine long. His head appeared as large as an ox's, his eyes darted fire; and his roar, when he first feized his prey, will never be out of my recollection. We had fcarcely pushed our boat from that curfed shore, when the tygrefs made her appearance, raging mad almoft, and remained on the fand as long as the distance would allow me to fee her. OCCURRENCES. feudal rights; re-establish forty bishoprics, Brun, the minifter, and which accompanied his letter to lord Grenville, were, "That, if England would become the mediator for a general peace, guarantee to the French the poffeffion of Old France, and a free choice of their own form of government, they would evacuate Savoy, and all other conquefts; and, granting a general amnesty, restore to the emigrant nobles all their property excepting their royal family of France 600,000l. a-year; and, if they thould chufe to refide in'England, a greater income; and give up a certain proportion of territory to GreatBritain. The heads of the answer of our cabinet are faid to be, "That we could not acknowledge the prefent convention to be a fair representation of the French nation, or fuch a government as we could now treat with: that, if they afterwards afterwards establish such a government as hall not appear dangerous to us and our allies, we shall then be willing to enter into negociation; but, till then, can only communicate through the generals of the armies." The following powers are now at war with France: His Britannic Majefty; the Emperor of Germany; Emprefs of Ruffia; Archduke of Auftria; Kings of Pruffia, Spain and Sardinia; Queen of Portugal; Republics of Holland, Hamburgh, and Lubec; Electors of Mentz and Treves; the Duke of Brunfwic Lunenbourg; Prince of Heffe Caffel; Duke of Deux Ponts; Prince Bishop of Liege; and the Pope! Strange that fuch a vaft combination of force, unexampled in the annals of mankind, cannot ftrike that terror into France which England alone used to do. Lord Macartney's reception at Pekin is faid to be certain. Before the Indiamen which are lately arrived left Canton, an anfwer to that effect had been received from the emperor, in confequence of a requifition from the Eaft India company. When the requifition was made, the emperor was given to understand, that lord Macartney was attend d by a fhip laden with prefents for his imperial majefty. lic office, Bow-ftreet, charged with having forcibly, and against her will, committed a rape on the body of Mary Corbett, a child of twelve years of age. He was fully committed for trial.-The child communicated the circumftances of this horrid tranfaction to her father; which were, that the prifoner, who is uncle, to the girl, took her to be an affiftant to his wife, in whofe absence this monster in human, shape decoyed the girl into his bed-room, where, after asking her number of indecent questions, he took her forcibly into bed to him, where he kept her all night, and where, fhocking relate, he accomplished his villainous defign. a An awful and fingular circumstance occurred lately at Chelmsford gaol. `An aged man of the name of Millar, confined for debt, being about to take out a fuperfedeas of the action, and apprehenfive of detainers, he caufed an article to be inferted in the papers, ftating his death; the ftratagem had the defired effect, and his fuperfedeas was obtained; the order arrived for his difcharge; but, as he was preparing to leave the gaol, he died. The Grand Fleet, which failed from St. Helen's on Sunday, the 14th of July, confifted of the following ships: Ships. Guns. Commanders. Rl. Sovereign 100 JULY 9. A little before one o'clock in the morning, the inhabitants of Deptford Dock-yard and its vicinity were greatly alarmed by the ringing of the bells about the yard as a fignal of danger. It was difcovered that government's storehoufes Charlotte 100 for paint were on fire, which foon burft forth with great fury, and it was feared that it would communicate to the fhipping, the Charlotte, a royal yacht, being at no confiderable diftance. The fames fpread with fuch rapidity, that, notwithstanding all the affiftance of the dock engines, the whole of the paint ftorehoufes were burnt down, and fome buildings behind. The fire was not got under till five o'clock, and the damage done is to a large amount. At Blackwall a curious circumftance occurred on the 12th. A deferter from the Scotch Greys, who had been abfent from the regiment for fome time, attended and threw himself upon the mercy of the commander, entreating that, whatever might be his punishment for defertion, he might have liberty to go with the regiment. The officers were fo highly pleafed with the spirit of this man, that they forgave him, ordered him his horfe, arms, and accoutrements, and he was fuffered to embark with the rest. JULY 16. Benjamin Williams was brought before the magistrates at the pub. Royal George ico Cumberland 74 Admiral Earl How E, Vice-Ad. Sir A.Hoop Rear-Ad. M'BRIDE, Edgar 74 Bertie. 74 J. Harvey. 74 Cotton. 74 Molloy. 74 Rainier. 74 W. Parker. 74 H. Harvey. 74 James Montague. 74 Pafley. ENCAMPMENT S. HARWICH, July 20. This fmall but beautiful camp is now completely formed; after pitching, striking, and re-pitching, the tents and marquees, the line is at length fixed. The camp confifts of three regiments, viz. On the right, the Weft Kent, colonel duke of Dorfet. The centre, the Bedfordshire, colonel lord Offory. On the left, the East Suffolk, colonel Goater. The pofition chofen is on the right of the road leading into Harwich, about half a mile from the town, on an elevated dry fpot; the main ocean in front, within twenty yards of the quarter-guard tents; in the rear an arm of the fea, that joins the Manninghee and Ipfwich rivers; on the left the town of Harwich; forming together the most charming picturefque fcene that can poffibly be imagined. General Tonyn commands, and is very indefatigable in his attention to the regularity and good order of the camp; nor are the field-officers of the regiments behind-hand with him in their zeal to render their respective corps diftinguishable for correct military discipline. WATERDOWN. The Eaft Norfolk militia, colonel Ward. Six pieces of cannon. Major-General Sir William Meadows, The North Hants, colonel Sloane. The duke of Richmond has been on horfeback before four o'clock every morning of the last week, except Saturday, reviewing the different corps. Thefe, in general, have answered his expectations; and no pains are fpared by the colonels to rectify fuch defects as his grace has point ed out. WARLEY. The following are the regiments forming the encampment at this place : General Commander in chief, his grace Cambridge, lord Hardwicke. the duke of Richmand. Horfe artillery, captain Lawfon. Park ditto, colonel Drummond. LIST of PRIZES, The Swallow, Capt. Brooks, 26 days paffage from Gibralar, is arrived at Falmouth with difpatches from Admiral Colby. She brings the pleafing intelligence of his majesty's fhip Egmont having retaken a Spanish galleon, one of the richest ever taken; and captured the French frigate who took the galleon feveral days before. The French frigate is one of the new construction, mounts 42 guns, quite new, and the galleon was the only prize fhe has taken. The Phoenix, Sir Richard Strachan, has captured La Pauline, a French EaftIndiaman, valued at 30,000l. and brought her into Portsmouth. The Fury floop of war, of 16 guns, Derby, lord G. H. Cavendish. To each regiment are attached two. field-pieces. General Prefcot commands under the marquis Townshend. continued from Page 64. Capt. Paget, commander, is arrived at Plymouth from Liverpool, to which port fhe was a convoy to feveral merchantmen from Gibraltar. The Fury took and carried into Gibraltar 19 French prizes. The Crefcent frigate, Capt. Saumarez, captured on the 2d inftant le Club de Cherburg, a French cutter privateer, of 10 guns, two days from Breft, bound to the coast of Ireland where he had been very fuccefsful on a former cruize, having taken four veffels of value. Lately was brought into Portland-road, Weymouth, by the Mary privateer, of that port, William Reed commander, an American brig called the Mary, of and from Charleston, bound to Havre de Grace, |