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I I'l II .1 I I A NpyjMBE .8, 1792. I ij.V. yttterday'i mtil from France, we have me roiiowing particulars; ine A king and queen remain in the temple. jty. whicn cne commiuioners appoiniea uy the community of Parii have been V.i bufy in rendering as fuitahle as poffible Lientof the commiffionent'" We are adding all local conveniences to the ting of the deftituted family.

'The ppartments in tower lesro mpu uiiii nim pv.min TK. ormind.Roor contains five rooms with Upel. This floor is the place of'meeting for all 1 family 'during the day; they take their Tepaft in tof the balconies of the great faloon, on the fide of garden a Hair cafe has been made to it; on ail diere are mats' and ftraw covcrings. 2. From faloon a wooden Hair cafe has been formed to the Itory, wncrf is ine luaging ui uuis a.

1. wnita been difpofed exaftlv as he dcfircd. 3. The fnd flory is occupied by the perfons in the interior lice. 4.

ine tamiiy occupy tne ouuatng, wnicn 11 the tower, and which will be entirely infulated. Of the fuite of apartments connefled with the ler, the firll will be occupied by the daughter and kr of Louis XVI. the iecond, on one fide, by it Antoniettaj the on the other fide, by iime Lamballe. Particular requefls of the wife of Lquis XVI. 1 .1 .1 nittea to ine cpuncu gcncrai oi inc community.

Tvro intelligent and able men to ferve in the in or of the building, and there only. A flout for the fame piirpofe in thofe private cafes, in ich a man cannot be about a woman. (This re ft is given literally from the queen's own words). ri 1 y. mat tae launarciies ana ouier woriung pcnuni 1 be permitted to deliver into late hands the arti now in their pofTeflion.

In this refpefl, (con lued the commilfioners) we have provihona'ly or led, that all articles brought for Louis XVI. or his le, ball be delivered to them, and the receipt vcn Id by themfelves. If the community approve thefe edlions, they lhall be continued to M. railoy. (Signed) JLeomaiId, Bourdon, Truchon, Defineux." Many members of the community are conltantly fcut the temple, lupenntending the preparations de, partly for the fecurity, and partly for the con licnce of the king.

appears, during the ateft part of the morning, in the garden, and views 1. rr rrn lie preparations wiui inaiiTcrcncc. 1 11c coinuiuin Jhive received fuch indifputable proofs of plans for frying him off, that a folTe twenty ieet wide is or. yd to be funk round the building. Notwithftand I all precautions, it is known that there have been taking the height of the walls, and plans of rnew ereflions, with they have efcaped.

jJefides the exterior guard, there is now one for the jcrior, confiding of 50 men, are relieved once twenty, four hours. o. tuc muu niuuciaic HLCuuuiri uaic ine 11111 the late tumults at fins to be 4000, the highelt II them 7000 Qn Monday at twelve o'clock the mult continued with litr.e diminution. The na nal aflembly, the public offices, the treafury, ring all thefe horrors were unvjolated. A letter peived by one of the moft refpedtable families in iwn, ftates the capture of "Verdun, and that the 'pulace, excited, by this new difafler, were expefted dellroy the royal family.

But we are inclined to .1 ir 1 uiit, nut vcruun is not yet ttcn, inougn report that cfrsdt prevailed lp Fins on Monday. Aaiidft thofe the only pleating reflection fat when this. IhockiDg news left Paris, the temple, (e refidence Of ijie royal family, was unattacked, 3 from the fixon? cttard placed there by the "miinici it was hoped it would remain in fafety Upon whole, it may rationally be expefled, from the ''J? undoubted near approach of the duke of. Brunf ick to that thp bloody fccnc will foon be oiedj and that all the temperate and rational part of leciii jnfiead of oppofing his entrance, will rc 1 uim aim nis army witn coraiai ana open arms. As yet, noother irruption has been made' into "nee, than that bv the duke of BrunTwick.

Landau pd SaarrLoui; fupported by the army of M. Biron, eeP prince of Hohcnloe in awe: and M. Du loarier covers the nbrthcrn frontiers; io.oco men rm Boon's army, havg joined M. Kellcrmann, JiyQP others yyi) Jp))qyt the duke of Brunlwics. 'B tO 20., MART IN CO.

We learn that three French of war. with Nnfports, arrived near that illand, wth iooo Jroops on. joatd iufyhat the Iflanders dreading a of vjiich had beea committed the nau'onal troops who had before arrived among dred. Their approach was fufpefled by the runn'ine them, determined, to oppofe their landing. In coir, of cattle, that had taken fright at and upon ex fequence, on the fignal bcitig given that the fleet was aminatijn, they were found rapidly advancing withia in fight, citizens aflemblcd in arms, difafmcd a ten yards of the gate, and from this place and diftancc wWf ivii iiwp were hi garrruon, un mey received the nrlt hre trom the man who difcover ju.ucu ixigaic mai jay in ine jiaroour, and lent word, ed them (John M'Kory.) They immediately return to the admiral that could not be permitted to land ed the lire, and continued a very heavy and eppflant the troops.

Thc admiral notwithAandinB came into firing upon the ftation, (block houfes furrounded with the port, and attempting to land fome of the troops, a'ftockade) for an hour, and were' rtpulfcd with con '1 was fired and obliged to put to fea. He has fidcrable lofs, without injuring man, woman or child fuice, we learn, failed for St. Domingo. The above in the ftation. is the report of the day.

During the whole time 'of the attack, the Indian, OH iMfftppuB i TCrr "CVej T6 di tha" tC" y3rds fr0m the bIock Oaobtr a4 houfe, and often in large numbers clofe round the are informed that Several families have within lower walls, attempting put fire to One afcend tew days come into ihis neighbourhood, from the ed the roof with a torch, where he was Ih'ot, and falll weftern frontiers of this ftate, for fafety. They re ing to the gbund renewed his attempts to fire the bot. port that ihe inhabitants in general are under great torn log and was killed. The Indians fired thirty' apprehenfions of an attack from he Indians who, at balls through a port hole of the ovefjutting, which this time, fecm determined upon hoftilities againft the lodged in the roof in the circumference of a hat and' wu.wu, uuuu, iium wic mu 01 iuc ironucr 10 uic inuie mcjcine in ine wans on the outlide are other. NE W.YORJC, Qadtr 26.

Authentic Intillicenci. rable. Upon viewing the ground next morningit appear ed, that the fellow who was (hot from the roof, was a Cherokee half breed, of the Running Wir tn mjj rcicivcu iim lcvcrai jugatcj uy tne wnites oy ine name ot iom i onbndge ftcp and cutters had failed for Gibraltar, to keep the Al fon, the fon of a French woman, by an Indian and gcrincs within the Straits Four frigates and fix there was much blood, and figns that many dead had cutters had failed for the Brazils, to cruize on that been dragged ofF, and litters having been made to car ftation, in order to intercept any illicit traders, as they ry the wounded to their horfes, which they had lefc have lately been very frequent there. a mile from the ftation. Near the block houfe were We are informed by a letter from Amfterdam of found fe vera fwords, hatchets, pipes, kettlcr, and budgets'' the 23d of Auguft lair, that an additional duty has of different Indian articles; one of the fwords was a fine taken place, of one half per cent, ad valorem on all.

Spanilh blade, and richly mounted in the Spanifh fa goods exported from the United Netherlands to the Ihion. In the morning prsvious to the attack, Jona United States of America and omr percent, on all than Gee and Clayton were fen our fpics, goods imported into laid Netherlands from the United and on the ground, among other articles left byJihe States. Indians, were found a handkerchief and a mocafbn. PHILADELPHI Oadir 30. By thr hip Neil Malcom, captain Gill, from Lon known one belong to Gee, and the other to Clav.

ton, her.ee it is fuppofed they are killed. Undoubted advices have been received, that as early don, we have accounts from France as late as the as the iSth of September, as many as Creeks of September; that on the 2d of that month, a read ptffled the Tcneflce, at; the Iiowtr Cherokee towns, ful fcene had been afted in Paris. It having been re and below, on their way, as they declared, to make ported that the duke of Brunfwick's army wefe move war on Cumberland, and that they were joined by ing on towards the capital, a refolutlon was formed, about one hundred Cherokecs of thofe towns. This that 60,000 perfons, capable of bearing arms in the mull have been the party that attacked Buchanan's fta city of Paris, fhould immediately march out to fight tion. Dreadful havock was expected, but it is now the invaders, and this was fcarcely faid, bef re it was hoped that the check they have received, will induce' executed.

Sixty thoufand patriots, enthnfiaftically them to return, without miking further attempts upon, mad for war, were feen underarms. But, dreadful that fettlement. to relate, they came to a refolution not to leave any On the 2J inllant, Black's block houfe, on the head ariftocrats in Paris behind them left, if they Ihould of Crooked creek, (a branch of Little river) at which be defeated by the duke, the ariftocrats would form thefe was a fergeant's command, of captain Crawford's an enemy in the rear: Accordingly, they ranfacked company, was attacked by furprife about an hour arid the houfes and prifons of Paris, and, as our reporter an half in the night, by a party of Indians, command ftates it, they put to death a very great number, ed by a Cherokee of Wiiri tnwn, called the Tail, a' amongft whom were Madame Lamballe, the queen's brother of the Bench, and Talohteflco, confiding of confidant, Montmorin, 'Rochfoucauld, and one hun three other Chcrokees and five Creeks. drcd and thirty prielts. James Paul was killed in the hnafe, and Gcorg6 A gentleman further informs us, that at Torbay, Morfe and Robert Sharp at a fire on the out fide, and he faw an Englifti paper of the 10th September, John Shankland wounded; three horfes were killed, which contained fome further intelligence, refpeitfng and feven taken off.

the affair of the 2d, but concluded by remarking, that A few days paft, young Gillefpie was conduced on the day following, viz. the 3d of September, every fafe to Nine Mile (Craig'j ftation) by John Chriftian thing was again quiet, and the patriots marching away and two ybung Chcrokees (the Warrior's Son and in high fpirits, to receive the combined army. The Kulfatchee) from Eftanaufa, where he was purchafed' duke had taken Verdun and another poft near the, from the eight Creeks who took him, by Jamw Careys frontiers. with the affillance and interp of Chuleoah, and Thefe accounts, however they may be detailed and other chiefs of the Upper Chcrokees, for 250 pounds fhaded, are not fo black, as fome ridiculous reports of of leather (equal to eighty three dollars and thirty the duke of Clarence with an Englifh fleet, appearing three cents) and fifteen pounds fterling horfe. Th rff Breft, in fupport of the emigrant princes that Creeks value a white prifoner and a negro at the fame Paris was in flames, the king and queen beheaded, price, and treat them eqully as Haves, and all the patriots in France, about 24 millions, put Young Gillefpie was taken from his father's houfe, to the fword by whom an army of mercenaries of within to miles of this place, on the 12th of SeptemV about 100,000, not one to 240! "a thing impoffible? ber, and his elder brother was killed and fcalped by No! The French may be in confufton, becaufe fome the fame party.

of their leaders are impoftors, but they muft and The principal chiefs of the Cherokees, except thofe will foon aft with cool deliberation and general uni formity, againft thertyrant army of flaves. RICHMO Oader 26. of the Five Lower Towns, have notice, that the Five Lower Towns are for war, and every other' part of the nation for peart with the; United States, and there are daily proofs of the truth of both; By an txprtfi from Knoxville, (Territory fiuth tf the Copy of a letier from a gentlemait in Cumberland, to hh sObh) we have received the following friend in this place, dated Mill creek, near Nafoville, IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE. 31,1792. It is an undoubted truth, (ftrange as it may appear) "Sir, that the baron de Corrondolet, governor bf Louifiana, Since my lalt, an attack was made on John Eerk and governor O'Neale, of Penfacola, have opened the ley and his fon, in his peach orchard, near Bledfoe'a ftoresof the king of Spain, in Weft Florida, to the Lick, by a fmall party of Indians, of what nation is Creeks and Cherokees, and delivered them arms and unknown, about the firft inftant; the former was ammunition in abundance, advifinj; and ftimulating wounded, but bravely returned the and killed an them to go to war againft the frontier inhabitants of Indian in the aft of fc.alping his And on the the United States, and that quickly, that now or ne night of the 27th, a party of fifteen Creeks put fire to ver was' the time, while thtf United States, were en captain Morgan's houfe, near the fame place, which gaged with the northern tribes.

was happily and the party repelled by On the 30th of September, about midnight, John the aid of captain, Lufls's company, ftatloned for the Buchanan's ftation, four miles loath of Nafhville, (at, proteftion of the frontiers. which fundry families had cojlcaed, and fifteen gun On the fucceeding night the fine party opened hv oartv ot. Creeks and JUower the KaDies 01 iame xwuciai, ana ooc ms nories Cherokecs, fuppofed to wnfift of three or four hurt the next day Sartwel Willon feH in with them, wound il.

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