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Monthly Chronicle.
io . One Turnbull , an attorney , for not answering charges exhibited against him ; and another of the same profession , for forging an allowance of a writ of error , were struck off the roll . 12 . One Lloyd , an attorney , stood in the pillory at Charing-Ctoss , and the top of Holborn-hill , for perjury . A Council was held at the Council Office , Whitehall , which was attended by the Lord High Chancellor , Mr . Pitt , and the rest of the cabinet ministers , when Mr . Hardy ,
secretary to the London Corresponding Society , and Mr . Adams , secretary to the Society for Constitutional Information , were interrogated on a charge of high treason . The Council sat six hours , after which they were ordered into custody of two msssengers .
13 . Mr . Thelwall , who gave political lectures at his house in Beaufort Buildings , was taken into custody . The French Convention in some late decrees for decadatory festivals , acknowledge one Supreme Being , and the immortality of the soul . Accounts from Paris of the 9 th instant , announce the condemnation and execution of twenty-eight Farmers-General on the Sth for mal-practices . A number of ci-devant nobles were guillotined on the same day . Madame Elizabethsisterto the late King of Francewas executed on the 10 th
, , , instant . This cruel event was rather sudden and unexpected , She was fetched from the Temple on the 9 th at night , and carried to . the Conciergerie on the 10 th . She was examined before the Revolutionary Tribunal ; her examination , however , wa ^ very summary . The only questions put to -her were her name and quality : to the first she answered that her name was Philippina Maria Elizabeth Helena of France , and her quality she said was Aunt to tbe King . ' This assertion was sufficient : she was immediately declared guilty of conspiring against the Republic , and soon after executed .
Amongst those lately imprisoned is Pache , the mayor of Paris , who succeeded Petion . His wife and mother have also been taken up . A Court of Lieutenancy for the City of London was held at Guildhall ; which Court agreed to the report of their committee appointed on the 17 th of April , to consider of the mode of an application to Parliament , for granting further powers to the Commissioners of Lieutenancy , in order to put the Militia of this city pn a better footing , and the Court appointed five of their members to be a deputation , to confer with his Majesty ' s ministers on the subject of the plan recpmmended bthe
comy mittee , and approved by the Court . The five members so appointed are , Sir Watkin Lewes , Sir James Sanderson , Alderman Combe , Randie Jackson , Esq . and John Ewer , Esq . The plan proposed is , instead of six regiments pf trained bands as at present , to have two regiments or more of regular militia , each to consist of 6 co rank and file , from which there shall be in time of peace two thirds every year trained and exeixised , and in case of actual invasion or insurrection his Majesty to have the power of ordering one of the said regiments on any service within a limited distance from the city .
14 . Mr . P . oss , jun . one of his Majesty ' s messengers in ordinary , with proper assistance , went to the house of Earl Stanhope , in Mansfield-street , Cavendish-square , and took into custody , in virtue of a warrant granted to him by the two Secretaries of State , the person and papers of the Rev . Jeremiah Joyce ( private secretary to Earl Stanhope , and tutor to the present Lord Mahon ) , charged with treasonable and seditious practices agairist his Majesty's government . Mr . Joyce afterwards underwent a long examination before the Privy Council . Mr . Hardy underwent another examination , and was again ordered into custody .
Same niglit some of the Bow-street officers took Mr . Martin , an attorney , into custody , under the authority of a warrant from the Secretaries of State . He was a prisoner in the King's Bench for debt . The officers seized the papers which they found in his apartment in that prison . - The same afternoon' Master Eaton , son of Mr . Eaton , the bookse ' . ler in Newgatestreet-, who officiated as door-keeper to Mr . Thelwall when reading his lectures , was taken into custody . He was the same evening examined before the Privy Council ibr two hours , and then told he might go home if he p leased .
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Monthly Chronicle.
io . One Turnbull , an attorney , for not answering charges exhibited against him ; and another of the same profession , for forging an allowance of a writ of error , were struck off the roll . 12 . One Lloyd , an attorney , stood in the pillory at Charing-Ctoss , and the top of Holborn-hill , for perjury . A Council was held at the Council Office , Whitehall , which was attended by the Lord High Chancellor , Mr . Pitt , and the rest of the cabinet ministers , when Mr . Hardy ,
secretary to the London Corresponding Society , and Mr . Adams , secretary to the Society for Constitutional Information , were interrogated on a charge of high treason . The Council sat six hours , after which they were ordered into custody of two msssengers .
13 . Mr . Thelwall , who gave political lectures at his house in Beaufort Buildings , was taken into custody . The French Convention in some late decrees for decadatory festivals , acknowledge one Supreme Being , and the immortality of the soul . Accounts from Paris of the 9 th instant , announce the condemnation and execution of twenty-eight Farmers-General on the Sth for mal-practices . A number of ci-devant nobles were guillotined on the same day . Madame Elizabethsisterto the late King of Francewas executed on the 10 th
, , , instant . This cruel event was rather sudden and unexpected , She was fetched from the Temple on the 9 th at night , and carried to . the Conciergerie on the 10 th . She was examined before the Revolutionary Tribunal ; her examination , however , wa ^ very summary . The only questions put to -her were her name and quality : to the first she answered that her name was Philippina Maria Elizabeth Helena of France , and her quality she said was Aunt to tbe King . ' This assertion was sufficient : she was immediately declared guilty of conspiring against the Republic , and soon after executed .
Amongst those lately imprisoned is Pache , the mayor of Paris , who succeeded Petion . His wife and mother have also been taken up . A Court of Lieutenancy for the City of London was held at Guildhall ; which Court agreed to the report of their committee appointed on the 17 th of April , to consider of the mode of an application to Parliament , for granting further powers to the Commissioners of Lieutenancy , in order to put the Militia of this city pn a better footing , and the Court appointed five of their members to be a deputation , to confer with his Majesty ' s ministers on the subject of the plan recpmmended bthe
comy mittee , and approved by the Court . The five members so appointed are , Sir Watkin Lewes , Sir James Sanderson , Alderman Combe , Randie Jackson , Esq . and John Ewer , Esq . The plan proposed is , instead of six regiments pf trained bands as at present , to have two regiments or more of regular militia , each to consist of 6 co rank and file , from which there shall be in time of peace two thirds every year trained and exeixised , and in case of actual invasion or insurrection his Majesty to have the power of ordering one of the said regiments on any service within a limited distance from the city .
14 . Mr . P . oss , jun . one of his Majesty ' s messengers in ordinary , with proper assistance , went to the house of Earl Stanhope , in Mansfield-street , Cavendish-square , and took into custody , in virtue of a warrant granted to him by the two Secretaries of State , the person and papers of the Rev . Jeremiah Joyce ( private secretary to Earl Stanhope , and tutor to the present Lord Mahon ) , charged with treasonable and seditious practices agairist his Majesty's government . Mr . Joyce afterwards underwent a long examination before the Privy Council . Mr . Hardy underwent another examination , and was again ordered into custody .
Same niglit some of the Bow-street officers took Mr . Martin , an attorney , into custody , under the authority of a warrant from the Secretaries of State . He was a prisoner in the King's Bench for debt . The officers seized the papers which they found in his apartment in that prison . - The same afternoon' Master Eaton , son of Mr . Eaton , the bookse ' . ler in Newgatestreet-, who officiated as door-keeper to Mr . Thelwall when reading his lectures , was taken into custody . He was the same evening examined before the Privy Council ibr two hours , and then told he might go home if he p leased .