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Monthly Chronicle.
him any injury . The Convention have since passed a savage decree , viz . to make no pr i ~> soners of Hanoverians or English ; that is , in other words , to give no quarter , but to put all to the sword that fall into the hands of their troops . This diabolical resolution was taken , in consequence of a suggestion , that Mr . Pitt was at the bottom of tlle plot for assassinating Roberspierre and Collot d'Herbois . All popular societies in -France are to be abolished . The society of the friends of liberty and equality , have set the example , and have been followed by several others . The Jacobins bavc even thought of giving up and absorbing their power in the Convention .
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE .
A private letter received from Paris mentions , that citizen Stone , brother to Mr . Stone , now in Newgate , has been guillotined . A letter from l ^ ondon , to Mr . Stone in Paris , giving an account of the time when some ships would sail from England , and where they might be taken , having been intercepted , and laid before our Ministry , ic -mas agreed to send the letter as directed , and to order a superior force to meet the frigates which the French should send out , which was accordingly done , and the French frigates taken .. As soon as tin ' s was known at Paris , Stone was apprehended , on suspicion of being privy to the manoeuvres , and the Revolutionary Tribunal
sentenced him to the guillotine . By the Harpy , just arrived from Sierra-Leone , we learn , that the settlement was very healthful when this vessel came away , and that only two or three people had died within a twelvemonth , and every thing there seems to be in a prosperous way .
24 . Some persons convicted of a conspiracy , and for riotously assembling at a chapel 111 Kent , belonging to the late John Westley ' s connection , and assaulting the preacher , were brought up from Newgate id the Court of King ' s Bench , to enter into recognizances for their future good behavibui ' : On which occasion , Lord Kenyon gave them a pretty severe lecture ; and concluded by desiring , that the defendants and their suretics would remember , that the same law secured to the Methodists and Dissenters an unmolested right of religious worship , as to the members of the Established Church , and that it was as great an offence to interrupt the former as the latter .
25 . Messrs . Ross and Higgins , two of bis Majesty's messengers in ordinary , arrived in town from Sheffield , having under their charge three persons , of the name of Broomhead , Carnage , and Moody , charged with treasonable and seditious practices . The former acted as secretary to the Jacobin Society held there , and has corresponded with one held in town . Carnage has acted as chairman ; and Moody is charged with having made a number of pikes , near 7 feet long , by direction of Carnage . It was with great difficulty these fellows were secured , the town being in such a state of confusion , that they were obliged to call in a troop of the 16 th Light Dragoons , to escort them out of the town .
2 . 7 , At a Court of Common Council of the City of London , it was . unanimously resolved , That the thanks of that court should be given to Sir Charles Grey , K . B . to Sir John Jervis , K . B . and to the officers , soldiers , and seamen , under their command , for the signal services they have rendered to their country , by their able , gallant , and meritorious conduct in the West Indies : And it was also unanimously resolved , that the freedom of the city should be presented to Sir Charles Grey , and Sir John Jervis , in gold boxes , of the value of ico guineas each . 28 . An Extraordinary Gazette announced a signal victory by General Count
Kaunitz over the French near Rouvcroy , in which the latter lost 5090 men , and 50 pieces of cannon . ' June 3 . Intelligence reached our government , that Marshall Mollendorff had surrounded the French camp at' Keyserslautern , killed 1000 , and taken 2000 prisoners , and iS pieces of cannon . 5 . The Annual Concert of the Royal Society of Musicians was this day given , for the third time , in St . Margaret ' s Church , Westminster ; when the Messiah was performed by command . This oratorio , under the direction of Dr . Arnold , was never mere correctly performed , -and afforded a delicious treat to the admirer ' s of Handel ' s
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Monthly Chronicle.
him any injury . The Convention have since passed a savage decree , viz . to make no pr i ~> soners of Hanoverians or English ; that is , in other words , to give no quarter , but to put all to the sword that fall into the hands of their troops . This diabolical resolution was taken , in consequence of a suggestion , that Mr . Pitt was at the bottom of tlle plot for assassinating Roberspierre and Collot d'Herbois . All popular societies in -France are to be abolished . The society of the friends of liberty and equality , have set the example , and have been followed by several others . The Jacobins bavc even thought of giving up and absorbing their power in the Convention .
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE .
A private letter received from Paris mentions , that citizen Stone , brother to Mr . Stone , now in Newgate , has been guillotined . A letter from l ^ ondon , to Mr . Stone in Paris , giving an account of the time when some ships would sail from England , and where they might be taken , having been intercepted , and laid before our Ministry , ic -mas agreed to send the letter as directed , and to order a superior force to meet the frigates which the French should send out , which was accordingly done , and the French frigates taken .. As soon as tin ' s was known at Paris , Stone was apprehended , on suspicion of being privy to the manoeuvres , and the Revolutionary Tribunal
sentenced him to the guillotine . By the Harpy , just arrived from Sierra-Leone , we learn , that the settlement was very healthful when this vessel came away , and that only two or three people had died within a twelvemonth , and every thing there seems to be in a prosperous way .
24 . Some persons convicted of a conspiracy , and for riotously assembling at a chapel 111 Kent , belonging to the late John Westley ' s connection , and assaulting the preacher , were brought up from Newgate id the Court of King ' s Bench , to enter into recognizances for their future good behavibui ' : On which occasion , Lord Kenyon gave them a pretty severe lecture ; and concluded by desiring , that the defendants and their suretics would remember , that the same law secured to the Methodists and Dissenters an unmolested right of religious worship , as to the members of the Established Church , and that it was as great an offence to interrupt the former as the latter .
25 . Messrs . Ross and Higgins , two of bis Majesty's messengers in ordinary , arrived in town from Sheffield , having under their charge three persons , of the name of Broomhead , Carnage , and Moody , charged with treasonable and seditious practices . The former acted as secretary to the Jacobin Society held there , and has corresponded with one held in town . Carnage has acted as chairman ; and Moody is charged with having made a number of pikes , near 7 feet long , by direction of Carnage . It was with great difficulty these fellows were secured , the town being in such a state of confusion , that they were obliged to call in a troop of the 16 th Light Dragoons , to escort them out of the town .
2 . 7 , At a Court of Common Council of the City of London , it was . unanimously resolved , That the thanks of that court should be given to Sir Charles Grey , K . B . to Sir John Jervis , K . B . and to the officers , soldiers , and seamen , under their command , for the signal services they have rendered to their country , by their able , gallant , and meritorious conduct in the West Indies : And it was also unanimously resolved , that the freedom of the city should be presented to Sir Charles Grey , and Sir John Jervis , in gold boxes , of the value of ico guineas each . 28 . An Extraordinary Gazette announced a signal victory by General Count
Kaunitz over the French near Rouvcroy , in which the latter lost 5090 men , and 50 pieces of cannon . ' June 3 . Intelligence reached our government , that Marshall Mollendorff had surrounded the French camp at' Keyserslautern , killed 1000 , and taken 2000 prisoners , and iS pieces of cannon . 5 . The Annual Concert of the Royal Society of Musicians was this day given , for the third time , in St . Margaret ' s Church , Westminster ; when the Messiah was performed by command . This oratorio , under the direction of Dr . Arnold , was never mere correctly performed , -and afforded a delicious treat to the admirer ' s of Handel ' s