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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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LONDON: Article 1
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 2
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY. Article 3
MASONIC ANECDOTE. Article 8
ACCOUNT OF JOHN WATKINS, L. L. D. Article 10
JOHN COUSTOS, FREEMASON. Article 12
BRIEF ACCOUNT OF COLONEL MAEK, Article 16
LETTER Article 17
TRANSLATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S LETTER TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, Article 17
CHARACTER OF RICHARD CUMBERLAND, Article 18
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 19
AN ACCOUNT OF DRUIDISM. Article 20
LIFE OF PHILIP EGALITE, LATE DUKE OF ORLEANS. Article 25
ACCOUNT OF PENPARK-HOLE, Article 32
ON READING. Article 36
CARD Article 37
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 38
CHARACTERS WRITTEN IN THE LAST CENTURY. Article 39
ON AFRICAN SLAVERY. Article 41
ORIGINAL LETTER OF DOCTOR JOHNSON. Article 45
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE HUGH KELLY. Article 47
PLAN OF EDUCATION. Article 52
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION. Article 55
ANECDOTES OF J—— SWARTS. Article 59
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. Article 60
HOUSE OF COMMONS, FINANCIAL MEASURE OF FRANCE. Article 62
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 70
EPILOGUE. Article 71
PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIMENT . Article 73
POETRY. Article 74
ADVICE TO A PAINTER. Article 75
THE ENQUIRY. Article 76
PROCRASTINATION. Article 76
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 76
PREFERMENTS. Article 80
MARRIAGES. Article 80
DEATHS. Article 81
BANKRUPTS. Article 82
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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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