Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

NATIONAL CONVENTION OF FRANCE

Thursday Jan. 21st,

The following letter was read from the Representatives of the people, J. B. Lacoste and Baudot:

"Germersheim, 9 Nivose. [29 Dec.]

"The success of the armies of the Moselle and the Rhine, dear colleagues, are astonishing, and their march is most rapid: they yesterday made themselves masters of the important post of Germersheim, which covers Landau, assures the preservation of the lines of Queich, and opens the door of the Palatinate. Our brave defenders are, at this moment, within one league of Spires, and we are assured, that the light troops have entered the Town. We are assured also, that the Prussians and Austrians, in separating, made their adieu to each other, on coming out of the little Town of Bergzabern, with strokes of their sabres. and with a discharge of their fusils.

"The first have retired to Neustadt and Mayence; the second have repassed the Rhine by three different bridges, which they had the wise precaution to erect for the purpose.

It was time; for if they had not made the best use of their legs, for many days and nights, they would have been all exterminated. Their routes are covered with prisoners and deserters.

"The courageous perseverance of the Armies who have delivered Landau, and of the garrison who preserved it, ought to procure for them the same honours as the Army that besieged Toulon. We believe that we only participate in your intentions in expressly desiring it.

"The battle of Kaisersberg has proved to the enemies, that they have nothing but destruction to look for from the defenders of the Republic; after more than four hours of a charge; under a terrible and incessant fire, not a single soldier shrunk from the ranks, and they saw the stragglers running in all directions, and at their utmost speed, to partake in the glory of their intrepid brothers in arms; thus the victory was compleat, and ascertained the triumph of the Republic.

"The Enemy have left us considerable Magazines at Lauterbourg, and particularly of Powder, to which they had put a match, which they had lighted on their departure; it was extinguished in the very moment when it was to explode, and to blow the City and the part of the Army that occupied the place in the air.

"The Austrians, on their flight, set fire to many of their magazines. They have however, left us a great many fusils, at Germersheim; oats, dry vegetables, flour and other grain, besides 800,000 rations of forage at Germersheim, and 30,000 coverlets. We depart to-morrow for Spires.

"Health and Brotherhood,

"BAUDOT, J. B. LACOSTE."