nort h-c arolina.gazette vol xii saturday january s 1 i 7w . no 575 ment of his different armies in his capita alone he rated fevemeen thoufand men in one wjek ■ fuch was the noble prdour of patrio tifrn that pervaded the auitrian ftares by the meffenger from venice we learn that a report was fratcd by mr drake the bruilli lnvoy and generally believed there that buonaparte had been defeated in the 1 yrol oilober 2 r . the three hamburgh mails that were due reached town this morning they bring a vail variety of imerefting matter of which we fhall endeavour to lay before our readers a fatisfactory abftraft one very prominant and importent pare of the intelligence is the repeated accounts of buonaparte having been taken prifoner ins event was gated in our paper of mon d y laft in a letter from a rorrefpondent atr bremen j and it was the only account of it v h;cn came to this country an article from vienna of the 5th ftates that general wurmfer had frequently at tacked and repulfed the enemy with lois a letter from hanau oi'the 5th inft fays that the gazettes there affert that field marflwd wurmfer had on the 23d attacked the french near sanguinetto and defeated them with the lois of 15,000 men ; and this is further ilrcngthened by an artrcle from hstiibon of the 3d inft which fays that v unr.fcr after lix days fighting had en tirely defeated the enemy on the 20th uhv whole lofs in killed amounted to 6000 men ami in prilbncrs to 7000 among the latter was buonaparte moreau was continuing his retreat tow ards switzerland but not without being fre quently attacked and as often defeated by the auitrian corps that furround him we refer to the variety of articles which we have taken from the mails for a particular detail of the circumftances of his retreat and the lituation of his army the archduke charles was continuing his route into swabia and general petrafch was advancing to the black foreft to cut otf the retreat 01 the french by that route it feemed to be the defign of moreau to get in to switzerland but the auftrians will doubt lefs follow him thither nor quit him till h ; ts destruction lhall complete on the lower rhine there had been fo , ne affairs of poir which uniformly ended to the advantage of the auftrians the difurder of the french armies c jn ti nued unabated and the troops of the rb uted armyj aid the reinforcements of the n o rih had broke into open rupture october 22 ve prefent in our paper of this day fome further extracts from the tianjbur(rh , mails and which the late hour of delivery of the letters prevented us from g'\ving in our paper of yefterday on the iit inft the aaftria'asftorniedand carried the important pott oi the tete du pont of neuwied making t ae whole of the french who defended it prii£bners ofwar gen hotzehad palled t h e \\^ t near manheim « itha dctachir.ent of 10 or 1 2,000 men 1 he propofe'd otyect of this manoeuvre was luppoicd to be a tiivedion while the archduke ihoukl attack kehl articles frem milan of the 24th and venice of the 25th ult concur in ltatin t e obiimate actioiib had trikeri place near man tua ontheaifta battle was fought in v hit h the french loft 4000 men , and a great quantity of artillery ; and it was conduded that the iitgs of mantua umit be a fecond time railed on the 23d uk the vanguard of a rein forcement ot iij.coo puftnans had reached r t revil'o within two ur three days njan.ii of mantua an article from milan if the 26th ult ftates , hat the poj e had given a negative i stephen moylan of this city conimiflioner of loans praying for an increafe offalary gauutin obtained leave of abfence for ten days mr a foftcr fvom the committee of en rolled bills reported that the bill for the more eltechial promulgation of the laws of the u nited state was truly enrolled and it re ceived the ignature-of the fpeaker according ly mr harper enquired if it would be in or der to move that the committee of the whole be discharged from a further confideration of the militia bill ; and on being informed it was in order lie moved that it be difch rged for the purpofe of recommitting it to feiect com mittee hisobjc-et was that the bill might j?c fo modified as to ftand a better chance t>f paiirr becaule if this was not done ai d the firft l'idtion was determined to be fti\ick theplaii ou!d belolt which he thought oi great importance after fome objt'clions urged againft c mo tion by mr w smith mr heart vnv w lyinan mr kitchejl and mr i eatb and in favor of it by mr harper and mr craik it was put and iolu ivlr heath ia d owing ro a want of fuf ficient energy in the revenue of the united states conliderable i'ums of oney had been loll by revenue oflicers as was lean by the report from the treafury department he thought it pollible for the laws to be fb a mended as to prevent limilar defalcations in future j'or that purpofe ne wilhed the fol lowing refolution to lie or the table " kefolved that a committee be appointed to enquire whether any and what alterations are necellary to enforce hie payment of money due from the various revenue officers of the united states /* arced adjourned cbngrefa of the united states house ok representatives continuedfrom our !<*]{•) i thad been faid if this bill were to pals it would derange all the prefent military e ilablifhinent it would do no fuch thing but would be engrafted upon it they were alfo told that volunteer corps hud equipped themfelves at a great expence this he did not approve becatile the public defence which jiiould be general fell opon volunteer corps who might be more rich or more patriotic than oriws he hoped therefore the mo tio toitrike out would not p;ils mr v lyrnan bbferved that the gen tlemen who condemned the prelect lyltem in toio allowed that it was practical in fome parts of the union fd that it could noi be quite io bad as he reprt fenced it he be lieved it tvas capable of improvement the greatelt objection to the fyftem now in force was that it did n#t faljl equally upon all duties ; if in improvement wa inude in it in thisrefpett one of tbegrei&ft objections to i would be remove in tvtry fjfbe jfjjjkion the citi/f.is unlit beready to defife^l their , countrv when in danger from attacks t/uhout or diiturbances from within : b'tttif theprin cirl-.'oi ;\ ii'lc corps was intro<hiced you introduce a diitmct principle which will war againft the other parts of the fyftem in a military point of view it was impoilible he laid to carry t'nis principle into operation for the moment you introduce it you will hive no other corps he differed from the gi utleman from s carolina mr harper in fpeaking bf the opinion of the people on the bill proposed > be believed they were wholly dilfatisfied with it before this bill was recommitted he f-hould propole amend ments toother parts of jp mr hnrtley faid there were feveral new members in the hdufe who had not been pre fent at the former difcuffions of this fubject : and he thought it beft not to hurry the buli neu to give a little time for thefe gentlemen to inake themfelves acqminted with the fub jech if they now agreed to trikc out the firit fecvion it would put an end to the plan proooled h'e believed the fele£t corps pro pufed was not a new thing there was fuch in cllablilinncnt in switzerland and fuch a corps h.id frequently beeil under confiderati on in the ibite of pennfylvania ; but-thegrea teit objecl'.on to it was the great number of foiilcicntiolis people iii that ilate who rcful'e to bear arms the 1 p.'.ir-le of the altern itutrs lie idid were armed before this go wrnmfilt was erected but this was not the caie in pennsylvania and in uie south tliis felect corps hefaid were to be armed at the public c^pence ; if that ditficnlty was got ever he tfiought th;ve would be few left j ; jngg?fted t!ie propriety of the committee's r.i i in order togive time for confideration o the t'lbjetti tor hm a.\n part lie ihould s'ul for it mr gilbert hoped the committee would rife ; for he bclisved this fubjecuiad not been iilcuifed during this congrefs and many members were oleourfe o acquainted with ihe bnlinefs i he inoiion for the committee's riling was put and carried j t:i m mr livingiton l'.iid tha c there had been a committee appointed lafi feilion on the lub jfctoi improving the penal code ; but for want oi fome ncccllary information no rt port had bi enmad that information beinor now arrived nd doubting not the houfe v as l deliro'is of ameliorating thu penal code he mould beg to lay the following relbtution on t!i ■ table p ■ iol ed i hat i committee be appointed tot'u]u • v hether any and what alterdtions ai " ntc ...; • in tlit penal laws of the united srute ., and chat they report by bill or other i agreed i\.r gdl!u;in prefentcd u petiticn from l o n d o n ocjober 19 r his morning arrived the hamburg lvjail j tlue on wednefdayj the details which it brings are highly fatisfaftdry the boalt ed advantages of buonaparte before mantua appear much lets formidable than they did in his reprefenta idn of them field marlhal wurmler was it is true fhut up in mantua but this feems to have been a voluntary itep for the purpofe no doubt of reinforcing the garrilbn and taking upon himielf the com mand of that important poft a letter from one of our continental cor refponilcnts d.ired bremen the 7th inft up on the authority of a letter from auglburg of the 29th ult informs us that hwjnuptirte had befcn defeated and having thrown him i'elf into ihi hull hirtrefs of saiujuinetto had been lurrounded and finally taken prifontr — this account v ants confirmation ; bin thus we may prefume from the iilence of the laft french journals relpecying the operation in italy and from the reinforcements march ing to the auilrian army that the tide of fortune is as much changed in that quarter ai in germany • relpeclh.g moreau this mah bring little in addition to the former he was continuing hisretrca but was frequently obliged to alter his roite he was accord ng to iir cumltnnccs preffetl by the auftrians and harraffed by the inhabitants of the couutres til ough which lie was retreating from the caules , the diminution of his forces mult have been \ nv r icv.t and from the flownefs of hs retreat we may ealily imagine die difficult ticulties he has to encounter 1 he king of a pies had dctei*tnined again toactwith v / '•;• osl'.iilivfl he had detach ed a coufulerable bo(}j of cavalry and infantry from the interior of the country to act with the auftrians and a part of his ileet had again put t 1 lea liy the accounts brought by the mefltnjn r from vienna we learn that the empiror had raifed two hundred th ufand additional troops th.it were marching to the reinforce