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HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. 
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1792. 
Foreicn. 
France. 
Since our last, the French 
armies haye been every where 
succefsful. Brufsels and Ant- 
werp, Namur, Leige, Mentz, 
Frankfort, have succefsively 
surrendered to them almost 
without a blow. The com- 
bined armies, it is said, mean 
to hazard a battle with them 
in the neighbourhood of Cob- 
lentz, where the king of Pruf- 
sia at present is; but their 
attempts to reprefs the French 
ardour have been hitherto at- 
tended with so little succefs, 
that they seem not to have 
great hopes of proving. victo- 
rious at present. The ar- 
chives, and valuable effects, 
are every where removing 
from the frontiers, into the 
internal parts of Germany. 
The French have made a 
forms] demand of the Dutch 
to open the Scheld, which has 
been refused. The pretext 
was, that they might thus get 
fhips of war carried up that 
river, for the purpose of be- 
sieging the citadel of Ant- 
werp. That citadel having 
“since surrendered, the object 
of this demand no longer ex- 
ists. It remains to be seen 
VOL, Xii. 
whether they will on that ac- 
count desist from insisting on 
it. Ifthey do not, it fhould 
seem that a war with the 
Dutch will be mevitable. 
In the mean while, where- 
ever the French arms prevail, 
the generals immediately de- 
clare the people to be free:; 
and invite them to make 
choice of whatever form of 
government {hall be most:a- 
greeable to themselves. The. 
people of Savoy have, in con- 
sequence of this option, al- 
Most unanimously approved 
of the French form of govern- 
ment, and have sent a solemn 
deputation of their members 
to the National. Convention, 
to request, that they might be 
made a constituent part of the 
French republic. Their ‘re- 
quest has been complied with, 
and the province of Savoy. is 
now admitted as an 84th de- 
partment, under the name of the 
department of Mount Blanc. 
The same succefs has not 
attended their efforts in. re- 
gard to this particular in. other 
quarters. The people of 
Brufsels, by a great majority 
of votes, have declared, that 
jthey with to adhere to. their 
-ancient form of government, 
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