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Monthly Chronicle.
In the sittingsbefore Lord Kenyon and a special jury at Guildhall , on the jothinst . an information filed by the Attorney General against Mr . Eaton , abook-• eller for publishing a work entitled ' ' A letter addressed to the Addressers on the la ' te Proclamation , " was tried . The cause being fully discussed , the jury retired for an hour ami a half , and brought in a verdict ' - ' guilty of publishing . " Lord Kenyon desired them to reconsider the verdict ; but after an absence of about an hour returned a verdict " guilty of publishing the pamphlet in question : " which was accordingly recorded .
ASSASSINATION OF MARAT . This violent democrat feil by the hands of a woman , on Sunday the 14-th inst . On the Thursday preceding his death , agenteel looking woman appeared at Paris , from Caen in Normandy . On the two following days she was busted , it should seem , in making enquiries concerning the-various crimes imputed to her destined victim , and having satisfied herself as to the truth , on the Sun-day she obtained an interview with Marat . — -She continued in conversation with him for some time , asking his opinion of several persons whom she named ; and on his aver-CounterRevolutionistsshe instantlstabbed him
riir them to be - , y ; declaring , she ° was then convinced that every thing she had heard of him was true . —Thus perished-a man , who Iris been the principal actor , if not the instigator of mors important events within the last twelve months , than perhaps any other person ; by his directions not less than 5000 victims perished in September last , —he was also the man who said , 270 , 000 heads must fall on the ssciifoid before Prance could be at peace with herself . —Marat , when stabbed , had a leprosy , and his blood was totally inllamed ; this produced immediate putrefaction , 30 thai naked to the to the
the body could not be exposed populace , according new republican law of lying in state , notwithstanding he was embalmed . His assassinator was a native of Caen , named Conm-, in a respectable situation in life , her a ° -e about twenty-live , of a manner rather distrait , of a stature uncommonly larg-e ., and of a demeanour which would point her out to a most common observer , as an ' extraordinary personage . On the 18 th the funeral was performed with great pomp and solemnity , Marat's remains were deposited in a grave dug in the yard of the Club of the Cordeliers .,, exalted to
between four linden trees . The following inscription , on a pole so as be read by the people , was carried before the coffin . MAHAT , the friend of the people , Assassinated by the Enemies of the people . Enemies of your country , moderate your joy :. HE WILL KIJJD AVENGERS ! ' ¦ ! Those whose proper feelings lead them to condemn
" Murder most foul , as at the best it is : riioukl recollect the sanguinary character of the man , to procure whose deatfs , the determined woman who the struck blow , —met her own . The day before the funeral she was brought before THE REVOLUTION-AEV TIUISUNAL . Her countenance displayed heroic disdain . She said , she had rid the world of a monster ; and in all her answers , her firmness filled every spectator with astonishment . At the beginning of her trial she thus addressed her judges .
• " I did not expect to appear before you . —I always thought thatl should be delivered up to the rage of the people , torn in pieces , and that my head stuck on thetop of ' a pike , would have preceded Marat on his stale-bed , to serve as a rallyingpoint . to Frenchmen—il" there still are any worthy of that name . But happen'what will , if I have the honours of the G UILLOTINE , and my clay-cold remains are buried , they will soon have conferred on them the honours of the Pantheon , and my memory will be more honoured in France , than that of Judith ia IH'thulia . " "Sentence of death was pronounced oil this resolute woman , and in Ihe evening , « lie was emitted ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
In the sittingsbefore Lord Kenyon and a special jury at Guildhall , on the jothinst . an information filed by the Attorney General against Mr . Eaton , abook-• eller for publishing a work entitled ' ' A letter addressed to the Addressers on the la ' te Proclamation , " was tried . The cause being fully discussed , the jury retired for an hour ami a half , and brought in a verdict ' - ' guilty of publishing . " Lord Kenyon desired them to reconsider the verdict ; but after an absence of about an hour returned a verdict " guilty of publishing the pamphlet in question : " which was accordingly recorded .
ASSASSINATION OF MARAT . This violent democrat feil by the hands of a woman , on Sunday the 14-th inst . On the Thursday preceding his death , agenteel looking woman appeared at Paris , from Caen in Normandy . On the two following days she was busted , it should seem , in making enquiries concerning the-various crimes imputed to her destined victim , and having satisfied herself as to the truth , on the Sun-day she obtained an interview with Marat . — -She continued in conversation with him for some time , asking his opinion of several persons whom she named ; and on his aver-CounterRevolutionistsshe instantlstabbed him
riir them to be - , y ; declaring , she ° was then convinced that every thing she had heard of him was true . —Thus perished-a man , who Iris been the principal actor , if not the instigator of mors important events within the last twelve months , than perhaps any other person ; by his directions not less than 5000 victims perished in September last , —he was also the man who said , 270 , 000 heads must fall on the ssciifoid before Prance could be at peace with herself . —Marat , when stabbed , had a leprosy , and his blood was totally inllamed ; this produced immediate putrefaction , 30 thai naked to the to the
the body could not be exposed populace , according new republican law of lying in state , notwithstanding he was embalmed . His assassinator was a native of Caen , named Conm-, in a respectable situation in life , her a ° -e about twenty-live , of a manner rather distrait , of a stature uncommonly larg-e ., and of a demeanour which would point her out to a most common observer , as an ' extraordinary personage . On the 18 th the funeral was performed with great pomp and solemnity , Marat's remains were deposited in a grave dug in the yard of the Club of the Cordeliers .,, exalted to
between four linden trees . The following inscription , on a pole so as be read by the people , was carried before the coffin . MAHAT , the friend of the people , Assassinated by the Enemies of the people . Enemies of your country , moderate your joy :. HE WILL KIJJD AVENGERS ! ' ¦ ! Those whose proper feelings lead them to condemn
" Murder most foul , as at the best it is : riioukl recollect the sanguinary character of the man , to procure whose deatfs , the determined woman who the struck blow , —met her own . The day before the funeral she was brought before THE REVOLUTION-AEV TIUISUNAL . Her countenance displayed heroic disdain . She said , she had rid the world of a monster ; and in all her answers , her firmness filled every spectator with astonishment . At the beginning of her trial she thus addressed her judges .
• " I did not expect to appear before you . —I always thought thatl should be delivered up to the rage of the people , torn in pieces , and that my head stuck on thetop of ' a pike , would have preceded Marat on his stale-bed , to serve as a rallyingpoint . to Frenchmen—il" there still are any worthy of that name . But happen'what will , if I have the honours of the G UILLOTINE , and my clay-cold remains are buried , they will soon have conferred on them the honours of the Pantheon , and my memory will be more honoured in France , than that of Judith ia IH'thulia . " "Sentence of death was pronounced oil this resolute woman , and in Ihe evening , « lie was emitted ,