by an act of justice, put an end to the most dreadful violation of the right of perions. In fact we had an incontestible right to keep, in a place of fafety, a family, whofe members might compromife the fafety of the people. But it was againft the rights of nations, that the deputies and ambaffladors were arrested.

It is for the court of Vienna to weigh well these confiderations; we have not thought it neceffary to make them the object of any negociation; but will decree, and your generals will proclaim, the laws which you have decreed. The following is the declaration which your committees have directed me to prefent to you.

The national convention declares, that as foon as the representatives of the people, the minifters and ambaffadors of the republic, and the perfons compoting their fuite, detained by the government of Auftria, fhall be fet at liberty, and fhall be upon the limits of the French territory, the daughter of Louis Capet fhall be fent to that fame government, and all the individuals of that family fhall be permitted to retire from the territories of the repub. lic. The national convention alfo directs their committee of public fafety to take all the neceffary steps for the execution of the prefent decree.'

The declaration propofed by the committees was unanimoufly adopted amid the loudest plaudits.

On the 1st of July, reports were made to the convention, of the late etcape of admiral Cornwallis, and of the fubfequent victory of lord Bridport. The former they attributed to the cowardice of their officers, and the infubordination of the feamen; and the latter to the great fuperiority of our fquadron. The defcent of the emigrants, effected under cover of the English fhips, was likewife noticed;, and the reprefentatives, Tallien and Blad, were ordered to be fent, on this occafion, to the departments of the weit, with the fame powers that were given to the reprefentatives fent to the armies.

On the 5th of July, a letter was read, dated the 3d inftant, from the reprefentatives, Tallien and Blad, at Alençon, ftating feme important advantages obtained over the Chouans; particularly, that

Conquereau, one of their chiefs, who was moit dreaded in that part of the country," had been killed; and exprefling the greateit confidence, that by the measures taken by general Hoche, the emigrants that had landed would be exterminated, and the perfidious English difappointed.

On the 7th of July, during one of the difcuffions of the conftitution, Thomas Paine, whom a long illnefs, occafioned by the perfecutions he futtained, had prevented, for fome time, from attending at the fittings of the convention, requested that fome of his obfervations on the conftitution fhould be read in the roftrum; obferving, that he had already diftributed thefe obfervations among the members of the convention.

Several members of the commission of eleven oppofed the reading of these obfervations. Other members were for their being read: a debate arufe. A decree at laft was paffed, that his opinions should be read.

Thomas Paine, in his opinion, was against the principle which was going to be established in the conftitution, that the proprietors of land alone fhould have a right to vote, which would deprive half the number of Frenchmen from their real rights, and would lower the ideas of a free people to ideas of intereft. The plan of the commiffion, he faid, feemed to except a part of the French nation from the fupport which the revolution ought to have given them. It is eafy to couch fuch an idea on paper, to deprive a numerous portion of the people of the right of citi zen; but it is difficult and even dangerous to establish such a principle. The declaration of rights ftates, that the end of fociety is the common happiness of that fociety; and the conftitution, on the contrary, excludes from that happiness a great part of the nation. The firft article requires contributions in order to be a citizen, -What name will you give to the citizen?

After the reading of Paine's opinion, many meinbers moved it to be printed. Tavaux was against the printing; but, after a warm debate, the printing was decreed.

[To be continued. ]

JUNE 27.

N the court of king's-bench, Mr. Gibbs moved for leave to file a crimi nal information against the churchwardens and over feers of the parish of Woolwich, for uttering improper expreffions refpecting the late profecution against Ramfay and Wilton, and for framing an order or refolution for the inhabitants to defray the expences of indemnifying the parish of Clerkenwell, &c. by a rate to be made for that purpose. Mr. Gibbs reminded the court, that Ramfay and Wilfon had heen convicted of a very high misdemeanor, in putting a pregnant woman into an open boat; fince which, the prefent churchwardens and overfeers had held a meeting, at which they refolved, that the two convicted men had been actuated with a laudable zeal to ferve the parish of Woolwich, and that the expences before ftated ought to be paid by the inhabitants by a rate. Mr. Gibbs obferved, that it was the intention of the court, that the punishment fhould fall upon the guilty, namely, Ramfay and Willon, and not on the inoffending inhabitants of Woolwich. The court granted a rule to fhew cause.

The underwritten, who were eye witneffes of the great and good character they beg leave to fpeak of, think it their indifpensable duty to make known to the public fome of the noble and humane acts of lady Anne Fitzroy, late a prifoner of war at Quimper in France, who perhaps fuffered more infult and bad ufage from fome of the deluded French republicans, than any of her rank ever did before. Regardlefs of her own diftreffes, the made it her fole business to alleviate thofe of her fellow prifoners and countrymen. With her own hands and the affiftance of Mrs. Carrett, another amiable character, and her female domeftic, the made fhirts and caps for all those in need, and purchased fome hundreds of jackets and trowsers, and diftributed among her unfortunate countrymen, who were ready to perifh for want of clothing. Every day alfo the had a great quantity of veal and foup dreffed for the numerous fick, to whom their inhuman enemies would grant nothing but their miferable common allowance, and often would not even let that be carried into the prifon, which her well-timed charity had liberally provided. In fhort, her unpa

ralleled goodness faved the lives of hundreds of her diftreffed countrymen, who will be ever bound to pray for, and admire with astonishment her unexampled benevolence. JAMES FRANK *,

JAMES WILLIAMSON. JUNE 29.

Yesterday morning earl Fitzwilliam, attended by lord George Cavendish, and Mr. Beresford, attended by fir George Montgomery, met in a field near Tybuin turnpike. Juft as the principals had ta ken their ground at twelve paces diftance, a magiftrate with peace officers came up and prevented any further proceeding.

Cork, June 20. On Thursday last a cafe of importance to bankrupts was decided in our court. A merchant, who failed two years ago in Bristol, and had obtained a certificate in England, under the bankrupt laws, came over to Ireland, and was here arrested a few days back for a debt contracted previously to his failure in England. It was decided by the court, that certificates obtained in England protect the bankrupt in Ireland, and vice verfa, that certificates obtained in Ireland protect in England.

Plymouth, June 25. Copy of Thanks by Vice-admiral Cornwallis, to his Squadron, June 18.

Vice-admiral Cornwallis returns his fincere thanks to the captains, officers, feamen, and marines, of the fhips of the fleet under his orders, for their fteady and gallant conduct in the prefence of the French fleet yesterday; which firmness, he has no doubt, deterred the enemy from making a more ferious attack. It would. give the vice-admiral pleasure to put the whole of their exertions in effect, by meeting a more equal force, when the country would receive advantage, as it now does honour, from the fpirit fo truely manifefted by its brave men.

British fleet. ~1 hip of 100 guns, 4 of 74, and 2 frigates.

French fleet.-13 fall of the line of 80 and 74 guns; 7 frigates, 7 razees, and 2 brigs.

JULY 1.

lomon, John Philips, and Charles Crof well, were feverally indicted for felony, in aiding and abetting Ifdwell Ildwell in an attempt to escape from the New Prifon, Clerkenwell. See Vol. XCVI, p. 308

and 309:

The urft witness on the part of the profecution was Mr. Newport, head-keeper of the gaol, who proved the warrant of commitment against Ifdwell; Roberts, his deputy, concurred in the fame point, and alfo faid that he knew not of the plan defigned between Ifdwell and his turnkeys, one of whom (Day) on his examination, faid, that being induced by the promife of a large fum, he went with Ifdwell to Artillery-lane, to fee, as Ifdwell faid, a fick aunt, who wifhed to fee him. When they arrived there, three of the prifoners, James Haydon, John Henley, and William Heanlon, feized him, and wrefted from him a blunderbufs, which was fired off in the dark, by which Ifdwell was killed, and he himself wounded. Bernard Solomon, the next witnefs, faid, he lived fervant with Mrs. Ildwell; that he often went with meflages to Ifdwell; that he had been fent to Gofport for Jonathan Jones, who was Mrs. Ifdwell's uncle; that Jones came to town, and took lodgings for her in Artillery. lane.-On Good Friday, the day on the evening of which Ifdwell was killed, he obferved that Mrs. Ifdwell had fet out her bedroom with a number of phials and other apparatus, fo as to give the room the appearance of a fick perfon being there he faw Jacobs, Hardwick, Haydon, and Philips, in the houfe previously to the accident: he opened the door when Ildwell and Day came, and fome time after he heard the report of a blunderbuis; after which he furrendered himself to the people, who came into the houfe in confequence of the alarm.

Many other witneffes corroborated this evidence, and alfo identified the perfons of the remaining prisoners.

The prifoners brought many refpectable people, who gave them very good cha

racters.

When the judge had fummed up the evidence, the jury, after having retired for a fhort time, brought in their verdict, Jonathan Jones and John Delany-Not guilty George Hardwick, James Haydon, John Henley, William Heanlon, Simon Jacobs, John Solomon, Joha Philips, and Charles Crofwell-Guilty... JULY 3. Edinburgh, July 1. On Monday, the

high court of jufticiary met, and proceeded to the trial of fir Archibald Gordon Kinloch, bart. on the charge of having murdered fir Francis Kinloch, of Gilmerton, bart. his brother, by firing a pistol, which took effect and caufed his death.

After the indictment was read over, the pannel was afked the usual question— guilty or not guilty? to which he answered not guilty.'

Mr. Hume ftated to the court, that the nature of the defence which was to be offøred for the pannel was, that although it should be proved he was the unfortunate intrument of the unhappy deed charged against him, yet, that at the time it was committed, he was in the most lamentable ftate of a deranged mind, fo as to be totally infenfible of what was done, and even afterward did not retain the fmalies recollection of what had happened. Mr. Hume further ftared, that while in the Wett Indies, the pannel had been seized with a fever, from which time he never was confidered as poffeffing a found mind, but was fubject to melancholy and fits, of jealoufy; and this had fuch an effect upon him as to make him attempt to take away his own life.

The court pronounced an interlocutor finding the libel relevant, but allowing the pannel a proof of all facts and circumitances tending to exculpate or alle. viate his guilt.

The pannel was at times confiderably agitated, but upon the whole behaved. with much compofure.

The court then adjourned to this day, when the evidence being cloted, and counfel heard, the jury, after having retired, brought in a special verdict, unanimously finding that the prifoner killed his brother fir Francis Kinloch, in the way and manmentioned in the indictment; but als finding that the prifoner was at the fanie time infane, and deprived of reafon.-The court deferred the confideration of the verdict.

JULY 11.

The following Addrefs to the hon. Admiral Cornwallis, in return for his Letter of Thanks, was fent from each Ship of his gallant Squadron. Sir, At Sea, June 1795. With the utmost pleasure we have read, and communicated to the officers and fhips companies, the honourable opinion you were pleased to exprefs of the exertions and conduct of the fquadron, while in prefence of the enemy; and iris with infinite fatisfaction that we offer you, by defire of the whole, their unfeigned thanks for the very gratifying manner of conveying your approbation. From the fteady, cool, and determined firmness of the officers, feamen, foldiers, and marines, we feel it our duty to affure you, that had we been compelled to contend with the very fuperior force of the enemy, we had no doubt of realizing the juft and well-founded opinion you had formed of us.'

We are,' &c. JULY 15. John Lewis, a fifer, belonging to the 3d regiment of guards, accompanied by a lad, went on Sunday night to the King'sarms, at Charing-crofs, to drink, but the licence having been taken away, they were informed by the perfons of the houfe, that

Under this idea the mob' proceeded to outrages which the appearance of a conftable, who went and fearched the house, and told them how ill founded their fufpicions were, could not quell, and which ultiraately terminated in the destruction of the infide of the house, and all the furniture, which was thrown into the street, and either destroyed or carried off.

To corroborate this account,' the evidence of the young man who firft went. into the houf with the fifer was taken on oath, and which exactly correfponded.

The fifer was taken into custody by fome persons who were witnesses of his conduct. He was committed for examination.

On Monday night, a mob again col lected at Charing-crots, when, after mak ing every one pull off their hats as they palled, they proceeded to Mr. Pitt's, in Downing Street, and broke feveral windows of his house; but the guards being immediately called out, and appearing in fight, very foon difperfed them.

The mob afterward went over Westmintter-bridge, and paraded to St. George's Fields, where they attacked the Royal George public-houfe, near the Obelisk, and threw all the furnirure of it into the road, and there burnt it. They gutted another recruiting houfe in Lambeth-road, and afterward made a bonfire of the furni ture. This was miftaken by many to be houfes on fre.

There were fome of the mob who kept watch on the outside of the houses, to give notice of the arrival of the military, who did not come till after the furniture of thefe two houfes were confumed. The mob compelled the inhabitants of the houses in the neighbourhood to put up lights.

And laft night, in the neighbourhood of Charing-crols, a numerous ci wd, chiefly compofed of boys under twenty years of age, was collected, which however, on information of fome military movements going forward at the Horseguards, haftily withdrew in great part, as if by a fignal given, to St. George's-fields where they proceeded to demolish the re♣

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