top of Mr. France's elegant new warehouses, George's dock, was by the violence of the wind, broken off, and, with the vane, thrown on the top of the building.

Eaft Retford, Notts. The prefent Head Bailiff of this place, though a very young man, and engaged in trade, has had the commendable fpirit, in imitation of the late Bailiff of Birmingham, to free their fruit, markets from a fpecies of fraud too long practifed with impunity, by totally fuppreffing the use of thort and fraudulent mea. fures, which the offenders, to favour the deception, had caused to be made higher than ufual, but contracted in breadth. It were to be wifhed, that, wherever these il legal practices prevail, this example were followed by thofe officers whofe duty it is to effect a like reform, in commiferation of the poor, and in justice to all other perfons liable to fuffer by fuch abuses.

The following accident happened on Wednesday laft, in Norman-Court-Park: Mr. Thistlethwayte's keeper had been affifted by a footman in driving the deer, one of which prefenting itself as a fair mark, the keeper fired, and the deer fell; but he was 'furprised to obferve, at the fame inftant, the footman ran a short distance, and then drop: on approaching him, he found that the ball, after patling through the body of the deer, had entered the lung, of his unfortunate fellow-fervant, who never fpoke after, having breathed his laft before others of the family, who obferved the tranfaction from the houfe, could reach the spot to affift in bearing him in.

As the woorkmen belonging to Mr. Heywood, of Sanford, near Chipping-Norton, Oxfordshire, were taking down an old houfe, they found a large quantity of gold and filver coin, chiefly of the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James I. and Charles I. fome of which were in good pre fervation, others much defaced. What renders it the more remarkable is, that about 25 years ago the other part of the house was repaired, and then was found a fimilar quantity of money, of the fame reigns with the above, which the then worthy proprietor, Taylor, efq. gave to the workmen. It is fuppoted to have been fecreted during the civil wars.

On the 17th of December was difcovered, in a meadow, at Folefull, co. Warwick, belonging to Mr. Jofeph Whiting, of that place, to digging a trench, about two feet below the surface, an earthen pot, containing upwards of 1800 Roman copper coins, principally of the Emperors Conitanthe, Conftans, Conftantius, and Magnentus; moth of which remain in the polleffrom of Mr. Whiting, for the inspection of the corious. And on the 12th of January, in continuing the fame trench, he found another earthera jug, containing a great Chaptity of larger coin; but the latter were greater p el ervation.

HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.

Abfiract of a an Alt for eftablishing Regulations refpecting Aliens arriving in this Kingdom, or refident, in certain cafes.

1. It is enacted, that the master of a veffel arriving in any port of this kingdom fhall immediately specify in writing, to the collector of fuch port, the number, names, rank, and occupation, of any foreigners which fhall be on board his veffel.

2. Under the penalty of rol. for every foreigner on board the vefful whom he thail have neglected or refused to declare,

3. That every Alien arriving in any port in this kingdom, on or after the 10th day of January 1793, shall immediately declare in writing, to the collector of fuch port, his or her name, rank, and occupation, or, if Servants, the name, &c. of their makers or miftreffes, or fhall verbally make fuch declaration to fuch officer to be reduced by him into writing; and thall alfo declare the country where they have principally refided for fix months preceding their arrival; and every Alien neglecting to make fuch decla-, ration, or making a falfe declaration thereof, fhall be adjudged to depart out of this realm, and, if afterwards found in this realm, thail be transported for life.

4. That every Alien, arriving as aforesaid, fhall obtain from the collector of fuch post a certificate of fuch declaration in writing.

<. Exception of foreign Mariners emplyed in fich fhips certified by the mafter to the collector.

6. No alien to import any weapons, arms, gunpowder, or animunition whatever, other than as merchandize according to law; and any officer of the cuftoms may feize fuch weapons, &c. taking an account thereof.

7. In cafe His Majefty fhall, by procla mation or order, direct that Aliens fhall not be landed in this kingdom, o fhall only be landed at particular places, then the master of every thip, having Aliens on board, fhall not foffer them to land contrary to fuch proclamation or order (uniefs by exprefs permision of His Majefty), under the penalty of 5cl. for every Alten fo landing, and forfeiture of the thip.

8. No Alien fhall depart from the place of his arrival (except to make the declaration aforefaid) without obtaining a palfport from the Mayor or other Chief Magiitrate of fuch place, or from one Juftice of Peace for the diftrict, containing the name, rank, and occupation of fuch Alien, and the town to which he purposes to go.

9. Aliens (except fervants of British fubjects attendant on their masters), arrived in tins kingdom fince the 1ft of January 1792, or arriving in future, deirous of changing their refidence, or of quitting the town at which they have arrived by virtue of their first palfport, thail obtain from the Mayor, or a juftice of Peace for the district, a paff

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port expreffing the name and defcription of fuch Alien, and alfo the name of the town to which fuch Alien propoles to remove.

10. Magiftrates may grant palports to Alien merchants to pass to and from all parts of the kingdom.

11. The Mayor of any town, or a Juftice of Peace of any district, may require of any Alien arrived after the 1ft of January 1792, or, arriving in future (except fervants as aforefaid), who fhall be paffing through or found in fuch town or district, to exhibit his paffport; and in default thereof, or if he is not in the way to the town therein expreffed, of if fuch Mayor, &c. fhall fee caufe to fuf. pect that he is not, bona fide, proceeding to fuch town, or has landed contrary to fuch proclamation as aforefaid, fuch Mayor, &c. may commit fuch Alien to gaol until notice be fent to His Majefty's Secretary of State; and, unless His Majesty shall signify His pleafure for the discharge of fuch Alien, he thall be detained in gaol without bail until delivered by courfe of law.

12. Every Alien who thall refufe to fhew his paffport, or who fhall be found not pro-ceeding to the town therein expreffed, or who shall land contrary to His Majesty's order, thall be imprisoned for any time not exceeding one month, and afterwards fhall depart the realm.

13. Any perfon forging or altering a paffport, or obtaining fuch paffport under any other name than that which he shall have declared to fuch Custom-house, officer, &c. or falfely pretending to be the perfon menti oned in fuch paffport, shall be punished as in the preceding fection.

14. Notice of thefe regulations to be printed in different languages, and affixed in the different ports, and delivered to all foreigners; but proof of fuch delivery not to be neceffary to the conviction of any Alien offending against this act.

15. Any Alien neglecting to depart the realm when ordered by his Majesty fo to do, to be committed to the county gaol.

16. Any Alien, difobeying fuch proclamation or order of His Majesty, fhall be imprifoned for a month, and then to depart the realm within a time to be limited; and if found within the realm after fuch time, to be tranfported for life.

17. Any Secretary of State, who fhall apprehend that immediate obedience will not be paid to fuch proclamation, may give any Alien in charge to one of His Majefty's meffengers, to be conducted out of the king

dom.

18. His Majefty, by order in council, or order under the Royal Sign Manual, my order any Alien arrived fince the 1st of Jann. ary 1792, or arriving hereafter (except Alien merchants and fervants of British fubjects), to refide in fuch diftricts as His Majefty fhall think neceffary; and Aliens difo

beying fuch order, to be committed to the county gaol.

19. Every Alien who has arrived in England fince the 1st of January 1792, thall, within ten days from the 10th of January 1793, and every Alien arriving in future fhall, within ten days after his arrival at the place expreffed in his paffport, deliver to the Chief Magiftrate where he thall be, or, if no Chief Magiftrate, to a Juftice of Peace of the district, an account in writing of his name, rank, occupation, and place of abode, and the place of his refidence for fix months preceding, and take a certificate thereof; and in cafe of neglect or refufal to make fach declaration, or of delivering a falfe account, to be imprisoned.

20. Magiftrates may fummoa Aliens, fufpected of not having delivered fuch accounts, before them, and caufe them to be arrested.

21. Any Juftice of the Peace, Mayor, or Chief Magiftrate, may, by notice in writing, require of any houfekeeper within their diftrict an account in writing of the names, rank, and occupation, of all Aliens refident in their houses.

22. Copies of accounts delivered to Customhoufe officers, &c. and of paffports and certificates granted by Magiftrates, to be tranfmitted to one of the Secretaries of State.

23. The Juftices of the courts of Westminfter may admit Aliens to bail.

24. As may also any Juftice of Peace, by authority of the Secretary of State.

25. All Aliens, arrived in this kingdom fince the rft cf January 1792, fhall, if within the limits of the Bills of Mortality, or the parithes of Marybone, Pancras, and Chelfea, on the 10th of January 1793, or if out of thofe limits, within ten days from the faid roth of January, and every Alien arriving in future fhall, within ten days after his ar rival, give to fome neighbouring Magistrate an account of all weapons, arms, gunpowder, and ammunition, in their poffettion, and fhall, within three days from fuch notice, deliver up to fuch Magistrate all fuch weapons, &c. except fuch only which they fhall have licence to keep from one of His Majefty's principal Secretaries of State. And it fhall not be lawful for any fuch Alien, after fuch delivery, to buy, or to have in his poffeffion, or in the poffeffion of others for his ufe, any weapons, &c. And any perfon, neglecting or refufing to obey the above directions, fhall, on conviction, be judged to depart this realm, and, if found therein after fuch time, fhall be tranfported.

26. Magiftrates may require Aliens refident in their jurifdiétions, or paffing through the fame, to deliver up all weapons, &c. in their poffession, under pain of being ordered to depart the realm.

27. Any of His Majefty's Secretaries of State, or any two Juftices of Peace, or any Mayor or Chief Magistrate, may cause any

house,

house, rented or occupied by any Aliens, (except Alien merchants), and any houfe in which any Alien fhall be a lodger or inmate, to be fearched in the day-time, in the prefence of a Peace-officer, in order to difcover any weapons, &c. and to feize the fame.

28. And may require, from houfekeepers where Aliens may lodge, an account in writing of all weapons, &c. in their houses.

29. His Majefty may fend out of the realm any Alien who fhall have been committted to any gal as aforefaid for any of fence against this act.

30. If any ANen fo fent out of the realm fhall return, he thall, on conviction thereof, be tranfported for life.

31. In all questions refpecting offences against this act, the proof to lie on the party accufed.

32. No perfon to be deemed an Alien merchant, except he shall be bona fide engaged in carrying on trade, and feeking his hiving thereby.

23. Foreign ambaffadors and their fervants duly registered, and perfons naturalized, excepted out of this act.

34. Aliens not fourteen years old excepted.

35. Certificates and passports to be given gratis.

36. Fresh paffports or certificates may be granted where the former ones are loft or millaid.

37. Ferfons adjudged to be tranfported, to be fent to fuch places as His Majefty, fhall direct.

38. If any perfon, ordered or adjudged to be tranfported, fhall be found at large within the realm, or, after sentence of tranfportation pronounced, he shall be guilty of felony, and fhall fuffer death as a felun, without be nefit of clergy.

Particular account of the Murder of Louis XVI. During the night of Jan. 20, Paris was illuminated, and no person whatever was permitted to go abroad in the streets. Large bodies of armed men patroled every part of that immenfe metropolis, the rattling of coaches ceafed, the streets were deferted, and the city was buried in profound filence, more horrid than expreffion can equal. About two o'clock in the morning of the fatal Monday the 21ft, voices were heard, at intervals, through the gloom, of lamentation and diftrefs; but whence they proceeded, or what they were, no perfon has been able to difcover. This circumftance, among many others, has greatly terrified the people. The unhappy Monarch patted all Sunday in preparations for his approaching change. His calm refignation, and his meek patience, difplayed the eminence of that foul which animated the tenement of clay; but the meeting and the parting of his family was a fcene too painful, too dif reling to the feelings of humanity. The

poor Queen hung around the neck of her dear departing Lord in a delirium of anguish: the Princess Royal grafped his hand, the Dauphin embraced his knees, and Madame Elizabeth bathed his feet with the torrent of her tears. The Queen was at laft removed from him in a state of infenfibility; from which she did not revive before two o'clock on Monday afternoon; when she raved, and called upon the name of her murdered husband. The King exhibited on this fad occa fion all the tenderness of a Husband, a Father, a Brother; and, appearing more affected by the affliction of perfons fo dear and so beloved than by his own misfortunes, confoled them with the most foothing words. Having paffed through this trying fcene, he now applied to his religious duties, and prepared to meet his God. The converfation which he held with his Confeffor was pious, fenfible, animated, and his hope was full of immortality (de l'immortalité bienbeureufe). He protefted his innocence, and forgave from his heart his cruel enemies. The clocks of Paris at length founded eight on Monday morning, and the Royal Martyr was fummoned to his fate. He issued out of his prifon, and was conducted to a coach belonging to the Mayor of Paris, in which were two foldiers of the Gendarmerie; he was attended by his Confeffor, and aflisted to step into the carriage by one or two of the fentinels, who stood at the gates of the Temple. But here an event happened, which must rend the most obdurate heart with poignant fympathy. Soon after the coach was driven off, and the King was conducting to death, the Dauphin escaped from those who had the care of him, and ran down ftairs with great precipitation. The fentine! at the bottom of the ftairs, who appears to have had a tender heart, stopped him, and faid, "Where are you going, my dear, in fuch a hurry "" Pray, pray, let me alone," faid the innocent child; "I'll go in the street, and fall down upon my knees, and beg the people not to kill my dear Papa."

The Place de Louis Quinze, now called the Place of the Revolution, was the fpat appointed for the MURDER. The place was filled with prodigious multitudes of people, and large bodies of horse and foot were drawn up to protect the execution. The moft awful filence prevailed, while the coach was advancing flowly towards the fcaffold. The dying Monarch afcended it with heroic fortitude, with a firm step, and undifmayed countenance. He was accompanied on the scaffold by his Confeffor, and two or three Municipal Officers. In the middle flood the block, and near it two large ill-looking brutes, one of whom held the axe in his hand. The King for a moment looked around upon the people, with eyes which beamed forgiveness and love; and he was preparing himself to addrets the ipecta

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tors, when, horrid to relatel one of the officers cried out, "No Speeches ;-come, no Speeches ;" and fuddenly the drums beat, and the trempets founded. He spoke, but all the expreffions that could be diftinctly heard were these: "I forgive my enemies: may God forgive them; and not lay my in nocent blood to the charge of the Nation: God bless my People!!!!"

The Confeffor fell upon his knees, and implored the King's bleffing, who gave it him with an affectionate embrace. The religious and good Monarch then laid his head upon the block with admirable ferenity; and he ceafed to live in this world.

The Murder was performed between eleven and twelve o'clock on Monday morning.

The unfortunate King, previous to his execution, wrote to the National Convention, requesting to be buried near to his father, in the Cathedral of Sens. The Con. vention, with cruel apathy, paffed to the order of the day.

The Executive Council of France having directed M. Chauveiin to prefent a note to the British Miniftry, to demand, in the name of the French Republic, a clear, fpeedy, and categorical antwer, whether under the general denomination of Foreigners mentioned in the Alien Bill, the Parlament and Government of Great Britain meant alfo to comprehend 1 the French and in cafe of an anfwer in the affirmative, or if none was received in the courfe of three days, was to declare, that the French Republick cannot confider this conduct but as a manifeft infraction of the Commercial Treaty concluded in 1768; that it confequently ceafes to think itself bound by that treaty; and henceforth confiders it void; the following anfwer has been given.

"Whitehall, Dec. 31, 1792.

"I have received, Sir, from you a note, in which, ftyling yourfelf Minifer Plenipotentiary of France, you communicate to me, as the King's Secretary of State, the inftructions which you ftate to have yourself received from the Executive Council of the French Republick. You are not ignorant, that, fince the unhappy events of the 10th of Auguft, the King has thought proper to fufpend all Official Communication with France. You are yourself no otherwife accredited to the King than in the name of his Moft Chriftian Majefty. The propofition of receiving a Minifter, accredited by any other authority or power in France, would be a new question, which, whenever it occurred, the King would have the right to decide according to the interefts of his fubjects, his own dignity, and the regard which he owes to his alles, and to the general fyftem of Europe. I am therefore to inform you, Sir, in exprefs and formal terms, that I acknowledge you in no other Public character than that of Minifter from His

Moft Chriftian Majefty, and that confequently you cannot be admitted to treat with the King's Minifters in the quality and under the form ftated in vour Note.

"But, obferving that you have entered into explanations of fome of the circumftances which have given to England fuch frong grounds of uneasiness and jealoufy, and that you speak of thefe explanations as being of a nature to bring our two countries nearer; I have been unwilling to convey to you the notification stated as above, without at the fame time exponing my self clearly and diftinely on the fnb ect of what you have communicated to me, though under a form which is neither regular nor official.

"Your explanations are confined to three points.

"The first is that of the Decree of the National Convention of the 19th of November, in the expreffions of which all England faw the formal declaration of a defign to extend univerfally the new principles of Government adopted in France, and to encourage diforder and revolt in all countries, even in thofe which are neutral. If this interpretation, which you reprefent as injuri ous to the Convention, could admit of any doubt, it is but too well justified by the conduct of the Convention itself. And the application of these principles to the King's dominions, has been fhewn unequivocally, by the public reception given to the promoters of fedition in this country, and by the fpeeches made to them precifely at the time of this Decree, and fince on feveral different occafions.

"Yet, notwithstanding all thefe proofs, fupported by other circumftances which are but too notorious, it would have been with pleafure that we should have feen here fuch explanations, and fuch a conduct, as would have fatisfied the Dignity and Honour of England with refpect to what has already patted, and would have offered a fufficient fecurity in future for the maintenance of that refpect towards the Rights, the Govern ment, and the Tranquillity of Neutral Powers, which they have on every account a right to expect.

"Neither this fatisfaction, nor this fecurity, is found in the terms of an explanation which ftill declares to the Promotors of Sedition in every Country, what are the cafes in which they may count beforehand on the fupport and fuccour of France; and which referves to that Country the right of mixing herself in our internal affairs whenever the fhall judge it proper; and on principles incompatible with the political inftitutions of all the countries of Europe. No one can avoid perceiving how much a declaration like this is calculated to encourage diforder and revolt in every country. No one can be ignorant how contrary it is to the respect which is reciprocally due from Independent Nations, nor how repugnant to thofe princi

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ples which the King has followed, on his part, by abstaining at all times from any interference whatever in the internal affairs of France. And this contraft is alone fufficient to fhew, not only that England cannot confider fuch an explanation as fatisfactory, but that the must look upon it as a fresh avowal of thofe difpofitions which the fees with so just an uneafinefs and jealoufy.

"I proceed to the two other points of your explanation, which concern the general difpofitions of France with regard to the allies of Great-Britain, and the conduct of the Convention and its officers relative to the Scheldt. The declaration which you there make, "that France will not attack Holland fo long as that power fhall obferve an exact neutrality," is conceived nearly in the fame terms with that which you was charged to make in the name of His Moft Chriftian Majefty in the mouth of June laft. Smce that firft declaration was made, an officer, ftating himself to be employed in the fervice of France, has openly violated both the territory and the neutrality of the Republic, in going up the Scheldt, to attack the Citadel of Antwerp, notwithstanding the determination of the Government not to grant this paffage, and the formal proteft by which they oppofed it. Since the fame declaration was made, the Convention has thought itself anthorized to annul the rights of the Republic, exercifed within the limits of its own territory, and enjoyed by virtue of the fame treaties by which her independence is fecured. And at the very moment when, under the name of an amicable explanacon, you renew to me in the fame terms the promise of refecting the independence and the rights of England and her Allies, you announce to me, that those in whofe name you speak intend to maintain thefe open and injurious aggreffions.

"It is not certainly on fuch a declaration as this, that any reliance can be placed for the continuance of public tranquillity.

"But I am unwilling to leave without a more particular reply, what you say on the the fubject of the Scheldt. If it were true that this question is in itfelf of little importance, this would only ferve to prove more clearly, that it was brought forward only for the purpose of infulting the Allies of England, by the infraction of the Neutrality, and by the violation of their Rights, which the fath of Treaties obliges us to maintain. But you cannot be ignorant, that here the utmost importance is attached to thofe principles which France withes to establish by illis proceeding, and to thofe confequences which would naturally refult from them; and that not only thofe principles and thofe confequences will never be admitted by England, but that the is, and ever will be, ready to oppose them with all her force.

"France can have no right to annul the ipulations relative to the Scheldt, unless the

have alfo the right to fet afide equally all the other Treaties between all the powers of Europe, and all the other Rights of England, or of her Allies. She can even have no pretence to intefere in the question of opening the Scheldt, unless the were the Sovereign of the Low Countries, or had the right to dictate Laws to all Europe.

"England never will confent that France fhall arrogate the power of annulling at her pleasure, and under the pretence of a pretenced natural right, of which the makes herfelf the only judge, the political fyftem of Europe, ettablished by folemn Treaties, and guaranteed by the confent of all the powers. This Government, adhering to the maxims which it has followed for more than a century, will alfo never fee with indifference that France fhall make herself, either directly or indirectly, Sovereign of the Low Countries, or general Arbitrefs of the rights and liberties of Europe. If France is really defirous of maintaining friendship and peace with England, the must shew herself difpofed to rerounce her views of aggreffion and aggrandizemen', and to confine herself within her own territory, without infulting other Governments, without difturbing their tranquillity, without violating their rights.

With refpect to that character of ill-will which is endeavoured to be found in the copduct of England towards France, 1 cannot difcufs it, because you speak of it in general terms only, without alledging a fingle fact. All Europe has feen the jatice and the generofity which have characterized the conduct of the King. His Majefty has always been defirous of peace. He defires it still, but fuch as may be real, and folid, and confiftent with the interest and dignity of his own dominious, and with the general fecu rity of Europe.

"On the rest of your paper, I fay nothing. As to what relates to me and to my Colleagues, the King's Minifters owe to his Majefty the account of their conduct; and I have no anfwer to give to you on this fubject, any more than on that of the appeal which you propote to make to the English nation. This nation, according to that Conftitution by which its liberty and its profperity are fecured, and which it will always be able to defend against every attack, direct or indirect, will never have with foreign powers connection or correfpondence, except through the organ of its King; of a King whom it loves and reveres, and who has never for an instant feparated his rights, his interefts, and his happiness, from the rights, the interefts, and the happinefs, of his people. (Signed) GRENVILLE."

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.
Thursday 10.

At a Common Council this day holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, it was unanimoufly refolved, that

the