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Monthly Chronicle.
league and a half distantfrom ours , all the mtrenchmento 01 which were bristled with cannon . We had already carried the first and second intrenchments , when a masked battery , the fire of which enfiladed our corps , opened upe-n u « , and did great execution among our troops . M . d'Hervilly was wounded in Ihe belly , but , " notwithstanding , commanded the retreat with great presence of mind . IS was effected without the least disorder , and covered by the gun-boats . The loss pf the enemy was far more considerable than ours . Very unfortunately it so happened , that Gneral Vauban , who had landed near Carnac , could not come up
in time to take the enemy in flank , whilst General Tintigniac harrassed them from another side . Reinforced by four regiments with the black cockade , who arrived yesterday under the order of M . de Sombreuil , we intend immediately to re-commence our attack . After the ' affair of the 16 th inst . no day passed without skirmishes . On the 20 th General Hoche harrassed the advanced posts of the Royalists the whole 1 day with constant firing , but the evening seemed to promise some repose . The regiment of Dresnay covered tbe left flank of the fort , and the fort itself was
garrisoned by the regiment of Hervilly . M . de Sombreuil covered the right flank with two battalions , and defended thepassage ' which the ebb tide forms on the strand . It was with great astonishment that in the dead of night a great number of musket-shots were heard in the fort , and at the break of day the tri-coloured
flag was seen hoisted in the same . The French seamen , who composed a part of the regiment of Hervilly , kept up a secret understanding ' with the enemy , massacred their officers , together with about 150 soldiers who remained faithful to their duty , and opened the gates o / the fort to the detachment sent by General Hoche . Count Sombreuil now merely exerted himself in saving as many individuals as fie could . A considerable number of women and children , whojiad taken refuge in the peninsula of Auraigreatly increased the embarrassments arising from such
, a situation . The gallant- Sombreuil chose the most favourable position to covet the embarkation , and maintained it with the utmost bravery , supported by the British gun-boats , which , however , on account of the low water , could not approach , the shore near enough to do great execution . About fifty of the brave warriors lyho . fought , around M .. de Sombreuil were able to effect their escape ; all the rest of the little army ,, amounting to 5000 men , surrendered prisoners of war . TheBishop of Dolseeing the impossibility of every one's being embarked
. , , said to his clergy , " Gentlemen , let us not embarrass the re-embarkation : let us go whither our duty calls us : " and all , animated by his . example , proceeded to the depot of the sick and wounded , and performed their ministerial functions . They were all taken . M . de Sombreuil , the Eishop of Dol , and some hundred ' s more of the emigrants taken on this occasion , have since been shot at Vannes .
A Treaty of Peace between Spain and the French Republic ; and another of Amity , Commerce , and Navigation , between England and America , , have beat ratified and confirmed in the course of the past mont'h .
HOME NEWS ' . CBOYDON ASSIZES . July 30 . Jeremiah Aversham , alias Abershaw , was tried on an indictment wherein he was charged with having been guilty of the wilful murder of David Price , a constable of Union Hall ,- in the Borough , on the evening of the 1 Mk . ot July lastat the Two Brewers public-housein Maid LaneSouthwark '
, , , ,: Mr . Garrow opened the case . Barnard Windsor , a constable belonging to the Union Office , deposed that on the evening of the 13 th of JssSiH-y , he and the deceased went to the ' Two Brewers public-house ; in Maid Lane , to apprehend the prisoner at the bar against whom they had received informations of his having been concerned in
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Monthly Chronicle.
league and a half distantfrom ours , all the mtrenchmento 01 which were bristled with cannon . We had already carried the first and second intrenchments , when a masked battery , the fire of which enfiladed our corps , opened upe-n u « , and did great execution among our troops . M . d'Hervilly was wounded in Ihe belly , but , " notwithstanding , commanded the retreat with great presence of mind . IS was effected without the least disorder , and covered by the gun-boats . The loss pf the enemy was far more considerable than ours . Very unfortunately it so happened , that Gneral Vauban , who had landed near Carnac , could not come up
in time to take the enemy in flank , whilst General Tintigniac harrassed them from another side . Reinforced by four regiments with the black cockade , who arrived yesterday under the order of M . de Sombreuil , we intend immediately to re-commence our attack . After the ' affair of the 16 th inst . no day passed without skirmishes . On the 20 th General Hoche harrassed the advanced posts of the Royalists the whole 1 day with constant firing , but the evening seemed to promise some repose . The regiment of Dresnay covered tbe left flank of the fort , and the fort itself was
garrisoned by the regiment of Hervilly . M . de Sombreuil covered the right flank with two battalions , and defended thepassage ' which the ebb tide forms on the strand . It was with great astonishment that in the dead of night a great number of musket-shots were heard in the fort , and at the break of day the tri-coloured
flag was seen hoisted in the same . The French seamen , who composed a part of the regiment of Hervilly , kept up a secret understanding ' with the enemy , massacred their officers , together with about 150 soldiers who remained faithful to their duty , and opened the gates o / the fort to the detachment sent by General Hoche . Count Sombreuil now merely exerted himself in saving as many individuals as fie could . A considerable number of women and children , whojiad taken refuge in the peninsula of Auraigreatly increased the embarrassments arising from such
, a situation . The gallant- Sombreuil chose the most favourable position to covet the embarkation , and maintained it with the utmost bravery , supported by the British gun-boats , which , however , on account of the low water , could not approach , the shore near enough to do great execution . About fifty of the brave warriors lyho . fought , around M .. de Sombreuil were able to effect their escape ; all the rest of the little army ,, amounting to 5000 men , surrendered prisoners of war . TheBishop of Dolseeing the impossibility of every one's being embarked
. , , said to his clergy , " Gentlemen , let us not embarrass the re-embarkation : let us go whither our duty calls us : " and all , animated by his . example , proceeded to the depot of the sick and wounded , and performed their ministerial functions . They were all taken . M . de Sombreuil , the Eishop of Dol , and some hundred ' s more of the emigrants taken on this occasion , have since been shot at Vannes .
A Treaty of Peace between Spain and the French Republic ; and another of Amity , Commerce , and Navigation , between England and America , , have beat ratified and confirmed in the course of the past mont'h .
HOME NEWS ' . CBOYDON ASSIZES . July 30 . Jeremiah Aversham , alias Abershaw , was tried on an indictment wherein he was charged with having been guilty of the wilful murder of David Price , a constable of Union Hall ,- in the Borough , on the evening of the 1 Mk . ot July lastat the Two Brewers public-housein Maid LaneSouthwark '
, , , ,: Mr . Garrow opened the case . Barnard Windsor , a constable belonging to the Union Office , deposed that on the evening of the 13 th of JssSiH-y , he and the deceased went to the ' Two Brewers public-house ; in Maid Lane , to apprehend the prisoner at the bar against whom they had received informations of his having been concerned in