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Monthly Chronicle.
PARIS , February 5 . Three Deputies from St . Domingo entered the Hall of the National Convefitifttl 011 the 3 d instant . Their introduction was signalised by the fraternal kiss . It was afterwards decreed by the Convention , that SLAVERY 13 ABOLISHED IN ALL THE FRENCH COLONIES ! That all the men of colour are French Citizens , and that they shall enjoy the blessings of the Constitution . Of the three Deputies introduced , one was a negro , one a mulatto , and one a white .
The re-capture of Toulon was celebrated at Perpignan in the following singular manner . —Milhaud , the National Deputy , ordered three hundred women , who had been convicted of correspondence with emigrants , and condemned to die , to be brought from the prison to the square where the instrument of death is erected . The scene was in the highest degree affecting . The women , drowned in tears , advanced to the fatal scaffold , on which the executioners . stood prepared to administer the fatal blow . The people in great numbers beheld the terrific scene with awful silence . Milhaud , mounting the scaffold , addressed the women in a speech , in which he pointed ont to them the error of their conduct , and the danger in which their measures tended to involve the Republic . He concluded his address by ordering the executioners to knock off the fetters of the women , all of whom he set at liberty and pardoned .
ST . FIORENZO , IN THE ISLAND OF CORSICA , February 22 . The tower and garrison of Mortella surrendered on the 10 th of this month ; the strong redoubt and batteries of the Convention were taken by storm on the 17 th , after a severe cannonading of two days ; the same night the enemy abandoned the tower of Forneli , [ and two considerable sea batteries dependent upon it ; on the 19 th they retreated from St . Fiorenzo to Bastia ; pfevious to their retreat one of their frigates was sunk , and another burnt in the gulph : and the town , fortsand portwere taken possession of the
, , same day by his Britannic Majesty ' s land and sea forces . The loss of the British consists of 13 killed and 39 wounded , besides 6 sailors of the Fortitude killed and 5 6 wounded , from the fire of the Fort of Mortella . i Thus are the English now masters of the Fortress and Gulph of Fiorenzo , which is the most important station in Corsica ; divides the French posts , affords a sale harbour for a numerous fleet , and , from its commanding situation , with respect to the coast of France and Italy , is at this moment of peculiar importance .
C 0 r E N H A G E v , March 1 ' . ON Wednesday evening , about five o ' clock , a dreadful fire broke out in the Royal Palace of Christiansbourg , which , communicating from the Hereditary Prince ' s apartments , where it began , to the rest of the building , in the space of seven or eight hours reduced the whole to a heap of ashes . The Royal Family have happily escaped without accident , but the greater part of their valuable effects have been a prey to the flames . It is not yet known what number of lives have been lost , but it is to he hoped , considering the rapidity of the conflagrationwhich was increased by a very
, strong wind , that the number is not great . This palace , one of the most commodious and most sumptuously furnished in Europe , was built in the reign of Christian the Sixth , and is said to have cost ( in building only ) considerably above a million sterling : it seems therefore not an exorbitant calculation to suppose that , with the loss sustained by the hundreds of individuals by whom it was inhabited , the whole damage may amount to two millions sterling . It is" some consolation , in so great a disaster ,- that the Royal library , consisting of between two and three hundred thousand volumes , which stood detached from the principal pile , has been fortunately saved . During ths
whole of this distressful scene the garrison and the citizens wereunder arms , and every effort-was made , both by the military and the sailors , to prevent disorder and pillage . His Danish Majesty is lodged for the present in an apartment at Count BemstortT ' s , and the rest of the Royal Family are dispersed in different quarters of the town , where they will remain till houses proper for their reception can be got ready .
LONDON , February 27 . A Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall ; amongst other business the focal tax of three ihiliings per chaldron on coals was brought forward ; and on w hit ' u
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Monthly Chronicle.
PARIS , February 5 . Three Deputies from St . Domingo entered the Hall of the National Convefitifttl 011 the 3 d instant . Their introduction was signalised by the fraternal kiss . It was afterwards decreed by the Convention , that SLAVERY 13 ABOLISHED IN ALL THE FRENCH COLONIES ! That all the men of colour are French Citizens , and that they shall enjoy the blessings of the Constitution . Of the three Deputies introduced , one was a negro , one a mulatto , and one a white .
The re-capture of Toulon was celebrated at Perpignan in the following singular manner . —Milhaud , the National Deputy , ordered three hundred women , who had been convicted of correspondence with emigrants , and condemned to die , to be brought from the prison to the square where the instrument of death is erected . The scene was in the highest degree affecting . The women , drowned in tears , advanced to the fatal scaffold , on which the executioners . stood prepared to administer the fatal blow . The people in great numbers beheld the terrific scene with awful silence . Milhaud , mounting the scaffold , addressed the women in a speech , in which he pointed ont to them the error of their conduct , and the danger in which their measures tended to involve the Republic . He concluded his address by ordering the executioners to knock off the fetters of the women , all of whom he set at liberty and pardoned .
ST . FIORENZO , IN THE ISLAND OF CORSICA , February 22 . The tower and garrison of Mortella surrendered on the 10 th of this month ; the strong redoubt and batteries of the Convention were taken by storm on the 17 th , after a severe cannonading of two days ; the same night the enemy abandoned the tower of Forneli , [ and two considerable sea batteries dependent upon it ; on the 19 th they retreated from St . Fiorenzo to Bastia ; pfevious to their retreat one of their frigates was sunk , and another burnt in the gulph : and the town , fortsand portwere taken possession of the
, , same day by his Britannic Majesty ' s land and sea forces . The loss of the British consists of 13 killed and 39 wounded , besides 6 sailors of the Fortitude killed and 5 6 wounded , from the fire of the Fort of Mortella . i Thus are the English now masters of the Fortress and Gulph of Fiorenzo , which is the most important station in Corsica ; divides the French posts , affords a sale harbour for a numerous fleet , and , from its commanding situation , with respect to the coast of France and Italy , is at this moment of peculiar importance .
C 0 r E N H A G E v , March 1 ' . ON Wednesday evening , about five o ' clock , a dreadful fire broke out in the Royal Palace of Christiansbourg , which , communicating from the Hereditary Prince ' s apartments , where it began , to the rest of the building , in the space of seven or eight hours reduced the whole to a heap of ashes . The Royal Family have happily escaped without accident , but the greater part of their valuable effects have been a prey to the flames . It is not yet known what number of lives have been lost , but it is to he hoped , considering the rapidity of the conflagrationwhich was increased by a very
, strong wind , that the number is not great . This palace , one of the most commodious and most sumptuously furnished in Europe , was built in the reign of Christian the Sixth , and is said to have cost ( in building only ) considerably above a million sterling : it seems therefore not an exorbitant calculation to suppose that , with the loss sustained by the hundreds of individuals by whom it was inhabited , the whole damage may amount to two millions sterling . It is" some consolation , in so great a disaster ,- that the Royal library , consisting of between two and three hundred thousand volumes , which stood detached from the principal pile , has been fortunately saved . During ths
whole of this distressful scene the garrison and the citizens wereunder arms , and every effort-was made , both by the military and the sailors , to prevent disorder and pillage . His Danish Majesty is lodged for the present in an apartment at Count BemstortT ' s , and the rest of the Royal Family are dispersed in different quarters of the town , where they will remain till houses proper for their reception can be got ready .
LONDON , February 27 . A Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall ; amongst other business the focal tax of three ihiliings per chaldron on coals was brought forward ; and on w hit ' u