National Gazette

We have no advices from Europe since our last that contain any thing new or very interesting.—The Duke of Orleans, and the other members of the Bourbon family, had set out from Paris for Marseilles, according to the decree of banishment. His party is entirely ruined, and no adherents of his dared to appear in public—New recruits were daily going off to the armies, well clad and accoutred. Additional fortifications of immense strength were making at Lille, and every circumstance seemed to announce that the national armies meant to contend every inch of ground with the Austrians.—A camp of fourteen thousand French troops were forming at Cassel, under the command of general Jourdan. The Prussians had abandoned Landau, Tournay, and four or five other places which had surrendered to them through Dumourier's treachery.—Conde, Quesnoy, and Valenciennes, were in a manner blockaded by the enemy, who were bringing all their forces to that part of the frontier. General Dampierre had added 20,000 men to his means of defence, and bloody skirmishes were every day taking place.—It was reported that the Swiss Cantons were immediately to join the confederacy of sovereigns, and to put their forces under the command of Dumourier.—Home affairs in Germany wore a bad aspect.—The Elector of Saxony was under the necessity of requiring an extra subsidy from his states, in order to furnish his contingent of money, which was 800,000 crowns for the present campaign. The tiers etat had publicly declared that it was impossible for them to support such burthens, even the ordinary taxes being intolerable—The government did not insist, and their resource was, to suspend the annual payment of the sum destined for redeeming the public debts, being 700,000 crowns yearly: the other hundred thousand was furnished by the nobility—in other parts of Germany the expences of the war were daily rendering the government more and more odious, and it was intimated that if another campaign is to be made against France in 1794, the nobility and the priests must furnish the means, as the cause was theirs only, and not of the people.