"I have been lucky enough to save her from these cannibals, and the next day sat off for Paris.
"This is what I have seen, and what I am ready to attest before any tribunal.
"N. B. The original of this has been deposited at a notary's, and a faithful copy delivered to the National Assembly, signed by the author. If any persons should doubt the authenticity of the above, they may address themselves to James Migneret, Jacob-street, Paris, or the family of M. Dillon, who engage to answer them."
The following is the Flemish Account of the preceeding Actions between the French and the Austrians
- Brussels, April 30.
The declaration of war which the National Assembly of France resolved to make against the King of Hungary, had hardly been declared when we received advice from our frontiers, that Marechal de Rochambeau had assembled the troops from different garrisons to form an army, with which he intended to enter this country.
Orders were immediately issued to all who were in the different towns of the provinces to leave them, and repair to the place of general rendezvous which had been appointed. The first of these had not arrived at the rendezvous before the advanced posts of Mons had announced the arrival of a body of French troops on the 27th, who had marched that day from Valenciennes towards Quievrechain and Crepin.
Lieutenant-general baron de Beaulieau reported, that on the 28th he had observed near these places several regiments of French infantry, and a regiment of dragoons forming an advanced guard, behind which there was a heavy train of artillery, followed by a considerable body of troops, which induced the said general to remove towards Boussut, the advanced posts he held in Quieverain. Intelligence was received from the other side that a detatched corps from Lisle had marched by Morquain towards Tournay. News soon after arrived, that this corps, after having obliged the picquets of the Tyrolean arquebruseers, posted at Morquain, to retire to this village, were advanced on the 29th at day break to this place, but that Major-general Comte d'Happoncourt, having marched a battalion of the regiment de Clerfayt, four companies of Dalton's, two companies of de Ligne, and four squadrons of de la Tours dragoons to meet them, and these having fired several pieces of cannon, the French had retreated in a cowardly manner, and had re-passed our frontiers with so much precipitation, that it was not possible or our troops to keep up with them, and they were only able
