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Monthly Chronicle.
The greater part of the Winterton's cargo was brought on shore by the islanders : and all the clothes mid individual property that were saved ,. were faithfully restored to their . original proprietors ; and , from this circumstance , the situation of the ladies , in particular , was rendered much more comfortable than it could otherwise have been . The treasure of the W . imcrtpn also , if not the whole , the greater part was saved . But the treasure was considered , and we believe would be recognised by the laws of civilized nations , as properly belonging to the chief of the coast in which it was
stranded . It was , therefore , transferred to the King of Babau , but a principal part . of it he gave to those of hi ' s subjects who had distinguished themselves in getting on shore the different articles from the wreck ; and to the English seamen and soldiers that had belonged to the Winterton , he gave to each on their departure from his Island , one hundred dollars . Such striking examples of humanity , among men whom we are accustomed to consider as savages , will , we hepe , have some influence in bespeaking the good-will and regard of those among the civilized world who may have occasion to visit them . . .
One of the seamen that had belonged to the Winterton , purposely forfeited the opportunity of leaving the island with his companions . When Captain Billamore was there he heard of him , and heard that he was well ; but having formed a tender connexion with a young Madagascarian female , he preferred the arms of the jetty nymph to all the pleasure of returning to his former life and society . The King of Babau , whom we has-e honourably mentioned above , is a young man of about twenty-four years of age ; of engaging manners ,, and of a form and countenance highly prepossessing .
PARIS , April I . In the Session of the National Convention of the 24 th ult . it was decreed , on the rriotioii of Barrerc , that no wife of an emigrant , whether divorced or not , should marry a foreigner , quit France , or dispose of her effects , under pain of being considered as an emigrant . His motive for this was , that many wives of the emigrants married Swiss , Gcnevese , and others , and , under pretext of going to their new iiufbands , setp . fi- " with their property to their old ones .
9 . The Conspirators were sent to the scaffold on the 6 th inst . whither they were conveyed in three carts . In the first of these were placed Danton , Herault , Lacroix , Fabre , and Chabot ;_ in the second , Camille Desmoulins , Bazire , Philippeaux , & c , -In the space of eig hteen minutes the execution was over . Lacroix , " who at leaving the Conciergerie endeavoured to put on a courageous air , could not conceal his terror when he approached the fatal spot . Danton , who suffered last , displayed to the last moment all the audacity of a hardened conspirator ; like Hebert he was distinguished by his red collar , and conversed with Lacroix and Fabre d'Eglantine . Herault was silent .
Chabot , smiling , pointed to . the sky . Desmoulins continually addressed himself to the people . The courage the latter affected to display was a very painful effort . The head of Danton alone was displayed to the spectators , who , as usual , made the air resound with the cry of . Vive la Rcpuhlimie !
COUNTRY NEWS , BURY , Marchzj . A most extraordinary circumstance happened here in the night between Saturday and -Sunday last : a person who was on a visit in Guildhall-ftreet actually walked out of the one pair of stairs window into the street in his sleep , and wandered about the toy / n in h . s shirt for some hours . He was discovered about four o ' clock in the
morhing'in Westgate-streer , when he complained of cold , and requested to be conveyed to the Three Goats Heads , as he said he should then know where he was . A surgeon was immediately sent for , who Ordered him to be directly puf to bed , as he had re- ; ceived some severe bruises in the fall . BATH , March 2 S . A colt , the property of Mr . Edw . Lemin , of Truro , in Cornwall , in October last , fell into a shaft four fathom deep , where it remained for one month before it was discovered ; it was taken up alive and unhurt , thrpugb in a very emaciated state ; and Rrjl-
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Monthly Chronicle.
The greater part of the Winterton's cargo was brought on shore by the islanders : and all the clothes mid individual property that were saved ,. were faithfully restored to their . original proprietors ; and , from this circumstance , the situation of the ladies , in particular , was rendered much more comfortable than it could otherwise have been . The treasure of the W . imcrtpn also , if not the whole , the greater part was saved . But the treasure was considered , and we believe would be recognised by the laws of civilized nations , as properly belonging to the chief of the coast in which it was
stranded . It was , therefore , transferred to the King of Babau , but a principal part . of it he gave to those of hi ' s subjects who had distinguished themselves in getting on shore the different articles from the wreck ; and to the English seamen and soldiers that had belonged to the Winterton , he gave to each on their departure from his Island , one hundred dollars . Such striking examples of humanity , among men whom we are accustomed to consider as savages , will , we hepe , have some influence in bespeaking the good-will and regard of those among the civilized world who may have occasion to visit them . . .
One of the seamen that had belonged to the Winterton , purposely forfeited the opportunity of leaving the island with his companions . When Captain Billamore was there he heard of him , and heard that he was well ; but having formed a tender connexion with a young Madagascarian female , he preferred the arms of the jetty nymph to all the pleasure of returning to his former life and society . The King of Babau , whom we has-e honourably mentioned above , is a young man of about twenty-four years of age ; of engaging manners ,, and of a form and countenance highly prepossessing .
PARIS , April I . In the Session of the National Convention of the 24 th ult . it was decreed , on the rriotioii of Barrerc , that no wife of an emigrant , whether divorced or not , should marry a foreigner , quit France , or dispose of her effects , under pain of being considered as an emigrant . His motive for this was , that many wives of the emigrants married Swiss , Gcnevese , and others , and , under pretext of going to their new iiufbands , setp . fi- " with their property to their old ones .
9 . The Conspirators were sent to the scaffold on the 6 th inst . whither they were conveyed in three carts . In the first of these were placed Danton , Herault , Lacroix , Fabre , and Chabot ;_ in the second , Camille Desmoulins , Bazire , Philippeaux , & c , -In the space of eig hteen minutes the execution was over . Lacroix , " who at leaving the Conciergerie endeavoured to put on a courageous air , could not conceal his terror when he approached the fatal spot . Danton , who suffered last , displayed to the last moment all the audacity of a hardened conspirator ; like Hebert he was distinguished by his red collar , and conversed with Lacroix and Fabre d'Eglantine . Herault was silent .
Chabot , smiling , pointed to . the sky . Desmoulins continually addressed himself to the people . The courage the latter affected to display was a very painful effort . The head of Danton alone was displayed to the spectators , who , as usual , made the air resound with the cry of . Vive la Rcpuhlimie !
COUNTRY NEWS , BURY , Marchzj . A most extraordinary circumstance happened here in the night between Saturday and -Sunday last : a person who was on a visit in Guildhall-ftreet actually walked out of the one pair of stairs window into the street in his sleep , and wandered about the toy / n in h . s shirt for some hours . He was discovered about four o ' clock in the
morhing'in Westgate-streer , when he complained of cold , and requested to be conveyed to the Three Goats Heads , as he said he should then know where he was . A surgeon was immediately sent for , who Ordered him to be directly puf to bed , as he had re- ; ceived some severe bruises in the fall . BATH , March 2 S . A colt , the property of Mr . Edw . Lemin , of Truro , in Cornwall , in October last , fell into a shaft four fathom deep , where it remained for one month before it was discovered ; it was taken up alive and unhurt , thrpugb in a very emaciated state ; and Rrjl-