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Monthly Chronicle.
The following is a list of the prisoners at present in custody , on charges of high treason , and of being guilty of seditious practices .- —In Newgate . Mr . William Stone , coal-merchant . —In the Tower . Mr . John HorneTooke , Rev . Mr . Joyce , Mr . Bonney , solicitor , Mr . Thelwall , Mr . Richter . —In custody of the King ' s messengers . Mess . Hardy , secretary to the London Corresponding Society- * -D . Adams , secretary to the Society for Constitutional Information . —Sharp , engraver . —Hayward , « il-man , Long- , acre . —Pearson , student , Lincoln's Inn . —S . Williams , apprentice to an engraver . — Franklyne , t . aylor , Lambeth . *—Mulcaster , St . Martin's-le-Grand .- ^ -Spence , bookseller , street ardRoussel emi Martin
Holborn .- —Edward , jun . Jew _ n- . T- ^ H } U _— , an grant . —Mr . , brought from the King ' s Bench prison . [ Edward , Hilliard , and Roussel , are mentioned to have had pikes in their possession . ] Some persons in Edinburgh have been apprehended for making or having pil ? es in their possession . These pikes or halberts are remarkably sharp , and the tops made t » screw off at pleasure . A Dr . Drennan , of Dublin , is committed to the Newgate prison of that city , on 4 charge of sedition .
20 . A Gazette Extraordinary was published , containing an account of the capture of Guadaloupe , and its dependencies . 23 . An Extraordinary Gazette . detailed particulars of an action between the British and French armies near Tournay , on the 18 th inst . in which the former suffered very , considerable loss . 25 . Accounts were recked by Government , and published in an Extraordinary Gazette , of a very successful action pn the part pf the Allies against the French army en
masse ; in which the loss of the French is estimated at 12 , 000 men ; that pf the British about 120 . . . In the affair pf the iSth in Flanders the Duke pf York narrpwly escaped being taken prisoner . Finding , after the rout of his column , that his safety depended on immediate flight , his Royal Highness , accompanied by an Austrian General and two other officers , made for a village which he had taken on the 17 th , but which , when they had entered it , they found in the hands-pf the enemy , who pn seeing the Duke and his companionssupppsed he was at the head of his cplumnand retreated after firing one
, , round , which killed the Austrian General , who was on the side of the Duke . The . enemy , however , on seeing no troops follow the Duke , recovered from their errpr , and pursued him . His Royal Highness and his companions made directly for a river , which they swam over , one of the gentlemen with his horse , die Duke ,-ind the other without . The French , during the time they were crossing the river , kept up a fire upon them from a six-ppundcr ; they all three , however , happily escaped unhurt , and got safe- to Tournay .
26 . Of the death of the unfortunate Lady Brown , of Brampton , the following particulars have occurred . —Her son , who was a cadet in the Artillery , had for some time laboured under a mental derangement , and her affection had induced her to become his almost constant attendant . On Wednesday last , when the melancholy matricide took place , the youth was entrusted to the care of a female servant , his keeper being ill , when , by some accident , having disengaged himself from his confinement , he rushed into the apartment of his mother , and seizing a poker , gave her a violent stroke on the head , which fractured it in a shocking manner ; and , by repeated blows , broke both
her arms . On her falling to the floor he leaped on her body , and shortened the agonies of death . He escaped into some adjoining grounds called the Queen ' s Gardens ( and not those belonging to Buckingham-house ) , where he was followed and secured , The Lord Mayor has nominated the following gentlemen to be put up for Sheriffs on Midsummer day , viz . Thomas Griffith , Esq . clothworkcr ; William Masters , Esq . brodercr ; William Rawlins , Esq . upholder ; Jphn Suter , Esq . carpenter ; Edward Brown , Esq . ironmonger ; Francis Ruddle , Esq . clothworker ; William Power , Esq . merchant-tayior ; Samuel Flower Freeman , Esq . brodercr ; and Robert Burnett , Esq ,
brewer . Accounts are received of the lpss of the Ardent man of war in the Mediterranean , She ran upon some rocks on the coast of Corsica , and the greater part of the grew perished .. '
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
The following is a list of the prisoners at present in custody , on charges of high treason , and of being guilty of seditious practices .- —In Newgate . Mr . William Stone , coal-merchant . —In the Tower . Mr . John HorneTooke , Rev . Mr . Joyce , Mr . Bonney , solicitor , Mr . Thelwall , Mr . Richter . —In custody of the King ' s messengers . Mess . Hardy , secretary to the London Corresponding Society- * -D . Adams , secretary to the Society for Constitutional Information . —Sharp , engraver . —Hayward , « il-man , Long- , acre . —Pearson , student , Lincoln's Inn . —S . Williams , apprentice to an engraver . — Franklyne , t . aylor , Lambeth . *—Mulcaster , St . Martin's-le-Grand .- ^ -Spence , bookseller , street ardRoussel emi Martin
Holborn .- —Edward , jun . Jew _ n- . T- ^ H } U _— , an grant . —Mr . , brought from the King ' s Bench prison . [ Edward , Hilliard , and Roussel , are mentioned to have had pikes in their possession . ] Some persons in Edinburgh have been apprehended for making or having pil ? es in their possession . These pikes or halberts are remarkably sharp , and the tops made t » screw off at pleasure . A Dr . Drennan , of Dublin , is committed to the Newgate prison of that city , on 4 charge of sedition .
20 . A Gazette Extraordinary was published , containing an account of the capture of Guadaloupe , and its dependencies . 23 . An Extraordinary Gazette . detailed particulars of an action between the British and French armies near Tournay , on the 18 th inst . in which the former suffered very , considerable loss . 25 . Accounts were recked by Government , and published in an Extraordinary Gazette , of a very successful action pn the part pf the Allies against the French army en
masse ; in which the loss of the French is estimated at 12 , 000 men ; that pf the British about 120 . . . In the affair pf the iSth in Flanders the Duke pf York narrpwly escaped being taken prisoner . Finding , after the rout of his column , that his safety depended on immediate flight , his Royal Highness , accompanied by an Austrian General and two other officers , made for a village which he had taken on the 17 th , but which , when they had entered it , they found in the hands-pf the enemy , who pn seeing the Duke and his companionssupppsed he was at the head of his cplumnand retreated after firing one
, , round , which killed the Austrian General , who was on the side of the Duke . The . enemy , however , on seeing no troops follow the Duke , recovered from their errpr , and pursued him . His Royal Highness and his companions made directly for a river , which they swam over , one of the gentlemen with his horse , die Duke ,-ind the other without . The French , during the time they were crossing the river , kept up a fire upon them from a six-ppundcr ; they all three , however , happily escaped unhurt , and got safe- to Tournay .
26 . Of the death of the unfortunate Lady Brown , of Brampton , the following particulars have occurred . —Her son , who was a cadet in the Artillery , had for some time laboured under a mental derangement , and her affection had induced her to become his almost constant attendant . On Wednesday last , when the melancholy matricide took place , the youth was entrusted to the care of a female servant , his keeper being ill , when , by some accident , having disengaged himself from his confinement , he rushed into the apartment of his mother , and seizing a poker , gave her a violent stroke on the head , which fractured it in a shocking manner ; and , by repeated blows , broke both
her arms . On her falling to the floor he leaped on her body , and shortened the agonies of death . He escaped into some adjoining grounds called the Queen ' s Gardens ( and not those belonging to Buckingham-house ) , where he was followed and secured , The Lord Mayor has nominated the following gentlemen to be put up for Sheriffs on Midsummer day , viz . Thomas Griffith , Esq . clothworkcr ; William Masters , Esq . brodercr ; William Rawlins , Esq . upholder ; Jphn Suter , Esq . carpenter ; Edward Brown , Esq . ironmonger ; Francis Ruddle , Esq . clothworker ; William Power , Esq . merchant-tayior ; Samuel Flower Freeman , Esq . brodercr ; and Robert Burnett , Esq ,
brewer . Accounts are received of the lpss of the Ardent man of war in the Mediterranean , She ran upon some rocks on the coast of Corsica , and the greater part of the grew perished .. '