GERMANY. BERLIN, June 10. The count d'Alvenfleben has this day received a letter, written by the king himself, from the field of battle to his minifter at Berlin. The letter states, that after general de Favrat, with a part of the Pruffian forces, had joined on the 6th ult. a Ruffian corps near the city of Piliczka, his Majefty attacked on the other fide, and defeated the Polish army under the command of general Kofciufko, between Piliczka and Cracow. According to the report of the courier, the Poles have left two thousand men on the field of battle, and loft eighteen pieces of cannon. His Majefty, who was himself very much expofed in the action, has rewarded the bravery of his fecond fon, prince Louis, by raifing him to the rank of major-general; as alfo his aid-de-camp, general de Manuftein, who had a horfe killed under him at his Majesty's fide the fame circumftance occurred to a fecond aid-de-camp, on the other fide of the king. A third aidde-camp has been difpatched to Petersburgh with intelligence fo advantageous to the combined interefts of Pruffia and Ruffia. NETHERLANDS. OSTEND, June 19. The most timorous among us begin to recover from their panic; but our incertitude concerning the fate of Ypres is ftill the fame. The firing on and from the town ceafed yefterday morning, but whether in confequence of fame arrangement between the befieging general and the governor of the place, or on account of the Carmagnols having raifed the fiege, or converted it into a blockade, we Thus have not yet been able to ascertain. much is certain, that feveral pieces of heavy ordnance have been carried back to Lifle by the road of Poperinghen. But, according to the affertion of a gentieman just arrived from Ghent, thefe were cannon difmounted by the Are of the garrifon, and have been replaced by others. The day before yesterday the republicans commenced the fecond parallel, but had not finished it when the firing ceafed. Letters from Bruffels contain an account, which they affert to be authentic, that the royalifts have, in confiderable force, made their appearance in Lower Normaedy, and that the greatest part of that province have joined their ftandard. They also state, that on the 15th inftant the van guard of a Pruffian army, 40,000 ftrong, had arrived at Aix-la-Chapelle. The pofition of general Clairfayt's army, and of that commanded by count Walmoden, is still the fame; and we do not yet hear that either has advanced towards Ypres. At Tournay every thing is quiet. The Carmagnois are in great force near Bouvines; but our army, entrenched up to the very teeth, prefents a front too confiderable for general Pichegru to attack them. POLAND. WARSAW, June 21. On the news of the capture of Cracow by the Pruffians the people in the capital became fo impetuous as to infift being led on to fupport Kofciufko, and 6000 men have actually marched out for that purpose. Prince Jofeph Poniatowsky will, it is faid, ferve as a volunteer under gen. Mokronowski, and the prefent commandant of Warfaw, gen. Orlowsky, will ferve under Kofciusko. The burghers of this place have taken the oath of fidelity to their country, and the oath of obedience to general Kofciusko. June 23.-Kofciusko is already faid to be at Warca, at the distance of feven leagues from this city. Pontoons have been got ready here to throw a bridge over the Viftula, to make ufe of in cafe of neceffity. Our fate continues to draw nearer; a new cannon foundery has however fince been established. A particular ordinance has fince been publifed, fhewing how the people are to rife in a mafs. A Polith lady refident here has fent a great number of muflin fhirts to Kofciufko, who fent her a letter of thanks, in which he affures her, that he would fain renounce every convenience, provided the foldiers were well fupplied. As a token of the union of the people of Poland and Lithuania, a blue and green national cockade is now worn. Those foreigners who apply to the department of foreign affairs, obtain passports for their departure. without meeting the emperor, who took his route from the Netherlands through Cologne, while the count took the way of Frankfort. The latter had difpatches from his court, which he was ordered to deliver in person to the emperor, accompanied with fuch remarks and explanations as his inftructions afforded. Immediately after his arrival he demanded an audience, and was closeted with the emperor for a confiderable time. The fubftance of this conference has not transpired; in the mean time we know, that the faid Ruffian minifter has notified to ours, that the projects of the Polish infurgents must be oppofed with the utmost vigour; that all the power of Ruffia and Pruffia would be exerted for that purpose, and that there can be no fafety but in their total extermination! Prince Repnin has entered Poland with an army from Lithuania, and has taken poffeffion of Chelm and Lubain. We are in hourly expectation of hearing that he is master of Warfaw, from which he is diftant only fifteen leagues. Ruffia and Pruffia have conjointly published a manifefto, in which they invite the Poles to return to their reafon! The nobles to return to their dwellings! and the perfants to the labours of the field! In which cafe they are offered a free pardon for every thing which has paffed heretofore. Letters from Gallicia of the 17th acquaint us, that after the battle of the 8th of June, Kofciufko retreated in a masterly manner to Keielze, with intention to cross the Viftula; but we are in the dark as to his defigns of future operations. After the junction of the Ruffian and Pruffian forces, which fucceeded the capture of Cracow, the Poles are faid to have murmured, and particularly the nobles, who think them felves feduced into an enterprise impracticable in the execution We are at this moment informed, by letters from Constantinople of the 12th of June, that a declaration of war this year is likely to come from Ruffia. The Ruffian minifter at the Porte, M. de Kultzbey, a young man, scarcely twentyfix years of age, full of fire and vivacity, has had frequent conferences with the Reis Effendi, in which he had spoken with an unexpected boldness. In his laft conference with the Turkish minifter he made feveral propofitions, of which the following are the principal. 1. A pofitive declaration that the Porte would not interfere in the actual affairs of Poland. 2. That it fhould oblige all the French frigates and armed veffels to quit the coafts of the Archipelago; and free all the ports of that fea, over which the navy of France had of late exercised a kind of dominion. 3. That no alteration fhould be made in the cuftoms and duties. 4. That a free paffage fhould be allowed to Ruffian frigates through the canal of Conftantinople. 5. That the prince of Moldavia and Wallachia, being Greeks, and ill-treated by the Ottoman minifters, fhould be confidered under the immediate protection of her Imperial Majesty. To these the Reis Effendi replied: 1. On this propofition he could give no anfwer on the moment, as it belonged to the Sultan himself to decide upon points which concerned the interefts of the empire. 2. That the Porte would not confent to offer any violence to the French frigates in queftion. 3. That the Porte, as well as every other independent ftate, would make whatever regulations it thought fit in the duties, without fuffering the interference of any foreign power. 4. That the free navigation of the canal of Conftantinople would be a violation of the treaties and conventions already fubfifting between the two courts. 5. That the princes of Moldavia and Wallachia, though Greeks, being tributary to the Porte, could demand no other treatment than what was conformable to the ufages and customs which the Ottoman Porte had ever obferved to all its dependencies. The minifter of Ruffia instantly dispatched a courier with these answers to Petersburgh. In the mean time the Porte is making the most diligent preparations in the arfenals and dock-yards throughout the whole of its empire; but the troops are collected fo flowly, that it is manifeft the Porte wishes not to be the first in declaring war, at least during the prefent year. GREAT the tyranny of Roberfpiere, wherein a depar ture from virtue, honour and justice, and an adoption of tyranny, robbery and murder, had ruined one of the finest kingdoms in the world; inhumanized its inhabitants, and unfertilized its plains. He hoped the Almighty would avert fuch evils from this realm, and inspire their lordships with those principles of equity, on which the permanence of states could only be fupported; for conftitutions were fubject to mu TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS, ESQ tability, and every day afforded fresh proofs of MON ONDAY Mr. Burke, at a little after two, addreffed their Lordships, and returning them thanks for this other day they had granted him to finish, took a retrospective view of the British and Maratta wars, of the prefents Mr. Haftings had accepted, and of the means his counfel had adopted to fubvert the evidence, by endeavouring to prove that thofe parts in the impeachment which the Managers, for the fake of brevity, had omitted, ought to be conftrued as not fupportable by the managers, and therefore favourable for Mr. Haftings. After dwelling with confiderable energy for a long time on the charges in the grofs and detached parts, he, at laft, faid he was come to his conclufion; but before he quitted the box, he fhould befeech their lordships attention for a few moments. The hon. manager then, in a very folemn tone of voice, befought their lordships, as they revered the glory and honour of that happy conftitution under which they lived, to look to what their ancestors had done in cafes fimilar to the prefent. He cited many of them, but more particularly impreffed that of the impeachment of lord Macclesfield, as a guide for their conduct on the prefent occafion. He reminded them, that by neglecting to punish great delinquents, conftitutions were overturned and kingdoms laid waste. Here he drew a lively picture of the miferies to which France had been brought, from the parliament of Mirabeau to the neceffity there was to punish delinquency, in order to preferve national happiness. He had therefore only to add his fervent hope, tha their lordships' judgment, in the prefent inftance, would be conformable to that which furpaffed every other confideration-the principles of juftice. At half past four the proceedings were thus concluded. It is understood their lordships will pronounce fentence next year, at the bar of their own chamber. MONDAY, June、23. Sylvefter, the king's meffenger, arrived this morning with difpatches from his royal highness the duke of York, dated at Tournay on Friday laft. Notwithstanding the confident accounts which we had received for these two days past from Dover and Ostend, respecting the fiege of Ypres being raifed, that event feems doubtful. From the difpatches from the army, dated on Friday, there is reafon to fuppofe that Ypres was taken on the 19th or 20th. Accounts from Oftend, dated on Saturday evening, likewise state this event; but letters from Nieuport of as late a date are filent on the fubject; we do not therefore state it pofitively, but we are atraid that Ypres has fallen. letters from Oftend add, that the French were expected to advance to the attack of Clairfayt. The Accounts Accounts are received from lord Hood, dated the 2d of June. He was about to attack Calvi, which was not expected to hold out. The English fleet had taken the Mozelle frigate, and feveral boats laden with provisions. Saturday morning about eight o'clock, his royal highness prince Erneft arrived at the Queen's lodge, Windfor, from the Continent. His royal highnefs's arrival was announced by the ringing of bells, firing of guns, &c. Prince Erneft carries his left arin in a fling, in confequence of an injury which he received by a cannon ball, in one of the engagements on the Continent. Mr. Dundas, of Richmond, attends his royal highness, and there are great hopes of his regaining the use of his arm. The Queen of Portugal has had a paralytic stroke, and when the packet last failed from thence, it was not expected that she could re cover., Yesterday evening the earl of Chatham fet off from the Admiralty-office for Portsmouth, to prepare proper accommodation for the royal, family. The troops embarked under the command of the earl of Moira are the 19th, 27th, 28th, `40th, 42d, 44th, 57th, 59th, 87th, and 89th regiments, forming a body of 8000 effective men. They were expected to arrive at Oftend this morning, in time to relieve West Flanders. Thurfday the Argyle volunteers, commanded by colonel D. Campbell, and the Perthshire regiment, commanded by colonel Graham of Bal./ gowan, embarked at Leith for Guernsey, in great fpirits. All the accounts from the coaft are full of the arrivals of persons of property from Oftend. On Friday no less than feventy paffengers were landed from that place at Dover only. The office of quarter-mafter general to the imperial army, heretofore held by general Mack, has been given to the prince of Waldeck. The French agents, Semonville and Maret, have been removed from Mantua to a fortrefs in the mountains of Tyrol. The prefent alarming state of Italy has caufed the Pope to enjoin public prayers during three fucceffive days: a jubilee is likewife to take place. I am perfuaded that you entertain too just a fenfe of the nature and importance of the conteft in which we are engaged to fuffer your zeal to be abated, or your perfeverance fhaken, by the recent fucceffes of the enemy in the Netherlands. In a moment which fo ftrongly calls for energy and vigour, it is peculiarly gratifying to me to reflect on the uniform skill and bravery of my fleets and armies; the undaunted spirit and unwearied exertion of my officers and troops in every fituation; and the general public fpirit of my people, which have never at any period been more confpicuous. I have obferved, with the highest fatisfaction, the rapid and valuable acquifitions made in the Eaft and West Indies, the fuccefsful operations which have been carried on in the Mediterranean, and the brilliant and decifive victory obtained by my fleet, under the command of earl Howe, an event which must ever be remembered as one of the moft glorious in the naval history of this country.. Gentlemen of the House of Commons, I return you my warmeft thanks for the chearfulness and liberality with which you have granted the large supplies which were neceffary for the fervice of the year, and for the maintenance of a caufe equally important to the fecurity and happiness of every clafs of my subjects. My Lords and Gentlemen, I feel it incumbent upon me particularly to acknowledge your diligence in the investigation of the designs which had been forwarded against the government and conftitution of these kingdoms, and to thank you for the confidence you have repofed in me on this occafion. It will be a principal object of my attention to make a vigorous and prudent ufe of the additional powers vested in me for the protection and fecurity of my people; and relying, as I do, with the utmost confidence, on the uniform loyalty and public fpirit of the great body of my fubjects, I have no doubt of speedily and effectually repreffing every attempt to disturb the public peace, and of defeating the wicked defigns which have been in agitation. It must not however be forgotten that these defigns against our domeftic happiness are effentially connected with the fyftem now prevailing in France, of which the principles and fpirit are irreconcileably hoftile to all regular and eftablished government: and that we are therefore called upon, by every confideration of our own internal fafety, to continue our efforts, in conjunction with our allies, and to perfevere with increased vigour and exertion in a conteft, from the fuccessful termination of which we can alone expect to establish, on a folid and permanent foundation, the future fecurity and tranquillity either of this country or of the other nations of Europe. Then the lord chancellor, by his Majefty's reported by the admiral, of the bravery and galcommand, faid, The Charlotte, Spithead, June 13, 1794. The admiral cannot omit the very grateful part of his duty, that requires thefe his public acknowledgments to be made, of the highly diftinguished examples of refolution, fpirit and perfeverance, which have been teftified by every defcription of officers, feamen and military corps in the fhips of the fleet, during the feveral actions with the enemy on the 28th and 29th of May, and the ft of the prefent month, and which cannot be better affirmed than by refer ence to their effects on these occafions. Nor is the merit of the feamen of the fleet lefs to be applauded, in their active and unwearied exertions to put their fhips in a ftate of fervice, fo fpeedily as it was completed after thofe actions had ceased.. (SIGNED) HOWE. PUBLIC ORDERS. Queen Charlotte, at Spithead, June 20, 1794. The commander in chief is directed, purfuant to the king's pleasure, to make known in the fleet that his Majefty has deigned to exprefs the highest fatisfaction in the account lant behaviour of the officers and men ferving in the fleet, in the actions with the enemy on the 28th and 29th of May and rift of the prefent month; and is charged, in the manner judged moft proper, to acquaint all the officers and men (more efpecially the admirals Graves and Sir Alexander Hood, K. B. the rear admirals Bower, Caldwell, Gardner and Pafley; and fir Roger Curtis, firft captain to the commander in chief) with the juft fenfe his Majesty entertains of the zeal and courage they have fo eminently exerted in his fervice on those occafions. The commander in chief has alfo been required by the lords spiritual and temporal, and by the hon. the commons of Great Britain, in parliament affembled, to convey the thanks of their refpective houfes to the flag officers already named as above, and to the captains and other officers of the fleet, for their bravery and gallant conduct, with their approval and acknowledgment of the fervices of the feamen, marines and foldiers, ferving in the faid fleet, on the feveral actions with the enemy as afore faid. The commander in chief, with the highest fenfe of pleasure, communicates, in this man. rer, fuch approval and, acknowledgment as above ftated, to the faid officers and fhips' companies; and defires in confequence, that the captains of the different fhips will fignify the fame to their refpective officers and crews accordingly. He is moreover to make known at this time, that in a court of common council, holden in the chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London, the 18th inftant, in confideration (as it is expreffed) of the very gallant conduct of the feamen, &c. who ferved on board the fleet in the faid actions, and in token of the grati tude of the faid court of common council, the chamberlain of the city is directed to pay into the hands of Mr. Thomas Taylor, the master of Lloyd's coffee-houfe, the fum of five hundred pounds, for the relief of wounded warrant officers, petty officers, feamen, &c. and alfo the widows and children of those who fell fo gloriously on the days beforementioned, in the fervice of their king and country. It is likewife to be noticed, that a very confiderable fum of money had been previously subscribed (and still increafing in amount) by many respectable and generous private gentlemen, making their depofits with. Mr. Taylor, for the like purposes; confonant to the tenor of which, the feveral captains of the fleet have been defired to tranfmit to the faid Mr. Taylor, the names of the killed and wounded feamen, marines and foldiers, with adequate defcriptions of the perfons entitled to fuch relief, with all convenient difpatch. |