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Monthly Chronicle.
had happened , they discontinued the search ; but her not being returned in the morning , gave rise to various suspicions . Early in the morning some fishermen , casting their nets in the Thame ; adjacent to the place , perceived a body floating in the river , which on enquiry and examination , they found it to be that of this unfortunate young woman . She was a person of very creditable relations , arid during the short space of time she lived in this last place , had conducted herself with the greatest propriety , but had for some time appeared much rejected . Some letters found in her trunk lainly proved that this rasl )
p step was occasioned by a disappointment in love . July 13 . The last official news from the Extraordinary Diet at Warsaw ; came down to the 5 th instant . From these it appears , that twelve Nuncios have been taken into custody on the 2 d instant , by order of the Russian Ambassador . This event occasioned a violent commotion in the Diet . 'It was unanimously resolved to adjourn all Deliberations , and to petition the Russian Ambassador for the release of the imprisoned Deputies . His MAJESTY , testifying his
painful mortification at this occurrence , advised this measure . But before this could be done , the Chancellor had a conference with the Russian Ambassador , and reported that orders had been given that very evening ( 2 nd instant ) for their release . On the same day Count POTOCKI , Marshal of the General Confederation of Targovica , received a Letter from Petersburg !} , the contents of which lie communicated to the Diet in the sitting of the 3 d inst . The Marshal says , that after the several Conferences lie had holden , and after all the Negociations he had carried
on with all possible zeal , he had been strongly convinced , that the present situation of Poland offered no efficacious remedy ; that the course of affairs left no hopes to the Republic to recover the alienated Provinces , and that the only means left to Poland to better her fate , was to establish in the Provinces which were left to her , a form of Government more congenial to the character of the Ufiiion . Several remarks were made upon this Letter , which demonstrate that this advice is not relished , and that a quite different decision of affairs was expected
from the negociations of the Marshal . In the sitting of the 4 th instant , it was resolved that the deliberation of the Diet shail instantly cease , if any violent measures are executed upon it ' s Members , or their property is sequestrated . After long debates , in the Sitting of the 5 th , the Plan of Instructions for the Delegation which is to negociate wil . ' i the Russian Ambassador , was adopted , W'th several alteration ; and amendments . The Diet will shortly dissolve itselfand the Delegates willwithout delay
, , , continue their Negociations with ( lie Russian Ambassador . ' '" Orders are given to sequestrate some Estates of the King , called the Table ' Estates , besides those of M . TYSSKIEWICZ , Great Marshal of Lithuania . Advice has been received from Berlin , dated July 16 th . mentions that the Confederate Diet at Grodno , after many protestations on the part of some Members , has finally resolved to sign the new Act of Dismemberment , in order to avert still greater dangers from the rest of the Republic .
AMERICA . E . r tract of a Letter from Quebec . On Tuesday the 11 th of . April last , Joseph Draper , one of the Royal Fuzileers , whose ' execution had been respited to that day , for conspiracy against His Royal Highness Prince E DWARD , at'Quebec , ' was solemnly let ! with his coffin , & c . to the fatal field , where he was in no other expectation than to belnunchedinto eternity : —But such was the change of fate by the following Address , pronounced
by His Royal Highness , which must ever do honour to his feelings : " Draper , you have now reached the awful moment , when a few seconds would f any you into the immediate presence of the Supreme ISeing . You must be conscious of'he enormity o / ypur guilt , and that you have not the least right tp
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
had happened , they discontinued the search ; but her not being returned in the morning , gave rise to various suspicions . Early in the morning some fishermen , casting their nets in the Thame ; adjacent to the place , perceived a body floating in the river , which on enquiry and examination , they found it to be that of this unfortunate young woman . She was a person of very creditable relations , arid during the short space of time she lived in this last place , had conducted herself with the greatest propriety , but had for some time appeared much rejected . Some letters found in her trunk lainly proved that this rasl )
p step was occasioned by a disappointment in love . July 13 . The last official news from the Extraordinary Diet at Warsaw ; came down to the 5 th instant . From these it appears , that twelve Nuncios have been taken into custody on the 2 d instant , by order of the Russian Ambassador . This event occasioned a violent commotion in the Diet . 'It was unanimously resolved to adjourn all Deliberations , and to petition the Russian Ambassador for the release of the imprisoned Deputies . His MAJESTY , testifying his
painful mortification at this occurrence , advised this measure . But before this could be done , the Chancellor had a conference with the Russian Ambassador , and reported that orders had been given that very evening ( 2 nd instant ) for their release . On the same day Count POTOCKI , Marshal of the General Confederation of Targovica , received a Letter from Petersburg !} , the contents of which lie communicated to the Diet in the sitting of the 3 d inst . The Marshal says , that after the several Conferences lie had holden , and after all the Negociations he had carried
on with all possible zeal , he had been strongly convinced , that the present situation of Poland offered no efficacious remedy ; that the course of affairs left no hopes to the Republic to recover the alienated Provinces , and that the only means left to Poland to better her fate , was to establish in the Provinces which were left to her , a form of Government more congenial to the character of the Ufiiion . Several remarks were made upon this Letter , which demonstrate that this advice is not relished , and that a quite different decision of affairs was expected
from the negociations of the Marshal . In the sitting of the 4 th instant , it was resolved that the deliberation of the Diet shail instantly cease , if any violent measures are executed upon it ' s Members , or their property is sequestrated . After long debates , in the Sitting of the 5 th , the Plan of Instructions for the Delegation which is to negociate wil . ' i the Russian Ambassador , was adopted , W'th several alteration ; and amendments . The Diet will shortly dissolve itselfand the Delegates willwithout delay
, , , continue their Negociations with ( lie Russian Ambassador . ' '" Orders are given to sequestrate some Estates of the King , called the Table ' Estates , besides those of M . TYSSKIEWICZ , Great Marshal of Lithuania . Advice has been received from Berlin , dated July 16 th . mentions that the Confederate Diet at Grodno , after many protestations on the part of some Members , has finally resolved to sign the new Act of Dismemberment , in order to avert still greater dangers from the rest of the Republic .
AMERICA . E . r tract of a Letter from Quebec . On Tuesday the 11 th of . April last , Joseph Draper , one of the Royal Fuzileers , whose ' execution had been respited to that day , for conspiracy against His Royal Highness Prince E DWARD , at'Quebec , ' was solemnly let ! with his coffin , & c . to the fatal field , where he was in no other expectation than to belnunchedinto eternity : —But such was the change of fate by the following Address , pronounced
by His Royal Highness , which must ever do honour to his feelings : " Draper , you have now reached the awful moment , when a few seconds would f any you into the immediate presence of the Supreme ISeing . You must be conscious of'he enormity o / ypur guilt , and that you have not the least right tp